Lazy spotters thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Mk.1 Fiesta spotted by horse:

 

[somewhatfoolish]

Alvis TD21? Summit like that; not over restored. Funny bloke in a Saab 9000 parked behind.

TE or TF; TD was single headlight(which I prefer tbh). I think the E/F had moar powr too.

[3VOM]

Mk.1 Fiesta spotted by horse:

 

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Are you allowed to take pictures with your mobile while driving a horse or is it ok so long as the horse in stationary with the handbrake on?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Are you allowed to take pictures with your mobile while driving a horse or is it ok so long as the horse in stationary with the handbrake on?

Horse was stationary on level ground and in neutral.

 

Also, behind us was a dead end.

[noseypoke]

 

Also, behind us was a dead end.

Safe to drop the soap then!!

[brandersnatch]

Hampstead.

[SierraMikeHotel]

Hampstead.

So many estates of that era were really odd-looking but that's a very handsome beast.

[myglaren]

A genuine, red, 'R'-reg Robin Reliant

 

Haven't seen one actually being driven for years.  Washington Galleries area.

[skoda_fan]

So many estates of that era were really odd-looking but that's a very handsome beast.

It certainly is. I owned a saloon version years ago (inherited from my grandad) and loved it. Yet another in the "cars I've owned and should have kept" category.

[Yoss]

The last few from Zagreb and Senj off my proper camera.

Two of Bertone's finest here. Note the BX two cars up from the Favorit.

 

Zagreb has a brand new, state of the art airport terminal but they obviously ran out of money at the end as they're still using these to move the luggage trolleys around

 

 

 

And a couple of oddities that don't really fit anywhere else.

 

Never seen horizontal traffic lights before.

 

And this is the view from the front of a tram. I really don't know how this got here without driving along the tracks.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....Never seen horizontal traffic lights before.

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That looks like a Euro "Mondial"-type head with 300mm diameter aspects.

 

Switzerland has horizontal signals at some major junctions, generally paired with overhead gantry signs. Horizontal signals also pretty much standard in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and elsewhere. Used to be common in Malaysia until LED signals came along.

[Yoss]

Should we start a traffic light thread?

 

I like it here. No matter how obscure a subject appears to be, someone knows all about it. Even subjects that normal people would consider nerdy or sad. Like traffic lights. It had never even occurred to me that someone might know the exact make of a traffic light but now it seems obvious that somebody has to.

 

The horizontal ones were mostly at major junctions in built up areas as they hung them from wires strung between buildings particularly where there were already tram catenary strung from the same wires.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Should we start a traffic light thread?

I like it here. No matter how obscure a subject appears to be, someone knows all about it. Even subjects that normal people would consider nerdy or sad. Like traffic lights. It had never even occurred to me that someone might know the exact make of a traffic light but now it seems obvious that somebody has to....

I used to collect all sorts of UK and Euro signal heads. The ones I really want are the French designs which are an entire art form by themselves, particularly the Feu de Paris made by Grolleau,

 

 

 

but they are really difficult to find.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Thinking of starting a new 'spotted but with additional random household items' thread...

 

 

 

Square hard top in the corner for something else too...?

[Pieman]

Robin Reliant

 

 

Sorry but that bugs me - you don't say Escort Ford or 205 Peugeot do you, so why does everyone get this wrong?

 

And yes please to whoever suggested a traffic light thread.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

.... yes please to whoever suggested a traffic light thread.

 

Excellent 

[Braddon81]

2 Protons for the price of one in Llanelli... If you look closely!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

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2 Protons for the price of one in Llanelli... If you look closely!

 

Really does remind me of a Megane Mk.1:

 

[Mike D]

 

Google street view pic I'm afraid as I was in my van earlier in the year heading to Cheddar Gorge when I spotted this old crock. Toyota KE70 estate I reckon

[angle]

Shite architecture / ice cream van combo:

 

[phil_lihp]

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Google street view pic I'm afraid as I was in my van earlier in the year heading to Cheddar Gorge when I spotted this old crock. Toyota KE70 estate I reckon

That has been there for years, I used to see it move occasionally about 12 years ago and it didn't look much better then. Hasn't turned a wheel in at least 10 years I'd guess.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

My eyes were offended when I returned to my car and saw this pile.

 

 

What utter shite.

[Jim Bell]

Xr2 degenerating softly in the lakes.

 

[quicksilver]

Diverse stuff from out and about in town during the past week.

 

Two white 205s in one day

1988 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

1992 Peugeot 205 Rallye 1.4 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

2001 Toyota bB Blackbox by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

1990 Nissan Micra 1.2 GS by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Bus shite. Ex Ulsterbus Bristol RE heading for 'Beer and Buses' on the Isle of Wight.

Ulsterbus BXI 2599 by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Edsel wedding car FTW

1959 Edsel Villager by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

More bus shite

Caravan P84 RFB by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Car park Porsche

1982 Porsche 911 Turbo by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

What's that coming out of the shadows? Just a 1948 Bentley, that's all

1948 Bentley Mark VI by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

[Zelandeth]

Supermarket car park in Bicester today.

 

 

Bonus points for the early 90s deadlocks added to the doors, and apparently incontinent headlamp washers.

 

Egads, I never spotted the plate at the time... someone hand me the brainsoap so I can erase the memory please...

[Yoss]

Two Leyland straight sixes in a row (I'm sat in the other one obvs)

 

Then in Asda a couple of hours later.

 

 

And these two were in west London when we were on our way to Heathrow last week.

[Yoss]

I remember when all ice cream vans were Bedfords (CFs or CAs).

And it doesn't even seem that long ago.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

One street near the Saracens rugby ground (they're playing at home today) yielded these beauties:

 

C15 Romahome -

 

 

 

 

Top-notch lacquer peel Rover 600:

 

 

Saab 900:

 

 

Two Mini things:

 

 

 

....and a hidden Proton Impian:

 

 

 

But the best has been saved 'til last:

 

 

[Zelandeth]

Just remembered that there's a Bedford CF AutoTrail camper parked up not far from here that I really need to snap a photo of at some point. Being parked up next to a busy road doesn't help though!

[lesapandre]

Was easy to spot this one...was a very big crane removing a very big tower crane from a site. The centre tower is made up of 3 huge hydraulic rams - with enormous counterweights at the back. All fold down into one vehicle.