Have You Seen Any Interesting Cars On The Road Lately?

[C43AMG]

Maybe that's where he's been, just driving round Bury st Edmunds

 

[del320]

A rare, interesting, and well-used motor car with a very long name...



Outside M&S Galashiels.

 

[Swotty]

A rare, interesting, and well-used motor car with a very long name...

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Outside M&S Galashiels.

Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346?

 

[Mickw212]

Scirocco convertible MK1 in met green last night.

We have a camp site near us very popular with VW crowd, usually the campers but this week end its Scirocco`s & i`d never seen a convertible mk1. Possibly Crayford??? Or Vdubs own?

 

[SpikyMikey]

Scirocco convertible MK1 in met green last night.

We have a camp site near us View attachment 130911 very popular with VW crowd, usually the campers but this week end its Scirocco`s & i`d never seen a convertible mk1. Possibly Crayford??? Or Vdubs own?

A quick noodle around the World Wide Wobble yields this:
Rare 'Rocco cabriolet - Heritage Parts Centre

 

[Darrell]

Scirocco convertible MK1 in met green last night.

We have a camp site near us View attachment 130911 very popular with VW crowd, usually the campers but this week end its Scirocco`s & i`d never seen a convertible mk1. Possibly Crayford??? Or Vdubs own?

Great spot and a lovely looking car. I wonder what it’s like with the roof up though.

 

[Teego]

Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346?

My father bought one. Crock o Shite. But he didn't know anything about machines.

 

[del320]

Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346?

Close, but no cigar!
Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire! c.903 made - lower bonnet line, suicide doors and external hinges removed, 4 litre producing 165 bhp. Produced 1958 - 60. At £2646, just one down from a Bentley S1.

 

[Swotty]

Close, but no cigar!
Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire! c.903 made - lower bonnet line, suicide doors and external hinges removed, 4 litre producing 165 bhp. Produced 1958 - 60. At £2646, just one down from a Bentley S1.

Bugger - the expensive one! I very nearly bought a 346 from a chap going back to the UK. He wanted €8k but it wasn't worth that, needing some bodywork, interior and at least one oil leak. I offered €5k but he refused. I was told he later sold it to a French chap for €5k. The car appears occasionally at the monthly Bergerac Classic Car Show but he hasn't done the manky bodywork, interior nor the oil leaks. C'est la vie.

I dream of a Star Sapphire but they're too rare and expensive now.

 

[Williamwoo]

Seen at a local car show last weekend. It's apparently based on, of all things, a Citroen BX.

 

[Mickw212]

Talbot Alpine in cream & rust ...yuk. but at least some one is keeping it going

 

[grober]

A rare, interesting, and well-used motor car with a very long name...

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Outside M&S Galashiels.

Notable for its SPHINX bonnet emblem signifying "silence"

like Rolls Royce they also made jet engines.

 

[ChrisHGTV]

Didn't get a piccy unfortunately but the son in law of one of my folks neighbours has a rather lovely Austin 7 Ulster (an original one, not a replica). Looks a bit like this (this one is a replica though)



He's only in his 30's but i can see the attraction of having something like the Ulster over say some modern hot hatch thing. The piccy above makes it look bigger than it is actually.

 

[davymead]

Know the car, but. The sphinx signifying ‘silence’. Great bit of knowledge thanks.

 

[Darrell]

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Seen at a local car show last weekend. It's apparently based on, of all things, a Citroen BX.

Is that an Andy Saunders creation?

 

[A.J.]

I havn't actually seen this car in the flesh but I thought what an interesting concept car it was.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Notable for its SPHINX bonnet emblem signifying "silence"

As in "no matter how many times I turn this starting handle, it still won't fire?"

Here's a comparo to the Bentley

How the other half lived: Bentley MkVI vs Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire 346 | Classic & Sports Car

My memory of it is as a company owner's car, or the sort of thing that that surgeon played by James Robertson-Justice in "Doctor in the House" would have driven. The sort of chap who earns his own living but wants something different to a jaguar MkVIII

 

[Darrell]

I havn't actually seen this car in the flesh but I thought what an interesting concept car it was.

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I’ve this and similar floating about on Facebook recently.

 

[ChrisHGTV]

I’ve this and similar floating about on Facebook recently.

Same here. I quite like it apart from the wheels. Minilights might look better. My dad had an 1800 - i think they used a detuned MG engine? My Dad's replaced his Radford Mini Cooper S with a Works spec engine when i came along. Im not sure he's totally forgiven me to be honest!

 

[Williamwoo]

Is that an Andy Saunders creation?

No idea, sorry. I do however know that the current owner is having issues with getting the hydraulic suspension to work properly, the car now weighing rather more than it originally did!