barrett Posted November 17, 2019 Author Share Posted November 17, 2019 Hello. Here's the first batch from my new phone. Starting out with an autumnal Polo with the Xantia sneaking in the background These next lot are all Kent coast sightings. I really, really like this bit of Kent but the tat levels are disappointingly low, though what's there is of a pretty high quality. I can't remember the last time I saw a rough street-parked mk2 Escort I actually saw this on street view by chance but assumed it would be long-gone as it's in the gateway of a backstreet garage, so it was a pleasant semi-surprise find. Definitely one of the highlights of the year so far same location, a Miller cycle Maz on forrin plates. Looked pretty abandoned to me but who knows Pretty damn superb W123 hearse. I would definitely drive an old hearse. Good 'what's in the garage?' pic Xantia from Xantia. Amazing how rare these have become but also not amazing at all considering I've killed two personally And here's a Rover with the worst DIY paint job I've seen in a long time Here's some from today. I did an auto jumble in Midhurst and these were all in the car park. I like how wonky these early lwb station wagons look I guess this is of interest just because it was so immaculate. I did get the number if anyone feels an overwhelming urge to own it This is cheating as it belongs to my friend. It's his 'modern' car and it's a total shed. Rusty bumpers, filthy wheels, terrible paint. Glorious I've known about this for ages but have never had an opportunity to photograph it before. Again, just pure, finely distilled shite of the highest grade, and still working hard for a living. The owner is exactly how you'd imagine, too That's all for now LightBulbFun, Skizzer, inconsistant and 21 others 21 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Nice plate on that Brighton registered P6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 MK2 Escort, Skud and hearse please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 On my first holiday since 2011. Just touched down in Lisbon. Here are some live shite spots accrued whilst the missus wasn't looking. I think the Suzuki is actually a Maruti!! Sudsprint, RobT, adw1977 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Have a good holiday. Try not to buy any chod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 Ooooof! Remspoor, strangeangel, Skizzer and 12 others 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 Right then, here's what eight days in Portugal will get you. Overall impressions were a little disappointing - lots of dull modern cars with a smattering of early '90s bilge but little else. I have the feeling if I'd been there 10 years ago the streets would have been teeming with rammle, but the tourist trade has certainly changed the country's main cities a great deal recently and an influx of foreign property investors has probably irreparably ruined a lot of the atmosphere there. For non-non-shite purposes it was bloody great and I'd reccomend it to anyone who likes crumbling buildings, 1970s signage and good cheap food (and walking). My first wander round Lisbon netted the previously posted, and these. Tried to get away with a subtle pic here but was rumbled, which soon developed into a fun* game where my missus tried to jump into frame every time I snapped a car. Hilarious. This was a highlight. Looked absolutely mint, unlike a lot of the older cars I saw Really satisfying spotting the old black and white plates on stuff Lots of R4s around, easily the most common old car, whilst I only saw a couple of 2CVs fewer old commercial vehicles than I had hoped, but still a handful of older things playing various trades Another one, just behind the Mitsubishi And this was a couple of cars along There were loads of R5s about, and even more AXs, Unos and Pandas another highlight. In a 'cool' bit so presumably owned by a hip young blade rather than an old duffer. Looked very tidy another one... lots of cool car-based vans not familiar in the UK. I had no idea these existed but it looked great. Novas (well, Opel Corsas) were also very common to the point I only photographed a small handful. I did see another van, too, but it was much rougher Lovely CX 2.5 Turbot in 'that colour' with the window Louvre etc. Lovely. Most vans are fully decorated by the region's amateur street artists This is becoming unwieldy on my phone. More in a sec... egg, RobT, strangeangel and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 See, hilarious. I did say 'Men on the internet will be looking at that later' but it didn't make any difference A shit photo, but this Merc hearse was mega. I also saw, but to my eternal regret could not capture, a BEDFORD MIDI HEARSE which might just be the most shite vehicle ever built 404 pick-up advertising a shop just outside my digs in Porto (v nice city, would go again) Lovely old BMW is exactly the sort of thing I would ignore in the UK, but this looked so 'right' in that colour and on those steelies another 'still working' Transit. This was the only proper Mk3 I saw, but I'm pleased to report lots of Portuguese Transits have the pointless single 'hatchback' door thing that I love A very typical street scene. The Panda was more loved than most with fancy alloys etc An Sierra More bilge. Particularly scenic images here. What a beautiful country. Never seen a Clio van before so I was quite excited about this! An odd Toyota truck thing. A few similar such vehicles were seen, of indeterminate age and model There was a smattering of Cavaliers, mostly booted An proper cla**ic. Nice. Nocturnal 305. I really like the look of these Ending on a high note. I went to a bar on the top floor of an Art Déco car park (a sort of bougie European take on Trinity Square, if you will) and took the stairs back down to see what I could find. yum! Let's have a closer look... frankly, it doesn't get much better than a beige Simca 1100 estate, does it? catsinthewelder, Vantman, vulgalour and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Nice selection there. Toyota truck might be a Dyna? The 120Y is a 3-door, we never got that permutation (just the 5-door estate, and a 3-door panel van). Can't remember if we got Clio vans, but we did the Nova. I remember a colleague having one. Simca looks ace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 That Simca is delicious, as is the Series 1 CX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 28 minutes ago, barrett said: frankly, it doesn't get much better than a beige Simca 1100 estate, does it? No, it really doesn't. I am shamelessly quoting the picture on purpose just so we can see it again. Outstanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Something in the back of my mind makes me think that Simca is an early one, but can't recall why - did later ones have a chrome waist-trim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Morose Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Man, oh man. I’ve got the serious want for one of these.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
406V6 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Enjoyed the Portuguese pics. They seem to hang on to old cars. I had a holiday in the Lisbon area in 1995 and played "spot the Vauxhall Viva" quite successfully. Also spotted an Opel equivalent of the F series Victor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 2 hours ago, High Jetter said: Something in the back of my mind makes me think that Simca is an early one, but can't recall why - did later ones have a chrome waist-trim? Early-ish, certainly - later ones had flatter door handles and more vent holes in the wheels. The mudflaps look 60s rather than 70s too, but may not be original. Lack of a chrome rubbing strip denotes poverty rather than age, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudsprint Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Lovely 3P - still miss both that I had On 1/10/2020 at 5:35 PM, barrett said: Ooooof! egg and timolloyd 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 I saw lots of Dynas, of various ages, in Malta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny69 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Cor, woof woof etc, and the cars aren’t bad either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted February 18, 2020 Author Share Posted February 18, 2020 A mixed bag of start-of-year spots from around the globe* I must have passed this rough old Saab a thousand times before but somehow never noticed it. I'll admit to suffering from slight Saab blindness though so not a huge surprise Never seen this one before. Looked very tidy really, although it was missing an alloy from the other side. Am I right in thinking Robert Opron styled the dashboard in these? One of these. Did see an earlier one the same day but it was too dark for a photo. Still probably the most numerous of the older camper conversions but always nice to see. There's a really good CF1 I have found which I will attempt to bring you next month. Don't hold your breath From Worthing to Paris, as my peripatetic lifestyle demands. In the middle of the city, sticking two fingers up to Crit Air Always nice to see one of these, and I got to tell my story about why it looks like a Panhard 24BT to an interested friend, thereby seeming more knowledgable and worldly than I actually am I went oop north for a funeral, and found a Car I Didn't Know Existed. It's a Ssangyong, obviously Piss poor photo and subject, even by my standards, but it looked immensely appealing in a sea of moderns Here's one I've known about for years but have never managed to snap. Well worth the wait, I think you'll agree. Placement of parked cars prevented a 'shite car and house' full reveal, but suffice to say its the only building on this small road of nice houses in a well-to-do area of West London with peeling paint on the windows and brambles overtaking the garden. It's an intriguing 'what's in the garage?', too, as there is a lean-to behind the gate and behind that a large, rusting corrugated iron garage that could probably hold three old cars. Hopefully somebody will be there at the right moment to document it when the inevitable happens A similarly picturesque view from the opposite end of the city My spot of the month has to go to this one, however. You can see my hands shaking with barely contained excitement here and slightly blurring the image. What an absolute babe Let's have another look? I'm glad to see the owner of this has received the memo about it being illegal to operate one without two large roof bars fitted at all times. Those steel wheels are deeply sexy. didn't even look too bad under all the grim. Lovely. That's it for now. Join me again for another instalment of The Wandering Barrett next time! HillmanImp, 500tops, vulgalour and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 28 minutes ago, barrett said: Not really relevant but my dad used to own a Renault 19 GTS-X J247 EAP. First car I drove legally on the road. LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 That 11 is alluring. Maybe I should buy some period Paddy Hopkirk roof bars for mine. Get it earning its keep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Yeah I can see the resemblance, especially a Celica Coupé that we didn't get (as above) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 On 1/21/2020 at 9:13 PM, Inspector Morose said: Man, oh man. I’ve got the serious want for one of these.. But...what in blue blistering barnacles is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bramz7 Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Lancia Kappa bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inconsistant Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Nice spots! How you feel about those Transit pressed steel wheels might be the same as how I feel about the rubber rear wheel arch extensions on the other Transit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 Just because there's nothing else to do, here is a very crappy selection of everything I've seen recently. Predictably my phone died just before lockdown and I've not investigated getting it replaced yet, so I'm back to my shitty old potatocam version for the time being. Also I've not really been off on dedicated spotting trips or owt, just what I can find on my 'daily excercise' which has included a few massive sub-urban walks in South London. Still, nothing really to report except: This flippin' thing! this one wasn't on 'the list' of UK Corvairs so I assume its a fairly recent import. not 100 per cent on the wheels (are they Trans am or summat?) but otherwise looks bang-on. These 2nd gen cars really are among the best looking things ever to come out of America (and the best-handling, despite what people say). Glorious. This was seen the same day, and snapped mainly for the benefit of @bramz7. It's so rare to see a low-spec one in proper farmer spec (this was on a proper farm, during an unsuccessful mission to find organic eggs) I did a circular through the green chain path the other day, which was mostly in woods and shit obviously, but there was a bit of urban stuff too. This one is just a dull modern car, but interesting because it's seemingly just been abandoned to fester, despite being significantly newer than any car I've owned Again, the subject is too new to be of interest but i liked the whole mise en scene and it's a contender for shite house/cars I actually liked this house. This is the oldest thing I've seen for ages, disappointingly. I have a load of things I want to go and photograph but no justification to travel at the mo (and I'd like to wait until I have a better camer again) so this is as good as it gets right now. Soz! RayMK, Christine, RobT and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 The Corvair wheels are off an IROC Camaro I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 That Corvair pic was taken within half a mile of me. I've never seen it there, are around the area, before. Good looking car in that colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 The styling of that Corvair is interesting, I can seen how 1970s Vauxhalls and especially Opels developed from it. Not so much the front and back end but the roof and window detailing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 Forgive me, chumps, for I have sinned. I posted a picture of a modern car because I felt like I had nothing to offer the spotting gods in this time of paucity. Well, GUESS WHAT? I'm fuggin' atoning right now, mofos. Okay, this one isn't that visually stimulating, but believe it or not this is a Trojan/Heinkel bubble car just sat in somebody's front garden under a tarp. Not quite as impressive as that scruffy Messerschmitt that's somewhere in London, but still quite heartwarming that stuff like this still exists. This is a bit more like it. A lovely* old Avenger wagon. Must be a fairly early survivor on a 1972 reg. Despite appearances, there is a Smart car behind it and the only access to this garden is the drive on which the Avenger is parked, so perhaps it's not been sat here as long as it looks. Off the road since 1998 though, so who knows. Remember when @Mr_Bo11ox pulled one of these out of a field and spent a day manually swapping a load of tyres over so he could a-frame it home? That's one of my all-time favourite shite-saving stories. Local people may well recognise this old heap, which has been parked in this front garden on a main road for flippin' years. Normally this is a mega-busy route with no chance of pulling over for a photograph, but thanks to the GLOBAL PANDEMIC there was virtually no traffic there on Saturday so I nipped in for a shot! And hey, if you do recognise the Cav, did you know this is in the back garden of the same house? I love how the cover sill has just fallen off and is now a depositary for a load of moss (I love moss) Less exciting, and in a really nice part of Town, but this looked 'just right' on the cobbles etc, and I do really like these. Could be a still from an episode of The Sweeney, perhaps This old 'nut was down the bottom of the same road, looking rather sorry for itself. I do love seeing 1950s stuff street-parked and obviously more or less perma-static. Imagine the rigmarole invovled if you just wanted to pop to the shops in this or whatever. Get the compressor out, pump up the tyres, find the easy start, peg the choke out (you just know a peg is involved), get some jump leads or a jump pack or whatever. By the time you've got it idling the shops'll all be shut anyway. Anyway, how about THIS THING? Not sure I've ever seen a Lada like this in the wild before (since I started taking photos of cars) but a glance through this thread will probably reveal if I'm talking out of my arse or not here. Whatever, off the road since 2012 but looks like it would probably fire right up and get you to Glasgow and back with no bother. Headlamp wipers, too, for those of you that care Well, that's actually it now. There will hopefully be more despite the current restrictions, which tbh I am fully ignoring and just treating the world like my own private playground atm (unless you consider dropping off jars of kimchi to people and buying cinamon buns to be 'essential') vulgalour, Asimo, Coprolalia and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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