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Hey, check this out you muddy funsters! A shiny new spotted thread 'cause I got sick of the old one, which is here: http://autoshite.com/topic/5861-brighton-spots-2014-omg/

 

 

This rotten Riley was seen back in March. Obviously just dragged out of a bush, and off to the scrappy within a week

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1960 Riley One Point Five by barrogance, on Flickr

 

I've driven past this a million times and always meant to spot when I was in my Standard but never got round to it. I think this has gone now, too

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1957 Standard Super 10 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

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1990 Alfa Romeo 33 Station Wagon by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Quite appealing in a hopeless sort of way, in Wales

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1953 Morris Six MS by barrogance, on Flickr

 

A Volvo, I think, near the Morris

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No idea by barrogance, on Flickr

 

A different Volvo

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1971 Volvo 1800S by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Serial Celica-owner near me had/has this for a while, been off the road for 20 years but looks mint

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1983 Toyota Celica by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Nice basic Consul in central Brighton

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1957 Ford Consul by barrogance, on Flickr

 

One of the best cars I've seen this year

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1965 Wolseley 6/110 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Isabelle

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1968 ERF by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Council estate-chic SD1 in Shoreham

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1987 Rover SD1 VdP by barrogance, on Flickr

 

A Tiny Car

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1962 Morris 850 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

 

Batshit 2cv thing

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1985 Citroen 2cv widebody by barrogance, on Flickr

 

By some fluke 75% of the cars filling up here were pre-1990, I think there was a rough MGB and a series Land Rover too plus whatever shit I was in

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1975 Mercedes 280CL by barrogance, on Flickr

 

 

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On my way back from Chester in the BX, a very pretty girl in full '50s garb plus three passengers was giving this the beans. Lovely stuff

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1986 Renault R4 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

A Jaguar

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1985 Jaguar XJ6 SIII by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Bit of a headscratcher this one. I think it's based on Mitsubishi Evo running gear. Looks pretty smart I reckon

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X Works Prodrive P2 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

A Standard in worse nick than mine

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Standard Pennant by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Pork

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1981 Porsche 924 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Had a hard job catching up with this thing which was being CANED like a bastard

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1983 Alfa Romeo Alfasud by barrogance, on Flickr

 

There used to be an early Reliant Rialto here, which was replaced by this thing which has seemingly not moved since. Are these worth anything yet? Reckon it would clean up all right, should I bother knocking?

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1988 VW Polo L by barrogance, on Flickr

 

another Polo, these things have vanished recently

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1989 VW Polo C by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Horrid 'Stro

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Rover Maestro by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Horrid Triumph

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1969 Triumph Vitesse by barrogance, on Flickr

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Another Sud, I think this one was due for conversion into a track car, which is a shame as it looked mega clean

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1978 Alfa Romeo Alfasud by barrogance, on Flickr

 

In Swindon

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Fiat 126 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

GR9 4 EXPORT

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1989 Peugeot 505 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

This thing was ridiculously cool. It's a late car that's been converted to early chrome bumpers and looks all the better for it. Parked up in central Brighton and attracting a lot of attention

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1985 Citroen CX Prestige Turbo by barrogance, on Flickr

 

This was bought by my friend's boss for his missus, but I can't find any trace of the reg online, so dunno wtf is going on there. super clean

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Datsun Cherry by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Some VOLVO-bummer had this among the collection of decaying bricks outside his house

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1964 Renault R8 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

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1990 Volvo 340 GL by barrogance, on Flickr

 

The current Ms_B lives in a shite-rich area though can't tell a Triumph from a fuggin' Honda Jazz, so I had to find this thing myself

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1968 Triumph 2000 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Well traveled R4

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Renault R4 Savane by barrogance, on Flickr

 

 

This is owned by a lad who works in my local garage and has done some work on my Allegro. He also has an MG turbo project thing which is parked a few cars down from this

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Maestro D by barrogance, on Flickr

 

A normal looking bloke was unloading his kids from this in Asda car park. Looked mega clean

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1987 Toyota Corolla by barrogance, on Flickr

 

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1994 Honda Beat by barrogance, on Flickr

 

I find this incredibly desirable for some reason

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1985 Renault R4 van by barrogance, on Flickr 

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Solid-gold shite Montego in Tesco's car park

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Montego Clubman by barrogance, on Flickr

 

This is by far the roughest road-legal vehicle I have ever seen. It's fuggin' incredible, every panel is totally shagged and it's held together with gaffer tape. I am deffo going to Wales for all my future MoTs

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1983 Bedford KB by barrogance, on Flickr

 

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1993 Subaru Brat by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Timewarp in Broadbridge Heath

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1979 Austin Mini 25 and Toyota MR2 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Garden of shite in Horsham. This chap was selling a really clean Mk3 Escort recently as seen in the ebay tat thread

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Ford Cortina Mk1 and 1963 Oldsmobile by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Absolutely mint BX was for sale recently in Surrey, and has ended up in Brighton

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1992 Citroen BX by barrogance, on Flickr

 

tbh I never knew this was even a thing, a Hanomag-badged Merc T2 with different front end

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1970s Hanomag by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Just-out-of-test BX in Gloucestershire. Have left a note but not heard anything yet, fingers crossed!

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1994 Citroen BX TZD by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Last one for now. An Imp. You never see these things in the wild anymore do you? Wouldn't mind a crack at one of these though I have completely gone of British cars tbh

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1971 Hillman Imp by barrogance, on Flickr

 

I will try and keep this updated if there is the faintest whiff of interest. Cheers!

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I got so excited seeing these spots at work that the spods came up to see if I had bypassed the porn filter.... Top spottages and evidence that you may seem to be inhabiting a parallel universe.   Although I note many are in Brighton which probably explains that.  More please!

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My dubious mathematic skills suggest that you photographed 1.11% of all Renault 4's left un the UK (according to HML) in those posts.

 

*EDIT* I just noticed that one of them is on a French plate so its actually just 0.74% so not all that impressive really. FFS TRY HARDER!

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Lovin' it, proper old fashioned spotting thread with nothing less than 20 years old.  There is a very strong whiff of interest, at least from me, so please carry on.

 

 

This thing was ridiculously cool. It's a late car that's been converted to early chrome bumpers and looks all the better for it. Parked up in central Brighton and attracting a lot of attention

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1985 Citroen CX Prestige Turbo by barrogance, on Flickr

 

 

On a B-plate, this might just be a late chrome bumper one - the plastic bumpers an' ting arrived on a C-plate if I remember rightly.  Hella fogs are the mark of someone who has won at life.

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totally agree with Skizzer - great stuff Barrett. And congrats on Ms_B.

 

Nice to see LMJ again... here it is in 1993... Perkins V8 lots of noise and not much go.

 

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That Hanomag is freaky-looking.

 

Horsham garden o' shite is great. Those Mk1 'tinas always look like someone's blowing a hair dryer in their face.

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Yes, plenty of great stuff parked up around the side streets here in Brighton, including my v early super basic PG 106 in the area. I think you captured both of my previous Dyanes      ('67 and '70) in earlier spots; please keep the Sussex Shite spot pics up, thanks.

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Strike a light! By some extraordinary coincidence I'm off to Brighton tomorrow. You'll recognise me if you see me, I'll be the bloke with his head spinning in all directions taking photos while his fiancée looks on with furious contempt.

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What's happened to the Cherry?!! It has disappeared, maybe she didn't like it and weighed it in. We may have to kill her if so.

 

We were in a Berkeley/Volvo 740 convoy when the weird 2CV was spotted.

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Word up, doucheholes! Found a few more hitherto unpublished snaps on my phone, didn't I

 

A terrible picture of a motorised tin whelk

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Commer PB coachbuilt camper by barrogance, on Flickr

 

A horrid Vauxhall, Crawley station car park

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1991 Vauxhall Nova by barrogance, on Flickr

 

A better Vauxhall, Prescott

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1994 Vauxhall Carlton by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Somewhere between Yorkshire and Sussex, through the window of a Vivaro

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1981 Ford Escort by barrogance, on Flickr

 

VSCC Autumn sprint, Goodwood 

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Citroen CX by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Car park of the dreadful pub near my office. Vivaro door left open in my haste to capture this smart Harold. I like an estate version, but not with the 13/60 bonnet

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1970 Triumph Herald 13/60 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

 

Went to look at this Ami a while back, but it was a little crustier than we were happy with and it ended up selling for much more than it was worth (to us). Dyna had only been in the country two days at this point!

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1963 Citroen Ami 6 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Only saw two BXs on my flying visit to France a week or so back, which was a surprise. Really like the basic nature of this one

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Citroen BX D by barrogance, on Flickr

 

I've suddenly got a raging horn for a ZX so it seemed rude not to snap this one. I'd like a very early phase one, three-door in a nice colour ta

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1995 Citroen ZX Aura by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Two '60s saloons. The Herald feels positively agricultural after the Ami, absolutely every facet of it is slightly worse. I've gone off British cars in a big way tbh, I dunno how we sustained a motor industry for as long as we did

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Herald and Ami by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Nice car park timing somewhere in Kent. Not the Moon discs on the Deux!

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1987 Citroen 2cv by barrogance, on Flickr

 

All for now

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