what classic cars have you spotted?

[loveoldclassics]

What classic cars have you spotted and not just cool classic cars?

I saw these earlier in St.Leonards, Hastings.

[austin]

There is a thread like this already running

[benjj]

loveoldclassics said:

What classic cars have you spotted and not just cool classic cars?

I saw these earlier in St.Leonards, Hastings.

I'm normally a nice guy.... but I'm sorry, that car is just a festering sh itbox that should have been scrapped and crushed 20 years ago.

[//j17]

benjj said:

loveoldclassics said:

What classic cars have you spotted and not just cool classic cars?

I saw these earlier in St.Leonards, Hastings.

I'm normally a nice guy.... but I'm sorry, that car is just a festering sh itbox that should have been scrapped and crushed 20 years ago.

Most of them were, which is what makes any survivors classics.

[Yertis]

[na]

austin said:

There is a thread like this already running

yeap but that for what some think are cool cars and other disagree

OP on this thread put they don't have to be cool on this thread and already there's debate

if someone has gone to the effort of keeping them running they're cool in my opinion anyway

at least they're out on the road not locked away waiting for the annual ride out to the MoT or very rare sunny show

more fabulous weather and all those 6 months-a-year SORN'd cars owners not able to enjoy it

[Yertis]

I'm pretty liberal in my interpretation of 'classic', but 'Nissan Sunny' is taking the piddle.

[mgeee]

Yertis said:

I'm pretty liberal in my interpretation of 'classic', but 'Nissan Sunny' is taking the piddle.

agreed

[benjj]

The Volvo on double yellows is pushing it too in my opinion, and I say that as a Volvo fan.

[na]

It all depends on your age - think of the cars when you were young

if you yourself are still young then those cars will be more recent

[Yertis]

I can think of the cars when I was young, and most of them were crap. *****(I know this debate has been had over and over.)***** I think a car has to be considered outstanding in some way at the time of it's manufacture, even if as some sort of archetype, to ultimately become a classic. Just being old, no matter how well cared for, does not make a car a classic. But a car must be old, or at least out of manufacture to be a classic.

Christ is that the time?

[dbdb]

na said:

austin said:

There is a thread like this already running

yeap but that for what some think are cool cars and other disagree

OP on this thread put they don't have to be cool on this thread and already there's debate

if someone has gone to the effort of keeping them running they're cool in my opinion anyway

at least they're out on the road not locked away waiting for the annual ride out to the MoT or very rare sunny show

more fabulous weather and all those 6 months-a-year SORN'd cars owners not able to enjoy it

I agree: the car doesn't have to be 'cool' for this thread, so it is for the cheaper less aspirational old motors posted by the OP. He did post in the 'cool classics' thread but was told the cars weren't 'cool' enough!

I like seeing cars like these - models which were once a common sight on the roads and are now very rare. I'll bet there are less than one hundred of those Nissan Sunnys left, when once there were thousands. It is a real survivor and whilst not a major classic, deserves 'classic' status because of that, at least in my eyes.

[na]

dbdb said:

I agree: the car doesn't have to be 'cool' for this thread, so it is for the cheaper less aspirational old motors posted by the OP. He did post in the 'cool classics' thread but was told the cars weren't 'cool' enough!

I like seeing cars like these - models which were once a common sight on the roads and are now very rare. I'll bet there are less than one hundred of those Nissan Sunnys left, when once there were thousands. It is a real survivor and whilst not a major classic, deserves 'classic' status because of that, at least in my eyes.

plus 1

ETA: a lot of the usual aspirational cars were crap when they were new and generally seen on the road

name your heroworship cars and I'm sure we'll find many that were at some time considered a lot less well thought of

just one example - at one time you could hardly give away an E-Type and boy did they have faults from new it wasn't always considered quite so much as a cool classic, I knew of a couple that were used as daily cars a few years ago but you don't see many used on the roads now other than going to shows

Edited by na on Tuesday 27th March 00:47

[//j17]

Yertis said:

I think a car has to be considered outstanding in some way at the time of it's manufacture, even if as some sort of archetype, to ultimately become a classic.

Well nothing _outstanding_ about either the MGB GT, Nissan Sunny, Volvo OR Rover P6...

[loveoldclassics]

I saw these earlier in Battle.







Also I saw:

1. M-Reg Blue Mark1 Ford Escort.
2. H-Reg Green Morris Minor.
3. J-Reg Silver MG Midget.

[na]

//j17 said:

Well nothing _outstanding_ about either the MGB GT, Nissan Sunny, Volvo OR Rover P6...

going to have to say Rover P6 was outstanding at least when it first came out and particularly considering it followed on the P4 and P5, and compared to other cars of the time, this and the DS are sometimes featured in films about the future such is their shape

declaration of interest: I had a Rover P6


and a MGB GT

[mgeee]

New game, spot the classic

[LordBretSinclair]

mgeee said:

New game, spot the classic

All of them, according to some who post on here

[benjj]

Tornado Red Mk2 Golf.

[snuffle]

and a MK3 transit.