Saw something bizarre today...

[ScottishSamurai]

Very odd, and don't konw what the point of this thread is but...

In Aberdeen I was going into town on the bus (boo hiss etc etc) and going round a roundabout I noticed a Chevvy lacetti type thing with California plates! LHD and some blonde lady driving.

What on earth is that doing over here? In Aberdeen of all places?

[Waugh-terfall]

I once took a wrong turn into a council estate somewhere and got lost, stumbled upon a late 1980s Nissan Micra Automatic on California plates parked up outside a block of flats...

[sherman]

Do the Americans still come over to teach people how to drill for oil?

[ScottishSamurai]

sherman said:

Do the Americans still come over to teach people how to drill for oil?

If so i'm sure they could do better than a ditzy looking blonde in a crappy re-badged Deawoo coffin-dodger special?

[sherman]

ScottishSamurai said:

sherman said:

Do the Americans still come over to teach people how to drill for oil?

If so i'm sure they could do better than a ditzy looking blonde in a crappy re-badged Deawoo coffin-dodger special?

Could be "her" car though.

[Garett]

If its an import can it not run on its old plates for a while? Surely its the same as all the Polish cars running about, you even see cars with plates from the middle east in London (apparently, I've seen pictures!)

[boomboompow]

Diplomatic plates perhaps? I can't recall if diplomat's plates are UK-based or country-of-origin based

[Robert060379]

Plenty of septic air bases over here maybe she was with or married to a member of the USAF and fancied a drive to Scotland?

[sherman]

boomboompow said:

Diplomatic plates perhaps? I can't recall if diplomat's plates are UK-based or country-of-origin based

Bit far from the embassy's is it not.

[Matt Harper]

This Chevy Lacetti thing you speak of is not available in the US market, so not sure what's going on there.

[tomwoodis]

Matt Harper said:

This Chevy Lacetti thing you speak of is not available in the US market, so not sure what's going on there.

More importantly, who would go to the time, effort and cost to import such a thing in the first place!

[mattviatura]

Before they were released over here I remember following a Nissan Murano on Colorado plates somewhere in East Anglia. I imagine it was air base personnel but always wondered why they brought their own car over..

Conversely I once saw an original Mini in the US (Colorado by coincidence) with the state plate attached over the yellow British rear plate.

[Utterpiffle]

Garett said:

If its an import can it not run on its old plates for a while? Surely its the same as all the Polish cars running about, you even see cars with plates from the middle east in London (apparently, I've seen pictures!)

Yup, I ran around on Canadian plates for six month when we imported our camper a few years ago. Insurance company didn't mind, so long as I MOT'd it. Free road tax for six months too...
Now legally UK registered of course, but residing in Germany!

[S3_Graham]

tomwoodis said:

Matt Harper said:

This Chevy Lacetti thing you speak of is not available in the US market, so not sure what's going on there.

More importantly, who would go to the time, effort and cost to import such a thing in the first place!

Even more importantly..... was she hot??

[ian2144]

Way back in 60's - 70's when the US Navy were in the Holy Loch. Officers got to bring their cars over for free.

[V88Dicky]

ian2144 said:

Way back in 60's - 70's when the US Navy were in the Holy Loch. Officers got to bring their cars over for free.

I remember being on holiday near Dunoon in 1985 and it was like little America. Corvettes, Mustangs and Camaros all over the shop. Had some good photos of the 13 year old petrolhead me and some nice cars. The Americans left Holyloch when their Posiedon SSBNs went out of service in the early nineties iirc.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

I pulled up at a set of lights in Luton yesterday, and standing on the corner not two feet away staring right back at me was Esther Rantzen. Which was bizarre. It was like my passenger window had become a kind of virtual TV screen.

[HellDiver]

MOD use Chevvy here, so it's not beyond the possibility that it was something MOD/diplomatic based.

[cbrannan]

I pulled up at a set of traffic lights the other day and they changed, dunno what they changed in to coz I drove off..........hope this turns this thread in to something a bit more interesting...yawn....

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

I pulled up at a set of lights in Luton yesterday, and standing on the corner not two feet away staring right back at me was Esther Rantzen. Which was bizarre. It was like my passenger window had become a kind of virtual TV screen.

[ScottishSamurai]

S3_Graham said:

tomwoodis said:

Matt Harper said:

This Chevy Lacetti thing you speak of is not available in the US market, so not sure what's going on there.

More importantly, who would go to the time, effort and cost to import such a thing in the first place!

Even more importantly..... was she hot??

Not too shabby, only got a brief view but it'd be worth my time

And I didn't mention that it was definetly a lacetti, just that type of thing, was a chevvy though.