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Looks like a good day out!

I've unfortunately been recovering from Covid so was unable to attend.

Hopefully will be able to do this

I’ll be going to this on Saturday if anyone wants to join us we’re convoying down from Billingham:

Might head along to one of these also:

1 hour ago, Rust Collector said:

Possibly, however the grille was definitely the narrow but really tall one as I remember thinking how fucked the proportions were to the rest of the car. Those lights look bang on though.

Kia also made a similarly horrible abomination 🤢

22 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

I had the misfortune of spotting one of these in my rear view mirror whilst driving through Bratislava.

I nearly had to pull over and be sick, it's absolutely gopping in the metal.

I swear the one I saw had W211 headlights though. It looked so awful that my first thought was that somebody out of their mind on home distilled Slivovica had somehow managed to mount a Lancia grille onto a W211 by cutting and patching the surrounding panels. I'm not sure if it's more or less disturbing to know that it was potentially a production car.

Was it perhaps a Lybra that you saw?

Almost as ugly:

8 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Tatra with a roll cage and towpoint indicator? Classic racing?

Yup, seems like it was set up for competition use, full cage, cut off switch, racing seats etc.

Festival of the exceptional moaners again, same every year, not enough of this, to much of that, not so much on here but definitely on other platforms.
 

Personally absolutely loved it again this year, there’s so much to see that I found it very easy to just walk past the stuff that I didn’t want to look at or that ‘shouldn’t of been there’. I didn’t have much of a problem with the que but did get there relatively early, think it took about 20/30 mins to get in.

Tatra V8!

Gonna be bringing the Forester, think it’s more suitable than the Merc and it’ll be nice to give it one final run out before part exing it against my mates SAAB 9-5 next week. 

Unsure which one to come in, the Subaru is definitely unexceptional but maybe a bit modern, though they are quite rare now?

Mercs obviously not unexceptional especially being a 6 cylinder, but is old enough at least.

Saw this 04 plate Passat working in Gateshead last week.

19 hours ago, Supernaut said:

 

 

 

 

 

Wow, looks like another GTX, a lot shinier than mine though!

12 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

@Sam Glover might have one  

https://autoshite.com/topic/7737-end-of-year-tat-accounts/page/13/?tab=comments#comment-1692834

last I spoke with stuart about these back in 2021 he thinks there are at least 2 over here, not sure if thats including Sam's one or not

but as I said at the time  slidey doors made of fibreglass and CVT powered, sounds very familiar  

or to miss-quote top-gear "its not a Model 70 its the Model 70's Swedish Cousin"

There’s one local to me in Tyne & Wear.

13 hours ago, primeradoner said:

Spotted today in Durham (driving so no pic)  CU 6 on a green  Mercedes 220 . A quick internet  search shows that its a 1976 model ! Last saw this near Durham Riverside cricket ground about 5 years ago driven by an old gentleman. Made my day to see that both him and the car are still about.

He has something like 7 classic cars and is a regular at all the local shows, has had the plate since the 60s/70s from what I recall.

My contribution, doubt I’ll ever own anything as rare as this again.

Fiat Croma I.E. Super 

Been using this quite a bit since I got the new driveshafts on, it’s almost perfect although it’ll occasionally jump out of gear whilst slowing down, what’s the likely cause for this?

Met up with some non 205 mates the other day, something for everyone here….

I popped in for a little while, wasn’t planning on it but the auto jumble at Washington was crap so thought I’d give the 205 a run up.

The label on my Dexy's Midnight Runners - There, There, My Dear 7" single.

13 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Who/\??

www.google.com  

Had blue and tweed in my old 205:

Striped velour in the Croma livened up the grey a bit:

7 looks great with the M Parras, they look better on the E38 than E39 imo. Is it a V8 or S6?

Need some orange indicators for my 205 if they have one there, can get new repros off ebay easily enough but would prefer originals.