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Very impressed with the variety you are seeing Rob.  You're very persistent or in a very good area.

 

It's a bit of both. Inner London boroughs are the sweet spot due to concentration of housing. There's always something to see. Where I live there's plenty of flats with garage blocks, so I'm sure I'm missing out on loads of giffer owned gems that are tucked away!

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Wow I am glad that Sierra is still going. The Amazon was covered with a tarp when I saw it a few years back.

There was another MK1 quite close to that Sierra but it got written off a year or so back.

 

Managed to work out that Fiesta van numberplate back then too, its A547DMX and has been sat there since 1997.

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MOAR BILGE.  In random order of spottage.

 

xtriple's south London brethren.

 

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This W123 is owned by a local Lovejoy, it's often loaded up with 'antique' tat.

 

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Cav with NI plates.

 

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Gopping transit.  The Supercinq in the background is currently on eBay.  It's one of my regulars so I hope it goes to a good home.

 

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Despite the wobbed arch this was smart.

 

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If I ever have a Fiat 127 it'd be this colour with those wheels.  Lovely.

 

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Noctural spot in Streatham.  One of those mouth agape moments as I wasn't in spotting mode.

 

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This was interesting.  A quick google showed it to be a Coleman-Milne Granada Minster with a 10" stretch.  Must have been a ministerial car or something back in the day.  There was no security on it, so good luck.

 

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Princess of Orange.

 

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This pictorial delight is opposite Camberwell Old Cemetary.  It's slightly off my patch so I've never seen them before, but there's photos on Flickr.  It's still a butchers shop and the owner is a right character as you'd expect really!

 

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This pictorial delight is opposite Camberwell Old Cemetary.  It's slightly off my patch so I've never seen them before, but there's photos on Flickr.  It's still a butchers shop and the owner is a right character as you'd expect really!

 

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Is there somewhere nearby where one can buy a carrot?

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The roof boxes on that Lovejoy Merc a few posts back.  Weren't they quite a rare option for the W123 and quite sought after by Merc lickers?  I have a memory that you could get a matching fitted luggage set for the boot too, like you could for a Granada.

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Another small haul, this time Brixton/Stockwell area a few weeks back.

 

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One for bramz.

 

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And another.  16 valver.

 

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Bloated modz etc.

 

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Crap looking Capri (IMO)

 

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With Clio

 

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Cavcraft emergency services

 

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This is a TR8 Grinnall conversion apparently, and belongs to Joanna Lumley's husband.

 

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The location is also notable for being Albert Square, SW8.  Number 14 is at the end of this photo on the right.  Well it's notable for me anyway as that's where Roger Moore lived until he was 18.  Gawd bless him.

 

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W123s are still fairly commonplace in London, but here's a couple anyway.  Most I see are pez (no doubt because export m8), but the beige one is diz.

 

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Genuine admiration for Londoners who don't seem even remotely arsed about having class/expensive/rare/rubbish cars outside and just leaving them there or driving them about.

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Sorry to be a month or so late, but the Rivoli Rover has been there for yonks. The tarp is a fairly recent addition. Prior to that it had a for sale sticker in the window asking an improbable amount, like 600 quid or something.

 

I saw (and photographed) the beige Sierra in Downham before Christmas last year.

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Some cold weather spots, mostly in the Nunhead/Peckham Rye area.

 

Early FX4.  There were four other black cabs parked nearby, this one being the oldest and most interesting.

 

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Another DS.  That's three I know of within a 4 mile radius.

 

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XJ40 10 yards away too, probably the same chod botherer.

 

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My favourite of the day.  Hart to Hart spec SL.

 

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Mintola W114 with superb, probably original raised letter plates.

 

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I only papped this Civic because Jesus Woz Ere.

 

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Lazy spots.

 

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This Capri has grim placca trimz, but is tidy otherwise.  Used daily as I often see it on the commuter run.

 

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Tobacco leaf (?) sherpa.

 

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More vehicular delights.  I've moved offices (still in the same general area) but it means I've got a whole new area to explore at lunchtime.

 

Integrale next to Lambeth Town Hall.  For his sake I hope it wasn't left there long.

 

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Giffer R8 with privacy glass.  LoLZ.

 

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Seeing an A-series Metro is a very rare thing nowadays, and this lifted my spirits.  It's a 1.3 L.

 

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Spare panels stored in the car, as one does.

 

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Yuppy parked like a dick.  Mind you she was only waiting a short while and it did sound nice.

 

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V6 Camry for spottedlaurel.

 

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Oh you little tease...

 

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Behind these Golfs was a PCP Mustang.

 

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I'm always glad to see a Mk3 Cav, and this one in particular as I was seeing sod all else that day.

 

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His name is Les and he owns a Magentis.

 

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What are these things like then?  I'm sure Wuvvum has owned one at some point, so opinions please Wuv if you're reading this.  The one above isn't a 6 cyl.

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A random set of locations.

 

Megane wagon in Amiens.

 

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A bm bargains shopper.

 

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Rave will probably know the next two, near ECP in Catford.

 

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These povvo Mk3 Astra estates look great without the higher spec roof bars.

 

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Faded Starlet

 

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A yank thing on a housing estate in Deptford.

 

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This was parked opposite.

 

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Thames Barrier Industrial Estate dross.

 

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A Regal in Sandwich, Kent.

 

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