The 2013 Yorkshire Spotted Thread

[v15ben]

Thought I might as well get this going for another year

Saw various nice classics out and about today. My favourite was a stunning red E-Type coupe in Harrogate.

[carlove]

Saw a Panamera Turbo near York University today.

Happy new year I hope I finally see an F40, F50 or Enzo this year.

[anonymous-user]

v15ben said:

Thought I might as well get this going for another year

Saw various nice classics out and about today. My favourite was a stunning red E-Type coupe in Harrogate.

Dark red/burgundy E-Type? Saw that too down Skippy road.

[v15ben]

anonymous said:

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This was a bright red one, parked on a drive with an MG Midget and various other classics. Looked incredible.
Also saw this in a little village up near Ripon.


Victoria. by v15ben, on Flickr

[falkster]

Ben you get everywhere!! Are you like the Alan Wicker of Yorkshire roads?

[v15ben]

My main hobbies are driving and photography, so I'm usually doing one or the other somewhere in Yorkshire
I also saw your Merc again the other day, in Morley this time!

[snotrag]

White Exige out for a New Years trundle through Colton this afternoon.

[anonymous-user]

v15ben said:

This was a bright red one, parked on a drive with an MG Midget and various other classics. Looked incredible.
Also saw this in a little village up near Ripon.


Victoria. by v15ben, on Flickr

Saw a few of that style/era around Beckwithshaw, one was an Alvis.

[jon66]

Spotted an orange McLaren pottering through Little Weighton today....is that anyone on here as I'm sure I've seen it locally a couple of times before!

[falkster]

v15ben said:

My main hobbies are driving and photography, so I'm usually doing one or the other somewhere in Yorkshire
I also saw your Merc again the other day, in Morley this time!

Was it moving or parked up. We both work in Morley.

[v15ben]

Parked up.

[v15ben]

jon66 said:

Spotted an orange McLaren pottering through Little Weighton today....is that anyone on here as I'm sure I've seen it locally a couple of times before!

Andyclax?

[falkster]

v15ben said:

Parked up.

I'm gonna start randomly parking my car up around Yorkshire - pretty much like a 'where's wally'.

[burriana]

It would be nice if this year we had quality over quantity and, pics if possible. "Dark blue 911 through centre of Leeds today", to my mind anyway, isn't worth the server space.

Unless of course it's Leigh, then that is totally acceptable

[thetapeworm]

burriana said:

"Dark blue 911 through centre of Leeds today", to my mind anyway, isn't worth the server space.

I guess it all depends on what you are used to seeing out of the window each morning, to some of us spotting a hot hatch can be an event when all you are used to is an elderly piece of white goods

Perhaps we just need to make the descriptions more interesting / detailed if we don't have a pic?

I do get your point though, at first I thought this was for spotting fellow PHers but as I am yet to see any away from an organised meet I guess this would be a fairly slow thread of that was the case.

[StuB]

burriana said:

It would be nice if this year we had quality over quantity and, pics if possible. "Dark blue 911 through centre of Leeds today", to my mind anyway, isn't worth the server space.

Unless of course it's Leigh, then that is totally acceptable

That reminds me of the "2 Ferrari's & a camper van" comment at the ferry to Le Mans, with the Grey 911 and Tango'd Exige with 2 cross dressing trannies on board didn't even register with the giffer loading the ferry.

[burriana]

thetapeworm said:

I guess it all depends on what you are used to seeing out of the window each morning, to some of us spotting a hot hatch can be an event when all you are used to is an elderly piece of white goods

But this is Pistonheads Michael, we should try to raise the bar

This was as said, originally about spotting fellow PHers, it then went on to really cool out of the ordinary cars. Now it seems to be Grey Aston, white 911, cool M3 and so on.

Now if it was a 90's V8 Vantage, or a 930-911, or a 3.0 CSL, then that would be different

[Zoobeef]

Should be nice cars + any car you see with a PH logo really. Pictures should be more of a must though

[probedb]

thetapeworm said:

I guess it all depends on what you are used to seeing out of the window each morning, to some of us spotting a hot hatch can be an event when all you are used to is an elderly piece of white goods

I think that's the thing, for some people seeing a 911 might be rare but for others it's a daily occurrence so becomes the norm. The guy who parks next to me where I live owns a Merc C63 AMG and his brother a GTR, plus a friend has a GTR so I see them quite often and in Sheffield Porsche's, M3s etc are quite common. But stuff like a GT3 is quite rare to see

[v15ben]

Just saw a rather nice red Lancia Delta HF at Birstall Retail Park. Appeared very well looked after!