The rarest car you have photographed/seen
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The Don of Croy said:
Always wanted to spot a McLaren F1 but only at shows and also in the showroom in Park Lane back in the 90's.
Quite fortunate where Iive as I'd see them reasonably regularly out on road tests when they were in development and also available for sale. The rarest car that I've seen is a Bugatti EB110 Super Sport; years ago a foreign registered one just drove past work.
generationx said:
Louwman museum? I have tickets for later this year and can't wait!
Was there 2 weeks ago - what an extraodinary collection , and far better curated than most I have seen in UK . Unlike the Donington museum , now closed of course , there was some real imagination in displays and lighting and not a single typo in signage , compared to Donington's scores . Swan car is quite extraordinary but my pick were the Alfa sports racers , T35 Bugatti and Superfast
I spotted this near Puerto Banus in Spain a couple of years ago.
It's a Volkswagen Polo with a Treser Open Air Targa conversion, there were only a couple of hundred made as the conversion cost was more than half the price of buying another VW Polo an made a Treser more expensive than a Golf GTI!
The majority of them were based on the 75hp Polo GT or standard 1.3CL with 55hp however a VERY small number were built with the G40 Supercharged engine. The owner (in the pic, a true gent an happy to talk about the car) owned 2 of them - both G40s, he kept one in Spain an one at his property in Germany.
this is how they look with the roof off
It's a Volkswagen Polo with a Treser Open Air Targa conversion, there were only a couple of hundred made as the conversion cost was more than half the price of buying another VW Polo an made a Treser more expensive than a Golf GTI!
The majority of them were based on the 75hp Polo GT or standard 1.3CL with 55hp however a VERY small number were built with the G40 Supercharged engine. The owner (in the pic, a true gent an happy to talk about the car) owned 2 of them - both G40s, he kept one in Spain an one at his property in Germany.
this is how they look with the roof off
PZR said:
Car alongside it (and in the same ownership as the 2000GT) is a genuine 'HS30-H' model Nissan Fairlady 240ZG, a Group 4 homologation model sold only in Japan, and one of only three in the UK.
I presume the owner is a fan of Japanese rarities then 
Would love a chance to have a good look around a 2000GT , this one was behind a barrier sadly.
coppice said:
generationx said:
Louwman museum? I have tickets for later this year and can't wait!
Was there 2 weeks ago - what an extraodinary collection , and far better curated than most I have seen in UK . Unlike the Donington museum , now closed of course , there was some real imagination in displays and lighting and not a single typo in signage , compared to Donington's scores . Swan car is quite extraordinary but my pick were the Alfa sports racers , T35 Bugatti and Superfast
The Don of Croy said:
Just remembered (sat at Heathrow waiting for a delayed arrival)...have seen two deLoreans in the wild, one in Monmouth in 1989 parked up near Iceland (magnet for exotica as every fool do no) mid resto, and asked not to touch the bodywork as it marked easily, the second one about 18 months ago on the b road not far from home in Sussex, motoring along with the evening traffic.
Always wanted to spot a McLaren F1 but only at shows and also in the showroom in Park Lane back in the 90's.
Saw 12 in convoy a few years back along a Norfolk roadAlways wanted to spot a McLaren F1 but only at shows and also in the showroom in Park Lane back in the 90's.
CanAm said:
The only F1 I've seen was "joining in" on the London-Brighton Veteran Car Run a few years ago. In its Lark racing livery, it was not quite as discrete looking as Flemke's example.
The Lark F1 GTR is owned by Andy Bruce and is number 13R. He used to have a matching P1 GTR but sold it fairly recently.I've seen many rare and unique cars in museums, but the rarest car I have ever seen in real life, on the road (and that I have been in) has to be this unique Toyota Celica pickup truck built by my old next-door neighbour Rex Garrod, and featured on The Secret Life of Machines.
https://youtu.be/gfr3_AwuO9Y?t=1145
It was made from a US-spec Celica (hence the Supra arches and left hand drive) that had been rolled by a USAF serviceman, and I spent many a happy summer's day helping Rex build mad stuff like this.
https://youtu.be/gfr3_AwuO9Y?t=1145
It was made from a US-spec Celica (hence the Supra arches and left hand drive) that had been rolled by a USAF serviceman, and I spent many a happy summer's day helping Rex build mad stuff like this.
Perhaps someone will remind me of the name of this. I know it's a one-off, from scratch, not based on anything.
I don't know if the following ones are rare as such, but unusual, at least.
I think it's a Lagonda, but I know it had been driven from Belgium.
A 1930s BMW 328 I stumbled across in a pub car park, still in regular use.
And a Berkeley T60. They're probably not that rare, but I'd never seen one before.
A Lenham Healey.
They're all old photos, hence not very good.
I don't know if the following ones are rare as such, but unusual, at least.
I think it's a Lagonda, but I know it had been driven from Belgium.
A 1930s BMW 328 I stumbled across in a pub car park, still in regular use.
And a Berkeley T60. They're probably not that rare, but I'd never seen one before.
A Lenham Healey.
They're all old photos, hence not very good.
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