COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[Rockettvr]

Spotted this cool roller on my way into London by the limehouse link.
The grille was HUGE !!!
Excuse the photo - all I could manage while sitting in traffic

[ClassicMotorNut]

I was on a camping trip last week in the New Forest and there was some pushbike event going on which this Type 2 was attending.


This A.E.C. was in Poole, but the photo's a bit crap because I was on the ferry to Brownsea Island.


Another Type 2 in Sandbanks


Thursday saw us at the National Motor Museum, which was also being visited by a Mk. I Mexico...


...and yet another Type 2. They are everywhere.

There was also an M.G. TC at the N.M.M. but I didn't manage to get a photo.

[finlo]

Did Ford ever do a four door Mexico??

[Gompo]

finlo said:

Did Ford ever do a four door Mexico??

Not properly no - Seem to remember they did one in that Tawny Brown colour?

[v15ben]

Spotted a Gilbern Invader in Woburn this afternoon - must be a very rare thing!
Also something I haven't seen in years - a Triumph Acclaim + it was being used as a daily driver I think!

[yellowjack]

finlo said:

Did Ford ever do a four door Mexico??

HHO 778N - aka: the Escort 'Mexico' above, is actually a 1975 Ford Escort 1300 XL.

It was spotted at Beaulieu in 2012 too... https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevsclassiccars/6727... ...although it was wearing slightly 'sportier' wheels back then

[v15ben]

Also saw this interesting pair today.

[gforceg]

ClassicMotorNut said:

I was on a camping trip last week in the New Forest and there was some pushbike event going on which this Type 2 was attending.

Sandy Balls, sir?

Sorry, couldn't resist. But there used to be a Southern Series MTB race there a long time ago.

[5.0ltr]

Burgundy MG SX? Yesterday morning through Evesham. First I have seen moving.

[aeropilot]

Gompo said:

finlo said:

Did Ford ever do a four door Mexico??

Not properly no - Seem to remember they did one in that Tawny Brown colour?

Yup, built a couple for Police evaluation IIRC (memory is getting a bit vague on AVO stuff now) and at least one for a member of the public, which is the Tawny Met one you mention, and it was me that 'discovered' this car (then painted black) in a road in Hanwell, West London back in the 1980's.

[tali1]

v15ben said:

Spotted a Gilbern Invader in Woburn this afternoon - must be a very rare thing!
Also something I haven't seen in years - a Triumph Acclaim + it was being used as a daily driver I think!

Spotted this one on GSVIew in BL faeces brown.Many years ago someone up the road had a Acclaim Avon Turbo

[v15ben]

Looks near identical to the one I saw today.
Can't be many in regular use these days!

[mikey77]

ClassicMotorNut said:

I was on a camping trip last week in the New Forest and there was some pushbike event going on which this Type 2 was attending.


This A.E.C. was in Poole, but the photo's a bit crap because I was on the ferry to Brownsea Island.


Another Type 2 in Sandbanks


Thursday saw us at the National Motor Museum, which was also being visited by a Mk. I Mexico...


...and yet another Type 2. They are everywhere.

There was also an M.G. TC at the N.M.M. but I didn't manage to get a photo.

I'll bet a fiver that Southdown 'AEC' is actually a Leyland. Southdown used little else. Bodywork by Harrington (Cavalier I think), a firm that was on Southdown's patch - Harrington also bodied the now desirable Sunbeam Alpine Le Mans coupe.

[yellowjack]

mikey77 said:

I'll bet a fiver that Southdown 'AEC' is actually a Leyland. Southdown used little else. Bodywork by Harrington (Cavalier I think), a firm that was on Southdown's patch - Harrington also bodied the now desirable Sunbeam Alpine Le Mans coupe.

Two online sources concur, Mikey. 1964 Leyland, according to DVLA and at least one other. Although I have to admit I couldn't tell by looking at it.

[strummerville]

I'm not very up on old Mercs (is this a W123 or 124?) Anyway, this vey nice old coupe caught my eye in a Nottingham apartment car park today.

[mikey77]

yellowjack said:

mikey77 said:

I'll bet a fiver that Southdown 'AEC' is actually a Leyland. Southdown used little else. Bodywork by Harrington (Cavalier I think), a firm that was on Southdown's patch - Harrington also bodied the now desirable Sunbeam Alpine Le Mans coupe.

Two online sources concur, Mikey. 1964 Leyland, according to DVLA and at least one other. Although I have to admit I couldn't tell by looking at it.

Shuffles to his feet and looks around. 'My name is Mikey. I am a bus spotter.'

[Cliftonite]

[Cliftonite]

GPM 988L

Date of First Registration: 05 01 1973

[tickious]

[LordBretSinclair]

tickious said:

A nice late Phase II version of the Mark III with the separate indicators