Lazy spotters thread

8,426 · February 2, 2018

This Mazda van has been knocking around my local area for years, getting increasingly less roadworthy. The driver looks elderly and not entirely on top of things and the rear window recently became an ill-fitting tarpaulin, I finally got to snap it tonight, albeit in a dark, damp Sainsburys carpark. Note the excellent parking skills, top-quality bodywork repairs using most of an entire roll of gaffer tape and the roof, which is barely attached. How this gets through MOTs, I have no idea.

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Its days must be numbered, I doubt it's maintained very well mechanically given the state of the bodywork and the state of the interior doesn't really bear thinking about, Seeing it always brightens my day a little though, so long may it soldier on.

Edit: perhaps unsurprisingly, its last MOT ran out in October, as did the tax. Oopsie.

I've just seen this again, actually on the move leaving the same car park. Seeing the owner walk back to it makes me think he's not entirely on top of things any more, the van looks no better of course but I was surprised to hear that the engine sounded quite healthy, certainly as good as a 200k+ petrol van engine from 1993 has any right to sound. Had I thought about it in time, I realise I should have rushed over to him before he drove off so I could perform a quick on-the-spot shiter's interview to answer some burning questions we'd all like answered, like 'just how draughty is it in there', 'why did you tape a groundsheet over the back window instead of any number of other potential items' and most importantly 'can I have a go in it?'

18,653 · February 4, 2018

There is something very special in the statement made by old Bentleys and Rollers. Will these brands be able to retain exclusivity when there are lots of skanky ones smoking about?

18,653 · February 4, 2018

Old garage pawn....phwooorrrrr

18,653 · February 4, 2018

Nice garage Blackheath London - they fix old cars...

18,653 · February 4, 2018

Somewhere in the distance a new Aston Martin LHD on trade plates. Lewisham S. London.

4,744 · February 4, 2018

Old garage pawn....phwooorrrrr

You know you want to have a look inside...is the house occupied with an old giffer looking at the width of the garage its probably got an Austin 7 or an original Mini Cooper ..... go on give them a knock !

28,322 · February 4, 2018

This was in Tescos near Southall, I'd have loved it if a Citizen Kahn clone was the owner, more likely a hipster.

28,322 · February 4, 2018

Doesn't look as if either of these has moved for years.

4,744 · February 4, 2018

Is that a matching pair of crappy Corvettes ?

28,322 · February 4, 2018

Hopefully this isn't nicked, saw it at 08.00 am on Friday, so probably not going to a show.

18,653 · February 4, 2018

Just off a main road in Lewisham so I expect any content long gone. Yea shows how big cars...and people have got.

You know you want to have a look inside...is the house occupied with an old giffer looking at the width of the garage its probably got an Austin 7 or an original Mini Cooper ..... go on give them a knock !

4,744 · February 4, 2018

Just off a main road in Lewisham so I expect any content long gone. Yea shows how big cars...and people have got.

Was it your goodself that spotted a Sigma estate parked up in South London on a plot a couple or few years ago or do you know who did . I would like to try and find it

with view to saving it whole or parts

18,653 · February 4, 2018

Not me.

18,653 · February 4, 2018

Very few old cars about in London these days - restricted residents parking, zealous councils and clampers have done for most.

18,653 · February 4, 2018

In Zones 1 and 2 at least.

18,653 · February 4, 2018

Suburbs will be better

9,303 · February 4, 2018

Suburbs are indeed better, as lesapandre says. To be honest, you could go anywhere in Zone 3 and above and its still decent, even for 90s dross which seems to be dead elsewhere.

There used to be a few Sigmas local but not seen one for ages.

4,744 · February 4, 2018

Zone 3 , I'm a country boy , wheres zat then !

The original poster of the Sigma was very active and I think he was into bikes and I'm sure he said it was Beckenham or Bromley way but I could be totally wrong and it could be north of the river ....

28,322 · February 5, 2018

Is that a matching pair of crappy Corvettes ?

No, one of 'ems a crappy Camaro.

18,653 · February 5, 2018

This is local - moves occasionally. I see someone has driven into it now tho.

4,744 · February 5, 2018

No, one of 'ems a crappy Camaro.

If you squint or have 6 pints they all look the bloody same !

15,088 · February 5, 2018

I've never seen this 220CE move in the six years I've been working in Ealing. It just sits there day after day. To my surprise, the thing has current MoT and VED - the sum total of its mileage in the last year seems to have been to get to the MoT test centre and back....

2,204 · February 7, 2018

Muswell Hill.

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

18,653 · February 8, 2018

Forest Hill station London - parked on the forecourt. Possibly broken down.

28,322 · February 8, 2018

4,293 · February 8, 2018

Some chod spotted on a recent trip to Portugal.

First, a trio of rammel in varying conditions from Fundao. I noted that smoller Rovers from the last decade of ARG must have sold REALLY well there, as there are plenty still about.