Guess the cars
Discussion
Blow me, I thought it would be easy... with the exception of the partially hidden car, of course.
Geoff is spot on.
Gold car is a Scimitar GT.
Wonder where it is now? Yes, it was mine, 3-litre Ford V6, with overdrive. I'd spotted it in a Rover dealers yard as I drove by. All I could see was part of the roofline and thought it was another Ginetta G11... I remember going all hot, until I actually viewed all the car.
For some reason the dealer convinced me it was a superb buy and I struck a deal, put a deposit on it and drove it home the next day. Can't remember how long I owned it, but he was right, it was a nice car and I do remember doing little to it apart from cleaning it, and making £400 profit when I sold it for £1100!
Probably worth 2, 3 or perhaps 4 times that now.
The blue car is naturally my G11. (I love the fluted panel of the hardtop, just makes the car look so different).
The red 'Rancho' (really!) was my GRS Tora (wonder if that's still going?)
The car across the road is a basic Ford Fiesta of the 80s.
Now the difficult one. Dave got it among his guesses: it's a Mazda.
Quite a rare one. Any ideas?
Geoff is spot on.
Gold car is a Scimitar GT.
Wonder where it is now? Yes, it was mine, 3-litre Ford V6, with overdrive. I'd spotted it in a Rover dealers yard as I drove by. All I could see was part of the roofline and thought it was another Ginetta G11... I remember going all hot, until I actually viewed all the car.
For some reason the dealer convinced me it was a superb buy and I struck a deal, put a deposit on it and drove it home the next day. Can't remember how long I owned it, but he was right, it was a nice car and I do remember doing little to it apart from cleaning it, and making £400 profit when I sold it for £1100!
Probably worth 2, 3 or perhaps 4 times that now.
The blue car is naturally my G11. (I love the fluted panel of the hardtop, just makes the car look so different).
The red 'Rancho' (really!) was my GRS Tora (wonder if that's still going?)
The car across the road is a basic Ford Fiesta of the 80s.
Now the difficult one. Dave got it among his guesses: it's a Mazda.
Quite a rare one. Any ideas?
Broomsticklady said:
dandarez said:
The blue car is naturally my G11. (I love the fluted panel of the hardtop, just makes the car look so different).
The really scary thing is that, from that angle, if you took the hardtop off most people would say it was an MGB....I was pestered by a local MGB nut for a considerable time who wanted to buy 'just' my doors for his same period B. It's actually incredible that even now they are still totally rust free. He offered me two brand new Heritage 'later' doors and cash. I never accepted and really glad I didn't.
Of course, the G15 from that angle could look MGB'ish too with roofline cut off.
The G15 'door' (albeit now grp) and waistline is also MGB. Door just has that with added rectangle piece at lower front for door hinges
Edited by dandarez on Saturday 20th February 22:59
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