Lazy spotters thread

[Yoss]

Alfa with fancy colour changing paint, I'm sure they have a proper name for it. In the company of a slightly less fancy Mondeo.

 

 

And this is a W reg 75 with a badly painted facelift front bumper.

[Yoss]

Pair of Rovers in a very Rovery setting.

 

 

Sherpa. Kebabs. Alresford. Three pubs within sight of this. How many boxes does this tick?

[brandersnatch]

I've seen that 505 a few times over the years, usually parked near Smith Square or near Westminster School behind the Abbey. Probably belongs to a multi-millionaire that uses it to cart his priceless Purdeys to Gloucestershire at weekends.

Perfectly correct. Smith Sq. No Purdeys visible

 

 

One's too many, ten's not enough!

[artdjones]

 

Seen in Dunmanway yesterday.Still in regular use.

[500tops]

Not updated this for a while; so here's a selection of the shite I have seen from the last few weeks...

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Alfa with fancy colour changing paint, I'm sure they have a proper name for it.

 

 

ChromaFlair if it's deliberate. Metamerism is the Shiteist's equivalent...

[AMC Rebel]

I was walking to the Station not from Thiefrow and noticed that they seem to have taken to using chod as advertising boards down here

 

[AMC Rebel]

Chod en France

 

[Squirrel2]

Spotted parked outside a one-man band vehicle workshop in a Tenby street recently that is known to be 'sympathetic' to shite like this. Probably needed work to get it through the MoT.

[Yoss]

Clio looks a little sorry for itself.

 

But the Transit is a local legend. It belongs to a chap who lives two doors down from my mum. He's a roofer and I think he's about 88! I say this because I know he was 76 when he did the roof on our old house about twelve years ago. I don't know if he is still working but it moves around this car park occasionally.

It's been painted in red oxide, which is porous, for at least 15 years. I wonder if he tops up the red oxide as required, like the Forth Bridge, as it's hard to believe it hasn't just dissolved.

[Yoss]

A couple of abandoned Minis and an R8 that's been left out with the bins.

 

A couple more of Longbridges finest separated by about 50 years (I'm sure someone (mercrocker?) can tell me exactly how long. I assume its A40 or A50 but not entirely sure. Like what's the difference between a Devon and a Somerset?

 

 

And finally a couple of classic 90s chod

[adw1977]

^ Austin A40 Somerset

[brandersnatch]

 

Always rich pickings in Muswell Hill

 

 

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[Angry Sheep]

I spotted a Citrine Yellow Mondeo the other day, but I was with cool* people and didn't want to be seen taking a picture.

 

Anyway, I woke up at 5.45am this morning, hours before I needed to, and decided I'd go on a bike ride to get a picture of said Citrine Yellow Mondeo. Here you go.

 

 

Cycling away, content that I'd got the picture I wanted without being chased away from someone's drive for taking a picture of their Mondeo before 7am on a Wednesday morning, I caught sight of another Mk1 Mondeo.

 

 

I then realised I knew of another two Mk1 Mondeos that were sorta on my way home, so this happened.

 

 

 

The green one almost looks tidy, but the white K-plater has this gem of an MOT advisory:

 

nsf floor corroded thru/also at centre tunnel both sides 

 

I think early morning bike rides through the council estates of North Herts are the future.

[Yoss]

^^ This is not Lazy Spotting! You put far too much effort in to that. Well done anyway.

[Asimo]

^^^ 500Tops:    

 

Loving the VW 1500 modified for trialling. I guess it has a Transporter's portal axles for the ground clearance and gearing. All the years I had VWs I wanted to do that.

[RobT]

Shame about the Fiat, but LDV content sort of makes up for it.

 

[Yoss]

They've dragged it to the local Baptist chapel too. Are they... I was gonna say do a mass for the Fiat, but I think mass might be Catholic. All I know of religion comes from Father Ted. I don't even know if Baptist is Catholic or C of E, but you get the idea

[Ghosty]

Stopped at the supermarket for a birthday card for my mum the other day and these two were in the car park:

 

 

Well sorted Mini Thirty.

 

 

and a pretty nice MR2.

 

The hand car wash in the background is 'temporarily closed'. 

Something to do with immigration enforcement apparently

 

Then today I clocked this local car, never managed to before as I'm usually driving when I see it. 

'89 Buick Regal:

 

 

It's some old boy's, the guy driving it was a stereotypical Yank car giffer, puffer jacket and tan military style cap.

The American brake light indicators still work on it - you can see where someone's cut holes in the middle of the lenses and screwed orange bits in to pass an MOT!

[Cheggers]

H vans are for wimps

 

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[DVee8]

[mercrocker]

A couple of abandoned Minis and an R8 that's been left out with the bins.

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A couple more of Longbridges finest separated by about 50 years (I'm sure someone (mercrocker?) can tell me exactly how long. I assume its A40 or A50 but not entirely sure. Like what's the difference between a Devon and a Somerset?

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And finally a couple of classic 90s chod

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I know that Somerset.....This version of A40 ran from 1952-54 replacing the earlier Devon - I won't pollute the spotting thread with an off-topic pic but the cars are quite different in appearance.   The Somerset had a bigger brother, A70 Hereford which is visually almost identical.   A50 designation started with the Cambridge which replaced the Somerset in 1954. 

[Tam]

Tesco Escort

 

 

[500tops]

This week in shite

[Ghosty]

Mehari!

 

Here's a few recent-ish ones from my phone, not sure if I've posted them already, probably not.

 

This old Van Hool was on rail replacement work: 

 

 

I think this was in Winchester, was passing through to go to a wedding.

 

 

 

This E28 is local, and very shonky (look at the MOT history, it's dreadful). Been meaning to get a picture for a loooooong time. It's a 525e Lux under the bodykit, owned by an unpleasant looking couple.

 

Fairway! It's odd to see one of these now the only ones left are in private use.

 

This looks like a shot from Life on Mars. It's not - it's a Viva and Magnum in the corner of a caravan storage yard. These are only really visible from the train line behind the place, though there's a road down the embankment behind them. The opposite corner of the yard used to have an equally mossy Manta B in it but that's been gone for a while.

 

This early Montego in AS racing colours (the coachline is orange over brown) was by a mate's house. Super clean except the lack of wheeltrims. There's a high-ish profile Morris Minor specialist garage a few yards away that might be relevant. Means there's always Moggies floating about too.

 

Early Impreza in not silver.

[spartacus]

A few spots from the last few days, most of these are from Cornwall, so it's a major surprise that the Lancia is among them!

I spotted the Ka on the way home, you may have to zoom in to see the magnificently barried exhaust.

 

 

This was a Cornwall car and again seemed remarkably rust free.

 

 

 

 

 

This last one I saw in Chesterfield, it's a Polo saloon, very odd.

 

[Ghosty]

Some good ones today. 

 

First a local car at the supermarket, super clean giffer owned, always garaged Scorpio Ultima 2.3.

 

 

Also in the car park was an Isuzu VehiCross

 

 

Saving the best for last though:

 

 

Pinzgauer!

[Asimo]

 

 

[adw1977]

Hustler.

Six wheeled kit car based on a Mini.  An obvious choice!

 

[adw1977]

Beige!