Your best spot ever?

[Cheggers]

I just saw this beauty in Braşov, Romania. No idea what is is, but I'm pretty sure it's my best/ shonkiest spot ever

 

 

What's yours?

 

 

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[DSdriver]

Mine was a Blower Bentley being used as a tow car for a race track mini on a trailer. Unfortunately I was driving and unable to get a picture. This lapse will haunt me for the rest of my days.

[MorrisItalSLX]

A Delorean doing an illegal U-turn over the nature strip between a triple lane highway. It had been raining and he got stuck in the mud.

No photo as I was too busy laughing (and driving past).

[Aston Martin]

A Delorean doing an illegal U-turn over the nature strip between a triple lane highway. It had been raining and he got stuck in the mud.

No photo as I was to busy laughing (and driving past).

Where he was going he didn't need roads.

[fordperv]

D701 SWL but I couldn't take a picture

[oldcars]

D701 SWL but I couldn't take a picture

VehicleLAND ROVER DEFENDER 110

MOT valid until13 June 2007

RegistrationD701SWL

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Fuel typeLPG

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Date registered17 June 1987

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MOT history

Date tested14 June 2006 PASS

Mileage133,191 miles

MOT test number2639 5556 6476

Expiry date13 June 2007

Advisory notice item(s)

• Nearside Front Exhaust has a minor leak of exhaust gases (7.1.2)

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Date tested14 June 2006 FAIL

Mileage133,191 miles

MOT test number6746 1576 6165

 

Reason(s) for failure

• Offside Rear Tie bar/rod has excessive play in a ball joint (2.4.G.2)
• Nearside Front Brake pad(s) less than 1.5 mm thick (3.5.1g)
• Offside Front Brake pad(s) less than 1.5 mm thick (3.5.1g)
• Nearside Front position lamp(s) not working (1.1.A.3b)

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• Offside Drag link end ball joint has slight play (2.2.B.1f)
• Power steering pump has slight seepage from a component (2.3.3b)

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[davocano]

I spotted something similar in leafy* Surrey a couple of years back; not shonky but blummen rare over here

 

[Asimo]

Just-crashed Simca / Chrysler Alpine.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/18390-chod-de-pyrenees-added-shiny-simca/

[TataBobu]

I just saw this beauty in Braşov, Romania. No idea what is is, but I'm pretty sure it's my best/ shonkiest spot ever

 

 

 

 

Dacia 1307 Double Cab. Both cars are with the diesel engine from Renault, from the last part of the production (the diesel was in use between 2002 and 2006).

The white cover was fitted after purchase, as is the aluminium one in the Surrey picture.

[Cheggers]

So the horrendous bonnet scoop is a standard "feature"??

 

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[TataBobu]

Yes. The diesel engine is taller than the petrol one inherited from R12 and it didn't fit under the bonnet, so they just cut it up and fitted that plastic part.

[inconsistant]

Mine was a Blower Bentley being used as a tow car for a race track mini on a trailer. Unfortunately I was driving and unable to get a picture. This lapse will haunt me for the rest of my days.

 

Like this?

 

 

 

(edit: taken from Practical Classics Facebook page, I can't take credit for this I'm afraid!)

[DSdriver]

Like this?

 

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Exactly like that... and it was in France like your pic

[vulgalour]

 

It's not that remarkable until you realise there's an A-frame connecting the two.

[Matt]

Probably this German (south of Berlin) registered UAZ 469 that I spotted up here in Scotland. No trailer in sight. Masochist probably nearby.

 

UAZ 469 by MattLikesCars, on Flickr

[ProgRocker]

Probably this Japanese stunner:

 

1986/7 Honda Integra 1.5 LX by Matt, on Flickr

 

It's been sold on at least once since this pic was taken.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

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It's not that remarkable until you realise there's an A-frame connecting the two.

Can't see the issue.

 

It's not like Discos rot around the back end.....oh....wait....

[richardmorris]

Central exhaust was notorious for gassing 2cvers in traffic!

 

My gran had a red 1100 ( black vinyl interior) that was written off when parked outside our house in '79 I think, when a white princess drove straight in the back of it. Woman driver was drunk - at lunchtime! I was 7 and remember reanacting it with my corgi cars.

 

Oh, my gran was more concerned about her tartan shopping trolley in the boot. Being in the trade ( sec. at a Vauxhall dealer) there was always a cheap trade in to buy.

[mk2_craig]

I think it has to be the immaculate and ultra base spec Daihatsu Charmant I saw in Cyprus a couple of years ago, so far the only person I have shared the photo with is Hirst formerly of this parish, must see if I can find it on the computer.

[richardmorris]

On the subject of best spots, there were a few today- i think brookland's forthcoming auction was being unloaded. There were several pre-war 1 motorcycles being moved about.

[DodgyBastard]

DSC_0218 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

There's so many to choose from!

[MrDuke]

Either the immaculate CX hearse glimpsed only once outside the hospital where I worked about 7 years ago, or the professionally-converted Maestro ice cream van glimpsed only once at the petrol station where I worked about 7 years before that. No, I didn't have a camera of any description on either occasion.

[mk2_craig]

I think it has to be the immaculate and ultra base spec Daihatsu Charmant I saw in Cyprus a couple of years ago, so far the only person I have shared the photo with is Hirst formerly of this parish, must see if I can find it on the computer.

Here you go! I'm sure there's loads of stuff that trumps this but memory ain't what it used to be, and it's been a while since I've seen anything OMG near where I live.

 

 

 

To be fair there was a reasonable amount of low hanging fruit still evident in Cyprus, though the best stuff was clearly not on the road any longer. Must do a spot thread!

[DodgyBastard]

Here's a few more.

 

DSC_2656 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_0450 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_0261 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_1355 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Carlton Auto by srblythe, on Flickr

[sheffcortinacentre]

One Friday eve back in the late 80s was traveling through market rasen on they way to skeggy when parked in the market square was a white road going RS200.

[bramz7]

I've seen many, many cars over the years that have made me swear under my breath but I still have a fondness for this scene:

 

They're both still there too.

[lisbon_road]

Perhaps a pre war Rolls Royce in Latvia with a lorry engine with an extra gearbox under the bonnet. Want me to find a picture?

[Justin Case]

Head and shoulders above the rest and I put it on here about 3 years ago but it has got lost in the mists of time, but someone came out of the supermarket in Tenbury, loaded his shopping onto (there was no into ) a 1913 Sunbeam racing car and roared off I have also spotted a few months later, but unfortunately didn't have my camera with me, a young women with a couple of small children in tow doing her shopping in that same town in a vintage Bentley on oily rag condition. I would love to think that she also used it for the school run Do I win ?

[Matt]

These might rival the UAZ.

 

This 1977 CX Safari used to belong to a family friend and when it was new it was owned by the director of, and starred in an episode of, The Return Of The Saint. It was black at the time and in the show it was owned by a doctor, it was stolen and he was run over by it I'm sure. It was in the 1978 episode "The Arrangement". I can't find it but I'm sure I have a photo somewhere of a Series 1 Land Rover that was also in the show and driven by Rooger Moore (I think).

 

1977 Citroën CX 2400 Safari by MattLikesCars, on Flickr

 

Edit: Here it is in the show!

ROS Citroen Screenshot by BaskingsharkGTX, on Flickr

 

Here are some proper WRC rally cars I saw back in 2012. The farthest forward one was driven by rally legend and nine time WRC world champion Sébastien Loeb. They probably cost £500,000+ EACH so with the truck we're easily talking over two million quids worth of vehicle.

 

Lots of Money on a Trailer by MattLikesCars, on Flickr

[doubleyeller]

 

Fucked up Four, and a Shagged Saab were my personal favourites