COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[theadman]

Iva Barchetta said:

Yes,seen at a show but it needs to be shared.



Who knows what it is ?

I asked the owner,so I do know the answer.

No reverse Google image searching....

1 of 26 cars built.

Those of us of a certain age know it immediately. There was a Corgi model of one back in the mid '60s.

I'm glad whoever owns it is taking it out and about - I really want to see it as it's one of those cars that has fascinated me for years. Whilst I see the Facel Vega reference I think there is a lot of FIAT 2300S in the car as well.

[4rephill]

tali1 said:

The Producer of The Italian Job moaned that BMC were simply not interested in giving out the Minis -they saw very limited marketing/publicity opportunity and were rather dismissive of the idea.

The irony being that decades later, the company that BMC evolved into were so proud to be associated with a film that they never wanted to be officially associated with when it was being made!

Another strange one is, Mini fans adore this film (My friend is absolutely nuts about Minis [to the point where she states that My 1977 1100 Clubman: "Was not a Mini 'cos it's got the wrong front end!" ], and she loves the film!), even though every Mini you see being driven in the film ends up being smashed to bits!

(To be fair to My friend, she doesn't tend to watch the film after the part where the Minis are loaded onto the coach! )

[ATTAK Z]

ATTAK Z said:

CAPP0 said:

Vaguely remind me of a Facel Vega. It's lovely.

That was my first thought too

... and a bit of Mopar

[Evangelion]

Was out for a drive a while ago and spotted this little beauty. Fortunately I was near enough to home to fetch the camera.









What really surprised me was how small the thing looked.

[ATTAK Z]

Evangelion said:

Was out for a drive a while ago and spotted this little beauty.

Whitewalls spoil what is essentially a nice example for me

[Brads67]

swooshiain said:

Not something I've seen before...

I`ve been in that for a look see when it was sitting in Cockenzie house, then spotted it in use at Sheriff hall last week.

[swooshiain]

Brads67 said:

I`ve been in that for a look see when it was sitting in Cockenzie house, then spotted it in use at Sheriff hall last week.

It was outside Cockenzie House when I took that pic - I assumed it was just a visitor. Weird looking thing, but I like it!

[daveenty]

Evangelion said:

Was out for a drive a while ago and spotted this little beauty. Fortunately I was near enough to home to fetch the camera.

Used to see a two tone blue Super Minx around here a couple of years ago, not seen it for ages though, owner possibly sold it on?

Evangelion said:

What really surprised me was how small the thing looked.

This fascinated me the last time I saw it as, at the time, they were a large car, certainly when compared with the standard (Series V???) Minx of the same period. Positively tiny by today's standards.

[Dapster]

Sorry for the slight diversion but I spotted this indent on Channel 5 last night - if you see it you'll see the car features half a second, maybe less. As a car nut and with a chosen specialist subject in 80's German barges, I spotted that it was a 100 Avant. But bloody hell, apart from a few of us on here, pretty much NO ONE watching would spot it. What were the production company thinking? Going to the time and cost of sourcing a pristine 100 and not actually bother showing it off!!



Bit of a theme with C5 though. This was a previous effort.

[yellowjack]

Cool? Maybe not.
Classic? Debatable
Car? Not on your nelly!

But hey? Where else am I going to post this?

Driving back from Dover t'other day and taking the long way home via Walmer/Deal and Canterbury, I passed a side road and waiting at the 'T' Junction to turn right was a chap in a SINCLAIR C5!

I did a double-take and watched in my mirrors as it joined the traffic going the other way. Sorry, but no photos as there was nowhere to turn around quickly and the wife was with me and she gets proper fed up with me taking pictures of random stuff so turning round wouldn't have been a popular move anyway.

I think it was on the way out of Sandwich, or possibly Deal itself, but I've never been there before and am probably never going to go back, so I'm not familiar with the area to be sure.

[swooshiain]

yellowjack said:

Cool? Maybe not.
Classic? Debatable
Car? Not on your nelly!

But hey? Where else am I going to post this?

Driving back from Dover t'other day and taking the long way home via Walmer/Deal and Canterbury, I passed a side road and waiting at the 'T' Junction to turn right was a chap in a SINCLAIR C5!

I did a double-take and watched in my mirrors as it joined the traffic going the other way. Sorry, but no photos as there was nowhere to turn around quickly and the wife was with me and she gets proper fed up with me taking pictures of random stuff so turning round wouldn't have been a popular move anyway.

I think it was on the way out of Sandwich, or possibly Deal itself, but I've never been there before and am probably never going to go back, so I'm not familiar with the area to be sure.

I would be firmly of the opinion that C5s are so far off the "cool" spectrum that they have come back onto it from the other side. A genuinely quirky thing - I've only ever seen one in the wild, and that was over 25 years ago! Wouldn't like to be in one if a car hit it, mind you.

[yellowjack]

swooshiain said:

I would be firmly of the opinion that C5s are so far off the "cool" spectrum that they have come back onto it from the other side. A genuinely quirky thing - I've only ever seen one in the wild, and that was over 25 years ago! Wouldn't like to be in one if a car hit it, mind you.

I 'drove' one once, back in the days when they were new and vaguely exciting. A friend of my dad had bought one for his eldest lad, who was about two years older than me (he'd refused to buy his son a scooter or moped, the C5 was supposed to be a 'safe' alternative ). We were at their house for something or other (Buffs business, probably) and to get rid of us kids out of the house for half an hour, Terry told his son to get the C5 out of the shed and give us all a 'turn' at driving it up to the old (closed) station and back. Cool as owt when you're 15 years old, not so much looking back.

I saw one recently chained up outside a WEEE recycling company near Farnham. Presumably used as some kind of advertisment for the firm's activities. That one in Kent was the first time I'd seen one moving under it's own power since about 1986.

[Motown Junk]

No pics unf, but original 1970'ish Skyline GTR going past Virginia Water last night. V Nice!

[Johnspex]

I can't remember quite where it was but on Friday going north (probably on the M40) I came up beside an Mk2 MX5 in the traffic. Nothing unusual there but it was a beautiful shade of classic Aston Martin green and had an Aston badge on the bootlid. However when I got in front of it and looked back it had an Aston nose on it too.
I was really impressed, it looked very professional.

[Evangelion]

Johnspex said:

I can't remember quite where it was but on Friday going north (probably on the M40) I came up beside an Mk2 MX5 in the traffic. Nothing unusual there but it was a beautiful shade of classic Aston Martin green and had an Aston badge on the bootlid. However when I got in front of it and looked back it had an Aston nose on it too.
I was really impressed, it looked very professional.

One of these by any chance?

[Johnspex]

From memory that's the one though the one I saw was a lovely green. What is it?

[droopsnoot]

Dapster said:

But bloody hell, apart from a few of us on here, pretty much NO ONE watching would spot it. What were the production company thinking? Going to the time and cost of sourcing a pristine 100 and not actually bother showing it off!!

I keep wondering the same about the various adverts that have classics in them for no apparent reason. OK, it's one thing to feature something old when you're doing one of those "through the ages" kind of ads and need something period, but why does one of the current milk adverts need to feature a yellow Datsun, or one of the insurance adverts show an Austin Victoria or a Peugeot 504 estate? Still, it gets some exposure for the "scene" in a very small way.

[LordBretSinclair]

Johnspex said:

From memory that's the one though the one I saw was a lovely green. What is it?

A feeking monstrosity

[Johnspex]

LordBretSinclair said:

A feeking monstrosity

Really? It wasn't pretending to be an Aston, it was just an MX5 with a different nose. I liked it

[Pothole]

Iva Barchetta said:

Yes,seen at a show but it needs to be shared.



Who knows what it is ?

I asked the owner,so I do know the answer.

No reverse Google image searching....

1 of 26 cars built.

Beaten to it but that grille screams Ghia, at least to me.