Shite camera phone pic thread - Burley in Wharfdale car show

[HillmanImp]

Just downloaded the pics from the phone. DONT ask how i took some of them.....

 

Most are from Sainsurys car park, firstly this beetle.

Very nice Srcote. Probably used to be a 'L', is now a 60k rally slag.

Nice original Mini

Lush

Same services

This was driven by some old giffer. Took him about half a pint to park it.

Breadvan

Cool as milk pov spec scrote. Not seen it since. Right next to work.

Total piece of shit on its last legs. Brilliant. In the student area of Leeds.

Daewoo

Nice working Volvo

Orion

Volvo

Cant see from the thumbnail. Might edit later.

Transit coachbuilt camper

Wedding Routemaster

Renault Clio

hang on, thats just a Clio....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but

 

 

 

 

 

 

hang

 

 

 

 

 

 

on

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OMG! RATLOOK!

Wanker

[michiel]

Saloon & 'coupe' P5 shot is very cool.

 

I may or may not have spend some nights in one of the houses in the 'student area of Leeds'-pic, but all those streets look alike to me... did like it there though, for a few days.

[eddyramrod]

Saloon & 'coupe' P5 shot is very cool.

 

I may or may not have spend some nights in one of the houses in the 'student area of Leeds'-pic, but all those streets look alike to me... did like it there though, for a few days.

Me too! In 1980 I was chased around Leeds, mostly Headingly area where we were staying, by a Mk1 Cortina Woody (more students). I had my 1967 Anglia Super at the time. This all happened in the wee hours but still, how Plod didn't spot us and throw us all insdie I'll never know.

 

Love the Volvos...

[Vin]

The 'Monza' next to the Polo breadvan looks very 'homely'.

 

Also, the Hull registered (RH) Onion, has a badge of the logo of 'Crystal' Ford just before the blue oval. Crystal were the Ford dealers in Hull and each letter of the logo was in a hexagon.

 

ANAL I know, but....

[pompei]

We were up in the Hyde Park area on Weds evening but unfortunately nothing of interest came out to see us

[Guest Tony Hayers]

Orion

 

Look how small that Orion looks compared to modern day transport!

[eddyramrod]

Already done! Last year I parked my Capri next to a rental car, a brand new Fockus; I couldn't believe how dainty my car looked compared to the bloated whale they expect you to rent.

 

For those not old enough: the Capri was based on the Mk2 Cortina, which was Ford's standard medium-size family car in the late 60s, much as the Mondeo is now. So one doesn't think of it as a small car, especially when the Fockus' predecessor, the Scrote, was chosen as the rally steed because the Capri was too big and heavy! And how big does Bodie's Capri look, sweeping sideways around the London of 1980? It could almost be a Mustang! Which of course is what Ford intended...

[HillmanImp]

I may or may not have spend some nights in one of the houses in the 'student area of Leeds'-pic, but all those streets look alike to me... did like it there though, for a few days.

That was just down from the park towards the 'Royal Park' pub. It was about 7.30 in the morning on a Thursday and there were a load of lads sitting in the front garden drinking and smoking a spliff looking a bit the worse for wear from the night before. Was quite jealous, but my partying days are well behind me.

 

We were up in the Hyde Park area on Weds evening but unfortunately nothing of interest came out to see us

Probably because all the students have gone home and taken all their tat with them. In that area of Leeds you do get proper tat. in Headingley the students are a bit better off and all drive brand new cars. At my old place, I had a knacked 309 and an Imp outside on the shared driveway and they had 2 Minis, and I was the one that was working?

[eddyramrod]

Not many of them had cars at all when I visited! But things were different 30 years ago, Britiain still had a bit of a public transport network so you didn't actually need a car if you lived in some of the cities. There was definitely a lot of sitting-around-on-the-front-steps going on though, some things don't change.

 

You could tell I was the one working, I had a car, even if it was 13 years old. Actually the first time I visited these friends, now I think of it, I had an 18 year old car! This was my first A40, and I remember having to fight my way across Leeds from east to west on a Saturday teatime, in thick fog. At 19 years old, in a free A40. Mad bugger!

[michiel]

Somewhere in the student area, couple of years ago I spotted this:

 

[pogweasel]

 

Look how small that Orion looks compared to modern day transport!

Agreed, the Focus is the same "size" and it positively dwarfs it. Those Escort/Orions were not cramped vehicles neither.

[HillmanImp]

Look how small that Orion looks compared to modern day transport!

I dont underatand these car companies. They have a small car but they keep making them bigger. Then their small car is really big, so they introduce a new small car. Why? If they had kept the Clio the same size as it was when they introduced it they would not have had to have gone to all the trouble of making the Twingo.

 

My mum used to have a Xantia that fitted in the garage but was a bit of a tight fit to get in and out of.

 

She now has a Clio which is also a tight fit which i thought was odd. When I checked the dimensions the Xantia is only 5cm wider and is nearly 10cm lower. The Xantia was still longer by a fair bit but i wonder how much bigger the new clio is compared to the original.

[Tayne]

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[Mr_Bo11ox]

Here is my cameraphone spot, an MG6 prototype in Manchester a fortnight ago.

 

 

Do I win £5?

[dollywobbler]

 

 

I dont underatand these car companies. They have a small car but they keep making them bigger. Then their small car is really big, so they introduce a new small car. Why?

Safety crap, euro-ncap and convenience toys such as self opening boots and anything powered by an electric motor.

Self opening boots are nowt new! Mk2 Cavs had them.

[Tayne]

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[dollywobbler]

Yes, as long as the remote button controlled a sack-load of bricks positioned above the rear of the car. This feature proved unpopular and was dropped after a very short production run.

[Milford Cubicle]

Hey my Cavalier has 'lazy locking',. I blame Vauxhall for all the bloat and needless features!

[eddyramrod]

Self opening boots are nowt new! Mk2 Cavs had them.

So did my 1962 Cadillac. If it's on a car, chances are it was on a Cadillac first. I know that doesn't apply to everything, but you'd be amazed how much we owe Detroit.

[HillmanImp]

As I said in a thread yesterday Cav_estate tipped me off about a garage near him which has loads of crap outside, so on my way home i popped in and had a look.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Right load off stuff. The sort of thing other people seem to post on here all the time that I think doesn't exist. Obviously someone has probably seen all these before but they were all new to me. The Commer Camper was the best one. Last on the road in 2005.

 

The TR7 looked in good shape considering it had been off the road since 1991.

[HillmanImp]

BUMP as i thought this was a great find (despite me being tiped off). Bit upset nobody has commented......

[VWPowered]

i just found this thread can i take the commer does it come with free delivery

[HillmanImp]

i just found this thread can i take the commer does it come with free delivery

The commer is ace. Has a Dodge badge badly stuck on the front.

 

Could not see what I was taking as the sun was ruining the viewer.

[eddyramrod]

Could not see what I was taking as the sun was ruining the viewer.

Yeah, it's a bitch, I get that quite a lot. Wonder why.... Nice shots though. I like the Bedford Utopian. Did you know that was one of the names put forward at the planning stage of the Edsel? Not Bedford: I mean Utopian.

[barrett]

The Commer definitely wins!

light-weight landy pantechnicon is also pretty cool, and i'm surprised to see the MGC just sitting there, they are worth a fair bit now.

Great spots, cheers!

[barrett]

 

Could not see what I was taking as the sun was ruining the viewer.

Yeah, it's a bitch, I get that quite a lot. Wonder why.... Nice shots though. I like the Bedford Utopian. Did you know that was one of the names put forward at the planning stage of the Edsel? Not Bedford: I mean Utopian.

Wasn't it 'Utopian Turtletop'?

[eddyramrod]

That's the one. When you next visit Paphos you can claim your prize (that should give me time to think up something suitably shite).

[M'coli]

BUMP as i thought this was a great find (despite me being tiped off). Bit upset nobody has commented......

Sorry about that, I couldn't work out how to get the Google streetview image on to a post. This will have been taken somtime in spring last year - check out the 504 cabriolet next to the van:

 

 

Haud oan - still disnae wurk

Bugger it, click on the link!

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... 89.87,,0,5

[In The Pit]

"QUOTE" Cant see from the thumbnail. Might edit later.

 

Are you able to edit a better picture of this? looks a like standard L in Venetian Red one of the most popular colours for a MKII, there used to be loads in that colour round my way circa 1994.

 

This one also looks lovely again an L in another one of the MKII's most popular colours Midnight Blue

[HillmanImp]

Are you able to edit a better picture of this? looks a like standard L in Venetian Red one of the most popular colours for a MKII, there used to be loads in that colour round my way circa 1994.

Yeah I remembered this when I uploaded the photo. It was driven by some old dear who had probably owned it from new. It was dented and scratched.