Bygone Broads 8

Some have you may have been wondering what kind of posters I had hanging in my dorm room back at Hogwarts St. John’s College.  Wonder no more (right-click to embiggen) — behold the Austin Healey Mk III from the late 1960s:

And for the Healey’s companion on the wall over my bed, the exquisite Claudia Cardinale:

I still feel stirrings, all these years later, on both accounts.  A fitting end, I think, to this series.

Random Totty

Here’s the lovely TV actress Samia Longchambon, who first appeared on Britsoap Coronation Street  back in 2000 at age 18, and twenty-three years later, is still at it.  Here she is as a youngin:

   

And now, at around age 40:

…this one was taken last week:

Lovely.

Bygone Broads 7

In this, the penultimate of the series for now, we look at another two examples of teenage boys’ boner-starters of a bygone era.  First, the 1965 Ford Shelby Mustang GT 350:

…and as their contemporaneous companion piece, so to speak, the pouty Brigitte Bardot:

 

What a pair.

Bygone Broads 6

The latest in this series features the Ferrari F110 Testarossa:

…and one of their likely accompaniments on the wall, the All-American Cheryl Tiegs:

And of course:

Little skinny for my taste, but millions of teenage boys working their bedtime pup-tents would probably disagree with me.