COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[P5BNij]

Gaydon in the afternoon...

Burnt Grey over Silver Birch tends to look dull in photos, but it was beautiful in the flesh...


Nice early 2000TC...




I was surprised at how small this Notchback Mustang looked...


Tidy 3.4...






And a few from indoors for good measure... they seem to move the collection around more often these days...





The Rover BRM is proper 'boys own' stuff, I could look at it all day long...










S2 Europa from the Dr.Hull collection, it looks slightly out of place at Gaydon but it's another car I could peruse all day long... I know, it takes all sorts...








Jackie Stewart's 1970 March / Ford...

[Gojira]

Nice photos from Gaydon.

SWMBO and I spent a very pleasant few hours wandering round there yesterday, as my birthday treat

[SydneyBridge]

Gojira said:

Nice photos from Gaydon.

SWMBO and I spent a very pleasant few hours wandering round there yesterday, as my birthday treat

I went a few weeks ago and was excellent, especially upstairs in the other building, the prototypes and last ever Austin/Rover/Morris etc etc...

[randomeddy]

Nice surprise seeing this randomly parked up.

[randomeddy]

I always thought the true idea of this post was to spot cars just out and about, not go to a museum or a show and put loads of pictures of the same car?

[aeropilot]

randomeddy said:

Nice surprise seeing this randomly parked up.

Wow.............. there can't be many of these left in UK

[LeighW]

You go all year without seeing a Gilbern, then...

In Keswick on Saturday.

[Doofus]

LeighW said:

Ick..

[DickyC]

It's an ill wind and all that. Sent Mrs C's SLK for a tidy up at a body shop last July. I wasn't happy with what they did but that's okay they went out of business. Now someone has scraped it and so another body emporium has to be tried. I took this as a good sign:







I'm tempted to say TR2 but in all honesty I'm not sure I can tell the difference between a TR2 and a TR3.

[Doofus]

DickyC said:

I'm tempted to say TR2 but in all honesty I'm not sure I can tell the difference between a TR2 and a TR3.

The front grille is the easiest way. TR3s have a full width grille, and TR2s have a smaller one.

Not all TR3s have the bigger grille, but no TR2s do.

[Trevatanus]

Swindon at the Weekend.

Sierra Cosworth by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr

[cjb44]

Doofus said:

The front grille is the easiest way. TR3s have a full width grille, and TR2s have a smaller one.

Not all TR3s have the bigger grille, but no TR2s do.

I am afraid it is not as simple as that, back in the day lots of people put TR3A front aprons on TR2's so that they looked more modern. This particular car is a short door so could be a later TR2, TR3, or even a genuine TR3A.

Edited by cjb44 on Monday 23 April 16:12

[DickyC]

cjb44 said:

Doofus said:

The front grille is the easiest way. TR3s have a full width grille, and TR2s have a smaller one.

Not all TR3s have the bigger grille, but no TR2s do.

I am afraid it is not as simple as that, back in the day lots of people put TR3A front aprons on TR2's so that they looked more modern. This particular car is a short door so could be a later TR2, TR3, or even a genuine TR3A.

Can of worms, you're saying? Discreet enquiries will be made next time I'm there. I remember banging along the M4 one Friday evening when a TR2 or 3 or 3A or one of those joined at Reading. It was yellow, had a Brooklands aero screen was being driven spiritedly. I wondered how fast it was going and speeded up. When I had determined he was doing a steady 110, I gave up and slowed down again. As I hadn't passed him steaming on the hard shoulder when I came off at Newbury I deduced it wasn't a one off occurrence. This was a few years ago but the Triumph was a very old car even then.

[sim16v]

Spotted this heading up the M74 towards Glasgow.

[TR4man]

cjb44 said:

Doofus said:

The front grille is the easiest way. TR3s have a full width grille, and TR2s have a smaller one.

Not all TR3s have the bigger grille, but no TR2s do.

I am afraid it is not as simple as that, back in the day lots of people put TR3A front aprons on TR2's so that they looked more modern. This particular car is a short door so could be a later TR2, TR3, or even a genuine TR3A.

Edited by cjb44 on Monday 23 April 16:12

It is a TR3A.

Apart from the wide mouth front apron, it has exterior door handles.

TR2


TR3


TR3A

[Dapster]

Can't remember the last time I saw one of these! Good nick too - slightly faded paintwork but looked original.

[sim16v]

Pretty common those Triumphs......




And parked up with some German classics.

[TR4man]

Are we all agreed that it is a TR3A?

That 911 looks small in comparison with the other cars, even the TR.

[sim16v]

It might have been a TR2 undergoing a facelift and door lock update.....





Anyway, back on topic, this lives locally.

Always makes me smile when I see it.

[Doofus]

TR4man said:

Are we all agreed that it is a TR3A?

Well I am, because that's what I said it was in the first place.