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Thanks everyone for your thoughts. The funeral was this afternoon and a good turnout and a friend of hers piped her off. A lot of blurred vision. 

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2 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said:

Sell it now, (before it gets too bad & the value drops) and put the money to good use. Sentiment is all very well, but you can't spend it.

 

That's the plan Pete, but it's in my son's name so he needs to pull his finger out!

 

Keith

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9 hours ago, Mr T said:

Travelling yesterday up the A1for mum's funeral and there was a van towing a trailer with something from the late twenties-early thirties on the trailer. It was a chassis, engine and saloon bodywork, but unidentifiable. It looked from the condition if it just come out of a farm outbuilding, so there must be treasures still hiding somewhere. 

Before anything else, I'd like to offer my condolences for you mum. Hope the funeral went well

22 hours ago, keefr22 said:

 

What was the event, some good looking stuff there...

 

Keith

 

The event was the MK Classic Car Tour, aimed primarily at classic cars although, as the main aim is to raise money for the Special Care Baby Unit they do allow more modern cars in subject to numbers. Basically, it's non-competitice navigation along a route of about 100 miles to Silverstone and also includes a couple of laps of the Millbrook Alpine Circuit :D Good fun, a good cause, and as people have said a nice selection of exotica and some of the more 'normal' classics.

 

And yes, we did comment on the Maestro van when we saw it first. Another one I haven't seen for ages.

 

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5 hours ago, JeroenS said:

A red Chevrolet SSR, I had never seen one before, had to look it up. I thought it looked pretty cool. Unusual.

I'm guilty of liking these as well, even though from what I can gather it's pretty rubbish at being a muscle car, a pick-up and a convertible. In fact, there is one lurking in the stash, although I doubt I will get around to it this year :)

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Spotted this morning on the M4 going west, a car transporter with a number of 60's & 70's Mercs and a pretty good looking DS.

Wonder where they were off to?

 

Cheers, Alan.

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Halfway home from work yesterday, I jumped off my bike to look at the classic car meet at a local pub.  In the short time I was there, I saw

 

Two Escort Mexicos, one orange, one in rally set-up

De Lorean (no flux capacitor though)

Several real Minis

BMW 3.0csi (phwooar, from when BMWs were nice and exclusively rare cars, only for the cognoscenti in this country).

Delta Integrale

Triumph Roadster

Karmann Ghia coupe

MGB (only one!)

Mustang (some weird mid-90s type from when Ford forgot what they were doing – still nice V8 sound though)

Vauxhall Velox – may be a custom job, it was half “patinated” on wolfies or similar

Nash (?) Metropolitan

Austin Princess wedgie

 

A sprinkling of newer jags, porkers etc in the rest of the car park too.

 

Cheers

Will

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Just East of Spalding in a small village, is a garage that specialises in GRP car body refurbishment.

I delivered to the pub there and stopped off at the garage for a natter. Current incumbents were,

A Reliant Scimitar having a back to the glass respray, A lotus Espirit and at least seven Elans.

On the way back to Lincoln on the A15 by Waddington a BRG TR3A was Southbound.

In Scampton village on the way home, A Crossley Fire tender of all things!

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A decent crop on the way home today.

Just outside Chippenham, a mint Frog-eyed sprit in a fetching shade of 'eau-de-nil'.

Then, in Yate, a Lambo Hurracan and a moggie minor just three cars behind.

 

Cheers, Alan.

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On 4/19/2019 at 7:20 PM, Pete in Lincs said:

1966 Mustang fastback in black with gold stripes on top.

 

Wonder if it was an original Hertz 'rent a Mustang'?!

 

Today, a gleaming white T-bar roofed Nissan 300ZX, another car that I can't remember when I saw one last. Looked glorious in the spring sunshine!

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Just saw another VW ‘splitty’. However this one was left hand drive and had been ‘slammed’ so that its underneath was nearly scraping the road - just avoid all speed bumps.

 

Trevor

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Jeeps on the M3 this morning.  Two CJ-2s and an MB?GPW?M201 on the back of a lorry, all three in need of restoration.  Sadly I suspect the rarer CJs will be broken up or converted for the re-enactors.

 

Having only seen one CJ-2 in the UK in 50 odd years (but hundreds of MBs and similar), last year I saw two (badly) dressed up as wartime models.  In conversation neither owner had any idea whatsoever they didn’t own a real “army jeep” nor that theirs were much more unusual (in the UK at least).  Some people should never be allowed near a classic car!

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Recently on my travels overtaken by an immaculate black Jaguar XK150 on the A64 near Tadcaster. A regular parked car on Pontefract Lane Stourton is a J prefixed proper shaped Mini with lots of chrome and wide wheels and flared wheel arches

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Spotted on the M4 this morning. One of those US "Streamline" caravans. Incongruously, being towed by a Transit van, not some huge US behemoth pick-up...

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At Kelso, after the Landys, a British Racing Green Austin Healey 3000 on the roundabout and in the car park a 1967 Riley Kestrel in cream. Then on the way overtook an Albion Flatbed lorry from the early 50s on the A1 near Washington Services and not long after saw a Mk1 Ford Mustang northbound

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Was in the Lakes last weekend and saw a few Series 2A Landys, a Willys Jeep and this sad little chap in Ambleside.....

 

A Mk I Fiesta XR2 on a Y plate (1983?)

 

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Hasn't moved for absolutely years by the looks of it. Sunk into the gravel with split tyres and slowly rotting in the lovely spring sunshine :fraidnot:

 

Regards,

 

Steve

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Coming home from MK show today, in no particular order.

Green TR7 ragtop

Red Jaguar XK120 ragtop

Blue and cream Austin Healey 3000 ragtop

Red and cream VW split screen camper van

Yellow Stag ragtop

Crap and Custard T series RR Silver Shadow with vinyl roof.

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