The First Year in the Life of a Philippines Car Spotter

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Three Bentleys at the same wedding

Booted Megane

I was more interested in the Corolla

Toyota AlienAce (well, TownAce actually but those space-headlights yeah?)

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A selection of 'shite from BL and it's successors. This Mini is here because of the hole that has been cut to display the parking permit.

1120cc.... gutless?

 

 

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Always a pleasure to see a 4

Attention to detail is important. This is an early "new" Beetle which came with the LHD fitted as standard.

344cc of Italian joy

Beige

Hey, it's another Toyota xAce of some sort. This time it's a MasterAce Surf Super Touring.

 

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Another contender for Spot of the Year. A family trip was momentarily interrupted because how could I simply drive on by a Vauxhall Viscount? Funnily enough, from this point onward my missus has started calling out old cars she sees when we are out and about. Coincidence?

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Self-propelled Airstream trailer

 

2CV Harlequin*

Nice bright Capri

Honest looking Sierra

An old turntable ladder with genuine number plate.

Is that a Metrocab lurking in't back? That was my initial thought anyways.

 

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OMG it's only a blummen' DACIA 1310! "How is this even possible?" was my second thought.

Yeah, that's a Rickman Ranger there I somehow forgot to photograph. I got a bit distracted by what was parked adjacent to this Dacia...

... why yes, it's another 1310. Officially now my joint winners of Spot Of The Year... FACT (or possibly, FACT*).

I managed to regain some composure in order to record a couple of Allegros. Completely ignored the several Spartan kit cars tho.

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Rounding up the final spots of August; an unmolested Beetle

An early E38, imported in 2016

My God but aren't these truly gorgeous.

Haven't seen an XG30 since..... well, a long time. This one has about 20k on the clock. WANTS

A local car that I finally had the chance to point and shoot at. Elderly owner not pictured.

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September 1st: Walton Bridge Breakfast Club. Oooh, it's like the one that @PhilA is currently restoring, only with less doors.

Haven't seen a 100 saloon in a very long while.

Acclaim..

Premium Plus was a dealer special from what I can gather.

Waftability.

Crusader...

A bit handbag but 2.8 pre-facelift desirability.

What an unassuming beauty this is, what with it's 200ci motor and everything else about it.

 

 

 

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Brooklands American Day: I saw this, thought of @Junkman and then felt a bit wistful.

Brooklands Capri Day: When your Rover V8 isn't enough, simply* pile a couple of superchargers on top of it.

I did wonder WTF was going on here; turns out it's a sub-5000 miler. That's some evangelical stonechip protection going on tho.

1.6 L...

Meanwhile, outside in the visitor parking areas... the rear ends of two FWD hot Escorts.

Another arse end. Very clean it was.

Justy....

A major highlight of the year for me; Taunus 20M RS.

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Historics auction: Previously seen in the Lazy Spotter's thread but needs to be seen again, such is it's gloriousness.

I believe a load of pissed-up Hooray Henries decided to recreate The Italian Job. Fair play to 'em.

Lovely XJ with less than 12k on the clock.

Corona coupe imported from SA.

As a child in the early '70s, I was the proud owner of a Triang Gadabout pedal car which looked a bit like a mid-60s Ford Falcon IIRC. Had I been blessed with one of these, I may have grown up to become a pissed-up Hooray Henry.

 

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A bunch of in-the-wild spots to conclude the month of September.

Bertone X1/9

Sub-30,000 miler Alto

Move. Great name for a car 'cos that's what they are designed to do.

Ooof.

Another local car that has been very evasive for some years.

Lomax 223 with Guzzi power.

Getting very thin on the ground nowadays.

Well this is just lovely.

 

 

 

[ProgRocker]

On 10/11/2019 at 7:13 PM, davocano said:

 

Acclaim..

That car's reg looks vaguely familiar, I wonder if I have seen it in the past?   I had to check my flickr photos but haven't snapped any Acclaims in this colour. DPW is a Norfolk reg.

A former neighbour once had one in the late 80s or early 90s like this but that reg started 'A999...'

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Time to update for the fairly lean month that was October, will only get leaner with the shortening daylights.

This lovely '59 Parisienne with RHD and inline-six has been in the UK from new.

Another lifelong UK-based six.

Looks alright, dunnit.

Getting very rare nowadays. Were they ever that common?

Twenty valves motor.

 

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A few weeks ago, I saw a patina'd and pineappled Beetle with a "GL" plate and was most concerned that it might be this (re-spotted) very original looking one. Well, here's the proof that it thankfully wasn't.

Not the sort of thing that's often parked on the streets.

Polo with a big boot.

All your Ka vans are were belong to BT

Oooh, a 3-door ZX. This one is Furio spec

 

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Another re-spot but this time with proper in-the-wild circs. Possibly unique in that it's brown, manual boxed and 2.8 litred.

Very rare in the UK wearing plates of any nationality; Chrysler 200 Lancia Flavia Cabriolet

There's still loads of these around, yeah? Not in my areas they aren't.

It's got a petrol engine. RARES

 

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High quality content thread.

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Making the most of the AS roll I'm currently enjoying, here's the first installment for November.

Not just any Mk3 Cortina 2-door; a (period) Super Speed conversion in the same vein as the Savage. This one has 3100cc. Also, a Spot of the Year contender as I think this is one of only two survivors.

It has some decaying Land Rovers for company. Cool.

 

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The nearest I'll ever get to being a not-Lazy Spotter; an update that includes some photos taken as recently as today.

Cheating a bit here 'cos it's parked in an Aston Martin dealer's holding area.

F-150 Harley Edition; commemorating 100 years of Harley Davidson.

A nice photo, I thoughts.

Side pipes, slot mags, bonnet scoop and (according to DVLA) Rover V8. I feel a re-photo is necessary when the inconveniently parked modern (not pictured) is out of the way.

Austin 8cwt still working for a living. DVLA states 2000cc so.... Rover M-series?

DVLA states 1275cc. Would very much consider one as a My First Classic Car.

Germanic waftage (3199cc)

A futureshite fantasy of mine involves hiding one of these away and fitting it with an electric drivetrain in the year 2050. When I'll be 86 years old. Sigh.

Always nice to see this kind of thing in the wild.

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11 minutes ago, davocano said:

DVLA states 1275cc. Would very much consider one as a My First Classic Car.

yeah a lot of people said I should get a Morris minor or such

so in true autoshite fashion I ignored* everyone's advice and got an Invacar instead  

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^ Do your own thing, in your own time.

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The month of November concludes with 66% Citroën hydraulique content.

But first, a Volvo with them white wheels.

Ooh, a ZX with appropriate plate.

Historics auction highlights: a looong Merc

Yet another Safari went through. Niiice

Exhaust sounded like it was in need of attention but it did look cool on a winter's morn.

A randomly parked early Xantia prior to the auction.

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The month of December commences with yet more Citroën hydraulique content.

A re-spot from this time last year; it's had some attention since then.

Walton Bridge Breakfast Club: I've attended nearly all of them since it started in 2015 and December 1 2019 was a particularly good day. AS highlights were...

Blazer

2.0 LX

Commer Cob with some Old Skool Rootes mods

Blimey, a diesel Bedford Astra.

The meet is held in a public car park and the genpop sometimes turn up in something unusual.

As recently as yesterday, something to gladden the heart on a winter's afternoon.

 

 

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"And now, the end is near" as sung by various artistes over the years.

Still a fair few Rover MG's out there?

1.4 Match which suggests bASe-ish dealer specialler to me.

Oooh, nice. An '86 XR3i ragtop.

While I was framing up a shot of ^, an A-plate MG Metro drove on through but I didn't catch it. GUTTEDFACE

Driven by "a woman of a certain age" and not a yoot. No SCENEYO stickers anywhere, just the yoot-ish alloys.

A lovely sight on the last day of the year and decade. The owner turned up at just the right time to turn the lights on for me*.

 

[davocano]

Spot Of The Year awards because I heart this hobby:

Second runner-up:

First runner-up:

Joint winners because I never expected to find something like these in one place:

Happy New Year, everyone.

 

[danthecapriman]

Happy new year!

Keep up the ace spotting in 2020.

[Snipes]

On 12/19/2019 at 6:48 PM, davocano said:

 

You missed the 626 to the right there.

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18 hours ago, Sir Snipes said:

You missed the 626 to the right there.

I didn't add it to the thread because re-spot and not a great photo.

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A snazzy 626 like that is always worth abother look. Looks like a GTi, or whatever name Mazda were using for their sporty-something spec back then.

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Here we go then! New Year's Day Gathering at Brooklands kicks off the new year as usual.

A full-fat Mondeo (I consider the ST to be full-phat).

A pride of Prides.

A summat (summit?) of Metros.

A car that evolved...

A Plah that the OAPs probably wouldn't like.

Some DVLA confusions abound. Rover or Austin? Who cares, it's a van.

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My old man had a '66 1200 deluxe back in the day and I'm fairly* certain it also had that whitewall tyres thing going on. Deffo had those wheel trims.

The nearest thing you'll see to mid-'80s council estate chod in 2020.

Oooh, it's one of them fancy Sports Hatch Vivas. I would have moved the sign to make the better photos but it looked a bit flimsy.

Registered as a 408 but I've managed to convince myself that it is in fact a Bulgarian-built 1360.

@Junkman would have loved this I believe; I certainly did. AMERICAN VASTNESS

Yes, it was making RUMRUMRUMRUM noises in the bassy ends of the ranges.

Blimey, a beige Opel Rekord that's been UK registered from new.