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Sensational spots! Uplifting to see the variety of stuff street parked and apparently in use as transport. Love it.

Incidentally there’s a Merc there H881YGC - I had one registered H880VGC. Also an estate.

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Wow! Some absolutely incredible spots there. That Avenger/Oxford combo has to be my favourite. It warms the old cockles that such scenes still exist in 2020.

That Saab estate hasn't been parked there that long, less than three years but I suppose being parked under trees won't help how it looks!

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20 minutes ago, Angrydicky said:

It warms the old cockles that such scenes still exist in 2020.

That Saab estate hasn't been parked there that long, less than three years but I suppose being parked under trees won't help how it looks!

The exact words I'd use too.  Plus an FU to the upcoming ULEZ extension.  For the ones old enough and running that is.

Saab is weird.  Looks like it's been parked there for donkeys.  It's on a fairly busy road, so I'm surprised no one has trashed it/reported as an eyesore (they'd be RONG obvs).

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Another great update. The tatty street-parked Avenger is definitely 'what this place is all about' and the sort of thing that's increasingly difficult to find anywhere. What is going on with the builder's dust sheets over the interiors, though? The R11 and Carlton are also astonishing sights, really. If I saw one of those I'd be happy for the rest of the day.

Some familiar cars there, too - well done for getting the CV8, it always has a cover on when I pass there. Weirdly I found that peppermint Transit on street view recently. I think there's a footpath running right next to the car park its in, but I'm glad somebody else has spotted it so I don't have to.

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1 hour ago, jonny69 said:

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This is ace. When was the last time you saw something like that?

About 1998, usually with the bumpers semi colour coded but with the paint flaking off.

Im almost getting nostalgic for stick on chrome arches ?

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Very reassuring to see all that bilge still going. I do like the 21. And everything else. Funnily enough I came across that Sierra estate when I dropped off the 19 with you all that time ago. 

Managed to find a photo of that 'peppermint' Transit from 2012. 

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I've forgotten, have you come across that other Transit not so far away? X reg in some sort of dirty grey....

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46 minutes ago, bramz7 said:

Very reassuring to see all that bilge still going. I do like the 21. And everything else. Funnily enough I came across that Sierra estate when I dropped off the 19 with you all that time ago. 

Managed to find a photo of that 'peppermint' Transit from 2012. 

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I've forgotten, have you come across that other Transit not so far away? X reg in some sort of dirty grey....

Also spotted in New Cross, 2014

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  • RobT changed the title to RobT's Spots - 2020 randoms

In no particular order or location, stuff wot I've seen over the summer.

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The Barons Court Cortina.  Found this by sheer luck, with some spotters nose thrown in I like to think.

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Shit rimz, nice car.

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How to beat ULEZ.

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Owner probably has a hair bun unfortunately.

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The Forest Hill Rapier.

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Shame about the webasto.

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New local spot that got me excited.

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Lazy spot, Xantia wiper blade.  Neither of those will see the road again eh.  Not sure what's under the other cover.

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Rekord is very local.  Been meaning to pap it for ages.

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Stalled lockdown project. This was August!

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  • RobT changed the title to RobT's Spots - page 6 randoms

October to March.  Not a huge update, and most are local obviously.

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CX and Jag are in Ham SW London, on a rare trip 'somewhere else'.

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Two '68s together, as I papped the Imp whilst test driving the Morris after another bout of fixing something.

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Espace looks like a driveway ornament but has MoT.

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Whereas the Astra is.  Lasted tested in 2011.

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Been like that for years.  Seems a shame.

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Mildly twatted 340.

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Knackered but still in service.  Excellent.

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A vision of despair if ever there was.  Red one is getting gradually worse too.

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Slightly spud cam as zoomed to the max.

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Top spots Rob, always a treat.  I'd love to know what the stories behind the abandoned Jag and laid up Astra are - not many cars like that round here but a lot of similarly abandoned boats dotted around my local river and I often wonder what the history is there for something like that to be left and forgotten about.

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27 minutes ago, phil_lihp said:

Top spots Rob, always a treat.  I'd love to know what the stories behind the abandoned Jag and laid up Astra are -

Thanks Phil.  Probably giffer given up driving with the Astra, and the house was a lovely Arts and Crafts one with a faded elderly owner look about it.  As to the Jag, who knows.  Abandonment of hope?  It's in an area not far from where this Saab used to be (sadly now gone). I only spotted it last March pre-Covid.

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Well overdue an update here I think.  I'll start from April 2021.

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Local AX.  Was a new spot 18 months ago, and it's still there parked on street.

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Putney.  Could be 1998 again.

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Another Beckenham local.  Didn't stay long though.

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Greenwich.

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Faversham Mini 850 deserves two pics.  Probably a gifferette owner.

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South Norwood bilge, not far from BL Les.

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West Norwood.  Sums the place up really...

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This was fabulous.  Helpful plate to aid identification.  Near Whitstable IIRC.

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South London Roller.

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More locals, above and below.  Glad it's not just me driving old shit around here.

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