Spotting In And Around Edinburgh - Updated

[UmBongo]

Here are some of my recent spots, so bland they probably can't even be classed as Autoshite, tbh.

 

How could anyone spend a week in one of these?

 

623 GSi

 

Lots of windows.

 

Halfords is always a good place to spot this stuff. Escort Cosworth alloys

and a saltire 'Chief' sticker...mmm.

 

Latvian Audi, debadged at rear or maybe it just fell off.

 

Can someone help identify this car, please? I think it's a Subaru, but I am not 100%.

 

It's sad when you are lost and alone.

 

 

 

 

[HillmanImp]

Wow, that Audi is full on gangsta council estate drug dealer spec.

[brickwall]

The HiJet and its ilk are on my bucket list

[rml2345]

I've seen that black Subaru tearing about round here! There's also a blue one with similarly subtle graphics.

That Hijet is ace. 

[UmBongo]

MX5 turning to dust.

 

Subaru with interesting bonnet.

 

 

On the scene...

 

Home on the Range.

 

Achingly scene-ish.

 

Astravan in camouflage gear.

 

The World According To Gorf.

 

Err, 50 shades of shite, anyone?

[michael t]

Great sports, love the Astravan

[UmBongo]

A big white thing.

[Guest Tony Hayers]

Is that Micra wearing the 14" version of Ford alloys shown top of page?

[Spiny Norman]

That Pog pink Vectra is fantastic. Hands up who wants to get busy with the polish on it?

[UmBongo]

Is that Micra wearing the 14" version of Ford alloys shown top of page?

 

They were Nissan badged alloys, believe it or not.

[UmBongo]

This has to be an Autoshiter's car.

It's a Volvo V70 T5, it has a flat tyre and it's parked miles from any other car

...to avoid being dinged by a fat bowfer in a Nissan Puke, no doubt.

 

Golf looking tired.

 

940.

 

A well preserved Fiasco.

[Spiny Norman]

Old style Nissan Silvia next to the Fester, unless I'm mistaken.

[dome]

Yep, certainly is. Any Saliva pics? I had an auto one briefly, was OK but not exciting. Quite nice to smoke around in though.

[UmBongo]

Meh!

 

[HillmanImp]

That is hot.

[cort16]

I had one of those Silvia turbos once. I recon it would be a great car if it wasn't a totally undrivable death trap like mine was.

[dome]

Phwoooar. Mine was pristine, but an auto on original suspension. Nice to cruise about in but terrible if you tried to press on-tried to swap ends in an "I'm gonna kill you!" type way as opposed to a playful way like an LSD equipped Beemer.

 

Swapped it for 2 MOT'd and taxed Range Rover Classics-guy drove down from Inverary in the better one with his family, piled into the Saliva and drove us all flat out to Inverary, stopping in Balloch for a Chinese as that was their "Local" Got to Inverary at dark and pissing with rain o'clock and had to jump start the other Rangey-a rough 3.9 manual Vogue SE that was a bit* smokey. Jump started it eventually but couldn't get the bonnet to latch-ended up driving back to Glasgow at 45mph in the pissing rain in the early hours scared in case the bonnet flew up. What a pain in the hole.

[Alusilber]

Anybody else spotted the Trabant lurking in a driveway in Pencaitland?

[UmBongo]

More Fiasco guff.

 

 

Something not right here.

 

Bonus Humber Sceptre!

 

Escort Van used as garden shed.

[UmBongo]

Updated spots.

 

Advertising hub.

 

 

Clean Volvo immaculately parked on double yellow lines.

 

 

Lotus in tired - or rather - exhausted condition.

 

[Spiny Norman]

That 240 wagon looks well fit, I like the black grilles on the white ones.

(scuttles off to Ebay to see if there are any for sale....)

[UmBongo]

Updates!

 

Old Rover.

 

 

One of the ugliest new cars I've seen.

 

 

Front alloys painted and then the money ran out?

 

 

Laser!

 

 

ZX on it's final journey?

 

 

Nice Sierra.

 

[Tartan58]

Ooh - pretty sure that Saab is just round the corner from where I work (St Ninians Rd?)

Never seen it before so must be a visitor.

[scooters]

I keep expecting to see one of my timeless classics on this thread - might start adding my pics to it as well Um Bongo - that is, if you don;t mind

[phil_lihp]

I'm working in Edinburgh at the moment and already today I've just seen an immaculate H-plate Volvo 340 hatch in mint green outside Hertz - alas not one of theirs I think.  Also a spotless green Merc W123 on an A-plate near the office.  Seems to be an excellent chod haven here.

[scooters]

I'm working in Edinburgh at the moment and already today I've just seen an immaculate H-plate Volvo 340 hatch in mint green outside Hertz - alas not one of theirs I think.  Also a spotless green Merc W123 on an A-plate near the office.  Seems to be an excellent chod haven here.

 

Is that 'Hertz' as in the global car rental company or have you slipped into the local vernacular and mean 'Hertz' as in The Heart of Midlothian Football club?

[phil_lihp]

Definitely the rental company, as a Devon yokel who only flew in last night the other meaning is new to me.  Not my first time in Edinburgh but still picking up the lingo and avoiding anything with haggis in it.

[derskine]

Hey, don't avoid the haggis!

[scooters]

You need to eat Haggis in the 'traditional way'

 

contrary to popular belief the traditional way to eat haggis is: battered, deep fried, with chips and drenched in the unique chip 'sass' - a mixture of HP, vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. ideally it should be preceded by 10 pints and eaten al fresco, leaning against a bus stop sheltering from horizontal freezing sleet at 1.00am on a Sunday morning. The 'Haggis Supper' works best with an accompaniment of Chateaux Irn Bru 2013 from the renowned producer AG Barr of Cumbernauld. On finishing the meal it is customary to immediately go to sleep cuddling the paper in which the meal was served. This can either be, in the said bus stop, on your doorstep with one key in the lock, on your sofa, sprawled over your bed/wife or in a station cell courtesy of the Lothian Division of Police Scotland. If you are lucky, there might be a few mouthfuls left for breakfast. The high fiber of the oats in the Haggis keeps everything moving early the following morning.

[phil_lihp]

That was taken straight out of the tourist brochure, wasn't it?