One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Richard A Thackeray]

This SAAB 95, & trailer (made from another 95, or a 96), was nice on Tuesdays Bangers & Cash (new series)
Guide price of £5,000

Sadly, it was sold for £4,500

 

[raleighnut]

This SAAB 95, & trailer (made from another 95, or a 96), was nice on Tuesdays Bangers & Cash (new series)
Guide price of £5,000

Sadly, it was sold for £4,500
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Not so keen on the 95, yeah it may be a 7 seater but the 96 is far prettier.

Looks like the front panel is either off a later car or has been modified as headlamp wipers weren't fitted to those cars that early. I'd suggest the first as it isn't fitted very well with the bonnet sitting 'proud'and the gap to the wings being out. I've had loads of them off as fitting a clutch to the 95/96 means removing them to get the engine out and the bonnet opens forward.

 

[Badger_Boom]

This SAAB 95, & trailer (made from another 95, or a 96), was nice on Tuesdays Bangers & Cash (new series)
Guide price of £5,000

Sadly, it was sold for £4,500
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I've probably posted this before but one of my biggest motoring regrets is not buying a tidy 96 V4 in the 90s. I think the dealer wanted £1500 for it.

 

[biggs682]

I've probably posted this before but one of my biggest motoring regrets is not buying a tidy 96 V4 in the 90s. I think the dealer wanted £1500 for it.

Had a white 96 of my own great cars much more fun than other cars .

But my dad always had them when I was growing up so they were part of the family.

 

[biggs682]

In my eyes these are not classics and hardly vintage but numbers are declining spotted on this morning's walk.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 22nd


Corvette C8 (looked like one, not a 7)

King Edward Street
(towards junction with Altofts Road)
Normanton
Wakefield

Sorry, no chance for a frontal photograph

https://www.chevrolet.co.uk/en/next-generation-corvette.html

 

[Drago]

Wednesday 22nd


Corvette C8 (looked like one, not a 7)

King Edward Street
(towards junction with Altofts Road)
Normanton
Wakefield

Sorry, no chance for a frontal photograph

View attachment 759759

https://www.chevrolet.co.uk/en/next-generation-corvette.html

The XC70 ahead of it is more interesting.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The XC70 ahead of it is more interesting.

I’ve not seen that registration locally before

 

[derrick]

Could someone please define classic as most of what i am seeing is normal cars. Classic cars i thought were 40 years old.

Veteran cars​

Usually considered to be anything made before World War I.

Vintage cars​

Used to refer to vehicles made before 1930.

Post-vintage cars​

Produced between 1930 and 1945

 

[Drago]

There is no set definition of classic car.

I would contend that a crap car will never be a classic no matter how old it gets, while some machine become classics almost immediately.

For example, the Allaggro will always be a turd, but the mk1 Fucarse RS was a classic within few years of the run of cars being sold.

Insurers all take differing views on what age is the cut off for a classic policy, the government goes by 40 years for "historic."

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

There is no set definition of classic car.

I would contend that a crap car will never be a classic no matter how old it gets, while some machine become classics almost immediately.

For example, the Allaggro will always be a turd, but the mk1 Fucarse RS was a classic within few years of the run of cars being sold.

Insurers all take differing views on what age is the cut off for a classic policy, the government goes by 40 years for "historic."

Agreed!
For example; the new McLaren T50 is an instant classic, as is their (hard to believe it's been with us for over 30 years) F1

 

[raleighnut]

Agreed!
For example; the new McLaren T50 is an instant classic, as is their (hard to believe it's been with us for over 30 years) F1

I prefer the T33

 

[Jenkins]

Agreed!
For example; the new McLaren T50 is an instant classic, as is their (hard to believe it's been with us for over 30 years) F1

Nothing to do with McLaren. It's Gordon Murray Automotive.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Nothing to do with McLaren. It's Gordon Murray Automotive.

Oops!
You’re right!

Still a hell of a machine though, with a fantastic engine

Didn't Murray call it "probably the last of the analogue supercars"

 

[Ian H]

If it's the grey one I'm not convinced its a Sahara, rather than a 'normal' one with a novelty inset in the bonnet for the spare wheel. All the Sahara pictures I can find show a distinctively different front grille.

There was no indication of a second, rear-mounted engine.