COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[Blown2CV]

Amazing thing. Love them. I also heard that new they cost more than just about anything, including Rolls Royce, at the time.

[Iva Barchetta]

droopsnoot said:

Sit in the P6 on top of the container. Get out of the drivers door, jump over the gap / fence, walk along the green container and there's a silver Mercedes estate in front of it. To the right of that, there's an R4.



I've never been to Loughborough to my knowledge.

Note to droopsnoot,this location in not in Loughborough,Leics.

It's off Coldharbour lane,Brixton,London.

[stuartmmcfc]

Iva Barchetta said:

Note to droopsnoot,this location in not in Loughborough,Leics.

It's off Coldharbour lane,Brixton,London.

I thought I had no idea where this was in Loughborough, Leica

[DickyC]

stuartmmcfc said:

I thought I had no idea where this was in Loughborough, Leica

And I thought I was pissed.

[Gompo]

[Cliftonite]

Gompo said:

Patina!

[StonetheCrows]

This was lovely, only got a pic of the back

[0a]

A lovely e21 316 getting a wash yesterday. Apologies about the terrible photo!

[droopsnoot]

Iva Barchetta said:

Note to droopsnoot,this location in not in Loughborough,Leics.

It's off Coldharbour lane,Brixton,London.

Ah, I ignored the "junction" part of the post. I think the same applies to the proper location, though, unless I'd pass it on the train from Euston up to Crewe.

Some from the last few days:







I've no idea if that's a real Escort Cosworth, or even if that's a real Sierra Cosworth, I didn't check the plate.

I've also seen a couple of old Bentleys (50s/60s) and a Jeep this afternoon, possibly show on somewhere.

Edited by droopsnoot on Sunday 15th May 19:11

[DickyC]

Driving west along the M4 last night a bit before ten at a steady 80 and a very early, pale blue, DB4 went past. It was sitting nicely on the road, as my old dad used to say. Lovely noise, too.

[yellowjack]

1967 1500cc Toyota Corona (3rd generation)

This lovely little car I spotted recently. I took a diversion on the way home to follow it,just to find out what it was. It was motoring, too. Not excessively, given the conditions, and it was extremely well-driven as far as I could tell. It was just noticeable that it was making progress in the damp, drizzly conditions far more effectively than the modern metal it was surrounded by.

I'd been a few cars back most of the time I was behind it, but fate cleared the other cars off in different directions at various junctions and roundabouts, leaving me directly behind it at this right-turn filter. These are the only two pictures I managed,then it slipped off through I gap I couldn't take advantage of and that was the last I saw of it. It sounded 'ripe' too. A truly lovely little car and out and about in weather that might make most classic car owners think twice about opening the garage door.

[DickyC]

This morning in Newbury.

It's going to be a good summer for classics. I can sense it.

[lowdrag]

Oh how sad! Influenced by learning of an English pub in Normandy we found this not far away:-

This was inside the workshop, a Mini instantly seen, but at the back a lot of motor cycle wheels and parts. Impossible to make out what though.



But outside this lot:-















I left a card in the letter box and hope someone will contact me

Edited by lowdrag on Tuesday 17th May 08:29

[Geekman]

Some rather nice cars out today.

[DickyC]

lowdrag said:

Oh how sad! Influenced by an English pub in Normandy we found this not far away:-

This was inside the workshop, a Mini instantly seen, but at the back a lot of motor cycle wheels and parts. Impossible to make out what though.



But outside this lot:-















I left a card in the letter box and hope someone will contact me.

Those deserve a wider audience, lowdrag. Could you post the cars on Classics Rotting and the pumps on Humer Unbeam?

[dbdb]

lowdrag said:

Oh how sad! Influenced by learning of an English pub in Normandy we found this not far away:-

This was inside the workshop, a Mini instantly seen, but at the back a lot of motor cycle wheels and parts. Impossible to make out what though.

But outside this lot:-

Is that a portion of XJ-S next to the sad and dilapidated Sovereign?

Edited by dbdb on Tuesday 17th May 10:10

[mikey77]

I was chatting in the street in the infamous Oradour-sur-Glane, SW France, the other day to a French guy who potters around in a very tidy Vanden Plas 1100 the same colour as the one in the pic above. Remarkably enough, there's another one around here, too.
Incidentally, the guy I was talking to needs to beg/borrow a hydrolastic pump. Information can be forwarded...

[TR4man]

Seen parked up at Tesco in Newcastle under Lyme this lunchtime.

[Evangelion]

I'd like to see a wider angle version of that pic, just to see how much the 1100 is dwarfed by the (so-called) Mini parked next to it.

[Hugh Jarse]

Evangelion said:

The Facel Vega was an interesting car - French, but powered by an American V8.

I remember building a model of a 1959 Facel Vega Excellence. It was a 4-door, 4/5-seater pillarless coupe, and I read somewhere that if they opened too many doors at once, the car flexed so much that they wouldn't shut again.





(I didn't spot either of these, found them on Google Images.)

Edited by Evangelion on Saturday 14th May 08:12

Edited by Evangelion on Saturday 14th May 08:13

I worked with Jean Daninos as a trainee modeller in 1990 Lisbon, he was still working aged 80 odd and had a French design consultancy working out there.
Interesting chap, full of energy. I didnt know who he was at the time.