trigger Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Both are Mini Marcos, Spottedlaurel might know more as it was out towards his way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minimad5 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Thanks MR T I should stop looking at Autoshite ... Every car i see i want !I need a bigger house, driveway and garden .... ooh and more money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 I've just realised Dave's little red car isn't a THiNK, it's a Kewet El - Jet. Danish, electric, shite.Those two design wankers are still bell ends though, I was right about that.I was gonna say the little red car at the far edge of the drive with the Marcos 3 Litre in the foreground was a Matra D-Jet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Both are Mini Marcos, Spottedlaurel might know more as it was out towards his way.I think I know where that is, though if so it’s not somewhere I pass by very often nowadays.The enormous silver car was at Henham Wings & Wheels last year I seem to recall (off-topic, you going to that Trigger?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Funny enough some random lady started talking to me at Snape Maltings yesterday about that show asking me if i would be taking my BMW down there.I might do, I've never been before, I was meant to go last year but couldn't make it, Will you be going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise2cv Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 We've watched this slowly dissolving for years: This irritates me because I never get close enough to see what it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theorganist Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 This irritates me because I never get close enough to see what it is!It looks like an Austin Maxi?Shame we can't make out the registration number!Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Both are Mini Marcos, Spottedlaurel might know more as it was out towards his way.Actually the one next to the van is a Mini Marcos, the other one is a Marcos 3-litre. The M-M looks like a well early one too. I reckon the silver thing is something like a Pierce-Arrow, maybe even a Dusenburg...maybe Michiel will know for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michiel Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 I hang my head in shame, haven't got a clue... US pre-war is what I would guess too, but it could also be a recently made fantasy body on an old Rolls chassis for all I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 This irritates me because I never get close enough to see what it is!It looks like an Austin Maxi?Shame we can't make out the registration number!Peter.Yep almost certain that's a Maxi.....I think enquiries are needed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Shame we can't make out the registration number!FTW 54T?FJM 64T? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Looks more like a Mini Clubman to me. Pretty similar noses mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrogeezer Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 I thought it was a Mini Clubman too... Just found this very tidy looking Mk4 XR3i while looking for something else: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brammy777 Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Bumhats, that Basingstoke Allegro I found on streetview is no longer there. But..... there was the most brilliant Acty Campervan nearby so all is forgiven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 I know what you mean....I found a derelict Standard Atlas rusting away in Westcliff in 2005, I hadn't been to that road for a few years and although its visable on the overhead view, it's not there on the street view...probably hauled off to the scrapyard, shame, it would have been a tremendous spot. 948cc's of pure POWAH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Here is a house near my office in Letchworth.It has a mildew covered Hyundai Stellar at the side, in the autumn it almost disappeared under leaved. It's been there a Very Very Long Time. Note also the other Hyundais on the proper drive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 My street is now on Streetview. Must've been taken last July as the Humber Hawk is in the drive, the CX is across the road and the Camry is out the front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukas Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Camry? Picture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 The picture of the Camry is utterly crap on Streetview - it's sort of caught between two shots so it's all distorted. I don't actually have a decent pic of the Camry - maybe Spottedlaurel can oblige though, as he is both its previous and current owner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukas Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 The double-wiper-Estate? Ah, I know that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Dunno if these are any good, but check out these crazy two ... Haha! christ did they know the google car was coming up their street or are they just crazy - there's no sign of water on the inset map! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Funny enough some random lady started talking to me at Snape Maltings yesterday about that show asking me if i would be taking my BMW down there. I might do, I've never been before, I was meant to go last year but couldn't make it, Will you be going?Yes, I certainly plan to be there in the Laurel. We’ll get in touch nearer the time? Always good stuff to see there, and my family like it as there’s plenty of non-car stuff to do as well. Anyway, just remembered that big silver thing was at the Steam Rally at Henham in September, not Wings & Wheels. I found my photo of it on Flickr: Cartell says it’s a Packard, on which basis DVLA says: The vehicle details for AMO 196 are: Date of Liability 01 07 2010 Date of First Registration 24 11 1999 Year of Manufacture 1934 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 4000CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Licence Not Due Vehicle Colour RED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 That's the one, Can believe how big it is!.I won't be showing the 02 at Henham but i plan to go in it as i've never been before, My mate went last year and said what a good show it was.It would be great to met up, Just send us a pm nearer the time or I'll just keep my eye open for the Laurel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Both are Mini Marcos, Spottedlaurel might know more as it was out towards his way.Actually the one next to the van is a Mini Marcos, the other one is a Marcos 3-litre. The M-M looks like a well early one too. I reckon the silver thing is something like a Pierce-Arrow, maybe even a Dusenburg...maybe Michiel will know for sure.Sorry guys, only about 3/10 for observation. The car next to the van is not a Mini Marcos. Note the opening rear side windows, shape of the back window and the ridge round the top of the back window. To find out what it is go tohttp://www.minimarcos.org/memcars/minijem/xcf735k/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Egads! you're right! I promise to say one hundred times ''A Jem is different from a Marcos'' Bonus points for finding the exact same car though, are you a Jem owner/ involved in that website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 'Fraid so. Two Jems and two Mini Marcoses, though only one of each on the road. And yes, I do plead guilty to running the Mini Marcos web site, though I have to thank a co-conspirator in France for noticing that we had that very car on the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minimad5 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 minijem , you should show us your "shite" , please sir (I always worry asking people that ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 mark, i think you're alright as long as you dont say it to people in 'real life' (go one mate, show us yer shite!)+10 for getting some pics up of your motors, I do like my weird GRP sportscars, don't think i've ever seen a Jem in the flesh either, how many are left? They are much nicer looking than the Marcoses, look more like the D.A.R.T, which was always my favourite (spats ftw, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 actually, thinking about it, wasn't the Jem taken off the mould for the D.A.R.T? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 There are quite a few pics of my 'shite' on the minimarcos.org site and on facebook, but I'll see if I can find a few different ones.As regards the D.A.R.T, that was a one-off racing special built from a steel Mini so there was no mould for it. The Mini Jem (as it became known later) was designed along the lines of the D.A.R.T but the moulds were made from an original buck. The original shells had some problems and didn't survive.The Mini Marcos was based on the GRP Dart but simplified and modified to make it look different. It retains some of the asymmetries of the original shells, which were corrected on the Mini Jem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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