The Great British Spotting Thread Revival

[Formula Autos]

There's been a bit of discussion of late about the lack of spotting threads, so here's some random ones I've got off of me memory card:

Still in daily use, and often seen wafting around West Cumbria.

Holiday transport for WINNARS!

Comedy spoiler and mis-matched alloys make for a convincing touring car replica. The tow bar is just the cherry on top.

Minty fresh Bluey. Also a daily driver.

This WINNAR has the rapey-vibe mastered.

How many panels would you replace before you decided "aw fuck it - I'm bridging it"? - the bonnet and the other side are also in maroon.

Another daily driver - despite the illegal number plate.

Previously owned by a neighbour of mine, and still going strong.

Hiding amongst the moderns, another rare old Renner. Mis-matched wheeltrims too, if you look carefully.

As seen in this month's Craptical Plastics.

Shame about the Barried one.

The car you ordered from 1975 has just arrived, Sir!

.. and your order from 1983.

Someone literally living The Good Life.

Wrong plates aside, this is the definition of ORSUM.

 

That is all for now MOAR to follow soon.

 

[Partridge]

Some top quality 90's shite there!

[michael t]

excellent pics, and good to see another spotting thread

[George-Roper]

Whats going on with that maxi roof?

[Split_Pin]

That 121 is just brilliant. The Corsa is a bigger, fatter rip off of this car I reckon

[fordperv]

Very nice spots, well done for being at the forefront of the shite snapping revival

[PhilA]

Whats going on with that maxi roof?

 

Either sun* faded vinyl or a nice coat of Dulux, I reckon.

 

Did someone go a bit overboard with the suspension pump? I don't remember them sitting that high. Actually, most of the Maxis I remember from my childhood were sat with the rear wheels at least up into the arches. Either flat suspension or rust. Or both.

 

--Phil

[rml2345]

That big Sherpa camper has reached a solid 9.9 on my Wantometer. It looks bloody horrific.

[chaseracer]

That big Sherpa camper has reached a solid 9.9 on my Wantometer...

 

Kids!  Great news!  We're off to Skeggy for a fortnight - IN THE SHERPA!!

 

 

[derskine]

Can I put my spots here as I'm too lazy to find the lazy spotters thread

[Formula Autos]

Go right ahead. I'm not precious about such things.

 

Either that, or you could put them in the lazy spotters thread.

[EssDeeWon]

I need to try and remember my photobucket password then I intend to get out in the Essex area and make some shite spots, I love the spotted threads so I intend to contribute again in the very near.

[derskine]

 

 

Thema left to die

 

 

Edit: OMG no 1 interested in my spots afta 3 hours mite hav to scrap this place no what it used to be

[Formula Autos]

MOAR spots.

 

Another daily driver, still with the supplying dealer (CG Ford) sticker in the back window.

 

Some sort of Bedford, isn't it?

 

Spotted behind the stalls at Flookburgh Steam Gathering a few summers ago. I always have a sneaky peek at what the stall holders have turned up in - there's often good spots to be had.

 

Hiding at the back of the field at Dumfries Aviation Museum.

 

 

Ovlov villas - the garden's full of them. It's on a really busy, twisty road, and the nearest place you can pull up is about 1/4 of a mile away. This was the best shot I could get, and in the process of taking this someone nearly ploughed into the back of my car. The house is even more decrepit than the cars, and now seems abandoned.

 

This has been here at least ten years that I know of. E or F plate, from what I remember - though it's been about 8 years since I saw the numberplate.

 

No idea what it is, but it looks like it would probably survive a nuclear apocalypse.

 

The Midget owner thought I was snapping his car and came over for a chat. He seemed genuinely puzzled as to why I was more interested in the Prarie. I took a photo of his car to humour him, then deleted it.

 

From the "too good to cube or strip" section of a local scrappy.

 

 

[Skizzer]

Grand spots all round.  Laughed out loud at the Prairie/Midget incident 

[Formula Autos]

Yet MOAR:

 

Front wing invisibly repaired by T Fuckwit & Sons Coachworks.

 

What are the odds an MG Metro Turbo will die in order to resurrect this pile of crap?

 

Not really shite, I suppose - but I like it.

 

Same as this thing, parked up in the courtyard of Kielder Castle.

 

Seemingly dumped near where I live. Occasionally a black vinyl spot falls off and blows down the road.

[vulgalour]

As did I.  There's buckets of Midgets about the place but a Prairie is something special.

 

Both those manky nuclear apocalypse tow trucks might be AECs.

[Formula Autos]

I CAN HAZ MOAR SPOTS AGAIN:

 

Parked up near the Sapphire I posted earlier.

 

More dead chod. Check out the hole next to the sunroof.

 

Cheating a bit, as it's at a car show. I have seen it in the wild though, as well.

 

With bonus double finger over the lens ineptitude.

 

The barriers are presumably to ward off chartered surveyors from Biggleswade.

 

I didn't even know such things existed. LHD, so presumably an import from the continent?

 

Tidy late Clubman with bonus underseal tidemark at the front. Still bombing about as an old ladies' daily.

 

Another car show cheat, but posting pictures of a biege Reliant on here comes with minimal risk of a flaming.

 

In the wild, this one. A Lanchester, is it not?

 

And a super rare spot to finish today's proceedings. A Panther Rio, parked next to the Dolly it's based on. Looks like they modified everything except the windscreen and front door glass though.

[Split_Pin]

 

On FixMyStreet today and this was on the front page. Its in Kenbworth. Looks like a Renault 18.

[scruff]

Second nuke survivor is a AEC Matador previously owned by a real character called Captain Carter from the Isle of Man, on Flickr there are some great pics of his other kit being used on the IoM. 

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65679338@N08/with/5973410575/

[chaseracer]

 

Seemingly dumped near where I live. Occasionally a black vinyl spot falls off and blows down the road.

 

 

Quite probably, the most interesting thing ever to happen to a diseasel Trafic...

[CreepingJesus]

Think your military Bedford is an OB (iirc), but I'd happily take the truckshite MAN it's sitting on, out for a spin!

[mercrocker]

GR9 shots, love these threads and wish could contribute but difficult with Olympus trip and I HAZ NO SKANNA....Think  that lorry might be Ford WOT - beddy OBs were postwar but it could be an OW (for wartime).   Truck skillz not good from behind!  

[Formula Autos]

I can haz nu spots.

 

More grim cars, as seen in grim Northern towns.

 

For your delectation, Sirs (and Ladies):

Note the repair to the already mis-matched rear end. Plywood is for WINNARS.

 

Supposedly dumped to piss off their neighbours and make it difficult for them to get on and off their drive.

 

Picture 1 from The Chod Farm

 

The owner's no doubt inside, enjoying a pint or four.

 

More from The Chod Farm.

 

Almost a Cat Piss Tarp Challenge. Must try harder.

 

Speaking of challenges, who'd like to identify this?

 

Also outside a pub.

 

 

I'm not sure what's going on with the Olympic rings on the back, but otherwise full of WIN.

 

As is this beauty.

 

Spotted through a gap in a garden gate. There's loads more chod in here, but I can't get any decent photos.

 

Hand painted, from what I can remember. Grim.

 

C'mon kids! Let's go out in Dad's new camper. It's got the engine out of a Porsche 924 in it, you know?

 

Another from the chod farm. Somehow it made it through the '70s without being crashed in a Euston Films production.

 

 

[Parky]

Ambassador I reckon. It isn't a Princess as Vulgalour would have had it by now!

[Formula Autos]

I'd concur.

 

The biggest mystery though is how it got there. The nearest road's about 100 foot higher, and you'd struggle to drive anything through that field, never mind a FWD family car. I reckon it might have gone flying backwards off the main road above many years ago, particularly as the shell seems banana shaped.

 

I bet that landing hurt.

 

Though then again, the jaws of life don't seem to have been anywhere near it, which I'd have thought would have happened after an accident of that sort.

 

Who knows? It's been there at least 15 years that I know of.

[Skizzer]

Maybe they grew it from seed. These days of GM crops, you never know.

 

Cracking spots.

[mouseflakes]

Maybe they grew it from seed. These days of GM crops, you never know.

 

Cracking spots.

 

Surely that would result in a Vauxhall of some sort?

[mouseflakes]

Great spots - CX looks interesting. No doubt rotten as a pair of rotten pears.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Seen this twice now in the last week or so but wtf is it? If it doesn't show on the pic right it's got a BMW badge on the front