COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

[RATATTAK]

Rumdoodle said:

What's the badge on the back there? Would have been a Pop, a Prefect or an Anglia, but it looks like it says something else.

Prefect (a very early one)

Edited by RATATTAK on Tuesday 13th January 21:50

[Rumdoodle]

RATATTAK said:

Prefect (a very early one)

Edited by RATATTAK on Tuesday 13th January 21:50

So it is

[Escort3500]

Looks to be modified too. Wider wheels and (I think) lowering blocks on the leaf springs.

[RATATTAK]

RATATTAK said:

Prefect (a very early one)

Edited by RATATTAK on Tuesday 13th January 21:50

It's not an early one, it's first registered 1960.

[DickyC]

A 107E with the 105E engine ripe for hotting up?

[RATATTAK]

DickyC said:

A 107E with the 105E engine ripe for hotting up?

And a 4-speed box. Known as 'The Perfect Prefect'

[DickyC]

RATATTAK said:

DickyC said:

A 107E with the 105E engine ripe for hotting up?

And a 4-speed box. Known as 'The Perfect Prefect'

A mate had one in 1971 or 1972. It seemed old even then. It had wide wheels and boasted a 1500 Cortina engine taken out to 1650. Actually, he boasted that. It just had a stupidly loud exhaust.

[Stick Legs]

Apologies for the grainy pic from my passenger.

Audi RS2 on Swiss plates, making very good progress on a wet M4.

[gt40steve]

DickyC said:

A 107E with the 105E engine ripe for hotting up?

If it is a 1960 car, yes.
Pre 1959 Prefects were side valve and 3 speed just like their cheaper 2 door brothers.

[tog]

Doyliestag said:

My first taste of Saab was riding in one as a child when a family friend purchased a brand new 99 Turbo. He was always happy to drive everywhere flat out and i was can still remember being amazed at the performance of it.

The 99 Turbo was quite a machine. A 1980 99 Turbo 2-door was my dad's first Saab, in which my mother once covered the 10½ mile country lane school run in 9½ minutes. It was replaced by a 900 Turbo 5-door, which they didn't really like and only had it for year or so before it was replaced with a new 9000 when that was launched. The 9000 is a great car, they've been my daily drivers for most of the last 25 years. My dad still has a 9-5 so has been a Saab driver for 46 years now (bar a short dalliance with an Omega).

[Sticks.]

Sorry I couldn't get a better picture.



Hobbs Parker says this is a Ford Model A Coupe with some updates. Page 7 https://www.hobbsparker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/C...

[RATATTAK]

Sticks. said:

Sorry I couldn't get a better picture.



Hobbs Parker says this is a Ford Model A Coupe with some updates. Page 7 https://www.hobbsparker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/C...

Complete with dicky seat

[some bloke]

Sticks. said:

Sorry I couldn't get a better picture.



Hobbs Parker says this is a Ford Model A Coupe with some updates. Page 7 https://www.hobbsparker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/C...

Model A sports coupe, having the folding rear roof section. Coupes hade a steel rear section. </Oldfordpedant>

[wjs1968]

See this around quite frequently

[bolidemichael]

tog said:

The 99 Turbo was quite a machine. A 1980 99 Turbo 2-door was my dad's first Saab, in which my mother once covered the 10½ mile country lane school run in 9½ minutes. It was replaced by a 900 Turbo 5-door, which they didn't really like and only had it for year or so before it was replaced with a new 9000 when that was launched. The 9000 is a great car, they've been my daily drivers for most of the last 25 years. My dad still has a 9-5 so has been a Saab driver for 46 years now (bar a short dalliance with an Omega).

Your Mum sounds like pretty good pedalled!

[bolidemichael]

wjs1968 said:

See this around quite frequently

Magic

[Watcher of the skies]

Cool paint scheme for a Cambridge - i wonder if it's original.

[moffspeed]

Watcher of the skies said:

Cool paint scheme for a Cambridge - i wonder if it's original.

Yes, the US-inspired roof & fins colour scheme was an option on the A55.

By the time that the A60 came along the 2 tone scheme was represented by a more conservative broad stripe down each flank :

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As it happens this is the car that I learnt to drive in/on.

Scary to think that BMC/BMH/Leyland were still churning out these Farina bricks (the final Oxfords) in 1971. Ford were already onto the Mk3 Cortina, Vauxhall the FD Victor and the wonderful Renault 16 was already a 5 year old design. If you were posh there was also the BMW 2002.

I wonder why it all went wrong for BL….

Edited by moffspeed on Thursday 15th January 06:52

[tog]

bolidemichael said:

Your Mum sounds like pretty good pedalled!

She taught me everything I know about driving too fast down country lanes!

[SpudLink]

tog said:

bolidemichael said:

Your Mum sounds like pretty good pedalled!

She taught me everything I know about driving too fast down country lanes!

When I started driving, my mum would complain why do you always have to drive so fast . I would usually replay I learned by being your passenger for years .
She definitely believed in making progress.

Incidentally, she took her test in a tuned Poplar with a Prefect engine.