Older cars you have seen

[gpmartin]

Two from a week ago: Mercedes SLC in west London and Fiat Strada in east London.

 

[Cowley]

Two from a week ago: Mercedes SLC in west London and Fiat Strada in east London.

Those Mercs are lovely but the Fiat Strada is a real rarity. I haven’t seen one of those for years.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Saw a K suffix registration Triumph Spitfire IV bring driven through Epsom this morning.

 

[telstarbox]

The sunshine brought out...

Triumph GT6 in a lovely light blue - also a K suffix.

Lancia Fulvia in red - didn't see the plate.

 

[Bald Rick]

Today the susnhine brought out:

A 1983 (Y) Ford Cortina Mk5 GLS in great nick

A 1964 (B) Riley 4 in concors condition

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Those Mercs are lovely but the Fiat Strada is a real rarity. I haven’t seen one of those for years.

Rare as hen's teeth. When I was a kid my aunt had a bright orange one, but I think that might have been the last one I saw in the flesh, in the UK at least. Pretty sure I've seen them on the continent where they were badged as a Ritmo.

 

[birchesgreen]

P reg RAV-4 in Winsford and an N reg Merc 300SE earlier.

 

[Sun Chariot]

I really must get a photo of the rust silver-ish 1981/Y reg BMW E21 which has sat - corroding, unloved - on a local driveway for many years....

 

[ABB125]

Spotted this in a barn in deepest Warwickshire today

 

[DelW]

Those Mercs are lovely but the Fiat Strada is a real rarity. I haven’t seen one of those for years.

Weren't Stradas products of the period when Fiat decided that de-rusting the raw steel and applying primer to it was an unnecessary expense? Once they hit British weather and salted winter roads they pretty much dissolved.

Spotted this in a barn in deepest Warwickshire today

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A bit of T-Cut and it'll come up lovely

 

[KT550]

A tidy looking Triumph Herald convertible, first registered July 1963, seen in Tring yesterday.

 

[Bald Rick]

A tidy looking Triumph Herald convertible, first registered July 1963, seen in Tring yesterday.

My best friend from school had one exactly like that, which he bought for £300 (in a mess) and restored to as new condtion, and sold for £2k. This was 35 years ago, mind.

Meanwhile today, I saw a cracker. A 1971 (K) Audi 100S. Looked magnificent. But the piston rings needed seeing to (cough!)

 

[telstarbox]

Saab 9000 with mini wipers on the headlights!

 

[Sun Chariot]

Saab 9000 with mini wipers on the headlights!

Half a mile from my home, is a house with two 9000s on the driveway and a 9-5 patked on the roadside. A fan, you could say.

 

[thejuggler]

This little beauty yesterday - a Fiat 600 - driven by the owner of the vintage boutique it was parked outside of who looked to be about 70.

 

[telstarbox]

Lovely!

 

[Bald Rick]

1963 Citroën Ami6, A Reg, LHD. Seemed to be used as a daily. My mountain bike has fatter tyres!

 

[Gloster]

I haven’t previously posted in this thread because it is not something that generally interests me, but today I saw something that harked back to the 1950s films of my youth. On a driveway on the other side of the village was a Wolseley 6/80 police car, complete with two horns above the windscreen. If I read the registration correctly as we passed, it was probably former Devon County or Exeter City Police, so spent its working life pursuing miscreants who put the jam and cream on in the wrong order.

 

[Merle Haggard]

I haven’t previously posted in this thread because it is not something that generally interests me, but today I saw something that harked back to the 1950s films of my youth. On a driveway on the other side of the village was a Wolseley 6/80 police car, complete with two horns above the windscreen. If I read the registration correctly as we passed, it was probably former Devon County or Exeter City Police, so spent its working life pursuing miscreants who put the jam and cream on in the wrong order.

It can't be that old; it was only in the late 1960s that bells were replaced by two-tone horns.
Inspector Lockhard's* Wolseley on those exciting chases (with ?Johnny Briggs?)
* No Hiding Place, ITV - plain clothes police investigation. Lockheed was addicted to putting stuff up his nose when he was stressed but, spoiler, it was snuff....

 

[Cowley]

Devon County or Exeter City Police, so spent its working life pursuing miscreants who put the jam and cream on in the wrong order.

A form of policing that should still be functioning.

 

[TheSel]

Seen in Bangor (Gwynedd) on Monday. Mk I Ford Cortina.

 

[Hbbz9392]

Here is a beetle of a nice colour I saw at Istanbul, Kemeraltı Avenue to be exact. The T1 tram line's catenaries and it's grade-separation method can also be seen.

Green Beetle from Kemeraltı Avenue

A break from buses of Istanbul for this cool car I saw 2 years ago at Istanbul, Kemeraltı Avenue, to be exact. I don't know exactly what it is. What I do know is that T1's catenaries and it's grade-seperation method can also be seen in this photograph.

www.flickr.com

 

[telstarbox]

Land Rover Discovery, Series II, maroon and 51 plate.

 

[D1537]

Austin Princess this morning on the A19. Can't tell you much more about it (it was on the opposite carriageway) except that it was that quite unpleasant beige-orange colour.

 

[bspahh]

Weren't Stradas products of the period when Fiat decided that de-rusting the raw steel and applying primer to it was an unnecessary expense? Once they hit British weather and salted winter roads they pretty much dissolved.

This was a version of the Fiat Strada advert from Not the Nine O'Clock News

 

[Gloster]

I did see wandering about the village today a yellow hard-top E-type Jag. The car that was the absolute acme of Ooomph and It when I was young: a phallic symbol on wheels. It could only be afforded by middle-aged businessmen who ricked their backs getting into it and were never going to do anything but disappoint their secretaries.

 

[Altnashin]

Good to see a Peugeot 205 today, always thought it was a comfortable drive in its day.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I did see wandering about the village today a yellow hard-top E-type Jag. The car that was the absolute acme of Ooomph and It when I was young: a phallic symbol on wheels. It could only be afforded by middle-aged businessmen who ricked their backs getting into it and were never going to do anything but disappoint their secretaries.

Didn't George Best have one?

 

[Pyewipecarshed]

Seen in Belper, Derbyshire, this must be one of the last Triumph Spitfire 1500's built. On a W plate, first registered 1981 according to the DVLA

 

[telstarbox]

Something special today - Austin A30 from 1954 in a mews in Brighton.