Midlands Exciting Cars Spotted

[Pixel-Snapper]

v15ben said:

Saw loads of interesting stuff on the M1 in the Midlands on Friday afternoon:
Chrysler New Yorker Taxi Limo
Yellow Aventador or Murcielago (only caught a glimpse!)
Blue TVR Tuscan
Loads of MG race cars of various shapes and sizes
Various 40s/50s era Americana
Ferrari 308GTB Race Car on a trailer

Which way where you going Ben?

Saw a american muscle car pulling a fancy looking hotrod north bound near northampton. Guy must have been doing what 60mph and christ knows what fuel consumption.

Also a red F12 going southbound towards watford.

[v15ben]

Heading North from Milton Keynes up to Sheffield mate.
All that lot was heading south.

[AcC8braman]

Pixel-Snapper said:

Which way where you going Ben?

Saw a american muscle car pulling a fancy looking hotrod north bound near northampton. Guy must have been doing what 60mph and christ knows what fuel consumption.

Also a red F12 going southbound towards watford.

Think the chap with the muscle car pulling the hot rod lives in Raunds.

[Pixel-Snapper]

Big white whale pulling a small dark hotrod thing.

[SammyW]

Green Ariel Atom in Coventry this afternoon.

[TorqueR]

I spotted this today. No, not the Mk6 Golf, nor the Citroen C1 but that spec in my mirror. It's a Bentley Continental SS with a black/black combo. It looked great and when he accelerated onto the bypass, it sounded great!

[Fun Bus]

It was the V8 Scania tractor unit in the background that got my attention! Why not another photo when the Bentley was alongside?!

[havoc]

D-Type (replica?) heading from Stratford to Henley around 8pm tonight.

You sir made my whole day!

[TorqueR]

Fun Bus said:

It was the V8 Scania tractor unit in the background that got my attention! Why not another photo when the Bentley was alongside?!

I was conscious that the lights had been red when I approached the line of traffic and had been red for quite a while. I didn't want to be caught out and have them turn to green mid-photo while I was still in neutral/handbrake! Also, he took his time to get alongside and my phone wasn't far enough away. I would have only gotten the wing and wheel if I had taken the photo.

[V8LM]

TorqueR said:

I spotted this today. No, not the Mk6 Golf, nor the Citroen C1 but that spec in my mirror. It's a Bentley Continental SS with a black/black combo. It looked great and when he accelerated onto the bypass, it sounded great!

Liking your work.

[K321]

Xjs special edition

[Fun Bus]

Which special edition?

[Zyp]

The 'still working not broken down yet' edition?
Or the 'glued to the arse of the car in front' edition?

[Gompo]

Could be a Celebration model?

I note the original xk wheels on it.

[Fun Bus]

Ah yes, a celebration model just with the wrong wheels.

[v15ben]

Black Maserati Gran Turismo - plate C14O GT - in Nottingham city centre.
Orange Merc SL Black Series replica in West Bridgford - plate was some variation of MAD SL.
Orange Lotus Elise R came flying past me in the rain on the M1 near Rugby too, very nice car.

[TorqueR]

I saw the new shape 2014 Toyota Aygo this evening in Chesterfield. It looks okay to me, the front isn't as fussy as it looks in the pictures and the back is, dare I say it..stylish. Spotted on Newbold Rd around 6:50pm.

I then caught a friend of mine go the opposite direction in his BMW (F10) M5 which is spec'd in a nice dark blue. It sounded great. Spotted heading towards the Casa Hotel & Chesterfield Tesco. I quickly noticed a Lincoln TownCar Limousine of 2002 vintage which was, most likely, coming from the event which was further up the road. Spotted in, you guessed it....Chesterfield. I also saw a Nissan GTR (R35) turning into Ringwood Hall located in Chesterfield.

[EddyP]

A45 today between Meriden and Coventry, turned off down toward Allesley, maybe wanting to go to its ancestral home at Browns Lane?

[jonnM]

EddyP said:

A45 today between Meriden and Coventry, turned off down toward Allesley, maybe wanting to go to its ancestral home at Browns Lane?

That's a rare spot indeed, nice one!

[addz86]

Spotted a strange rangerover the other day in Mansfield, LHD, covered in cammo and looked a bit too long to me?