What classic vehicles have you seen?

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Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?

#511 Post by Martin Evans »

TerryG wrote:I saw the new Peppercorn A1 on the A50 on Monday no. 60163
Come off the rails had it ;) :?: This reminded me of the bit in the Titfield Thunderbolt ,where Hugh Griffith and Stanley Holloway pinch a loco but they don't line the turntable up right and end up on the road. When they get arrested, the charges are amusing; things like not keeping a line of traffic, emitting sparks on the highway, I think being drunk was another.

I'm in the process of reading the Haynes Manual for the A1 at the moment. It's very interesting (I haven't seen it but I have spoken to someone who has driven it....he was showing me how to drive and 060 Pannier). I'm off to the Glos & Warwickshire on Wednesday (It passes within view of Prescott), where City of Truro is currently based.
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#512 Post by sierra3dr »

Yellow Dolomite in New Moston (Manchester) yesterday,in tidy condition,and shifted very well
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#513 Post by loveoldclassics »

I saw a white K-Reg Ford Sierra earlier in Battle.
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#514 Post by sierra3dr »

loveoldclassics wrote:I saw a white K-Reg Ford Sierra earlier in Battle.
Because I see one every day,I forget how rare they are to be seen :)
A yellow Saab 96,could have been a 93 spotted yesterday. In Prestwich,junction of Heywood Road/Scholes Lane
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#515 Post by JPB »

Still a brace of late Sierra doing minicab service down in Ashington, one is the metallic blue "Azure" edition, the other a red one. Their owner took them out of winter service in about 2009 but come this time, they're out & at it again until the end of October.

Right enough becoming a little uncommon now though, and there are only the two out here; a white 1.8 (Pinto, not CVH, I gave him a jump start from the VW and had a look under the Sierra's bonnet then) hatch on an E plate and a very tidy Cosworth Sapphire that is in year round use belongs to the teacher at the village primary. Beats the usual primary teacher's choices of 2CV or Beetle. 8-)
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#516 Post by Martin Evans »

Many Sierras are of an age where they are now classic, though I suspect there won't be many seen at events, apart from Cosworths and maybe XR4 (You see far more Continas). I don't know when I last saw one.

However, for myself, I have just seen a green Frogeye Sprite (With a white hardtop) drive past the shop and as I was typing, it went back the other way (Suspect it's from the local garage, who always have a classic or two there).
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#517 Post by loveoldclassics »

I saw these earlier in Battle.

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#518 Post by alfaSleep »

Well.... today I went over from Hexham to Penrith, Via Hartside [A686]

Near the Hartside Cafe... I was passed by around half a dozen of these, going the other way.... everyone wearing Flying Helmets c/w Goggles :lol:
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NOTE... I seem to remember these plates stlye & they were all LHD.

5mins later... :o

One of these came 'steaming up the hill', towards Hartside
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... Silver - on old, period black&silver plates BUT LHD too :!:

Lovely day for it ;)

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#519 Post by SEE YA »

1939 LANCASTER saloon bought for £1950 going to Poland for restoration . Then coming back here for sale.

It was leaving Dover on a trailer last night had a good look around it not to bad all over.
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#520 Post by JPB »

Lancaster? :?
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