COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

[droopsnoot]

I thought I posted these yesterday, but they don't seem to be here now.

[generationx]

droopsnoot said:

The '200 is a replica unfortunately.

[droopsnoot]

generationx said:

The '200 is a replica unfortunately.

I figured it was, I think I've seen it locally before. R-prefix I think, though the dashcam photo is poor enough that you probably can't tell.

[LotusOmega375D]

No photo, but I overtook an 1971 Aston Martin DBS V8 yesterday. The original prettier 4 headlamp design. I could actually smell the unburnt hydrocarbons long before I caught up with it. I can see why the fuel economy was so woeful.

I remember an old DBS V8 magazine test report, where the writer caught up with a V12 E-Type on a dual carriageway or motorway. The E-Type driver took the bait and the two cars sped up until the Jag could manage no more, whereupon the DBS driver made a show of putting his car into 5th gear and drove off into the distance.

Disclaimer: of course said event may never have happened!

[Doofus]

LotusOmega375D said:

No photo, but I overtook an 1971 Aston Martin DBS V8 yesterday. The original prettier 4 headlamp design. I could actually smell the unburnt hydrocarbons long before I caught up with it. I can see why the fuel economy was so woeful.

I remember an old DBS V8 magazine test report, where the writer caught up with a V12 E-Type on a dual carriageway or motorway. The E-Type driver took the bait and the two cars sped up until the Jag could manage no more, whereupon the DBS driver made a show of putting his car into 5th gear and drove off into the distance.

Disclaimer: of course said event may never have happened!

I always think of the DBS V8 as a rare car, and in real terms of course, it is, but of all the DBSs they built, a third of them were V8s.

[S47]

Spotted yesterday - Didn't think there were any car shows on at the mo' tho'
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[The Rotrex Kid]

Lovely that!

[DickyC]

LotusOmega375D said:

No photo, but I overtook an 1971 Aston Martin DBS V8 yesterday. The original prettier 4 headlamp design. I could actually smell the unburnt hydrocarbons long before I caught up with it. I can see why the fuel economy was so woeful.

I remember an old DBS V8 magazine test report, where the writer caught up with a V12 E-Type on a dual carriageway or motorway. The E-Type driver took the bait and the two cars sped up until the Jag could manage no more, whereupon the DBS driver made a show of putting his car into 5th gear and drove off into the distance.

Disclaimer: of course said event may never have happened!

In Dudley Gershon's book Aston Martin 1963-72 he tells a story of driving a DB5 from home in Kent to the factory in Newport Pagnell where he worked. At the bottom of Wrotham Hill he met another DB5 - what are the chances? - and powered away from it. As luck would have it the car he embarrassed turned up at the factory soon after he arrived and the owner spotted the car that was so much more powerful than his. Gershon owned up. It was a development car for the V8. He lifted the bonnet and there was the V8 - all 5.3 litres of it.

I'm fairly sure the car still exists.

[stuartmmcfc]

[rjg48]

No picture of a Sierra Cosworth 3 door Whale Tale driving on the A20. Grey on a D plate.

[CRA1G]

rjg48 said:

No picture of a Sierra Cosworth 3 door Whale Tale driving on the A20. Grey on a D plate.

Grey..? They only produced three colours. White,black and moonstone..?

[rjg48]

CRA1G said:

Grey..? They only produced three colours. White,black and moonstone..?

Brackish grey.

[Doofus]

rjg48 said:

No picture of a Sierra Cosworth 3 door Whale Tale driving on the A20. Grey on a D plate.

I haven't got one of those too.

[CRA1G]

rjg48 said:

CRA1G said:

Grey..? They only produced three colours. White,black and moonstone..?

Brackish grey.

[PomBstard]

Early Minor...





Looked clean but whitewall tyres seem a bit naff. Cardboard under the sump

[droopsnoot]

CRA1G said:

rjg48 said:

No picture of a Sierra Cosworth 3 door Whale Tale driving on the A20. Grey on a D plate.

Grey..? They only produced three colours. White,black and moonstone..?

Moonstone's a bit grey, isn't it? A bit of a bluey-grey colour.

[Castrol for a knave]

droopsnoot said:

CRA1G said:

rjg48 said:

No picture of a Sierra Cosworth 3 door Whale Tale driving on the A20. Grey on a D plate.

Grey..? They only produced three colours. White,black and moonstone..?

Moonstone's a bit grey, isn't it? A bit of a bluey-grey colour.

I think Moonstone would fit under "grey", if you're not a Ford afficionado.

https://silverstoneauctions.com/events/2020-auctio...

[rjg48]

Castrol for a knave said:

droopsnoot said:

CRA1G said:

rjg48 said:

No picture of a Sierra Cosworth 3 door Whale Tale driving on the A20. Grey on a D plate.

Grey..? They only produced three colours. White,black and moonstone..?

Moonstone's a bit grey, isn't it? A bit of a bluey-grey colour.

I think Moonstone would fit under "grey", if you're not a Ford afficionado.

https://silverstoneauctions.com/events/2020-auctio...

It was one of the black ones, not Moonstone. Didn't know they had done so few colours.

[generationx]

Castrol for a knave said:

droopsnoot said:

CRA1G said:

rjg48 said:

No picture of a Sierra Cosworth 3 door Whale Tale driving on the A20. Grey on a D plate.

Grey..? They only produced three colours. White,black and moonstone..?

Moonstone's a bit grey, isn't it? A bit of a bluey-grey colour.

I think Moonstone would fit under "grey", if you're not a Ford afficionado.

https://silverstoneauctions.com/events/2020-auctio...

Talking of which, an interesting-storied 3dr on the Bay at the moment:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Sierra-RS-Cosworth...

[lukeharding]

A few from Saturday....maybe the TVR isn't strictly suitable for this thread but I'm sure one or two people will like it.