Practically Classics Forum

Someone has walking about cash, the mini's just been VED'd for a whole year!

Not a Cooper, since that one was built 6 years after the previous Cooper was last made and 12 years before the newer ones came along. It does have a 1275cc engine, and that cage looks interesting but am I alone in thinking that 13s are just too much wheel for a mini?

The DVLA wrote:The enquiry is complete
The vehicle details for SDY 192S are:

Date of Liability 01 04 2012
Date of First Registration 25 11 1977
Year of Manufacture 1977
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1275CC
CO2 Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type Petrol
Export Marker Not Applicable
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour GREEN
Vehicle Type Approval
Vehicle Excise Duty Rate for vehicle
6 Months Rate £71.50
12 Months Rate £130.00

Saw this stunner of a Cedric yesterday




...and this beautiful NSU Prinz today.

No photos, but when I was coming back from my friend's house, I saw a yellow Bullnose Oxford. Now that's rarity for our little village!

I doubt the friend's cars qualify - a Stag and a Chimaera both parked up in his garage! I fear the Stag (which could be for sale but has a 6-pot engine and hasn't been on the road for five or six years) won't be on the road again and he's bored with the TVR now!

I wonder if the Oxford's owner will post saying he'd seen a bloke driving a white and brown tractor...

I only saw a couple of cars that aren't part of the day-to-day routine around these parts.
First nice-looking old car that I spotted today; a lovely, bright red Gilbern Invader just two miles from home on the way out the other odd one was an '80s TVR of the wegde-shaped variety, it was sitting on the side of the A1058 Coast Road down in Newcastle as a bewildered RAC guy fiddled under its bonnet.

I wonder whether the RAC fella will come on here to say "Oi, I'm not bewildered!"

I spotted this the other week, but forgot to post it. It was an MGB originally, apparently.

Yesterday, I saw many cars, obviously because of drive it day.
I saw, a Bentley Continental 2 door, in black with a red coachline, which I thought was utterly gorgeous, but no photo, as I was serving an idiot customer. The other cars I didn't get photos of include, a Ford Fairline, a Ford F150, a gorgeous yellow Anglia 105E, a mark 1 Austin A40, a few Moggy 1000s, some MG Midgets, MGB roadster, Austin 7, Triumph Stag, Triumph Spitfire, VW Golf Mark 1 GTI, Morgan plus 4 and some others which I can't remember.
I did, however get some photos of these lovely Jowetts which went past, including a gorgeous Jupiter.

To-day without photos: 2 VW Travellers (K-reg and P-reg), V-Reg Merc, and three classic motorbikes.

With photos: Mini Cooper and Morris 1000; photos below.

Wow, A Rover Metro! I was just thinking earlier today that those are starting to vanish just as the A-series ones did.
It's a shame that the camera seems to have focussed on some second hand Mercedes-Benz in the foreground.

Today I saw a T-Reg Bedford Campervan and 2 T-Reg VW Travellers. Sorry no photos this time.

So far I have seen to-day is a X- Reg Mark 1 Golf Black. I always like to see them, because they are getting rare now.