My spottings, old and new - tarmac yer drive

[bunglebus]

A couple of newbies in stock at the classic dealer. Opel GT is gorgeous

 

[bunglebus]

A few oddballs from my travels. Saw a Kitten too but couldn't stop. Don't actually know what the first one is so I'm presuming grey import. Fiesta was...special.

[Schaefft]

Its just a Camry that they sold here.

[bunglebus]

Crapachino really is tiny

[Madman Of The People]

On 12/13/2021 at 6:07 AM, bunglebus said:

Had to do a drive by papping on this one 

 

Oldsmobile Delta 88.  Horizontal bar in the grille indicates it's a 1981 model.

 

 

[bunglebus]

I'm in that Scotland at the moment, there's a noticeable lack of anything old or interesting where I am (both cars and scenery). This is about the best thing I've seen

[bunglebus]

Still not a lot to see, but we overtook and were then overtaken by this about 10 times yesterday 

[bunglebus]

Forgot this Kwality one from last week

[bunglebus]

On a local mission this evening, this was outside

And so was this

[bunglebus]

And there's more

[bunglebus]

Oh and this High n Dry outside the shops earlier

[chodweaver]

Couple more nice bits at the car dealer. Don't recall a Manta GT?

Iirc, the two shapes available when i was paying attention were the GT (hatch) and the Berlinetta (fastback)

[bunglebus]

Always spotting Lupos now

[Wibble]

On 1/28/2022 at 10:06 PM, chodweaver said:

On 11/18/2021 at 8:10 PM, bunglebus said:

Couple more nice bits at the car dealer. Don't recall a Manta GT?

Iirc, the two shapes available when i was paying attention were the GT (hatch) and the Berlinetta (fastback)

They were just trim levels. I once had a GT Berlinetta hatch.  Berlinetta gave you alloys and sunroof but nowt else iirc.

[Wibble]

2 hours ago, Wibble said:

They were just trim levels. I once had a GT Berlinetta hatch.  Berlinetta gave you alloys and sunroof but nowt else iirc.

Actually, my memory was slightly inaccurate. Mine was a 1.8S Berlinetta, so it went GT, Berlinetta then GTE and the last ones added Exclusive I think🤔

[High Jetter]

I thought Opel Manta Berlinetta GTE...went faster?

[bunglebus]

New stock

Red Amazon is gone and replaced by a more-door

MGC has been fettled to North of 200 BHP allegedly 

This one has a bent 8

Lovely Quattro

And one of these

[bunglebus]

A couple more - think the Alpina is quite unusual 

[bunglebus]

And a 190 at Aldi 

[bunglebus]

Diverted off my normal route today and spotted this

[bunglebus]

Overnighting in Somerset, came out of my hotel just in time to see an old lady hop in this and fart off down the road

[Mr Livered]

There are some proper characters in Street...

[bunglebus]

This seems a bit mundane parked among the classics and sporty stuff

heading inside, four door saloon that I don't recognise...WTF is that?

Wow, just under 29k miles and seemingly in mostly original paint. There can't be many others?

[Shite Ron]

An ex colleague of my mother’s had a Corona the same colour identical to that. It was the only one I had seen when I was a child in the seventies, I believe he had owned it from new, it must have been over 15 years old when he replaced it with a Princess. I do not recall seeing any others.

[bunglebus]

I mentioned these in the storm thread, guy has been acquiring Seats and working on them sporadically. I suspect they aren't insured so this sucks a bit

Had to drop the FIL's car off at a local garage for MoT, there always seems to be interesting stuff outside...

...but I didn't know there was a 3 door Sierra lurking inside

[Schaefft]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

I mentioned these in the storm thread, guy has been acquiring Seats and working on them sporadically. I suspect they aren't insured so this sucks a bit

Had to drop the FIL's car off at a local garage for MoT, there always seems to be interesting stuff outside...

...but I didn't know there was a 3 door Sierra lurking inside

Somehow the  mileage of that S8 jumped from 19k in 2006 to 88k in 2007.

[bunglebus]

I've seen lots of 240 and 740 series Volvos in the last few weeks, don't know where they're all coming from but this one has appeared by my local shops

[bunglebus]

Those poor Seats made the front cover of the local rag

[KitKat]

On 2/25/2022 at 8:29 PM, bunglebus said:

I've seen lots of 240 and 740 series Volvos in the last few weeks, don't know where they're all coming from but this one has appeared by my local shops

Rough as it is, it’s still nice seeing old Volvo estates looking like this and still being used. Odometer stopped 5/6 years ago it would seem. 

[bunglebus]

Back to the local garage, more junk sitting around

K10 at Asda

I drive past this tin snail regularly but can't usually snap it