Lazy spotters thread

[Morris 63]

Tidy looking MR 2 in Gosforth today.

[Yoss]

On 26/06/2025 at 09:35, Andrew353w said:

Out and about in Barnet yesterday found me having a look at these two:

Clearly well loved, the camper van's in good nick:

I suspect the Corsa's not moved for some time, evidenced by the lines of grit around the tyres and the dirt under the car:

Why does any red paintwork always fade....?

All red paint fades but Vauxhall red paint fades more. All the Vauxhalls at our office (Combos and Vivaros) are much more pogweaseled than the Peugeots of a similar age. 

All Vauxhall Paint Is Shit etc... 

[TheIsleofShite]

A JDM oddity 

[500tops]

[urpert]

Bizarrely I saw two of these today:

 

[WillCarter]

This has just appeared in the street next to mine. No MOT on record and untaxed in 19 years.

I've left a note offering him off road parking. It's the least he deserves for such heroics behaviour.

[Morris 63]

Bimbling around the lake district again, spotted this Vauxhall Monterey (Isuzu Bighorn?) in Eskdale, and chatted to the nice lady with the tidy Mk2 Shogun that she's had since new.

She says it's on around 100,000 miles, and she has a friend repair the front bumper every so often as she keeps catching it on their narrow driveway stone gatepost!

[TheIsleofShite]

[Remspoor]

Those lights, have to be thrown away

[Wibble]

4 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Those lights, have to be thrown away

And the black plates.

[Split_Pin]

Definitely not so many of these around my hotel now.

This is the Tofas Dogan which means 'Eagle' and is the higher range model. The Sahin ('Hawk') is the next model down. I've not seen any Toros here either, after seeing lots on the drive from the airport. There is also a Tipo but it will be the same one I snapped 2 years ago.

[S2000]

306 Cabriolet and Early Disco while having Dinner sitting by a waterway in Utrecht.

[urpert]

26 minutes ago, S2000 said:

306 Cabriolet and Early Disco while having Dinner sitting by a waterway in Utrecht.

What a cracking city that is. 

[egg]

[Andrew353w]

Not so much a "lazy spot", more a project with which I've been asked to assist....

For reasons of delicacy the number plate's been covered, but, rest assured, it's a series 1 Land Rover. In an afternoon's tinkering I've discovered a seized block, so there's mountain of work ahead of both me and the owner!

[treehugger]

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

Not so much a "lazy spot", more a project with which I've been asked to assist....

For reasons of delicacy the number plate's been covered, but, rest assured, it's a series 1 Land Rover. In an afternoon's tinkering I've discovered a seized block, so there's mountain of work ahead of both me and the owner!

Got a thread on it yet? Have parts cat if you need any numbers

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

22 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

parts cat

[Dayno]

14 hours ago, treehugger said:

That's one of my old one's, a lovely car, great to see it again 

[Volksy]

14 hours ago, treehugger said:

Was this in/around Kirkstall/Headingley in Leeds?

I'm sure I've seen this pottering about driven by a  youngish Hipster type.

I managed to get a very blurry chase shot back in March as my phonecam was focussing on the dash of the Merc

[loserone]

12 minutes ago, Volksy said:

Leeds

https://maps.app.goo.gl/M86tXPReZamyedeV8

?

[Volksy]

2 minutes ago, loserone said:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/M86tXPReZamyedeV8

?

That would make sense, I spotted it at Kirkstall Lights about 2 miles away from there.

[urpert]

This one of ours?

 

oh look, it’s upside down

[Schaefft]

3 minutes ago, urpert said:

This one of ours?

 

oh look, it’s upside down

Not enough rust!

[Andrew353w]

15 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Got a thread on it yet? Have parts cat if you need any numbers

Thanks for the offer! I'll be in touch if there's anything specific I need. At the moment we're hunting down the starting handle, buried somewhere in a garage full of "stuff", with a view to exerting some "gentle persuasion" on the block, having poured a load of oil down the plugs yesterday. 

PS. Love the "parts cat"!

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

1 hour ago, Andrew353w said:

PS. Love the "parts cat"!

"Parts Cat" would like to point out the the Factory Workshop Manuals and the Factory Parts Books are available to download at various locations on the interwang

Smithies of New Zealand is a particularly good library of LR materials

John Richard Surplus (UK) loads of stuff you can access 

Emberton has links to some Series One Club produced material

Have a read of the Instruction Manual,

a fine example of a real Instruction Manual,

rather than the modern Book of Disclaimers.

[Morris 63]

More Lake District "I'll restore it one day stuff"; grabbed on a drive by.

[Split_Pin]

I took a wander down the end of the road to where I had spotted some prime chod 2 years ago. Only this 9 was there:

There were two more Tofas down a couple of side roads plus a Toros but them I stumbled upon this belter outside 'ASDAA' supermarket.

This is a much older Tofas, a Kartal, probably early 90s, still with the 131 front end. The estate body is unrelated to the Panorama, instead it's a Turkish design. 

Clearly a shop hack, holed sill and absolutely hanging but obviously still very much in use. I love cars like this, hopelessly outdated even when new yet still on the road in 2025 and being useful.

[urpert]

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

"Parts Cat" would like to point out the the Factory Workshop Manuals and the Factory Parts Books are available to download at various locations on the interwang

Smithies of New Zealand is a particularly good library of LR materials

John Richard Surplus (UK) loads of stuff you can access 

Emberton has links to some Series One Club produced material

Have a read of the Instruction Manual,

a fine example of a real Instruction Manual,

rather than the modern Book of Disclaimers.

I'm beginning to wonder why I've kept these for so many decades now...