Lazy spotters thread

63,100 · August 3

August 3

Giffer burgundy

1,513 · August 3

8,607 · August 3

2,255 · August 4

On 02/08/2025 at 09:02, urpert said:

Is there a reason why these are always yellow?

They were only ever made in yellow (yellow steering wheel, dashboard, seats, trim, gearstick, mirror covers, bumpers, wings-in fact everything was yellow!) with ONE exception, which was in a ghastly lime green! The whole idea was to change Skoda from the image of a "sensible" or "boring" car company to one that could produce.... THIS! The name, the frog symbol (as in "a princess kisses a frog and it turns into something handsome") and the almost lunatic rear seat arrangement shouted FUN! As has been said before, Skoda UK couldn't have enough of them so much so that more were manufactured than was originally planned. Mine did a stratospheric mileage before I sold it on. I believe it's still running around, complete with the S 300 FUN number!

15,715 · August 4

2 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

They were only ever made in yellow (yellow steering wheel, dashboard, seats, trim, gearstick, mirror covers, bumpers, wings-in fact everything was yellow!) with ONE exception, which was in a ghastly lime green! The whole idea was to change Skoda from the image of a "sensible" or "boring" car company to one that could produce.... THIS! The name, the frog symbol (as in "a princess kisses a frog and it turns into something handsome") and the almost lunatic rear seat arrangement shouted FUN! As has been said before, Skoda UK couldn't have enough of them so much so that more were manufactured than was originally planned. Mine did a stratospheric mileage before I sold it on. I believe it's still running around, complete with the S 300 FUN number!

Sadly, it seems not:

63,100 · August 4

Papped the Ovlov up thread before

August 5

Waitrose Reading yesterday evening.

Bit of Smith and Sniff "old money", or just one of us?

2,255 · August 5

We've been away on holiday in Wales, on a classic car rally. The hotel accommodates car clubs and the A.C. Car club were in attendance, which was interesting, as were several "other" spots; the Land Rover was looking somewhat unloved, as was the Minor....... Oh, and the 2CV was a really old one!

2,255 · August 5

Llandrindod Wells seems to have slipped into a time warp, as this ancient garage frontage shows....

Apparently this place was a garage in the 1920s and it was from here that the first Ford model "T" in Wales was sold! It even has the arms that allowed the fuel pipes to swing out into the road to refuel cars. I can't imagine any garage having them now!

2,603 · August 5

1 hour ago, Andrew353w said:

Llandrindod Wells is a time warp

FTFY

August 5

A few more from the mean back streets of Reading.

8,747 · Wednesday at 16:29

Spotted in Sainsbury’s Basingstoke this afternoon:

21,132 · Wednesday at 19:02

Alnwick revealed this absolute honey this morning:

A bit of digging found a PH thread that hasn't been updated in ages, but has a lot of detailed posts about work on it.

Left a note with my number under the wiper, but doubt that they'd move it on

Wednesday at 20:42

On 04/08/2025 at 17:38, Andrew353w said:

They were only ever made in yellow (yellow steering wheel, dashboard, seats, trim, gearstick, mirror covers, bumpers, wings-in fact everything was yellow!) with ONE exception, which was in a ghastly lime green! The whole idea was to change Skoda from the image of a "sensible" or "boring" car company to one that could produce.... THIS! The name, the frog symbol (as in "a princess kisses a frog and it turns into something handsome") and the almost lunatic rear seat arrangement shouted FUN! As has been said before, Skoda UK couldn't have enough of them so much so that more were manufactured than was originally planned. Mine did a stratospheric mileage before I sold it on. I believe it's still running around, complete with the S 300 FUN number!

I had one from new in '98 and ran it for many years and loved it. Sadly like all of them it eventually succumbed to rampant rust. Mine ended going back to CZ, probably for spares. I know that one at Bow Bridge Marina and once had a chat with lady who runs it. Despite its tatty look she seemed to be fond of it. Mine was S63 VKE so may have been from the same dealer.

6,775 · Wednesday at 21:22

On 05/08/2025 at 08:05, Andrew353w said:

We've been away on holiday in Wales, on a classic car rally. The hotel accommodates car clubs and the A.C. Car club were in attendance, which was interesting, as were several "other" spots; the Land Rover was looking somewhat unloved, as was the Minor....... Oh, and the 2CV was a really old one!