Brighton Spots - 2014 OMG

[overrun]

Those snow cat things always remind me of The Shinning, too.

[scruff]

Bump for a real thread. Excellent spots Barrett and nice to see my old stomping grounds.

 

The untaxed-for-two-decades 126 in Petworth has been there for as long as I've been driving (nearly 11 years) but has always looked good, I think there was a Mini with it at one stage.

[brickwall]

I remember ogling the Bedford camper

[barrett]

Have you met Old Squinty?

1966 Hillman Minx by barrogance, on Flickr

 

A man was eating his lunch in the back of this, I think he had a kettle set up and everything

1956 Austin A40 van by barrogance, on Flickr

 

1964 Volvo Amazon estate by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Always happy to see an Ami out and about. This is the one that had a huge front-end smash last year and is now back on the road. Owned by a young lad, and it's his only car and daily driver. Brilliant.

1968 Citroen Ami 6 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

UnPopular

1984 Ford Fiesta Popular Plus by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Taxed, Tested, Grim

1991 Nissan Micra by barrogance, on Flickr

 

On my street, never seen this before

1989 Peugeot 309 GLX by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Jaguar XJS*

1969 Volvo 1800S by barrogance, on Flickr

 

My friend who we bought the 404 off also has these

1989 subaru 1800 Brat and 1987 Peugeot 505 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

We've seen this one before, but who could resist a 'double header' photo op like this

1958 Standard 10 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Awful Starlet making a grim drive to Worthing even worse

1991 Toyota starlet by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Weird stuff still popping up on the commute, I drive past this every day but only noticed it last week and stopped this morning. Typically, somebody else on Flickr uploaded a photo of it today too, wtf!?

1991 Seat Ibiza XL by barrogance, on Flickr

1991 Seat Ibiza XL by barrogance, on Flickr

[mouseflakes]

Have you met Old Squinty?

 

Eeeuuuwww! Looks like someone's sliced his eyelid off.

 

That Ami looks ace!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That old Austin van looks like just the sort of vehicle that some slightly dodgy local rogue type character would be eating his lunch in while he kept his head down after robbing a couple of chickens off someone's allotment in about 1977.

[barrett]

Some non-Brighton spots

 

HOLLAND:

Citroen H by barrogance, on Flickr

Mazda 323 estate by barrogance, on Flickr

Mercedes T2 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

SURREY:

1989 Ford Sierra by barrogance, on Flickr

1960 Volvo Amazon by barrogance, on Flickr

1960 Rover P4 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

SOMEWHERE ELSE

1990 Vauxhall Astra CDi by barrogance, on Flickr

 

WINEHAM - This parked in the same pub car park as us in the Panhard. I wonder how long it has been since two flat twin air-cooled cars from different manufacturers met in that same place?

1981 Citroen Dyane/2cv van hybrid thing by barrogance, on Flickr

 

This was at the same pub, any ideas?

Axle... by barrogance, on Flickr

 

ACTUALLY BRIGHTON

1981 Fiat X/19 by barrogance, on Flickr

1981 Ford Fiesta L by barrogance, on Flickr

 

My boss took these last two before xmas, and somehow managed to capture the most shite car of all time. Beginner's luck I reckon

1987 Vauxhall Cavalier by barrogance, on Flickr

 

BMC LD Ambulance by barrogance, on Flickr

[Angrydicky]

That BMC ambulance looks a great little runaround! Surely one of life's winners there.

[Skoze]

What a fantastic thread! There's so much wonderful chod on offer in Brighton, i'm glad someone has their camera on them more than I do. 

 

Here's the van where I keep my puppies! You can come and have a look if you like?

1990 Ford Transit Country 4x4 by barrogance, on Flickr
 

 

A very good mate of mine's just bought that, apparently it's absolutely GR9 but alas had no free puppies nor sweets

 

S

1979 Ford Capri S by barrogance, on Flickr
 

 

And that rude boy would be mine. We were sat in the Albert when you snapped that having just brought it home from Liverpool! 

 

As an aside, if you know anyone or anywhere in town I might be able to store either a Capri or a very very short Land Rover, please drop me a line - been looking since June last year. 

[michael t]

That Cavalier is dreadful, so in an Autoshite way its brilliant

[barrett]

Hey Skoze, good to see another local Shiteist. I was in the Albert too and popped outside to take the photo, OMG SPOOKY.

 

Actually, driving new car purchases directly to the Albert for celebratory beer is for winners:

1966 Triumph Herald 1300 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

No idea on storage sadly, mine are all outside on the street

[cort16]

Great pics. That Cavalier is scabby in a way that seemed to disappear about 15 years ago.

[Skoze]

Hey Skoze, good to see another local Shiteist. I was in the Albert too and popped outside to take the photo, OMG SPOOKY.

 

Actually, driving new car purchases directly to the Albert for celebratory beer is for winners:

1966 Triumph Herald 1300 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

No idea on storage sadly, mine are all outside on the street

 

Clearly the shite-hauling route of champions. 

 

I live opposite the Evening Star, so as you can imagine parking is a bit of an issue! If you ever fancy a pint though, gimme a shout - that or i'll take you for a slide in the barge when it's down for MoT (read: welding and our passes-anything tester) in Shoreham.

[stuboy]

keep up the good work

[barrett]

MAYBE I WILL

 

Check out this crusty mutha

1983 Subaru 1800 by barrogance, on Flickr

1983 Subaru 1800 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Spotted this Saab with GR12 trimz, it got stolen shortly after this. Not by me I hasten to add

1980 Saab 900 GLE by barrogance, on Flickr

 

value of reg far outstrips value of car

1995 Citroen ZX by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Some from gay Paris

Alfa Romeo Alfetta by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Don't see this sort of thing in a multi storey car park in the UK very often

DB Le Mans by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Renault 18 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

This is a strange one. UK reg'd, LHD, Italian dealer shiz on the back. No idea who did the conversion. Soz about sausage fingers

1999 Jaguar XJ Estate by barrogance, on Flickr

1999 Jaguar XJR Estate by barrogance, on Flickr

 

These look pretty smart I reckon

Lada by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Outside a GR455 restaurant. Only Tube I saw the whole weekend

Citroen HY by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Back down to earth with a particularly grim bang

1989 Ford Escort 1.3 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

1993 Lancia Delta by barrogance, on Flickr

 

ruined

1980 Ford Escort 1.3 by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Only an idiot would attempt to buy this shed (it;s an actual shed, being used to store the interior of a prewar BMW saloon)

1959 Citroen 2CV Van by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Appealingly basic Capper

1983 Ford Capri by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Megabarge

1971 Maserati Quattroporte by barrogance, on Flickr

 

Wish I could have taken a photograph of the owner of this. He was short, had a bright yellow pony tail and errible teeth. Pretty typical Bond owner I reckon.

Bond Equipe 2-litre by barrogance, on Flickr

[Skoze]

 

Spotted this Saab with GR12 trimz, it got stolen shortly after this. Not by me I hasten to add

1980 Saab 900 GLE by barrogance, on Flickr

 

 

Did that ever turn up? Crying shame

 

I just came by to post the Bond, saw it today while I was down the seafront snapping people. Owner had a seriously white pony tail. 

 

Perfect* shut lines. 

 

[barrett]

Want some more? Well TOUGH you're having some anyway. Maybe. They've ballsed up Flickr again so I have no idea if this will work.

 

EDITED to allow for the fact that Flickr has become impossible to use in any meaningful way

[barrett]

Well, that's a massive shower of cunts innit. Thanks to all the hard-working programmers at Flickr who have made it ACTUALLY impossible to share photos except on social media sites. Very helpful. TBH that is probably the end of this thread as I massively cannot be arsed uploading my pics anywhere else.

 

In the unlikely event anyone cares, just look here instead:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/45623348@N05/

[trigger]

You can upload your photos direct on here now, it's much easier. Open the post options tab.

[hairnet]

maser and citroen horn

 

that zx theres a rover 25 round here with 421D as a plate = plate worth 3-4 grand car worth 3-4 quid

[garycox]

Think this is the bit you need to use?

 

Click on the pin thing under the share menu bit.

 

[garycox]

TESTING

 

 

Seems to work.

 

(That's 'Medium 640 x 480" size)

[barrett]

On 12/31/2012 at 2:58 AM, barrett said:

This this is a familiar sight in the four fuggin' corners of Brighton & Hove. No matter where I am, I'm sure to see it, this time parked directly outside of work. I reckon it must be somebody collecting rent or summat, probably Van Hoogstraten's missus

1983 Mercedes G-Wagen by barrogance, on Flickr

Bit of a weird one, but this just popped up in a local history page I follow in a photo from 1999!

[Tayne]

Somebody needs to clean the brake dust off those wheels.

Sadly sorned since 2013.

[Joe Pineapples]

Great thread, just been through the whole thing. A++ would read again.

[Datsuncog]

Likewise, some tremendous spottage on here! A fantastic compendium of tat, and a most pleasant way to spend an hour or two.

Brighton and the surrounding area was certainly a great location for chod - I took a fair few pics when I lived there between 2001-2005, but managed nowhere near the pinnacle achieved here.

 

Incidentally, I recognised the gold 2dr Viva HC you snapped outside the flats on the Clarendon Rd in Hove, as it belonged to a serial Vauxhall-licker; back in 2003 he was running a blue L-reg 4dr which was hit hard up the rear and written off.

On 10/4/2011 at 3:29 PM, barrett said:

 

Vauxhall Viva HC by barrogance, on Flickr

He then left a note on my own HC, asking if I was interested in selling it - I rang him and had a very pleasant chat, though I didn't want to sell mine at that point. He said he just loved Vivas as they were so simple; and not long after, he tracked down the gold K-reg one you snapped.

I have pics of both the pranged blue car and the gold two-door, though annoyingly I was still using 35mm film at the time and so they're still boxed away in the attic, waiting for me to spend about three years of my life scanning them in...

Google shows the Viva was still there in 2012, but gone by 2014...

I'm deeply impressed it was still there nine years later, regardless!

[michael t]

@datsuncog - I'd love to see some of your chod spotting whenever you do get around to scanning your 35mm film. I'd imagine you have some superb spots.

[barrett]

I have a feeling that gold Viva was totally rotten. It appeared on ebay at some point with detailed photographs of all the rot and it was absolutely hanging. Shame it couldn't have held on a couple more years for the MoT exemption. Which was your Viva @Datsuncog? Was it the two-tone one on black Wellers?

[Datsuncog]

22 minutes ago, barrett said:

Which was your Viva @Datsuncog? Was it the two-tone one on black Wellers?

Heh, sadly not! I was driving a Honey Starmist 2dr HC on an M-reg, very similar to yer man's but with a black vinyl roof - but unless you were taking pics in 2003/04 then I don't think you snapped mine!

My 1256cc had ongoing head gasket problems and after an engine swap failed to help matters, I repatriated it to NI and eventually sold it for a pittance. In a twist of fate, it ended up with Junkyarddog of this parish but, like the car in Hove, had become totally rotten and only good for parts.

No HC can stand up to being parked outside in all weathers, it seems... if I ever get a garage, that's when I'll consider another 70s motor.

[Psycho Charlie Knobcheese]

Enjoyed reading through the whole thread. I recognise half the cars/locations from my time living down in Brighton. Saw the Viva out and about regularly as I used to nip into the bus drivers canteen on Conway st. Driver was ancient!