Junkman Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 The reverse of the "How far from the UK have you seen a UK-registered car?" thread. Not may foreign registered cars can be seen in Stockport at any time (now there is a surprise), so I was quite puzzled when I saw aMalta registered Mercedes E300 estate the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I remember seeing a Dubai-registered Nissan something or other in Sunderland of all places once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SambaS Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Lots of US plated cars around Harrogate/ Skipton due to RAF Menwith Hill, US spy base thing. I did chuckle seeing an old Focus, I think the cost of shipping must have been twice the value of the car brickwall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 New South Wales Landcruiser in Cheltenham a few years ago. Battered enough to have driven here too. scruff and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I have seen this Range Rover from Andorra. From where? by MattLikesCars, on Flickr Junkman and brickwall 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Lots of US plated cars around Harrogate/ Skipton due to RAF Menwith Hill, US spy base thing. I did chuckle seeing an old Focus, I think the cost of shipping must have been twice the value of the car Don't worry about the cost, it's only taxpayers' Dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Got passed by several foreign plates tonight on the way home. Couldn't tell you what country they were from, was chuckling at an idiot getting tangled up in the contraflow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Last time I was in Norfolk I came across some big Ford SUV thing with Oregon numberplates. It was just down the road from a USAF base (Lakenheath possibly?) which would explain that. Apparently the Yanks based over here bring literally everything over with them as they get a very generous allowance from the US government to relocate here. Shep Shepherd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banger Kenny Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 A mid 80's Chrysler Le Baron convertible on Qatar plates of all things - It had apparently been driven to the U.K by some bloke working in the oil business and then promptly blew up when it had run dry of the stuff - I had to push that bloody thing out of the garage on my own every morning first thing when I was an apprentice in the early 90's He got a hardtop imported from the states to do an engine swap - that was just as knackered so I had to push that as well Happy Times of my youth. Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SambaS Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Speaking of US plated stuff: Shep Shepherd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_Fearn Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 3 or 4 years ago there was a really tidy newish Lada Niva on Russian plates kicking around Derby. I last saw it in a half decent bodyshop with a bin bag over what used to be the rear window with a good sized bash in the bootlid. Theres tons of Russian BMWs, Mercs, Range Rovers etc on the Costa Blanca these days. The Germans went home when the tax laws changed and flogged their holiday homes to the Russians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Probably the Montana-plated Linc-Nav noted in the other thread. Though back when I was a student, some bloke had a Porsche 944 on Oman plates. So what, you say... but this was Newcastle upon Tyne in 1985! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Last time I was in Norfolk I came across some big Ford SUV thing with Oregon numberplates. It was just down the road from a USAF base (Lakenheath possibly?) which would explain that. Apparently the Yanks based over here bring literally everything over with them as they get a very generous allowance from the US government to relocate here. They used to get an allowance to bring stuff over here but nothing to take stuff back - hence there were always loads of cheap Yanks for sale near USAF bases. That's changed now, unfortunately for the likes of us (or those of us that like Yanks anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Speaking of US plated stuff: Americans- we drive on the left in this country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat.T Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I spotted this Swiss registered LT at Milford Sound, New Zealand. Edit: doesn't count cos its not in the UK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I went to a wedding near RAF/USAFMildenhall a year or so ago and stayed in a travel lodge style hotel with a little chef attached next to a big roundabout. In the morning I settled down to my little thief breakfast eyeing up the island waiting for all the 1970's/80's yank tank Buicks, Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles to lurch their way around the roundabout. Imagine my disappointment when the only yank registered cars seemed to be smallish Kias, yank Mondeo things and similar boring throwaway shite. I did see an enormous Lincoln Navigator and a Yank spec Volvo 240 estate, which was nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DS20 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Yesterday: a right-hand drive but Bosnian-registered Mercedes ML-something lumbering around the supermarket carpark, and a Turkish-registered HGV on Peaks Parkway (both here in Grimsby). Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 When I were a lad, I lived not too far from Edzell where the Yanks had a base/listening post. There were always mediocre yank cars wafting around the surrounding towns. My primary school used to play sports against kids from the base. I remember they had vending machines full of forrin chocolate bars. I wondered WTF a Snickers bar was and was bitterly disappointed to find it tasted like a Marathon. Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian_pt Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Mercedes SL from the 80s crusing round Chelsea with plates from Ghana - last year. Looked pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratdat Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 A few weeks ago when I was on my way back from Dunstable I saw a huge old vintage car with an elderly couple in it trundling along the A1. It had Queensland reg plates on it and it looked like they were probably on some kind of epic round the world type adventure. Sadly, I didn't clock what car it was but I'd love to know the story behind it and what it was doing here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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