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Post by DI Alex Drake on Oct 24, 2020 21:46:19 GMT
The seats are so low, I imagine they can feel it, too
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Post by The Saint on Oct 25, 2020 11:20:09 GMT
The Fiesta does look in good condition, but to echo Gene and Sam those wheels are awful.
The front pressed metal numberplate looks original judging by the rounded font, quite common on early to mid 80s cars.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Oct 25, 2020 13:54:39 GMT
The Fiesta does look in good condition, but to echo Gene and Sam those wheels are awful. The front pressed metal numberplate looks original judging by the rounded font, quite common on early to mid 80s cars. The Saint I did think the reg plate was rather cool. There seems to be a trend with boy racers now where the letters on theirs are about an inch thick. I’ve only seen about half a dozen of them but they do look different.
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Post by Bojan Scores on Oct 25, 2020 17:06:32 GMT
I was waiting in the car park outside Morrison’s in Newcastle under Lyme, when I spotted a silver ‘W’ reg MGB GT. I think that makes it one of the final ones? Fair play to the owner driving it around in the p***ing down rain. I also saw a ‘Y’ reg mini metro in primrose yellow (I think), it brought back memories of Richard Stillgoe singing about Metro’s on Nationwide. Also near to my workplace is a ‘G’ reg HB Vauxhall Viva in that strange blue/grey hue, and is an absolute dead ringer for Bob’s car in WHTTLL. Kept outside too. On the two wheeled front, at the end of the Summer I spotted two Laverda SF750, one was ‘G’ reg. Only seen one before, so two at once was a real treat.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Oct 25, 2020 18:40:00 GMT
On the two wheeled front, at the end of the Summer I spotted two Laverda SF750, one was ‘G’ reg. Only seen one before, so two at once was a real treat. They're very unusual bikes to see in the UK. The last one I saw was at Brooklands a couple of years ago sat alongside another Laverda, a Jota 120. That was yet another bike that I hankered after at the time and would still like to own now. Sam.
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Post by Bojan Scores on Oct 26, 2020 12:03:19 GMT
On the two wheeled front, at the end of the Summer I spotted two Laverda SF750, one was ‘G’ reg. Only seen one before, so two at once was a real treat. They're very unusual bikes to see in the UK. The last one I saw was at Brooklands a couple of years ago sat alongside another Laverda, a Jota 120. That was yet another bike that I hankered after at the time and would still like to own now. Sam. They’re still quite affordable now (ie sub £10k) and pop up now and then on eBay, they do look a decent and underrated big bike from the 1970s. if I had the money I’d go for a Benelli Tornado 650, another excellent 70s update on the venerable British twin. I once saw one on the car park at Mallory park and remains my only spot of that model.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Oct 26, 2020 18:06:07 GMT
They're very unusual bikes to see in the UK. The last one I saw was at Brooklands a couple of years ago sat alongside another Laverda, a Jota 120. That was yet another bike that I hankered after at the time and would still like to own now. Sam. They’re still quite affordable now (ie sub £10k) and pop up now and then on eBay, they do look a decent and underrated big bike from the 1970s. if I had the money I’d go for a Benelli Tornado 650, another excellent 70s update on the venerable British twin. I once saw one on the car park at Mallory park and remains my only spot of that model. I'd always thought of those in the same light as a Yamaha XS650 in that they're making a good attempt at what would have been the styling trends of the time following on from the BSA/Triumph/Norton parallel twins. Sam
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Post by Cartman on Oct 26, 2020 21:02:02 GMT
Saw three classics at a garage in altrincham today, a Triumph TR4, an Austin A55 van and a Morris Minor pick up. Immediately after leaving the garage I then saw a Hillman Imp
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Post by Cartman on Nov 12, 2020 19:24:57 GMT
A few more today, a superb Rover 2200, M regd in brown, a Jag XJ coupe, not in the best of nick, being worked on in a garage so hopefully being restored and a fantastic white L regd datsun 240Z. Also, not a car, an M regd, 73/4 Bedford TK skip wagon, still working hard for a living
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Post by Cartman on Nov 27, 2020 20:25:02 GMT
Today's spot, in Timperley, a superb L regd mark 1 Escort, metallic green. It was a low spec model, and it had been kept original, not messed about with and made into a go faster car, keeping the original wheels too, IMO, how they should be
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