The Kent & Essex Spotted Thread!

[scruggs]

I keep seeing a vivid lime green Scooby with a black bonnet travelling between Westerham and Edenbridge on weekday mornings about 0900. Anyone on here? If so I'll give it a wave next time!

[L100NYY]

beautifulbusso said:

I spotted a white Lotus Exige S, was the new shape driving through Ford End, I'm the one who gave a flash and wave

That was me I'm normally in something 'interesting' and use that road daily so keep your eyes peeled

Your 147 looked fantastic (I worked for Alfa Romeo when they were current!), I'll have to keep an eye out for the 75 now too

[GTRJacko]

Stunning Red Gallardo LP570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale, driving up Tonbridge Road in Maidstone. Sounded amazing too

[RobR26r]

frayz said:

Paul Bassom, works here at Dunton. Car has full set of Mountune upgrades

I passed him on the A130 at Wickford this morning. He needs to use that right hand pedal a bit more ; )

[kiethton]

scruggs said:

I keep seeing a vivid lime green Scooby with a black bonnet travelling between Westerham and Edenbridge on weekday mornings about 0900. Anyone on here? If so I'll give it a wave next time!

See it around Bromley town centre in the evenings regularly.

Is it the same one that was blasting "tunes" at the grasshopper meet earlier this year?

[Dalto123]

beautifulbusso said:

I've got this as well, running an approximate 350bhp at the rear wheels




I keep meaning to get a PH sticker on that actually

Now that's a sleeper! How did you get that power out of it? I expect it's no longer normally aspirated

[Dalto123]

Currently sat at the Wheatsheaf at Bough Beech, an there's a tasty dark blue Chimaera parked next to us (M reg with a black interior)

[beautifulbusso]

L100NYY said:

That was me I'm normally in something 'interesting' and use that road daily so keep your eyes peeled

Your 147 looked fantastic (I worked for Alfa Romeo when they were current!), I'll have to keep an eye out for the 75 now too

Your Exige looked fantastic!!

And thanks, I'm down that road most days so I'll keep an eye out

I use the GTA daily even though I have a green Classic Subaru Impreza Estate WRX in green with gold wheels as my 'sensible' daily...but I still take the GTA because I can't drive it enough at the moment

Edited by beautifulbusso on Saturday 16th August 17:38

[beautifulbusso]

Dalto123 said:

Now that's a sleeper! How did you get that power out of it? I expect it's no longer normally aspirated

Thanks, it's actually a left hand drive model which was originally sold in Italy before they turned it into the Turbo America or the Evo kitted ones

The engine is from standard a 1.8 Turbo, to get the kind of power that she has the following has been done. A T3/T4 hybrid turbo fitted to a custom manifold, the original top mount intercooler but rebuild with brand nee cores plus a little bit of water cooling going on, side exit exhaust with no silencers what so ever and a standalone ECU setup. If I want more power (who doesn't) I can fit a front mount intercooler but then that'll give me some more lag which due to the clever design (at the time), I have very minimal lag

It's still on the original 5 speed gearbox but has been toughened a little bit, plus has a limited slip diff so she goes sideways rather nice...if your too eager with the throttle then she can and will spin those rear tyres in 3rd gear, sometimes 4th if the tyres don't have much heat into them which makes it very interesting

Oh nearly forgot to add, no power steering or ABS so your right foot is the traction control

Plan is that over winter, to have the car fully resprayed in the original black and the interior retrimmed in either a nice dark red or a classy tan colour...maybe a new exhaust made up by Hayward & Scott but that's just so it's nice and shiny to match the wheels.

[Brigand]

Driving through Ashford yesterday evening (16 Aug) I saw a group of lads gathered in Dover Place car park on some kind of meet, and amongst the Euro-boxes I caught a glimpse of a Foxbody style Mustang; does it belong to anyone on here? You (or I at least) don't see many of those around these days.

[rossi1]

Drove past a lovely tvr chim I think twice in biggin hill whilst spotting the red arrows also a lovely white Capri was in biggin hill, to finish I had a nice spirited drive with a focus st the was stickered up with ring stickers. Safe to say my new mapped ecu is doing wonders

[DrDantastic]

kiethton said:

See it around Bromley town centre in the evenings regularly.

Is it the same one that was blasting "tunes" at the grasshopper meet earlier this year?

He drives down my road almost every day. I can confirm it's him!

[rossi1]

DrDantastic said:

kiethton said:

See it around Bromley town centre in the evenings regularly.

Is it the same one that was blasting "tunes" at the grasshopper meet earlier this year?

He drives down my road almost every day. I can confirm it's him!

That's the one, also at summer Wednesday events at brands again blasting (awful) tunes .

[Stuart Thompson]

Lovely Henna red e12 M535 in Felsted earlier.

[rix]

The ultimate in spotted. Saw this very car in Harlow this evening, must've been lost.... (Not my pic)

[Scousefella]

rix said:

The ultimate in spotted. Saw this very car in Harlow this evening, must've been lost.... (Not my pic)

That was the one my passenger spotted in Ongar a couple of weeks ago.

[rix]

Was gobsmacked, first one I've ever seen in the wild! Assume it's fairly local, the driver wasn't being to shy with their driving!

[Scousefella]

rix said:

Was gobsmacked, first one I've ever seen in the wild! Assume it's fairly local, the driver wasn't being to shy with their driving!

As you said it was not your pic I chucked it up in the supercar spotted thread, someone was interested in it when I posted the Ongar sighting recently.

[bullettneil]

beautifulbusso said:

That was me, finally been spotted

In case I was wizzing past a bit quick, and for people know what to look for...

This is what she looks like




I've got this as well, running an approximate 350bhp at the rear wheels




I keep meaning to get a PH sticker on that actually

I saw this in Maldon in the car park behind the precinct last month.sounded well cammed up

[bullettneil]

Ok so who owns Porsche 930 turbo reg 930 wtf? He came up behind me on the a12 at the Colchester turn off a couple of days back.looked and sounded awesome!
Gave a wave from my water cooled wide body n/a and got a nod back