COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!!
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johnxjsc1985 said:
Vauxhalls had an equally bad reputation and virtually fell apaprt after about 4 years rusty as hell. We still had Hillmanand the Routes cars.
My Dad's HA Viva managed to survive being exported to Singapore for 3 years and imported back again. I think we ran it for about 8 years altogether. It had an MOT when we sold it and no rust.Last night on the A274 Sutton Road heading out of Maidstone a very shiney black Capri 3.0S, with silver stripes and a rather fruity exhaust note. 
This afternoon a bluey-grey Series 1 E-Type convertible on the A229 heading into Maidstone around 6pm.
Then an immacculate looking XJ6 not far from the town centre.
Then just in Maidstone town centre a Jaguar D-Type! Could have been a replica, I only saw it stopped in traffic on the opposite carriageway, a big racing number '24' on the rear quarter. Lovely!
Any Jaguar events going on today..?
This afternoon a bluey-grey Series 1 E-Type convertible on the A229 heading into Maidstone around 6pm.
Then an immacculate looking XJ6 not far from the town centre.
Then just in Maidstone town centre a Jaguar D-Type! Could have been a replica, I only saw it stopped in traffic on the opposite carriageway, a big racing number '24' on the rear quarter. Lovely!
Any Jaguar events going on today..?
na said:
vpr said:
Breadvan73 said:
Meanwhile, back in the mundane:-
Growing up around these utter pieces of crap I hated them....the worst things on the planet.designed by a 2 yr old......look at those lines
Leo many of the yank cars are and were not best designed or built and at one time you couldn't give an E-type away but they're respected today
and in my opinion so should the "mundane" stuff tha't probably rarer and more reprosentative of their times
heroworship and dribbling over cars are illogical so what's it matter which cars they are, each to their own if someone enjoys that's what matters and if others agree great, if they don't plenty more bits of metal and plastic to look at - or better still see being used, or photograph, or sit in, or passenger in - or drive
ETA: includes Tim - so he doesn't feel left out, AMV8 very much unloved at one time especially by Aston owners
I'm untouchable I've got a Spridget everone knows they are classic and very cool
Edited by na on Wednesday 1st June 20:20
I happen to think that the car looks like it was designed by a 2 yr old because the lines lack any kind of basic imagination, it reminds me of a rough sketch of a car that I would ask my Mum to draw me as a small nipper. (she couldn't draw)
I also appreciate that people might love the car.....I don't. But I can see merit in many many cars from right across the spectrum and indeed I drive some strange cars myself that people might frown on and often do.....Thats' their opinion, not a problem.
You cannot compare the Etype just by virtue of the fact it didn't sell well all the way throughout its life...this is the case with many cars but the E was hailed as a remarkable car the likes of which had never been seen.
Like I say, I have an odd taste in cars myself and certainly do not have badge snobbery.
Just my view
Leo, covered in first part of first sentence (EFS)
great to hear you like a range of cars I had a Fiat Cinq and that looked like a kids drawing of a car, great fun tho' 1106 cc, 6 cc enough to put it in the next RFL bracket at the time
I still remember the first time someone told me the smart city-coupe (for two) was ugly even at my age then and level of life cynicisam I was suprised that everybody didn't think it was cute like I did
I suppose I have a bit of a soft spot as a freind had an Austin 1800 when they where fairly new and it seemed so comfortable and spacious
each to their own
na said:
either personal opions which are free to be expressed or back to the car snobbery
not sure you can discount the E-type because of sales figures many lovely cars sold in small numbersgreat to hear you like a range of cars I had a Fiat Cinq and that looked like a kids drawing of a car, great fun tho' 1106 cc, 6 cc enough to put it in the next RFL bracket at the time
I still remember the first time someone told me the smart city-coupe (for two) was ugly even at my age then and level of life cynicisam I was suprised that everybody didn't think it was cute like I did
I suppose I have a bit of a soft spot as a freind had an Austin 1800 when they where fairly new and it seemed so comfortable and spacious
each to their own
Edited by na on Friday 3rd June 20:11
vpr said:
I don't really understand what's going on here....I happen to have a view here which I expressed. I grew up around these cars and later went on to sell the Maxi with all of its rivals in the latter days of its life and it was diabolical.
I happen to think that the car looks like it was designed by a 2 yr old because the lines lack any kind of basic imagination, it reminds me of a rough sketch of a car that I would ask my Mum to draw me as a small nipper. (she couldn't draw)
I also appreciate that people might love the car.....I don't. But I can see merit in many many cars from right across the spectrum and indeed I drive some strange cars myself that people might frown on and often do.....Thats' their opinion, not a problem.
You cannot compare the Etype just by virtue of the fact it didn't sell well all the way throughout its life...this is the case with many cars but the E was hailed as a remarkable car the likes of which had never been seen.
Like I say, I have an odd taste in cars myself and certainly do not have badge snobbery.
Just my view
you almost sound appolegetic - don't be and i agree with you on design... there's no emotion, character and certainly it is no classic by any stretch of imagination. I happen to think that the car looks like it was designed by a 2 yr old because the lines lack any kind of basic imagination, it reminds me of a rough sketch of a car that I would ask my Mum to draw me as a small nipper. (she couldn't draw)
I also appreciate that people might love the car.....I don't. But I can see merit in many many cars from right across the spectrum and indeed I drive some strange cars myself that people might frown on and often do.....Thats' their opinion, not a problem.
You cannot compare the Etype just by virtue of the fact it didn't sell well all the way throughout its life...this is the case with many cars but the E was hailed as a remarkable car the likes of which had never been seen.
Like I say, I have an odd taste in cars myself and certainly do not have badge snobbery.
Just my view
IMO of course....
the fact that this one is still arond despite all its faults, lack of design or carisma - don't that give it some merit if only for being so rarely seen on the road
sir you are free to dislike the car and say so, I don't particularly like Maxis but would be interested to see it in the metal especially being used on HM roads
sir you are free to dislike the car and say so, I don't particularly like Maxis but would be interested to see it in the metal especially being used on HM roads
na said:
the fact that this one is still arond despite all its faults, lack of design or carisma - don't that give it some merit if only for being so rarely seen on the road
sir you are free to dislike the car and say so, I don't particularly like Maxis but would be interested to see it in the metal especially being used on HM roads
Rarely seen on the road for good reason, unloved in their day and unloved today by 99.9% of the human race.sir you are free to dislike the car and say so, I don't particularly like Maxis but would be interested to see it in the metal especially being used on HM roads
Interested to see on the road???. Yes for that reason.
Yesterday, while out on the bike, saw an absolutely immaculate Rover P5 coupe
(google photo)
This one was BRG, and had the thin-band white walls that the one in the photo has, and looked better than the day it came off the production line, it was perfect. Someone had obviously spent a lot of time and love on it.
(google photo)
This one was BRG, and had the thin-band white walls that the one in the photo has, and looked better than the day it came off the production line, it was perfect. Someone had obviously spent a lot of time and love on it.
how many 5 door hatchbacks were about in 1969?. I have never owned one and its a bit unlikely that I ever will but I think it was produced for 11 or 12years so people bought it. The austin 1100 /1300 and 1800 and then the maxi provided a lot of people with transport.Its generally a decade of british car decline as the only thing that was produced in any quantity was STRIKES. Had the designers of these cars been given quality production things may have been so much better but Leylands and Vauxhalls and to some extent Fords let the Japanese in with cars that always worked when required to.i think I am saying it wasnt all the cars fault.
Outside The Grand in Brighton around midday today, presumably to do with a wedding which appeared to be happening:
Saw the happy couple exiting in what appeared to be either a very good replica/repro or an actual real Cobra around 3pm; I was driving that time so no picture, or any idea if it was a real one either really
Saw the happy couple exiting in what appeared to be either a very good replica/repro or an actual real Cobra around 3pm; I was driving that time so no picture, or any idea if it was a real one either really
How anyone could look at one and think it looks alright is beyond me, yet alone own one!wtdoom said:
far too much though going into the maxi answers . poo is just poo , im not one to overcomplicate the issue .
maxi = poo .
burn them with fire and those that like them .
What shall we do with the remains ?maxi = poo .
burn them with fire and those that like them .
I was gonna say lets fill that crappy CSL up with them but tis gone now (phew).
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