COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

Author
Discussion

RONV

538 posts

135 months

Saturday 20th June 2020
quotequote all
TR4man said:
A W124 estate seen in Crewe this morning.



Parking ability needs some work though!
what I would call him begins with a "W" it's not even a classic car

Doofus

25,848 posts

174 months

Saturday 20th June 2020
quotequote all
RONV said:
hat I would call him begins with a "W" it's not even a classic car
It's 30 years old, and even the newest W124 is 24, so yes it is.

Yertis

18,061 posts

267 months

Saturday 20th June 2020
quotequote all
aeropilot said:
Family friend had one of those Audi Coupe's back in the mid 1970's. Was quite exotic for the day, and would have been the first Audi I ever went in.
Likewise. I’ve been loyal to the brand ever since, although it was the rally Quattros that really sealed the deal.

aeropilot

34,680 posts

228 months

Saturday 20th June 2020
quotequote all
Yertis said:
aeropilot said:
Family friend had one of those Audi Coupe's back in the mid 1970's. Was quite exotic for the day, and would have been the first Audi I ever went in.
Likewise. I’ve been loyal to the brand ever since, although it was the rally Quattros that really sealed the deal.
Never owned an Audi, and only ever driven 2 of them, a 1990 S2 and a very brief go of a 'breathed on' 1990/1 200 Turbo 20v.......

Loved the sound the old 5 cyl turbo's made though......never forget being at Lydden Hill when Dimi debuted his swb Quattro Sport in the British Rallycross Championship, and the sight and sound of that flame spitting beast blasting up Hairy Hill to the haipin biggrin


Yertis

18,061 posts

267 months

Sunday 21st June 2020
quotequote all
That Audi 5-cyl sound was/is a big part of it. For me, part of the ‘brand’ they’ve under utilised since. The only other cars I can identify with 100% certainty by ear are old Imprezas and Stags.

I’m one of those sad sods that watches eBay videos of old aeroplanes starting up paperbag


aeropilot

34,680 posts

228 months

Sunday 21st June 2020
quotequote all
Yertis said:
I’m one of those sad sods that watches eBay videos of old aeroplanes starting up paperbag
Nothing wrong with that.... boxedin

TR4man

5,230 posts

175 months

Sunday 21st June 2020
quotequote all
aeropilot said:
Yertis said:
I’m one of those sad sods that watches eBay videos of old aeroplanes starting up paperbag
Nothing wrong with that.... boxedin
Indeed - there are worse things to watch on the internet....

Lily the Pink

5,783 posts

171 months

Sunday 21st June 2020
quotequote all
Yertis said:
That Audi 5-cyl sound was/is a big part of it. For me, part of the ‘brand’ they’ve under utilised since. The only other cars I can identify with 100% certainty by ear are old Imprezas and Stags.
Surely not - what about Morris Minors, MGBs and minis ? Maybe a subject for another thread !

Yertis

18,061 posts

267 months

Sunday 21st June 2020
quotequote all
Lily the Pink said:
Surely not - what about Morris Minors, MGBs and minis ? Maybe a subject for another thread !
Yes admittedly I could do a Morris Minor, esp when they do that farty sound.

4rephill

5,041 posts

179 months

Sunday 21st June 2020
quotequote all
TR4man said:
A W124 estate seen in Crewe this morning.



Parking ability needs some work though!
Needs a nice old, heavy battered POS to "park" between it and the BMW, shunting it back over into it's own parking space (whilst avoiding damaging the tidily parked BMW of course!).

Maybe coming back to find the driver's side completely stoved in all down the side, would teach the Mercedes owner/driver not to park like a selfish, self important tw4t!

It's an old, bag of sh!te Mercedes Estate at the end of the day - Not an incredibly rare, hand made, hyper expensive, mega-sought after special car!

The credo should be: "Park like a tw4t - Get treated like a tw4t!"


Doofus

25,848 posts

174 months

Sunday 21st June 2020
quotequote all
4rephill said:
TR4man said:
A W124 estate seen in Crewe this morning.



Parking ability needs some work though!
Needs a nice old, heavy battered POS to "park" between it and the BMW, shunting it back over into it's own parking space (whilst avoiding damaging the tidily parked BMW of course!).

Maybe coming back to find the driver's side completely stoved in all down the side, would teach the Mercedes owner/driver not to park like a selfish, self important tw4t!

It's an old, bag of sh!te Mercedes Estate at the end of the day - Not an incredibly rare, hand made, hyper expensive, mega-sought after special car!

The credo should be: "Park like a tw4t - Get treated like a tw4t!"
You seem to be a pointlessly angry man.

Why would an expensive or rare car have the right to park badly, whilst that you spit such vitriol at somebody you've never met, who parked a car you've never encountered in a place you weren't at?

Why are the owners of expensive cars given different rules in your fantasy town?

Muddle238

3,908 posts

114 months

Tuesday 23rd June 2020
quotequote all
There's a chap on here with a W124 that's done some crazy mileage, over 400,000 miles rings a bell. I'm pretty sure an old Merc like this will run rings around most modern cars.

Zener

18,962 posts

222 months

Wednesday 24th June 2020
quotequote all
94 But rare enough I guess

lukeharding

2,948 posts

90 months

Wednesday 24th June 2020
quotequote all

Turbobanana

6,293 posts

202 months

Wednesday 24th June 2020
quotequote all
Doofus said:
4rephill said:
TR4man said:
A W124 estate seen in Crewe this morning.



Parking ability needs some work though!
Needs a nice old, heavy battered POS to "park" between it and the BMW, shunting it back over into it's own parking space (whilst avoiding damaging the tidily parked BMW of course!).

Maybe coming back to find the driver's side completely stoved in all down the side, would teach the Mercedes owner/driver not to park like a selfish, self important tw4t!

It's an old, bag of sh!te Mercedes Estate at the end of the day - Not an incredibly rare, hand made, hyper expensive, mega-sought after special car!

The credo should be: "Park like a tw4t - Get treated like a tw4t!"
You seem to be a pointlessly angry man.

Why would an expensive or rare car have the right to park badly, whilst that you spit such vitriol at somebody you've never met, who parked a car you've never encountered in a place you weren't at?

Why are the owners of expensive cars given different rules in your fantasy town?
Quite. He / she could have parked it sideways on and it wouldn't have been in the way in these lightly-trafficked times.

RESSE

5,705 posts

222 months

Friday 26th June 2020
quotequote all



aeropilot

34,680 posts

228 months

Friday 26th June 2020
quotequote all
Marvellous smile

nicanary

9,804 posts

147 months

Friday 26th June 2020
quotequote all
Riley Blue is going to love that. Monaco saloon.

Hugh Jarse

3,530 posts

206 months

Friday 26th June 2020
quotequote all
Pothole said:
RATATTAK said:
ess said:
Regularly spotted in The Cut, Waterloo.
Lovely little bit of Gallic goodness.

S

Oooooo, those shut gaps !
It's like a low budget transformer!
Cars with faces. Always looks like it's bullied.

Bob CD

248 posts

157 months

Saturday 27th June 2020
quotequote all
Recent spots are a friend who came round in his XK150 but today, a V8 double - OK, part orchestrated by myself as I took out my Facel 11 for a bit of a blast.

But later, walking the dog, could hear this V8 rumble in the distance. What could it be? Could be agricultural - my Facel can sound pretty agricultural on occasions - maybe a pick-up and then there it was: a biiig blaaack Cadillac, complete with big fins, rego CAD-something, being given welly but its young driver. Great stuff!