COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[aeropilot]

Couldn't get a pic, but sitting at the chauffer drop off point outside T3 at Heathrow this morning among the sea of black and grey E-Class Mercs was a black MB600 Grosser LWB

[droopsnoot]

Pothole said:

Blown2CV said:

Ferrari 308 "quattrovalvole" too. Four valves! wow.

But those of us in the know can decipher the model number and appreciate that their are 4 valves per cylinder, trumping the poxy Fiat!

It's funny the amount of "foreign" you pick up just by having an interest in cars. I took O-level German, but it wasn't until I read the side of a 944 that I found out that "ventilader" was German for "Valves".

[psi310398]

aeropilot said:

Couldn't get a pic, but sitting at the chauffer drop off point outside T3 at Heathrow this morning among the sea of black and grey E-Class Mercs was a black MB600 Grosser LWB

Clarkson on his hols again?

[RicksAlfas]

droopsnoot said:

It's funny the amount of "foreign" you pick up just by having an interest in cars. I took O-level German, but it wasn't until I read the side of a 944 that I found out that "ventilader" was German for "Valves".

My friend had a Renault 19 16v. In France they were called 16s which sounded cooler, so he got a 16s badge for it.
French for valve is soupape.

[Dapster]

Pristine, and I really mean pristine, 350SL in Muswell Hill today. '76 "R" reg. Immaculate inside and out. Pov spec with manual windows, steel wheels and no air con. Lovely thing.

[Yertis]

droopsnoot said:

It's funny the amount of "foreign" you pick up just by having an interest in cars. I took O-level German, but it wasn't until I read the side of a 944 that I found out that "ventilader" was German for "Valves".

I was having this very conversation with my wife at the weekend, with re a forthcoming business trip to Germany and my fluency being limited to Audi Quattro wiring diagrams (and the MB series at that).

I've just replaced my kraftstoffpumpen.

[psi310398]

Dapster said:

Pristine, and I really mean pristine, 350SL in Muswell Hill today. '76 "R" reg. Immaculate inside and out. Pov spec with manual windows, steel wheels and no air con. Lovely thing.

It's obviously still in use as it is facing in the opposite direction to my picture of 26th October .

[Dapster]

psi310398 said:

It's obviously still in use as it is facing in the opposite direction to my picture of 26th October .

Ha ha! You're right. Still, it's a top quality specimen.

[RESSE]

IMG_1541 by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/145340810@N07/]

[DickyC]

RESSE said:

IMG_1541 by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/145340810@N07/]

Marvellous. Reminds me of a story. One of a group of lads I worked with in Wembley in the early eighties lived in Rayleigh in Essex and had to contend with thirty or so sets of traffic lights each way on his commute. The ideal car for such a trip he believed was a 3 litre Capri Ghia Automatic. He could put his foot down to beat the lights or, as a last resort, it had sufficiently good brakes to deal with lights that were very red. (The brakes are probably woeful by today's standards but, y'know, at the time he thought they were good.) He bought one, a 1977, and was only disappointed with the registration which began SPU. It was a smashing car and he was really proud of it. His racing the lights/maintaining speed technique served him well until one very cold morning he turned up at work completely ashen. He was so white he was almost transparent. He'd come round a bend on the North Circular that's a bit sharper than most at the west end of a railway bridge. As he rounded the bend he discovered traffic was backed up from a junction all the way to the bridge. The nearside lane was blocked with cars waiting to turn left and right hand lane was blocked with cars queueing to turn right. Luckily he was in the middle lane but unfortunately he was going way too fast. There is a school of thought that believes the 3 litre Capri Automatic is exactly the wrong sort of car for these circumstances. He touched the brakes to find he was on black ice. I can see him now explaining it to us. He had his hands flat to either side of his head to show how close he felt to the cars each side and rocked his hands backwards and forwards as he made, "Shoo, shoo, shoo," noises to indicate him sliding past what he described as, "All these frightened faces." He knew he had to take his foot off the brakes to regain control but whatever he did the car was 85% out of control as he juggled brakes, accelerator and steering. He got away with it. He missed everything and did no damage at all. "I was just glad the lights were green."

[Horsetan]

DickyC said:

.....He'd come round a bend on the North Circular that's a bit sharper than most at the west end of a railway bridge. As he rounded the bend he discovered traffic was backed up from a junction all the way to the bridge. ....

That sounds like the A406 bridge at Neasden - the Westbound approach to it is practically 90 degrees, whilst the Eastbound exit from it is the same. It's as bad today for tailbacks as it was back then. The main difference is that cars have slightly better braking systems today.

[Dapster]

RESSE said:

IMG_1541 by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/145340810@N07/]

My mum's VW Polo was registered "SEL 753R", bought new from Loders Garage, Dorchester in Dorset in 1976. This glorious Capri would have been registered not a million miles away.

[YorkshirePudding]

Cheating a bit as I was out spectating on the Rally of The Tests,

Rally of The Tests 2017 by Jez, on Flickr

Hats off to them for the effort,

Rest of album here

[CanAm]

[Rob Dicky]

YorkshirePudding said:

Cheating a bit as I was out spectating on the Rally of The Tests,

Rally of The Tests 2017 by Jez, on Flickr

Hats off to them for the effort,

Rest of album here

Excellent photos thanks for posting Jez

[CanAm]

[lucido grigio]

Spotted in Wales on Saturday

[YorkshirePudding]

Rob Dicky said:

Excellent photos thanks for posting Jez

Thanks,

[melhookv12]

1 SWB Spotted in watford.
Previously seen this car in Highgate.
Are they stalking me ? !

[CanAm]

melhookv12 said:

1 SWB Spotted in watford.
Previously seen this car in Highgate.
Are they stalking me ? !

From the photo, I was initially going to say that it's almost certainly a 'replica', but 1 SWB is certainly the real deal!!