COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[DickyC]

With a serious contender for the Off Topic of the Year Award, I have recently discovered the A41 north of the M25. What a brilliant bit of road! No cops, cameras or, er, eejits.

[Dapster]

dinkel said:

This trusty W123 200 is in my street. What a hero who drives it. I mean: it's slow, handles like a pig and is really nothing special. Kudos to the owner.

That's in great nick. Restored or just well cared for? It's a W115 by the way, not the W123 that replaced it.

[GT6 Jonsey]

DickyC said:

With a serious contender for the Off Topic of the Year Award, I have recently discovered the A41 north of the M25. What a brilliant bit of road! No cops, cameras or, er, eejits.

Ah yes the A41 towards Tring and Aylesbury has been an important part of my tool kit for many years especially when finely tweeking carbs after an Italian style tune up

[dinkel]

Dapster said:

dinkel said:

This trusty W123 200 is in my street. What a hero who drives it. I mean: it's slow, handles like a pig and is really nothing special. Kudos to the owner.

That's in great nick. Restored or just well cared for? It's a W115 by the way, not the W123 that replaced it.

Sorry! I'm hardly an expert. Just well cared for. Always outside (at leasr for the last 2 years!) and a blister here and there.

[droopsnoot]

GT6 Jonsey said:

Stuck in traffic on the M25 bored as per the norm on a Friday afternoon this transporter convoy certainly caught my attention. Never mind the red Italian thing, does anyone recognise the cargo. All looked to have american plates ?

A post on FB yesterday showed some of these in Liverpool, with the comment "Outside St George's Hall, Liverpool, being loaded onto the set for new Harry Potter film."

[DickyC]

GT6 Jonsey said:

DickyC said:

With a serious contender for the Off Topic of the Year Award, I have recently discovered the A41 north of the M25. What a brilliant bit of road! No cops, cameras or, er, eejits.

Ah yes the A41 towards Tring and Aylesbury has been an important part of my tool kit for many years especially when finely tweeking carbs after an Italian style tune up

There was a legend about Aston Martin using the M45 south of Rugby as an unofficial test track. It's an odd bit of motorway that links the M1 with A45 west of Dunchurch. Very fast, very quiet and most of the time unaffected by traffic Police.

[LiamB]

Two recent spots

Saw this one in Bournemouth Tesco



And saw this back in London, never seen one like it and I have no idea what it is other than a Mercedes but I like it, sorry for the wonky photo I took it while walking

[Dapster]

LiamB said:

And saw this back in London, never seen one like it and I have no idea what it is other than a Mercedes but I like it, sorry for the wonky photo I took it while walking

Late model W124 Coupe. The W124 coupe was around from about 1985 onwards but the clear front indicators and side protective panels came in from about 1988/9 to the end of production in 96. Came as a 4 pot 2.3 and later 2.2, and the very desirable 3.0 and later 3.2 in line 6.

The one in the pic has nasty after market wheels and bodykit but unmolested ones can be had for reasonable money.

http://www.ccbenz.co.uk/?page_id=769

[MrHorsepower]

1939 Chrysler Royal street rod spotted by my dad at a wedding last week:

[wibble cb]

A rare bird here in Toronto , an Alfa 4C( and a streetcar!)




Also a bit rare...

[DickyC]

In Kings Lynn earlier:





Apologies, but other than saying the car is a Chevrolet, I'm a bit out of my depth.

I just saw them and thought of you.

[MrHorsepower]

The car is a '55 Chevy and the 'van' (which is really just a larger car) is a '55-'59 Chevy Suburban.

[Iva Barchetta]

Looks very well cared for.

[DickyC]

At a steel fabricator in Gloucester:





Not being a devout follower of BMW, at the time I thought the E was for economy.

Sorry.

[gforceg]

Sort of. It stood for the Greek letter eta, which I think is used as a symbol for efficiency in physics. Well, that's the story I remember!

Edited by gforceg on Tuesday 27th October 17:53

[Iva Barchetta]

That's what I thought .

The 525e was an economy version of the 525i.

[DickyC]

Sounds like someone was winding me up. The story I recall was that the initial letter of the German word for injection is e.

Perhaps I should have checked.

[DickyC]

MrHorsepower said:

The car is a '55 Chevy and the 'van' (which is really just a larger car) is a '55-'59 Chevy Suburban.

Thanks for that.

[gforceg]

DickyC said:

Sounds like someone was winding me up. The story I recall was that the initial letter of the German word for injection is e.

Perhaps I should have checked.

It is: einspritzung. But BMW used i for injection anyway. Those crazy Germans, eh?

[MarkwG]

gforceg said:

It is: einspritzung. But BMW used i for injection anyway. Those crazy Germans, eh?

GM did the same, & then used E over here - Vauxhall Astra GTE vs Opel Kadett GSi etc: no doubt a massive bonus in Marketing for that one...