COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!!

[Blown2CV]

loveoldclassics said:

I saw this old Vauxhall Astra in Battle to-day.

you've gone back to hyphenating it!!! Also it's funny that you decided to post this pic when the others actually show the car!

[DocArbathnot]

tog said:

Nicely patinated Zephyr estate in Marlborough this morning.

Now that I like. Rare too.

[A9XXC]

DocArbathnot said:

tog said:

Nicely patinated Zephyr estate in Marlborough this morning.

Now that I like. Rare too.

Mmmmm.....Abbott?

[ATTAK Z]

A9XXC said:

Mmmmm.....Abbott?

Farnham

Edited by ATTAK Z on Sunday 19th May 19:34

[Robin Hood]

"Abbotts of Farnham" and sold as the Farnham at the time.

[m13rcf]

I saw this parked up near Harrods today and fell in love with it







here is some details about it

http://www.collectorcarsforsale.com/230753444093-f...

[vixen1700]

Saw an Austin Healey 3000 parked in Newport Essex yesterday which had a lovely patina of being used with faded paint, bird crap on it and string holding the exhaust on at the back. Looked how it must have looked in 1970.

I did take picture of it but can't find the lead to upload it to my computer.

[dartissimus]

stevemiller said:

Spotted Friday 17/05/2013 in Booths Supermarket car park in Kendal Cumbria. Very Impressed. Jag Power (XKR)

Is it really Jag underpinnings or is it possibly the Daimler 2.5 V8 ?

Daimler actually built a prototype new saloon based on a PA Cresta body, but suitably Daimlerised.
It never happened, but there are pictures in the book "Daimler SP250 V8" by Brian Long. They crushed it. There was a recreation of that car made by a Daimler club member.

However this looks more like a custom car than the Daimler version

[Excelsior]

Is the Healey a very dark blue - althought the paint is quite oxidised and matt?

If it was I met the guy in SW filling up with petrol a couple of weeks ago - it is his daily and lives outside

[vixen1700]

It's more of a mid blue, not a two tone car. Registration number SSY 295.

Not a car I'd ever seen round the place before, and it was a nice treat to see it parked round the corner from my house.

[LotusOmega375D]

Had the pleasure of following this in my Lotus during a PHers run out yesterday. We both kept pace with the moderns, but he won on noise, wheel-spin and exhaust flames.

[5.0ltr]

loveoldclassics said:

5.0ltr said:

Hey Loveoldclassics.. I am in Hastings next Tuesday/Weds/Thursday with a white MGB and a blue 2cv doing some filming, if you spot us say hello.

Whereabouts will you be in Hastings on Thursday afternoon.

LOC, potentially will be wrapped by Thurs pm now.Tues/Weds definate but all over the area.

[Excelsior]

The owner lives up near Bolton but has friends nearby - it is very scruffy and only has the tonneau on if it is the one. I didn't get the reg when we spoke - he got us into trouble by leaving the pump mid fill in the Healey and coming over to chat

[vixen1700]

Excelsior said:

The owner lives up near Bolton but has friends nearby - it is very scruffy and only has the tonneau on if it is the one. I didn't get the reg when we spoke - he got us into trouble by leaving the pump mid fill in the Healey and coming over to chat

Sounds like the one, there was no hood or tonneau on it yesterday.

Great to see cars like that used as dailys.

[J3JCV]

On the Bissoe to Cusgarne road last Sunday.


I prefer my classics to be from the 60s and 70s, but kudos for these guys hammering around the Cornish countryside.

[Schmeeky]

This Golf GLS parked up at work a couple of days ago, 2 years worth of restoring according to the owner.



I just love it that someone puts this much care and attention into what was in its time a pretty mundane car - you'd expect it to be a GTi having all that TLC lavished on it - but a GLS?

I had a good chat with the owner and he was totally into getting it right for the period. Top man!

[Fishtigua]

Blast! Didn't get a photo.

A DB5 convertable passed me at sunset going the other way on the coast road with the top down. In Navy blue, looked nice BUT with nasty, cheap chrome 'wing mirrors' mounted high on the windscreen frame. Not a good look.

[keeef]

mikey77 said:

when it stops raining and warms up, if ever - I'll take a look and see if it's still there.

Many thanks.

Car certainly looks savable

[DickyC]

Fishtigua said:

A DB5 convertible passed me at sunset going the other way on the coast road with the top down. In Navy blue, looked nice BUT with nasty, cheap chrome 'wing mirrors' mounted high on the windscreen frame. Not a good look.

The mirrors are almost certainly the clamp-on type that the owner would remove when the car is on show.

[Roy C]

De-bumpered LHD XK150 spotted in the paddock at Silverstone last Sunday



Together with a similarly de-bumpered Porsche



and from the sublime to the...



How about those HotWheels humbcaps!

Edited by Roy C on Tuesday 21st May 09:39