WoC's spotz. 5 Sep, Warwick Retro Classic p.3!

6,982 · July 20, 2010

Greetings shite fans. I'm pretty new here although been lurking for a while.

Thought I should pull my finger out my metaphorical ass and showcase my pathetic attempts at spottery from the last few months.

Autoshite Removals. "Your movements are our concern".

Seventies Mini by night:

There are sometimes three Unos here (is that an oxymoron?) but my spotting skillz have only captured the two.

I thought it was just me that got a bit too excited when encountering a Maxi on the M40, but then I stumbled across Autoshite and now it feels OK.

This was going pretty quick.

I found this sight quite comical. Not sure why.

More to come...

12,955 · July 20, 2010

I want that Commer

6,982 · July 20, 2010

Student owned (probably - it's outside a college) Minor.

Enormous Yank shite.

Excited as I was at spying this minty fresh Fiesta, I didn't have the presence of mind to wind down the rain-spattered window for a better shot.

This ticks every box.

Later model than I would normally snap. Must have been getting carried away that day.

6,982 · July 20, 2010

Midget section:

Bug section:

This looks tidy, but DVLA says not taxed since 2005.

6,982 · July 20, 2010

"One million miles with Mobil 1" says the signwriting on the side that I have comprehensively failed to capture. Not sure if there's a story behind this one. Eighties publicity stunt perhaps?

There's got to be a "got the painters in" type joke here somewhere.

Had to wait aaages for the old couple in this beauty to finish their picnic before I could take this:

Answers on a postcard please. Don't really know me kit kars. I'm guessing the one on the left's MkIII Fiesta based!

A Triumph or two?

There's a third behind the bins. I can't remember now if it's a Stag or a Spitfire.

July 20, 2010

"One million miles with Mobil 1" says the signwriting on the side that I have comprehensively failed to capture. Not sure if there's a story behind this one. Eighties publicity stunt perhaps?

I know at one time Mobil ran a BMW all the time with fully synth Mobil-1 oil in the engine, it did about a million miles (of course with regular oil changes/servicing) and they stripped the engine to see how it faired with Mobil-1, the parts showed very little signs of wear.

3,314 · July 20, 2010

Believe it or not...

...you are looking at the very car!

It was imported from the USA a while back and this (according to a minute's research off google) is the car...

Video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh4CsH3i ... re=related

July 20, 2010

Shame it is filling up with Shell.

32,498 · July 20, 2010

How can you compare a BMW that's done 1 millions sat on a rolling road to any other car that is used?, The narrator on the video commenting on how good the interior and bodywork are after all that mileage is just daft seeing that it never actually went anywhere.

3.6k · July 20, 2010

that pic sums up my hatred for the 'new' mini

how the fuck is that mini?

2,894 · July 20, 2010

Whispers... Its a Beetle

23,750 · July 21, 2010

There's a third behind the bins. I can't remember now if it's a Stag or a Spitfire.

I would say Spitfire. Looks too small to be a Stag, but i am normally wrong on these things. Whats under the tarp? A Bond Equipe? Looks to big to be a GT6. The Bond had a bigger body IIRC.

47,368 · July 21, 2010

Whispers... Its a Beetle

MEGALOLz!!! Calm down A5!

62,996 · July 21, 2010

Answers on a postcard please. Don't really know me kit kars. I'm guessing the one on the left's MkIII Fiesta based!

The one on the left's a Quantum H4. Not sure about the other one.

47,368 · July 21, 2010

Vincent hurricane?

17,923 · July 21, 2010

Famous on teh internetz. it is a Hurricane indeed.

July 21, 2010

I was at a friends house last Sunday, where I happened to read an article in Car Mechanics magazine about that BMW. Coincidentally I also read a feature in Staff Car Sagas from an old copy of Practical Classics, where a certain Mr Hirst had written about collecting his imported taxi.

6,982 · July 21, 2010

But wait! There's more.

The guy driving this clocked me taking the photo. He looked like the kind of guy who might not 'get' Autoshite, but who might get lairy without much warning.

Clean XR2.

Purple Jag.

This hasn't moved for months. According to the DVLA it's a 3300cc 1928 Ford. That's if I've remembered the reg right (BF 4046).

This Moggy's pleasingly manky.

And my favourite spot so far. This was being consumed by brambles beside an abandoned Devonshire clifftop residense that is, presumably, falling into the sea.

These were in the garden. Both Scimitars?

17,923 · July 21, 2010

Nice! Any more pics of the house itself? Looks interesting.

6,982 · July 21, 2010

Since you asked, yes.

Might have taken more had my camera not konked out at that moment. My friend, who is not into cars particularly, took lots more, possibly more arty than mine.

6,982 · August 15, 2010

The automotive shite Mecca that is Coventry Transport Museum has a temporary display of, quite literally, seven ice cream vans at the moment, under the optimistic headline Ice Cream Dream Machines! They range from the mint and rare, right into shite territory.

1982 Bedford HA.

1952 Jowett!

1956 Trojan!

Commer FG.

1962 Bedford.

And a properly shite Transit for good measure.

6,982 · August 15, 2010

I seem to remember there was an ice cream van thread at one time, but I can't find it now so apologies if the above have been posted before!

Anyway, these lot were parked up outside in the rain for some reason with about a dozen local radio bods clambering all over them:

28,790 · August 15, 2010

Fire up the Quattro!

Are you sure the FG wasn't an Austin? Surely Commer was part of the great rival Rootes?

6,982 · August 16, 2010

Gaaah! You spot my deliberate mistake! I think it was a Leyland but now I'll have to go back and check.

1,537 · August 16, 2010

Hi Ceri, some cracking shots!

Tell me this - is that your CF in your avatar? If so, I know where there's one EXACTLY the same, same colour version etc, that's been undriven and in the same spot for at least 4 years now. I have a photo of it on here somewhere i think. Might be worth asking about?

1,537 · August 16, 2010

Yup, found it - it's about halfway down on page 2.

http://autoshite.commlm/forum/viewtopic.ph ... c&start=15

6,982 · August 17, 2010

I used to own the CF but had to get shut of it because in a moment of madness I pranged it.

Lacking neither the skill nor the money to repair it I eventually let it go through Ebay. The couple that bought it already had two others, both restored, and bought mine to strip the interior out. When they came to take it away they were like 'This is too good to break, I reckon we could interest our mate in repairing the bodywork..'. I thought yeah, well, we'll see, but amazingly I got an email a couple of months later with pictures of my old camper looking all shiny! I was well impressed if not a little envious. A happy ending!

The one you've spotted looks interesting because it doesn't seem to be a pop-top and it's a diesel, which suggests to me it's a home-conversion of a van. The windows aren't quite the same as mine.