The Kent & Essex Spotted Thread!

[DodgyGeezer]

saw a LOT of campers on Blenheim Chase (Prittlewell) near the firestation yesterday

[TCEvo]

Couple more today in Chelmsford - early PM & a yellow Citroen 2CV Van heading into Chelmsford towards the Army & Navy, mid-PM & a yellow VW Beetle on Wood Street and over in Laindon on Southfields Industrial Estate another Beetle - this one a dark green cabriolet.

[Hol]

s p a c e m a n said:

Saw this on canvey the other day, been ages since I've seen one

I cannot see the badges, but I assume it’s an RS2000 rather than a GTI?

[trails]

Hol said:

I cannot see the badges, but I assume it’s an RS2000 rather than a GTI?

RS2000, GTis had rear drums...I had two of them

[TCEvo]

Basildon again this morning & a metallic green MKII Cortina Ghia X parked at Pipps Hill Retail Park.

Red BMW M3 (E30) Cabriolet on the A130, Chelmsford bound, early pm - looked LHD from the opposite side of the road; assuming so & real that's a proper rarity.

Edited by TCEvo on Thursday 16th March 16:29

[SteveStrange]

Hol said:

s p a c e m a n said:

Saw this on canvey the other day, been ages since I've seen one

I cannot see the badges, but I assume it’s an RS2000 rather than a GTI?

As much as I have always disliked late Escorts, I have to say they are ageing rather well. I know they're plastic, bouncy, cheap, old-tech and rusty, but that's not a bad shape.

[pincher]

DodgyGeezer said:

saw a LOT of campers on Blenheim Chase (Prittlewell) near the firestation yesterday

They seem to come and go. A couple of them I’m surprised manage to move under their own steam.

Have often wondered what the deal with them is.

[Hol]

trails said:

Hol said:

I cannot see the badges, but I assume it’s an RS2000 rather than a GTI?

RS2000, GTis had rear drums...I had two of them

I didn’t think of looking for that, even though we owned a GTI.

[Hol]

SteveStrange said:

Hol said:

s p a c e m a n said:

Saw this on canvey the other day, been ages since I've seen one

I cannot see the badges, but I assume it’s an RS2000 rather than a GTI?

As much as I have always disliked late Escorts, I have to say they are ageing rather well. I know they're plastic, bouncy, cheap, old-tech and rusty, but that's not a bad shape.

I think it’s the fact that it’s all the one colour, with bumpers that continue the bodies own lines like more modern cars.
The prior models, which were basically the same shell still had textured angular bumpers , that dates them.

[Roman Moroni]

Travelling South down the M11 from Stansted yesterday and saw a hearse painted in rainbow colours....no, really!!

https://www.poetic-endings.com/rainbow-hearse

[DodgyGeezer]

Jaguar XK120 near Noak Bridge (number plate - XKV120 )

[TCEvo]

A12 in the pissing rain his morning: black Rolls Royce Flying Spur, brown-ish M-B W123 Coupe & a green Aston DB7.

Frinton-on-Sea layer in the day & a S1 Escort RS Turbo, blue Porsche 928, green VW Scirroco HT and a black Alpina B5 Touring.

[lukeharding]

[s p a c e m a n]

Hol said:

SteveStrange said:

Hol said:

s p a c e m a n said:

Saw this on canvey the other day, been ages since I've seen one

I cannot see the badges, but I assume it’s an RS2000 rather than a GTI?

As much as I have always disliked late Escorts, I have to say they are ageing rather well. I know they're plastic, bouncy, cheap, old-tech and rusty, but that's not a bad shape.

I think it’s the fact that it’s all the one colour, with bumpers that continue the bodies own lines like more modern cars.
The prior models, which were basically the same shell still had textured angular bumpers , that dates them.

Yeah it was a very clean rs2000. I had a very chavvy rs2000 converted cabriolet a couple of decades ago

[TCEvo]

lukeharding said:

Assume everyone ahead was braking due to cardboard boxes strewn across the carriage way.

[Captain Smerc]

TCEvo said:

lukeharding said:

Assume everyone ahead was braking due to cardboard boxes strewn across the carriage way.

The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got the word to go...

[DodgyGeezer]

Captain Smerc said:

TCEvo said:

lukeharding said:

Assume everyone ahead was braking due to cardboard boxes strewn across the carriage way.

The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cause they've got the word to go...

for years I'd misheard that as "...the Sweeney's doing 90 'cause they've got no-where to go..."

[DodgyGeezer]

Commer Van on the A12

[TCEvo]

Today & a light blue MkI Cortina two door on the A130 heading towards Chelmsford.

White & black 1920's (I think) Rolls Royce, cool looking, white, wide-body modified last gen Mazda RX-7 and a trailered, white, race prepped MGB GT all on the A127 around Basildon.

Yellow Corvette C6 on a drive in West Horndon.

Finally an orange VW ID Buzz van at the Army & Navy roundabout in Chelmsford - think that's the first one I've seen on the road (rather than at a VW dealer).

[lukeharding]

An M3 Touring near Battlesbridge last night. A TVR on the A127 this morning and the Gallardo up for sale at UPC near Basildon was on the front.