The joy of spotting rarities
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Pulling up to the pub the other night my lights swept across this little beauty and memories of childhood 'automotive heroes' came flooding back.

Used to love seeing cars like this, they were so far above their humdrum donors and seeing one on the road was a real event. Turns out it belongs to the landlord and we geeked about cars for quite some time and he informed me that there are just 22 XR4is left on the road in the UK.
What rarities have you seen that immediately wound the clock back for you?

Used to love seeing cars like this, they were so far above their humdrum donors and seeing one on the road was a real event. Turns out it belongs to the landlord and we geeked about cars for quite some time and he informed me that there are just 22 XR4is left on the road in the UK.
What rarities have you seen that immediately wound the clock back for you?
DaveH23 said:
Funk said:
What is it? That comes back on Ask Mid as a BMW 316 D ES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_6
Funk said:
Pulling up to the pub the other night my lights swept across this little beauty and memories of childhood 'automotive heroes' came flooding back.

Used to love seeing cars like this, they were so far above their humdrum donors and seeing one on the road was a real event. Turns out it belongs to the landlord and we geeked about cars for quite some time and he informed me that there are just 22 XR4is left on the road in the UK.
What rarities have you seen that immediately wound the clock back for you?
Nice.
Used to love seeing cars like this, they were so far above their humdrum donors and seeing one on the road was a real event. Turns out it belongs to the landlord and we geeked about cars for quite some time and he informed me that there are just 22 XR4is left on the road in the UK.
What rarities have you seen that immediately wound the clock back for you?
Saw a MK2 Escort RS2000 outside my local the other week

Funk said:
Pulling up to the pub the other night my lights swept across this little beauty and memories of childhood 'automotive heroes' came flooding back.

Used to love seeing cars like this, they were so far above their humdrum donors and seeing one on the road was a real event. Turns out it belongs to the landlord and we geeked about cars for quite some time and he informed me that there are just 22 XR4is left on the road in the UK.
What rarities have you seen that immediately wound the clock back for you?
That's funny, stumbling home pissed a few weeks ago, I found myself at the local bus station. With it being 4am on a Saturday night/Sun Morning there were various Arriva 'helpers' dotted around the place, they park their cars in the bus stops so they can keep an eye on them while they're working. 
Used to love seeing cars like this, they were so far above their humdrum donors and seeing one on the road was a real event. Turns out it belongs to the landlord and we geeked about cars for quite some time and he informed me that there are just 22 XR4is left on the road in the UK.
What rarities have you seen that immediately wound the clock back for you?
One of them was a mint - eat your dinner off it - XR4x4. Ended up chatting to the fella for an hour or so, missed all my buses and had to get a friend out of bed to come pick me up
Funk said:
And at the other end of the rarities scale...

I understand only a handful of these have been registered in the UK, most of them with MG themselves!
Has someone been brave and actually bought one?
Saw one of those on the M25 the other day.
I understand only a handful of these have been registered in the UK, most of them with MG themselves!
Has someone been brave and actually bought one?
I cant remember the last time I had to read the badge to know what a car was.
Funk said:
And at the other end of the rarities scale...

I understand only a handful of these have been registered in the UK, most of them with MG themselves!
Has someone been brave and actually bought one?
saw one of these at the O.K. diner near newark on trent a couple of weeks ago, I had to look at the badge to see what it was, didn't look too bad.
I understand only a handful of these have been registered in the UK, most of them with MG themselves!
Has someone been brave and actually bought one?
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