I-Spy Classic Cars/Bikes-What have you spotted?

This is the place for posts that don't fit into any other category.

Moderator: RichardW

Post Reply
User avatar
Stickyfinger
(Donor 2016)
Posts: 10411
Joined: 28 Mar 2013, 21:05
Location: Somset my lovleee
My Cars: Xantia V6 ACTIVA 3ltr 24v Manual p1
Xm 2.1TD Ph2 Exclusive
AX, little Daffodil
SAXO White Mk1. Sally
x 1280
Contact:

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by Stickyfinger »

Hell Razor5543 wrote:Does anybody remember the Dennis Weaver film "Duel"? Well, if you do, watch out on the M25. I was heading anti clockwise to the M3 yesterday (28/04) when I saw (fortunately going clockwise) what looked like the tanker from that film. I wonder how the drivers around it felt? I do hope they are not planning a sequel!
I rented a Mustang in LA and drove that very road thanks to that very film.....
Alasdair
Activa, the Moose Rider
3x C5x7 Steering racks and counting
User avatar
NewcastleFalcon
Posts: 24566
Joined: 25 Feb 2009, 10:40
Location:
My Cars:
x 6866

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by NewcastleFalcon »

Alasdair, I remembered you posted up this picture on the "Interesting/Awful Rats thread"

Just read the article behind it from 10-4 Magazine which may be of interest

"Duel Lives on"

Image

Regards Neil
Last edited by NewcastleFalcon on 29 Apr 2016, 15:49, edited 1 time in total.
Only One AA Box left
687 Trinity, Jersey
User avatar
Stickyfinger
(Donor 2016)
Posts: 10411
Joined: 28 Mar 2013, 21:05
Location: Somset my lovleee
My Cars: Xantia V6 ACTIVA 3ltr 24v Manual p1
Xm 2.1TD Ph2 Exclusive
AX, little Daffodil
SAXO White Mk1. Sally
x 1280
Contact:

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by Stickyfinger »

Alasdair
Activa, the Moose Rider
3x C5x7 Steering racks and counting
User avatar
NewcastleFalcon
Posts: 24566
Joined: 25 Feb 2009, 10:40
Location:
My Cars:
x 6866

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by NewcastleFalcon »

My spot today was a garaged example of a replica of the Jaguar SS 100, built by Suffolk Sportscars like this one here.

Image

Image


Subject to debate, the SS could stand for Standard Swallow or alternatively the Swallow Sidecar Company or Swallow Sport, forerunners of the Jaguar "brand".

Regards Neil
Only One AA Box left
687 Trinity, Jersey
User avatar
Stickyfinger
(Donor 2016)
Posts: 10411
Joined: 28 Mar 2013, 21:05
Location: Somset my lovleee
My Cars: Xantia V6 ACTIVA 3ltr 24v Manual p1
Xm 2.1TD Ph2 Exclusive
AX, little Daffodil
SAXO White Mk1. Sally
x 1280
Contact:

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by Stickyfinger »

Subject to debate, the SS could stand for Standard Swallow or alternatively the Swallow Sidecar Company or Swallow Sport, forerunners of the Jaguar "brand".
Maybe Ken Livingstone could drive it :rofl2: :rofl2:
Alasdair
Activa, the Moose Rider
3x C5x7 Steering racks and counting
Gibbo2286
(Donor 2020)
Posts: 7172
Joined: 08 Jun 2011, 18:04
Location: GL15***
My Cars: 2006 C5 2.0 Litre HDI VTR Automatic Estate.(now sold on)
Currently Renault Zoe 2014 ZE
x 2500

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by Gibbo2286 »

This is close to home, next door's grandson in fact.

A few months ago it was an ugly dog with peeling paint and a home fitted body kit pop riveted on in a very haphazard way.

I introduced the guy to an old friend who took it in hand, repaired the mess and repainted it, this is the result.

http://s57.photobucket.com/user/fodeanm ... .jpg[/img]
Man is, by nature, a lazy beast, he does not need twice encouraging to do nothing.
User avatar
CitroJim
A very naughty boy
Posts: 49534
Joined: 30 Apr 2005, 23:33
Location: Paggers
My Cars: Bluebell the AX, Polly the C3 Picasso, Pix the Nissan Pixo, Propel the duathlon bike, TCR Pro the road bike and Fuji the TT bike...
x 6163
Contact:

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by CitroJim »

Love the colour :D

A very good job done!
Jim

Runner, cyclist, time triallist, duathlete, Citroen AX fan and the CCC Citroenian 'From A to Z' Columnist...
Gibbo2286
(Donor 2020)
Posts: 7172
Joined: 08 Jun 2011, 18:04
Location: GL15***
My Cars: 2006 C5 2.0 Litre HDI VTR Automatic Estate.(now sold on)
Currently Renault Zoe 2014 ZE
x 2500

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by Gibbo2286 »

It was originally yellow Jim but in a very pallid distressed state.
Man is, by nature, a lazy beast, he does not need twice encouraging to do nothing.
User avatar
NewcastleFalcon
Posts: 24566
Joined: 25 Feb 2009, 10:40
Location:
My Cars:
x 6866

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by NewcastleFalcon »

Interesting story of how Jaguar came to be from the Suffolk Sportscar site Initial success in moving from sidecars to rebodied Austin Sevens in the early days helped.
In the years following the end of the First World War, the young William Lyons appeared to be a pushy young motorcycle sidecar manufacturer with delusions of grandeur. Ambitious to move up to cars, in 1927 he used his Swallow Sidecars workers' coachbuilding skills to make bodies for Austin Sevens, giving them a status they scarcely deserved. They were sold by his chums, the motor trade entrepreneurs Bertie Henly and Frank Hough, from their classy new premises at 91 Great Portland Street, London. Henly boldly ordered five hundred cars. To the Bright Young Things in the West End they were Just the Job, gleaming with bright colours and flashing with chrome when other cars were just plain green or staid black.
Image
Image



Regards Neil
Only One AA Box left
687 Trinity, Jersey
User avatar
Zelandeth
Donor 2024
Posts: 4731
Joined: 16 Nov 2014, 23:36
Location: Milton Keynes
My Cars: 2006 Peugeot Partner Escapade 1.6HDi.
1988 Renault 25 Monaco 2.0i.
1985 Sinclair C5.
1984 Trabant 601S.
1975 Rover 3500.
1973 AC Model-70.
x 1403
Contact:

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by Zelandeth »

Going back to the Singer Gazelle with the outboard exhaust - it's quite common to see that on tuned cars with that layout (Skoda Estelles aren't unknown to be seen like that) for two reasons. Firstly to try to bring down the temperature in the engine bay, which is often a headache with these cars (especially the Imp/Gazelle/Stiletto with the radiator in there too!). Secondly is that it's really hard to get a properly tuned, length matched etc exhaust system with the right bend radii and such within the cramped engine bay - so cars heavily tuned for performance often just hang it out the back.

...I often wondered how they get through the MOT with a red hot bit of metal there that any passer by could touch I have to admit...
Current fleet:
06 Peugeot Partner Escapade 1.6HDi, 88 Renault 25 Monaco, 85 Sinclair C5, 84 Trabant 601S, 75 Rover 3500, 73 AC Model 70.
User avatar
NewcastleFalcon
Posts: 24566
Joined: 25 Feb 2009, 10:40
Location:
My Cars:
x 6866

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by NewcastleFalcon »

Saw one of these coming towards us today. I thought that looks a bit like an old SAAB, but we got the reg no and looked it up.

Not sure of the specific model, but would guess a 401, because it looked very much like this. Same colour as well.

Image

Did a U-ish turn but it had disappeared into the ether....must have sped through the town without so much as stopping off for a morning pie at the bakers!

Quite a distinctive rear which I did notice in my mirror.

Image

Regards Neil
Only One AA Box left
687 Trinity, Jersey
User avatar
NewcastleFalcon
Posts: 24566
Joined: 25 Feb 2009, 10:40
Location:
My Cars:
x 6866

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by NewcastleFalcon »

Stop Press :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!:

We've only gone and seen the actual exact wikipedia car from the rear end picture :!: Reg was KGA 753! :!:

Regards Neil
Only One AA Box left
687 Trinity, Jersey
User avatar
bobins
Donor 2023
Posts: 5697
Joined: 05 Jul 2012, 18:07
Location: Midhurst, West Sussex
My Cars: Kia Sportage
Mazda BT-50
Land Rover SIII SWB
V-F-R800
SL320
MX5
x 2871

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by bobins »

NewcastleFalcon wrote:Stop Press :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!:

We've only gone and seen the actual exact wikipedia car from the rear end picture :!: Reg was KGA 753! :!:

Regards Neil

How many points is that worth then ? Do you qualify for an extra pie from the bakers as well ? :)
Sadly no longer a C5 owner :(
User avatar
NewcastleFalcon
Posts: 24566
Joined: 25 Feb 2009, 10:40
Location:
My Cars:
x 6866

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by NewcastleFalcon »

bobins wrote:
NewcastleFalcon wrote:Stop Press :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!:

We've only gone and seen the actual exact wikipedia car from the rear end picture :!: Reg was KGA 753! :!:

Regards Neil

How many points is that worth then ? Do you qualify for an extra pie from the bakers as well ? :)
.....modest celebrations only....glass of "Scottish Lager" specially brewed for Marks and Spencer by Harviestoun Brewery Clackmannanshire, Scotland :)

and what are the Harviestoun Brewery Famous for?

.....Supplying the Pickled Egg with "Old Engine Oil"

Image

Regards Neil
Only One AA Box left
687 Trinity, Jersey
User avatar
NewcastleFalcon
Posts: 24566
Joined: 25 Feb 2009, 10:40
Location:
My Cars:
x 6866

Re: Classic car spring/summer season 2016-What have you spotted?

Post by NewcastleFalcon »

..other spots today 2009 Corvette C6 2009, Mazda RX-8 192 PS 2006, Reliant Robin LX 1998 driven by an elderly gentleman in a cloth cap!, and seeing as it was a nice day, loads of SAAB convertibles with the top down.

Regards Neil
Only One AA Box left
687 Trinity, Jersey
Post Reply