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LordBretSinclair
2,019 posts
46 months
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Schmeeky said: Thanks Onyx, didn't get the reference. Not sure if I remember that ad directly, but I'm sure I've seen it before.. My original reference - perhaps I should have qualified it - trouble is I forget sometimes what an ancient old f*rt I am and that some of you "youngsters" won't know what I and others are on about 
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2slo
1,549 posts
36 months
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I've seen a few interesting cars in Durham in the last few days. Usually when I'm in the car on my own and can't get a photo, e.g. on Friday morning on the A167 just north of Newton Aycliffe, a Ferrari 400 (or a 365, I didn't see the reg no) looked like it was in regular use too, being driven in the pouring rain. Today, in Stanhope, a Triumph TR4. A couple of minutes later, at the other end of the same village, a Frogeye Sprite. This one was in front of us so I badgered SWMBO to take a snap of it on my phone  : 
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Pothole
17,988 posts
151 months
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2slo said: I've seen a few interesting cars in Durham in the last few days. Usually when I'm in the car on my own and can't get a photo, e.g. on Friday morning on the A167 just north of Newton Aycliffe, a Ferrari 400 (or a 365, I didn't see the reg no) looked like it was in regular use too, being driven in the pouring rain. Today, in Stanhope, a Triumph TR4. A couple of minutes later, at the other end of the same village, a Frogeye Sprite. This one was in front of us so I badgered SWMBO to take a snap of it on my phone : Another one that's lost its original reg.
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2slo
1,549 posts
36 months
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Pothole said: 2slo said: I've seen a few interesting cars in Durham in the last few days. Usually when I'm in the car on my own and can't get a photo, e.g. on Friday morning on the A167 just north of Newton Aycliffe, a Ferrari 400 (or a 365, I didn't see the reg no) looked like it was in regular use too, being driven in the pouring rain. Today, in Stanhope, a Triumph TR4. A couple of minutes later, at the other end of the same village, a Frogeye Sprite. This one was in front of us so I badgered SWMBO to take a snap of it on my phone : Another one that's lost its original reg. Maybe the owner just wanted a dateless reg?
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Pothole
17,988 posts
151 months
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2slo said: Pothole said: 2slo said: I've seen a few interesting cars in Durham in the last few days. Usually when I'm in the car on my own and can't get a photo, e.g. on Friday morning on the A167 just north of Newton Aycliffe, a Ferrari 400 (or a 365, I didn't see the reg no) looked like it was in regular use too, being driven in the pouring rain. Today, in Stanhope, a Triumph TR4. A couple of minutes later, at the other end of the same village, a Frogeye Sprite. This one was in front of us so I badgered SWMBO to take a snap of it on my phone : Another one that's lost its original reg. Maybe the owner just wanted a dateless reg? It would have been dateless anyway. ETA why comment when you don't know what you're talking about?
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Robin Hood
487 posts
74 months
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2slo said: Maybe the owner just wanted a dateless reg? They've all got dateless reg numbers surely, they didn't make them after 1961 and 'A' reg started in 1963
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2slo
1,549 posts
36 months
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Yes that's right, I'm forgetting how old these are. The next series of Sprites (i.e. MG midget shape without the frogeye lights) had a prefix, these didn't, so they would indeed have been dateless. In which case, why wouldn't this be the original reg?
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nicanary
1,000 posts
15 months
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2slo said: Yes that's right, I'm forgetting how old these are. The next series of Sprites (i.e. MG midget shape without the frogeye lights) had a prefix, these didn't, so they would indeed have been dateless. In which case, why wouldn't this be the original reg? Not prefix... suffix. For example ABC 123A for 1963. The prefix would have started in 1983 as in A123 ABC. Now we have an abomination of a system. Some countries have a perfectly simple system, like the Irish - 09 D 12345 means Dublin 2009 registered, the 12345th car that year. C is Cork, OY is Co Offaly, DL Co Donegal etc. Simples.
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2slo
1,549 posts
36 months
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Pothole said: 2slo said: Pothole said: 2slo said: I've seen a few interesting cars in Durham in the last few days. Usually when I'm in the car on my own and can't get a photo, e.g. on Friday morning on the A167 just north of Newton Aycliffe, a Ferrari 400 (or a 365, I didn't see the reg no) looked like it was in regular use too, being driven in the pouring rain. Today, in Stanhope, a Triumph TR4. A couple of minutes later, at the other end of the same village, a Frogeye Sprite. This one was in front of us so I badgered SWMBO to take a snap of it on my phone : Another one that's lost its original reg. Maybe the owner just wanted a dateless reg? It would have been dateless anyway. ETA why comment when you don't know what you're talking about? Why post an offensive comment like that? When I commented that the owner might have wanted a dateless reg, it was simply due to me forgetting the age of the original Frogeye sprites and mistakenly assuming that these would originally have had a suffix. Not because I don't know what I'm talking about, far from it. You made a comment about 'another one that's lost it's original reg' and I replied to that. So either explain your original comment or don't as you see fit but keep your insults to yourself please.
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2slo
1,549 posts
36 months
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nicanary said: 2slo said: Yes that's right, I'm forgetting how old these are. The next series of Sprites (i.e. MG midget shape without the frogeye lights) had a prefix, these didn't, so they would indeed have been dateless. In which case, why wouldn't this be the original reg? Not prefix... suffix. For example ABC 123A for 1963. The prefix would have started in 1983 as in A123 ABC. Now we have an abomination of a system. Some countries have a perfectly simple system, like the Irish - 09 D 12345 means Dublin 2009 registered, the 12345th car that year. C is Cork, OY is Co Offaly, DL Co Donegal etc. Simples. Correct, my mistake, I know that but I've had a long day. Thanks for pointing it out politely
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Pothole
17,988 posts
151 months
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2slo said: Yes that's right, I'm forgetting how old these are. The next series of Sprites (i.e. MG midget shape without the frogeye lights) had a prefix, these didn't, so they would indeed have been dateless. In which case, why wouldn't this be the original reg? Because it's not. XS* numbers are issued to pre-63 vehicles either when they are imported from abroad and have proof of year of manufacture or when their original reg. is sold and transferred. Import: 1957 Chevy with US style plate. 
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2slo
1,549 posts
36 months
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Pothole said: 2slo said: Yes that's right, I'm forgetting how old these are. The next series of Sprites (i.e. MG midget shape without the frogeye lights) had a prefix, these didn't, so they would indeed have been dateless. In which case, why wouldn't this be the original reg? Because it's not. XS* numbers are issued to pre-63 vehicles either when they are imported from abroad and have proof of year of manufacture or when their original reg. is sold and transferred. Import: 1957 Chevy with US style plate. Well that's fine. Hands up, I didn't know that. I would have appreciated you explaining that to start with rather than your other response.
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Pothole
17,988 posts
151 months
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2slo said: Pothole said: 2slo said: Yes that's right, I'm forgetting how old these are. The next series of Sprites (i.e. MG midget shape without the frogeye lights) had a prefix, these didn't, so they would indeed have been dateless. In which case, why wouldn't this be the original reg? Because it's not. XS* numbers are issued to pre-63 vehicles either when they are imported from abroad and have proof of year of manufacture or when their original reg. is sold and transferred. Import: 1957 Chevy with US style plate. Well that's fine. Hands up, I didn't know that. I would have appreciated you explaining that to start with rather than your other response. Meh.
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LordBretSinclair
2,019 posts
46 months
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OK ladies, handbags away, kiss and make up - none of us know everything about everything. Surely (don't call me Shirley) this forum is about sharing information, not having a "go" because a fellow PHer gets something wrong
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stuarte
448 posts
53 months
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Seen a beautiful Ferrari 166 Barchetta in Primrose Hill, London today in the Ecurie Francorchamps livery: two tone green/blue on Italian plates. No time to get a picture sadly.
Anyone know more about this stunning car?
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Rostfritt
798 posts
20 months
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nicanary said: Some countries have a perfectly simple system, like the Irish - 09 D 12345 means Dublin 2009 registered, the 12345th car that year. C is Cork, OY is Co Offaly, DL Co Donegal etc. Simples. Everyone else in the world has a system where you cannot tell the age from the plate. Irish plates are far too long for such a small country.
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stevenr
714 posts
63 months
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Pothole said: Because it's not. XS* numbers are issued to pre-63 vehicles either when they are imported from abroad and have proof of year of manufacture or when their original reg. is sold and transferred. Import: 1957 Chevy with US style plate. Where do you find such information?
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Pothole
17,988 posts
151 months
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stevenr said: Pothole said: Because it's not. XS* numbers are issued to pre-63 vehicles either when they are imported from abroad and have proof of year of manufacture or when their original reg. is sold and transferred. Import: 1957 Chevy with US style plate. Where do you find such information? About the reg. numbers? I worked in a LVLO for a year about 24 years ago...
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danjnixon
12 posts
24 months
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Ran into this old beauty at a small show at Rudyard Lake yesterday. Its a local car owned by the Scott-Moncrieff family...  
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cjb1
1,215 posts
20 months
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Gompo said: Another RWD Ford.. Although sadly another Capri too. This may not go down well!  Oh Dear, who's stuck in a time warp then?
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