COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2
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Cliftonite said:
In general, according to the ways of the "Crappy Plates " thread, any plate that is mis-spaced, mis-bolted or butchered is automatically a crappy plate, no matter how clever or amusing the result.
Some PHers disagree with this.
But they are wrong.
See?
Some PHers disagree with this.
But they are wrong.
See?
So correctly spaced 51 FOO is ok with you?
Tbh spacing on that -it's a mild offender for me.
Useless without pictures, I know, but I spotted an old bus this evening on Hawley Lane, heading toward Blackwater from Farnborough.
I'm not the greatest of experts on old buses, but it looked a lot like a Bedford OB, and was all over mid grey gloss, with a 'garter' style operators badge midway along it's flank. Unfortunately, at a closing speed of about 70 mph I couldn't read either the plate or the operator's name. Anyone recognise the description?
Also a yellow Lotus (M100) Elan with the top down in Farnborough this morning. It's a 25 year old design, so counts as a 'modern classic' now, surely?
I'm not the greatest of experts on old buses, but it looked a lot like a Bedford OB, and was all over mid grey gloss, with a 'garter' style operators badge midway along it's flank. Unfortunately, at a closing speed of about 70 mph I couldn't read either the plate or the operator's name. Anyone recognise the description?
Also a yellow Lotus (M100) Elan with the top down in Farnborough this morning. It's a 25 year old design, so counts as a 'modern classic' now, surely?
Heard a few classics rumble/trundle/spit/fart etc. down our lane yesterday (we're on a back road just outside of Lyneham - seems to have become quite a popular spot for classic runs recently) but only spotted a couple. One was a Mk2 Cortina and the other, I must admit to only catching sight of a rear pillar, was almost certainly a Tatra 613 - wonderful and unmistakeable sound... was dark blue and may well have been one that I nearly bought many years back...
Yesterday I saw various interesting cars, including an Edwardian tourer giving the moderns a run for their money on the motorway, a vintage tourer, a 1950s Morris Commercial, a '64 Galaxie, a Dino 246 GT and the Beetle below.
1961 Ford Prefect 107E and 1970 Volkswagen Beetle by Zack S. Classic Cars, on Flickr
Now it's time for last week's holiday snaps! Day 1 - the journey to Whitby
1961 Ford Prefect 107E and 1970 Volkswagen Beetle by Zack S. Classic Cars, on Flickr
Now it's time for last week's holiday snaps! Day 1 - the journey to Whitby
Edited by ClassicMotorNut on Monday 4th August 16:02
Saw this in the local supermarket parking lot here in Washington.
Great looking car.
Another Brit here in America! by v16ben, on Flickr
Great looking car.
Another Brit here in America! by v16ben, on Flickr
YorkshirePudding said:
Followed a Maserati Quattroporte Series 1 in to Halifax yesterday afternoon, guessing they'd been to the Hebden Bridge Vintage Weekend as there were a few other classics about.
Sounds like Johns car who I met and spoke at length with at Hebden Bridge on Saturday the car is a lovely example and he drove it up from London for the weekend and regularly uses it to cross London. I really like to see a classic used properly well done John and nice car thanks for showing me round it.Blown2CV said:
mike9009 said:
They're an underrated car, but they have their own loyal following.
They're not as pretty as a 308/328 GTB/GTS, and they're not as lively performance-wise as a 355, but they steer like a go-cart (a lot of magazines actually rate the 348's steering as being much better than the 355's power assisted steering, and some rate it as better than the 308/328's), they suffer less mechanical reliability issues than the early 355's, and for a car that is: "Not the best regarded Ferrari by any manner of means", have gone up in value from @ £18K to @ £34K in the last 5~6 years.
The funny thing is, if you look back at the reviews of the 348 when it first came out, it was raved about! - At the time the press loved them! (I've got plenty of those original magazines articles and in pretty much all of the group tests done at the time, the 348 came out as the clear winner).
The problem was, the competition soon caught them up performance wise and the styling dated them quite badly for a long time (the TestaRossa suffered a similar fate!). Now though, both cars are starting to enjoy a bit of a renaissance!
They're tricky buggers to drive at the absolute limit, but that's part of the joy of owning them, you have to learn how to get the best out of them, and when you do, you feel a real sense of achievement because you've had to work at it - It didn't come easy!
Not highly regarded? - They are by those in the know!
s p a c e m a n said:
Went Silverstone at the weekend so that I could make myself ill with heatstroke from being made to cover all bare skin whilst driving around track with the windows closed, in between bouts of nausea I spotted a couple of cool cars between the hundreds of orange Foci..
A Ford event then! Some cool ones there
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