COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

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Luna12 said:

Looked like it worked for its living. 200T with a manual box. These 70s colours really growing on me

I had one! Mine was a particularly foul shade of blue though. I'll see if I can find a picture.
Best workhorse I ever owned. I sold it with starship miles and all it ever had was regular basic servicing and a new valve for the self-levelling rear suspension.

That's some inspirational parking too!

[Stick Legs]

Standard 10 with some fast road tweeks at my mate’s garage:

[RSTurboPaul]

Escort3500 said:

Caught a couple of Corsairs (including a Crayford version) lurking last week in the company of a rather nice Marcos
3-Litre GT

Has that Marcos got an HID headlight conversion? Cool if new parts are still being developed.

[GTRene]

serie 11 of my day in Nijverdal at a Sunday shopping day combined with their yearly classic cars between them in the shopping district.

the car under was so long, I could not get it complete in the picture, I could not go further behind because many people walking the street behind me, but still I should get it easy, but that long was very hard to get in the picture with my klik and go install, I even had to bow back and put the camera (mobile) almost t my head



under> then I spotted 2 mopeds I both had in my youth, a Yamaha and a Puch Maxi, ok the Puch I bought for parts to make a kids scooter moped









under> some old Opels, that Opel Kaptein (Captein) with AM plate, was also huge for a Opel.

[GTRene]

serie 12 from last Sunday.





Opel Speedster, looked good, I once had a Speedster Turbo in Black






hah, such exact BMW 3 series in white I also owned long time ago.

[TypeR]

Stick Legs said:

Standard 10 with some fast road tweeks at my mate’s garage:

When you say "fast road tweeks" are you talking" Rover "K" Series under the bonnet or something a bit more period?
Please tell me there's a BMW straight six shoehorned in there!

[Escort3500]

RSTurboPaul said:

Escort3500 said:

Caught a couple of Corsairs (including a Crayford version) lurking last week in the company of a rather nice Marcos
3-Litre GT

Has that Marcos got an HID headlight conversion? Cool if new parts are still being developed.

I thought the headlights looked a bit different when I saw the car, so Googled it when I got home. It seems that whilst some had rectangular headlights, most had twins, but the ones in this car do look aftermarket to me

[Luna12]

Again, a lovely 70s colour with matching coloured seats. Again, looked to work for a living. It was a bit rough around the edges though

[stevemcs]

Another from the weekend

[eccles]

Escort3500 said:

RSTurboPaul said:

Escort3500 said:

Caught a couple of Corsairs (including a Crayford version) lurking last week in the company of a rather nice Marcos
3-Litre GT

Has that Marcos got an HID headlight conversion? Cool if new parts are still being developed.

I thought the headlights looked a bit different when I saw the car, so Googled it when I got home. It seems that whilst some had rectangular headlights, most had twins, but the ones in this car do look aftermarket to me

They look a bit like Mk3 MX5 headlight units...

[spoodler]

TypeR said:

Stick Legs said:

Standard 10 with some fast road tweeks at my mate’s garage:

When you say "fast road tweeks" are you talking" Rover "K" Series under the bonnet or something a bit more period?
Please tell me there's a BMW straight six shoehorned in there!

The classic "hop up" used to be the Triumph Spitfire engine and 'box. 'Twas a relatively easy transplant due to the family connection... much like Midget Minors and MGB Oxfords. I knew of a couple wit that set up as recently as a few years back.
I also knew of a roof chopped, two door with an Essex V6, but that took a tad more work... and, to be honest, wasn't a very pleasant car.

[5 In a Row]

Luna12 said:

Again, a lovely 70s colour with matching coloured seats. Again, looked to work for a living. It was a bit rough around the edges though

My folks had one of those for a couple of years in the early 80s - ASC365S.
It was the first car I drove (well, re-positioned on the drive at first) on my own, i.e. not sitting on my dad's lap as he operated the pedals. I would've been 10 or 11.
Ours was in a chocolate brown colour and one of my mum's work colleagues got in it by mistake one day as she had an identical one - the key worked both cars!!

[aeropilot]

5 In a Row said:

Luna12 said:

Again, a lovely 70s colour with matching coloured seats. Again, looked to work for a living. It was a bit rough around the edges though

My folks had one of those for a couple of years in the early 80s - ASC365S.

Yep, my Dad bought a beigey yellow one for my Mum in the early 80's to replace her '73 clubman saloon, but it was a right dog and he got shot of it within a month, and had to splash out on an 18 month old Mini City E for her instead.

[Turbobanana]

aeropilot said:

5 In a Row said:

Luna12 said:

Again, a lovely 70s colour with matching coloured seats. Again, looked to work for a living. It was a bit rough around the edges though

My folks had one of those for a couple of years in the early 80s - ASC365S.

Yep, my Dad bought a beigey yellow one for my Mum in the early 80's to replace her '73 clubman saloon, but it was a right dog and he got shot of it within a month, and had to splash out on an 18 month old Mini City E for her instead.

It's funny to think that these were considered family cars back in the day. My dad had two, albeit the regular-fronted versions (Countrymen? Travellers? I can never remember which), the first of which I was brought home from the maternity ward in (minus seatbelts, natch). The second was used as a family car even after my brother was born, meaning four of us in it and a trailer behind when on holiday. It was subsequently sold to chap who modified it in ways only familiar to those around in the seventies, but then wrapped it around a tree.

[CKY]

spoodler said:

TypeR said:

Stick Legs said:

Standard 10 with some fast road tweeks at my mate’s garage:

When you say "fast road tweeks" are you talking" Rover "K" Series under the bonnet or something a bit more period?
Please tell me there's a BMW straight six shoehorned in there!

The classic "hop up" used to be the Triumph Spitfire engine and 'box. 'Twas a relatively easy transplant due to the family connection... much like Midget Minors and MGB Oxfords. I knew of a couple wit that set up as recently as a few years back.
I also knew of a roof chopped, two door with an Essex V6, but that took a tad more work... and, to be honest, wasn't a very pleasant car.

I recall someone (possibly Chris Sanders?) built a black Standard 10 with the Spitfire engine swap, raced in the St Marys Trophy at Goodwood around 2005, absolutely bloody flew! Fair play the chap could pedal well but I was surprised a the pace he got out of it - definitely saw Standard 8/10s in a new light after that!

[GTRene]

stevemcs said:

Another from the weekend

Lovely, I like how clean that is under the bonnet, nice job done there.

[GTRene]

serie 13 of my day in Nijverdal at last Sunday shopping day, combined with their yearly classic cars between them in the shopping district.

[GTRene]

serie 13 of my day in Nijverdal at a Sunday shopping day combined with their yearly classic cars between them in the shopping district.







under, its a big car such Opel Kaptein.




under, the lovely Toyota Celica GT 2000

[GTRene]

serie 14 of my day in Nijverdal at a Sunday shopping day combined with their yearly classic cars between them in the shopping district.

[Dan Singh]

aeropilot said:

5 In a Row said:

Luna12 said:

Again, a lovely 70s colour with matching coloured seats. Again, looked to work for a living. It was a bit rough around the edges though

My folks had one of those for a couple of years in the early 80s - ASC365S.

Yep, my Dad bought a beigey yellow one for my Mum in the early 80's to replace her '73 clubman saloon, but it was a right dog and he got shot of it within a month, and had to splash out on an 18 month old Mini City E for her instead.

I had one too, K Reg., Harvest Gold I think was the colour. It had been over some traffic islands which smashed the gearbox up. I fitted a second hand engine and 'box from a scrapper. It went well, but never steered straight.