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

[Angrydicky]

If that is a Twelve, they are super rare! I'd love one, pretty much a slower sidevalve 16 with a slightly different front grille.

[hairnet]

is the acclaim for sale...............???

[Guest]

is the acclaim for sale...............???

 

I doubt it. It looked like it hadn't moved for a wee while.

[Guest]

A few updates that have been sloshing around on my machine for a wee while.

 

 

The hitherto elusive shite Acclaim of Sale, finally corned. Shite photo courtesy of my W810i.

 

 

Lovely Mk3 Cortina spotted in Salford.

 

 

Down at heel Sunbeam Alpine in Sale.

 

 

Lovely [very] late model Citroen BX estate on Chester Road.

 

 

An an appalling photo of the previously spotted Austin A40 to finish on, down by the Leisure Centre.

[Skizzer]

That Cortina is GR11. Put your thumb over the Megrane Coupe in the pic and it's 1977 all over again.

[eddyramrod]

^WHS. Tina looks lovely. Alpine is from my neck of the woods too (DFY number plate!). We had a new Zephyr that year but it was DWM so a bit later. DWM 95C, if anyone finds it in a barn; Zephyr 4 Mk3, dark blue with massive (to a six-year-old!) pale blue bench seats. It may even still have the towbar on, if it exists at all.

[Lord Sterling]

Epic photos Jon, particularly of that Cortina, with the GTA platge on it, it looks like a cover for the next GTA game - GTA: Shite City. I love the action shot of the BX Estate, just looks right somewhow.

[Guest]

Got a few more shots of that Cortina - I'll upload them together with a few others tonight.

[Guest]

Some updates for your shite filled faces.

 

 

That Mk3 again.

 

 

Austin Clifton at Michael Wood services.

 

 

Grubby P5 Saloon just out of shot in Wilmslow.

 

 

[Very] scene Passat B3 Estate at Adelphi campus, Salford.

 

 

Sublime biscuit \ brown Scimitar, also in Salford.

 

 

 

 

Fantastic, unmolested Beetle with period stickerage - again on Adelphi campus.

 

 

Knackered Volvo 480GT near the Northern Quarter, Manchester.

 

 

VW Type 3 Notchback. It was an automatic and beige with nary a stickerbombed fuck up in sight.

 

 

Piaggo Ape coffee shop, Salford Quays \ MCUK.

 

 

 

 

Absolutely amazing S1 Lotus Europa - again with period stickerage. This was at the Stoneleigh Restoration Show, and was the car of the event for me, hands down.

 

 

Danny Hopkins' Renault 18. - Stoneleigh.

 

 

Aixam futureshite - Peel Park, Salford University.

 

 

Volvo 460 Phase 2 - Woodford.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

What a shitefest!!!!! That Europa is something else, it looks fantastic man.

 

Incidentally I hear the production lines at Hethel have stopped completely, pending some decisions being made in Malaysia about ownership & future prospects.

[Guest]

Scraping some crap off my phone's memory card yielded these:

 

 

Spotless Marina, bereft of piano - Sale.

 

 

Fred the Weatherman's KR 200, flat out - M56.

 

 

2012 Routemaster driven down from London to Ordsall for filming in a Blue Peter sequence - MCUK.

 

 

Theo Paphitis' Maybach - Dragon's Den was being filmed at MCUK. Runners kept nipping out and bringing him and Peter Jones food whilst they did SERIOUS BUSINESS on the phone.

 

 

Bentley Turbo R - Whitefield.

 

 

 

I really, really wished I'd got some better photos of this. I only had my W995 and its appalling flash to hand.

Passed it in Wilmslow and initially I thought it was a Swallow Doretti. After some crash Googling It turned out to be an Allard K3, one of only 61 built for the American market. A few were RHD, as this example was. It looked used and careworn rather than shiny - and it was parked out on the road late at night, with the hood down. I think this is the rarest car I've ever spotted outside of a car show. I will be keeping an eye out for it.

 

According to the DVLA 899 YUB has a 2300cc engine, which means it'll be packing a Ford Zephyr six under the bonnet. You could also specify a Mercury V8, or if you really wanted to push the boat out, a 331 cube Cadillac lump.

[worldofceri]

That's a quality spot, that last one. Nice work.

[michiel]

Zoinks @ Allard & Mackie Messerschmitt. GR8 spots.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

The sign shop in the Marina pic is where my car used to be parked all day by its previous owner.

 

Can't express how much I love the New Bus for London, they're wonderful.