COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

[LargeRed]

G Wagon commercial ??

[Tim Reaper]

Rumblestripe said:

lukeharding said:

Nope, no idea what that is. A van?

¯\_(?)_/¯

Mercedes G Wagen , I think .

[LargeRed]

MERCEDES G CLASS G 300 CLASSIC

Edited by LargeRed on Friday 26th November 15:19

[lukeharding]

LargeRed said:

G Wagon commercial ??

Yep. Very rare apparently. It was on eBay recently for £5k.

[Rumblestripe]

lukeharding said:

LargeRed said:

G Wagon commercial ??

Yep. Very rare apparently. It was on eBay recently for £5k.

Cheers all, every day's a school day as they say.

[finlo]

Rumblestripe said:

lukeharding said:

LargeRed said:

G Wagon commercial ??

Yep. Very rare apparently. It was on eBay recently for £5k.

Cheers all, every day's a school day as they say.

For your learning curve they also come Peugeot flavoured.

[LargeRed]

Yes ..... that was called P4 from Peugeot.

[Doofus]

LargeRed said:

Yes ..... that was called P4 from Peugeot.

I think it was called the Peugeot P4, but your version has a bit more class.

[Dapster]

Emmanuel's security detail drive around in those P4's - you can see one sneaking into the bottom left of frame



Saw this in Highgate yesterday

[LargeRed]

Dapster said:

Emmanuel's security detail drive around in those P4's - you can see one sneaking into the bottom left of frame

that's because ....

wiki - The P4 g force is an unarmoured off-road vehicle used by the military of France. It was manufactured by Peugeot but is now manufactured by Panhard. It is to be replaced with the PVP by Panhard. The P4 is a derivative of the Mercedes Geländewagen military version built under license by Peugeot for the French military. Peugeot did not have a licence to export the vehicle anywhere else than to the countries bound to France by defence agreements.

[finlo]

LargeRed said:

Dapster said:

Emmanuel's security detail drive around in those P4's - you can see one sneaking into the bottom left of frame

that's because ....

wiki - The P4 g force is an unarmoured off-road vehicle used by the military of France. It was manufactured by Peugeot but is now manufactured by Panhard. It is to be replaced with the PVP by Panhard. The P4 is a derivative of the Mercedes Geländewagen military version built under license by Peugeot for the French military. Peugeot did not have a licence to export the vehicle anywhere else than to the countries bound to France by defence agreements.

I think both variants were originally built by Magna Steyr in Austria.

[MarkwG]

finlo said:

LargeRed said:

Dapster said:

Emmanuel's security detail drive around in those P4's - you can see one sneaking into the bottom left of frame

that's because ....

wiki - The P4 g force is an unarmoured off-road vehicle used by the military of France. It was manufactured by Peugeot but is now manufactured by Panhard. It is to be replaced with the PVP by Panhard. The P4 is a derivative of the Mercedes Geländewagen military version built under license by Peugeot for the French military. Peugeot did not have a licence to export the vehicle anywhere else than to the countries bound to France by defence agreements.

I think both variants were originally built by Magna Steyr in Austria.

Apparently the Peugeots were built here - https://www.arquus-defense.com/ - & the Mercedes are still built in Austria

[uk66fastback]

Not had an MoT since 2011 - not that it needs one nowadays. DVLA have it as being white …

[DickyC]

uk66fastback said:

Not had an MoT since 2011 - not that it needs one nowadays. DVLA have it as being white …

Yesterday I told a young mechanic about vacuum wipers and suggested the Ford Consul had them. To his credit he sounded interested and ventured that they probably worked better with the throttle shut. Good lad. He saw the design flaw immediately.

[Escort3500]

DickyC said:

uk66fastback said:

Not had an MoT since 2011 - not that it needs one nowadays. DVLA have it as being white …

Yesterday I told a young mechanic about vacuum wipers and suggested the Ford Consul had them. To his credit he sounded interested and ventured that they probably worked better with the throttle shut. Good lad. He saw the design flaw immediately.

A throwback to the pre-war era and shouldn’t have been fitted in the Mk ll. I had them in my first Zodiac and they were positively dangerous I’ve got two-speed electric wipers in my current one

Edited by Escort3500 on Sunday 28th November 09:44

[DickyC]

Escort3500 said:

DickyC said:

uk66fastback said:

Not had an MoT since 2011 - not that it needs one nowadays. DVLA have it as being white …

Yesterday I told a young mechanic about vacuum wipers and suggested the Ford Consul had them. To his credit he sounded interested and ventured that they probably worked better with the throttle shut. Good lad. He saw the design flaw immediately.

A throwback to the pre-war era and shouldn’t have been fitted in the Mk ll. I had them in my first Zodiac and they were positively dangerous I’ve got two-speed electric wipers in my current one

Non-existent uphill wipers, frenzied downhill wipers and feeble wipers everywhere else as I recall. Even as I child, when most things were new and exciting, they seemed like a bad idea.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Dapster said:

Saw this in Highgate yesterday

i'd love that
only possibly topped by a DoKa double cab pickup

[Tim Reaper]

A quick story.

A couple of weeks ago ,a red MGCGT passed me whilst I was walking.
A few minutes later , a white MGC went back the other way , could it have been the same person ?....

Today , in the same locality ,I walk past a house with double garage door open , what's inside ?.....the 2 above.....

[Astacus]

Yertis said:

I agree. ............Along with the TR7...

steady on

[Mr Tidy]

uk66fastback said:

Not had an MoT since 2011 - not that it needs one nowadays. DVLA have it as being white …

Lovely - I remember getting a lift to primary school in a blue one of those back in the 60s!