Richard Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Re: UAR 688Y, the black and yellow Lotus 7 thing - unless I miss my mark, that's a Locost kit car. Shite if it doesn't have a Rover engine.It is a Locost and it has a 1993cc engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashmicro Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Re: UAR 688Y, the black and yellow Lotus 7 thing - unless I miss my mark, that's a Locost kit car. Shite if it doesn't have a Rover engine.It is a Locost and it has a 1993cc engine.A-ha! 1993 sounds like a Ford lump. Ought to bang in a 1.8 K series turbo, or go the whole hog, get the welder out and bung in a Rover V8.I stuffed a Range Rover EFi V8 in a mark 2 Escort, with a Jag 'box and a DS420 back end - that was quick, think how good it would be in something that weighs the same as a bag of crisps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted February 28, 2008 Author Share Posted February 28, 2008 Time to update this with a few things seen since the new year began. Bones96 or other locals might recognise some of these locations! Citroen 2CV Bamboo Mint (shouldn't that be Tango'd) 504 pickup 2 varieties of old skool Suzuki Jeep nearly side by side! Vitara & SJ (?) We're doing doubles now! 2 varieties of modern black hair dressers' cars MkI Escort, a car no longer for the masses Anyone fancy this MkIII Civic? Lovely Mercedes 280SL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordpoplier Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 That Escort looks thoroughly normal, nice to see a non Mexico type clone. What's the hairdresser car on the left? New one to me that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted February 28, 2008 Author Share Posted February 28, 2008 That Escort looks thoroughly normal, nice to see a non Mexico type clone. What's the hairdresser car on the left? New one to me that isTis a Daihatsu Copen - not too many of them around fortunately! At least they're distinctive, although not sure if that's a blessing or a curse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 As a die-hard small car fan, I have to state that I love the Copen, although they are ridiculously expensive for what they are. I like the Jap sub 1 litre sportsters like Cappuccino, but my fave is the Honda Beat Head above parapet awaiting flak ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 [quote="MrRegieRitmoMkI Escort Is that the legendry silver fox paint that was normaly knackered within 3 to 5 years. Quite an achievment considering the 1970's summers Drivers Doors odd shade too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 Be like me! Grab a slice of this cheap fun Alfa action! Ok so it costs about 6 times less than my one did and is about 3 years older & frankly looks it......but it says mechanically sound, & this is an Alfa so that's the main thing right?! I'm quite envious of the leather interior, horrible in summer & winter but who cares how it feels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lobster Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 That looks quite good that 146. Still a £295 Alfa is something likely to give me recurring nightmares as to how long it will stay mechanically sound and how soon I would be reaching deep into my wallet!Brilliant cars when they are working though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 £295 is a good price for one of those, i could quite fancy one I must say. I really like the styling, greatly preferable to the 145 i think. However I will stick with the 33 for the time being, maybe that will comprehensively put me off Alfas once and for all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 That looks quite good that 146. Still a £295 Alfa is something likely to give me recurring nightmares as to how long it will stay mechanically sound and how soon I would be reaching deep into my wallet!Brilliant cars when they are working though!At that price you can afford to do it up a bit or have some leeway for possible faults! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lobster Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 Very true, and it does look very cheap at £295I do like the 146 Ti, bit more discrete and practical than the 145 I had. I'm just scared off ever running an Alfa again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milford Cubicle Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 I'd really like a (pre-96?) boxer 145/146, even though everybody seems to think they're shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 I'd really like a (pre-96?) boxer 145/146, even though everybody seems to think they're shite.That's their way of recommending it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted June 22, 2008 Author Share Posted June 22, 2008 My spot of the weekend?2 (that's TWO) Hyundai XG30s within the space of 100 yards, or 20 seconds in the car! Was on the Industrial estate on Saturday & outside one garage was a silver W reg one & then outside another garage a little further up was another silver one O2 reg. I only had my cheap mobile on me with the VGA camera so trying to take pics wouldn't have been worthwhile but it was still a newsworthy occasion! In 15 - 20 years time it would be the equivalent of seeing two Talbot Tagoras in the same street! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 2 (that's TWO) Hyundai XG30s within the space of 100 yards, or 20 seconds in the car! Was on the Industrial estate on Saturday & outside one garage was a silver W reg one & then outside another garage a little further up was another silver one O2 reg. In 15 - 20 years time it would be the equivalent of seeing two Talbot Tagoras in the same street!Pah, saw three XG30s yesterday (2 silver 1 black) :lol:Now if you HAD seen two Tagoras I'd be demanding pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Now if you HAD seen two Tagoras I'd be demanding picsNo-I would just say you were very very drunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 I must try and get a pic of the one I drive past every day - a silver 51 plater. It had 'for sale' signs in the windscreen for a while but perhaps the owner saw my admiring glances and became proud of it (and felt that someone like me couldnt afford to buy it off him anyway lol!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted June 25, 2008 Author Share Posted June 25, 2008 2 (that's TWO) Hyundai XG30s within the space of 100 yards, or 20 seconds in the car! Was on the Industrial estate on Saturday & outside one garage was a silver W reg one & then outside another garage a little further up was another silver one O2 reg. In 15 - 20 years time it would be the equivalent of seeing two Talbot Tagoras in the same street!Pah, saw three XG30s yesterday (2 silver 1 black) :lol:Now if you HAD seen two Tagoras I'd be demanding picsAhh yes but were yours within 200 metres of each other?? Huh?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 2 (that's TWO) Hyundai XG30s within the space of 100 yards, or 20 seconds in the car! In 15 - 20 years time it would be the equivalent of seeing two Talbot Tagoras in the same street!Pah, saw three XG30s yesterday (2 silver 1 black) Ahh yes but were yours within 200 metres of each other?? Huh?? The gauntlet has been well and truly thrown down, I will now make it my mission to photograph two identical XG30s with one press of the shutter button. To succeed I might have to involve own one first though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted June 25, 2008 Author Share Posted June 25, 2008 It won't be easy! No heavy tipping of a local cab firm to 'arrange' a couple of their luxury motors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 I reckon it might be simpler than you think... There's about ten over here (pop. 90,000ish), most of them silver! And yes at least one is a taxi so I could hire it to where I know there's another parked up Shite double-spots happen surprisingly often over here - the following within the last year Sadly I did miss out on capturing two white Supras like the one your mum had Regie but keeping an eye on the location just in case! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.welfare Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 Heh. Must add a pic of my two 405 Hunters side by side when I can engineer it, then.That must be a pretty crud hire car company with the Felicia fleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScrapman Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 Ooh, I recognise this It lived in Andover about 3 years ago. It only stuck in my mind, as whenever I saw it, it was being driven exceedingly carefully and at the speed limit. Very odd! As much as I hate to say it, hideous though it is, it's actually put together quite well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 With regard to the £295 Alfa - you buy it for 250 quid, run it until it breaks or won't pass an MOT (whichever is the sooner), sell £150 worth of bits on Ebay ECU, idle control valve etc) and weigh the rest for scrap for £250.Erase any thoughts of 'running costs' from your mind. There are none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 Make mine a double! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 Things I saw today, all driving along apart from the Astra;.....a bright yellow Mustang Mach 1, a white 60s Cadillac of some sort, a silver Jaguar Mk X, a MkI Astra van Max Power style, a convoy of 3 VW Type 1s in different colours / styles one of which was a friend of mine called Jamie, believe they were on their way back from Newquay (Surprise!), a lovely blue & white pickup thing from the 60s, had a front end like a Viva HA but pickup (?) a red Hillman Hunter estate (I think, because there is more than 1 car that looks like this but I'll say HH).It's definitely the time for on the road spots as lots of interesting things come out to play in the summer weather! ( )Yesterday I saw a lovely white Triumph Stag, in Nigel's village; an open top Queen Mary double decker in Southdown's colours being used for a Summer Prom (so said the banner draped across the rear of it), & shortly afterwards a lovely old fashioned yellow fire engine from the 60s I guess & quite probably also to do with the village prom. I would guess that it was a Dennis.The only things I managed to snap were the Mustang, the Astra van (as it was stationary) & whilst we were queuing in traffic, my mate's purple Beetle! Quite annoyed about the Mustang as I was following it for a good wee while on the way to work & all I could managed was a fuzzy long range shot of it. When we arrived at the roundabout my phone camera was poised ready but eagle eyes spotted a police car so kept it out of sight till it had passed & just had enough time to press the button on my phone to snap the Mustang before it moved off. Gotcha! (or so I thought) It went a different way after that but I checked my phone a minute or two later to confirm there was a Mustang sitting on my screen......nope! A big fat picture of nothing! You see sometimes my phone is no more than a £300 piece of junk & when you press the camera shutter button it can crash / freeze or worse, make you think it's taken the picture but then just sit there for a 2 or 3 seconds (by which time the subject may well have moved out of frame & then finally engage & take the goddam picture which by then is often of a finger, the sky, the ground, or wherever the phone is pointing at the time. Quite often even the inside cover of my phone case is a popular subject for it to take a picture of! Technology! The Astra van I'd been seeing parked outside Kwik Fit for the past week or so, obviously belonging to a member of staff. On the way home today I decided I could pass it by unsnapped no more, so I went upto the roundabout, turned around, came back & found somewhere to park. Wandered around upto the car then went over & took front & rear shots. Within 30 secs I caught sight of the owner in his Kwik Fit shirt wandering over to ask me if I wanted to buy it. I said no just like old cars & appreciate that MkI Astra vans / estates are a very rare thing now. He said it has got a GTE engine in it & when finished he was planning to use it as a track car, just needs a little attention to the floor. Was considering changing the colour of it, I told him it was certainly eye catching as I has been noticing it on the way home everyday. I asked him if he knew about Retro Rides, the website, he just mumbled something about buying the Retro Cars magazine. I didn't mention Autoshite as it didn't really seem fitting in this case & he might have thought I was being funny with him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 no pics means you imagined it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted June 28, 2008 Author Share Posted June 28, 2008 Right ho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 Here are some of the things I've seen this year that I didn't imagine.... That same suped up Chevette that I previously pictured in Nigel's village. It can often be seen charging along the A27 at 80 plus. I couldn't truly keep up when I was in the Renault but these days I toy with it in the Alfa A BMW 5 Series E34 replica 'F1 Safety Car' also on the A27 This LHD MkII Opel Astra estate looked an interesting colour & on closer inspection said U.S.A.F FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY on the side! Seen in one section of the car park at work..... CPTC Land Rover 110 RAF ambulance Mercedes 190E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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