COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!!

[Sporting Bear]

Forthright MC said:

that sounds interesting Nigel! (never heard of a Taunus but i know of the yankee Taurus if that is what you mean!)

Nope it was a Taunus - put that single word into Google Image and you'll see an image of a green one, the one I saw on the M25 was as near as damn it good

Edited by Sporting Bear on Friday 29th June 16:07

[Forthright MC]

Sporting Bear said:

Forthright MC said:

that sounds interesting Nigel! (never heard of a Taunus but i know of the yankee Taurus if that is what you mean!)

Nope it was a Taunus - put that single word into Google Image and you'll see an image of a green one, the one I saw on the M25 was as near as damn it good

like this?,



looks a bit yankee!

[Forthright MC]

saw a red Aston DBS on the Bedford bypass this afternoon!

[dinkel]

Taunus, Granada and Escorts of the 70s are appealing.



I want a 2.8 in orange.

[mark387mw]

dinkel said:

I want a 2.8 in orange.

This was my second car from about 1980, not a 2.8 though!!

I'm still seeing lots of daily drivers including Hillman Hunter, Allegro, MKI and MKII Escorts, Viva HB and HC, Wolseley 6/110, old Plymouths but no 'cool' classics yet.

[Sporting Bear]

mark387mw said:

I'm still seeing lots of daily drivers including Hillman Hunter, Allegro, MKI and MKII Escorts, Viva HB and HC, Wolseley 6/110, old Plymouths but no 'cool' classics yet.

if they're daily drives then they're cool classics

That's an amazing list of daily drives you saw

[mark387mw]

Sporting Bear said:

That's an amazing list of daily drives you saw

It is New Zealand and the cars have lasted longer here - must be the lack of salt on the roads.

[Sporting Bear]

mark387mw said:

Sporting Bear said:

That's an amazing list of daily drives you saw

It is New Zealand and the cars have lasted longer here - must be the lack of salt on the roads.

You lucky devil - the cars are still cool classics

[paul_pot]

The taunus also spawned this rather pretty Michelotti-esque coupe from Italian coachbuilders OSI:

http://jalopnik.com/cars/osi/the-most-beautiful-fo...

Pretty rare, I've yet to see one.

[Sporting Bear]

paul_pot said:

The taunus also spawned this rather pretty Michelotti-esque coupe from Italian coachbuilders OSI:

http://jalopnik.com/cars/osi/the-most-beautiful-fo...

Pretty rare, I've yet to see one.

Yes very nice, I've never seen or heard of one

[mark387mw]

This week I've seen driving around are a Rover P4, a couple of Capri 2.8's and a Bedford TJ truck and parked outside an engineering premises, a Delorean.

[Forthright MC]

saw a beautiful Lotus Cortina on the drive of a house in St Neots this afternoon, the cream and green paint on it really did look good! a lovely Tartan red, wire wheeled MGB roadster and a light yellow SD1 Vitesse both in a village near Keysoe this afternoon too!

[v15ben]

Spotted a black Ford Model A hot rod in Nottingham yesterday. RAC plate checker says it is a 1938, but who knows! Very distinctive vehicle

[Jderh]

Saw a Morgan Plus 8 and a Ford Capri 280 Brooklands yesterday.

[dinkel]

Lambo Jalpa in red!

[Forthright MC]

saw a lovely light green over BR green Vauxhall Viva parked up near M&S in Huntongdon early this afternoon

[v15ben]

Pristine green and cream '66 Lotus Cortina in Heckmondwike, West Yorks yesterday afternoon. It looked like a fresh paint job and literally brand new!

[Forthright MC]

a few months back i met a group of owners from the Sprites and Midgets owners group in a car park at the Red House free house in Longstowe. well, just before the heavens opened with hail i managed to take some pics!

Edited by Forthright MC on Wednesday 11th July 22:22

[mark387mw]

I was out a little while ago in the MGF when I parked alongside this car that had just popped out to the shops. A 1930 Ford Model A IIRC.

Also saw two Datsun 240Z's this week.

[Gretchen]

Forthright MC said:

VW Karmann Ghia conv,

Was his an orange LHD? Passed him today. I think it belongs to a RAF chap I was at school with. An ex used to have one too, but sold on a couple of year ago, went down south iirc.