Have You Seen Any Interesting Cars On The Road Lately?

[nyssa7]

@nyssa7​

Its nearly ten years too new to have them.....even if it has been registered as a Historic with the DVLA!! Even a rubbish traffic cop should spot that.
From the plate rules that were changed in 2021.

"Any vehicles constructed after 1 January 1980 are now not eligible to display the classic black and silver number plates despite being able to be recorded in the DVLA’s historic tax class if over 40 years old. Those vehicles with a construction date prior to 1 January 1980 will continue to be able to legally display black and silver number plates to avoid any undue costs of replacement.

Agreed, but given the prevalence of badly solved number plates that seem to go unchecked for eons, I doubt the SEC will stand out as “something that should be pulled” anywhere near as much

 

[baxlin]

Never owned one....but I was selling cars when they were current so delt with few...they may or may not have be reliable...but the build quality was rubbish compared to the competition...especially the interior....it never sold in volume. Funnily my neighbour has one in that colour.....he has owned it since before i moved here in 2004....no idea what engine it has though....Typical owner.....about 100 years old....buys everything British....no matter how crap it might be!

Certainly not a rust bucket…. The only bubbles on mine were from a reskinned rear door, damaged by a neighbour reversing into it.

Lets agree to disagree.

 

[ALFAitalia]

I never mentioned rust!!!

 

[Charliecloud]

Ultima Sports - Tonbridge car park - not sure it had a blue badge

 

[ChrisHGTV]

Ultima Sports - Tonbridge car park - not sure it had a blue badge

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I do like these - or Radicals, or even Ginettas. Id take one of these over a bloated Supercar any day.

 

[HappytalkAgain]

not sure it had a blue badge

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If not an BB holder, obviously too high & mighty to park in a standard bay.

 

[baxlin]

Ultima Sports - Tonbridge car park - not sure it had a blue badge

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ALLEDGEDLY (URBAN MYTH?)…this is one car that Clarkson and co wouldn’t take to their TG track, as they feared it would show up the ‘supercars’ costing 4 or 5 times as much. At one time one held the 0-100-0mph record.

 

[Darrell]

ALLEDGEDLY (URBAN MYTH?)…this is one car that Clarkson and co wouldn’t take to their TG track, as they feared it would show up the ‘supercars’ costing 4 or 5 times as much. At one time one held the 0-100-0mph record.

Don’t understand why they wouldn’t put it through its paces, it’s not like they owe anything to the supercar manufacturers.

It’s something I’d have thought Clarkson would actually love to do. Show up the big boys with a British car built in a shed by some old blokes in lab coats smoking a pipe.

 

[ChipChop]

Seafront business owner possibly. Sounded rather nice. Numberplate, well what else
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What a dogs dinner that is.

Who own Aston Martin nowadays? Stevie Wonder?

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I do like these - or Radicals, or even Ginettas. Id take one of these over a bloated Supercar any day.

The new Ginetta G10 has my attention at the moment. Factory visit soon to drive the development car. If it drives as well as it looks then it will be blooming wonderful.

 

[ToeKnee]

Show up the big boys with a British car built in a shed by some old blokes in lab coats smoking a pipe.

It's actually built/produced in a small factory unit behind Morrisons in Hinckley. The owner drives a Maserati with an "Ultima" reg plate although he is old, does wear a lab coat and probably smokes a pipe

 

[Darrell]

How cool is Ralph?

 

[Fastcar155]

Hi , not sure what is going in in the Worcester area but I have seen the following cars

3 X Jaguar E Type convertible

1 X Rover SD1

1 X 2000

2 X Rover 90 / 100

All the cars where being driven and looked in good condition.

 

[HappytalkAgain]

How cool is Ralph?
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I thought that was @Ted

 

[davymead]

A car I SO wanted to own as a young buck …..

 

[StMarks]

A car I SO wanted to own as a young buck …..

My first real girlfriend had exactly the same car, but in red.
In fact it was her car that gave me the angle to break through her "aloof & unapproachable" status that had long frustrated the intentions of me and my peers..: The A frame on the drivers side (well, both sides actually) rotted away where the door hinges attached. She opened her door one day and it simply came off !!
I was the "budding enthusiastic amateur mechanic" amongst our set, so was the one who got her safely back to her parents & offered to have a go at mending it for her.
I remember clearly driving it into the city to buy a new pair of A panels from the Motor factor, with no doors on it.

Different times eh...

 

[Darrell]

Get your sick bag out.

 

[SpikyMikey]

Get your sick bag out.
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Please tell me it's just my failing eyesight and that's not really the back end of a Ford Escort grafted on

 

[Williamwoo]

Get your sick bag out.
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The upper half (above the waistline) of the bronze one looks ok (well, if it lost what I assume is a roof spoiler), but the rest of it is horrid. Words fail me for the other one, but someone clearly went to a huge amount of effort in both cases. Sick bag indeed!

 

[davymead]

My first real girlfriend had exactly the same car, but in red.
In fact it was her car that gave me the angle to break through her "aloof & unapproachable" status that had long frustrated the intentions of me and my peers..: The A frame on the drivers side (well, both sides actually) rotted away where the door hinges attached. She opened her door one day and it simply came off !!
I was the "budding enthusiastic amateur mechanic" amongst our set, so was the one who got her safely back to her parents & offered to have a go at mending it for her.
I remember clearly driving it into the city to buy a new pair of A panels from the Motor factor, with no doors on it.

Different times eh...

Aren’t they ever.
Spotted one in the Exchange and Mart in Wimbledon in the early seventies, on arrival greeted by a cheery Australian who took myself and a mate on THE most terrifying ride around the borough to ‘show us what the car could do’. After the fifteen minute ordeal we both thanked him for his time but decided against the purchase, thinking the car may well expire on our way home had we bought it.