Lazy spotters thread

[lesapandre]

S. London today

[lesapandre]

Definitely MOT exempt, being pre 1960.

That exemption started in 2012 but the owner could have voluntarily submitted it for a test in 2014.

Or it could be a bitsa with a modern build date? It looks like a Bentley MK6 base - viz the short bonnet. Of course I may be completely wrong.

[lesapandre]

S. London

[Pillock]

Helped this chap move his stricken Zodiac off the road. Crap in the fuel tank or something....

 

Walk back past half an hour later and the AA were just pulling up. Fired straight up!

 

Rover V8, Carlton GSI running gear.

[lesapandre]

Mug of tea - vital tool in any tool kit along with gaffer-tape  cable-ties and a pair of decent molegrips. About all you need sometimes

[lesapandre]

Good strong tea of course

[lesapandre]

More Ford today.. 

[lesapandre]

2000 Mazda Demio...can't say I've seen one before. Neat little 5-door. Seen Sunday

[Joey spud]

Spied yesterday in a secret location near Gravesend (got to be worth a few grand).

May of posted before but in that Gravesend again.

 

Broken clutch cable SE London.

[Pillock]

Mug of tea - vital tool in any tool kit along with gaffer-tape cable-ties and a pair of decent molegrips. About all you need sometimes

A bloke in one of the houses came out with a mug of tea for the poor chap and to chat cars. Obviously the rule of not being able to walk past a car with the bonnet up was in full effect.

 

He recently traded his 350Z in for a Dodge Charger, parked round the corner, so a slightly different league to a home built Zodiac but he was a lovely bloke.

[lesapandre]

I've found recently that having the bonnet up attracts less interested people than in the past - years ago I always got an audience of one or more, helpful or not. Less giffers about who want to stop and chat cars.

[lesapandre]

I tend to be the giffer these days tho. Having a professional jump starter pack makes me the equivalent of the tooth fairy from time to time. One of the most useful get me out of trouble bits of kit I ever bought.

[morrisoxide]

Spotted yesterday. That 1100 was a lovely sight. I can't remember the last time I saw a Corolla estate that old in the wild. 

[lesapandre]

Lee -S. London this morning...saw this...then not often you see one of these casually parked on the street.. 

[lesapandre]

Second Saab in 2 days. Blackheath London

[mitsisigma01]

2000 Mazda Demio...can't say I've seen one before. Neat little 5-door. Seen Sunday

SNAP

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Or it could be a bitsa with a modern build date? It looks like a Bentley MK6 base - viz the short bonnet. Of course I may be completely wrong.

http://www.vintagebentleys.org/carpages/yx210.php

 

No, it's a 4 1/2 litre alright. But it's had a hard life including losing its engine and a dodgy restoration and rebodied.

The last time it was rebuilt was 2015 which could explain the one-off ticket.

[mercrocker]

I reckon most Bentleys of that vintage have a pretty chequered history, particularly in their earlier days.  YU plate series is a good indication of provenance - well, at least as far as the documents go!

[barrett]

I think as a general rule, if a Bentley looks like a VDP Le Mans tourer then it has almost certainly been chopped down from a nice old saloon by a total philistine (Stanley Mann or similar), and it will nine times out of 10 be owned by a total cunt.

 

It probably looked something like this when it was new

[lesapandre]

I'm spoiling you Ambassadors. First someone's electric dream....

[lesapandre]

ADO snob...

[lesapandre]

And this very neat kit...all London SE8 today

[lesapandre]

I think as a general rule, if a Bentley looks like a VDP Le Mans tourer then it has almost certainly been chopped down from a nice old saloon by a total philistine (Stanley Mann or similar), and it will nine times out of 10 be owned by a total cunt.

 

It probably looked something like this when it was new

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This all still goes on today - I saw a 1951 Singer SM 1500 steel bofy 4-door saloon sold to then have its engine removed to probably go in a sports or Le Mans replica worth x10 the value.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Proton Savvy spotted in Folkestone this afternoon.  I see it most days but managed to get a picture today.

 

There's also an A-Reg Triumph Acclaim just a bit up the road, although I haven't seen it for a while...

 

 

[Coprolalia]

Mean streets of Cardiff:

 

Hospital car park - patients edition:

 

Hospital car park - staff:

 

Out and about:

 

[quicksilver]

Crappy curtainsider still earning a crust this morning. Must get a pic of the LDV Cub that lives nearby.

1993 Mercedes-Benz 310D by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

[SierraMikeHotel]

I'm not a dedicated photographer of tat but I did enjoy some of the frog chod I came across on honeymoon in the south of France last September.  This seems like the best place to share it.

 

Not pictured:  Awesome stuff that was still clearly in daily use, like 405s, 309s and Savannahs.  In some territories it would be considered weird to photograph a car while it's being used to take the kids to school.

 

Mehari apparently being used as a shed.  Can you just imagine doing this in our climate?  The contents would have dissolved by now and the car would have done too.

 

Ludicrous hire car that was nearly as big as the hire house.  Plus wife.

Honestly, I hated this thing.  It confirmed all the irrational prejudices that I hold about soft-roaders, crossovers, whatever the hell they're called.

It's as big as a Range Rover on the outside, smaller than a hybrid Audi A3 on the inside, not very economical, and 2WD.  Horribly roly-poly handling over the narrow hairpin mountain roads in the area.  Plus the satnav was from the '90s.  I'd asked for a DS3 and got "upgraded."  Out of all the shite I've owned I reckon I will always hold the Fiat 500X as being one of the worst cars I've ever driven.

 

A picture confirming how terrible the Fiat is.  The ZX has the same amount of interior space, costs less to run and handles better.

 

A clearly abandoned sporting Visa.  Again, imagine this scene in our climate.  You'd be looking at a brown stain on the road and not much more.

 

This was clearly in everyday use.  2CVs should look like they work for a living.  I approve.

 

A BX with absolutely nothing wrong with the suspension, parked outside a hypermarket and clearly in everyday use.  I miss my BX and I'd still be happy to run one as an everyday car.

Also pictured: British tourist.

 

A recently married man reading a porn magazine.

 

The most French motorbike that's ever existed, with baguettes in the panniers.  Missing: string of onions dangling over the handlebars.

 

Very, very exciting Citroen XM. I was very excited.

I remember these being big cars.

 

Lovingly restored Pug 104.  This was show winnah standard, but living up a French mountain.  Lots of enthusiasm here.

[lesapandre]

Whereabouts were you...France can sometimes seem so...well... French...last summer...outside the local papershop...was a Gordini.

[lesapandre]

Or this...Alpine. 

[SierraMikeHotel]

Whereabouts were you...France can sometimes seem so...well... French...last summer...outside the local papershop...was a Gordini.

 

We had a week in Avignon and a week in the Luberon national park.  We stayed in Cabrieres-d'Aigues and most of the photos are from there,

 

Lots of stuff like 405s, Gooners, 309s, 205s, Savannahs, early Espaces etc in Avignon but they were all moving and it is a bit rude to take pics of people going about their daily business.