Hong Kong, there be car-pawn here...

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Leithen said:

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Happy Valley is a hotbed of interesting cars, eh. There's a white AM Lagonda in s*** state in one of the residential car parks up there. Unofrtunately, you won't be seeing a Veyron anytime soon though as they're all left-hookers. Have you been into Car City and seen their Gumpert Apollo?

Of course I realise now why there are no Veyrons - Doh! Must be a few hacked off billionaires unable to display their ultimate wealth....

I saw a grey Wedge Lagonda on trade plates on the way to Repulse Bay a few months ago.

Car City is always nice to walk past - I spotted this outside it a few weeks ago - I think a "re-creation" rather than original on the basis that the interior looked far too nice.

Love that Z-car! Think he's part of the Classic Car Club. I saw that grey Lagonda in Causeway Bay a few weeks ago. Looked to be in very good condition, with a few modernized details. I have a couple of photos and a video of it on my mobile phone that I took when it drove by. It's now registered on a 'lucky' plate.

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saxy said:

I saw about 5 lambos 15 ferraris 5 bentleys, 5 rolls, in just 1 parking lot. The rich are too rich...

The wealth gap (that was already massive) seems to be increasing all the time. For a city where it is recorded that one in six live below the poverty line photographing the cars that I do seems a bit crass, but at the same time I guess it also underlines the issue that we have here. Ironically, when you visit government housing estates (not that these are the 1 in 6) the car parks are usually packed with shiny Mercs, etc. I think it the case of people saving money on rent and spending what they save on cars, etc.

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Happy New Yeah PHers! Just got back from a three week holiday back in the UK and there was a dearth of interesting cars on the winter roads although on the last day there I saw an incredible Alfa SZ Coupe near Sutton in Surrey - massive want!

Anyway, back in Hong Kong here are some photos from the regular Sunday morning drive, this time out near the China border in the New Territories. I was particularly happy to get a shot of the single swingarm Honda NSR250SP - just love that bike!

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will_ said:

There's something odd with the roof of that 550 - is it a Barchetta with an aftermarket hard-top?

Yup that's exactly what it is!

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I hadn't noticed them until you mentioned it. I believe this car has had a couple of modernizations...

Been a while since I added anything to the thread, so here you go.

Clean S15 minus the dent


A bit of a theme for these three









Out and about around town







Bikes. I LOVE taking shots of them, but they're so damn hard.









Don't see many of these around. Very nice and clean example.









Sharpest GT3 in HK by my book



















Yum!





Off to Bangkok for a few days, more when I get back!

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Dave G fsi said:

Another great set of pics

And loving the reg plates "H1DE" and "BA11S"

What is that green Aston?

An early V8 Vantage. I thought that one would get some interest. Another...



Wish there were some fallen leaves on the ground...

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williamp said:

Dave G fsi said:

williamp said:

johnnymaestro said:

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Lovely. Barring those wing mirrors.

Yes and very, very clever and subtle numberplate. Love it!

Do you want to share what it means? Got me intrigued!

In goldfinger, one of the other numberplates the car has.

Aaaaah! Very cool indeed! Well spotted.

@hondansx - Cheers mate!

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Some photos from a busy weekend with a decent turnout of cars in the morning and the Aussie GP in the afternoon.

I'd like to say that I was never expecting to see a black XJ220 on Sunday, but someone had told me about it the night before. I was never really sold on the styling of the Big Cat, but in recent years I think has aged very well. For a big car there's a real elegance to it I feel.

Arriving, lights exposed and blazing:



Photoshopped out the T-plates on this one.



Seen this one about a couple of times and I just love it. You can't see the incredible three-piece split rims on it from this angle unfortunately. O.Z. made them iirc?



A mate's 964 30th Anniversary. Think there are three residing in HK.



Rather nifty Gulf liveried S3 Elise



Weird, there seems to be a handful of cars that I seem to always seem to get nice shots of and this particular Elise R is one of them.



Not one of the usual Sunday Morning Drive suspects, but refreshing to see a Tesla out on the roads. Looks good in the is ASBO orange.



Still one of the best looking mid-engined F-cars I reckon.



Have always thought the Cali to have some very awkward styling touches and I can't wait for the gorgeous replacement, but in this photo it does look pretty nice and the noise is always a pleasure to the old lugholes.



On the subject of noise... C63 at full chatter



Cayman Club were out in force. Must have been about 20 of them.



Pretty understated colour for a 430 Spider. Looks good!



The Scud really does leave me with a tingle. Three out on Sunday.



Daily-driven GT3 RS. Super colour!



Lots of friendly peeps out on these drives



360CS has aged soooo well



Approach bends with extreme caution! Love this position, it looks like a scene from the Swiss Alps of something.



Look up 'perfection' in the dictionary and this car might be there



Another one of the DD GT3 RS



Generations. I am firmly in the camp of the 996 being a good looking car.



Definitely not shy this one...



Discuss...

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Dave G fsi said:

Great pics, shame that the Jag and Pagani need those rediculous trade plates though

Yes, but without them we'd never even see/hear them...

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Dave G fsi said:

rupertprocter said:

Dave G fsi said:

Great pics, shame that the Jag and Pagani need those rediculous trade plates though

Yes, but without them we'd never even see/hear them...

Indeed!

I think out of this selection I would take home DL 67

Fight you for it!

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Leithen said:

Car cleaners come very cheap....

Yeah, and wholly underappreciated by some ppl here if you saw that arse-hat Michael Lee in the news a few days ago. Sigh.

Some more odds and sods from the weekend...



Veeeery nicely turned out STi with subtle flared arches























Recently had an opportunity to pick up a 50,000 km single owner one of these in blue/cream for a shade under GBP2k... going to regret my decision not to for a long while.

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RichTT said:

Logged in for the first time in months to say this has to be photo of the thread. Just love it! Not just the car, not crazy over them, but the location, the atmosphere and the subject all work so well together. You should be really proud of this photo.

This is one of my favourites too. Need to do more stuff like this really...

JiggyJaggy said:

Fantastic photos. thanks

Cheers mate!

This Sunday gone I went out to a different location where I know a lot of bikes can be found. It's called Route Twisk and I reckon it's got a bit of the Nordschleife about it. Hong Kong's very own Green Hell. So, anyway I didn't take many pics but the ones I got I really like.

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Stumbled across this different looking 308 the other day and forgot to share. Love the wing mirrors.

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McAndy said:

The colour scheme reminds me of the 512 S Modulo show car from 1970. I quite like it.

Oh yes! You're right. It's unorthodox, but I don't dislike it either.

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Howdy Pistonheaders. Another update, apologies if there's not much diversity in these recent posts. Weather has been a bit dodgy recently (golf ball sized hailstones two nights ago!) lots of thunderstorms (3,500 lightning strikes recorded in one hour!) and heavy fog and work is hectic too, but in the meantime I got to go out with the camera before work this last Saturday morning and there were a few things out.

An immaculate AE86 in it's natural element...

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A lovely Alfa in the mist

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964 Turbo

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Drop dead gorgeous 550. How anyone can't think these aren't gorgeous is beyond me.

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Veeeery nice sounding SL63

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and an ex-Sytner UK dealer M535i complete witjh original rear window sticker and UK tax disk

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And some two-wheeled action

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And an old photo I just revisited. My mate's Jackie Chan Edition Evo that he recently sold

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and finally I thought I'd give some love to the Mirth Mobile, my mate Keith's little Cooper S that when I'm not riding my bike acts as my lift out to take these photos. Keith's a cracking-good photographer and one of the most dedicated people I know. Here are his photos, check them out!

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EDIT: Seriously, thanks Flickr for making something easy difficult. Apparently they've changed how we post the image links into forums now... Great! I will get on top of it and edit the post later. Sorry.

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mikey k said:

You've had the same problem with the Flickr changes I had this week

Yeah, haven't had time to fix the links yet. One of these days a social networking site will be happy with their website interface for more than 5 minutes!

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Finally, here are the direct links to the images from the last post plus some more pics from this morning...

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melvster said:

Great selection as ever, love the Impreza S203.

Thanks! Seems that a lot of the SpecEd Subarus made it to HK shores. I have photos of a couple more that I need to upload and when I used to work out near the Subaru service centre I would see them regularly S202/203s. I reckon the bug-eye Scooby has ages very well and I don't care what the haters say, I think they always looked good.

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A smörgåsbord of supercars out this past Sunday, including some super rare ones like the one off 'Segg Hundra and one of the Zonda Cinques. Around 100+ cars met up for a drive out to the airport in a convoy and I was sat at the end of the run with my camera waiting to get some shots. Problem was that they all turned up together which made photos a but tricky.

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Wide as they come SLS

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Hundra

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One of the cars of the morning for me really. I guess I'm just not massively interested in all the new supercars, no matter how good they are it's the classic and quirky that really interest me.

z_WP_1507 by Rupert Procter, on Flickr

There are many, many more pics of the day which I will upload in the next post. In the meantime here are some photos from the previous week.

Mate's well used S1 Elise. Imported from the UK a few years ago.

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Now, this is what I'm talking about. Just oozing cool, the stonking 190 Evo II recently imported from Japan and still rocking those plates. What else is there to say - epic!

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Matte has become a bit old hat of late, but I think this looks different enough to be cool.

zIMG_1450 by Rupert Procter, on Flickr

So, not a massive update but I'll put some others up soon.

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Dave G fsi said:

Grat pics as always!

Love that 190 Evo II

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Thanks! Yeah, too right the Evo has been a favourite of mine for as long as I can remember. That day we had a 500E and a 190 Cosworth out too (shame the Cosworth photos didn't come out.)

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A few of these around now. HK hasn't traditionally had many hot Renaults with the exception of the Clio V6 which is pretty popular here.

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An older Clio

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On the Euro hot hatch theme...

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