Ultimate pub forecourt spot! (Simca Contents)

[trigger]

These have all been posted in my spotted thread but to give you an idea what normally sits on the forecourt of the pub.

 

This Princess was outside for a long while.

 

1976 Austin Princess 2200 HLS in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1976 Austin Princess 2200 HLS in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

His Austin 10.

 

1936 Austin 10 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Rear shot of the Rancho, note the rear door and strangely you can see the rear box, Now it has a side exit 'cherry bomb' type exhaust?.

 

1980 Talbot Matra Rancho in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

And the MG ZT V8 DTM that was on AROnline. http://www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?news20080701f.htm

 

2005 MG ZT 4.6 V8 385 DTM in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

2005 MG ZT 4.6 V8 385 DTM in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[VWPowered]

seen afew 1301/1501 simca here but never in uk, that rancho is pure class

[Guest EccentricRichard]

I've just moved to Ipswich, I must check this place out!

 

Seems to be a lot of quality shite round here - I saw a v. rare Rover P6 estate drive past in Barham a couple of weeks back.

 

My second cousin lives round there - well, in Waldringfield, just outside Woodbridge, which is only a few miles away. He's got a maroon Citroen DS21, a black Traction Avant (weren't they all black?), a quite scabby light blue-grey Saab 96 estate, a rather smarter mid-blue 96 two-door fastback saloon thingy, a Lancia Fulvia Zagato (I haven't yet seen it, it was away being welded up, but I saw its rear hatch, which was maroon), a yellow Lancia Beta-based Ferrari Dino replica (with twin-cam four engine)... and his next-door neighbour has a lovely (mid-blue, IIRC) Triumph Spitfire. So, if you see any of those about, it's probably him!

[trigger]

I can't recall seeing any of them about but I'll keep my eyes open as Waldringfield isn't very far from me.

[Simon M]

Welcome to the area Simon, are you in the town itself? theres lots of crud around here, and I know the P6 estate you mean, dark blue wasn't it? oh and keep your eyes peeled for my bright orange L reg Opel Kadett whilst on your travels as well!

 

Yes, just moved into the town today after a month in Barham - if I see you I'll wave! I'll keep an eye out for ER's cousin's fleet as well.

 

That's definitely the P6 estate I saw, presumably it's the same one that's in the article on AROnline.....couldn't believe it as I didn't even know they existed.

 

I've even seen two Cityrovers since I arrived here - Ipswich truly is shite central!

[Guest EccentricRichard]

I can't recall seeing any of them about but I'll keep my eyes open as Waldringfield isn't very far from me.

 

Oh, and the Saab estate has a BOAC sticker in the rear 'screen - yep, the sticker really is that old! - so if you see it parked somewhere, or find yourself behind it in traffic, that will almost certainly be it =)

[trigger]

Would this SAAB look a little something like this?.

 

1971 SAAB 96 V4 Estate by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1971 SAAB 96 V4 Estate by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1970's BOAC Airways Sticker by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

and the Rover will be this one, The car comes from Lawford, The blokes garden is full of P6's.

 

1970 Rover P6B Estate 3500 V8 Estoura by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[seth]

Saab looks very cool. Its a 95 by the way.

[Guest EccentricRichard]

Saab looks very cool. Its a 95 by the way.

 

Is it? My mistake! I'm pretty certain that's it...

[Albert Ross]

Saab looks very cool. Its a 95 by the way.

 

Is it? My mistake! I'm pretty certain that's it...

 

 

Quick! Someone frame this!

[Justin Case]

Looks as if I need to don my anorak again

 

The Saloon is the 96, the estate is the 95; that one will have the V4 (Taunus) engine so it is stricly a 95V4. The camera is notorious for lying, but that one looks far from scabby, other than a bit of rust on the front bumper. The front wings have been expertly repaired/replaced, the shut line should be like that, and the headlamp washers were a rare option in the UK at that time and highly desirable now.

 

The freewheel fitted to them is a handy device; it allows you to use left-foot braking on slushy surfaces and hence have almost the effect of an LSD. Ooops, sorry, I seem to have strayed into the wrong thread

 

Oh, and +1 for coolness

[garethj]

The freewheel fitted to them is a handy device; it allows you to use left-foot braking on slushy surfaces and hence have almost the effect of an LSD.

And on loose surfaces you can trundle along at 20mph with the freewheel engaged, then bang the throttle down in second gear and you'll get wheelspin when the revs catch up with the road speed.

 

mmmmm wheelspin

[Guest EccentricRichard]

Looks as if I need to don my anorak again

 

The Saloon is the 96, the estate is the 95; that one will have the V4 (Taunus) engine so it is stricly a 95V4. The camera is notorious for lying, but that one looks far from scabby, other than a bit of rust on the front bumper. The front wings have been expertly repaired/replaced, the shut line should be like that, and the headlamp washers were a rare option in the UK at that time and highly desirable now.

 

The freewheel fitted to them is a handy device; it allows you to use left-foot braking on slushy surfaces and hence have almost the effect of an LSD. Ooops, sorry, I seem to have strayed into the wrong thread

 

Oh, and +1 for coolness

 

I saw it in the metal earlier this summer and the wheelarches were a bit scabby, as was the chromework (as you pointed out, you can see some corrosion on the front bumper in one of the pics), but it looks tidier in that pic than it was in the metal this summer when I saw it.

 

Problem is, my cousin has nine cars (six classics, two moderns of his own, plus his recently-deceased mother's Mk1 Corsa 1.2 slushmatic... lovely...) but only garaging for two, plus a sort-of car port on the side of the garage...

 

I'll tell you, though, having ridden a couple of miles in the saloon, the pedals seemed to be all but smack bang in the middle of the car! My cousin was having to drive very skewed...

[trigger]

My Kadett has a very off centre steering wheel - pedals combo, quite like a Triumph Herald in fact, It's some thing you get use to though.

 

I took those photos back in August last year at a local car show so it's possible that it's deteriorated in that time, I might have some more of his other cars as well on my flickr.

[seth]

My Kadett has a very off centre steering wheel - pedals combo, quite like a Triumph Herald in fact, It's some thing you get use to though.

 

Mrs Seth struggled a bit in our 95 as the offsets are the other way to the Herald (which she's obviously very used to) and so found she was twisting her lower back - which it did not take kindly to.

[Guest EccentricRichard]

My Kadett has a very off centre steering wheel - pedals combo, quite like a Triumph Herald in fact, It's some thing you get use to though.

 

I took those photos back in August last year at a local car show so it's possible that it's deteriorated in that time, I might have some more of his other cars as well on my flickr.

 

Right. Oh, and thanks for changing your display picture - much more pleasing to the eye! =)

 

Bloody hell. Nigella is 50! That makes her 31 years older than me... and even though I don't go in for older women normally, I still would. Just for her. I wasn't quite sure what to make of her recent admission that she always goes commando, though...

 

EDIT

 

Just been on your Flickr. Oh WOW. What a bloody huge photostream... thanks for scanning and uploading all those tests (which I've been reading for yonks)! I've a feeling I may have helped identify some cars at one of the Southend shows in your photos a while back, earlier this year or back end of last. Can't go digging in your account, though, it'd take too long. Drooling over the old 50s fintastic American stuff, and the simpler, brutal-looking 60s stuff too (especially that GORGEOUS Fairlane!). Not to mention the old Vauxhalls... FD Victors, Ventoras, Crestas... bloody beautiful cars.

 

No, unless that yellow Dino you've got up there is my cousin's replica (which I v. much doubt, given the sign next to it), the Saab estate is the only one you've got pics of (says he, just having used the search facility).

 

In Waldringfield, there's also a white Alfa Romeo 75 2.0 Twin Spark, if that's of any interest... and I seem to remember an old Herald or somesuch too. Might have been an old RWD Alfa Spider knocking around... and I remember a Sunbeam Alpine, but its owner was going to the same party that I was, so it's possible it was visiting from afar.

[eddyramrod]

Drooling over the old 50s fintastic American stuff, and the simpler, brutal-looking 60s stuff too (especially that GORGEOUS Fairlane!). Not to mention the old Vauxhalls... FD Victors, Ventoras, Crestas... bloody beautiful cars.

 

EccentricRichard displays actual taste? I'm going to have to lie down...

[Guest EccentricRichard]

Drooling over the old 50s fintastic American stuff, and the simpler, brutal-looking 60s stuff too (especially that GORGEOUS Fairlane!). Not to mention the old Vauxhalls... FD Victors, Ventoras, Crestas... bloody beautiful cars.

 

EccentricRichard displays actual taste? I'm going to have to lie down...

 

Didn't you see my contribution to that favourite cars thing or whatever it was?

[eddyramrod]

Didn't you see my contribution to that favourite cars thing or whatever it was?

 

I don't believe I did, if you find it, post the link please.

[Guest EccentricRichard]

Didn't you see my contribution to that favourite cars thing or whatever it was?

 

I don't believe I did, if you find it, post the link please.

 

http://autoshite.commlm/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9495&start=120#p219447

 

Don't want to boast, but I think at least the first half of that is in reasonably good taste =)

 

Also, as that thread kept wandering off onto the subject of trains, thought I'd add this:

http://autoshite.commlm/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9495&start=120#p219451