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I remember seeing a Mercedes in a small town in East Germany in the 1970s. The driver was ostentatiously showing-off his capitalist wealth!
 
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D1511 said:
Splendid old Merc spotted at the Sainsbury's yesterday......
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What a fabulous snare, M - a pre-facelift one 8-) Did you get to see the boot badge? W114 were the six-cylinder variant; W115 were the smaller-engined four-pots.

It's certainly tidier than the W114 coupe I saw, locally, a year ago (link to my post).

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Just seen a dark green 1.8i Citroen ZX driving in Guidford (Surrey). Looked like it could still be in use as someone's local daily driver judging by the battle scars and peeling paint, unless it's actually in the very early stages of a restoration project! Didn't catch the reg but it was the...
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Thats great, looks like the West German ambassador from 1978 just popped to the shops.
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Needed more Ferrero Rocher, perhaps. ;)
 
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A rather splendid 1963 Lambretta Special. 8-)
53 weeks ago, I saw a 1959 Vesoa (linked) at that location, six parking-spaces away.

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N reg Rover 418SD turbo estate. M1 north near Sheffield. I cn't remember seeing one when they were new, so quite a rare thing.
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I don't recall seeing many estates about in the day
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I agree. My father had a 1977 Marina saloon and it always seened smaller cabin space than the Ford Cortina. I used to see many Cortina estates Mk3 + Mk4. Marina estates were, as you say, less common.


The 1997/R Vauxhall Calibra I espied on an early August night (post 965) has made its daylight appearance, albeit in grotty deluge.
This car and Peugeot's 406 Coupe were the most handsome affordable mass-made coupe cars of their time, in my view. If only their interior and their grunt + handling had matched it...
 

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1987 Rover SD1 / 3500 Vitesse, only 90k miles. Rovers generally quite rare on the roads now?
 

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Any elderly Renault 4 parked opposite Livorno Centrale station yesterday evening....with a rather strange plastic radiator grille. The low evening sun was so strong that the car appeared to be a different colour from the front than from the rear.IMG_20261013_180249.jpgIMG_20261013_180224.jpg
 
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