COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2
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Evangelion said:
Johnspex said:
I can't remember quite where it was but on Friday going north (probably on the M40) I came up beside an Mk2 MX5 in the traffic. Nothing unusual there but it was a beautiful shade of classic Aston Martin green and had an Aston badge on the bootlid. However when I got in front of it and looked back it had an Aston nose on it too.
I was really impressed, it looked very professional.
One of these by any chance?I was really impressed, it looked very professional.
You can see what it's trying to be - And you can see how it fails miserably!
I must confess though that I do like the MX5 based 250 SWB "tribute" cars - So long as you leave all the Ferrari badges off it! (awaits outraged responses!
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Johnspex said:
LordBretSinclair said:
A feeking monstrosity 
Really? It wasn't pretending to be an Aston, it was just an MX5 with a different nose. I liked itI suggest you look here then http://www.leftlanenews.com/turning-a-miata-into-a...
To quote " Australian car customizer Custom Automotive Restyling has created a rebodied Mazda MX-5 Miata designed to look like an Aston Martin. Called the AMX-07, the car was created for fitness instructor Michael Lebedev"
LordBretSinclair said:
Really, not pretending to be an Aston ?????
I suggest you look here then http://www.leftlanenews.com/turning-a-miata-into-a...
To quote " Australian car customizer Custom Automotive Restyling has created a rebodied Mazda MX-5 Miata designed to look like an Aston Martin. Called the AMX-07, the car was created for fitness instructor Michael Lebedev"
Now which is worse: This AMX -07 or the Aston Martin Cygnet? I suggest you look here then http://www.leftlanenews.com/turning-a-miata-into-a...
To quote " Australian car customizer Custom Automotive Restyling has created a rebodied Mazda MX-5 Miata designed to look like an Aston Martin. Called the AMX-07, the car was created for fitness instructor Michael Lebedev"
Dapster said:
Wow, that really is rare - a 200 turbo Avant. You hardly ever saw those when they were new, let alone 25 years later. 6,000 sold worldwide - Ferrari made more 328's.
droopsnoot said:
Ooh, 200 Avant - weren't many of those around to start with, never mind now.
Ha ha! Note to self - read previous posts first!LordBretSinclair said:
A tie for last place I reckon 
I have to say i think the Cygnet is a clear winner in the foulness stakes. Horrid, box like, foul little monstrosity. What was good old Ulrich thinking when he green lighted something that revolting and inappropriate to the marque?RichardM5 said:
My dad had a 200 Quattro Avant from new. Fantastic car, very stealthy but could really shift. His next car was a 100 quattro Avant as they had stopped making the 200, it was nothing like as good.
The true successor was the 100S4, on the C4 platform. A great car, also very stealthy.
Russwhitehouse said:
I have to say i think the Cygnet is a clear winner in the foulness stakes. Horrid, box like, foul little monstrosity. What was good old Ulrich thinking when he green lighted something that revolting and inappropriate to the marque?
Weren't AML afeared of legislation compelling them to meet emissions targets by an average across their whole range? Had it happened, the only way to balance the nastiest gases from the top of the range cars was to have angelic cars at the other end of the scale at the other end of the range. This may be complete bolleaux, of course.
E&OE
Does this count? Spotted this afternoon out the front of my house. I bought it today for just £500, it's an 83 Escort 1.6 GL estate. I'm betting there aren't too many around. Am seriously thinking of 'hot rodding' it later in the year once the MOT has run out.
Click on the pic for a larger image.
Click on the pic for a larger image.
I was walking up a back street yesterday in a little town called Pontgibaud, near Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne region of France when I noticed the by no means unusual collection of dead Citroens, etc, in someone's back garden. But there was also a quite posh-looking tent at the bottom and peeking out was the nose of a very decrepit Volvo Amazon.
Incidentally, there was a dedicated corner of the local cemetery full of graves of Cornishmen imported 100-odd years ago to work in the local lead mines and who paid the inevitable price.
There's always something interesting...
Incidentally, there was a dedicated corner of the local cemetery full of graves of Cornishmen imported 100-odd years ago to work in the local lead mines and who paid the inevitable price.
There's always something interesting...
Lovely Old English White Mk2 Jag in Banbury yesterday afternoon, with black painted wire wheels, makes a change from the usual chromed variety. A couple of hours later I copped a brief glimpse of a six wheeled Range Rover fire tender in a private compound next to the site of Aynho station.
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