Heep's Canadian Spots - Updated April 03

8.5k · June 13, 2009

That house is just great.

There's really nothing like that left here now, certainly not round these parts. Certain parts of 'the burbs' in london/herts you find the odd 'mad cat lady' type house, but they never last that long as generally everything on a plot big enough to squeeze 8 'executive' homes on is going to get snapped up fast, even in these [slightly less] depressed days.

32,420 · June 13, 2009

That reminds me, I have a collection of NB plates exactly like this somewhere. My Cousin would bring a few over each time he visited. I've also got an allegedly really really old Rhode Island one, that, from what I can remember, has black digits on a white background. I wanted to paint it up but he told me not to as it might be valuable or something??

I really like that Ford Maverick!

June 14, 2009

Thanks all. I'm just happy to have like minds to share this stuff with!

Here's a rear shot of that Maverick. It was at a local car show at which I shot all the cars, but of course 99% of them are not really Autoshite material

Iain: I think the Maverick is Hampton-based, I see it around here from time to time. Your family may know of it.

July 27, 2009

Alright, massive update here, 125 photos! I'll start off with some Canadian spots, then move on to my European spots. I got married on the 4th and our honeymoon started in France, then went to the UK - so most of these spots are from either place.

But anyways, back in Canada...

Lovely Toyota motorhome, only $11,000 I think...

Daily Cadillac

Volvo 740 Turbo, lovely machine

Oh yeah Firebird

Plymouth Horizon

Grand Marquis

Parisienne

American spot actually, rough Regal

Absurd, love it

Sterling K-Car

Unintended accelerator

Bright wheels

Green with green vinyl roof and green interior

Impala/Caprice

Volvo

Now in Paris...

Wouldn't normally include this but its batteredness warranted inclusion I thought

305

4

Rovah

Shot this before realizing they're still everywhere in France

Escort

Green Renner 9!

Sorry, inexcusably poor framing of this shot

Then an 11...

Espace

Superb Saab

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8081.jpg

OK Saab

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8083.jpg

SEAT

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8089.jpg

WTF

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8092.jpg

Lots of lovely old Renners in France...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8096.jpg

Then went out west near Laval...

Another 205, stopped shooting these thereafter

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8165.jpg

Stopped shooting these thereafter as well

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8166.jpg

19 Cab

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8192.jpg

"Non-scene," if there is one

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8194.jpg

Alfa

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8201.jpg

Another Escort

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8202.jpg

BX

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8205.jpg

French Shite lifestyle

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8207.jpg

Cool beast though

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8208.jpg

Was rather chuffed to see this

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8240.jpg

Holy Smokes Pristine Metro

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8265.jpg

W123 with great trims

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8280.jpg

Overgrown

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8281.jpg

I haven't even seen one of these in North America in a decade, and here's one in rural France...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8283.jpg

Old van

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8284.jpg

Alfa 75, almost the same as my old one

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8297.jpg

Opel

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8357.jpg

Still working

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8361.jpg

Cooler

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8447.jpg

Then I stumbled across THIS place...Matra-Simca-Talbot-Chrysler garage, oh yeah!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8458.jpg

Rancho!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8459.jpg

The stuff not worthy of a roadside view

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8460.jpg

Lovely one

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8461.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8462.jpg

I really liked this one

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8463.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8464.jpg

Turbo!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8466.jpg

Grotty Bagheera

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8467.jpg

Horizons

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8468.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8469.jpg

Solara

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8470.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8471.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8472.jpg

Great colour, the mold really suits it

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8473.jpg

Then spotted this Horizon the same day, not at the garage

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8575.jpg

Still a bit common I know, but I like these

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8580.jpg

164

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8585.jpg

4

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8662.jpg

Lovely little number

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8673.jpg

Beauty Delta

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8677.jpg

Citvan

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8681.jpg

Cool CX

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8689.jpg

11

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8690.jpg

Then back to Paris...

Scorpio

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8695.jpg

Lada!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8704.jpg

Lovely Accord

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8802.jpg

Wouldn't normally include this, but I've never seen a W140 just battered like this. Flat front tyre, dents everywhere, scratches, etc. I was shocked to look inside and see a manual gearlever too, I never knew the W140 was available with a manual

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8812.jpg

HOLY SMOKES PRISTINE ESPACE

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8825.jpg

Love these XMs

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F8952.jpg

And of course the CX...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9001.jpg

Another 75

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9007.jpg

Benz 600!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9011.jpg

205 Cab

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9025.jpg

Autobianchi

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9028.jpg

VW

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9047.jpg

Then to London...

Fellow out for a cruise in his old Alvis

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9557.jpg

Lovely Routemaster, didn't see many of these left in London

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9605.jpg

Daimler version of the S-Type

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9638.jpg

Dented E28

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9655.jpg

Whoa! Beat-up Chevrolet Chevette in the middle of Kensington, parked with the Ferraris and Astons and such!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9664.jpg

Toyota

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9668.jpg

Nice Saab

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9679.jpg

CPT challenge

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9691.jpg

Well used Spit amongst some money

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9693.jpg

Random Metro

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9701.jpg

Hindustan!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9702.jpg

Bristol!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9733.jpg

Not exactly shite but needed to be shown, shockingly pink

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9740.jpg

Then it was off to the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon, I won't include pictures from inside as they can be seen elsewhere, but if anyone has requests from there I can post.

This fancy Proton in the carpark though

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F9998.jpg

And this cool X1/9

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0002.jpg

Then a stop in nearby Shakespeare land...

Seen the six-door Mercs before, but never a six-door Saab!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0015.jpg

Volvo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0032.jpg

Then up to Beverley...

Panda

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0062.jpg

Then to Robin Hood's Bay...

Tiny van

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0190.jpg

P100

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0203.jpg

Then onwards to Scotland...

Ha!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0334.jpg

Decided to hire a car in Scotland and ended up with this off-white B-reg thing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0492.jpg

Scorpios!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0430.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0431.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0432.jpg

Then briefly back to Paris the night before flying back to Canada...

Renner

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0686.jpg

Generic Daewoo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0688.jpg

Lovely little 323

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0689.jpg

Then back in Canada this past weekend went to a car show in Prince Edward Island, I won't post cars from the show but here's some I saw on the way...

Caddy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0733.jpg

Caprice Classic

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0738.jpg

Cabrio

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0739.jpg

Green LTD

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0741.jpg

OK, this one was actually in the show, but made me do an excited little jig when I saw it. Many have before read about how my Mom had (a non-turbo) one of these when I was a tot and how I remember it fondly, but now I never, ever see them anymore. I saw one a few months back that made me jump for joy, but this one was in fantastic condition too, and was the even more rare (and much more quick) Turbo version!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F0891.jpg

Olds

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1020.jpg

Horizon

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1023.jpg

CHEROKEE CHIEF

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1026.jpg

Not so Supra

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1027.jpg

Old Colt!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1038.jpg

Canadian-only Pontiac version of the Chev Corsica

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1040.jpg

Toyota-based Chevrolet Nova with an incorrect Camry badge

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1046.jpg

And that's it...

4,444 · July 27, 2009

Wowsers! The Matra Simca Talbot place is at the very summit of Mt OMG. That is fantastic and should become a place of pilgrimage for all Autoshiteists.Brilliant selection of other stuff and congratulations on getting married

4.1k · July 27, 2009

Are you still married after all the spotting on your 'moon? If so, congrats! Excellent pics, all of them.

July 27, 2009

She knew what she was marrying! :DActually I took about 2,800 photos on the trip so 125 shite photos is just a drop in the bucket...

4.1k · July 27, 2009

500+ page wedding/honeymoon album...

3.8k · July 27, 2009

Congrats on getting hitched & great spots.I think those are diplomatic numberplates on that battered W140

July 27, 2009

Wow, that must break the record for number of Horizons in a single spotting post. Top notch!

4.1k · July 27, 2009

Congrats on getting hitched & great spots.I think those are diplomatic numberplates on that battered W140

Looks like it; Dutch diplomatic cars have CD for Corps Diplomatique too.

2,351 · July 27, 2009

Looks like a really good mixed up trip. Congrats

3.6k · July 27, 2009

What a brilliant trip That building on the left of the Beverley Panda used to be the Regal cinema and despite protests was pulled down and rebuilt a few years ago...

3,259 · July 27, 2009

Excellent pics. Dead W140s are quite common in the UK now as high technical complexity and expensive spare parts means they hit 'parked up - presumed dead' status quicker than the old 70s/80s stuff. There's a deceased S reg one on the main road into Aylesbury, for example.I also saw a T reg (1999) W220 (the next generation of S class) with rust starting on the edges of the panels, don't know if this was a poor respray job or a sign that Merc quality had really hit the floor by the start of this decade.

5k · July 27, 2009

Peugoet J7

great pics, keep 'em coming

47,287 · July 27, 2009

Whereabouts is that Talbot garage then? I've got a feeling its not a million miles from where Mutha_Bo1!ox lives. I MUST SEE IT!

July 27, 2009

Whereabouts is that Talbot garage then? I've got a feeling its not a million miles from where Mutha_Bo1!ox lives. I MUST SEE IT!

On the N162, somewhere between Laval and ChÃƒÂ¢teau-Gontier, on the west side of the road I think. You actually have to exit the N162 and take a small parallel road to access it. I think it was close to Laval if I recall correctly, actually if you type into Google Maps "Lotissement Artisanal, Le Rocher, 53260, France", that's my best guess as to where it was exactly.Edit: Did a look up on the number, that's exactly where it is actually...

5k · July 27, 2009

bah too far from me then

1.5k · July 27, 2009

Nice update!Sounds like an interesting trip, thanks for the pics..

4.1k · July 27, 2009

Some more on the garage and what they do here including address, apparently it's well known in France; you can find pretty much anything there (except panels) new or remade by the original companies, not cheap, and no email - just phone or fax.

July 27, 2009

As I was leaving, I saw a beautiful Vedette heading towards the garage...

2.4k · July 27, 2009

Congratulations on getting wed. That's some epic spotting, what a legend! The Talbot garage is ace - it looks like they closed one Friday in 1982 and left it exactly as it was!

What a brilliant trip That building on the left of the Beverley Panda used to be the Regal cinema and despite protests was pulled down and rebuilt a few years ago...

Quite so - barstewards

Here's what it should look like:

And here's the sorry end:

Been trying to get a snap of the blue Panda for ages

September 3, 2009

Quite some time since last update, so here goes. All Canadian spots this time, I'm afraid.

Rare Russian Niva. These were sold in Canada through 1998, but they were rare even then.

Thunderbird

Lovely RX-7

Rough '67 Fairlane

CPT challenge

Boss's old CRX racer, he's been racing this since about 1990. It was parked up for a few years before he brought it out recently and proceeded to successfully race it again on the old tires and such. Hondas...

Boss's latest Porsche (#5 then), a beat-to-crap '80 928.

Oldsmobile Oops

Swoosh VW

Fiero in a hedge

Plymouth Caravelle Salon

Volvo 760, currently for sale

Youngin' with a crooked baseball hat driving his bling Cadillac with loud exhaust

Riviera, been sitting for ages

Malibu

Oh yeah, Daewoo Nubira Estate for sale

GMC that's probably earned its living

Dodge Dart

Pontiac Phoenix. Been AGES since I last saw one. The big hatchback saloon thing never really caught on over here. These were FWD and notoriously crap.

Immaculate-looking Civic that's been sat on stands for at least a couple months now. No idea why. This shape is almost all gone here now from rust, strange that this one looks entirely unrusted but unusually (for an old Honda) seems to have mechanical woes? Nevertheless, I want it...

Monte Carlo

Nice Malibu

RHD Golf, odd, these are still plentiful here, not sure why someone bothered to import a RHD one.

Parked right beside that lovely white Civic, this '80s F-150 that also looks brand new

Crown Victoria

Nissan Stanza (aka Bluebird) hatchback! I know these were rather common in the UK, but they never were here. It seems 95% or so of these sold back in the day were 4-door saloon versions, and even those are extremely rare spots around here nowadays. I don't think I'd ever seen a hatchback one before in my life, thus, I was thrilled to see this.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1468.jpg

For sale, for sale - check the number plates

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1469.jpg

Cougar

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1471.jpg

'80s Vette with cool period mods

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1477.jpg

Old Chev bus converted into a camper

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1482.jpg

Civic - this shape is getting very rare here now too.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1485.jpg

'80s Pontiac Grand Am. I think I've only seen 2 of these in the past year, and both have been in surprisingly good condition.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1505.jpg

Cavalier Droptop

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1538.jpg

Beat Chevelle

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1562.jpg

Lovely Plymouth Reliant

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1631.jpg

Rare old Grand Prix

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1681.jpg

Big Caprice

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1714.jpg

Dead Accord. Always liked these.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1721.jpg

Another Reliant

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1748.jpg

Dead Malibu

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1756.jpg

Military Dodge

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1757.jpg

'72 Polara

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1763.jpg

More Porsche-shite

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1766.jpg

Super rare in Canada, P6 3500

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Heep/S73F1768.jpg

That's it for now.

2.5k · September 3, 2009

I always loved the bonnets on those export 3500s, always gave them a much more aggressive look.Nice spots!

1,422 · September 3, 2009

Nice collection , the Nissan Stanza may have been common over here once but not any more , cant remember the last time i saw one still alive , interesting random scattering of Tat behind the dead Accord

8.5k · September 3, 2009

GR8 4 PRINCIPAL ED ROONEY.

September 3, 2009

GR8 4 PRINCIPAL ED ROONEY.

LOL

4.1k · September 3, 2009

Excellent! Can't help but think 'poor cyclist' when I see that schoolcamperbus... or 'poor pedestrian' when it hits one.

1.5k · September 4, 2009

This is class, surprised nobody else has commented on it!

September 5, 2009

Heep wrote:

Also known as Plymouth Valiant...

Great spots Heep, Lovin that F-150 pick up

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