What classic vehicles have you seen?

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TerryG
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#1141 Post by TerryG »

It is a 1945 Morris 8
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
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#1142 Post by Paul240480 »

Not sure either.... triumph mayflower :?:

EDIT: beaten to it and I woz wrong Anyhoo :roll:
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#1143 Post by Martin Evans »

Here are some photos of my recent trips to Tredegar Park in Newport and to North Wales.

This morning, the green Morris Minor has been past and on Saturday, after being picked up at the railway station, we parked next to a Trafalgar blue Morris Minor Traveller in the supermarket car park, just as the driver got back. We were in the MGB and it turned out that the Traveller belonged to the driver's father. I saw a few classics in North Wales; at least one Morris Minor, a nice pre war Rolls Royce and a group of Porsches were staying at the Royal Sportsman Hotel in Porthmadog (They have covered parking).

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This is the SP (385bhp) version :!:

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#1144 Post by Murray »

It appears that Manchester is a hot bed for daily classics,
I regularly see the following in no particular order:
Morris minor- old English white
MGB -blue
Mk1 golf gti-red
Mk2 Capri- black
Vauxhall cresta- blue white
Series 1 land rover- grey
Austin 7- black/maroon
Austin montego- white
Early mini minor- white
Porsche 944-guards red
VW variant-red
All these are seen on the roads near me.
I really must be quicker with my camera.
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#1145 Post by jpsh120 »

A few from my week in Portugal...

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1971 Sunbeam Rapier H120
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#1146 Post by JPB »

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:drool: :thumbs:

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#1147 Post by jpsh120 »

There were quite a few of those including a convertible! Nice to see the older stuff surviving in the less soggy climates!
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#1148 Post by JPB »

Indeed so. Cars such as the R4 and that Range Rover tend not to be seen so often these days over here in the UK. As for the Pug 104, last time I saw one of those in the wild was March the 11th, 2009.

Your spots put my own to shame. Yesterday the sunny, warm and dry weather down the coast brought out a Sunbeam Tiger which stood out among the usual selection of MGBs, Minors and a Cortina MK3 in fluorescent green but even the noise the Tiger made as its driver attempted to pull away from me on the A1 doesn't trump a yellow R4. :)
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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#1149 Post by TerryG »

You must have spotted this R4 in the news recently
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The pope has one!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religio ... ult-4.html
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
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#1150 Post by JPB »

:o Suddenly, I have a whole lot more respect for the man with the small white tit on his head! He could have rejected the offer outright and held out for a MK 4 Golf like the now-retired ex-pope Basil Cheeseburger (sp?) famously owned long before it sold for the guts of 30k on eBay but no, Pope wossisface had the good sense to accept the car. What a cool geezer. Hopelessly misguided in none car-related matters perhaps, but cool all the same.
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