Talk:Standard Vanguard
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[edit] Standard Vanguard or Standard Ten image
- Someone has placed a picture - rather a good one - in the info box for the Standard Vanguard Phase III. Trouble is, that to my eye this is a picture of a Standard Ten. The Vanguard Phase III was a lot bigger. I lived in England when these things were new, which I think will have been the largest market for them.
- The problem arises, I think, because in Sweden - where the car in the picture is (I think) registered - the smaller car was evidently badged as a Standard Vanguard Junior. Whether this applies to a handful of cars in the Swedish market or to a larger number of cars sold in many markets I do not know.
- IF the picture stays on the Vanguard page, then I think it needs to go somewhere other than in the info box for the Vanguard Phase III. And it really needs a short para to explain how a car which most readers (who recognize it at all) will not see it as a Standard Vanguard, nevertheless features on the Standard Vanguard page at all. Does anyone have access to a better source than my memory to do that?
- We also need a decent picture of a Standard Vanguard Phase III (or Standard Ensign which used the same body shell) for the info box. It was rather a fine looking car - one of Michelotti's early designs, nicely balanced - as far as I remember. And I remember seeing a lot in the 1960s because I lived then near an RAF (British Royal Air Force) base, where they kept several of the things. But these days, of course, they are vanishingly rare. Or rather, merely vanished.
- Any volunteers?
- Regards Charles01 (talk) 06:23, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
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- You are absolutely correct. The photo is of a Standard Ten so I have removed it and added it to the Ten article. I have also added a note in the intro about the Vanguard Junior. There is at the moment on EBay a Danish Standard Vanguard Junior brochure for sale and it clearly states that it has a 1000cc engine so it cannot be the Eight. An estate car, van and pick-up are also illustrated so they were sold as well. The car in the (removed) photo is in Sweden so I have taken an educated guess that the Junior name was used in both Sweden and Denmark. Was the car sold in Norway?
