Supercars spotted, some rarities (vol 7)

[anonymous.car.spotter]

Vantage Roadster on the motorway.

[Dinoboy]

Dapster said:

tight fart said:

As a quick thread de-rail, this was Maranello Concessionaires in 1982 - Ferrari's flagship preparation and service centre. Look how rough and ready the workshop is compared to the modern operating theatre.

Great photos, thanks for sharing.
I don't suppose you have a high res of this photo with the blue Gt4 second from left?
Could be my old car RRY 941W.

[LotusOmega375D]

anonymous.car.spotter said:

Vantage Roadster on the motorway.

I wonder why it’s wearing a 2007/8 registration?

[Blown2CV]

LotusOmega375D said:

anonymous.car.spotter said:

Vantage Roadster on the motorway.

I wonder why it’s wearing a 2007/8 registration?

private reg

[L100NYY]

R A57ON V but is correctly spaced on the car which is nice to see

[LotusOmega375D]

Jesus, that’s a pathetic reg. I honestly didn’t get it. Even when you explain it, it’s still lame.

[cayman-black]

LotusOmega375D said:

Jesus, that’s a pathetic reg. I honestly didn’t get it. Even when you explain it, it’s still lame.

lol, i had to look again.

[Wills2]

juice said:

Am at Avantgarde in Clevedon

There's this gorgeous SLR outside currently. Interesting plate ! Owned by Qatar Royal Family. He's driving it to Monaco soon. About 2 grand in petrol which is cheaper than shipping it (8 grand)

I have to say that is dreadful and I love the SLR but they have managed to make it look like a fake bodged copy of one.

[L100NYY]

LotusOmega375D said:

Jesus, that’s a pathetic reg. I honestly didn’t get it. Even when you explain it, it’s still lame.

I’m certainly not condoning it and slightly ashamed I worked out what it was supposed to say!

[Dapster]

Dinoboy said:

Dapster said:

As a quick thread de-rail, this was Maranello Concessionaires in 1982 - Ferrari's flagship preparation and service centre. Look how rough and ready the workshop is compared to the modern operating theatre.

Great photos, thanks for sharing.
I don't suppose you have a high res of this photo with the blue Gt4 second from left?
Could be my old car RRY 941W.

I took them from here. So many amazing pictures to browse over a glass of something

https://supercarnostalgia.com/blog/car-spotting-wi...

This is the blue GT4 "TA 8" - was it ever on a private plate?

Edited by Dapster on Sunday 31st July 22:15

[STIfree]

LotusOmega375D said:

Jesus, that’s a pathetic reg. I honestly didn’t get it. Even when you explain it, it’s still lame.

Pathetic is strong wording no? Jeeze, let people do what they like with their cars. They've spaced it correctly, and done nothing wrong only to get called pathetic by some knobber on the internet.

[Doofus]

STIfree said:

LotusOmega375D said:

Jesus, that’s a pathetic reg. I honestly didn’t get it. Even when you explain it, it’s still lame.

Pathetic is strong wording no? Jeeze, let people do what they like with their cars. They've spaced it correctly, and done nothing wrong only to get called pathetic by some knobber on the internet.

They paid extra for a number that, with a squint, maybe spells a word (which is already written on the car anyway) and then spaced it (correctly) such that it doesn't spell that word.

Perhaps not 'pathetic', but surely worthy of derision.

I've never understood why anyone would buy a registration number that just says what the car is, because there are already badges on the car telling you that anyway.

Unless, I suppose, you've paid extra to have the car debadged in the first place...

[Dapster]

Doofus said:

I've never understood why anyone would buy a registration number that just says what the car is, because there are already badges on the car telling you that anyway.

Ordinarily I'd agree with you but some exceptions look pretty cool....

[ChevronB19]

I nearly bought V16 BRM years ago (the plate, not the car), but a mate of my dads (ex Jaguar principal) has C7 YPE and D7 YPE.

I’m not really into them, but I was bought a private plate for my birthday by my wife a while ago. 1 letter, 1 digit, 3 letters. Refers to what I race and then my initials. My uncle had a 2 letter one digit plate and sold it in the late 80’s for about 40k, whereas my dad had similar on an Austin 7 and it went with the car for about 3 quid in the 50’s…

All of the above are/were correctly spaced and on normal sized plates though.

[Johnspex]

An Aston Martin Zagato shooting brake in the car park at RHS Rosemoor on Saturday.
God it was ugly. The gold highlights on the wheels didn't help.

[Pugaris]

smithyithy said:

Bloody hell I can't even tell these new Ferraris apart any more

I stand firm though. The front ends are okay, but the rears are just.....

That is absolutely atrocious. Might be the worst view of any Ferrari ever.

[Its Just Adz]

I went to a local meet yesterday and there was some lovely bits, definitely some rarities.

[RJH777]

Some nice ones at Caffeine and Machine on Saturday:

GT3 RS... particularly liked the Houndstooth seat centres.



Never sure if a V12V counts as a Supercar, but certainly as exciting as one in my mind!



And to the earlier post, yes all new Ferrari's look the same (see if you can guess which is the 488 and which is the F8...)

[Its Just Adz]

Lovely colour on that RS, and silver wheels too.

[Blown2CV]

Pugaris said:

smithyithy said:

Bloody hell I can't even tell these new Ferraris apart any more

I stand firm though. The front ends are okay, but the rears are just.....

That is absolutely atrocious. Might be the worst view of any Ferrari ever.

reminds me a bit of my mate who is trying his best to retain hair despite being very balding. The front half of his head is bald and the back half has to accommodate his entire hairdo.