Lazy spotters thread

[Sh'Eds]

A couple from a local show today.

[Metal Guru]

On 25/06/2024 at 21:30, Aston Martin said:

Still a cat magnet.

Maybe the black and white cat identifies as a panda.

[GeordieInExile]

Lovely Granada!

[Remspoor]

41 minutes ago, GeordieInExile said:

Lovely Granada!

I had to look hard for it. More like Where is Wally?😄

[GeordieInExile]

51 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

I had to look hard for it. More like Where is Wally?😄

He's behind the camera!

[500tops]

[Jazoli]

mint mk1 fiesta parked in town near my mothers house, it’s been parked around the same street for 20 odd years and is still in daily use.

 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Jazoli said:

 

mint mk1 fiesta parked in town near my mothers house, it’s been parked around the same street for 20 odd years and is still in daily use.

How about a daylight pic? 😀

[EyesWeldedShut]

Child bride sends a live sighting Shiteing from someplace near Chester
1996 reg'd Legend

[500tops]

[Tommyboy12]

Spotted this trio in Klis, Croatia yesterday.

 

[Wibble]

4 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Child bride sends a live sighting Shiteing from someplace near Chester
1996 reg'd Legend

That’s exactly the same as the one my dad bought at a year old. Beautiful car.

[500tops]

[captain_cal]

On 27/06/2024 at 21:04, High Jetter said:

I think some round here are even older. Not likely to see any soon, had a letter today saying post suspended, due to Seagulls. WTF?

You got a LETTER to tell you the post was suspended? You would have thought the other letters could have come with it.

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, captain_cal said:

You got a LETTER to tell you the post was suspended? You would have thought the other letters could have come with it.

Yup, made of paper, in an envelope, addressed to 'The Resident'. The only post, that day.

[Wibble]

On 28/06/2024 at 19:33, Remspoor said:

I had to look hard for it. More like Where is Wally?😄

I still can’t see it but I can see a Mk5 Cortina.

[J R Hartley]

If you could only pick one of these automotive titans🤔

 

[HillmanImp]

Panda at Bradford shopping centre. 

Broken down Spitfire in Shipley. 

I'd have stopped, as even I can find my way round one of these but was on my way to ImpJrs birthday party. 

Capri spotted (and photographed) by ImpJr

[D.E]

[Wibble]

5 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Panda at Bradford shopping centre. 

Broken down Spitfire in Shipley. 

I'd have stopped, as even I can find my way round one of these but was on my way to ImpJrs birthday party. 

Capri spotted (and photographed) by ImpJr

Capri Cabaret?

[danthecapriman]

On 27/06/2024 at 19:55, Yoss said:

We've still got two 08 reg ones at our office. Windy windows and tape players for the win. They're completely fucked obviously. 

There’s still an 06 one running around here! It must be absolutely fucked after this long. I wonder why they’ve still got it?!

[HillmanImp]

35 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Capri Cabaret?

Calypso according to the reg checker and this photo. 

[Wibble]

1 minute ago, HillmanImp said:

Calypso according to the reg checker and this photo. 

Ah, that would have been my second choice, thanks.

[Yoss]

21 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

There’s still an 06 one running around here! It must be absolutely fucked after this long. I wonder why they’ve still got it?!

When I started, 34 years ago, we only kept vans for three years. Then they stretched it to five years. I remember grudgingly losing my Y reg LDV Pilot (Y833 TDA) to a new Transit (LC55 GOX) so that might have been just about six years old. At this point the vans were still shiny red. It was quite common to see ex postie vans having a second life. But not any more. 

The majority of vans at our place are 11 or 12 reg Pug Partners that came in when we got rid of bikes and started van sharing and I honestly don't think there are any plans to replace them. They are taking sweating the assets to new levels. But sweating the assets is one thing but they are now an embarrassment to the brand but our management have no pride any more. 

I came off driving about three years ago, I'm back on foot with a trolley now and very glad I did, it's so much less hassle. Mind you my trolley is pogweaseled pink too. 

 

[danthecapriman]

29 minutes ago, Yoss said:

When I started, 34 years ago, we only kept vans for three years. Then they stretched it to five years. I remember grudgingly losing my Y reg LDV Pilot (Y833 TDA) to a new Transit (LC55 GOX) so that might have been just about six years old. At this point the vans were still shiny red. It was quite common to see ex postie vans having a second life. But not any more. 

The majority of vans at our place are 11 or 12 reg Pug Partners that came in when we got rid of bikes and started van sharing and I honestly don't think there are any plans to replace them. They are taking sweating the assets to new levels. But sweating the assets is one thing but they are now an embarrassment to the brand but our management have no pride any more. 

I came off driving about three years ago, I'm back on foot with a trolley now and very glad I did, it's so much less hassle. Mind you my trolley is pogweaseled pink too. 

 

It’s funny you say that, I was chatting to our postie the other day and her vans a 64 plate Peugeot or something and it’s absolutely awful condition. I was down the road when I first waved and said hi, then as I walked in the driveway she stopped outside to deliver next door and I jokingly said ‘you could have given me a lift home!’ She laughed and said ‘you don’t want to go in that death trap!’ Apparently it’s falling apart and they won’t do anything to fix it or replace it.

I see loads of them around here though, filthy and covered in dents and scratches and it makes the company look really bad! Branded vehicles are a big advertising bill board for their company and when they look so bad so does the company. If they don’t care about what you can see like that imagine how bad things are you can’t see!

When I worked for SSE I looked after my Sprinter’s and Transit’s. Not many other people did but it was a reflection on me so I took care of them and kept them clean, but the company would go ballistic if they found out you’d damaged a vehicle or weren’t keeping them clean. They replaced big vans at 10 years old originally but their value on resale was low by then, so the newer big vans (about 2010 onwards) were replaced at 5 years old instead so the resale value was higher.

[IronStar]

 

Same place, few days before

 

 

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, IronStar said:

 

 

Love the yellow Punto reflected in the window. 

[N19]

11 hours ago, Yoss said:

I remember grudgingly losing my Y reg LDV Pilot (Y833 TDA) to a new Transit (LC55 GOX) so that might have been just about six years old.

 

Oddly, I remember that someone round the corner from me owned LC55GOU - an ex Royal Mail red transit a couple further down the sequence. Builders van, ended up utterly knackered.

[Yoss]

13 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

It’s funny you say that, I was chatting to our postie the other day and her vans a 64 plate Peugeot or something and it’s absolutely awful condition. I was down the road when I first waved and said hi, then as I walked in the driveway she stopped outside to deliver next door and I jokingly said ‘you could have given me a lift home!’ She laughed and said ‘you don’t want to go in that death trap!’ Apparently it’s falling apart and they won’t do anything to fix it or replace it.

I see loads of them around here though, filthy and covered in dents and scratches and it makes the company look really bad! Branded vehicles are a big advertising bill board for their company and when they look so bad so does the company. If they don’t care about what you can see like that imagine how bad things are you can’t see!

When I worked for SSE I looked after my Sprinter’s and Transit’s. Not many other people did but it was a reflection on me so I took care of them and kept them clean, but the company would go ballistic if they found out you’d damaged a vehicle or weren’t keeping them clean. They replaced big vans at 10 years old originally but their value on resale was low by then, so the newer big vans (about 2010 onwards) were replaced at 5 years old instead so the resale value was higher.

So in the old days when they replaced the vans every three to five years they only bought a few new vans each year. I mean it was still a lot by most people's standards but not in the great scheme of things and it would be factored  in to the budget. But now the whole fleet need replacing at the same time and there's neither the will nor the budget to do that. 

We had one of the side sliding doors on one of our Pugs fall off completely. Fortunately for the company it fell off in the yard. They managed to lift it back in to the hole then locked it and covered the join in black and yellow hazard tape with a bit more round the handle for good measure. This was considered an adequate repair. 

Then there's the DPFs. Modern diesels are completely unsuitable for what we do. My last delivery was a mile and a half from the office and I only did six miles in about four hours. Most of it I would only move the van a couple of hundred yards every twenty minutes or so so it never warmed up at all.

When we first started doing this after we replaced the bikes they said if the DPF warning came up take it for a twenty mile blast up the motorway. But how are we supposed to fit that in to our duty especially as the nearest motorway is ten to fifteen minutes away. So we don't do it. You report it and are told to drive it until it breaks. Eventually they go in to limp mode which is actually no real problem when you're only doing six miles in four hours. 

I should add that we were recently(ish) told not to slag the company off on social media and this is the nearest I come to social media so I'd just like to add that none of the above ever happened, its just a figment of my deranged imagination. Great bunch of lads etc... 

[Yoss]

2 hours ago, N19 said:

Oddly, I remember that someone round the corner from me owned LC55GOU - an ex Royal Mail red transit a couple further down the sequence. Builders van, ended up utterly knackered.

That is very close but that one was never at our office. The vans were registered centrally and spread around the country seemingly at random. We only ever got two or three new vans at a time. Now we don't get any of course.