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Few more, from 2016.

1. 406 Coupe in the best colour. Berkeley Square

2. FX4s have all but disappeared from the streets. This is now used as storage.

3. Unbelievably clean, I wonder what the story behind this one is.

4. In East Sussex...

5. ...as is this, a genuine barn find

6. G

7. B reg - seems quite early for one of these

8. Polish import

9. Nutters driving around in this in Fulham

10. Saab. Still a few being driven round by old money types.

11. Brixton.

12. Same. Clearly one of life's winners.

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The owner of the black SD1 is a frequent member on the SD1 forum, his owned it a very long time!  Those are not US lights but some after market conversion, not my cuppa tea but there is certainly nothing US spec about the car (VDP EFi) its been spotted a few times, he lives just south of the river.

 

LOVE that white MK4 Cortina, flipping class spot that !

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White Cortina is brilliant. I also love the yellow W123 Merc, presumably the same as the one you snapped a couple of years back, although the MoT tester has had a word about the front plate since then....

 

Also love the black Mk1 Jaguar from a few posts ago, a very rare beast, iirc less than 50 roadworthy ones in the U.K.

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A few more from the last 12 months:

 

1. South Ken, Herald

2. Crumbling manor house in Herefordshire full of tat, largely 90s Mercs but also this

3. The famous Fulham Volvo which now sadly has gone

4. Very early Granada in Belgravia

5. Niceish Cortina

6. Really nice Saab 900 on a Chiswick street full of great cars

7. Same street

8. Fulham Mini with a marvellously crinkly grille

9. I have a feeling this Rover P5 was giffer owned

10. Tasteful Belgian Merc complete with parking ticket. 

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And a few more...

 

 

1. Nice old Bristol

2. Ratty 6-series

3. Jag must have been in this Blackheath garden for years

4, 5. This Hillman is occasionally chugging around Chelsea.

6, 7. Immaculate Mini in the West End.

8. Astravan behind Buck House

9. Where did these all go? Fulham Broadway.

10. Another piece of street furniture that seems to have gone overnight.

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Yes - I think the owner used to be a racing driver. I briefly lived a few doors down from it. Sadly EN888 has both tax and MoT expired...

A few more - including a brief interlude in rural France. The Mk1 Twingo was the hire car!

The white Cortina remains one of my favourite London cars - straight out of 1992.

Subaru was the only remotely interesting seen in Israel.

The guys with Rovers is in Birkenhead - clearly a man of taste and discernment.

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Jesus Rollerskating Christ, an Iso Lele.

And a Chrysler K car custom-stretched to be the size of... a regular Chrysler sedan.

And I haven’t seen a Gamma in the wild since — well, since we loaded mine on to a Green Flag tail lift in Regent’s Park, but that’s cheating.

And... and... 

Top drawer spotting indeed.

 

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That Cortina has had the same owner since 1981. Amazing how it is now MOT exempt, not that it does much mileage year on year. It's the only car I have seen where the pinstripe down the side fades in and out due to filler and paint being slapped over it. 

 

Also, the owner has swapped the front and rear wheels around since 2012. 

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The Cortina owner is clearly a hero of our time - I imagine a sort of Mr Trebus character...

A few more London sights. The blue Mini is absolutely hanging and I think lives in Chelsea driven by an old girl. Plus another French trip and a Savile tastic Y-reg. 

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The weird thing about the Cortina is that there isn't a house nearby which looks like the owners. You know, rotten window frames and a time bleached front door? Everything is tidy. 

 

I do like that manky LT. I've got a real affinity for older vans in use and that is superb. 

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