COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2
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uk66fastback said:
A DB6/6 thundered past me in the 944 on Sunday lunchtime going south on the A1 by Brampton ... something like VRH 7E - dark blue - lovely.
Geek Corner: no need to add /6 to the DB6, they were all straight six. The DBS seems to have acquired an unofficial 6 to distinguish it from the DBS V8. The DBS only came about because the V8 engine wasn't ready. Hard to imagine a niche car company building their own engines but AML did until Ford became involved.DickyC said:
Geek Corner: no need to add /6 to the DB6, they were all straight six. The DBS seems to have acquired an unofficial 6 to distinguish it from the DBS V8. The DBS only came about because the V8 engine wasn't ready. Hard to imagine a niche car company building their own engines but AML did until Ford became involved.
NERD ALERT!!!!!!!Great info mate! You must know your stuff!
A287 toward Hook and the M3 yesterday (I was heading away from the M3).
A lovely blue coloured Ferrari 308/328, with what appeared to be some motorsport style white 'race number' type rectangles on it.
Sorry I can't be more positive with my description/identification, but I was cycling, doing my very best "blowing out of my arse", staring at the handlebar stem, Chris Froome impersonation when said Ferrari shot past in the opposite direction. By the time my brain had processed the fact that my eyes had seen something interesting it was long past.
A lovely blue coloured Ferrari 308/328, with what appeared to be some motorsport style white 'race number' type rectangles on it.
Sorry I can't be more positive with my description/identification, but I was cycling, doing my very best "blowing out of my arse", staring at the handlebar stem, Chris Froome impersonation when said Ferrari shot past in the opposite direction. By the time my brain had processed the fact that my eyes had seen something interesting it was long past.
yellowjack said:
A287 toward Hook and the M3 yesterday (I was heading away from the M3).
A lovely blue coloured Ferrari 308/328, with what appeared to be some motorsport style white 'race number' type rectangles on it.
Sorry I can't be more positive with my description/identification, but I was cycling, doing my very best "blowing out of my arse", staring at the handlebar stem, Chris Froome impersonation when said Ferrari shot past in the opposite direction. By the time my brain had processed the fact that my eyes had seen something interesting it was long past.
Like this:?A lovely blue coloured Ferrari 308/328, with what appeared to be some motorsport style white 'race number' type rectangles on it.
Sorry I can't be more positive with my description/identification, but I was cycling, doing my very best "blowing out of my arse", staring at the handlebar stem, Chris Froome impersonation when said Ferrari shot past in the opposite direction. By the time my brain had processed the fact that my eyes had seen something interesting it was long past.
Similar, I think, but I thought it was a darker shade of blue, and I noticed white rectangles on the bodywork, not the white circles on the doors. I certainly don't recall any actual numbers on it, though, and the more I think about it the more convinced I am that it was a 308. Hey-ho. I'm not really much help, as I wasn't at my most observant, having (foolishly) overdone it a bit with the cycling.
Two spot from today...
1. BMW M1, in red, in the car park/forecourt of the BMW dealer in Farnborough...
...not my picture, but my view of it was from this sort of angle, but slightly more elevated as I drove past. I was like an over-excited schoolboy, but the wife just said "I thought you didn't like BMWs"
2. Immaculate looking Simca 1100 in the car park at B&Q Farnborough...
...again, not my photo. But it was the same (or at least a very similar) colour, parked nose-in, in a space at the far end of the car park. It looked like it was certainly someone's pride and joy.
1. BMW M1, in red, in the car park/forecourt of the BMW dealer in Farnborough...
...not my picture, but my view of it was from this sort of angle, but slightly more elevated as I drove past. I was like an over-excited schoolboy, but the wife just said "I thought you didn't like BMWs"
2. Immaculate looking Simca 1100 in the car park at B&Q Farnborough...
...again, not my photo. But it was the same (or at least a very similar) colour, parked nose-in, in a space at the far end of the car park. It looked like it was certainly someone's pride and joy.
LordBretSinclair said:
Probably this one - belongs to a good friend of mine 
That's the one! Saw it again yesterday morning, it sounds fantastic! I also saw a pre-war Bentley in Exeter and have seen two Citroen HY vans in the last two days. Lots of classics out and about at the moment, hopefully I'll be adding my MG to the road soon too.
hin' Triumph chop...
Pothole said:
love that
At a VW/Audi track day at Castle Coombe in the RS2 I was getting along fine and thinking I was doing quite well - overtaking things and all - when an NSU Prinz in race trim went past me as an Olympic sprinter might have gone past me in my primary school sack race. I didn't see him coming and I hardly saw him going. I have no idea what speed he was doing but he was going was very, very fast.DickyC said:
Pothole said:
love that
At a VW/Audi track day at Castle Coombe in the RS2 I was getting along fine and thinking I was doing quite well - overtaking things and all - when an NSU Prinz in race trim went past me as an Olympic sprinter might have gone past me in my primary school sack race. I didn't see him coming and I hardly saw him going. I have no idea what speed he was doing but he was going was very, very fast.Gassing Station | Classic Cars and Yesterday's Heroes | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff