RoadworkUK Posted March 25, 2012 Author Posted March 25, 2012 No takers for any of that lot? Oh. Well then. Maybe I can interest you in a slightly blurry (ohferfoxache) Austin A30 seen bumbling along the A12.... Or a pleasantly patinated 50-Series Van / motorhome conversion.... Or a 928 S2 mouldering in a field... Or... A Plaxton Paramount I 4000, in somebody's front garden. Possibly soon to become the most righteous motorhome conversion ever concieved. Should be something there for everybody*. * Except normal folk. fotorabia 1
eddyramrod Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Should be something there for everybody*. * Except normal folk. Rarely a truer word typed here, I suggest! Er... where's the moss-covered 1957 Cadillac for Yank pervs like me?
RoadworkUK Posted March 25, 2012 Author Posted March 25, 2012 Er... where's the moss-covered 1957 Cadillac for Yank pervs like me? Blast. Must try harder!
Split_Pin Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Those 50 Series SWB's are pleasantly sturdy looking things. Were they all Gas board ot Telecom special order or something? I also like the A30. I saw one today too. It was parked up at the side of the road beside an AA van and a modern Audi A3 cabriolet. I dont know which one was broken down!
Woody Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Or a 928 S2 mouldering in a field... You only get a hint of the tastefully clashing yellow front bumper there... Also noteworthy is the aweful American RV parked on the roadside outside here covered in many months worth of grot from passing traffic (though I think Trigger may have captured this beauty previously!)
RoadworkUK Posted March 25, 2012 Author Posted March 25, 2012 Also noteworthy is the aweful American RV parked on the roadside outside here covered in many months worth of grot from passing traffic (though I think Trigger may have captured this beauty previously!) See further up this thread! I've been meaning to snap the Porsche for months, then BST happens suddenly and opportunity knocks when I find myself driving home from work in daylight.
Woody Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 Oops hadn't spotted it! Will go back and have a look now sir, honest..
Woody Posted March 25, 2012 Posted March 25, 2012 And as if to prove I have been right through your thread (well up to p4 anyway!), here it is!! It's rather greyer now of course, after a winter of salt being thrown up the side of it as it's parked mirror-grazing distance from the main road: This Jetta doesn't seem to have fallen into scene hands yet. This is still happily knocking around Clacton in this form, I've been stuck behind it at 25mph many times
RoadworkUK Posted April 23, 2012 Author Posted April 23, 2012 Got a new portable telephone with a new camera which I've been putting through its paces. The results have been, er, variable. The reasonably unblurry ones come first: This smashing Civic Auto was the pride and joy of the leader of a course I recently sat. Refreshingly un-corporate, I thought. This extremely excellent Corolla sat opposite. Funny the kind of chod you find on industrial estates. Moving on to the long-range, blur-o-matic shots using the zoom function my phonecam doesn't have: If this isn't shite already, it surely will be in no time. Especially since this is the 2.5TD flavour. Next up is this Orion, which I caught twice. Both photos are quite phenomenally inadequate. It looked to me to be an Equipe special edition, or was that Escort only? Very nice, in a grimly realistic expectations kind of way. It's a fucking Avenger! With boomerangs! Nice and shabby, no doubt Trig has seen this all over the place. It's still a goer. And a 309. Nowt much to say about this, save that I was quite pleased to see it bumbling along. Finally this Felicia. I grew quite attached to this during its tenure at my workplace. Fortunately one of the techs bought it for a mate so it avoided the ingnominy of auction followed by immdiate fragging. I wrote a bit about it here; WWW.RoadworkUK.COM if you're interested. And who wouldn't be? Oh, right.
ProgRocker Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 ^ Nice write up on the Skoda Fellatio. Looks like the same shade of metallic green of my old T reg SEAT Ibiza (RIP), also under the VAG umbrella. Sure, it couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding but for £40 you can't go too far wrong.
vulgalour Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 The more I see of Hillman Avengers out in the wild, the more I can't understand why they didn't gain more popularity over the Escort when it comes to looks, they really are a great looking bit of kit.
Skizzer Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 Some grand spots on here RWUK - your March updates somehow passed me by (probably in a whoosh of Proton threads). I bet someone had a right laugh* backing that coach into the drive.
RoadworkUK Posted April 25, 2012 Author Posted April 25, 2012 .... for £40 you can't go too far wrong. Yep, that's all this owed us, and it had a splendid Skoda branded Grundig inside to boot! Totally agree about the Avenger. I wonder how many Plymouth Crickets there are left, with their air-con and whitewalls? Also, the coach is still there. I occasionally see somebody tinkering with it, I shall monitor it with interest.
RoadworkUK Posted May 21, 2012 Author Posted May 21, 2012 Okey diddly. Time for MOAR rammle I've spotted on my wanderings. Let's start with a duo of Sierras. A stealthy hatchback de-badged to keep you guessing. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a Cosseh lurking underneath that shabbyness? Sierraness continues with this gloss-free Sapphire. I think Sapphs look great these days. And so do... Proton Aerobacks! This one was seen in Manningtree, and wears a proud collection of wheeltrims. Only a J-Plate, mind. Sorry about that. Here's an old W123. A 280; you don't seem to see very many of these around. This is parked outside Wickes, where the owner is probably buying a Kitchen "Corner Unit" that doesn't fit properly. Fiat Coupe. Bit new for these pages, but another car from the "i quite fancy one of those but never will" category. That said, what I really want is the running gear from one of those, but under a Tipo. Here's a 205 that belongs to the "I've painted my car despite having no money" contingent. As does this Triumph Herald: Personally; I think the Herald doesn't look shit. It's cool in a kind of Happy Shopper Rockabilly kind of way. Shakin' Stevens would propbably drive it, and he's cool as. And staying on a retro tip: Minx Automatic! Photo'd outside B&Q, where the owner is probably buying a Kitchen "Corner Unit" that actually works, for slightly less money. This thing was a heap.... of wonderfulness! Patina? Oh, there's patina alright. This car wears its history on its sleeve, like automotive dendochronology or sommat. Bonus My Girlfriends' Shite in these photos; her feature-lite 306 Xtra Nothingness. Similarly "experienced" is this Nash Rambler, of all things, parked next to a KA, presumably to offer a sense of scale. Have NEVER seen one of these that hasn't been restored to death. Can't imagine there are millions of these left globally; even the Septics shy away from restoring stuff with too many doors.
trigger Posted May 21, 2012 Posted May 21, 2012 I think your missing a Sierra photo and your Imp is a Herald but you know that don't you. I'm really after a Sierra at the moment, I told Mrs Trig that I'm thinking of selling her Golf at some point for one, she said i could have the blue G reg GLSi on ebay if i wanted, what a girl!. That Rambler was on ebay a few times, it's fully road legal with genuine patina that a VW mong with kill for.
RoadworkUK Posted May 21, 2012 Author Posted May 21, 2012 I think your missing a Sierra photo and your Imp is a Herald but you know that don't you. Fixed. Ta, Trig. Got my back. See, I had it in my mind that at some point I photo'd a Hillman Imp. I then uploaded all my photo's without even looking at them. Of course it's a Herald. Always was. What the bloody hell is going on in my head? Maybe I was thinking about the Minx and got myself all Hilmanned up. Go get that GLS!
eddyramrod Posted May 22, 2012 Posted May 22, 2012 The Rambler and Minx are just 1975, aren't they! Wonderful. More! More!
BMC Dan Posted May 23, 2012 Posted May 23, 2012 I saw that Rambler at a show in Frinton last year. It had just been recommissioned after being laid up in the mid 60's by a farmer who bought it as a present for his wife who then decided she didn't like it. 1959? Rambler Custom Sedan by BMC Dan, on Flickr1959? Rambler Custom Sedan by BMC Dan, on Flickr
RoadworkUK Posted May 23, 2012 Author Posted May 23, 2012 That's my old school playing field! Missed out on that show. Ridiculous considering I live literally half a mile from it... Is that Peterbilt the one that lives in Layer De La Haye near Colchester?
RoadworkUK Posted July 4, 2012 Author Posted July 4, 2012 Sirs; and Madam. What the bloody hell is this? (http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd35 ... 190638.jpg) I pulled up next to it for 15 seconds (had two aggressively driven vans bearing down on me), took a photo and had to bugger off. I can't read the badge on the tailgate but it looks like the old Vauxhall script but looks almost like it has 4x4 at the end. Could 1500 be a red herring? I wonder if it's some bizzare home-brew effort? Wheel trims look German. 1977 looks suspiciously late. I wish I'd had a chance to get out and look around the front. It's probably piss easy for all you "proper enthusiasts" out there.... Put me out of my considerable misery. Ta.
eddyramrod Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 MOSKVICH! That's almost a Holy Grail spot, a Moskvich pickup! 1977 is a bit on the late side, but R-suffix could also be 1976; either would be pretty much at the end of Moskvich sales in the UK. 1500 is right, it's the engine size.
outlaw118 Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 Looks like a chopped up home-brew type thing, based on a Moskvitch Estate perhaps?One of these? Moskvitch 427(?) I'm sure one of our Eastern Bloc perverts will confirm or deny. Or Mr Godlike Bickle will know, he probably owns 4 of them... Edfit: Bugger, beaten to it.....
RoadworkUK Posted July 4, 2012 Author Posted July 4, 2012 THANK YOU! No wonder I didn't know what the buggery! And that explains the wheel trims. Ta very much.
eddyramrod Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 The Moskvich wasn't a homebrew, they came from the factory like that. I posted one a while back, seen with an estate, both going to scrap.
Angrydicky Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 That's got to be the pickup from this thread! http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... 005&page=1 Sam Glover of this parish rescued the van.
quicksilver Posted July 5, 2012 Posted July 5, 2012 WOW, I never knew Moskvich made pickups. That one didn't last long, registered Jan 77 and last licensed Dec 80, and 30 years off the road certainly seem to have taken their toll - one for a VERY brave restorer!!
RedSparrow Posted July 5, 2012 Posted July 5, 2012 Chances are its the same one. BUT your spot looks like it's been standing for a while - in a different location from the one for sale....
Spottedlaurel Posted July 5, 2012 Posted July 5, 2012 That’s great! I think it’s a cut-down van, although a pickup may have been available from the factory. I found a piece in an old Autosport about some motor-racing type offering them in the UK as a conversion. Particularly good to see with the ‘GV’ Suffolk registration. Would love to know where it had been sold new. There was a van in Medler’s back in 1996/97, long-gone now though sadly.
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