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Penultimate batch - many were from one street in the Old Town which were paved with SOLID GOLD (Opel, Lada, Volvos, etc). The Range Rover was a weird van conversion, registered as such, and I was pleased to get the Autobianchi lurking behind it. The Buick was my host's car, charmingly named "Minge". My favourite, though, despite Montego presence, is the "triple Hyundai" shot.  

Penultimate batch - many were from one street in the Old Town which were paved with SOLID GOLD (Opel, Lada, Volvos, etc). The Range Rover was a weird van conversion, registered as such, and I was pleased to get the Autobianchi lurking behind it. The Buick was my host's car, charmingly named "Minge". My favourite, though, despite Montego presence, is the "triple Hyundai" shot.  

Penultimate batch - many were from one street in the Old Town which were paved with SOLID GOLD (Opel, Lada, Volvos, etc). The Range Rover was a weird van conversion, registered as such, and I was pleased to get the Autobianchi lurking behind it. The Buick was my host's car, charmingly named "Minge". My favourite, though, despite Montego presence, is the "triple Hyundai" shot.  

Still a few Yank tanks around - in fact my host's family owned a particularly rare one, a 1982 Buick Riviera convertible owned from new.
 
And yes, the Austins got snapped!
 
Now: going from Aqaba to Amman, via the desert (where Land Cruisers go to die), and ending up looking at some pretty high-class barnfinds... classiest of which was of course the Renault 10.

Jordan's a good place - first time I'd been to that part of the world and I loved it. I was staying with a Jordanian friend which probably helped.
 
Pros - extremely friendly, hospitable people; pro-Western in outlook; politically stable; the desert is superb; wide range of stuff to do and see, including a lot which is off the beaten track; cheap-ish; plenty of character, with old towns not ripped apart by developers; low crime; decent food; lots of chod to photograph; not crooked by the standards of that part of the world; relatively relaxed attitude. "Middle East for beginners"!
 
Cons - if you don't speak the language, prepare to get ripped off; it's bloody hot in the summer (I had about 48); it's not particularly "Western"; war isn't geographically very far away and you will see occasional reminders (eg Syrian refugees in UN tents); hire cars have recognizable plates which increases the risk of getting pulled over and hassled by less than reputable people.
 
Would recommend. In fact, I'm going back...

Yup - both the Indy and the Ligier are owned (since new, I think) by the same guy who will restore them. Parts are tricky however. My host, who was tolerant of and entertained by my papping all the shite on Jordanian roads, took me specially to see "an old Maserati in a shed" - I was expecting a knackered Biturbo and certainly not an Indy!
 
Next batch contains Saab. BMW, Renault 12, Lada and Chevrolet action. The red Beetle had a "low number" plate worth several times more than the car. Taking the last picture almost got me arrested. I still have no idea why.
 
 

Still a few Yank tanks around - in fact my host's family owned a particularly rare one, a 1982 Buick Riviera convertible owned from new.
 
And yes, the Austins got snapped!
 
Now: going from Aqaba to Amman, via the desert (where Land Cruisers go to die), and ending up looking at some pretty high-class barnfinds... classiest of which was of course the Renault 10.

Missed the Warty, sadly, but hope the following will compensate:

A few more, from downtown Amman.

Yes, monthly votes are an excellent idea. 
 
Here's one which should have gone in the 2014 calendar but couldn't get the original in time. It's by Adrian_pt. 
 

I was pretty pleased with the Royale...
 
Couple more from the past few months. The BMW shares a stable with Astons of recent and Sixties vintage. The duct-taped Cadillac is regularly driven by an old dear around Fulham, where the Belmont is also a regular (alongside an E-reg Fiat Regata which I've never managed to snap and therefore retains mythical status). The Reliant Kitten was in Hammersmith with its rather eccentric owner.

A few more from the past months. I enjoyed the body kit on the Jag but the Vauxhall was by far and away the top spot.

A few more, from downtown Amman.

A more recent trip to Bucharest yielded little of interest. Most interesting older stuff has now gone from the capital - still plenty about in the provinces and the poorer suburbs, though. The older Dacias (of which the white one is a very clean and early example) have now become rare, TVs practically extinct and I barely saw an ARO. The Seventies and Eighties Eurocrud has also by and large been scrapped.
 
What's the grey 70s car? Couldn't get a proper photo owing to the "neighbours"...

Blast from the past!
 
A short trip in March revealed that most of the truly heinous tat has gone in various scrappage waves. Even old Dacias have become unusual - and the ARo, TV and Oltcit models are now rare. Nevertheless, a few highlights:
 
Volvo


 
Judging by the plate, an 85 Kadett

 
Dacia with identity crisis

 
Honey of an 18

 
Jacked up Golf

 
Very battered Dacia, 1981 vintage

 
Seventies Dacias

 
Megarare Oltcit pickup

 
Early Dacia in very good condition

 
This is special - Dacia made in the late 80s for the Party elite. Note the Oltcit headlights.

 
Warszawa

 
Visa

 
Two Dacias and a hot Escort

 
Dacia prototype

 
Yank stuff

 
Orange!

 
Step back to 2011 and a quiet fishing town apart from the mainland has about 25 cars. The only way of getting there is by boat (except for a practically inaccessible dirt track) so cars tend to be pretty battered - and when they do break down, abandoned.
 
Carts are often the best way of getting around

 
Old Audi

 
Baby transport!

 
Abandoned 1100

 
If you were choosing a car for inhospitable terrain, would it be a CX?

 
Or simply a very buggered Dacia?

A few more from the past months. I enjoyed the body kit on the Jag but the Vauxhall was by far and away the top spot.

A more recent trip to Bucharest yielded little of interest. Most interesting older stuff has now gone from the capital - still plenty about in the provinces and the poorer suburbs, though. The older Dacias (of which the white one is a very clean and early example) have now become rare, TVs practically extinct and I barely saw an ARO. The Seventies and Eighties Eurocrud has also by and large been scrapped.
 
What's the grey 70s car? Couldn't get a proper photo owing to the "neighbours"...

Yup - both the Indy and the Ligier are owned (since new, I think) by the same guy who will restore them. Parts are tricky however. My host, who was tolerant of and entertained by my papping all the shite on Jordanian roads, took me specially to see "an old Maserati in a shed" - I was expecting a knackered Biturbo and certainly not an Indy!
 
Next batch contains Saab. BMW, Renault 12, Lada and Chevrolet action. The red Beetle had a "low number" plate worth several times more than the car. Taking the last picture almost got me arrested. I still have no idea why.
 
 

A few more from the past months. I enjoyed the body kit on the Jag but the Vauxhall was by far and away the top spot.

Blast from the past!
 
A short trip in March revealed that most of the truly heinous tat has gone in various scrappage waves. Even old Dacias have become unusual - and the ARo, TV and Oltcit models are now rare. Nevertheless, a few highlights:
 
Volvo


 
Judging by the plate, an 85 Kadett

 
Dacia with identity crisis

 
Honey of an 18

 
Jacked up Golf

 
Very battered Dacia, 1981 vintage

 
Seventies Dacias

 
Megarare Oltcit pickup

 
Early Dacia in very good condition

 
This is special - Dacia made in the late 80s for the Party elite. Note the Oltcit headlights.

 
Warszawa

 
Visa

 
Two Dacias and a hot Escort

 
Dacia prototype

 
Yank stuff

 
Orange!

 
Step back to 2011 and a quiet fishing town apart from the mainland has about 25 cars. The only way of getting there is by boat (except for a practically inaccessible dirt track) so cars tend to be pretty battered - and when they do break down, abandoned.
 
Carts are often the best way of getting around

 
Old Audi

 
Baby transport!

 
Abandoned 1100

 
If you were choosing a car for inhospitable terrain, would it be a CX?

 
Or simply a very buggered Dacia?

Very grim indeed - although the town where they're caught is one of the smoarter addresses in Romania!
 
A bit more, including some pretty amazing pre-war stuff...
 
Capri 2300. This was someone's car under Communism - not too bad for a dictatorship!
 
Petrol queue in 1990. This was almost exclusively dacia, although you can see a Beemer and a Volvo - either belinging to a local bigwig or immediately brought over after the fall of Ceausescu

 
Skoda

 
I have no idea - Adler perhaps? Or something american?

 
Chevrolet I think but again not sure

 
Merc 170V

 
Crumbling Barkas


 
Trio of turd: Opel Olympia, Mercedes with home-made doors and a buggered roof, and a never Merc Ponton with a termina rust issue... Even in Romania things very rarely quite come as bad as this!

A few more from the past months. I enjoyed the body kit on the Jag but the Vauxhall was by far and away the top spot.

OCTOPUSSY HUNTER?
 

 
 
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I see Raymanboy's fight against deportation to Portugal wasn't as successful as he'd hoped for.
 
'In the interior which is under mirrors you will see a naked woman on top of a chaise longue where she is being touched by an Octopus. This represents power and pleasure.'
 
In all my 49.9 years of wildest, drink induced dreams of power and pleasure I can truly say I have never considered an octopus trying to knob a bird in the back of a Rolls Royce which has half of Kew Gardens and cardboard bed pan for an engine.

Still a few Yank tanks around - in fact my host's family owned a particularly rare one, a 1982 Buick Riviera convertible owned from new.
 
And yes, the Austins got snapped!
 
Now: going from Aqaba to Amman, via the desert (where Land Cruisers go to die), and ending up looking at some pretty high-class barnfinds... classiest of which was of course the Renault 10.

Missed the Warty, sadly, but hope the following will compensate: