J-J's Road rubbish

[Gompo]

I dont think they did a Cortina Ghia until the Mk3. 1600e perhaps?

[mk2_craig]

 

Can't quite make out what's behind that Volvo estate - anything interesting?

[Shep Shepherd]

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

[Phrancofile]

 

Can't quite make out what's behind that Volvo estate - anything interesting?

 

Senator, or even better, a Monza!

[AXrescuer]

I think he means the one that's obscured by the Volvo.

[j-j]

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.

[j-j]

 

appalling snap sorry but this appeared quite a nice Monty.

[j-j]

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 youth

I 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

[j-j]

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 workshop

Which turned out to have a number of other beasts beginning with this Grandad owned by Phil, the workshop owner

I 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!

[RoadworkUK]

That Marina is surreal. My guess is that it's just an apparition.

[Shep Shepherd]

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?

[j-j]

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?

[j-j]

Well, I say 'close' It's in Kent if that narrows it down! (it doesn't)

[hennabm]

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.

[worldofceri]

I need to know where that Marina's from. I don't think they're Swiss plates. Norway?

[Shep Shepherd]

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...

[j-j]

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.

[j-j]

Closer still Shep with the Medway towns - I'll just reveal all: it's Gravesend or just West of in Northfleet.

[chaseracer]

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

[Shep Shepherd]

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

[Mr_Bo11ox]

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

[Guest Len H]

That's not true, there's a ferry that goes via Shetland and Orkney to Aberdeen. Still a bit of a mission though.

[j-j]

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

[cort16]

An orange left hand drive scandanavian Marina coupe in an Aldi car park in Glasgow. My heads just exploded.

[John F]

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.

[j-j]

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.

[mk2_craig]

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.

[j-j]

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..

[j-j]

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.