COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[Rich135]

js68 said:

Previously featured in this thread - on his daily commute

Good lad! I wish I could use mine everyday, but 140 miles of motorway driving would not be all that pleasant....

[droopsnoot]

gforceg said:

Sorry to drag it up but I've been away for a week (holiday car snaps to follow at some point) but, is that a Gilbern next to the Maestro?

Yes, does look like it.

[RJG46]

[S47]

Of course it's a Gilbern [a miserable urinal white one] - But Next to the 2 rusty shopping trolley tintops - which all you on this forum seem to pedant over it hardly seemed worth mentioning. OOI There's been several posts with strong colored Gilbern photos within which nobody ever mentions. Yet my post with a mostly obscured Urinal WHITE Gilbern rates a mention and a question - WIERD
Oh well

[gothatway]

S47]Of course it's a Gilbern [a miserable urinal white one said:

- But Next to the 2 rusty shopping trolley tintops - which all you on this forum seem to pedant over it hardly seemed worth mentioning. OOI There's been several posts with strong colored Gilbern photos within which nobody ever mentions. Yet my post with a mostly obscured Urinal WHITE Gilbern rates a mention and a question - WIERD
Oh well

Feeling better, dear ? By the way, that's a weird way of spelling wired.

Edited by gothatway on Friday 12th October 19:20

[Johnspex]

gothatway said:

Felling better, dear ? By the way, that's a weird way of spelling wired.

Weird way of spelling coloured too.

[TR4man]

S47]Of course it's a Gilbern [a miserable urinal white one said:

- But Next to the 2 rusty shopping trolley tintops - which all you on this forum seem to pedant over it hardly seemed worth mentioning. OOI There's been several posts with strong colored Gilbern photos within which nobody ever mentions. Yet my post with a mostly obscured Urinal WHITE Gilbern rates a mention and a question - WIERD
Oh well

Possibly because the Gilbern is by far the most interesting?

[Yertis]

I wouldn't mind betting there are more roadworthy Gilberns than Maestros, yet the Maestro was a far more important car and IMO quite technically interesting?

[Doofus]

Yertis said:

...the Maestro was ... quite technically interesting?

Care to elaborate?

A speech synthesiser doesn't count, BTW.

[12TS]

Couple from Aldeburgh.

P1800. Lovely car, petite and well proportioned



And then I think an Austin England. Not really my thing, but still wonderful to see in use still

[Doofus]

12TS said:

And then I think an Austin England. Not really my thing, but still wonderful to see in use still

It's an Austin Sheerline. The badge on the back (which I suspect you used as reference) actually says "Austin of England"

[aeropilot]

12TS said:

Couple from Aldeburgh.

P1800. Lovely car, petite and well proportioned

Lovely

[Gompo]

'Future classic..'.

[Butter Face]

Lovely to see a proper UK spec Supra in such a nice condition!!

[Gompo]

Butter Face said:

Lovely to see a proper UK spec Supra in such a nice condition!!

I concur, it's a manual Twin Turbo with fairly low miles, too!

[Yertis]

Doofus said:

Care to elaborate?

A speech synthesiser doesn't count, BTW.

Yes it does

I recall it as quite a punchy thing, esp the MG, good comfort and so on, BL trying to fight back against Ford and VW etc. Probably let down by shoddy build quality and not-great engineering or development. But I remember them quite fondly, certainly more of an "oh look! how cool" moment when I see one now, than a Gilbern.

[Butter Face]

Gompo said:

Butter Face said:

Lovely to see a proper UK spec Supra in such a nice condition!!

I concur, it's a manual Twin Turbo with fairly low miles, too!

Trolley is parked a bit close for my liking though!!

[tali1]

Gompo said:

Butter Face said:

Lovely to see a proper UK spec Supra in such a nice condition!!

I concur, it's a manual Twin Turbo with fairly low miles, too!

Regd May 96 -so one of the last

[swisstoni]

Butter Face said:

Gompo said:

Butter Face said:

Lovely to see a proper UK spec Supra in such a nice condition!!

I concur, it's a manual Twin Turbo with fairly low miles, too!

Trolley is parked a bit close for my liking though!!

Actually might be a good strategy. Leave a free space and stick a trolley in it. Most can’t be arsed to get out and move the trolley to park!

[Doofus]

Yertis said:

Yes it does

I recall it as quite a punchy thing, esp the MG, good comfort and so on, BL trying to fight back against Ford and VW etc. Probably let down by shoddy build quality and not-great engineering or development. But I remember them quite fondly, certainly more of an "oh look! how cool" moment when I see one now, than a Gilbern.

I suspect that what you implied by "Technically interesting" is not what I inferred form "Technically interesting"