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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Aug 11, 2019 19:02:44 GMT
Old Wolesley, presumably running quite late for the meet that the other two I saw a while ago were on their way to. According to the Dav, it's a 1964 Wolesley Unknown, not shown as taxed for road use and no MOT results, but all in green, so presumably still pukka for the road. Anyone know what model this is? That's a 64 Wolseley 1500 MK III. Gene. Cheers Gene
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Aug 12, 2019 17:51:52 GMT
Always nice to see! The yellow Elan + 2S is like my dad's friends one he had in the late 70's. I was lucky to be a passenger in it once in 1978 before he changed it a year later for a black MK2 Ford Capri S. I remember the Lotus did have a bit of a lumpy tickover when he used to start it, so may have been a reason why he changed his car...... I often wonder what happened to it. Don't remember the number though so will never know if it's the same car now restored........
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Aug 12, 2019 20:04:50 GMT
Thanks Gerry Unfortunately I can't help with the reg number on the Elan as it wasn't visible at any stage during the footage. Be nice to think it would be one and the same though. The next day in the backlog for now, 17 April 2017 I saw this in my nearside mirror when negotiating that awkward M25 junction where the merging traffic finds itself on the outside lane of what up until then had been the M26. Having eased my way to the left lane, it then went wizzing by. An Ariel Atom, which I thought only ever existed on the Top Gear test track. On an 09 plate, but no record when I looked it up now. Nice that this MGB was travelling side by side with its spare components lorry. That does grub as well! I'll just show the picture. I'm trying to conserve pithy comments when it comes to Type 2s! Badly parked Volvo (presumably 245). No, was some sort of advertising thingy for an oval racetrack that it sat at the entrance of. I've looked at more recent Street Views and has disappeared since then. Either fell off or was nicked I suppose. Very smart looking 1967 Herald. Still on the road now. According to the Dav, a 2003 Caterham Super Lite. Sitting outside a high end motors garage (but I think this was visiting, not part of the lot), I believe a Ferrari 328? Another Rula'd 911. 1986 model, and unlike the last one, this one still on the road. Minor Traveller on a 1971 J, so pretty much at the end of the line I should imagine. Still on the road. The drive I did on this day was to visit a couple of locations from a TV series, so I'll just throw in a quick quiz... Which series? Like the Minis a little while ago, these two came along together. A Caterham presumably (reg not entirely clear - small fonts). And a 2009 Caterham 7 (S3). The MOT expired March 2019 and is on a SORN. Although a little distant, this Golf Mk2 did look reasonably factory fresh. Still saving on those comments! It's a brown one I suppose I could say. Another Golf Mk2. This one a little bit more earthy, but still reasonably tidy. Indeed. That's all for now. I'm back to the archives to build up that backlog! Chow
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Post by Del Boy on Aug 12, 2019 21:10:08 GMT
More good stuff PP. Don't know about the housing estate is it Victor Meldrews gaff perhaps ? Quite liked seeing the Mk2 Golfs, not many around these days and certainly not the early ones like the ones above. The Caterham looks good in the Gulf Oil racing livery
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Post by The Saint on Aug 13, 2019 5:23:18 GMT
I think the houses are from Ever Decreasing Circles.
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Post by Cartman on Aug 13, 2019 11:37:56 GMT
Like the Triumph Herald and the Wolseley 1500. That model, the Wolseley 1500 and its Riley 1.5 derivative were another example of BMCs confused product range. It was intended to be a Morris and replace the Minor in the late 50s,but they had second thoughts and decided to keep the Minor in production after all, but also introduced the new car, which was Minor based, but rebadge it. In some export markets, like Australia, it was called the Morris Major and Austin Lancer
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Aug 13, 2019 18:38:15 GMT
Howdy all Spot on Saint Twas indeed The Close in EvDecCirc. Would have been the icing to have had something contemporary to the series parked there when I arrived, but c'est la vie and all that. Interesting that you mention Victor Meldrew, Del Boy. I haven't got to it yet, but within a couple of months I will indeed be at a couple of One Foot locations. And in one of them, an old motor of interest will be involved! Interesting info on the Wolesley 1500 Cartman. I hadn't realised that they were basically intended to be the Minor replacement. Different to just sticking a Wolesley grille on a standard Minor body I suppose.
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Aug 13, 2019 19:28:26 GMT
And so to 23 April 2017 1981 Silver Spur on a personal plate. Dunno if this counts, but is a bit unusual I suppose. 2004 Barossa Cheetah 250 quad bike, currently SORN 1995 Cav Mk3 1.8. Still on the road. Yep. Another Ford Cargo full of horse doings. This is a clearer shot of the one behind the yellow Lotus Elan a couple of posts ago. RTL1076. The L meaning it's a Leyland instead of the more usual AEC. Several posts back, I included a Chesil Speeder kit thing, So here is something along the same lines. The DVLA describes it as 1972 "Volkswagen Kit Porsche" 1800cc. Still on the road. This somewhat blew my mind when I saw it. Because when these were on sale in the UK, I never ever saw one. So never thought I'd ever see one at any stage. Ever. In an episode of the last series of The Grand Tour, James May had one of these as his car in a future classic investment challenge/road trip in Scotland. And in the piece, James described it as one only of two examples still registered on the road in the UK. His one was silver on an A plate. And this one isn't! Lancia Gamma of course. 1983 model, and still with us. I just want to see the one James used out and about now! This didn't quite blow my mind in the same way. Although it was a saloon version which is a little bit more rare! AC Cobra. Or a ringer of an AC Cobra. Couldn't quite make out the reg, so no other deets available. And on the same day I saw a Lancia Gamma, I also saw a Jenson-Healey. In what looks to be the same colour! Not sure about those wheels though. 1974 model, and still on the road. Hopefully on different wheels now! That's all for today.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Aug 14, 2019 17:53:05 GMT
Lovely!! Fabulous to see that rare Gamma coupe. I was at a car show last month and saw a white Gamma saloon there, T reg. Not many of them left either. Someone local to me has a yellow Jensen Healey and the other night I was reading an old 1976 Motor road test of the fixed roof Jensen GT - Hatchback coupe. Much fewer of those were made as only about a year after they were launched, Jensen sadly called in the receivers.
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Post by Perfect Pseudonym on Aug 15, 2019 21:35:28 GMT
Ey up. Cheers Gerry. Seeing that Gamma was a real moment. That sighting was actually about a year before the Grand Tour episode would have been filmed, so when I saw the episode and James May made that comment about only being two left, then I had another moment! I remain to have never seen the (probably unarguably) far less attractive saloon version when on sale in the UK and since either, and sadly that remains the case to today, so no surprises coming up in store in that direction! I wonder if they are slightly less rare on the roads than the coupe these days. I can't recall ever seeing many Jensen-Healeys either. I remember the Jensen GT. Sort of a rival to the Scimitar GTE, Lancia HPE and the Volvo P1800ES wasn't it? Maybe one day on my travels... And on my travels on 1 May 2017:- 1977 Dolly Sprint. Still on the road. I think the only examples of the small Triumph saloons I ever do see these days are invariably going to be these. In the early dashcam era, I did see a Triumph 1300 FWD, but it was switched off at the time! I think there's a reasonable case for any E21 or E30 Beemer 3 Series to be included. Still a certain number of the latter around, but they are delightfully old school compared to the more homogenised E36 that followed. 1991 2494cc example, so presumably a 325. Still on the road. Bentley Mulsanne. On a personal plate, but not currently recognised. G reg Rover 800 fastback. Not sure if the skirts were a factory option or if the Halfords loyalty card was used for this. Don't seem to see many silver ones. Towards the end of production model. Another silver W reg. 1981 Merc 280, tax expired at the start of August 2019, but the MOT still good to December 2019. It's early days yet, but the rule of thumb seems to be that if I do get a front view of a CF, it's going to be a black grille job! C reg, but the plate is not totally clear. But what it might be seems to point to a blue Vauxhall untaxed since 2002! Another garden occupying Beetle with an odd sun visor arrangement. And to finish today, a Renault 5 remix version. 1991 model, so although on earlier age E plate, did look like a personalised one. 1397cc and still on the road. I don't know if this is an as nature intended fast version, or somebody just stuck a roll cage and sporty alloys on an otherwise boggo version.
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