Daily Express Motor Show Guide advert.

[Patrick]

[Richard DAF Webmeister]

Brilliant! I love these old adverts.

[v8gasser]

kool ! thanks .

[dafdaffer]

never seen that one....ACE

[33grinder]

Great advert.

I too have some adverts, if only someone could explain how to attach them. Do you scan it as a PDF and upload it to your host site?

[Richard DAF Webmeister]

You could do it like that or what I have done in the past is to scan them and save as a jpg, just like a photo, then save onto Photobucket and link to here.

Hope that makes sense.

[Patrick]

That was very nearly A3! Don't know if anyone remembers the books - two great tomes covering the Motor show guides from the early then the late 60's. Had to scan it in two halves - then scan them again because one didn't come out properly - Then scan one of the halves a third time because I didn't realise that the crispy look round the windows and the blurryness of the cars paintwork lower down is how the picture actually is.

So yes. Scanned as a jpeg photo - sewn the two halves back together again with Photoshop Photomerge - Darkened a bit because the scanner tends to make things lighter - and so does Photobucket where they went next. Oh! also scaled down - as one half of that pic alone measured 1966x1389 pixels!!

[33grinder]

Erm, wow! Thanks Patrick. I guess I should take one to work and give it a go.

[Patrick]

I openly admit I have nothing better to do! ;D

Love tinkering with stuff though.

Loving the simplicity of the "heaters, demisters, screen washers and safety locks and radial tyres" as standard

Of course, just ten years earlier and they'd have been a luxury extra on some.

Rather like the original Allegro brochure I have that boasts about the "Extra Coach Stripes" on the HL version over the L version. I think it also boasted at being able to change the air in the cabin 36 times a minute!