Through Lobster's Lense - Update - Remember remember the second of November...

[55bloke]

Words fail me!!

[mr-reno-139]

superb pics there mr lobster extremely annoyed was unable to make the R4 event partly due to my wife thinking my r4 should have some form of weather proofing !!whilst researching the loheac museums location google threw up this french forum with quite a few more quality inside pics that are worth looking at think they were from 2007 http://www.forum-auto.com/automobiles-m ... 380164.htm,ps will be breaking red F6 van soon PM me if you still want some bits

[Split_Pin]

Fantastic pics - I havent seen a Simca 1000 with the rectangular lights since about 1984.

[Spottedlaurel]

What a fantastic array of stuff! Lovely Manta A’s, but there’s also a few of the French things there with the right combination of colour and trim level that look amazing.

[mnde]

So much fantastic French tat that I'm thinking I'd like to go to next year's show!!Thanks :DMark.

[mk2_craig]

Just had a week in Normandy and I am happy to report on the presence of the following shite...

 

LOVELY. Just as I remember them from our trips to Normandy/Brittany as a kid in the eighties. I must dig out some pics of the R14, mk2 Golf and Prairie that we used in '82, '85 and '88 respectively.

 

Incidentally do any of the board Francophiles know when the country swung away from black plates? I thought it was recently (mid 1990s or later) but on a cycling holiday with school in 1990 the Renner agent in Sainte-Mère-Église had an old R12 saloon for sale with yellow and white plates on, right next to a just-launched Clio in that weird greeny-silver chameleon like colour the early ones came in. No pics alas.

[pompei]

Just wonderful. Ten out of ten

[morris_ital_lover]

that gold renault 12 gets around a bit spotted it outside the bayeux branch of leclerc!

doube shite spottage in a different country!

m0rris

[Mr Lobster]

So much fantastic French tat that I'm thinking I'd like to go to next year's show!!

I'd strongly recommend it to anyone, especially those running old French tin as the autojumble held allsorts of goodies.2009 event is first weekend of October

[VWPowered]

where is that im in dept 16 would take 7 hours to get to caen

[Mr Lobster]

Its in Brittany, about 30km southwest of Rennes.Was about 2 and half hours from Caen on autoroute.

[MrRegieRitmo]

Polish reg FSO Caro has seen better days....

 

 

I love the pisspoor repair job, still it's not as if the owner's got a rich pool of dead examples in British scrapyards to choose from. Bosh on a mk1 Metro cluster for a decently acceptable bodge-fix.

I'd say a MkV Escort one would look pretty similar!

[MrRegieRitmo]

These pictures are sensational!! I've saved virtually all of them!10/10Seems like the museum was a similar kind of place to the most excellent Classic Car Museum in Malta, pics of which you'll see when I get to them!

[MrRegieRitmo]

 

 

Do I detect a hint of admiration for the R14, or is it purely coincidental that it's the only one you've given us fore & aft shots of?? (from that batch)

[MrRegieRitmo]

 

Did you not snap that Fiat 124 Sport?

[MrRegieRitmo]

Peugeot J9

 

= J7

[mouseflakes]

By crikey!!!1!!11!!!one!!!1!!!Absolutely stunned by those pics - cheers Lobber-doo.

[MrRegieRitmo]

Fantastic pics - I havent seen a Simca 1000 with the rectangular lights since about 1984.

Aren't those called the 1006?

[MrRegieRitmo]

quality inside pics that are worth looking at think they were from 2007 http://www.forum-auto.com/automobiles-m ... 380164.htm,

Possibly a problem with that link!

[Lord Sterling]

YES PLEASE!!! I WANT!!!

 

Lord Sterling

[Mr Lobster]

Do I detect a hint of admiration for the R14, or is it purely coincidental that it's the only one you've given us fore & aft shots of?? (from that batch)

Yes, I do have a bit of affection for R14s, looks good in that colour as well.I did take a picture of the Fiat 124 Sport as well, howver thanks to the Great Computer Crash of 2008 which occured last Saturday they are now lost to the world forever together with everything else on my hard drive

[MrRegieRitmo]

I did take a picture of the Fiat 124 Sport as well, howver thanks to the Great Computer Crash of 2008 which occured last Saturday they are now lost to the world forever together with everything else on my hard drive

Not so, I had my hard drives wiped by a virus a month or so ago but used some software called Ontrack Data recovery & miracle of miracles, got it all back! It can recover deleted data, corrupted data, fragmented data, formatted drives, allsorts! I recovered over 80gb of data which is far more even than I imagined I had on there!What have you done with it so far? I could burn you a copy of this software? All hope is never lost, trust me, I was in the same position as you!

[Mr Lobster]

So far have had new hard drive fitted, local computer place have tried to get data off old hard drive but say it is too badly damaged. Brother in law does stuff with computers so he is having a look this weekend...Copy of that software might be worth trying though as there is LOADS of stuff on it I would like.

[ayd]

I've just made a mess, I'd trade my Mother for that and it'd look great sat next to my phase 2

[MrRegieRitmo]

I've just made a mess, I'd trade my Mother for that and it'd look great sat next to my phase 2

There's a phase 2 NSU TT?!

 

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[mk2_craig]

I've just made a mess, I'd trade my Mother for that and it'd look great sat next to my phase 2

A 70 year old vs a 28 year old. No contest

[Mr Lobster]

Ahem, about time we had a bit of an update. This is what we got so far. I have a few other spots stuck inside my phone which I need to recover somehow but for the time being I give you......

 

Elderly Pug skulking in French backstreet

 

 

OMG MALAGA !!!111!!

 

Ex Ambulance on market stall duties

 

Dead R4 F4 abandoned at fishing port

 

Mehari. Want.

 

[Mr Lobster]

Big Merc lurking in Monaco

 

 

 

Solid Gold future shite. Renault BeBop. WTF!

 

 

Early 205

 

R5 TX. Also Want.

 

Audi 80 was tidy with the exception of paint which was a bit shabby.

 

Civic. Yum.

 

MOAR L8R

[VWPowered]

great pics

 

 

i hate the new plates lucky i got in with the polo before the lockdown

 

i use forum-auto alot

 

http://www.forum-auto.com/automobiles-m ... 152251.htm - 4000 pages mind

 

http://www.forum-auto.com/automobiles-m ... 384373.htm

http://www.forum-auto.com/automobiles-m ... 343125.htm

http://www.forum-auto.com/automobiles-m ... 384047.htm

 

keep you busy a while

[Mr Lobster]

Right, bit more then... went to Renault World Series last week which was largely full of mouth breathing pikeys teaching their nasty kids to swear and drop litter Inbetween that though were some cars

 

Twingo, for sale at £999 - I have number if you wants

 

R11 Turbo, bit scabby but nice enough

 

R17 - think this was at RRGathering last year

 

R12 G NOM NOM NOM

 

Fairly sure this has been seen here before

 

As has this;