No photo spotted thread

[Spiny Norman]

I keep seeing a metallic blue Fiat X1/9 around the place but I've yet to capture it.

 

[reb]

Yesterday I spotted a Volvo Amazon, it was that lovely bluish grey a lot of them are. It was very clean, but slightly ruined by having cheap silver and black plates on it (see @LightBulbFunI do *sometimes* think there's a place for nicer/correct plates) but overall it was very nice. I initially saw it parked up, then it drove past later on being followed by some pre war thing I didn't recognise.

[Stanky]

I've been driving a lot for work this week, but my day was markedly improved yesterday when I spotted this on the M25 by the M40 junction

Not my pic, but the actual car. A Marcos LM500! I thought it was a Mantula (one of my favourite cars of all time) but on closer inspection it is/was an LM500, which wikipedia tells me is a Mantara with a 5.0 rover v8 putting out about 350bhp. In an 1100kg car made of fibreglass and balsa wood and angle iron.

Not only that, when I pulled alongside in traffic it was being driven by a woman in her late 50s who is 100% a member of the WI! She looked like my mum, about 15 years ago. What a hero(ine)!

She zoomed off the M25 and off up the M40 when the traffic cleared, and it sounded glorious.

[Datsuncog]

Eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw a Renault 12 passing in the opposite lane of the Sydenham bypass the other day. Red, with a black panel between the rear lights, so possibly TS spec?

Didn't get the full registration, but believe it was an S-suffix, so '77-'78.

Not exactly a common sight in Belfast, but there was a blue saloon on an R-reg puttering about a few years ago, so could be the same Rennernut piloting a new toy.

[bangernomics]

A weird assumed aston martin. On a rural backroad near my house plate was AML and a single digit. Looked very 70’s box angles and a low nose. Silver/pale grey.

A bit ungainly.

[Jazoli]

8 hours ago, bangernomics said:

A weird assumed aston martin. On a rural backroad near my house plate was AML and a single digit. Looked very 70’s box angles and a low nose. Silver/pale grey.

A bit ungainly.

Wasn’t a Lagonda was it?

 

Interestingly there’s only two AML (single digit) reg numbers AML2 is on a DB5 and AML3 is on an Audi.

 

[bangernomics]

It was one of those lads yes. Will keep an eye out for it.

[myglaren]

Moggy cabriolet with the top open, plied up with crap.

Well at least it was a nice warm day. 9℃   

[Lord Sterling]

Coming back from Dover was a good opportunity to spot some interesting stuff.

On the M25 I saw a white (W-reg?) Mk4 Cortina 2.3 Ghia on the back of a car transporter heading west. Couldn't get a pic because driving.

Due to heavy traffic at junction 15 Heathrow, I came off to go back onto the M25 to cut out 10 minutes of waiting. As I did I saw a blue R-reg Volvo V70 (850 shape) low spec and had a wheel trim missing. It was coming from one of the major roads going into the Heathrow industrial park.  

M25 between junction 15 Heathrow and junction 16 M40 was a 1969 Mercedes SL driven by a chap in a turban. Again, no pics because driving.

M40 northbound between Oxfordshire and Warwickshire was a silver late Rover 75, very dirty, looks like it hadn't been washed in a very long time, had a plate stuck over the River 75 cut out plate underneath. Geezer driving it looked about as unwashed as the car. Looked a bit like Phil Mitchell with short receeding white hair. He was also smoking.

In Bewdley town centre was also a gold coloured early Rover 75,  presumably a 1.8 and the heat shield or other was rattling quite badly underneath. 

[bunglebus]

On Saturday I saw a Morris Oxford, in Oxford. The Minor shape, not a farina.

Today in Paris I saw two Citroen Traction Avants stop just off the Place de la Concord, jogged over there and they'd gone...

[jon.k]

A great day today around Evesham.

First was a lada samara which looked to be in normal use, giffer style.

Next a Volvo 740 converted to pickup.

finally a LHD RSI  clio mk1 which its owner had imported from Switzerland new, I think she said.

[Macscrooge]

Yesterday on the A68 northbound in Northumberland: a load (well OK, eight) of vintage Fords. Ts and (I think) As. Later on I saw another heading south. 
Also heading south was a Renault Alpine GTA and a (trailered) Mk2 Escrot. 

[myglaren]

What appeared to be a brand new gleaming black 280 Z passed me and the driver waved.

Wasn't sure but went to the garage nearby where they are getting my replacement Mazda 6 ready for me and it was indeed the garage owner driving it.

[High Jetter]

I narrowly missed a very smart white Sierra Cossie today!

[Wibble]

Delorean, with full Back to the Future spec, last night M3 London bound between Southampton and Winchester. Couldn’t take photo as I was on my own.