Lazy spotters thread

[Joey spud]

Tiny car in Swanley.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

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Tiny car in Swanley.

 

Absolutely loved Swanley park as a kid.  Is the miniature railway still there?

 

Love to have a go in a 126, too.  Although I doubt I'd fit...

[Joey spud]

I think so it was there a couple of years back.

 

Three large peeps got out of it.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I think so it was there a couple of years back.

 

Three large peeps got out of it.

Amazing.

 

I used to work in Swanley.  Two days a week.  What a place...!

[Joey spud]

LT luton also in Swanley.

[Joey spud]

Swanley is a bit grim.

 

I went out to a nearly new Sprinter at a house there once with a loss of power and noisey exhaust only to find someone had carefully cut its DPF off in broad day light.

[egg]

The park is the best thing about Swanley IMHO.

 

Anyway, two extremes from me.

 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

It is the best thing about Swanley, you're quite right.

[catsinthewelder]

I've posted the HiJet before but couldn't resist another pic

 

[HillmanImp]

Visited my old house that I used to live at in 2004 today. Still living the shite dream I see.

 

[brandersnatch]

 

Notting Hill.

 

 

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Tesco car park, Folkestone.  Caught the driver's eye, who waved at me and then got out as I was putting the shopping in my car.

 

 

Was a lovely young lady, painter/decorator (I think) who gave me a full run-down on the car.  Turns out her partner has a Mk1 Cabriolet.  She bought it for £450 last May from a retired chap, who was the second owner.  44,000ish on the clock and absolutely bone stock.  She's worked on the sills and a few bits and put in a 90s Mk3 1.3 engine but other than that it's factory.  A particularly attractive shade of Autoshite Beige.  In fact, it's a very close match on my screen...

 

Particularly amusingly, she told me that she'd driven it to Wales at one point with all her mates in newer (PCP-style) moderns, 4x4s, BMW 1 Series, etc. and her car was one of only a couple that hadn't had any faults the whole way.

 

Really nice spot, lovely owner.  Made a shit afternoon really quite pleasant in the end.

[AlabamaShrimp]

But it's got a new engine, so technically it is a modern...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

But it's got a new engine, so technically it is a modern...

 

90s engine.  Not a modern in my view!  She's still got the 1L somewhere I think but was doing motorway miles in it...

[AlabamaShrimp]

90s engine. Not a modern in my view! She's still got the 1L somewhere I think but was doing motorway miles in it...

90s is definitely modern but each to their own and all that.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

90s is definitely modern but each to their own and all that.

 

It's the 'cars that I remember growing up thing', methinks.

 

In another twist of fate, I'd never heard of WiLL before this week (see my post a few days ago) and here I go, in Whitstable, parking up next to a different model this evening.  Huzzah!

 

 

[MorrisItalSLX]

I stumbled upon this totally mint Holden VK Commodore today:

 

 

The picture doesn't do it justice, it was immaculate. Calling it showroom fresh would be an insult.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I stumbled upon this totally mint Holden VK Commodore today:

The picture doesn't do it justice, it was immaculate. Calling it showroom fresh would be an insult.

Ooh, there's a Series 1b RX-7 hiding in the background.....

[MorrisItalSLX]

Ooh, there's a Series 1b RX-7 hiding in the background.....

 

That has been sitting there for years, I beleive it has featured in this thread before (or maybe the abandoned car thread?)

[The Moog]

Beautiful SD1 on motorway

[ChinaTom]

 

Not much chod around here but this is a close as it gets. Quite a trek from New Jersey down here to the Florida Keys! Felt like a lifetime at 55 just from Miami. Back to Canada next week where I plan to snap the Volvo 780 for sale on Barton street.

 

 

 

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[ChinaTom]

Neighbors car in Hamilton, Ontario. I quite like the purity of this actually

 

 

Belongs to the guy supplying my steelwork for this project. Rich as fuck, but smokes around in this anyway. That may have influenced me giving him the order.

 

 

This reside outside Methadone Towers in North End. I am not slowing down on this street for anything. Zombie apocalypse. Decent cars though

 

 

Even modern cars go for the shite look here

 

 

My ride for the previous few weeks. All vauxhalls are etc etc. be thankful we don’t get the Equinox in UK folks

 

Volvo 780 on its way, promise

 

 

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[Asimo]

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Notting Hill.

 

 

One’s too many, ten’s not enough!

 

Papped that Caravelle in Hyde Park last year(#2591), I see it still has the baby seat fitted!

[Asimo]

Back to Canada next week where I plan to snap   purchase the Volvo 780 for sale on Barton street.

 

 

FTFY

[cros]

There an exhaust pipe poking out of the front of this CA so presumably its 'fridge isn't driven from the main engine anymore.

In my 99-buying days this would have most likely been a small Perkins and the van would have been surrounded by a dieselly haze. Modern Ice-cream just doesn't taste right without it.

[mercrocker]

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. Modern Ice-cream just doesn't taste right without it.

 

Absoutely agree, I am always banging on about this!

[Asimo]

Makes a change from (British Racing) green. Shame the drivers-side window is up. (symetry etc.)

 

 

Coventry's Corvette.

 

About 50 metres away was a gold CX that I've posted here before and I must have seen a £millions worth of Mk1 Escorts en route. Drive it day+ sunshine?

[cros]

I know two people who have had SP's and was talking to them about the cars this week. One says they're horrible, the other likes them and still has one. Both agree the steering is awful but the second bloke did an early rack and pinion conversion.

I could forgive the fishy looks for that Turner V8, but its never going to happen as prices are silly.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Couple of spots from the weekend, the mustang is a regular sight around Carrickfergus

 

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[morrisoxide]

Shite must be going down if you need the A team & Del boy

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