COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[tali1]

4rephill said:

Armitage.Shanks said:

daveenty said:

The Rolls in picture 3 is up for sale at the moment on the bay: -

Silver Shadow Barn Find

How can it be a 1975 when it's showing a 'T' Reg for '78/'79 given that you cannot apply a new reg to an older car?

You are incorrect on that!

The year indicated in the registration number denotes the first year that the car was registered for use on the road in the UK, not the year that the vehicle was manufactured.

So if this Rolls Royce was put straight into storage unregistered in 1975, or if it was exported abroad somewhere for the first three or four years of its existence, and was then registered in the UK for the first time in '78/'79, then the DVLA would have issued the car with a '78/'79 registration number and not a '75 number.

What you cannot do, is have a registration number that is newer than the vehicles first year of registration in the UK (although there are a few cases known where this has somehow happened)

So in the case of this Rolls Royce, although it was manufactured in '75, because its first year of registration was '78/'79 it can carry any registration number up to a '78/'79 "T" plate, but it cannot carry a number after the '78/'79 "T" plate.

Registration CAK477T
Road Tax Status Expired: 01/12/1984
MOT Status No details held by DVLA Vehicle Make ROLLS ROYCE
Colour SILVER
Registration Date May 1979
Manufacture Year 1975
Vehicle Age 37 Years

[viscountdallara]

fantastic fulvia in Stowmarket this morning

[TR4man]

Riley near Crewe this morning

[gforceg]

I love Fulvias. But but but, is that a Smart car towering over it? Christ.

[TR4man]

Near Nantwich this morning

[Elderly]

Red Lion Square this afternoon:

[S47]

Sorry for this post: spotted this earlier today - maybe a classic in 10 years time - now just an overpriced tintop
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[85Carrera]

Black TR3 in Bishop's Stortford this morning; unfortunately not able to get a photo

[Muddle238]

1963 Citroen DS19 convertible spotted in West London. Clearly never had been restored, looked like original everything, leather, paint, chrome, glass, the lot. Lovely old thing, must only be a handful of DS convertibles still on the road in the UK.

[Pothole]

Any interest in my pics from Tecno Classica? Only classic car show I've been to so far where there were more Miuras than F40s (or Morris Minors)!

[lucido grigio]

Pothole said:

Any interest in my pics from Tecno Classica? Only classic car show I've been to so far where there were more Miuras than F40s (or Morris Minors)!

Most definitely,please post them.

Been to TC Essen 3 times and its one of few shows I could go to every year without being bored.

[shambolic]

[Pothole]

lucido grigio said:

Pothole said:

Any interest in my pics from Tecno Classica? Only classic car show I've been to so far where there were more Miuras than F40s (or Morris Minors)!

Most definitely,please post them.

Been to TC Essen 3 times and its one of few shows I could go to every year without being bored.

I'll get them into a folder and post a link

[finlo]

shambolic said:

Is that Helensburgh?

[TR4man]

Burghley House today in the public car park.





...and this little gem

[RONV]

[Cliftonite]

[Stickyfinger]

I like a good weapons carrier, but a bit cold on the winter commute

[Bob CD]

Staying on the military thread, saw a very thoroughly restored military motor-cycle and sidecar today in Shanghai. More importantly, it was being ridden by a very pretty girl - no helmet, of course. Sorry 'bout the lack of pic...

[P5BNij]

I can't stop looking at that 911 Targa, what a lovely looking thing it is