COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

[rjg48]

Doofus said:

rjg48 said:

Turbobanana said:

tog said:

A gold SLC on Pentas is quite a cool thing. In Somerset yesterday.

So much about that is wrong. But it looks great! At least it doesn't have the chrome rust-hiders

No.

AMG Line Alloys.

Edited by rjg48 on Wednesday 8th July 15:08

Pentas are correct, Monoblocks aren't.

That may be true. I don't like them.

[Doofus]

rjg48 said:

That may be true. I don't like them.

I think they both look great - in their place. The trouble for me is that Monoblocks are often fakes, and therefore cheap, so they're used to tart up any number of ropey old W210s and W124s. They often look good, except they're usually too big. Pentas are more 'credible'.

[Nov72]

Nice little Alfa parked in Marlborough high street today.

[Dapster]

tog said:

A gold SLC on Pentas is quite a cool thing. In Somerset yesterday.

I'd prefer mine as it left the showroom I think, with the period hubcaps.



The SLC was always the SL's ugly sister I thought - none of the elegance of the later C126 coupe.

I do think a period W126 in full AMG drag looks sub-zero cool, particularly in black (with Swiss plates!). I wouldn't be brave enough to get one over a standard one, but I'm glad they exist.

[rjg48]

Doofus said:

rjg48 said:

That may be true. I don't like them.

I think they both look great - in their place. The trouble for me is that Monoblocks are often fakes, and therefore cheap, so they're used to tart up any number of ropey old W210s and W124s. They often look good, except they're usually too big. Pentas are more 'credible'.

I agree.

I think 15 inches is more than enough for most people.

[rjg48]

Dapster said:

tog said:

A gold SLC on Pentas is quite a cool thing. In Somerset yesterday.

I'd prefer mine as it left the showroom I think, with the period hubcaps.



The SLC was always the SL's ugly sister I thought - none of the elegance of the later C126 coupe.




I do think a period W126 in full AMG drag looks sub-zero cool, particularly in black (with Swiss plates!). I wouldn't be brave enough to get one over a standard one, but I'm glad they exist.

Not too shabby.

[tog]

Dapster said:

tog said:

A gold SLC on Pentas is quite a cool thing. In Somerset yesterday.

I'd prefer mine as it left the showroom I think, with the period hubcaps.

Oh, I agree - I'd have mine standard too. But I still think it looks quite cool.

[Doofus]

tog said:

Dapster said:

tog said:

A gold SLC on Pentas is quite a cool thing. In Somerset yesterday.

I'd prefer mine as it left the showroom I think, with the period hubcaps.

Oh, I agree - I'd have mine standard too. But I still think it looks quite cool.

To be fair, that ond never did have steel wheels, it had Mexican hats.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Doofus said:

tog said:

Dapster said:

tog said:

A gold SLC on Pentas is quite a cool thing. In Somerset yesterday.

I'd prefer mine as it left the showroom I think, with the period hubcaps.

Oh, I agree - I'd have mine standard too. But I still think it looks quite cool.

To be fair, that ond never did have steel wheels, it had Mexican hats.

Mine has Mexican hats. I do quite like the painted hub caps though.

[tog]

As well as the SLC, I almost forgot this very tidy Austin Healey that came and parked next to me yesterday in Bruton:

[Dapster]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Doofus said:

tog said:

Dapster said:

tog said:

A gold SLC on Pentas is quite a cool thing. In Somerset yesterday.

I'd prefer mine as it left the showroom I think, with the period hubcaps.

Oh, I agree - I'd have mine standard too. But I still think it looks quite cool.

To be fair, that ond never did have steel wheels, it had Mexican hats.

Mine has Mexican hats. I do quite like the painted hub caps though.

The very first C107s in the UK were steel wheeled with the Mexican hats available as an option, but you are right I think, by the time the gold ones above were new the 450 SLCs had alloys. Steel wheels were standard on pretty much all Merc range on the German spec cars - famously pov specced.

[Doofus]

When I was a kid, I thought those flutes at the C pillar were blinds which you could pull across the side windows, because there was no glass.

[TR4man]

tog said:

As well as the SLC, I almost forgot this very tidy Austin Healey that came and parked next to me yesterday in Bruton:

Two beautiful British classics.

[Speed 3]

Cool Aston with an even cooler plate:

[aeropilot]

Speed 3 said:

Cool Aston with an even cooler plate:

Crikey....that plate is probably worth almost what the car is worth...??

[Nicolamarie]

Spotted at Dunkirk on return to the UK - Jaguar Mk10 convertible (didn't know they existed), De Tomaso Longchamp, and Merc 230sl

[aeropilot]

Nicolamarie said:

Jaguar Mk10 convertible (didn't know they existed)

They didn't officially.

I seem to recall a firm doing conversions to convertibles back in the 1970's?

So its either one of these, or a self-built conversion.

[P5BNij]

My mate has been out and about in the '69 Mk2 Cooper I sold him nine years ago, he's since completely restored it and and has recently fitted a nice set of Mk1 Cosmics....

[aeropilot]

P5BNij said:

My mate has been out and about in the '69 Mk2 Cooper I sold him nine years ago, he's since completely restored it and and has recently fitted a nice set of Mk1 Cosmics....

Apart from the wheels, just like the Mk.II 998 Cooper I almost bought back in September 1980.

[lukeharding]