Rubbish Shite Spottings with rml2345

[rml2345]

HOLY BANDWAGON JUMPING, BATMAN!
I'd intended just to stick this in the lazy spotting thread for shiters who don't spot as much shite as other shite spotters who spot more shite but it looks like I've spotted more shite than I thought.
So here it is;

Foreign Daimler


Crunchy Minor in a rare colour


One for Billy


I was so excited spotting this that I was nearly run over very slowly


Late registration madness?


Obligatory Volvo estate


Dead vanshite


205s look tiny now


As do Volvo 340s. WHATS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?!


Pisspoor photo of some non-shite


Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag


Sherpa Camping



That's it so far this year.

[vulgalour]

Talk about saving the best till last! I can only begin to imagine the wobblywobbleness of that high top Sherpa. Corner with care!

[stuboy]

nice rangie

[HillmanImp]

Was the one of the Cavalier taken from a bus?

 

Good spottage.

[rml2345]

Aye, there are a couple taken from buses as bus journeys can be bloody boring things.

The Sherpa camper caused much excitement and doubling back. Bet it would be great* in a crosswind.

Still would like.

[Angrydicky]

That Astramax is superb. Can't remember the last time I saw one in the wild.

[seacow]

That Astramax is superb. Can't remember the last time I saw one in the wild.

 

Astravan. The astramax had the box hightop thing. Good god I'm dull and know some wierd shit. I even have a brochure of one somewhere.....

[CreepingJesus]

The grey 940 lives over by me: I have a pic of its' reg plate, but not the actual car! 'Clean' doesn't do it justice, it's near perfect.

[rml2345]

I've been spotting more shite and taking rubbish photos of it for your perusal recently, so here's some sort of update type update.

Sorry about the massive photo dump.

 

Still working VW LT Luton

 

Fancy an icecream?

 

Rileyshite

 

Bus museum hack

 

Obligatory Volvo

 

EXCITEMENT LEVEL: DANGEROUS

 

More to Come...

[rml2345]

Some dead shite

 

 

 

 

 

This was French registered

 

Not shite. Still dead

 

 

More to come...

[rml2345]

It would appear there's a limit to the number of photies you can have in one post. 

 

Superb French camper

 

I thought the body kit on this was aftermarket...

 

Crunchy 190E

 

Everyone's* favorite van

 

One life, Chequer plate it etc. 

 

 

 

P6 in traffiic

 

W126. These are proper handsome

 

Mitsubeeshee PayJeerOh

 

Again, apologies for the massive photo dump. I'll try not to leave it quite as long next time...

[Spiny Norman]

Great photies, keep them coming. That Austin 1100 is well phit.

[rml2345]

YO!

I've spotted some more tat/near tat/probably not tat but I liked it anyway, so here's an update type update. 

 

Deid 740 stripped for bits

 

This Cavalier MK3 was strangely full of soil

 

CR Smith!

 

Thanks to the power of Flickr, I now what a Citroen C35 looks like

 

This looked a right wee honey

 

Truckshite in the form of a T45 cabbed Leyland DAF 45

 

I know it's a bus but I fuggin love these things. Delivered in May 1988 and this one is still in use

 

Pisshat. Aldi isn't half as good for spotting shite as it used to be

 

Slightly bent 240 estate

 

I spotted this and thought late registration madness, but it's not even close. I IZ MONG

 

White Crapi looks tidy

 

And to finish, here's a poverty spec XJ40 which had a curious mix of alloy and steel wheels

 

C'est Fini, as the Germans say. 

 

[Jim Bell]

Nice spots. That Bedford foodvan is a honey.

[dome]

I see you've been to Sports Car Breakers, if I'd spotted those Excels while Breadvan was selling his I'd have bitten his arm off, the red ones engine is intact if somewhat crusty. 

[rml2345]

I have indeed, more in hope of finding some long forgotten 740 to pillage for spares than actual expectation of finding something useful.

Both the Lotuses (Loti?) look like they've been in there for forever so I'm surprised to hear the red one still has an engine to give up for a Lotus wielding shitist... Or to sell on ebay as, "OMG LOTUS ECAT ENJIN NOT FERRARI MR2 BOEING POTATO BROWN KECKS" for megacoin. 

[Faker]

That Astramax is superb. Can't remember the last time I saw one in the wild.

Astravan.. I know a fella with one in N.I. He has owned it for 10 years and is the genuine second owner. It's got 60k on its gm 1600 diesel and it's mint. He hasn't used it for about 6 or 7 years but won't sell it. Bastard!

[Sigmund Fraud]

I have indeed, more in hope of finding some long forgotten 740 to pillage for spares than actual expectation of finding something useful.

 

I presume you did liberate that 960 eggcrate grille, which should make you a huge* profit if sold to the modified volvo community ?

[rml2345]

I presume you did liberate that 960 eggcrate grille, which should make you a huge* profit if sold to the modified volvo community ?

Err... No. Beginning to wish I had though as they seem to go for funny money.

[scruff]

B4ART

 

Love the Citroen van, never seen one of those on this side of the water.

[rml2345]

I've spotted more tat recently and been to a few shows over the summer which didn't have as much tat as they did nice things. Not surprising I suppose.

Firstly, here's links to the show stuff as there's bloody loads of it. Some stuff will appear here as well though.

 

Linlithgow Classic Car Day

 

Bo'ness Hill Climb Revival

 

East Fortune Wings and Wheels

 

On to the spottage...

 

Rear engined shite...

 

Brilliant Renault 12TL

 

Series Land Rover

 

I Like trucking and I like to truck...

 

Cima. This has become something of a celebrity...

 

OMG STIKABOMB YO! Etc. 

 

 

Eight

 

Tidy TC

 

KAR OV DA SHO

 

This sounded ropey as fuck

 

Desirable shite

 

Less desirable shite

 

Not shite, but still lovely

 

Diesel Escort was full of stuff. It was an 'L' too!

 

Mega shiny. I got a proper scowling at for taking some of the close up photos of this

 

 

Tidy Fiesta in winning hue.

 

Genuine TR8 with sandwich board to prove it

 

Cortina and Sceptre

[rml2345]

Part deux. I did have this done already but managed to mong it up somehow, then got fed up and watched "Air Crash Investigations" on YouTube instead. So here we go again...

 

There was something incredibly dodgy about this Mini

 

Hadn't seen this in a while so it was good to spot it again

 

Husky Custom

 

BROWN

 

Are XJ40s still shite?

 

Then handsome Quantum MK2

 

This had twin exhausts and a mental bike carrying thing

 

I actually thought this Royale V6 was dead rakish and would quite happily cut about in it

 

MOAR BROWN

 

Familiar Ital

 

Ace Cortina

 

Some racing. I'm shit at action shots though. SOZ

 

This MG TC was supercharged 

 

Part three to follow...

[rml2345]

Immediately...

 

CF ice cream. I didn't partake...

 

APPROVED. Dunno of what though

 

Probably not of this Nova. It was HAWT though

 

4CV

 

Ford V8 was lovely

 

OMG BUSH FIND! No idea, but it looked rough and made a refreshing change

 

This was otherwise debadged. Not like it's an unrecognisable shape though, is it?

 

Just about lol'd my knackers off at this thing

 

Vitesse. Now you're talking...

 

Rare Jensen bodied A40 Sports was lovely

 

Delta HF Integrale. Probably not shite but not common either...

 

Wasn't sure whether to include this or not...

 

This was dead brilliant and one of only three left apparently. It's been in the owner's family since 1968 and had a pretty extensive restoration carried out. 

 

Americaland

 

Sorry Marcos fans, but I think this is HIDEOUS

 

The Zodiac estate from the shite estates thread

 

Praying Mantas

 

Spotted this before but managed to grab this awful photo. Late 960 estate in that mid blue Volvo did for a while

 

Another mental overhood?

 

MK4 was quite nice

 

MOAR later or tomorrow or something as it's bedtime. 

[skattrd]

 

Just about lol'd my knackers off at this thing

 

 

 

 

Oi!

That belongs to Twiggy, it was the next one off the line to my rally car.

I did Ask Twiggy if he wanted one of my spare light pods, but he said he was ok and he made his own. I can't say I approve of the front splitter and wheel arch extensions though

 

Gr9 pics mate.

[HillmanImp]

The mini is a private plate:

 

Vehicle enquiry

The enquiry is complete.The vehicle details for TNC 134J are:

Date of Liability 01 12 2013 Date of First Registration 05 06 1993 Year of Manufacture 1993 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1275cc CO₂ Emissions Not Available Fuel Type PETROL Export Marker N Vehicle Status Licence Not Due Vehicle Colour RED Vehicle Type Approval Not Available Vehicle Excise Duty rate for vehicle 6 Months Rate £77.00 12 Months Rate £140.00

 

 

 

Top photos. Never seen one of those 4CV before. I like it. It looks like a bastard lovechild of a Volvo Amazon and a Fiat 500.

[rml2345]

Good to know it's a private plate rather than a ringer. It just looked really dodgy at the time! The 4CV was a big surprise and looks like it might be hiding some go faster mods.

Apologies to Twiggy... It just seems like such an unlikely rally car.

[UmBongo]

I like the blue Austin in the - one of many - car parks in Livi centre.

Also, the Volvo 340 is parked as far to the left as he can, yet some arsehole has still parked too close to it.

Well, that's what it looks like to me.

[vulgalour]

That little Husky is delicious, I'd take that home, probably in the back of the old Hearse which is equally desirable.  The powder blue roadster looks like it might be a Doretti Swift, but there's a few details like the grille and indicator location that make me think it can't be.

[rml2345]

You get arsehole parkery quite a lot in Livingston. Probably because of the large number of car parks and folks not paying attention. 

You're right about the powder blue roadster btw Vulg, it is a Doretti Swift, although I've got it listed on Flickr as a Swallow Doretti. Based on Triumph TR2 components apparently and made using alloy tube more commonly used on bicycles at the time. Better looking that the Triumph it's based on IMHO...

[rml2345]

I haven't been very well the last couple of days so couldn't be arsed to do the last of the updating

HOWEVER

Today is a different day...

 

Passed this on the way in... It was doing about 43 miles an hour.

 

I bet this MKIV Zephyr was enormous when it was new. Now it's about the same size as an Insignia or something

 

Granada Diesel was brilliant. The owner plans to do a bit of restoration work on it which makes him a WINNER

 

This was less win worthy. Beautifully done but why would you throw the pez engine away and substitute a diesel in a convertible?

 

This 2500 passed me on the way home and I never saw it again, It was lovely though

 

BEIGE. A Maestro is the most disappointing car I've ever driven

 

Go minicabbing like it's 1995

 

Mongtastic photo doesn't show how nice the yellow Series 1 was

 

Andy CMS did NOT approve of the Vanden Plas Allegro. I thought it was a foxy wob filled potato

 

HNNNNNNNNNG!

 

Estate was Super. Literally

 

Thought this was class. Powered by a 492bhp Detroit Diesel V8

 

Variations on the Martin Walter Bedford CA theme

 

Amazon was GORGEOUS

 

MK3 Escrot ragtop