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1 minute ago, Bonhoff said:

 

TBH - The Citroen seems to be on a new set of wheels and tyres, an episode of "Wheeler Dealers" revealed that you can get a conversion kit to install a Ford Pinto lump so perhaps it's a "Sleeper"? 

 

I like it.

If it is it gives a whole new meaning to 'Rat Truck',yeah is that the one that Edd finished as a mobile take away in the UK as i stopped watching it when they went to the States...

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7 hours ago, Farmer matt said:

No doubt meeting the scrapman soon.

 

 

The Min is probably worth at least £2K even if it isn't roadworthy - but DVLA shows it's taxed (even if it's free!) until April 2023 and it doesn't need an MOT. So it's likely worth at least £4K, possibly more. Absolute basket cases are going for silly money now.... And at least it is on the road, unlike ours that hasn't left the garage for almost 6 years.... :(

 

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1 hour ago, keefr22 said:

 

The Min is probably worth at least £2K even if it isn't roadworthy - but DVLA shows it's taxed (even if it's free!) until April 2023 and it doesn't need an MOT. So it's likely worth at least £4K, possibly more. Absolute basket cases are going for silly money now.... And at least it is on the road, unlike ours that hasn't left the garage for almost 6 years.... :(

 

Keith

The bonnet boot badges suggests that it is a Mk3 Cooper S.  If so, probably worth very silly money.  Doesn't look too much like a basket case, especially for the year.  My local specialist would no doubt turn it into something solid and immaculate.  A 1965 Mk1 (admittedly more desirable) Austin Cooper S, which was crumbling at every seam and joint, sold on Banger and Cash for £20k.  Saw pictures of it recently after a full restoration, and it looked fabulous!  

BTW, what it is with those Citroen vans that make them so desirable to trendy hipster types trying to sell you overpriced coffee, etc?  I avoid them on principle.

Trevor

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5 hours ago, Bonhoff said:

 

TBH - The Citroen seems to be on a new set of wheels and tyres, an episode of "Wheeler Dealers" revealed that you can get a conversion kit to install a Ford Pinto lump so perhaps it's a "Sleeper"? 

 

I like it.

 

I'd be tempted to agree with you about it being a sleeper, or at least a WIP towards being a sleeper. As well as the wider than standard wheels, that exhaust coming out from below the front bumper looks suspsciously new and wide bore for an original H-Van spec.

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31 minutes ago, klubman01 said:

The bonnet boot badges suggests that it is a Mk3 Cooper S. ........A 1965 Mk1 (admittedly more desirable) Austin Cooper

 

I did notice that, but thought it unlikely someone would leave a genuine Cooper on the road like that - it's not like MInis are difficult to steal!

 

I've seen race and rally prepared Mk1 Coopers sell for £50K+.  I'd love a Swiftune motor for ours. Just don't have £20,000 for one, but I guess it partly explains the prices proper cars go for...!!  

 

K

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A profitable few days, my Sunday run to pick up the boy saw a VW possibly the same as reported recently, similar colour anyway, this time with a rego which had it as a 1967 1300. Also spotted was a 1955 Chev 3100 truck, well modded by the stance & wheels but original looking otherwise. Shows as having a 5967cc donk, a ring in for sure I reckon. :) Today saw a 1991 Mercedes G-wagen, rare like rocking horse poo in these parts, & a thing called a 1992 Falcon JBA a modern vintage sort of thing, possibly a kit car, & last, this thing. A 2004 Toyota Will Cypha. I've seen the odd one about & always assumed it came from the same styling studio as the Fiat Multipla so it was a surprise to find it was of Japanese origin. Hideous in anyone's language.

 

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14 hours ago, keefr22 said:

 

I did notice that, but thought it unlikely someone would leave a genuine Cooper on the road like that - it's not like MInis are difficult to steal!

 

I've seen race and rally prepared Mk1 Coopers sell for £50K+.  I'd love a Swiftune motor for ours. Just don't have £20,000 for one, but I guess it partly explains the prices proper cars go for...!!  

 

K

It’s a pooper-Cooper.

 

According to the DVLA GPK634K is a 1971 Austin 1000 so any cooper bits have been added to dress it up.  Mk3 “S”  with winders would be rarer than a rare thing.  Still i reckon it’s worth a bit as it stands.


A Cooper grill and Smk3 badge on the front almost guarantee it isn’t!

 

“When the Mk III S did finally appear it was a virtually indistinguishable from a Mini 1000, the only external clues being the twin petrol tanks, wheels and boot badge – all easily missed by the untrained eye. Gone was the different grille, two tone paint and different badging. “ 

“Because of the external similarity between the Mini 1000 and S the Mk III is one of the easier models to recreate”

 

When I had minis in the early 80s Coopers were things of myth so I’m very jaundiced about believing in any classic Coopers seen nowadays.  I only ever came across two owned by friends and colleagues, and as both cars were at least 15 years old were “one foot in the grave and the other on a bar of soap”.  One was a rallified 1275S, the other one of the really rare types  a 970(?) but hardly concours with orange brush painted bodywork, flip front, buckets, mahoosive rally lights and Rev 6x10s.  But it did shift.  I doubt either of these examples are still around.

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6 hours ago, stevehnz said:

A 2004 Toyota Will Cypha. I've seen the odd one about & always assumed it came from the same styling studio as the Fiat Multipla so it was a surprise to find it was of Japanese origin. Hideous in anyone's language.

My first reaction was a love child of a VW Polo and new Beetle.

 

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I don't think it's a MK III cooper s,  the 2nd gas tank is missing, ok I'm not real sure it was still standard on the MK III, and the front track seems a little bit too narrow for the disk brake system with 5x10 Revolution wheels.  And the badge...the MK III  had another one I think 

May be you will tell me I'm wrong,  but this would be ok for me...Sadly we don't have a pic of the binnacle

Marco F 

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@stevehnz The JBA Falcon is indeed a kitcar, a very popular one back in the day.  It even featured prominently in a popular TV drama series called "Chancer" back in the 1990s IIRC, about a low-colume specialist car manufacturer - the JBA Falcon Owners Club did pretty well out of it, I believe twenty-plus Falcons were used in the filming.  Great car though, quality design and build quality, it was still in production up to two or three years ago and there are still a large number around.

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3 minutes ago, Neddy said:

@stevehnz The JBA Falcon is indeed a kitcar, a very popular one back in the day.  It even featured prominently in a popular TV drama series called "Chancer" back in the 1990s IIRC, about a low-colume specialist car manufacturer - the JBA Falcon Owners Club did pretty well out of it, I believe twenty-plus Falcons were used in the filming.  Great car though, quality design and build quality, it was still in production up to two or three years ago and there are still a large number around.

Thanks Neddy, I may well have seen this or something like it around without knowing what it was, to me it looks like a junior Excaliber. I can imagine it'd be a lot of fun to own, though this one was being recovered onto the back of a truck. :(

Steve.

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Ye olde splitte windowe camper vanne loomed out of the foggy gloom on the way to work this morning.  By the real rust, crusty badges and tetanus bedecked roof rack and pop-riveted patches in likely grit spots, put-put exhaust, lethargic celerity and dim illumination apparently suitable by circa 1910 acetylene lamps fairly genuine 1966 rather than a pseudo patinated rat rod?

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7 minutes ago, malpaso said:

Ye olde splitte windowe camper vanne loomed out of the foggy gloom on the way to work this morning.  By the real rust, crusty badges and tetanus bedecked roof rack and pop-riveted patches in likely grit spots, put-put exhaust, lethargic celerity and dim illumination apparently suitable by circa 1910 acetylene lamps fairly genuine 1966 rather than a pseudo patinated rat rod?

On the way to work- you don't write copy for wine labels do you?

I enjoyed the description!

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47 minutes ago, Farmer matt said:

I think you will prefer this one though.

 

That's lovely!

 

I do wish that instead of models of the latest 'ultracars' a manufacturer would start giving us 1/24 models of machines like this. 

 

(and yes, I know why they don't !! :) )

 

Keith

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9 hours ago, Farmer matt said:

I think you will prefer this one though.

Love it! I especially like the period-appropriate aftermarket wing mirrors - but I'm not as enthusiastic about the (unnecessary) bonnet straps as I never had a problem with the bonnet lifting on mine (an A-series with moustaches instead of the full-width front bumper and very like that example except it was red and tan).

 

Maurice

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Not a car you see in Canada very often. I think this is the second one I've seen. 

 

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The Smart Roadster wasn't officially imported to Canada so to get one here, you have to wait until they're at least 15 years old from date of manufacture.

 

Carl

 

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In Great Yarmouth for work last week on a particularly wet and windy day,  so I was quite surprised to see these two parked up at the sea front. 

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Then of Friday I just pulled into a lay-by to have a quick cup of tea, when I just managed to take a snap of this. 

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Absolutely no idea if its a commercial available truck or a one off, but according to its MOT its a Rover 213! - Andy 

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Couple of spots over the last couple of days.

 

Marshalled on a test on LeJog yesterday and among the usual fare of Escorts, BMW 2002s and Volvo Amazons competing was a 1985 Rover 216!

 

Then today, as I headed out of my office in a suburb of Nottingham for lunch, a 1987 Nissan Sunny ZX Coupe.

 

Honestly can't remember the last time I saw any of either.

 

IanJ

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Roadside chod seen locally:-

The first is up for sale, its worse than it looks and appears to have had a quick cover up with a paint roller.

Needz some serios weldin skillz, yours for 1.5 bags M8.

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The second has been static for ages.

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M.

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The fastest way to get into your grave: Maserati Quattroporte Hearse!

Milan -Italy Dez.06.2022

 

 

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I was reminded of the movie harold & maude!

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greetings from Milan

 

Andreas

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Out & about today & first up was a Mk 2 Capri, four head lights, mid blue with black rear spoiler. Wasn't quick enough to get rego so don't know what power plant it had. Later was a 1937 Chev Pickup, with a well used look, quite handsome, last up was a 1969 VW Beetle, rego gave it 1500 & brown, 1500 it might have been, brown it wasn't. Looked like a fresh repaint in eyeball searing bright yellow. Won't be able to miss seeing that coming along. 😮 

Steve. 

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