COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)
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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
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!! 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.
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!! 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 said:
Were you subjected to that torture? Having one letter displaced was weird enough for me.
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
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
DickyC said:
MarkwG said:
Were you subjected to that torture? Having one letter displaced was weird enough for me.MarkwG said:
DickyC said:
MarkwG said:
Were you subjected to that torture? Having one letter displaced was weird enough for me.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.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 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...
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...
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.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...
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.That much most of us could have guessed.
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