1. A Standard Flying 8.
A number of Standard cars now feature on oldclassiccar, including my own 50s '10', and earlier examples of the marque, shown within the vintage photo pages. Shown below is a cracking old photo, showing a Standard 8 with its owners. Judging by the bonnet trim, I think this could be a pre-war example of the Flying 8, a range that came out in the mid 1930s and continued in production for a short time after the war. FLE 587 looks in pretty good nick, although the chrome bumper no longer looks very special. Note the rear-hinged suicide-type doors. This example also has an AA badge screwed to the grille, and an extra Butler lamp fitted.
2. Standard Tourer
These two photographs also turned up recently, and would seem to show a tourer/drophead version of a similarly aged Standard car - can anyone confirm the model of car shown below? A Jersey-registered bus or lorry (Albion?) is parked in the background.
Other old photos showing Standards can be seen on oldclassiccar, including several of this 1940s Flying 8hp tourer. A screensaver featuring lots of classic Standards can also be found on this page, and a free-to-use parts noticeboard is over here.
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