Gompo Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I dont think they did a Cortina Ghia until the Mk3. 1600e perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Can't quite make out what's behind that Volvo estate - anything interesting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 It's probably a 1600GT done to look like a 1600E I thnk so, too, as it has a 'GT' badge on the rear wing, whereas a 1600E should have a small badge on the 'D' pillar (and '1600E' badges on the front wings). Damn nice car, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phrancofile Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Can't quite make out what's behind that Volvo estate - anything interesting? Senator, or even better, a Monza! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXrescuer Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I think he means the one that's obscured by the Volvo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 Spotted!! I have just witnessed the magnificence of the Montego MG! Just spotted a fine example in Halfords carpark. (very) shite mobile phone pic to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 appalling snap sorry but this appeared quite a nice Monty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 One or two recent spottages: A turquoise beast! This took my by surprise as this shopping centre crap park is usually full of the usual housewife in Porsche Cayennes And the other day I spotted a classic and chatted to the owner who was reliving his youthI suspect the Triumph of his youth was many degrees shiter though.. Also spotted this future shite in Glasgow city centre Pics might turn out HUGE so right click and 'view image' to see all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 Seems like Ive not been on here for ages but here are a few recent snapz. I was given the opportunity to work a week as a mech in a Citroën resto place in Kent and being a Citroën fanatic, spent a week's holiday doing just that. Here's my CX on arrival at the place - DSs and a Benz but there was more to come! More to come in the form of a pristine Renner 4 and a sneaky wee Fiat 500 - my CX now among friends It's a DS place mostly (in case you just didn't guess..)New rebuild project that arrived from Birmingham Folks I was staying with were Citroen guys too but unconnected to the place I was working at - Son had this blue Dyane that I followed to their own Citroen workshopWhich turned out to have a number of other beasts beginning with this Grandad owned by Phil, the workshop ownerI was quite taken by this: Ghia V6 in good condition - looked the same as the one my dad had (tho his not a V6!)Late-ish CX GTi I was too thick to snap the MR2, Early type Scimiter and old Alfa that was there... the MR2 was a courtesy car! Back up here in Glasgow and I'm greeted yesterday by this wonder: Yes, it's a Lidl crap park! Say what you want about the Marina - this is ACE! (size of doors notwithstanding) Swiss (?) plates on it. Must admit that Marina made my day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadworkUK Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 That Marina is surreal. My guess is that it's just an apparition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 That silver CX GTi is stunning and manages to look more modern than the [lovely] Granada parked next to it, despite its styling being at least ten years older Those cliffs and railway power lines look awfully familiar. Is the resto place in Folkestone, by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 That silver CX GTi is stunning and manages to look more modern than the [lovely] Granada parked next to it, despite its styling being at least ten years older Those cliffs and railway power lines look awfully familiar. Is the resto place in Folkestone, by any chance? Close, the railway lines are a bit of the line to the Chunnel - 'nother guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 Well, I say 'close' It's in Kent if that narrows it down! (it doesn't) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hennabm Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Talking CX, here is a pic of my cousin's CX Pallas as seen in June when he visited; He also used to have a CX GTI 2.5 Turbo but sold it recently. mk2_craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldofceri Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I need to know where that Marina's from. I don't think they're Swiss plates. Norway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Well, I say 'close' It's in Kent if that narrows it down! (it doesn't) Somewhere in Ashford or the Medway towns, perhaps? Pawnote: I was born in Canterbury and spent the first 23 years of my life living in a village near Dover, but have very little knowledge indeed of anywhere in Kent west of an imaginary line drawn between Whitstable and Folkestone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 Not sure on Norway - I was there and every car I saw new or old had plates of the same dimensions as here (or thereabouts) the Marina does have a little circle within the plate that could be a tax thing Germany style? Doesn't Slovakia or Czech rep. have something like that too? Hennabm: that Beigy CX is giving me special feelings! Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 Closer still Shep with the Medway towns - I'll just reveal all: it's Gravesend or just West of in Northfleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I need to know where that Marina's from. I don't think they're Swiss plates. Norway?Think so. http://olavsplates.com/norway.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Closer still Shep with the Medway towns - I'll just reveal all: it's Gravesend or just West of in Northfleet. Virtually on the other side of the river to my current workplace in West Thurrock, then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I'm gonna vote norway on the Marina as well. What a find!!!! I understand theres no more ferries between Norway and the UK, if so thats been a mega mission for him to get that here! NICE WORK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len H Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 That's not true, there's a ferry that goes via Shetland and Orkney to Aberdeen. Still a bit of a mission though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 Also, you could get a connection from South Norway to Denmark, drive to Netherlands and get a ferry to Newcastle. Of course the Marina guy could live way up past Tromsø, Arctic way. Bit of a trek all the same. People do travel for the weird deals in Lidl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 An orange left hand drive scandanavian Marina coupe in an Aldi car park in Glasgow. My heads just exploded. mk2_craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I need to know where that Marina's from. I don't think they're Swiss plates. Norway? Yep, it's from Norway. From the city of Drammen in Buskerud, to be precise... see http://www.bilforumet.no/andre_forum/te ... g-tuv.html for pics of a couple of Skylines from the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted August 11, 2011 Author Share Posted August 11, 2011 Day off, shite weather, no spots at all coz shite dissolves in the rain until I spotted this little beaut: Ok, it has those modern replacement lights and stupid painted mirrors but otherwise pretty devine don't like the chav-o-matic exhaust either but still nice to see this That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Bona fide XR2 according to mycarcheck.com, looks a bit strange on the Fiesta Supersport alloys but otherwise not too bad, I wonder whether it's just started on the slippery road to being bastardised beyond belief or maybe in the latter stages of having the modifications reversed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 Looky here! this evening's spot outside hellfrauds - Cav Mk1 milky goodness. looked rather ti-day. Not sure it's genius to be driving it around in the West Scotland winter though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-j Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Found my old spotted thread!! I want to restart this. Last post in December 2011... the car park where the Cavalier was is now completely different and rearranged. It's Kingsgate in East Kilbride. paulplom and bangernomics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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