COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

[Turbobanana]

FlabbyMidgets said:

Can someone help me work out what car I've just walked past. It was outside a shop that looks to specialise in classic Fiat 500's near Islington.

It was very small, looked like a classic Mini (I daresay smaller) but a sort of saloon shape, with engine in the rear. Writing on the front grille appeared to be in Hebrew. Any guesses? If it is still there later I may try and get a picture.

Could it have been one of the locally-built Premier Automobiles Fiat 1100s (eg Premier Padmini) and that the script was in fact Hindi?

[FlabbyMidgets]

Turbobanana said:

Could it have been one of the locally-built Premier Automobiles Fiat 1100s (eg Premier Padmini) and that the script was in fact Hindi?

Similar I'd say but looked a lot smaller. It was a tiny thing and rear engined. The badge on the grille was script on one line, but could be Hindi yes. Cars moved now sadly

[finlo]

[nicanary]

FlabbyMidgets said:

Turbobanana said:

Could it have been one of the locally-built Premier Automobiles Fiat 1100s (eg Premier Padmini) and that the script was in fact Hindi?

Similar I'd say but looked a lot smaller. It was a tiny thing and rear engined. The badge on the grille was script on one line, but could be Hindi yes. Cars moved now sadly

Could the script have been Cyrillic? Maybe a Zaparozhets (ZAZ) ?

[Rumdoodle]

[DickyC]

LHD 230.4 with a TAXI sign on the roof in Newbury Tesco today. 1974 ish.

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DickyC said:

LHD 230.4 with a TAXI sign on the roof in Newbury Tesco today. 1974 ish.

Wow, that's great! Looks like it was thrashed all the way there from Beirut

[DickyC]

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DickyC said:

LHD 230.4 with a TAXI sign on the roof in Newbury Tesco today. 1974 ish.

Wow, that's great! Looks like it was thrashed all the way there from Beirut

Parked away from other cars to protect it.

[FHCNICK]

DickyC said:

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DickyC said:

LHD 230.4 with a TAXI sign on the roof in Newbury Tesco today. 1974 ish.

Wow, that's great! Looks like it was thrashed all the way there from Beirut

Parked away from other cars to protect it.

To be fair it does look like one slightly hefty door ding could see it disintegrate before your eyes.

[Rumblestripe]

FHCNICK said:

DickyC said:

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DickyC said:

LHD 230.4 with a TAXI sign on the roof in Newbury Tesco today. 1974 ish.

Wow, that's great! Looks like it was thrashed all the way there from Beirut

Parked away from other cars to protect it.

To be fair it does look like one slightly hefty door ding could see it disintegrate before your eyes.

Nonsense a full clip from an AK47 would hardly scratch the patination on the paintwork, there's a good twenty years in that old brick(another ten if you wash it)

[TR4man]

Whitchurch Shropshire this morning.

[uk66fastback]

Driving through a village this morning and clocked this 4.2 Daimler on a guy’s drive. When I came back past he was out there with the bonnet up. I felt an overwhelming compulsion to stop and ask him if it was okay to get a picture. Turns out it was his first day of ownership! “It’s going to keep this company,” he said … and behind his everyday hack was this …

[uk66fastback]

This 318 looked in great nick.

[uk66fastback]

Finally got a better pic of the Marina estate.

[Damp Logs]

Not what I expected to see on way back from the chippie

Looked absolutely perfect - think it’s a Hooper bodied Silver Dawn, but not sure

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uk66fastback said:

Finally got a better pic of the Marina estate.

Perhaps I should hand in my PH credentials, but I once owned a Marina estate. Not a 1300 though, mine had an 1800HC engine which ended it's career in a Sherpa crewbus after the Marina dissolved.
I actually rather liked the Marina TBH.

[RDMcG]

Sen outside hardware store in Scottsdale AZ last week...........

[Rob 131 Sport]

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uk66fastback said:

Finally got a better pic of the Marina estate.

Perhaps I should hand in my PH credentials, but I once owned a Marina estate. Not a 1300 though, mine had an 1800HC engine which ended it's career in a Sherpa crewbus after the Marina dissolved.
I actually rather liked the Marina TBH.

I just love seeing cars like this and much respect to all the people that preserve them.

[TR4man]

At the garden centre near Nantwich this morning.

[uk66fastback]

Non-standard colour on this TVR, but that doesn’t detract from it imo.

Whereas it looks like original paint on this P6.



Reg no. was RPU 853D for those interested!