COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

[singlecoil]

Spotted on Google Streetview

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.8221847,-0.8487249...

Edited by singlecoil on Thursday 1st April 14:53

[finlo]

singlecoil said:

Spotted on Google Streetview

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.8221847,-0.8487249...

Edited by singlecoil on Thursday 1st April 14:53

Scabby old Jag blocking the view of that Stinger!

[lukeharding]

[P5BNij]

That twin cam Europa looks very familiar, I’m sure it was for sale on carandclassic.com last year or the year before.

[anonymous-user]

psi310398 said:

First Muswell Hill and now Crouch End - that garage is fairly fertile ground for classics.

And is the MG garage (RW Services) still there at Farrer Mews just up the road? That usually has/had plenty of decent automotive real estate around.

Yes RW Services is still around - ran past the other day and there appears to be some building work happening out the back of the shops which has necessitated the removal of some of the automotive real estate possibly for the first time in 20 years.....plenty still remain, mainly MGB's of course, but I also spotted a T25 Syncro, Rolls Corniche and W115 200. There is also an automotive trimmer close by and he has a 380 SLC and 911E Targa in at moment, and a couple of months ago a stunning navy blue W111 coupe. A friend of mine just had his Fiat 500 re-trimmed by him and the results are nothing short of spectacular - not cheap mind.

Palace Road Motors has a metallic blue Renault Alpine GTA that has been up on a ramp for at least 2 years - dropping my car off for some work on Tuesday so will ask what the story is - they quite often have customer cars hanging around for months whilst waiting for obscure parts to arrive but that would be a record...

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 1st April 17:19

[CharlesdeGaulle]

lukeharding said:

What a classy thing, so unlike the modern versions. I love these.

[21st Century Man]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

lukeharding said:

What a classy thing, so unlike the modern versions. I love these.

Fabulous isn't it? Even with those Series II bumpers.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

21st Century Man said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

lukeharding said:

What a classy thing, so unlike the modern versions. I love these.

Fabulous isn't it? Even with those Series II bumpers.

I hadn't even noticed the bumpers, but you're absolutely right. I can forgive it that, and the slightly boring colours. Want.

[Escort3500]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

lukeharding said:

What a classy thing, so unlike the modern versions. I love these.

Pure class unlike, as you say, the current range

[Dapster]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

21st Century Man said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

lukeharding said:

What a classy thing, so unlike the modern versions. I love these.

Fabulous isn't it? Even with those Series II bumpers.

I hadn't even noticed the bumpers, but you're absolutely right. I can forgive it that, and the slightly boring colours. Want.

I think the bumpers are correct. This is a 1978 S1 car with the S1 facelift bumpers - the prefacelift were chrome, the post facelift were bigger with the rubber inserts. The S2 had the same bumpers but the integrated rear fog light and reverse light unit. Car in Luke's pic is a post '77 S1 facelift.

S1 Prefacelift



S1 Facelift



S11

[Dapster]

cpl593h said:

psi310398 said:

First Muswell Hill and now Crouch End - that garage is fairly fertile ground for classics.

And is the MG garage (RW Services) still there at Farrer Mews just up the road? That usually has/had plenty of decent automotive real estate around.

Yes RW Services is still around - ran past the other day and there appears to be some building work happening out the back of the shops which has necessitated the removal of some of the automotive real estate possibly for the first time in 20 years.....plenty still remain, mainly MGB's of course, but I also spotted a T25 Syncro, Rolls Corniche and W115 200. There is also an automotive trimmer close by and he has a 380 SLC and 911E Targa in at moment, and a couple of months ago a stunning navy blue W111 coupe. A friend of mine just had his Fiat 500 re-trimmed by him and the results are nothing short of spectacular - not cheap mind.

Palace Road Motors has a metallic blue Renault Alpine GTA that has been up on a ramp for at least 2 years - dropping my car off for some work on Tuesday so will ask what the story is - they quite often have customer cars hanging around for months whilst waiting for obscure parts to arrive but that would be a record...

Edited by cpl593h on Thursday 1st April 17:19

Was passing this morning too - dropping the kids off at the tennis club opposite. RW had a beautiful Rover P6 in the workshop, and what looked like a 70's Land Rover at the end of a resto. Also outside was a peeling LHD W123 estate plus dozens of other MGs - none of which I could take a pic of as the guys in the workshop were looking at me suspiciously as I crawled past with my phone held up....!

I've seen the blue Renault GTA at Palace - it's not stuck in the corner of the yard, but has literally been on a ramp for 2 years!

[psi310398]

Dapster said:

cpl593h said:

psi310398 said:

First Muswell Hill and now Crouch End - that garage is fairly fertile ground for classics.

And is the MG garage (RW Services) still there at Farrer Mews just up the road? That usually has/had plenty of decent automotive real estate around.

Yes RW Services is still around - ran past the other day and there appears to be some building work happening out the back of the shops which has necessitated the removal of some of the automotive real estate possibly for the first time in 20 years.....plenty still remain, mainly MGB's of course, but I also spotted a T25 Syncro, Rolls Corniche and W115 200. There is also an automotive trimmer close by and he has a 380 SLC and 911E Targa in at moment, and a couple of months ago a stunning navy blue W111 coupe. A friend of mine just had his Fiat 500 re-trimmed by him and the results are nothing short of spectacular - not cheap mind.

Palace Road Motors has a metallic blue Renault Alpine GTA that has been up on a ramp for at least 2 years - dropping my car off for some work on Tuesday so will ask what the story is - they quite often have customer cars hanging around for months whilst waiting for obscure parts to arrive but that would be a record...

Edited by cpl593h on Thursday 1st April 17:19

Was passing this morning too - dropping the kids off at the tennis club opposite. RW had a beautiful Rover P6 in the workshop, and what looked like a 70's Land Rover at the end of a resto. Also outside was a peeling LHD W123 estate plus dozens of other MGs - none of which I could take a pic of as the guys in the workshop were looking at me suspiciously as I crawled past with my phone held up....!

I've seen the blue Renault GTA at Palace - it's not stuck in the corner of the yard, but has literally been on a ramp for 2 years!

gents. I might take one of my mega lockdown weekend walks over there to have a snoop as the Heath will be full of folk this weekend.

[Escort3500]

It’d be the Amazon for me rather than those rubber-bumpered horrors!

[4rephill]

gforceg said:

I think it's Chris Evans with the Ferrari. By coincidence a picture of that car came up on a Pinterest feed for me this morning. Happily, C Evans isn't in this picture.

Edited by gforceg on Thursday 1st April 10:25

Like him or not, at least Chris Evans actually drives his Ferrari's, regardless of their value (and let's others drive them too), rather than buy them, put them in a garage for a few years, never driving them at all, just to sell and make a profit later on.

Yes he can be annoying - But when it comes to his cars, at least he's not completely up his own ar$e - Unlike many owners.

[lukeharding]

[21st Century Man]

I know "scene" things can be baffling, what's the ski's all about?

[lukeharding]

21st Century Man said:

I know "scene" things can be baffling, what's the ski's all about?

You never know when it's going to snow

[Doofus]

You see one, and you think "That's noteworthy". You see two and you think "Bunch of hipster tts"

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