Lazy spotters thread

[adw1977]

Spotted today just outside Euston Station

 

 

I've seen that Sylvia before in North London. It's a one owner car.

 

https://flic.kr/p/24ZhTKG

[Floatylight]

I've seen that Sylvia before in North London. It's a one owner car.

 

https://flic.kr/p/24ZhTKG

Makes sense, my pic was taken by Euston Station

 

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[Aston Martin]

I'm aware this is the worst photo ever taken, it might be on my dashcam. This is off my sat Nav/phone.

 

It was shagged.

[artdjones]

 

Just seen pumping up the tyres in Dunmanway.Both towcar and trailer load of interest.As the towcar is UK reg I suppose that's where the Riley is going.A shame ,as the number plate is very distinctive, LZA1.A Dublin City reg.

[Zelandeth]

Last year I forgot, so this year I couldn't go through the weekend without snapping a photo of our (in)famous scruffy LDV that somehow manages to transport the vast bulk of our event from one end of the country to the other.

 

It at least used to have the horn from Hell fitted, originally from a US railway locomotive...

 

 

No idea what they've done to the power plant, but the thing was pulling away from us last year when we were going as quickly as we were comfortable with.

 

Also bonus Volvo, because I like Volvos.

 

 

Didn't see anything else immediately worthy of note on my first nosey around the hotel car park.

[PhilA]

 

I think it used to be a Ford E-series truck.

 

Phil

[Aston Martin]

I didn't realise you could drive through the Humber.

[mercrocker]

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I think it used to be a Ford E-series truck.

 

Phil

Depends on the year....

 

  

[PhilA]

Good catch. 2004, it had Firebird rear lights.

 

The back end reminded me, in ratio proportions of a 1970 Plymouth GTX.

[STUNO]

A really lazyish spot, but a really rare one. Who would have bothered to import a really cheap basic Chevvy compact from the 1980's into NZ. Well someone did bother and must be happy, it's Burnt Orange paint looked pristine. It was parked in a driveway not far from home, I should go back today to see if it is still there as no photo.

A Chevrolet Citation. (Wiki photo)

 

 

EDIT....Revisited the location with a camera, empty driveway .

[Zelandeth]

Must be something on somewhere...saw four 2CVs and a Dyanne heading south on the A74M this morning.

 

Sadly no photos as I was driving.

 

Amazing watching the Dyanne, looked like it was floating along hovering over the road without actually touching it.

[mercrocker]

AZAMs on the A74M!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

.....the number plate is very distinctive, LZA1.A Dublin City reg.

 

Seeing as it's number "1", would that plate have been issued to a city council car?

[artdjones]

Seeing as it's number "1", would that plate have been issued to a city council car?

It would be likely,but I can't see the council buying a Riley 4/72.Maybe a council manager's private car?

[Meter rat]

The Citroen’s on the M74 were probably coming back from the Citroen Car Club, concrete camp at Stirling.

[DVee8]

 

 

 

[cros]

[cros]

 

Don't see many Vitara vans, but I'm not so taken with them that I'd swim across the Medway in November to get a better picture.

[Lacquer Peel]

Some of those Vitara vans are fitted with XUDs from the Santana factory.

[Datsuncog]

Another CityRover, seen on Saturday past - and the first one I've seen in quite a while too. Strange that so many have come out of the woodwork all of a sudden!

 

 

A 'Style' version, no less. I have no idea what this trim level was meant to convey, but the doormirrors weren't colour-coded (one of the supposed upgrades that I believe the CityRover gained over its Tata brethren) so I'm guessing it ain't overly fancy...

 

 

Plenty of giffer dings and what have you, plus the fuel flap cocked at rather a jaunty angle.

 

 

How long will this remain on the roads? Place your bets, kids... and can anyone advise on just how awful or otherwise they are?

 

 

Also - an Italian-plated Panda that's quite far from home, battling through central Belfast traffic this morning.

 

[artdjones]

Another CityRover, seen on Saturday past - and the first one I've seen in quite a while too. Strange that so many have come out of the woodwork all of a sudden!

 

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A 'Style' version, no less. I have no idea what this trim level was meant to convey, but the doormirrors weren't colour-coded (one of the supposed upgrades that I believe the CityRover gained over its Tata brethren) so I'm guessing it ain't overly fancy...

 

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Plenty of giffer dings and what have you, plus the fuel flap cocked at rather a jaunty angle.

 

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How long will this remain on the roads? Place your bets, kids... and can anyone advise on just how awful or otherwise they are?

 

 

Also - an Italian-plated Panda that's quite far from home, battling through central Belfast traffic this morning.

 

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The Panda is from Caserta,next province North of Naples,a good long drive in a Panda, although my brother took one to Budapest in 1991.

[Zelandeth]

Some things to my mind should be sacred. Rollers are one such thing.

 

 

Can't help but feel that poor car's days are numbered.

[mercrocker]

Shame that, it's a nice early one too.   Number plate says it all - BWA.

[Datsuncog]

That poor Shadow does appear to be something of a travesty... although I've encountered enough utterly dire, wob-laden ex-wedding cars to appreciate that a shiny Rolls-Royce does not necessarily equal a good Rolls-Royce.

My cousin's wedding car was clean and polished on one side (the nearside, the photo side) but rust-streaked and going into holes on the offside... I'd be vaguely interested in having a quick poke around the sills and arches on the above yoke - even if it does seem somewhat vulgar to disguise such a grand old lady as a Dodge Charger.

[mercrocker]

even if it does seem somewhat vulgar to disguise such a grand old lady as a Dodge Charger.

 

That's partly my beef with it - if you are going to rally a Shad at least make it look like the 1968 London-Sydney car!

[jumpingjehovahs]

 

You’ll be as pleased as I am to know it passed!

 

 

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[NigeT]

A Tofas Dogan, spotted a couple of weeks ago in Turkey, they're everywhere there. Believe they're a local rip-off of the Fiat 131. Apologies for sideways picture, just refuses to upload the right way. 

[MorrisItalSLX]

100% Giffer Honda Civic

 

[bramz7]

A Tofas Dogan, spotted a couple of weeks ago in Turkey, they're everywhere there. Believe they're a local rip-off of the Fiat 131. Apologies for sideways picture, just refuses to upload the right way.

Not quite rip off, more development as Fiat were directly involved. In fact, these replaced rebadged 131s.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Not quite rip off, more development as Fiat were directly involved. In fact, these replaced rebadged 131s.

More of a Regata.

 

I think the Tofas production line may have featured in the Michael Keaton film "Gung Ho".... It certainly had a factory full of what looked like Fiat Regatas.

 

 

EFA: apparently the production line was in Argentina, not Turkey. I was way off.