COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

[Mr Tidy]

droopsnoot said:

Mr Tidy said:

I went for a walk through the village and saw a Firenza Droopsnoot drive past, but sadly wasn't quick enough to get a photo.

Are you anywhere near Brooklands? There was one at the NYD meeting there.

That might have been the same one then as I'm not far away in Windlesham.

I've always liked them so was pleased to see one.

[DickyC]

Mr Tidy said:

That might have been the same one then as I'm not far away in Windlesham.

I've always liked them so was pleased to see one.

Updown Hill is one of my favourite road names.

[Rob 131 Sport]

At launch many people preferred the looks of the estate to the hatchback. This one that I saw last week was clearly in every day use.

[Mr Tidy]

DickyC said:

Mr Tidy said:

That might have been the same one then as I'm not far away in Windlesham.

I've always liked them so was pleased to see one.

Updown Hill is one of my favourite road names.

And mine!

[TR4man]

I wonder if anyone can identify this pick-up which was lurking in the grounds of an old cottage I walked past this morning?





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[MarkwG]

1955 Chevrolet I reckon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Task_Force

Edited by MarkwG on Sunday 4th January 21:02

[Origin Unknown]

Spotted inside Windsor Great Park, he was three-point turning and this was the best rushed pic I could grab. MOT history says it's MOT expired in jan 2019, it's last MOT had just 8,006 miles on the clock!

A walk through Windsor Great Park with my wife and 2 Border Collies, zero degrees, sunshine, and not a cloud in the sky... and to spot a 1965 DB5 in the wild. Today was a great day

[droopsnoot]

[NGK210]

Both on the same street in Acton.

[Mr Tidy]

Origin Unknown said:

Spotted inside Windsor Great Park, he was three-point turning and this was the best rushed pic I could grab. MOT history says it's MOT expired in jan 2019, it's last MOT had just 8,006 miles on the clock!

A walk through Windsor Great Park with my wife and 2 Border Collies, zero degrees, sunshine, and not a cloud in the sky... and to spot a 1965 DB5 in the wild. Today was a great day

That DB5 looks lovely!

It might be the same one that I've seen at the monthly car meets at the Black Swan in Ockham.

[Rumdoodle]

Mr Tidy said:

Origin Unknown said:

Spotted inside Windsor Great Park, he was three-point turning and this was the best rushed pic I could grab. MOT history says it's MOT expired in jan 2019, it's last MOT had just 8,006 miles on the clock!

A walk through Windsor Great Park with my wife and 2 Border Collies, zero degrees, sunshine, and not a cloud in the sky... and to spot a 1965 DB5 in the wild. Today was a great day

That DB5 looks lovely!

It might be the same one that I've seen at the monthly car meets at the Black Swan in Ockham.

MOT exempt and the odometer probably stopped working in about 1970. These cars were mostly run into the ground in the first decade or so of their lives because nobody gave a toss about mileage.

[uk66fastback]

NGK210 said:

Both on the same street in Acton.

No MoT on both the Mercs so technically should be in the left to die/rotting thread …



Whereas this 997cc 1962 Anglia with its differing grey panels doesn’t need one …

[Mr Tidy]

uk66fastback said:

Whereas this 997cc 1962 Anglia with its differing grey panels doesn t need one

Given the state of the 1966 Anglia 997 my best mate bought in 1976 it probably wouldn't get one anyway!

[tog]

Rumdoodle said:

MOT exempt and the odometer probably stopped working in about 1970. These cars were mostly run into the ground in the first decade or so of their lives because nobody gave a toss about mileage.

When I was a teen in late 80s/early 90s there was a little old lady near me who pottered about in a DB6 (IIRC, possibly it was a DB5) as her daily driver. She owned a chocolate shop selling her hand made truffles and lived in a little village not far away. In my memory, the dark green Aston was always grubby and just drove a few miles each way every day, with her barely able to see over the steering wheel.

[generationx]

Nicely kept 300E

[GTRene]

generationx said:

Nicely kept 300E

nice one, fits in the brown car thread as well.

[Hippea]

generationx said:

Nicely kept 300E

That's lovely, so classy

[Rumdoodle]

tog said:

Rumdoodle said:

MOT exempt and the odometer probably stopped working in about 1970. These cars were mostly run into the ground in the first decade or so of their lives because nobody gave a toss about mileage.

When I was a teen in late 80s/early 90s there was a little old lady near me who pottered about in a DB6 (IIRC, possibly it was a DB5) as her daily driver. She owned a chocolate shop selling her hand made truffles and lived in a little village not far away. In my memory, the dark green Aston was always grubby and just drove a few miles each way every day, with her barely able to see over the steering wheel.

Mileage fetishism has only emerged in the past fifteen years or so. One benchmark is the sale of the Patrick Collection, which was a unique museum of cars owned by a family that ran one of the biggest new car dealership businesses in the UK. Nearly all of the cars had been bought new and stored unused. I remember visiting it in the 1980s, when there was no additional value whatsoever attached to these being all delivery mileage cars. They were all sold off when the museum closed nearly twenty years ago and the mileages commanded no premium. None. Why would they? A few years later, dealers and auction houses (mostly in the UK - I don't think the rest of the world gives a toss about mileage) figured out how to fleece collectors who had some virgin obsession. And who were also rather gullible.

I remember reading a letter sent to Motorsport magazine in the early '70s by a reader who objected to an article that had said V12 Ferraris were impractical. He said he used his daily and was doing more than 20k miles a year. I wonder how many miles that car has now. The only ones that weren't run into the ground within a decade were the one or two whose owners conked it/ were banged up/shooting tigers. Nobody pre-2010 ever paid a significant premium for a classic car on the grounds that it had low mileage, certainly no more than they would have done for a regular secondhand car that had 20k miles rather than 50k.

[bolidemichael]

Rumdoodle said:

tog said:

Rumdoodle said:

MOT exempt and the odometer probably stopped working in about 1970. These cars were mostly run into the ground in the first decade or so of their lives because nobody gave a toss about mileage.

When I was a teen in late 80s/early 90s there was a little old lady near me who pottered about in a DB6 (IIRC, possibly it was a DB5) as her daily driver. She owned a chocolate shop selling her hand made truffles and lived in a little village not far away. In my memory, the dark green Aston was always grubby and just drove a few miles each way every day, with her barely able to see over the steering wheel.

Mileage fetishism has only emerged in the past fifteen years or so. One benchmark is the sale of the Patrick Collection, which was a unique museum of cars owned by a family that ran one of the biggest new car dealership businesses in the UK. Nearly all of the cars had been bought new and stored unused. I remember visiting it in the 1980s, when there was no additional value whatsoever attached to these being all delivery mileage cars. They were all sold off when the museum closed nearly twenty years ago and the mileages commanded no premium. None. Why would they? A few years later, dealers and auction houses (mostly in the UK - I don't think the rest of the world gives a toss about mileage) figured out how to fleece collectors who had some virgin obsession. And who were also rather gullible.

I remember reading a letter sent to Motorsport magazine in the early '70s by a reader who objected to an article that had said V12 Ferraris were impractical. He said he used his daily and was doing more than 20k miles a year. I wonder how many miles that car has now. The only ones that weren't run into the ground within a decade were the one or two whose owners conked it/ were banged up/shooting tigers. Nobody pre-2010 ever paid a significant premium for a classic car on the grounds that it had low mileage, certainly no more than they would have done for a regular secondhand car that had 20k miles rather than 50k.

Cars benefit from being driven, not least because minor issue can be spotted before major ones develop.

[Turbobanana]

I think the mileage thing, in the UK, is based on the size of the country. I mean, you can't ever be more that about 800 miles from home, no matter where you live. There's probably ranches in Australia with driveways longer than that. We consider 100 miles to be "a long drive", but to some that's just buying a newspaper.

Accordingly, seeing 100K on the odo strikes fear into the hearts of many, unnecessarily.