Cars You Never See Anymore

[Dogsauce]

Spied a sierra estate in the wild yesterday which pleased me, G reg, sort of greenish colour, but some of the doors were not exactly the same shade of green, probably resprayed doors from a scrapyard but not quite done right, gave it an extra authenticity IMO (late-life sierras rarely had a full set of matching coloured doors)

 

[hash tag]

Sadly see few of these these days and I still hanker after mine

 

[Puddy_Tat]

doesn't quite fit this thread, but...

on Flickr today



including a 1960s electric car (more in the comments bit)

 

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I saw a red diablo being driven while on my way to work earlier. Gorgeous.
Someone's Christmas present?

 

[Leafster]

It's a really shitty day here. Pissing with rain and blowing a gale, but I've seen someone driving an HC Viva in it.

You don't often see classics out in this sort of weather.

 

[Griff]

Just about to go to the supermarket in mine to get some wine. 53 years old, driven all the time and starts first time, everytime.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Tom Karen has died. I always wanted a Bond Bug. I did get to drive my father’s Scimitar GTE a lot.

 

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Tom Karen has died. I always wanted a Bond Bug. I did get to drive my father’s Scimitar GTE a lot.


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I remember Bangers and cash had one - sorry I cant even remember if it sold yet alone how much for.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I remember Bangers and cash had one - sorry I cant even remember if it sold yet alone how much for.

Ok, I’d settle for a Raleigh Chopper if you can find one

 

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A mk1 of course

 

[passenger]

This took me a while to find the wonderful Fiat Bianca 1.6 ltd edition, with
factory sunroof and the brightest color-coded bumpers in the world, the car
that that put color - codded bumpers on the map.

p.s wing mirrors. and wheel trims ......

 

[waxoyl]

Love an old Mercedes, there were another dozen in this farm all Mercedes. Spotted it while out walking.

 

[mx wcfc]

In the supermarket car park yesterday.

 

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In the supermarket car park yesterday.
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Somewhere in Cambridgeshire?

 

[Leafster]

I saw an MG Maestro out on the road yesterday.

I didn't get a photo but it was this colour.

 

[Leafster]

And today's spot was an Austin A90 Atlantic saloon.

I was driving so, again no photo. It was like this except in claret (?)

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Somewhere in Cambridgeshire?

-LY was a London registration. Have found a picture with more info on the car here - suggests it might live in the Hampshire patch now.

 

[mx wcfc]

-LY was a London registration. Have found a picture with more info on the car here - suggests it might live in the Hampshire patch now.

It was indeed at a supermarket in Hampshire

 

[hash tag]

And today's spot was an Austin A90 Atlantic saloon.

I was driving so, again no photo. It was like this except in claret (?)

Great lookers.

 

[hash tag]

-LY was a London registration. Have found a picture with more info on the car here - suggests it might live in the Hampshire patch now.

There was me alluding to the fact that it might have been a personalised registration relating to the owners home town.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

There was me alluding to the fact that it might have been a personalised registration relating to the owners home town.

there's some resistance in the classic car world to changing the original registration on a car.

some owners have cashed in on them and the cars (either with same or new owner) have a non-original registration now (there's some small places especially in wales and scotland that only issued a tiny proportion of their allocated registration numbers - i think there's one or two very obscure places that never used up their full allocation of 2 letter registrations - and they became available quite cheap in more recent years) - and of course some cars fell out of the system for one reason or another and have ended up with these instead.

 

[hash tag]

And to go with that, amazingly, some owners still have all their original tax discs which they are keen to show off. You cannot put a price on originality.

 

[Griff]

Another old Vauxhall today, a Victor Series 101 parked next to my Amazon in the garden centre.
Didn't have my phone to get a picture, but very similar to this and in great useable condition.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

And to go with that, amazingly, some owners still have all their original tax discs which they are keen to show off. You cannot put a price on originality.

and there are sources of reproduction historic tax discs if you don't have the originals

 

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and there are sources of reproduction historic tax discs if you don't have the originals

Not sure why anyone would want them, especially if they are not originals.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Not sure why anyone would want them, especially if they are not originals.

it looks the part.

some classic car owners will add things like vintage picnic hampers, or put a newspaper of the right age on the back seat, and that sort of thing.

i used to know a couple who would sometimes dress 1950s style when they took their 1950s vauxhall to a car show

 

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it looks the part.

some classic car owners will add things like vintage picnic hampers, or put a newspaper of the right age on the back seat, and that sort of thing.

i used to know a couple who would sometimes dress 1950s style when they took their 1950s vauxhall to a car show

For sure, I used to work with someone who with his wife, loved dressing up in vintage clothing and had a number of old classics.
Just go to the Goodwood revival and virtually everyone dresses the part. It was full of flat caps, overalls, cravats etc.

 

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I saw one of these beauties parked up in the street today. A little dirty and not show condition which is a great sign. I would.

 

[dessiato]

I saw one of these beauties parked up in the street today. A little dirty and not show condition which is a great sign. I would.
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I like to see cars being used. If I wanted a work of art I'd not by a car. Obviously this is a geberalism but it holds true for most circumstances

 

[stdP]

Both of these are probably cheating, since this is from Sicily and it's impossible to hurl a brick there without hitting a pre-2000s car; we must have seen at least a hundred 1980s Panda's in various states of repair whilst on the road.

The first is cheating because it's a Wedding Car, a somewhat idiosyncratic choice of a Renault 4:


...but this one I couldn't pass up on, an Innocenti Mini in absolutely perfect condition:


I've no idea if the Cooper Mk5 branding is at all genuine - from the wikipedia article it sounds like the original Innocenti's were all kit-built but did include the Cooper, but the Mk5 seemingly only happened in 1985, a decade past the Innocenti vintage for the original Innocenti Minis.