One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Cletus Van Damme]

My 1992 Eunos, polished up and ready to take my mother out tomorrow. Should have been today but l started drinking.

Mx5

• MarkF
• 21 Apr 2019

Mx5 pop up

• MarkF
• 21 Apr 2019

Lovely car. I could imagine it took ages to find a good one Mk1. It took me ages to find a good Mk3 and they are much newer. I really miss the one I had. Would like to buy a Mk1, just don't think I could be bothered looking at loads of crap, if looking for a Mk3 was anything to go by..

 

[tyred]

Spotted a Morris Eight out and about today.


If I had the money and the storage space I would quite fancy something like for a leisurely Sunday afternoon pootle along the sort of minor roads I like to cycle one. They're the sort of roads where a car like this would be perfectly at home and would offer driving involvement in a way that no modern car could due to all the improvements that have been made.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Any of the West/South Yorkshire (& northern Derbyshire) contingent on here, been to the Oil Can Café
http://thecardingshed.co.uk/
Be it the old location, or the new one?

This is what I wanted, last time I was there
YES, it's a real 289!!

http://ikclassicsandracing.co.uk/blog-3/past-projects/a-c-cobra/

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[Richard A Thackeray]

Just been for a trundle around the Castleford/Fairburn area, & saw a Sunbeam Alpine, that was slowly returning to nature!
It was 90% under a tarpaulin, on the roof of a barge on the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal!!
No picture, as there were people on the barge

Then....
Returning through Glasshoughton, not far from Xscape, there was a Humber Sceptre(?) at the road-side



There's previously been a Hillman Hunter, & a Singer Vogue, in the same location

 

[derrick]

Any of the West/South Yorkshire (& northern Derbyshier contingent on here, been to the Oil Can Café
http://thecardingshed.co.uk/
Be it the old location, or the new one?

This is what I wanted, last time I was there
YES, it's a real 289!!

http://ikclassicsandracing.co.uk/blog-3/past-projects/a-c-cobra/

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A proper muscle car.

 

[derrick]

Just been for a trundle around the Castleford/Fairburn area, & saw a Sunbeam Alpine, that was slowly returning to nature!
It was 90% under a tarpaulin, on the roof of a barge on the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal!!
No picture, as there were people on the barge

Then....
Returning through Glasshoughton, not far from Xscape, there was a Humber Sceptre(?) at the road-side

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There's previously been a Hillman Hunter, & a Singer Vogue, in the same location

Thats a pile of ****.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A proper muscle car.

And along with its big brother, still undoubtedly one of the scariest cars to drive

 

[KneesUp]

I nearly bought a Lancia Beta once, I came to my senses just in time.

You came to your senses, or it turned into a pile of rust while your back was turned?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Thats a pile of ****.

You really do have an issue don't you. I had a Gazelle in the same shape used to piss all over the Escorts

 

[booze and cake]

For fans of chrome and fins, I came across these 3 cruisers in Kings Cross this morning. Storm Hannah has been battering the UK today, so no sunshine or top down action for these 3 today unfortunately. Wallowy, slow old barges they may be, but for 50-60 year old cars they're looking great.
A 1961 Cadillac Series 60

A 1959 Chevy Impala

And this last one is my favourite. I've never seen one of these before, but it looks super cool and has a cool name to match, a 1959 Buick Electra 225

 

[MontyVeda]

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Vauxhall Viva Convertible 'G' registration (1968) - according to Wikipedia "very rare"

The position of the wing mirrors show just how old this car is. People had much longer arms back then... evolution, for some reason, caused human arms to shorten quite considerably, hence modern cars have the wing mirrors much closer to the driver.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

hence modern cars have the wing mirrors much closer to the driver.

I haven't had a car with 'wing' mirrors for years all of mine have been door mirrors,

Okay I'll get my coat

 

[tyred]

I was cycling through an old part of town today where there are old terraced houses with large back gardens protected by high walls. I've often passed here but today the gates into one of the back yards was opened wide and I spotted a Morris Marina coupe in a fetching shade of vomit green which had clearly been parked there for quite some time.

 

[keithmac]

It's mint, like it was made 5 years ago, took me ages to find the right one. I've had Mk2's before but they don't have pop up headlights and that's what it's about....innit?

Lovely sunny day car only spoilt by lardy bloated modern cars blocking your view at junctions.

All about the pop ups!, My GTO's a '92 as well.

 

[MarkF]

All about the pop ups!, My GTO's a '92 as well.

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Were they the last good looking, bang on, proportioned coupe? Sort of car kids today go wild over. I'd like one of those.