Lazy spotters thread

[lesapandre]

Hmmmm...DVLA has the Jaaag down as a  1978 XJ6. It's not a cheap kit...is it an expensive recreation? The covered headlamps + black rocker-switch dash don't go together. Is it a Lynx type recreation? Or some such. Very convincing...or is it just a whole lot of old Jags put together? The stance and wheelbase looks right.

[Skizzer]

30 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Being an anorak - I think it may be a bisa...it looked like an amalgamation but I may be wrong...I am sure someone will know whether it is a MKI etc. It smelt of hot metal and oil...

Good skills sir. Looks like a Series 1 to me except the windscreen surround should be chrome... but the DVLA MOT checker says it’s a 1978 XJ6.

[puddlethumper]

[egg]

This K reg is outside my house now, and no, not the Mondeo.

[500tops]

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[DVee8]

A few from Saturdays wedding venue.

The M3 in the first photo being LHD MrsV8 said look it's even been driven by a young lad.

The Ka had lots of green.

Then a naughty naughty spitfire behind bars

 

[DVee8]

[puddlethumper]

A few more.

[HillmanImp]

Renault Fuego in a field just south of Gatwick Airport. 

Apologies for poor quality photo, I was on a moving train. 

[mitsisigma01]

Is that a Scubaru estate as well. 

How far south of Gatwick were you? 

[HillmanImp]

Not far. Its on your right hand side as you travel south. 

I couldn't make out the others. 

[anonymous user]

Somebody on this industrial estate likes these, there are often another two parked nearby

[Lacquer Peel]

Not my spot. Off the road since 1990.

 

 

 

 

[Steve79]

Citroën of many pipes.

2.5d as well. Saw it earlier today but forgot to take a pic. Quite nice condition. Roof seemed rot free.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Steve79 said:

Citroën of many pipes.

2.5d as well. Saw it earlier today but forgot to take a pic. Quite nice condition. Roof seemed rot free.

That's a Series 1 body hiding the mechanicals of a Series 2 DTR2 turbo-diesel..... Think it may be for sale....

[Braddon81]

23 hours ago, Skizzer said:

Good skills sir. Looks like a Series 1 to me except the windscreen surround should be chrome... but the DVLA MOT checker says it’s a 1978 XJ6.

Its a Challenger. A very close E type replica kit launched in 1986 on a spaceframe backbone chassis. The first cars used a complete XJ6 including its standard wider rear axle and therefore had flared rear wheel arches - which kind of spoilt the illusion. On later cars like this one they supplied narrow rear axles on exchange, to make them near as damn a doppelganger for the real thing. 

They weren't made for that long - I think the early to mid nineties were when the last cars were produced. Due to the rise of prices of the real things, a well built Challenger will today set you back around 30k. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

12 minutes ago, Braddon81 said:

Its a Challenger. A very close E type replica kit launched in 1986 on a spaceframe backbone chassis. The first cars used a complete XJ6 including its standard wider rear axle and therefore had flared rear wheel arches - which kind of spoilt the illusion. On later cars like this one they supplied narrow rear axles on exchange, to make them near as damn a doppelganger for the real thing. 

They weren't made for that long - I think the early to mid nineties were when the last cars were produced. Due to the rise of prices of the real things, a well built Challenger will today set you back around 30k. 

....and there's an Owners' Club....

[Braddon81]

17 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

....and there's an Owners' Club....

Intresting read that. I'd totally forgotten the early cars were Ford/Rover based. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

17 minutes ago, Braddon81 said:

Intresting read that. I'd totally forgotten the early cars were Ford/Rover based. 

You're not wrong about them being worth some serious coin nowadays....! Jaguar were quite clever to endorse them.

[Braddon81]

Some spots from the local Lidl car park. 

[puddlethumper]

Some more from Ronnie Corbetts brother Chaddersley.

[sdkrc]

Stingray, Stingray du na na na, na-na

[puddlethumper]

An interesting Mini van.  K series engine. Aren't they shite ? or am I thinking of summat else.

I have seen a mini van with a 3.5 v8 in the back at Santa Pod, built by a bricky, that, as you can

imagine, was faster than a scalded rat. This probably does alright with 150 horse. Still registered

as 848cc. Blimey ! 150bhp from 848cc. 

[Floatylight]

Went to weigh in some scrap and saw this this...

Can you tell what it is yet (I do know, but a guessing game is always good fun)

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[flat4alfa]

Manta A

[Floatylight]

Manta A

Dammit! Correct, first time I've seen one..

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[sutty2006]

Yes manta A. I’ve seen that one photographed by a few club members over the years. It’s a shame really. Worth a Bob or two now. 

[500tops]

[egg]

Local spot.

[RobT]

On 8/27/2019 at 12:17 PM, HillmanImp said:

Renault Fuego in a field just south of Gatwick Airport. 

Apologies for poor quality photo, I was on a moving train. 

That's a keen spotters eye.  Never off duty.