Leeds 'Rods and Classics. June '11

[mk1_4dr]

A fantastic turnout for yesterdays HotRod meet, filled out by some attendees of todays Ink and Iron show I imagine.

 

Plenty of metal/glassfibre/carbon that Ive not seen before, including one particulally heroic chap who turned up in a proper dragcar, who needs numberplates eh?

 

Great to see and talk to Morrisoxide and his dad, Polodragin, ZetecVan and Nevins also we saw MissAntix and her chap (beautiful Mercury guys).

 

Anyways, pictures...

 

This pickup has modern(-ish) Japanese running gear, shown here read for its MOT on monday morning...

 

 

Slacker-mobile looking good with green metal-flake

 

 

Mega modified V8 Mk2 Consul/Zodiac.

Very professionalally 2doored with, what looked like, mk3 Cavalier door handles, custom rear wings and nose treatment too.

 

 

Dogdishes, bigblock and flawless paint. Hawt.

 

 

Big Buick is refreshingly careworn

 

 

I heard this arrive in the carpark, the young 'un in the passenger seat was wearing huge ear defenders, made me laugh anyway.

 

 

Torino, I believe...

 

 

This struck me as an early mk3

 

 

Gasser stance rocks. I think I prefered this in cream though

 

 

Like it says, FirePower.

 

 

Satin Black HA viva looked suprisingly good. Needed lows to make the Coddington billet work IMHO

 

 

LowVo, was low. Charlotte said it looks like a coffin. A compliment, I thought...

 

 

Unusual nose treatment left me a little cold.

 

 

This NewYorker was massively patina'd also, just plain massive.

 

 

Aussy Falcon, this beast seemed loved.

 

 

Mad-low Saab

 

 

Now then, this was a treat, when this pulled into the carpark (thats right, this drove into the carpark!) the earth seemed to shake.

I had to bide my time to get a clear shot of it as, understandably, it had a crowd around it for most of the evening.

 

 

What a pleasent combo. I bet that it makes for chilled out summer cruising and camping.

 

 

AirRide Fleetside

 

 

 

 

How gawky do these look, especially with no front bumper

 

 

Wedge indeed.

 

 

Fury-ious.

 

 

There was loads of bikes, the Slaves were out in force. This one took my eye in particular.

 

 

Another well proportioned 'rod with a period powerplant

 

 

Understated KG is a nice colour.

 

 

I just have to try and take one of these shots every month

 

 

Some of these bikes really can shift....

 

 

 

 

'its just a six-banger, 'onest mate'

 

 

RatRod, I bet it fairly shifts too...

 

 

Yeah, sorry for the view mike....

 

 

MissAntix and her Chap...

 

 

Huge (I can only Imagine Khan or some such company) wheels

 

 

Mopar Porn

 

 

Mexs' rest in the carpark.

 

 

BOSS

 

 

Made me feel guilty that escRot won't be this clean for years to come....

 

 

B-body love

 

 

Bar the 'colour-coded' lights, I quite like this...

 

 

Thats all for this month.

[pompei]

That Consul is lovely - I normally prefer customs like that without their bumpers but in this case i reckon a bit of chrome wouldn't have looked half bad.

 

How on earth did the dragster creation get there? Surely it didn't come up the M62?!?

[mk1_4dr]

That Consul is lovely - I normally prefer customs like that without their bumpers but in this case i reckon a bit of chrome wouldn't have looked half bad.

 

How on earth did the dragster creation get there? Surely it didn't come up the M62?!?

 

There was chat of it being offloaded from a trailer the otherside of J1 of the M621. Either way, there was a point where it was sat in traffic at the lights. Legend.

[pompei]

BIG RESPECT and all that to him - I bet it used about twenty quids worth of fuel just waiting at the lights.

[Polystratus]

That Beetle-caravan combo is great .

[mattblack]

 

 

Torino, I believe...

 

Plymouth Barracuda... hence 'Rumblefish'.

 

Great pics, BTW.

[flat4alfa]

He was calling the car below a Torino ...and he was righty

[mk1_4dr]

He was calling the car below a Torino ...and he was righty

 

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