COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[DickyC]

nicanary said:

I think that was standard bodywork for a mid-30s Riley Sprite.

Thanks. The reason I thought it might be a special was the grille was so flimsy.

[DickyC]

ivanhoew said:

Have a hug Dicky ... its horrible when that happens .

I know folk are under no obligation to chat but there's no need to push past.

[nicanary]

DickyC said:

nicanary said:

I think that was standard bodywork for a mid-30s Riley Sprite.

Thanks. The reason I thought it might be a special was the grille was so flimsy.

Not as flimsy as England's back three.

[Roy C]

Maybe the driver was having a bad day.

Here's the car - 1936 Riley Sprite - at Loton Park in 2016:



Oddly, it has a Burt Strut attached to the front number plate in the Newbury picture, but not at the hill climb.

I think the grille looks flimsy on this one because its a bit bent (bad fit?). The others I've seen look OK.

Edited by Roy C on Thursday 5th July 10:50

[Dapster]

Couple of 80's daily runners in North London

[DickyC]

Roy C said:

Maybe the driver was having a bad day.

Here's the car - 1936 Riley Sprite - at Loton Park in 2016:



Oddly, it has a Burt Strut attached to the front number plate in the Newbury picture, but not at the hill climb.

I think the grille looks flimsy on this one because its a bit bent (bad fit?). The others I've seen look OK.

Thanks for following that up, Roy. Interesting stuff.

[CanAm]

SwanJack said:

https://russoandsteele.com/vehicle-details/?show_v...

On a trailer in Halfords Llanrisant. On its way to Holland.

A 1938 Gulf Miller Tucker Special Race Car (replica!) with an aluminium Jaguar engine and ZF gearbox and a SVRA logbook for historic racing. Looks like American rules are a little 'generous'.

[Pericoloso]

Old 911 spotted in Stuttgart surprise.



These others are from Italy last week.







Biturbo S with a very 80s interior.





Topolino ,with added floatation device.

[P5BNij]

Two spots both heading west on the A14 earlier today when I was in the back of a taxi, a dark green G reg'd Jag 420G and a white D reg'd Pagoda Merc with a red hood, brightened up the usual dull grey fare no end.

[Pericoloso]

Dapster said:

Pericoloso said:

Yup, definitely a Ghibli. The Shamal is like a Ghibli on steroids. Including the aforementioned B pillar, it has seriously wide arches and rear wheels and the comedy spoiler at the base of the windscreen!

Couple of weeks after Ghibli/Shamal doubt ,saw a deffo Shamal at an event.




and a nice Peugeot.



I think it got emergency enrolled as a course car after someone binned a 911 964 into a ditch.

[GTRene]

My dad had also a Shamal long time ago, great sound on the outside/rear, in the interior you almost could not hear it.

here some old pictures from the 90-ish, my dad in his Shamal, always fun, sometimes he went to his garden with it and then he came at my little house after that, then he stepped out in his old work(hobby) clothes and rubber boots on haha, you should have seen the people watching then.

The color is not black but lovely dark-ish brown-ish? metallic but old scanned in pictures...

Sadly some buyer after him ruined the car with ugly parts.

Edited by GTRene on Saturday 7th July 00:44

[DickyC]

[storminnorman]

I glimpsed this van in Lincolnshire yesterday; although it may have been a slightly different one as I swear it had television license written on the side! Anyone know more?

[V41LEY]

[Pericoloso]

Interesting car ,^^^^ ,MOT checker has it as a Ferrari 456 Bamford ,registered 2017.

Not very classic but a nice looker all the same.

[Doofus]

storminnorman said:

I glimpsed this van in Lincolnshire yesterday; although it may have been a slightly different one as I swear it had television license written on the side! Anyone know more?

I think detector vans said "Television Detector", and didn't mention 'licence'.

[Pericoloso]

Just spotted the camera on the roof ,a detector van wouldn't have one of those ,maybe an outside broadcast vehicle ?

[nicanary]

Pericoloso said:

Just spotted the camera on the roof ,a detector van wouldn't have one of those ,maybe an outside broadcast vehicle ?

I thought that was "taken as read". It's a 1953 Austin Lodestar used for OB purposes, such as sporting events. Doesn't anyone remember the Dinky model of a later Commer?

[Rostfritt]

Pericoloso said:

Just spotted the camera on the roof ,a detector van wouldn't have one of those ,maybe an outside broadcast vehicle ?

To be fair they just put some random large spinning antenna on the roof of a detector van, they were made up to scare people into paying for their licence.

[DickyC]

In Hungerford this morning; an Armstrong Siddeley. The driver said there had been a meeting and there had been about thirty of them. Gone by the time I got there.