COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[Dapster]

Blown2CV said:

LotusOmega375D said:

cool as fk, but those fastenings are flexing the bonnet more than a touch

It's supposed to look like that!

[sun.and.rain]

CR6ZZ said:

Very tidy 67 Holden Premier out and about today, with a 69 Corolla lurking in the background.

Really interesting post, that Holden is so much like the PC Vauxhall range built in the UK from 1966 to 1972. Your post got me looking up wiki at the HD and HR Holdens built 1965 - 68. The Holden body style became more like the Opel range from 68 but V8s were now an option:-)

[Johnspex]

sun.and.rain said:

Really interesting post, that Holden is so much like the PC Vauxhall range built in the UK from 1966 to 1972. Your post got me looking up wiki at the HD and HR Holdens built 1965 - 68. The Holden body style became more like the Opel range from 68 but V8s were now an option:-)

I thought that too, but the more I look at it the more like a Victor 101 it becomes. Were they Victor or Cresta size?
You see that sort of similarity in 50's Fords too. Apart from the overall shape of a car the rear lights and headlamp cowls on mk2 Consuls/ zephyrs are closely related to the contemporary Thunderbird.

[CR6ZZ]

Johnspex said:

I thought that too, but the more I look at it the more like a Victor 101 it becomes. Were they Victor or Cresta size?
You see that sort of similarity in 50's Fords too. Apart from the overall shape of a car the rear lights and headlamp cowls on mk2 Consuls/ zephyrs are closely related to the contemporary Thunderbird.

Marginally shorter (4 inches) than the PC Cresta, but definitely a bigger car than the Victor 101.

[TR4man]

Something you don't see every day



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Seen in Newcastle under Lyme this morning

[mikey77]

TR4man said:

Something you don't see every day



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Seen in Newcastle under Lyme this morning

The coolest estate car ever made - even better than the Lancia HPE I once had. Some years ago I was leafing through the Classic & Sportscar that had arrived late (as usual) here in deepest France and I found an Eventer advertised by a firm in Nottingham. I literally ran to the phone, but it was already sold. Couldn't afford it now...

[mikey77]

Sorry no pic but yesterday I was strolling through a little town here in SW France when, to my surprise, I spotted a 1950s Daimler 2.5 litre Barker Special Sports parked outside the local hotel. Very nice too. The (English) owner happened to be standing there so I asked him if he was local. He seemed surprised and when he asked why I told him there was a similar one for sale at the old car dealership in a town just 10km up the road. I'm not sure he believed me...
http://www.novaweb.fr/les-professionnels/detail/22...

[Pothole]

TR4man said:

Something you don't see every day



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Seen in Newcastle under Lyme this morning

Outside some kind of XJS specialist? Isn't that a convertible in red over there?

[TR4man]

Pothole said:

TR4man said:

Something you don't see every day



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|http://thumbsnap.com/Mjj3jWDq[/url]

Seen in Newcastle under Lyme this morning

Outside some kind of XJS specialist? Isn't that a convertible in red over there?

Yes, they seem to be a Jaguar specialist with that red XJS and a couple of S Types outside

[TR4man]

mikey77 said:

TR4man said:

Something you don't see every day



[url]

|http://thumbsnap.com/Mjj3jWDq[/url]

Seen in Newcastle under Lyme this morning

The coolest estate car ever made - even better than the Lancia HPE I once had. Some years ago I was leafing through the Classic & Sportscar that had arrived late (as usual) here in deepest France and I found an Eventer advertised by a firm in Nottingham. I literally ran to the phone, but it was already sold. Couldn't afford it now...

I was intrigued by the Gucci name on the number plate and Google has come up with this:

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21844/lot/308/

A Lynx Eventer is a rare car, but a Gucci Lynx Eventer is even rarer.

[Blown2CV]

TR4man said:

mikey77 said:

TR4man said:

Something you don't see every day



[url]

|http://thumbsnap.com/Mjj3jWDq[/url]

Seen in Newcastle under Lyme this morning

The coolest estate car ever made - even better than the Lancia HPE I once had. Some years ago I was leafing through the Classic & Sportscar that had arrived late (as usual) here in deepest France and I found an Eventer advertised by a firm in Nottingham. I literally ran to the phone, but it was already sold. Couldn't afford it now...

I was intrigued by the Gucci name on the number plate and Google has come up with this:

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21844/lot/308/

A Lynx Eventer is a rare car, but a Gucci Lynx Eventer is even rarer.

and this one on the flatbed looks in really good condition too... sounds like a proper spot!

[uk66fastback]

Hideous! Look at the interior!

[tog]

TR4man said:

I was intrigued by the Gucci name on the number plate and Google has come up with this:

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21844/lot/308/

A Lynx Eventer is a rare car, but a Gucci Lynx Eventer is even rarer.

That Bonhams page implies it is a one off, so that one is this one. If so it's had the rot in the front passenger side wing fixed since the auction.

[Pothole]

£42k in 2014...£70k now?

[BlueHave]

Pothole said:

£42k in 2014...£70k now?

In my neck of the woods thats known as 'chancing your arm'

[yellowjack]

Just two cars photographed from my 100+ mile bicycle ride this afternoon. Plenty more spotted, but no opportunity to take pictures.

Highlights included a beautiful metallic bronze/brown Charger, or similar US Muscle Car, near Wellington Country Park. I was having an argument with my GPS/Satnav so missed seeing it until it was already alongside, going the opposite way. Then a garage full of MGs, including some BGTs, B Roadsters, and some older stuff lurking at the back of the lot. An MGB Roadster with a hard top fitted, plus a sunroof in the hardtop. Not seen that before. Then in Finchhampstead, at the garage near Nine Mile Ride, I caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a lovely red Triumph TR3 on a lift just inside. Traffic too heavy to spin round for a closer look, unfortunately.

[Dr Interceptor]

I see that Scimitar 2 or 3 times a week, in all weathers, it's well used

[DickyC]

Here's a rare beast, a Dedra Integrale.

[Iva Barchetta]

Nice Dedra.

Perhaps being cleaned for Auto Italia tomorrow.

Saw its brother today,a red Delta Integrale,possibly a PHers car I've seen before.

[lowdrag]

tali1 said:

I've watched loadds of shocking horror films - but nothing disturbed me as much as the supercar destruction in The Italian Job !

The E-type lives on in the ownership of Philip Porter. Originally 2BBC, owned and raced by Robin Sturgess of Leicester, the Jaguar dealer, it's chassis #12 a is now 848 CRY. I must get out more!