keefr22 Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 2 hours ago, Farmer matt said: The problem cars like the Stinger face is they are caught between two worlds.They are off the radar of the company's core market, and nobody contemplating a Quattroporte or Giulia is going to look past the brand. It also doesn't help when they're pricing themselves in BMW/Audi territory - so most private 'buyers' for that class of car are unlikely to consider one either - even if they know it exists! I've always thought it's a really good looking car though. Keith 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FG2Si Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Saw this behemoth at work yesterday. I was surprised it was out as there was snow in the forecast. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six97s Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 On 19/03/2024 at 08:03, Farmer matt said: Just followed a Kia Stinger GT along the A25, probably only the third I've seen. Quite attractive in a deep metallic red, take the badges off it could have passed for somethimg more exotic. Matt Coincidentally, I saw a white Stinger GT S at Sainsbury's yesterday, 68 plate IIRC. No Kia badges though - all were the stylised 'E' logo, which threw me for a minute. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klubman01 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Spotted this morning on my way into town, a Buick Wildcat. Trevor 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six97s Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 2 hours ago, FG2Si said: Saw this behemoth at work yesterday. I was surprised it was out as there was snow in the forecast. Surely nobody could think those wheels suit it? 😑 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmer matt Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 With apologies for the strange angle, a snatched shot as it pulled away. 1958 Ford Fairlane 500. Matt 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six97s Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 (edited) 1 hour ago, Farmer matt said: With apologies for the strange angle, a snatched shot as it pulled away. 1958 Ford Fairlane 500. Matt Appears to be a Skyliner retractable too - rare bird. Edited March 20 by Six97s 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince1159 Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 5 hours ago, Six97s said: Surely nobody could think those wheels suit it? 😑 I can't think of anything ever built they'd suit,horrible with a H.... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six97s Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 15 hours ago, Vince1159 said: I can't think of anything ever built they'd suit,horrible with a H.... I just don't get the "huge wheel" mentality at all... ruins the proportions. Anything over 15" looks silly on most old cars. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Puff Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 9 hours ago, Six97s said: I just don't get the "huge wheel" mentality at all... ruins the proportions. Anything over 15" looks silly on most old cars. No accounting for taste, as the old lady said when she kissed the cow ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 Lovely dark metallic red 'mild custom' classic Beetle this morning, looked lovely in a rare bit of sunshine. Young lady driving it wasn't bad either....!! Keith 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 Sunshine brought a few more out today - lovely top down harvest gold MGB roadster, looked mint. Black R32 Skyline GTR - which fittingly enough for a Japanese classic was covered in cherry blossom petals! And on the way home from the school run a very nice BRG Aston DB7. And while waiting for grand-daughter to come out of school, what I think was a McLaren 720 in their purplish-blue colour. But not really that interested in things like that so it could have been a purplish-blue anything....!! Keith 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiny Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Would a virtually immaculate metallic grey low-spec N-reg Astra attract any interest? I'd have taken a photo, but the driver was sitting in it and so it seemed a bit rude to snap away. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windy37 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 18 hours ago, Spiny said: Would a virtually immaculate metallic grey low-spec N-reg Astra attract any interest? I'd have taken a photo, but the driver was sitting in it and so it seemed a bit rude to snap away. It would attract my interest Spiny. Everyday normal spec cars that have just faded away are of more interest to me than any over specced supercar . Mrs Windy used to have a red mid 90s Astra Merit when we first met . On my advice she soon removed the rear window "back flash " . Remember those !!! Gary. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiny Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 I do remember them, but for some strange reason they didn't do ones saying "Micra" and by the time I had the next car they were completely our of fashion. On the subject of 'normal' cars, there was a K-reg Citroen ZX around near work up until covid, but I haven't seen it since. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psdavidson Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 two Mk 2 Nissan Micras (Micrae?) within half a mile of each other Both lowered which just looked wrong Reckon they must have been related 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stef N. Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 A Lambourghini with a roof-rack on the A1 near Stevenage.😄 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klubman01 Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 This very tidy Forward Control Land-Rover was at Cambridge Services at lunchtime today. Trevor 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six97s Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 (edited) "I'd like some horrible wheels please" "I have just the thing Madam" Edited March 25 by Six97s 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 And yet they still don't detract from the ugliness of the car. What are they smoking behind the bikesheds at BMW? 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 On 23/03/2024 at 21:53, psdavidson said: two Mk 2 Nissan Micras (Micrae?) within half a mile of each other Both lowered which just looked wrong Reckon they must have been related Reminded me - I also saw a lowered one, in red, a couple of days ago. Distant cousin...?! 🤣 Keith 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwidave4 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 As I joined the Motorway this morning spotted white van man a ways ahead towing a trailer with what looked like a rag top sports car. Had to stick the Welly in it to catch up and was surprised to see that what I had initially guessed to be a TR4 was an immaculate off-white SP250 on chrome wires with a blue hood. Could not get a photo under the circumstances! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesa Jussila Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Couple of days I have seen Ford Transit Mk1 driven near home. I don't remember when I saw these last time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 19 hours ago, Six97s said: "I'd like some horrible wheels please" I quite like them..... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malpaso Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 On Sunday passed a TR7 whilst out cycling . On a trailer and it looked a real project. Probably it should have been in a body bag. Difficult to see where the metallic brown paint finished and the rust started. I can’t imagine it would have been worth restoring financially! I quite like the proper ones rather than ragtops, but this one was a real tetanus special. I’d mention the chromified V reg MGB that passed me twice, the backdate being the only thing worth mentioning about such things. the guy looked like he was having fun although should have been flogged for having the roof up! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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