COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[Dapster]

Yertis said:

But we like being pedantic

For the benefit of Daps, the MB-series Quattro had Audi / OOOO / quattro

S47 - no plenty more pics please! I love the Quattro - on my lottery win garage list (as is the Sport Quattro if it's roll over week). Also, you think that was pedantry? Ha!

Yertis - yes the MB cars had Audi/0000/quattro. I didn't know it changed with the facelift.

The early WR cars had no rings and stickers rather than a badge.

[Pothole]

S47 said:

Yertis & Dapster
No need to get so pedantic over it

[stuff]

AUDI's

Ahem!

[S47]

Yertis & Dapster
So what was the car I posted up then????
Was it just a bodykit fitted audi coupe with BLACK Quattro badges and rings etc etc etc.
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We'd all really like to know

[Yertis]

S47 said:

Yertis & Dapster
So what was the car I posted up then????
Was it just a bodykit fitted audi coupe with BLACK Quattro badges and rings etc etc etc.
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We'd all really like to know

Well I'm sure you wouldn't, but since I'm on "holiday"... I believe it's a facelift WR Quattro, upon which someone has put some black rings, maybe a complete set of MB badges painted black – the profile of the badges is quite different. As it happens I've got some brand new WR badges here, bought for a WR I don't have any more. MB insignia was all chrome but quite a few WR owners put them on (including one of our own resident WR owners naming no names, and whoever it was who had my first WR before me). All the best quattros also have 'quattro' in the rear glass, as part of the heating element.

As I said... The most enduring material legacy of the original Quattro is the 'quattro' script.

[DickyC]

S47 said:

We've been polite long enough. If that's a Bugatti, I'm a powerfully built stair-dominating company director.

[droopsnoot]

Yertis said:

All the best quattros also have 'quattro' in the rear glass, as part of the heating element.

Yes, that's one of the flashest bits of my coupe quattro - the bit in the heating element. And it's lovely how it's a double-element, so that bit clears first on a frosty morning.

Non-original bits aside, the red quattro does look good, there's just something about it.

[TR4man]

Bustedmattress said:

Elderly said:

V8s ONLY said:

xtreme ant said:

Spotted in Newcastle u Lyme last week

That’s a friend of mine driving the XK150, he doesn’t own it but has been lent it by the owner for a couple of weeks, and took me for a blast in it to Wales a couple of weeks ago. It is a very nice car and has been local all of it’s life (Stoke-on-Trent)

Tell him that his OSR (brake?) light is not working.

I had assumed that he was indicating left. That would be how my Healey would present from behind assuming foot was off the brake and the shot was taken mid flash anyway. I can’t believe I am getting into this debate. Lovely car by the way and in my homeland. Double win.

I think you are correct, that is his indicator.

VT is a Stoke registration, I think?

[TR4man]

In Audlem, Cheshire this lunchtime

[S47]

DickyC
Another Pedant - good to have you onboard - welcome to the thread

[xtreme ant]

TR4man said:

I think you are correct, that is his indicator

VT is a Stoke registration, I think?

Yes VT was a stoke registration as well as EH,he was indicating left.
Do you think the supplying dealer was Byatts?as they sold a lot of British made vehicles

[DickyC]

S47 said:

DickyC
Another Pedant - good to have you onboard - welcome to the thread

Thanks, S47, I do wander in here occasionally.

[Gompo]

I really liked the look of this.

[swisstoni]

Gompo said:

I really liked the look of this.

As a serial Ford owner in that era I have to say that Vauxhall consistently made better looking cars than Ford for a very long time yet never quite managed to get the same qudos.
Looking back, it all seems a bit Emperor’s New Clothes on behalf of Ford fans.

[RJG46]

Rather Cool Alpine GTA on the M40 earlier. F reg in Met Grey

[Pericoloso]

Period slot mags,Wolfrace ? on the Vauxhall.

[DickyC]

Pericoloso said:

Period slot mags,Wolfrace ? on the Vauxhall.

Indeed. Wolfies. And the cut faces of the slots painted red; a familiar post purchase enhancement. 10" Wolfies were the only mod on my Mini 1000* that actually contrived to make the car slower than standard with the increased roll resistance of the wider tyres.

Looked good though.

To my eye.



*Bought new in 1978. Black with a fitted radio and sunroof. £2,500 ish IIRC. That's about £40,000 in today's money or something equally ridiculous.

[Escort3500]

DickyC said:

Pericoloso said:

Period slot mags,Wolfrace ? on the Vauxhall.

Indeed. Wolfies. And the cut faces of the slots painted red; a familiar post purchase enhancement. 10" Wolfies were the only mod on my Mini 1000* that actually contrived to make the car slower than standard with the increased roll resistance of the wider tyres.

Looked good though.

To my eye.



*Bought new in 1978. Black with a fitted radio and sunroof. £2,500 ish IIRC. That's about £40,000 in today's money or something equally ridiculous.

Could be Cobra Super Slots

[DickyC]

Escort3500 said:

Could be Cobra Super Slots

You could be right there.

Ignore what I said above.

[Bustedmattress]

xtreme ant said:

Yes VT was a stoke registration as well as EH,he was indicating left.
Do you think the supplying dealer was Byatts?as they sold a lot of British made vehicles

I am going for extreme pedantry here - VT is indeed a Stoke-on-Trent registration. EH however is a Stafford registration. The reason I think this is so is that our daily snotter is a 2001 Subaru brought new from Stafford by my Dad - TEH. My Mum’s Micra from back in the 1980’s was also a Stafford car and also a an EH. Pretty sure on this. Conversely my first car was a Citroen AX brought from Ray and Proctors in Longton - E546 KVT. Pedantry over.

On things Citroen my love of the marque endured and I added a Citroen SM to my collection last weekend after taking the biggest brave pill I could find. When I get brave enough to take it out in our fair county of Staffordshire I sincerely hope I get photographed and put on this thread!

Edited by Bustedmattress on Saturday 6th October 21:24

[gothatway]

Bustedmattress said:

I am going for extreme pedantry here - VT is indeed a Stoke-on-Trent registration. EH however is a Stafford registration. The reason I think this is so is that our daily snotter is a 2001 Subaru brought new from Stafford by my Dad - TEH. My Mum’s Micra from back in the 1980’s was also a Stafford car and also a an EH. Pretty sure on this. Conversely my first car was a Citroen AX brought from Ray and Proctors in Longton - E546 KVT. Pedantry over.

According to the all-knowing wiki, both EH and VT were Stoke on Trent - I guess the LA might have decided to use one for S-o-T and the other for the rest of Staffs.