COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2
Discussion
strummerville said:
I'm not very up on old Mercs (is this a W123 or 124?) Anyway, this vey nice old coupe caught my eye in a Nottingham apartment car park today.
So. Maybe not much in the way of cars, but hey-ho...
A pair of WWII US Army trucks. Although if I lived on that street I'd be a bit miffed that two great big 'toys' were taking up four car spaces near permanently outside my house...
A much more sensibly sized classic military 'toy' and at a home with plenty of space to keep it, without annoying the neighbours.
On a street near my son's college. There were three 'classic' original Minis in the drive, but this one was the only one I could photograph from the road.
Triumph TR4A spotted on a residential street in the posh bit of Fleet. I turned around to see if I might get a better look at it, but it disappeared down a driveway, so this was all I got, distortion and all.
Also, Sunday 7th Sept 2014, there were a whole bunch of classic and vintage buses in the car park of Farnborough 6th Form college, and they were doing passenger rides. They included some AEC Regents, a Brighton Corporation Leyland Titan PD2 from the 1950s, a 1962 Dennis Loline and a 1956 Dennis Falcon in Aldershot & District Traction Company, and a rather more modern looking Leyland Leopard single deck bus. There were others, one a 'Western Scottish' I think, and a few Leyland Nationals in various liveries along with a Bristol VRT, part open top double deck tour bus liveried as 'Island Breezers' and showing Shanklin in the destination window. I'd only ridden down there with my son to check his route to college on his newly rebuilt 'Frankenstein' bike (first ride, so I was following him with tools to hand) and so I hadn't taken my camera
This was the event... http://www.altonbusrally.com/farnborough_links.htm
A pair of WWII US Army trucks. Although if I lived on that street I'd be a bit miffed that two great big 'toys' were taking up four car spaces near permanently outside my house...
A much more sensibly sized classic military 'toy' and at a home with plenty of space to keep it, without annoying the neighbours.
On a street near my son's college. There were three 'classic' original Minis in the drive, but this one was the only one I could photograph from the road.
Triumph TR4A spotted on a residential street in the posh bit of Fleet. I turned around to see if I might get a better look at it, but it disappeared down a driveway, so this was all I got, distortion and all.
Also, Sunday 7th Sept 2014, there were a whole bunch of classic and vintage buses in the car park of Farnborough 6th Form college, and they were doing passenger rides. They included some AEC Regents, a Brighton Corporation Leyland Titan PD2 from the 1950s, a 1962 Dennis Loline and a 1956 Dennis Falcon in Aldershot & District Traction Company, and a rather more modern looking Leyland Leopard single deck bus. There were others, one a 'Western Scottish' I think, and a few Leyland Nationals in various liveries along with a Bristol VRT, part open top double deck tour bus liveried as 'Island Breezers' and showing Shanklin in the destination window. I'd only ridden down there with my son to check his route to college on his newly rebuilt 'Frankenstein' bike (first ride, so I was following him with tools to hand) and so I hadn't taken my camera
This was the event... http://www.altonbusrally.com/farnborough_links.htm
yellowjack said:
On a street near my son's college. There were three 'classic' original Minis in the drive, but this one was the only one I could photograph from the road.
You couldn't doorstep the owner and find out more, could you, yj?
DickyC said:
Interesting. That purports to be a MkIII Cooper S but has a 1000 badge instead of 1275.
You couldn't doorstep the owner and find out more, could you, yj?
Errr? Nope You couldn't doorstep the owner and find out more, could you, yj?
But it's on the DVLA database as a red 1970 Morris Mini with a 998cc engine, so I reckon it's a 'Mini 1000' with some 'embellishments' to make it look more 'cool', like a proper Cooper S. I've no idea what the other two are, or what state they are in, as, like I say, I wasn't prepared to go ferreting about in someone else's garden taking pictures of old cars.
Dapster said:
strummerville said:
I'm not very up on old Mercs (is this a W123 or 124?) Anyway, this vey nice old coupe caught my eye in a Nottingham apartment car park today.
tali1 said:
Shezbo said:
tali1 said:
Pedantically a C123
It's a W123
http://www.classicandperformancecar.com/front_webs...
tali1 said:
Dapster said:
strummerville said:
I'm not very up on old Mercs (is this a W123 or 124?) Anyway, this vey nice old coupe caught my eye in a Nottingham apartment car park today.
tali1 said:
Shezbo said:
tali1 said:
Pedantically a C123
It's a W123http://www.classicandperformancecar.com/front_webs...
Naming
As usual, model names were related to engine sizes, type of engine and chassis type:
C for Coupé
L for Long-wheelbase
T for Touring (estate/station wagon)
D for Diesel,
E for Einspritzung (fuel injection)
Mercedes-Benz C123 (Euro-spec)
Mercedes-Benz W123 saloon (Euro-spec)
Mercedes-Benz W123 sedan (US)
Mercedes-Benz 280TE estate
Mercedes-Benz 300CD Turbodiesel coupe (US-version)
Mercedes Benz V123 Limo (Euro-spec)
Mercedes-Benz introduced the W123 four-door versions in January, 1976.[3] While there were some technical similarities to their predecessors, the new models were larger in wheelbase and exterior dimensions. The styling was also updated, although stylistic links with the W114 / W115 were maintained. Initially, all models except 280/280E featured quad unequal-size round headlights and the latter large rectangular units. When facelifted these units became standard across the range.
In the spring of 1976, a coupé version was introduced on a shorter wheelbase than the saloon (2,710 mm (106.7 in) versus 2,795 mm (110.0 in)) for the saloon). This W123C/CE was available as a 230C (later 230CE) and as a 280C/CE in most markets.
That Wiki article isn't exactly correct. "C" and "T" were suffixes for the model type Coupe and Estate respectively, and "D" and "E" were suffixes for engine type, Diesel and Einzprinz respectively, however the prefix, the internal code for the car was W for the saloon, C for the coupe and S, (not T) for the estate. So the internal code S123 referred to the estate, but the model name may have been 300TD for example. Similarly C123 would be the internal code for the coupe, the model in the example above would be 230CE. I think the lwb limo would have been W123 Lang but I'm guessing that.
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