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Li'ldude · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: Classics you saw today.

What you think is a classic, lets leave the other thread for 'What makes a classic'

Citroen DS,
Lanica Delta HF
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Grampa · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:08 am Post subject:

A Morris Minor - just opened the garage door.

If I had the keys to my neighbour's garage I could also see a MkII RS2000, and until recently I could see a MkI Golf GTi across the road.
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E36 320i · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:18 am Post subject:

Stuntman · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:23 am Post subject:

The Golf GTI wouldn't have been out when Sam Tyler went back...
Yesterday - a pale metallic green BMW M635 CSi. Very nice.
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kraftwerk · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:28 am Post subject:

A Renault Avantime, outside my door. On my ride to work I regularly see a barely-held-together Citroen DS and a Rover SD1 being devoured by shrubbery.
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E36 320i · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject:

DaveGibson · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject:

Matt, the original Golf appeared in 1974 but the GTi didn't come out until it was shown at the Frankfurt show in late 1975. It didn't reach the UK until 1979 though.

E36 320i · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject:

Ah, thanks.
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Star69 · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject:

Immaculate 'B' plate Granada 2.8i Ghia X - good thing it has a wide bootlid to fit all that badging in!

Also a not too scruffy Mercury Grey XR2 on a 'C' plate on steel wheels which still had their original trims.
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Li'ldude · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject:

Forgot one, I too saw a BMW M635 CSi on Monday, very nice motor too.
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BeN · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:32 am Post subject:

Original Mini Cooper. Very nice.

And a Morris Minor Convertible.
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LittleSwill · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:57 am Post subject:

An A reg Austin Ambassador out in the slush and salt.
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Li'ldude · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:33 pm Post subject:

BMW 3000 Coupé (It said)
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject:

Ferrari 456

Spyder · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject:

Fiat X1/9. I'd love to see the Italians do a new one of these.
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Rodge · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:06 pm Post subject:

Triumph 2500, orange and shiny.
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D. · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject:

Fiat 126 - maybe not a classic, but an unusual sight all the same.

Blarno · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:39 am Post subject:

Would you consider a mint Renault 5 GT Turbo Raider a classic?
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Roadrunner · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject:

Black XK140 FHC.
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D. · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:53 pm Post subject:

I saw a white MGB GT V8 the other day. Sounded fantastic.

BeN · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject:

An old Beetle.

I forgot what else I saw.
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Li'ldude · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject:

Citroen DS
Peugeot 304 Cabrio
Merc SL340
Merc CL230
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Roadrunner · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject:

A few moments ago someone had the decency to pull up right infront of my office in a pristine Bentley S3. After a few moments he burbled off. I then gave my office staff chapter and verse on why we need to sell more houses so that I can go out and buy a similar Bentley for myself.

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Colin · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject:

Mark 2 Ford Cortina, in the dreaded Silver Fox, trundling along the M27 this morning........

Also one of those funny Scimitar sports cars from the 1980s.

Colin · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

Volvo P1800 in light blue, progressing west along the M4 this morning.

Not sure that the pink Nissan Figaro counts as a "classic"?!! but I saw one of those, too.

Li'ldude · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

Renault 4CV
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PR · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:

Porsche 356 cabriolet. It looked absolutely spotless in silver, and was very striking in the bright morning sunshine.
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I saw something yesterday, and have no idea what it was. It had no visable badges on the back, the the badge in the grill was too small to see.

And we all know how good I am at describing things but here is goes!

It had a similar front end to an MGB, but not quite as sculptered, i.e. the front wings were quite as prounced. Chrome grill, quite bluff, chromed bumpers I think. It was about the length of the Focus, maybe a tad shorter. The back was more like a Jag E-type FHC. That was the weird bit. It was 2 door, seats set towards the rear more than the front. The back was fairly flat horizintally, i.e. no curved rear. I can't remember the age, but it was post 1960's I think vaguely. Headlights were sat in the end of the wings.

I have no idea what it is, does anyone else have a vague idea what it could be from what I am wittering on about?

Li'ldude · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

Nope.
That white DS again.
In pics, I always thought the DS looked a bit ugly, but in real life it's amazing.
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Colin · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject:

Been in France for the past few days, so several different sightings.

Today it was a slightly tatty Peugeot 604 parked up in a car park near to where my colleague had left his (rented) 207.... guess which car I preferred?

Yesterday, an immaculate Peugeot 304 Berline on one side of the street and a 403 Pickup on the other.

On Sun, at the "auto brocante", along with the museum cars, there was a Matra Murena and a particularly immaculate Simca Ariane, which had a gloriously rumbling V8 engine.....

Matt · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:50 am Post subject:

Blue series-3 E-type. Vile.
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Li'ldude · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:43 am Post subject:

Never liked E-Types, Series II and III less so.
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Matt · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:18 am Post subject:

Tatty, white DS that I've seen a few times now. Even in that condition, it knocks spots off the E Type from yesterday.
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Racing · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:24 am Post subject:

Aston Martin V8 Vantage (see "Impossibly Cool" thread) and Aston Martin DB7 Zagato AR-1 roadster. Both in Paris.
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Stuntman · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:51 am Post subject:

This morning in Cheltenham, an Aston Martin DB6 coupe.
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Matt · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:05 am Post subject:

Brown Porsche 914.
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GonnaBreakABuggy · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:10 am Post subject:

Pair of triumph gt6's ;)
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Li'ldude · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:13 am Post subject:

Ooooh, GT6s...
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DaveGibson · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject:

Last night - a Triumph TR6. (OK, I was at a TR Register meeting.)

Spyder · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject:

Saw one of my faves today

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Pete · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject:

MK1 Golf GTi

just opened the garage door :D

(shame its not quite road legal:()
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LHD K-reg black Citroen DS in Russell Square driven by an attractive blond - impossibly cool and erotic combination.

Stuntman · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:

Blond or blonde?

A Morris Traveller, and then an old Lotus Elite in metallic ice blue.
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Li'ldude · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject:

Roadrunner · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject:

Yesterday - a pale blue XK140 dhc in well-used, but not too scruffy condition.
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Li'ldude · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject:

A Plymouth Baracuda AND a BMW 3.0CS. I liked that day.
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GonnaBreakABuggy · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:31 pm Post subject:

That pair of GT6's again ;)

And a rather tasty Peugeot 504 turbo.
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kraftwerk · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject:

Well, actually last weekend in Paris. Saw one of these in mint nick. Gorgeously simple...

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Li'ldude · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject:

Ouch. Now that's how a car should look.
Next Vectra coupé should be called Vector.
Caliber - Calibra
Vectra - Vector
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Li'ldude · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject:

Another 3.0CS, but not the sky-blue one, a red one. Nice...
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