Lazy spotters thread

[Mr Livered]

Yes why not? I'm near the A30 between Exeter and Okehampton, in a village with a decent pub. If anyone fancies a west country meet I'd be delighted either to host one or go to one somewhere else.

[Richard]

I spotted what might be another "Field of Dreams" on Google Earth and went looking for it yesterday. Unfortunately the approach route I chose turned out not to be a goer, but I did find this at the side of the track.

 

[richardmorris]

I remember going to the Renault dealer in 1989 with my Dad to enter a competition to win a R5 Monaco- I was 17 but despite several hints they weren't keen on loaning one out for a test drive!

[HMC]

Oooo that R5 is lovely. Since acquiring one recently I've been noticing them more, as you do, and developing a taste for them. Mine is a Campus and I reckon the more upmarket ones must be fantastic.Edit: hmm that place looks familiar, are you a Paignton man?

That's taken in Tavistock actually with my fave Indian takeaway behind.

 

Yes why not? I'm near the A30 between Exeter and Okehampton, in a village with a decent pub. If anyone fancies a west country meet I'd be delighted either to host one or go to one somewhere else.

Yeah, I'd be interested in some kind of meet, I liked reading about the scotoshite meets, we could do something similar.

 

One issue is we simply don't have enough volvos between us!

[Mr Livered]

Oh right, it was the Indian that I noticed, maybe there's one with the same name in Paignton or something. It was recommended to me, anyway.

[phil_lihp]

That's taken in Tavistock actually with my fave Indian takeaway behind.

 

Yeah, I'd be interested in some kind of meet, I liked reading about the scotoshite meets, we could do something similar.

 

One issue is we simply don't have enough volvos between us!

 

I've started up a seperate thread to continue this, definitely would be something to look forward to.

[anonymous user]

In keeping with the title these are very lazy spots, so sorry if you cannot see what they are as I didn't manage to get rid of the reflections from the window. These are in the closed down Vauxhall dealer in Haverfordwest.

[dangerousdave]

I think if I remember correctly tracey in birds of a feather had a Nissan sunny coupe

[catsinthewelder]

Did the family day out thing yesterday to some old pile near Shrewsbury and found this in the carpark.

 

 

A trip to the RAF museum the other week found these

 

 

[trigger]

A few from today, a mate runs a garage locally and still has these for sale.

 

 

 

 

The Montegos is very tidy but one arch has started bubble and it apparently splatters a bit on start up due to some common problem with the carb (it's a auto choke and fuel injection model).

 

 

 

 

The Viceroy is stunning, He's dropping the price to £2200 soon.

 

 

 

 

This A55 is a Ipswich car from new, only 1 owner too and 38000 miles, He's just had it resprayed and will be selling this for £5995, I'm not sure if that dear or not as it's mint and he's fitted a lot of new parts to it too.

[HMC]

Same stretch of road, same Indian, different old crock....

 

 

Actually apart from being a bit saggy at the back end (prolly just full) it was quite a tidy old thing

 

 

Edit to add embarrasment factor: just realised the owner was sat in the car!!!

[UmBongo]

Viceroy...they don't name 'em like that anymore.

[Ghosty]

Oddities from this month:

 

 

Weirdest parking restriction I've ever seen. Think it's probably to do with a bin truck round or something.

 

This doesn't look right to me.

DVLA says it was registered and built in 2001, but it's silver, and the tax is running out.

 

This Clio had two Maestro trims on the back wheels and none on the front for some reason.

[HMC]

Whilst queueing for the channel tunnel earlier in the year, noticed these amongst the usual fodder.....

 

 

 

 

Diplomatic rover 800. 820ti- not a spec that was uk avaliable i think?

 

The idea of a silver templed diplomat wafting across to Brussels is straight out of the Rover Group ad mans dream.

 

 

Come to think of it...

 

 

 

Id barely put down the camera when i was ushered behind an early Lexus

 

[Jim Bergerac]

820ti would be a 820 Vitesse here, I think.

[HMC]

Partly stripped, pog pink Mitsubishi gradually sinking up to its axles down a country lane near dartmoor..

 

 

Sort the pic in a sec

[HillmanImp]

Some boxing day sales shots:

 

 

OMGETC

 

And lurking behind the Polo:

 

[Craig the Princess]

Wisbech, 31/12/2013. I finally have a decent phone camera so I can spaz spottings.

 

 

 

F-Reg Micra owned by a banger racer who came over and chatted to me about the Metro as he is racing one in the new year.

 

 

[HMC]

This c15 camper conversion in pub livery was filling up in the OMG new year fuel queues earlier....

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

 

Check this out, i saw it today in Ormskirk Morrisons car park, its a 'silver dawn' which is seemingly some sort of LWB special with a little rear window for improved privacy if you're some kind of Saudi Arabian royal family member or whatever. Anyway ig had had a lousy 2-tone respray and its rear arches were merrily fizzing up as the owner stocked up on Prosecco and Twix's for their NYE festivities.

[trigger]

 

One for Billy, this has been sat outside my mates house for years, he thinks it belongs to his elderly neighbours son who a police man, it looks in pretty good shape considering.

[Skizzer]

 

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The Viceroy is stunning, He's dropping the price to £2200 soon.

 

 

Holy crap, that Viceroy is TEH TITS.  If I hadn't just used up all my brownie points on an SD1 I'd be massively tempted to roll in that for a while.

[brickwall]

Silver Dawn had traction control on all wheels, I think.

[Craig the Princess]

All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't stop taking the piss from the horse that arrived in this, toffy nosed pricks.

 

VW Bettle in Autoshite Racing Beige, NOT RATLUK, PINEAPPLE, BANDED, ARSEWIPE, COCONUT, ROOFRACK

[500tops]

NYE and this Riva went past me like I was going backwards - spotted it North bound on the M5 around Cheltenham. I gave chase but the pilot was clearly braver than me and I backed off at 85!

[500tops]

NYE again, M5 around Bridgwater services:

[fordperv]

a few supermarket spots

 

2 for the price of 1 piggy back shite

 

spoke to the owner its done 400k, still lovely inside, he is the 1st owner and wouldnt sell me this brown beauty 

 

 

 

i like this 

 

 

[Semi-C]

 I'd consider myself a lazy spotter, here's my case; Aboard my 1994 Transit earlier this evening, I happened across an H reg Proton performing "Safety Car duties" on the A14. Rather than risk a (futile) +50 mph overtake, I assumed the position in it's wake. Imagine my surprise when a J registered Saab 900 intersected our convoy, creating a-holey trinity, the like seldom seen by any.

 I would've captured this spectacle photographically for all to nourish themselves upon but, cursed with a camera whose picture quality makes bark rubbings seem Hi-Def, I didn't even try.

 

 Sorry.

[Jim Bergerac]

Was attracted to this by how the owner had left the rear fog light on:

[trigger]

400k Sierra is amazing!