East Coast Retros June meet

[trigger]

It was our car meet last night and as i had the camera i thought I'd share a few photos of the 260 cars that turned up, i say a few photos, it's more of a photo dump to be honest!

Apparently they only made less than a 1000 G40's in this shape, the owner of this one said it came from France and hes had it from nearly new

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[ProgRocker]

Lancia Thema. 

[95 quid Peugeot]

Lol I got my pic in same spot going home 

[wuvvum]

That Cyclemaster tandem is brilliant!  I'd been hoping to make it to this but had major issues with work yesterday which meant I wouldn't have got there until everyone was buggering off.

[MiniMinorMk3]

2 hours ago, trigger said:

 

 

And the winner is the Mini Clubman, with the 99 a closed second.

The "Will probably be stopped by plod and given a safety check" goes to this pile of manufactured patina.

2 hours ago, trigger said:

 

 

 

 

PS Thanks for teh photo dump. 😁

[wheel nut]

On 6/13/2023 at 11:22 AM, trigger said:

Aaaargh! - when Ford owners are blessed with such a good choice of period manufacturer wheels, why fit modern toss like this?

 

On 6/13/2023 at 11:26 AM, trigger said:

 

On 6/13/2023 at 2:02 PM, MiniMinorMk3 said:

And the winner is the Mini Clubman, with the 99 a closed second.

I agree this is very nice, but I've often felt the clubman nose looked a bit out of proportion with the saloon body. I think the estate suited the clubman nose better.

On 6/13/2023 at 11:26 AM, trigger said:

I had to run a DVLA check to see that this was a replica. Very convincing. After watching Harry's Garage episodes on the real thing, a replica would be tempting if only to avoid some of the astronomical maintenance costs.

 

On 6/13/2023 at 11:33 AM, trigger said:

That's a new one for me - never seen one of these before. Tailgate looks like it splits which is a design feature I like.

[hairnet]

trig you slaaaaaaaag

what are the two black cars under the silver cloud in the first post

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[MiniMinorMk3]

The black car is a 1959 Renault Fregate Manoir

 

[wuvvum]

Other black car is a PC Cresta.

[Brodders]

On 6/13/2023 at 12:30 PM, wuvvum said:

That Cyclemaster tandem is brilliant!  I'd been hoping to make it to this but had major issues with work yesterday which meant I wouldn't have got there until everyone was buggering off.

Same here; was planning on going down but it all kicked off at work. A shame as it looked like a good one, but will try to make the next date.

[Spottedlaurel]

Great to see the photos. Disappointed I couldn't make it due to various rubbish excuses, and anyway it would have been boring for two Laurels to be there....

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 6/13/2023 at 11:33 AM, trigger said:

 

That's brilliant to see. The Cresta was a clean, mildly modified owner's car on RR many years back and then around a decade ago it was sold and crashed. Repair progress was very slow and it looked like it probably wouldn't make it out the other side in one piece after dropping completely off the radar. Brilliant to see it back looking lovely once again. 

Edit: It was actually you, @trigger who posted that it had been crashed back in 2012! 

Here it is before the front ender, years ago. 

[stuboy]

a great mix of motas