Balkan Bucket Bonanza

[Bucketeer]

^^^^ I think it's about time I did some spotting elsewhere. I'm up to about nine or ten different countries throughout this thread and I've probably sucked Bulgaria half-dry by now.

I'm just going to have a stroll about here for another week or two before I hitchhike to the UK in plenty* of time for Shitefest.

Thanks everyone for the kind words, everything will work out fine.

 

 

Sapporo!

 

 

Sapporo my fave too.

 

That Sapporo caused great excitement when I saw it. The driver of the bus I was on at the time was less thrilled with me shouting 'STOP THE BUS, STOP THE BUS' in his ear.

Also, I noticed when reviewing the photo that it is either a GSR Turbo or had GSR Turbo badges affixed.

 

 

 

I have a couple of questions.

Firstly, is that Mk2 Golf on stilts a genuine VW effort or a Bulgarian barn special?

Secondly, on the Chrysler Thingy (I looked at it's name when I papped it but can't remember now, something like Macarena or Copacobana I think) is that likely to be a genuine Turbo badge or a stick-on?

 

 

 

And whilst I'm here, have a blurry, long distance, early morning spot from yesterday.

 

[The Moog]

That escort is brilliantly shocking.

 

BTW did you get PM about racey shenanigans??

[Asimo]

 

Secondly, on the Chrysler Thingy (I looked at it's name when I papped it but can't remember now, something like Macarena or Copacobana I think) is that likely to be a genuine Turbo badge or a stick-on?

 

The Chrysler Concorde: these were never turbos, 3.3 /3.5 V6 so the badge is almost certainly from халфордÑ.

[Bucketeer]

^^^^ I remembered the name now, it was a Chrysler Saratoga. Thanks anyway Isaac Asimo.

 

I've just got back to the UK. It was a pretty rapid and fairly uneventful hitchhike over, although I cheated a bit and got a £15 bus from Paris to London instead of hitching the Channel. Spotters never sleep so I've been busy in the last day or so hunting some Anglochod. Slim pickings so far but I know I can do better.

 

Strolling across the countryside to my final destination I accidentally trespassed through an angry cow farm and saw this awesome road roller.

 

 

 

What's that car peeking out from behind the roller I hear no-one ask.

 

 

Cheese and bread! I cross to the other side of Europe and still can't escape bloody Trabants.

 

Around this time I discovered that I had brought my own hitchhiker in my rucksack. Dunno where he jumped aboard but he's staying in Britain now.

 

 

 

Lovely Volvos are lovely.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy coffee is happy.

 

 

 

A couple of Metros in slightly different states of repair.

 

 

 

 

 

A minty fresh Fiesta outside Argos tradesman's entrance. I'm not a tradesman, just nosey.

 

 

 

I also got a bit of supermarket carpark dross.

 

 

 

The following two are for The Moog or anyone else who has loved and lost a Starlet.

 

 

 

 

 

'Earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale experienced in Lidl carpark'.

Or a useless oaf of a photographeer.

 

 

 

A friend has kindly allowed me to whack my tent up in their garden for a bit. To repay them (a bit) I found and fetched a rusty old chimenea chimnea chimenear fire from freecycle which provided me with bonzer bacon and eggs this very morn.

 

 

 

One of my sub-spotters sent me this pic last week asking what it was.

It's pre 1970 and American (I presume) so IDFK.

 

 

 

Finally, I'm embarking on a collection/delivery jaunt late tomorrow night, collecting from one AAA shiter and delivering to another AAA shiter, and have been sorting my collection kit. I've got all the usual stuff; tobacco, eclairs, brandy and hair bleach. Have I forgotten anything?

 

[beko1987]

Welcome back! I have to warn you though, things may have changed in the uk since you were last here, you need to drink that bottle of booze and/or hair bleach after you've done the collection mission... Just a heads up before you have to leg it back to Bulgaria in a hurry...

[Bucketeer]

The brandy is anesthetic for stage one - long bus ride for big man in too smoll seat.

[Junkman]

The Chrysler Concorde: these were never turbos, 3.3 /3.5 V6 so the badge is almost certainly from халфордÑ.

 

The thing is question is the Chrysler Saratoga, which was available with a 2.5 litre 4 cylinder turbo.

[Junkman]

One of my sub-spotters sent me this pic last week asking what it was.

It's pre 1970 and American (I presume) so IDFK.

1939 Chevrolet

[Bucketeer]

I've gone early with the brandy and hair bleach. I am currently a wobbly albino.

[hairnet]

Simon le bon?

[Bucketeer]

Waaaaay past Le Bon.

 

[DVee8]

^^^ same colour as mine..I don't need a bottle.

[Bucketeer]

Blondes have more fun, right?

[DVee8]

Errrr yeah,i'm not blond just grey/white/silver

[Bucketeer]

Time for a dump of half-arsedly spotted UK bilge before I head back tomorrow to the Balkans for a month.

 

This shiny Scimitar was driven in to the SF17 carpark by an impeccably pastel old couple who looked the type that buy their armchairs from adverts in the back of puzzle books.

 

99 with a bit of flake in Twickenham.

 

A Bristol summat or other.

 

I saw this very loud Mustang in the car park of the Travelodge in Oxford I was staying in with the GF. The owner started it and sat 'warming' it up for ages at around 6am as I was sat outside having a pre-coital cig. I bet the guests in the rooms behind it were well chuffed.

 

A five door Pride spotted in Farnborough. I could have got a much better shot but I was sat outside Wetherspoons and blah blah CBA.

 

Only the second Savvy of all ever that I have seen.

 

Other rubbish.

 

 

 

 

 

Somebody didn't have a fun time at the side of this dual carriageway.

 

 

A fortnight ago my GF was at a funeral for her uncle and sent me these pics of some of the cortege.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally a remnant from the depths of my memory card. A very shit short video of a Zil V8 petrol mountain wood collecting truck that I took to demonstrate the awesome noise they make. There are millions of these bombing about the Bulgarian mountains.

 

https://youtu.be/MZAKLLZpi0o

[The Moog]

So you have a lady friend sending you car pics from a funeral... Sounds like a keeper

 

Tasty 99

[Split_Pin]

Super stash of Cortinas for sure, your lady friend is a keeper indeed!

[Bucketeer]

I arrived in Sofia to be greeted with the requisite grimness.

 

 

I stopped off at VT for the requisite beauty.

 

Then some train fun up in to the mountains, where I'll be animal sitting for a month.

 

My smooth ride for the month.

Grim.

 

Grim.

 

Grim.

 

I had a successful first day here. I started off with two dogs to look after, lost one for hours, and now I've got three.

[The Moog]

If that growth rate continues, you will have 383502 dogs by the end of the month!

[andy18s]

Just wait til the locals find out you're taking in dogs

They'll be getting dropped over the fence like paratroopers.......

[Lord Sterling]

What's the second-hand car market there like? Here in Turkey it is stupidly expensive.

[andy18s]

If you're looking to take a BG or any other country registered car into Turkey then it's just got a lot harder

Any non commercial vehicle is only allowed to enter Turkey twice then it's banned....for good at the mo

I guess registering a foreign car there would be a nightmare as it is here but I guess you would know more about that side than me

[Bucketeer]

I'm currently suffering sub-optimal performance in the engine starting department.

 

I've tried rudimentary engine jiggling and poking, scowling, poking with a broom, etc. Still she no live.

 

 

Yeah none of those horses are barking.

 

An engine in disgrace.

 

[3VOM]

How long has it been standing? Check the usual basics? Spark, fuel. Not sure if this engine has a habit of the coil dying. Also don't these have a fuel cut off that likes working when it doesn't need to?

[Bucketeer]

It's driven daily. It was coughing yesterday like it was running out of fuel (which it was not) and today just refused to run.

Anyway, after all else had failed I followed the well trodden path amongst engine starting gurus of trying to fix the faulty electric window.

Primary mission unsuccessful but the engine subsequently fired straight up.

Unfortunately I've drunk too much mechanicing booze to drive anywhere now.

 

[Ghosty]

Faux wood round the instruments, and a 1.4? Luxury*.

[andy18s]

Pm'd you Alex

[SiC]

What's the orange light in the top left?

 

This must be one of the last cars made where they only put 5 numbers on the counter.

[Ghosty]

What's the orange light in the top left?

 

This must be one of the last cars made where they only put 5 numbers on the counter.

 

Looks like a tyre spinning and smoking/kicking up dust. Weird. Diff related?

[Bucketeer]

It's a traction control light that stays on to comfort you and let you know everything is working fine. Just like the ABS light. And the screen wash level light.

The light that shouldn't be on is the handbrake one because the handbrake doesn't work.