johnlambert Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I popped to the corner shop this morning and on the way back an "06" registration Morgan drove past. It was a lovely pale blue (like Ford Bermuda Blue, I think) and steel wheels with small chrome hubcaps, which aren't something I've seen on a "modern" Morgan but I prefer them to wire wheels. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 This morning a red MG Metro in mint condition.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr T Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 On the M40 this morning on the way back after seeing our daughter. A white K reg Morris 1800S. Very sprightly, I assume it was out this morning as sunny and so wouldn't dissolve as no rain. A British Racing Green Triumph TR4A, a V reg orange TR7, a P reg Rover 3500 in that bile/mustard colour so beloved of BL in the seventies. Finally we passed a very sedately cruising black American car of the mid-late thirties. I think it might have been a Packard, but I am not up on US cars imports of that period and I was driving. No a bad haul. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlambert Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 49 minutes ago, Mr T said: On the M40 this morning on the way back after seeing our daughter. A white K reg Morris 1800S. Very sprightly, I assume it was out this morning as sunny and so wouldn't dissolve as no rain. A British Racing Green Triumph TR4A, a V reg orange TR7, a P reg Rover 3500 in that bile/mustard colour so beloved of BL in the seventies. Finally we passed a very sedately cruising black American car of the mid-late thirties. I think it might have been a Packard, but I am not up on US cars imports of that period and I was driving. No a bad haul. Anything BMC/BL on the M40 today could well have been heading to the British Motor Museum for the annual BMC/BL show. I didn't go as I had other things to do, but it usually attracts some interesting vehicles. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted July 12, 2021 Author Share Posted July 12, 2021 16 hours ago, Vince1159 said: This morning a red MG Metro in mint condition.... What, like a packet of Polo mints - full of holes....??!! Keith 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitkent Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 A few pictures from the Superprix Historic race meeting at Brands Hatch over the weekend. Cars and people were very thin on the ground- everyone else was probably at Goodwood instead! There was some very good racing however,just a few random for you to enjoy(hopefully!) Chris. A lovely Mustang roadcar! This picture has its own title already. This car is a Marcos Mantis. Not my favourite type of Marcos........... Lovely looking Rolls Royce,Silver Ghost S111. A nice MG, is it an SA? YA? I'm not actually sure. AC Ace. I did make it into the paddock with my contractors lanyard. A Formula Ford Lotus 61,not sure what year,1968 or 9? Chris. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Lovely photo's now i'm just going to sit and drool over the Aston for 5 min's..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rs2man Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 33 minutes ago, Kitkent said: Lovely looking Rolls Royce,Silver Ghost S111. Chris. No , that's a Silver Cloud SIII "Chinese Eye" Mulliner Drophead. One of the most stylish types of coachwork on the Cloud chassis, in my opinion . 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlambert Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 2 hours ago, Kitkent said: A few pictures from the Superprix Historic race meeting at Brands Hatch over the weekend. Cars and people were very thin on the ground- everyone else was probably at Goodwood instead! There was some very good racing however,just a few random for you to enjoy(hopefully!) Chris. A nice MG, is it an SA? YA? I'm not actually sure. Chris. Great photos, Chris. I think that's a YA or YB. The SA was longer, sleeker-looking, pre-war and had wire wheels. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitkent Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Cheers John and RS2, I think I did read Silver Cloud S111 on the back of the Rolls and wrote something completely different ! Chris. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six97s Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 (edited) Two Triumphs on the school run this morning, spotted ten minutes apart: a BRG Stag with some kind of rally/event plaque on the front, and a blue Dolomite Sprint. Edited July 13, 2021 by Six97s 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatfingers Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 Two good spots today. First up was an Austin Cambridge in pale blue with a broad white stripe down the side. Paint work was a bit dull and had a few rust spots so was probably a work in progress. It may have been a Morris Oxford but i wasn't able to see the badge! 🤔 2nd spot was a spotless and very lovely MGB GT in what i could only describe as a brown pewter colour? Was on a N plate so that would be about 1974 i think. Nice chrome bumpers and it sounded glorious as it pulled away on the roundabout. Regards, Steve 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malpaso Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 There was a massive WW2 British 6x4 GS lorry parked up by a green in Worthing today. Looked like a Matador on steroids! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatfingers Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 5 minutes ago, malpaso said: There was a massive WW2 British 6x4 GS lorry parked up by a green in Worthing today. Looked like a Matador on steroids! Might have been one of these? https://images.app.goo.gl/jMbcXKWoG4nbK5f68 AEC Militant that was a post war development of the Matador. Regards, Steve 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six97s Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 A number of driveway spots this morning: yet another Morris Minor along with a red MkI Sierra estate, both at the same property; an Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire in cream; and finally, all parked in front of another property, an A40 Farina, a lime green Mini Clubman estate and a Standard Vanguard Vignale. The owner of these last three used to have a Berkeley three wheeler, but I haven't seen that for a while. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klubman01 Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 Spotted this afternoon at the Texaco filling station in Sleaford. Sounded nice and sporty! Trevor 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlambert Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 Today yielded a few good ones. A white 1977 S-plate Mini in Warwick, a black modern Lamborghini of some sort on the A46 (registration F18 BAT, maybe someone has Bruce Wayne fantasies?). And when I got home, just as I parked my car, I heard something that I took at first to be a large and powerful four-cylinder motorcycle. I looked up as the sound approached, only to catch a flash of bright red and the distinctive hind quarters of a Ferrari F40, which I then heard for a good couple of minutes as it negotiated the centre of my village. It's not the first (or even the second) time I've seen an F40 (the first time, it pulled up next to me at the local petrol station), so I wonder if it lives locally? Just a pity I couldn't get a photograph. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malpaso Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 On 7/13/2021 at 6:25 PM, fatfingers said: Might have been one of these? https://images.app.goo.gl/jMbcXKWoG4nbK5f68 AEC Militant that was a post war development of the Matador. Regards, Steve No, it was definitely a WW2 vintage type, not just a WW2 paint job! May have been a Leyland or Thornycroft forward control type, the only thing I can say is it didn't have the AEC badge shape, rather a square radiator... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malpaso Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 On Wednesday I saw a Mk.1 Escort. Not a Mexico wannabee or a sporty version. Just a perfect looking bog-standard four-door in metallic brown. Steel wheels and hub caps just as it came from the factory - but possibly shinier! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatW Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 On 7/12/2021 at 6:24 PM, Kitkent said: A few pictures from the Superprix Historic race meeting at Brands Hatch over the weekend. Cars and people were very thin on the ground- everyone else was probably at Goodwood instead! There was some very good racing however,just a few random for you to enjoy(hopefully!) Chris. A lovely Mustang roadcar! This picture has its own title already. This car is a Marcos Mantis. Not my favourite type of Marcos........... Lovely looking Rolls Royce,Silver Ghost S111. A nice MG, is it an SA? YA? I'm not actually sure. AC Ace. I did make it into the paddock with my contractors lanyard. A Formula Ford Lotus 61,not sure what year,1968 or 9? Chris. I like the Lotus Formula Ford. I tested one of those at the Jim Russell School at Silverstone in the day. Passed on a driver training test with flying colours. But as a young Dad with two little boys I couldn't afford the £395 for the full racing driver course! What could have been. I had a beard at the time and some people thought I was John Watson so tried to get my autograph! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitkent Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Agree about the F Ford Lotus,Its an attractive car I think it said Jim Russell on its side. I collect Lotus racecars,this is one I haven't got just yet though. Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted July 16, 2021 Author Share Posted July 16, 2021 1 hour ago, malpaso said: Just a perfect looking bog-standard four-door in metallic brown. Passed my driving test in one in that colour - always thought it was lucky as my instructor actually had a two door and I had awful trouble in getting the reversing around a junction right in it. However the 2 door went sick the day before my test and a couple of go's at reversing around a corner in the replacement 4 door hire car showed the extra quarterlight in the back door made positioning it much easier - and I had no trouble on the test and passed first time! Always had a fondness for 4 doors after that but despite owning more than a few Mk1's never had a 'more door' - and given the prices now guess I never will!! Keith 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR2Don Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 In the driveway of a house round the corner. 'W' reg Ferrari 360 - not a typical find round this way! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlambert Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Yesterday a trip up the M1 provided sightings of three 1950s vehicles in close proximity but not (as far as I could tell) in convoy. There was a Sunbeam Alpine, Jaguar C-Type (probably a replica, it looked a bit wide to be a real one) and a red Jaguar XK150 Drophead Coupé. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 I'm back at work delivering the evil ales. My last delivery this afternoon was just outside Coningsby. So between there and Lincoln I spotted the following.... A Bowler Land Rover (What a Land Rover should be!) just outside Woodhall Spa. A Better than new Riley 1.5 in Woodhall Spa. An L reg Granada in Branston (It's orange and I think I've seen it before parked near Pelham bridge in Lincoln) And, most rare, a Toyota FJ Cruiser in South Lincoln. Not seen one since I left Saudi! Love the retro styling on them. Shame they were never sold over here. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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