Watanabe's spots of EVAH - Suddenly It's 2012!

[Guest]

Into 2010 with yet more PSA sponsored despair.

 

I seem to be encountering a lot of 190Es at the moment.

 

 

Here's one in Altrincham.

 

 

 

This one's a bit of a shame. It was shoved to one side and unlocked in the car park of a Mercedes dealership. It was in exceptionally good condition (the arches were minter than mint). I really hope it wasn't a Scrappage job.

 

 

 

Next, to Hale. Hale has a bizarre mixture of old money smashing heads with the new rich. You get cars from both ends of the spectrum - some seriously expensive new kit, old shite that's been kept running since the 1970s, and a smattering of classics for good measure. This Volvo was in a spectacularly shitey state and resplendent in that horrible \ brilliant metallic copper gold colour.

 

 

More Hale goodness. This has been in the area for at least as long as I have. I still think they're a good looking car.

 

 

Bickle spec Bluebird. This was just across from the Pontiac.

 

 

 

 

Morris Minors are all over Hale. There's at least another two vans doing the rounds as decorators' hacks, and one has widened steels. Alan Marchant of the VWC has one as well. The droptop was near concours.

 

 

Massive (and I mean MASSIVE) Bentley Continental drophead. It fairly reeked of hot oil when parked.

 

 

This Saab 9000 is a bit weird. It belongs to someone who works very close to me in Heald Green - possibly the MIOC - and it's been in PPC. It's an Aero spec but has a CDX interior. It sits low to the ground and has some serious looking AP 4 pot calipers. For some reason it's started appearing in the car park at work. Not sure why.

 

 

Very smart ADO 9 drophead behind Manchester library.

 

 

Fucked Daewoo Espero, for Hirst. (Manchester)

 

 

Surprisingly together Alto SL 310, Northern Quarter.

 

 

Semi abandoned Sherpa drophead, Thomas Street NCP, Northern Quarter.

 

 

Dallas Spec Merc, same NCP.

 

 

Trabant Kombi, IWM.

 

 

Tres scene bay window van, Sale.

 

 

And, for the last time, Station's Suzuki SC 100 Whizzkid, Conwy.

 

That's you all up to date.

[pogweasel]

The 190E's are stalking you, it is a sign. Sack off your flimsy Shitroen, hop into a run-till-forever Merc. Makes sense. Also, liking the 'cadillac of minivans' there.

[Minimad5]

The 190E's are stalking you, it is a sign. Sack off your flimsy Shitroen, hop into a run-till-forever Merc. Makes sense.

What He Said !

[Mr_Bo11ox]

http://www.entertonement.com/clips/pptzgsjchq--Get-Shorty-John-Travolta-Chili-Palmer-Danny-DeVito-Cadillac-of-Minivans

[Station]

 

And, for the last time, Station's Suzuki SC 100 Whizzkid, Conwy.

 

That's you all up to date.

Got stuck on the A55 going home for an hour!!!!

[Guest]

MOAR.

 

 

E34 M5, Birch Hill.

 

 

Beetle with period decal, Altrincham.

 

 

MGB Roadster, Sale.

 

 

Morris Minor Traveller, Sale. Had to take that one from a distance in case people thought I was on the rob.

 

 

Ford Anglia Van in BEA livery. It's a lovely thing, the picture doesn't do it justice.

 

 

Renault Safrane (late), Adelphi campus car park.

 

 

Ford F1, Stoke.

 

 

Pair of Monaros, Arnold Clark, Stretford. Memo to the tw*ts at AC - if I'm paying you 50 large for a slab of Aussie shonk, at least put the f*cking number plate on straight.

 

 

Saab 96 (semi derelict), Walsall.

 

 

Bentley, A666.

 

 

Toyota WiLL VI, M6 services.

 

 

VW Beetle (Cal Look), Adelphi campus.

 

 

Morris Minor, Halfords White City.

 

 

Triumph Acclaim (immaculate giffer spec), Halfords White City.

 

 

Land Rover Ambulance, Warrington. The rearmost wheels weren't driven.

 

 

Panther Lima \ Kallista, Salford.

 

 

Ford Fiesta Mk 1, A6.

[Richard]

Is it really £50k for a used Monaro? I thought they were something like £30k new.

[Mr Lobster]

Pair of Monaros, Arnold Clark, Stretford. Memo to the tw*ts at AC - if I'm paying you 50 large for a slab of Aussie shonk, at least put the f*cking number plate on straight.

 

You expect different? Be grateful they haven't got different plates front and back really....

[HillmanImp]

That Land Rover is the nuts.

[Heep]

Holy Land Rover, that's a monster.

 

Love that Acclaim, and congrats on the covert snap with owner on board.

[Pete-M]

The 190E's are stalking you, it is a sign. Sack off your flimsy Shitroen, hop into a run-till-forever Merc. Makes sense.

 

What He Said !

 

Don't encourage him to do that. Merc 190s are crap. Apologies to those on 'ere who own 'em, but I absolutely despised the one I had and wouldn't wish one on anyone. I should have burnt mine, as the only way of getting anything even remotely resembling enjoyment out of ( any non-Cossie or 2.6) one would be to use it to cook sausages.

 

Hateful fucking heaps.

 

If you're gonna bin the Shitruin for a Merc, at least get a W124 and make it a six pot. Merc four pots are WANK

[Split_Pin]

Those aren't Monaros, they are VXR8's. The Monaro is the Coupe. Good value for 50k when the equivalent offerings from Audi and BMW are priced into outer space.

 

Better off with a used Monaro for about 8k. Based on the Omega chassis so parts are not a problem and the only thing that will touch it is an M5. I have a friend who has one and it is definitely the fastest car I have ever travelled in.

 

Saying that, for shiteness I'd rather have a Phaeton.

 

Cracking Fiesta by the way

[Minimad5]

Great spots mr Wat'

 

Not surprisingly i am wanting the Fiesta.

 

Think the Land Rover is nuts too. That M5 = Yum

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That Acclaim pic is superb.

 

I snapped the red Traveller as well, while pretending to be just passing. I hope no-one paranoid lives there.

[Guest]

That Acclaim pic is superb.

 

I snapped the red Traveller as well, while pretending to be just passing. I hope no-one paranoid lives there.

 

There's an absolutely disgusting Acclaim that trundles about around Cross Street. I haven't been able to pin down exactly where it lives. It's resplendent in that rank metallic piss colour they made them in. If you can imagine streaks of rust on every panel and a crunched in rear door, you have a fair idea of how on trend it is for Autoshite. I have made it my wish for what's left of 2010 to track it down and photograph it.

 

Have some more shots of the epic Acclaim. You can just about see my 480 in the middle shot, and sometime AS member blug's daily driver Polo as well.

 

 

 

 

The elderly chap who owned (from new, obviously) was a nice enough gent. The first picture I took (with him in it, enjoying a tab) was before he moved it forward. After that the immobiliser played up and stranded him briefly. The white Morris Traveller was in the same car park at the same time. Not a bad tat fest for a trip out to Halfords.

[Guest]

Mini update with an ungainly custom twist.

 

First, have a pair of 480 spots. This is a late model ES that trundles around Chorlton \ Hulme:

 

 

Next, a really rather lovely Turbo ruined by the poundshop Halfords alloys:

 

 

On campus, a Nissan [?] Elgrand. There's another farting around Adelphi too somewhere.

 

 

 

The Maserati 228I mentioned in the eBay thread:

 

 

 

And, as promised, John Dodd's Meteor powered BEAST, as spotted two seconds down the road from work:

 

 

 

 

[mk1_4dr]

The Beast!!!

 

Must be pretty rare for it to be out and about with juice at £6 a gallon. I thought it was in Spain/Portugal/Cyprus or something anyway....

[Father Ted]

A student driving an 06 plate car?

Thats so wrong.

Nice spots though.

[sporty-shite]

Fuck me! The Beast. Didn't think that'd still be around. Last I heard of that it was on the Costa Del Sol, and that was about 1983.

 

Qual spot, Wat.

[Guest]

A student driving an 06 plate car?

Thats so wrong.

 

But, but, but......I b[r]ought it when I was working full time. And besides, that's fuck all compared to the new metal that turns up on campus. One girl on my course called the C4 'an old car'. I nearly fell over.

 

RE The Beast - John Dodd brings it over here once a year to MOT it, because Spanish MOT regs are horrendous for bitsa machines like The Beast. He runs an automatic gearbox workshop on the Costa Del Sol, and most of the year it lives there. It was transported to Stockport from the docks on the back of a low loader.

[sporty-shite]

RE The Beast - John Dodd brings it over here once a year to MOT it, because Spanish MOT regs are horrendous for bitsa machines like The Beast. He runs an automatic gearbox workshop on the Costa Del Sol, and most of the year it lives there. It was transported to Stockport from the docks on the back of a low loader.

 

Which is still infinitely cheaper than driving it, I presume

[mk1_4dr]

...RE The Beast - John Dodd brings it over here once a year to MOT it, because Spanish MOT regs are horrendous for bitsa machines like The Beast. He runs an automatic gearbox workshop on the Costa Del Sol, and most of the year it lives there. It was transported to Stockport from the docks on the back of a low loader.

 

 

Yeah, actually, Ive heard that it needs MOTing over here before. I just assumed he would drive it to the chunnel/ferry and get it MOT'd on the southcoast.

 

I bet a loadloader is more frugal than the BEAST.

[sporty-shite]

...RE The Beast - John Dodd brings it over here once a year to MOT it, because Spanish MOT regs are horrendous for bitsa machines like The Beast. He runs an automatic gearbox workshop on the Costa Del Sol, and most of the year it lives there. It was transported to Stockport from the docks on the back of a low loader.

 

 

Yeah, actually, Ive heard that it needs MOTing over here before. I just assumed he would drive it to the chunnel/ferry and get it MOT'd on the southcoast.

 

I bet a loadloader is more frugal than the BEAST.

 

Thing is, it's about 1300 miles to the tunnel, so when you do the sums, putting it on the boat will be far cheaper. Not strictly legal to keep it over there on UK plates, though, but if it only comes out every so often, who's going to know, or care. Anyway, it makes a change that a Brit expat is going to the trouble of keeping a car legal down there. They might be clamping down a bit, but there's still plenty of shit being pootled round by drunken silvertops.

[Guest]

...RE The Beast - John Dodd brings it over here once a year to MOT it, because Spanish MOT regs are horrendous for bitsa machines like The Beast. He runs an automatic gearbox workshop on the Costa Del Sol, and most of the year it lives there. It was transported to Stockport from the docks on the back of a low loader.

 

 

Yeah, actually, Ive heard that it needs MOTing over here before. I just assumed he would drive it to the chunnel/ferry and get it MOT'd on the southcoast.

 

I bet a loadloader is more frugal than the BEAST.

 

Thing is, it's about 1300 miles to the tunnel, so when you do the sums, putting it on the boat will be far cheaper. Not strictly legal to keep it over there on UK plates, though, but if it only comes out every so often, who's going to know, or care. Anyway, it makes a change that a Brit expat is going to the trouble of keeping a car legal down there. They might be clamping down a bit, but there's still plenty of shit being pootled round by drunken silvertops.

 

A few of my colleagues spoke to John and he said the transport costs stood him at £2000. Probably is cheaper when you have a car doing 4 mpg when driven gently and 1 when you belt it. Other titbits for you:

 

It idles at 120 RPM,

 

It's redlined at 2800 RPM,

 

There's endless conjecture about whether the engine is or isn't a Merlin. A lot of people reckon it's a Meteor engine and that it either came from an armoured car \ tank or a Boulton Paul Balliol training aircraft. If I speak to John I will get the final word on it. I remember the Top Gear piece mentioning that 'technically, it's not a Merlin engine' but didn't elaborate on it any further. Whether its has a Merlin or a Merlin derivative engine is circumstantial really. It's an amazing car, and I'm glad it still exists. Wonder what he thinks of Charlie Broomfield's SD 1?

[Guest]

...RE The Beast - John Dodd brings it over here once a year to MOT it, because Spanish MOT regs are horrendous for bitsa machines like The Beast. He runs an automatic gearbox workshop on the Costa Del Sol, and most of the year it lives there. It was transported to Stockport from the docks on the back of a low loader.

 

 

Yeah, actually, Ive heard that it needs MOTing over here before. I just assumed he would drive it to the chunnel/ferry and get it MOT'd on the southcoast.

 

I bet a loadloader is more frugal than the BEAST.

 

Thing is, it's about 1300 miles to the tunnel, so when you do the sums, putting it on the boat will be far cheaper. Not strictly legal to keep it over there on UK plates, though, but if it only comes out every so often, who's going to know, or care. Anyway, it makes a change that a Brit expat is going to the trouble of keeping a car legal down there. They might be clamping down a bit, but there's still plenty of shit being pootled round by drunken silvertops.

 

A few of my colleagues spoke to John and he said the transport costs stood him at £2000. Probably is cheaper when you have a car doing 4 mpg when driven gently and 1 when you belt it. Other titbits for you:

 

It idles at 120 RPM,

 

It's redlined at 2800 RPM,

 

There's endless conjecture about whether the engine is or isn't a Merlin. A lot of people reckon it's a Meteor engine and that it either came from an armoured car \ tank or a Boulton Paul Balliol training aircraft. If I speak to John I will get the final word on it. I remember the Top Gear piece mentioning that 'technically, it's not a Merlin engine' but didn't elaborate on it any further. Whether its has a Merlin or a Merlin derivative engine is circumstantial really. It's an amazing car, and I'm glad it still exists. Wonder what he thinks of Charlie Broomfield's SD 1?

[CIH]

I use to walk past that red volvo on rimz most days. On the hill opposite the Market Tavern in Alty, if you fancy indulging in the odd bout of stalker-ige.

[seth]

Great BEAST spottage, Dr Watson.

[Guest]

Mini Altrincham update. I reckon these are owned by the same person, or family with a penchant for the good old days of BMC \ BL.

 

 

1300 was glorious but trowelled full of gob.

 

 

Original metallic Metro.

 

 

Triumph Herald directly behind.

[Guest]

Let's have another BMC \ BL themed update.

 

I went to a small village near Taunton for a good friend's wedding. Here's what was in the local garage....

 

 

There was a dusty B reg Metro off camera, in the right hand corner of this shot. Old Austin in the background was a Twelve (I think) and hadn't moved for years - it still had the old fashioned 'forge with a Guiness label' tax disc. About an hour before I went past a Bristol 406 was in for fettling.

 

 

Riley Elf was in everyday use.

 

I was going to get the D70 on this, but the owner was eyeing me suspiciously as it was - a Manc accent sticks out very noticeably down there. Plus I was taking shots of the guests and the newly-weds, and I was determined for once not to take photos of cars on it.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

Original metallic Metro.

 

LOL! He just drives round Altrincham parking next to black Heralds.

 

 

(from my spotting thread)