COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[aeropilot]

Speed 3 said:

aeropilot said:

Am I missing something?

Don't get the Subaru angle?

Zoom into the tailgate....

Aah, OK.

Scooby running gear?

That'd be an interesting conversion if so..!!

[4rephill]

Pericoloso said:

I followed a Triumph spitfire the other day - Couldn't believe how small it looked compared to modern cars, it looked like a toy pedal car!

(A very nice looking toy pedal car though! )

[T-195]

A Reg 316.

[Touring442]

T-195 said:

A Reg 316.

One of the very last. BMW produced the E21 316 alongside the E30 for 6 -12 months.

[T-195]

There's a rear spoiler and some kind of red panel between the rear lights. Not unlike an Alpina from a quick look online.

I forgot I had a 316 on a Y Plate in just that colour.

[Mr Tidy]

I went to the Black Swan in Ockham (they have a car meet on the 2nd Sunday every month).

[T-195]

The Z3 Coupe looks very familiar. Been meaning to pap one just rather like it not far from me.

[uk66fastback]

DickyC said:

The first 928 I saw was on the M4 in about 1977 or 78. I wasn't hanging about and the 928 just rolled past. It wasn't in any hurry, it was just going a hell of a lot quicker than I was. Composure. That's the word. It had composure.

A couple of months ago, I pulled up at Morrisons car park in the 944, right next to a 928. Then chatted to the owner for 20mins. He'd owned it for 20 years ...

Edited by uk66fastback on Tuesday 16th April 00:05

[dinkel]

Ford Escort

[Escort3500]

dinkel said:

Ford Escort

Badge in wrong position

[LeighW]

No picture as I was driving, but spotted a red Ferrari 308GTB in Windermere on Saturday with the registration 308GTB.

[Yertis]

Another no picture, I saw a 205 GTi 1.9 "Mi-16". Is that an official model or an after-market re-engining? It was in that metallic graphite grey that they nearly all seemed to be in "back in the day". (daft expression)

[MarkwG]

Yertis said:

Another no picture, I saw a 205 GTi 1.9 "Mi-16". Is that an official model or an after-market re-engining? It was in that metallic graphite grey that they nearly all seemed to be in "back in the day". (daft expression)

Conversion, not factory.

[FlipFlopGriff]

Austin Cambridge estate in Redditch about 2pm - looked like he was heading for Asda or Matalan. Hadn't seen a Cambridge for years never mind an estate. I was on the island and he turned of it so no time for a pic.
FFG

[Bob CD]

Again, no photos I'm afraid, but very curious to see a black 1950 Cadillac in good condition on a low loader pulling out of a factory in Anting outside Shanghai on Monday morning. Wouldn't have thought it was a copy either!

And back in the real world, a pretty little red Alfa Romeo Giulia today in West Sussex.

[EvoDelta]

dinkel said:

Ford Escort

I just looked up this location on Streetview, and they have this parked across the road:

[DickyC]

In Newbury's Independant Aston Specialist.



Or just in for an MoT.

You're such a snob.

I know. But it did give me an opportunity to realise that the original Virage has grown on me over time. The Vauxhall Calibra jibes at the time coloured my thinking and I believed the contemporary Vantage was the only option. Nice looking car.

(Nice looking car now all the Calibras are dead.)

[nicanary]

Oddly enough, I was driving home yesterday and in the other lane was a red Calibra in full 80s bodykit - side skirts, deep rear bumper, the lot, plus 4 exhaust outlets, some of which may have been dummies.

Haven't seen one for years.

[T-195]

DickyC said:

In Newbury's Independant Aston Specialist.



Or just in for an MoT.

You're such a snob.

I know. But it did give me an opportunity to realise that the original Virage has grown on me over time. The Vauxhall Calibra jibes at the time coloured my thinking and I believed the contemporary Vantage was the only option. Nice looking car.

(Nice looking car now all the Calibras are dead.)

Would have been a better looking car if it had looked like a Calibra. The front view is by far the worse.

[DickyC]

T-195 said:

Would have been a better looking car if it had looked like a Calibra. The front view is by far the worse.

You say that, but have you seen what they're doing with the front now? There's eons of history in the shape of the Aston grille* and they're dicking about with it.

*Referred to as the "DB3S grille" you can trace its development from the Bamford & Martin Astons via the DB2 to the DB3S. And there it should have stayed. And, in fact, there it did stay until very recently when they cut the bottom away and it looks unfinished.