COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

[Johnspex]

Turbobanana said:

Mark A S said:

uk66fastback said:

I saw this one in Bath a couple of years ago. It was pretty impressive in the flesh in an over-the-top ‘70s way …

I recall back in around 1981 waiting at Bilbao to get the puke boat car ferry back home and a maroon one of these was waiting, albeit in its own que, to get on. Apparently it was the king of Spain's son with some VERY attractive female.

I was in my first Lotus sunbeam, in the peasants que

Well he said it was the King of Spain's son!

[DickyC]

Off Topic - I can't spell queue without using my aide memoire kew-ee-you-ee.

Beaulieu is bee-a-you-lee-you which isn't quite right but sends me in the right direction.

Just me?

[Dapster]

DickyC said:

Off Topic - I can't spell queue without using my aide memoire kew-ee-you-ee.

Surely it’s kew-you-ee-you-ee!!

[DickyC]

Dapster said:

DickyC said:

Off Topic - I can't spell queue without using my aide memoire kew-ee-you-ee.

Surely it’s kew-you-ee-you-ee!!

I'm okay with putting the U after the Q. It was downstream where confusion reigned.

Luckily we had a teacher at primary school who taught his own version of the alphabet. It was conventional as far as P then went Q U R S T V W X Y Z, because, as he pointed out, U always follows Q. It wasn't confusing in any way. At all. No, siree.

It was the sixties. Everyone did their own thing. Man.

[MarkwG]

DickyC said:

Dapster said:

DickyC said:

Off Topic - I can't spell queue without using my aide memoire kew-ee-you-ee.

Surely it’s kew-you-ee-you-ee!!

I'm okay with putting the U after the Q. It was downstream where confusion reigned.

Luckily we had a teacher at primary school who taught his own version of the alphabet. It was conventional as far as P then went Q U R S T V W X Y Z, because, as he pointed out, U always follows Q. It wasn't confusing in any way. At all. No, siree.

It was the sixties. Everyone did their own thing. Man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet - don't get me started...

[DickyC]

MarkwG said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alp... - don't get me started...

Were you subjected to that torture? Having one letter displaced was weird enough for me.

[DickyC]

Meanwhile, back at cool classic cars spotted, I saw this earlier this evening in Thatcham.





One of my few Rolls Royce nuggets of information is, if the radiator slats are horizontal, it's a very early car.

That much most of us could have guessed.

[PomBstard]

Local one for the weirdos Volvo fans - badge says 164E, looked a bit scrappy…

[JeremyH5]

PomBstard said:

Local one for the weirdos Volvo fans - badge says 164E, looked a bit scrappy…

That will be the straight 6 engine, could always spot those from the different grille to the 144s.

[TarquinMX5]

DickyC said:

One of my few Rolls Royce nuggets of information is, if the radiator slats are horizontal, it's a very early car.

That much most of us could have guessed.

Horizontal slats on the Rolls-Royce 20 (1922-1929), though the last of them had vertical slats.

[Dapster]

I can "out scrappy" the Volvo with a another Swedish entry. Early round headlight 96 - you could see the road between the rust patches





Across the road....I've posted this before but it seems to have been totally neglected in the intervening years - moss around the window frames



And a few cars further up....



And across the road again....




All these spotted within 20m of each other

[BananaFama]

Dapster said:

I can "out scrappy" the Volvo with a another Swedish entry. Early round headlight 96 - you could see the road between the rust patches

Excellent rare spot of the rare Harlequin edition .
I don't know whether a K reg should have round or rectangular headlamps .

[MarkwG]

DickyC said:

MarkwG said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alp... - don't get me started...

Were you subjected to that torture? Having one letter displaced was weird enough for me.

Yep - I'm told I was fine with it, but my brother really wasn't at all, probably set him back years. A classic case of one size does not fit all.

[Doofus]

MarkwG said:

DickyC said:

MarkwG said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alp... - don't get me started...

Were you subjected to that torture? Having one letter displaced was weird enough for me.

Yep - I'm told I was fine with it, but my brother really wasn't at all, probably set him back years. A classic case of one size does not fit all.

My BIL was taught that too, and it set him back a long way.

[TarquinMX5]

DickyC said:

Meanwhile, back at cool classic cars spotted, I saw this earlier this evening in Thatcham.





One of my few Rolls Royce nuggets of information is, if the radiator slats are horizontal, it's a very early car.

That much most of us could have guessed.

I've done some digging and that is (well, was) listed as a 1926 20 Tourer with an Edmunds body, though it may or may not be the original body as Edmunds did a number of rebodies in the early years. I can't imagine that there are many Edmunds bodied vehicles around, so a rare sighting.

[rallye101]

Just tucked in behind this...

[rallye101]

then 30 seconds later an yellow integrale came past

[generationx]

I spent a happy couple of hours in Classic Remise Düsseldorf this afternoon, a classic car centre wth dealers, workshops and private storage. Well worth a visit if you’re ever in the area, it’s in a converted engine roundhouse for extra coolness.

https://remise.de/duesseldorf

In amongst a lot of very nice classics was this modified BMW M1, apologies for the picture but it was behind glass in a row of other cars. Could it be this, restored? Several details, such as the filler cap in the NACA duct, seem to match.

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1122621_unique...

[RichardM5]

generationx said:

I spent a happy couple of hours in Classic Remise Düsseldorf this afternoon, a classic car centre wth dealers, workshops and private storage. Well worth a visit if you’re ever in the area, it’s in a converted engine roundhouse for extra coolness.

https://remise.de/duesseldorf

In amongst a lot of very nice classics was this modified BMW M1, apologies for the picture but it was behind glass in a row of other cars. Could it be this, restored? Several details, such as the filler cap in the NACA duct, seem to match.

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1122621_unique...

The Ertl bodied M1 not the same car as the one that was sold a few years ago in terrible condition after being left outside for about 20 years. There were definitely 2 and probably 3 of them made. The wreck is ‘probably’ the BP Autogas car, the interior was black with loads of Blaupunkt speakers, the other one I know of has the cream interior.

[DickyC]

TarquinMX5 said:

DickyC said:

One of my few Rolls Royce nuggets of information is, if the radiator slats are horizontal, it's a very early car.

That much most of us could have guessed.

Horizontal slats on the Rolls-Royce 20 (1922-1929), though the last of them had vertical slats.

Prior to 1922 were there no slats? An image search for pre-1922 Rolls Royce show radiators with what appear to be regular black honeycomb radiator core.