Metal Guru Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 1 hour ago, High Jetter said: Yup, decent van rather than micro. Very similar look tho. Far too big for Sooty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 ProgRocker, MiniMinorMk3, worldofceri and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 SteersWithThrottle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Buckles Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 adw1977, sdkrc, Shite Ron and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldofceri Posted November 23 Share Posted November 23 Not Plastic Pig Del Boy Robin Reliant [sic] LightBulbFun and 500tops 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted November 24 Share Posted November 24 sdkrc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted November 24 Share Posted November 24 Came across this on my delivery. It's parked in one of the shittiest back alleys in Shirley, of which there are many. It's just behind the BMW you can see here. It looks bad and stinks of various take aways as it's behind the shops. Anyway I could tell it was a Fiat 126 and closer inspection around the edges suggested it might be nice and shiny. So I googled it, as you do, and came up with this . It's left hand drive so probably is from Poland. Also when I looked up the MOT history it said it was beige so I also found this which I think is also in Shirley. Have to say it looks better now. Not for the colour change but for losing the worst wheels I have ever seen and the pineapple roofrack. sdkrc, MiniMinorMk3, Dyslexic Viking and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted November 24 Share Posted November 24 Tuesday saw this - it had a HubNut sticker. Me not knowing wtf that is Googled it - https://hubnut.org/ - car has a video. Me not 'doing' much YouTube I've not watched it. Dyslexic Viking and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted November 24 Share Posted November 24 Lazy R.A.C. Rally spotting today. Crap phone pictures - I missed the Lancia Stratos which was the first car we saw Dumped the images here but the highlights are: (1) Car my wife most wanted to take home - Stuart the MK 1 Escort (2) Car I most wanted to take home Then it was Escort, Escort, Sierra :-), Escort, 911, 911, Escort. Escort, Escort so we decided to go home after the next non-Escort and we got this (which looked huge after the Escorts) - a lush Celica SteersWithThrottle and MiniMinorMk3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
500tops Posted November 24 Share Posted November 24 Dyslexic Viking, SteersWithThrottle and High Jetter 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Mainwaring Posted November 24 Share Posted November 24 12 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said: Tuesday saw this - it had a HubNut sticker. Me not knowing wtf that is Googled it - https://hubnut.org/ - car has a video. Me not 'doing' much YouTube I've not watched it. HubNut is Dollywobbler of this parish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted November 24 Share Posted November 24 1 minute ago, Captain Mainwaring said: HubNut is Dollywobbler of this parish. I know where his cache is stashed - muwhahaha. Rather liked the Ford myself - the other one there was smol, blue, Asiatic summat. No Dollies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
500tops Posted November 25 Share Posted November 25 Gorgeous Sud SteersWithThrottle, ProgRocker, Barry Cade and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted Saturday at 18:43 Share Posted Saturday at 18:43 23 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said: Lazy R.A.C. Rally spotting today. Crap phone pictures - I missed the Lancia Stratos which was the first car we saw Dumped the images here but the highlights are: (1) Car my wife most wanted to take home - Stuart the MK 1 Escort Good video here of some Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted Sunday at 21:15 Share Posted Sunday at 21:15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruffgeezer Posted Sunday at 21:31 Share Posted Sunday at 21:31 Spotted in the town nearest me, a lovely thing. 500tops, MiniMinorMk3, SteersWithThrottle and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted Sunday at 22:31 Share Posted Sunday at 22:31 59 minutes ago, ruffgeezer said: Spotted in the town nearest me, a lovely thing. No giraffe flap? I thought it was standard on these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted Sunday at 23:54 Share Posted Sunday at 23:54 Option, I thought? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted Tuesday at 08:03 Share Posted Tuesday at 08:03 I posted this back on 2019, but it's still trundling around. It's owned by a landscape gardener. SteersWithThrottle and Dyslexic Viking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cade Posted Wednesday at 20:18 Share Posted Wednesday at 20:18 Happened across some sort of banger racers yard today, odd stuff everywhere! MiniMinorMk3, sdkrc, danthecapriman and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schaefft Posted Wednesday at 21:03 Share Posted Wednesday at 21:03 Not one but two Thunderbirds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cade Posted Wednesday at 21:20 Share Posted Wednesday at 21:20 17 minutes ago, Schaefft said: Not one but two Thunderbirds! 3 if you look carefully! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
500tops Posted Wednesday at 21:32 Share Posted Wednesday at 21:32 Haven't seen this Samara for ages. So glad to see it's still going! Zelandeth, adw1977, ProgRocker and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted yesterday at 13:47 Share Posted yesterday at 13:47 Just spotted this on my lunchtime constitutional: Dyslexic Viking and SteersWithThrottle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago 18 hours ago, 500tops said: Haven't seen this Samara for ages. So glad to see it's still going! Can't be many of them left now. I had a really late one on an R plate back in 2003 or so and have to admit it did actually drive surprisingly well. However it absolutely did make the build quality of the Niva and Riva look like a classic Mercedes or Volvo in comparison. It was so obviously just cobbled together with whatever they had laying around in the factory. The bottom of the driver's seat collapsed at one point and it turned out that the canvas under there was a bit of a Russian flour sack. So for all it didn't drive badly, I really didn't rate its chances of longevity! In the same breath, when I sold it a couple of blokes did come all the way up to Aberdeenshire to pick it up to export it to Latvia if what they said was to be believed. It had other exciting features like doors which would randomly decide not to latch properly in sub zero temperatures after you opened them, requiring me to keep a bungee cord in the glove box to tie the front doors together just in case the driver's door would decide to open 90 seconds after leaving the drive in the morning in winter. The windscreen wipers automatically parked themselves maybe 1 time in 5. The indicators and brake lights decided to interact with each other at least weekly until I finally ran out of patience and just soldered the wires directly onto the tail light printed circuit boards and did away with the most awfully designed and constructed edge connectors I've ever come across. The headlights would occasionally just switch off completely when you went to select main beam sometimes as well, usually requiring frantic wiggling of the indicator stalk to restore illumination. Especially fun when you live in the back end of nowhere in rural Aberdeenshire, so when it's dark, it's REALLY dark! Dyslexic Viking and Captain Mainwaring 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavieW Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 1 hour ago, Zelandeth said: In the same breath, when I sold it a couple of blokes did come all the way up to Aberdeenshire to pick it up to export it to Latvia if what they said was to be believed. I remember my dad saying that Perth harbour was filled with Ladas being shipped back to Russia. This was in the 80s so definitely possible yours was going back behind the iron curtain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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