Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[McGee_22]

LargeRed said:

Pretty... but it's a Pontiac Fiero.

[Murph7355]

LargeRed said:

All kinds of wrong, even when you can't see most of it

[NorthernSky]

This has been parked up and seemingly abandoned for some time. Any ideas what the bike could be?

[uk66fastback]

Sunbeam Rapier looking a bit forlorn having been sitting on grass opposite some houses out in the sticks in deepest Lincolnshire … the MG BGT looked in use I think …

The Sunbeam had an MoT pass as recently as 2018 …

Edited by uk66fastback on Monday 20th June 17:11

[Rower]

Not just a Rapier but a Rapier Fastback .......but you obviously new that .

[TR4man]

Does the Sunbeam need an MOT i.e. is it not exempt?

[Escort3500]

Rower said:

Not just a Rapier but a Rapier Fastback .......but you obviously new that .

But not the more sought after H120

[Zener]

Murph7355 said:

LargeRed said:

All kinds of wrong, even when you can't see most of it

Agreed

[SAB888]

Escort3500 said:

Rower said:

Not just a Rapier but a Rapier Fastback .......but you obviously new that .

But not the more sought after H120

I used to have a Rapier Fastback H120 in a pale yellow and with a canvas sliding sunroof. Lovely car, especially in that colour.

[Escort3500]

SAB888 said:

Escort3500 said:

Rower said:

Not just a Rapier but a Rapier Fastback .......but you obviously new that .

But not the more sought after H120

I used to have a Rapier Fastback H120 in a pale yellow and with a canvas sliding sunroof. Lovely car, especially in that colour.

They sounded great too!

[dandare]

Rower said:

Not just a Rapier but a Rapier Fastback .......but you obviously new that .

Did they do a non-fastback?

[Fastdruid]

Reliant Scimitar?
(I'll leave it up to others to decide if it is a classic or not).

[randomeddy]

Can you say where that Rapier is.

We visited somewhere near there and I saw this on the way home. The town we went to had the road on either side of a river/canal or some sort of waterway.

Been racking our brains trying to remember.

[Tyre Smoke]

TR4man said:

Does the Sunbeam need an MOT i.e. is it not exempt?

No it doesn't

[Turbobanana]

Fastdruid said:

Reliant Scimitar?
(I'll leave it up to others to decide if it is a classic or not).

It is, and it is. In my opinion, at least. Looks like an earlier SE5 GTE (ie narrower than the SE6).

[Yertis]

Turbobanana said:

It is, and it is. In my opinion, at least. Looks like an earlier SE5 GTE (ie narrower than the SE6).

Do you think? I reckon it might be a 6.

[SAB888]

Turbobanana said:

Fastdruid said:

Reliant Scimitar?
(I'll leave it up to others to decide if it is a classic or not).

It is, and it is. In my opinion, at least. Looks like an earlier SE5 GTE (ie narrower than the SE6).

I had a Scimitar SE5a after the Rapier Fastback. It's hard to tell from the shell but I think it's the SE5a. Definitely a classic.

[Fastdruid]

One I've kept meaning to take a better photo of but is awkwardly on a bend so picture stolen from google maps.

Anyway, Mitsubishi FTO. Been there about 5 years or so.

[NorthernSky]

Would it be convenient-ish to get back there and sneak around those buildings to take close up photos of that FTO?

They have some beautiful rear light clusters. It's not a fetish. Would just like to see the effects of time on the car.

[Fastdruid]

NorthernSky said:

Would it be convenient-ish to get back there and sneak around those buildings to take close up photos of that FTO?

They have some beautiful rear light clusters. It's not a fetish. Would just like to see the effects of time on the car.

Not easily, it's somewhere I pass reasonably regularly (as in every other month or so) but it's just inside the entrance to a farm which is on the inside of a bend off an A road. There isn't any nearby parking and no pavement!

(it's almost directly behind the 50 limit sign btw, in the gap between the brick building and the barn )