Have You Seen Any Interesting Cars On The Road Lately?

[Darrell]

Outside The Connaught this afternoon.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Corniche facelift, although Park Ward called it Corniche 2 at the time: a very rare thing.

240hp of throbbing K Jetronic power.

How crisp was it ? Are those white walls a good or bad sign?

 

[Darrell]

Outside The Connaught this afternoon.
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It was very clean. Wheels are off a Bentley I think.

 

[Darrell]

Outside my wife’s work.

 

[C43AMG]

Outside The Connaught this afternoon.
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Great Car.1977 No MOT History and it is showing Sorn.
Spent a few years waiting outside the Connaught, wonderful hotel.
It closed in 2007 for a £70 million restoration.

 

[Darrell]

Spent a few years waiting outside the Connaught

I spent a few years working there.

 

[C43AMG]

I spent a few years working there.

What dates ?

 

[Darrell]

What dates ?

Probably 84-86. The construction firm I did my apprenticeship with were doing the refurb there.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Great Car.1977 No MOT History and it is showing Sorn.
Spent a few years waiting outside the Connaught, wonderful hotel.
It closed in 2007 for a £70 million restoration.

Pre dates the requirement for MoT history.

Would “hope” it’s being driven on trade plates.

Might well be up for sale

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Might well be up for sale

Yep, yours for £70k methinks and on just 24k miles allegedly

1977 ROLLS-ROYCE CORNICHE FIXED HEAD COUPE ONLY 24K For S...

 

[Darrell]

Yep, yours for £70k methinks and on just 24k miles allegedly

1977 ROLLS-ROYCE CORNICHE FIXED HEAD COUPE ONLY 24K For S...

I pass Hexagon sometimes on one of my alternative rides home.

 

[Darrell]

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[Darrell]

I cycled past a Rover 200 cabrio this morning. Couldn’t take a photo but if it’s still there on my way home I’ll take some.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

No googling. Yours for £550.

A month.

 

[MCFastybloke]

Looks like Link&Co

 

[Darrell]

Looks like Link&Co

It’s an electric car from Sweden.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

It’s an electric car from Sweden.

Sure about that?

Not Sweden, but 路桥区

Not properly electric either ….

 

[Darrell]

Sure about that?

Not Sweden, but 路桥区

Not properly electric either ….

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Geeley.

In other words it’s a London Taxi in a pretty dress or is it a Volvo XC40 in a skirt?

 

[SmartAmg]

Geeley.

In other words it’s a London Taxi in a pretty dress

Bit like a Bentayga.

 

[Darrell]

Bit like a Bentayga.

Or a Cullinan.