What classic vehicles have you seen?

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2071 Post by UKJeeper » Sat Mar 04, 2017 11:33 pm

Local dolly. Pretty sure the description "one owner, little old lady" applies as I think she's had it since new.

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2072 Post by UKJeeper » Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:30 pm

A slightly non-standard post. Found some old Essex Countryside magazines at work, with some adverts from 1965, and 1975.

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And, oops...

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2073 Post by GHT » Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:34 pm

What is it about clapped out old bangers that make grown men go all dewy eyed? These are bangers, worthy of their donor parts only. They are not classics or restoration projects, nor do they have patina, actually, I've got that wrong: (Patina:a green or brown film on the surface of bronze or similar metals, produced by oxidation over a long period.) They are: Wrecks, rust heaps, dead old boneshakers, clapped out old bangers, jalopies or clunkers. But, if you want to spend your time and money..............................

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2074 Post by JPB » Mon Mar 13, 2017 6:09 pm

:drool: Now that door cap is a very lovely slab of timber, which almost makes up for the broken Sherpa coupé in the first image. ;)
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2075 Post by UKJeeper » Tue Mar 14, 2017 8:43 pm

Today's mystery car. I've seen this, under the same tarps, since I went to school around the corner (in the late 70's, early 80's). Doubt there's much left under the tarps unfortunately.

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2076 Post by JPB » Sun Apr 09, 2017 2:45 pm

Morgan? Possibly a Dellow but my money would be on a flat rad Morgan, meanwhile, the neighbour (he of that spotless Capri 2.8i) had one of his other Fords out today, this is a genuine XR6, not a random MK4 facelift into which someone shoehorned the 3 litre Essex V6:

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Poor image as I couldn't be arsed to go beyond the door to the road, but the car's soundtrack made up for that!
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2077 Post by GHT » Sun Apr 23, 2017 11:02 pm

Went out to a pub near Romsey Hants today for the 'Drive it Day' event. Over eighty cars went on the run. One car there I had never heard of.An MG Magna F1. I photographed it but the owner told me of a series of professional photos that made up the sales brochure. It looked incredible in the sunlight.
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2078 Post by gazza82 » Mon Apr 24, 2017 8:30 am

Saw a very nice red E-Type Coupé this morning heading out of Wooburn Green .. :thumbs:
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2079 Post by harvey » Mon Apr 24, 2017 3:46 pm

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I used to go past their workshops on my way to school back in the very early 1970s and as you looked down the yard into the actual workshop it was like looking into the black hole of Calcutta inside. I reckon the whole place was lit with one 60w bulb on a pendant, and a very dirty bulb at that...

They must have worked by braille....
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#2080 Post by UKJeeper » Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:31 pm

A few from last weekends "Cars and Coffee" meet at Langford Museum.

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