COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[Hugh Jarse]

Bit harsh!
We assembled those in Radford Semele (now Ricardo), never knew tthere were Autos though.

[Doofus]

Hugh Jarse said:

Bit harsh!

You can't say it's a looker, can you? It never was, even when new. A square bodykit on a car that was all curves looks daft, and it looked like a Ripspeed demonstrator even then.

[interloper]

Hugh Jarse said:

Bit harsh!
We assembled those in Radford Semele (now Ricardo), never knew tthere were Autos though.

I believe the ERA cars were all manual, I suspect the car mentioned by the other poster was a bad home made lash up.

[yellowjack]

Today's spots...

Willy's Jeep (WWII green with a white star, etc) between Farnham and Clare Park Hospital.
Beautiful white Zephyr - near Milford I think, heading north toward Guildford.
An equally well looked after white Morris 1000.
Outside a garage (Wormley, I think) where I've seen a fair number of classics was a silver Quantum. Rear end looked nice, couldn't really see the front and I wasn't going to stop for photos as I was behind schedule on a 100 mile bicycle ride to Goodwood and back.

[Speed 3]

interloper said:

Hugh Jarse said:

Bit harsh!
We assembled those in Radford Semele (now Ricardo), never knew tthere were Autos though.

I believe the ERA cars were all manual, I suspect the car mentioned by the other poster was a bad home made lash up.

I distinctly remember a car mag group test with three varieties of souped up Minis at the time when I was starting out in a City 1.0. The ERA was definitely one of them, can't remember the other two. IIRC one was breathed on NA, another turbo'd and the third may have been supercharged. Defintely all manuals in that test, hard to see why they would make an auto. Thought they were all cool as fk.

[DickyC]

yellowjack said:

Today's spots...

Willy's Jeep (WWII green with a white star, etc).
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Willys, pronounced Willis.

Apologies for pedantry so early in the day.

[S47]

Earlier today - One for the Specialists
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[nicanary]

S47 said:

Earlier today - One for the Specialists
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Is the third name Peckham? Burn it, now!

[Doofus]

S47 said:

Earlier today - One for the Specialists
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Looks like an Asquith Mascot to me.

[TR4man]

Seen traveling north on the M1 this afternoon.

Is the lurid colour original?

[lucido grigio]

Not 100% but I'll go with original....^^^^

Colours were wacky in the 70s.......

[Cliftonite]

TR4man said:

Seen traveling north on the M1 this afternoon.

Is the lurid colour original?

The colour is Citron? An original colour. Lovely! The number plate, though, is NOT the original colour! Yuk!

[Voxy]

A few from earlier today in Tokyo...

[Dazed and Confused]

Strela said:

Very original. Thoroughly approve.

Apart from the illegal number plate.

[TR4man]

Dazed and Confused said:

Strela said:

Very original. Thoroughly approve.

Apart from the illegal number plate.

I'm not sure, but I think that you can now have silver and black rear plates when your classic becomes eligible for "historic tax".

[Dazed and Confused]

TR4man said:

Dazed and Confused said:

Strela said:

Very original. Thoroughly approve.

Apart from the illegal number plate.

I'm not sure, but I think that you can now have silver and black rear plates when your classic becomes eligible for "historic tax".

Oh really I didn't know that.

[Doofus]

Dazed and Confused said:

TR4man said:

Dazed and Confused said:

Strela said:

Very original. Thoroughly approve.

Apart from the illegal number plate.

I'm not sure, but I think that you can now have silver and black rear plates when your classic becomes eligible for "historic tax".

Oh really I didn't know that.

The 40 year 'historic status' thing commenced in 2015, and a vehicle registered more than 40 years before that (Jan 1975) can carry black and silver plates.

The historic status rolls forward each year (so a vehicle over 40 years old can be registered as historic), but the black and silver plates doesn't; that remains fixed at 1/1/75.

Historic status (zero VED) and black and silver plates aren't realy related.

Therefore, you can have a car built in 1977 registered as historic, but it can't lefally carry black and silver plates

[4rephill]

TR4man said:

Dazed and Confused said:

Strela said:

Very original. Thoroughly approve.

Apart from the illegal number plate.

I'm not sure, but I think that you can now have silver and black rear plates when your classic becomes eligible for "historic tax".

According to this site: https://www.heritagecarinsurance.co.uk/newsroom/ne... , and reading the DVLA's official site: https://insidedvla.blog.gov.uk/2015/11/17/whats-th... , it appears that yes, once your car is 40 years, providing you apply to the DVLA and register your car under the ‘historic vehicles’ tax class, then you can run silver and black plates on your car.

It seems a bit strange that the DVLA have decided to abandon their previous strict cut off date for the use of silver and black plates based on the cars original eligibility to use them when new, but hey, it's the DVLA - Go figure!

[nicanary]

4rephill said:

TR4man said:

Dazed and Confused said:

Strela said:

Very original. Thoroughly approve.

Apart from the illegal number plate.

I'm not sure, but I think that you can now have silver and black rear plates when your classic becomes eligible for "historic tax".

According to this site: https://www.heritagecarinsurance.co.uk/newsroom/ne... , and reading the DVLA's official site: https://insidedvla.blog.gov.uk/2015/11/17/whats-th... , it appears that yes, once your car is 40 years, providing you apply to the DVLA and register your car under the ‘historic vehicles’ tax class, then you can run silver and black plates on your car.

It seems a bit strange that the DVLA have decided to abandon their previous strict cut off date for the use of silver and black plates based on the cars original eligibility to use them when new, but hey, it's the DVLA - Go figure!

I couldn't agree more. Surely any classic car owner would want it to appear "as in period"? Sadly, some seem more interested in whether it "looks better".

[john2443]

Roller parked up in Brighton a couple of weeks ago.





Edit - they were the right way up on my laptop!

Edited by john2443 on Sunday 23 July 21:28