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

[CitroJim]

The VW Beetle, designed in the early 1930s Jim, modified every six weeks until the 1990s..........and they never got it right.

[Hell Razor5543]

The VW Beetle, designed in the early 1930s Jim, modified every six weeks until the 1990s..........and they never got it right.

Either that, or VW got them right but the sales team couldn't match them up to suitable owners!

[NewcastleFalcon]

My £180 in 1979 bought one of these, the very definition of a bog standard commuter bike albeit with a nice chrome sided tank tank, and zero sporting pretensions. This one looks good but not a great attention-to-detail video, a non-starter with a speculated reason no petrol...come on Mathewsons just put a touch of petrol in and start the thing up before you do the video.

Using an inflation calculator my £180 in 1979 is equivalent to £636.72 now. The bike is expected to fetch £2000-£3000. Granted no doubt the owner has spent plenty on a refurb, but that's whole car money for the unloved MGF, or indeed the money expected for an Alfa Romeo GTV T-spark at ACA in their June sale.

This Est £2,000-£3,000


Or This Est £2,000 to £2,500


Neil

[Gibbo2286]

I had an Alfa GTV 2000 for a while it was pretty good mechanically but the body rot....................Aaagh!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Bentley 4,566 cc DVLA has it at 1954 which seems unlikely late 20's early 30's I would have thought.

OOB500 Bentley 4½ Litre at the crossing

OOB500 Bentley 4½ Litre past the crossing

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Bentley 4,566 cc DVLA has it at 1954 which seems unlikely late 20's early 30's I would have thought.

Maybe not. Discovered that Bentley did this in 1954, Produced a R-type Sports Special 4.6. although our Bentley spot appears to have a boat-tail.


1954 Bentley R-Type Sports Special 4.6 Front
Vauxford, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

PS Couple of photos in detail front and back of today's Bentley Spot OOB500 when part of the 2017 Yorkshire Dales and Moors Tour

https://platesmania.com/uk/nomer12572960

[CitroJim]

The CD175 is a true classic now and possibly one of the biggest nails to be hammered into the coffin of the British motorbike industry...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nice tiger in the Tank sign on the first of these Falcon originals

An old British Sports Car and
Is it a Hornet Or Is It An Elf
Poking out the door
(its the most expensive when new of the two!)

Like the XK8 This one is a bit dull colour

and not the finest example

Neil

[CitroJim]

I always fancied a Hornet or an Elf.. Still do, especially in that shade of blue...

One had a posher dash with rather more walnut... Can't recall which right now...

[CitroJim]

This rocked up at the bike race meet at the MK Bowl last evening where, amongst other jobs, I was the car park marshal...

Not vintage or old but this was rather nice too. It sounded especially nice

That one was not racing; the racing being for a different sort of bike entirely...

[NewcastleFalcon]

This rocked up at the bike race meet at the MK Bowl last evening where, amongst other jobs, I was the car park marshal...

Not vintage or old but this was rather nice too. It sounded especially nice



That one was not racing; the racing being for a different sort of bike entirely...

...and a V-twin rocks up on V-day. Were you tuned in to notice "V"'s Today of course moves on so watch out for the "W's"

Neil

[Hell Razor5543]

I spotted a purple soft-top Morris Minor on the M27 near Fareham this morning.

[RichardW]

A C reg Nova. Belmont. Classic? Discuss....

[mickthemaverick]

A C reg Nova. Belmont. Classic? Discuss....

Never was and never will be in my mind!

[CitroJim]

A C reg Nova. Belmont. Classic? Discuss....

Never was and never will be in my mind!

It's all in the eye of the beholder...

Many say an AX can never be, nor an Allegro or a Marina for instance but they all have very devoted and faithful followings in our very broad church...

I once dated a girl that had a Nova saloon... I drove it a few times... I only recall it to have been rather bland in every way possible... Having said that, it did what a small, cheap car is designed to do reasonably adequately...

I run a more modern version of such a car - my Nissan Pixo... Never will it be a classic and is as bland as a loaf of white bread but it does a reasonable small-car job.

Who knows, one day it might have a dedicated following and appear in a feature on early 2000s 'shopping trolleys' in the March 2045 issue of Practical Classics....