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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby johnnyanglia » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:25 pm

I am trying to get my 57 Mk2 Ford Zodiac on the road for Summer :D
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby daveyboy » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:33 pm

Spotted these 3 beauties in the past week.

Beetle
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Ford Consul.
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby Lucky Poet » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:39 pm

Daveyboy, you are a magnet for old cars. Well spotted :D
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby daveyboy » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:41 pm

Doorstop wrote:Daveboy, I think you missed a Ford Escort at the bottom of my street .. apart from that you seem to have caught every other car in Scotland. :wink:
Haha where is it and I'll come and get it?
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby daveyboy » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:42 pm

Lucky Poet wrote:Daveyboy, you are a magnet for old cars. Well spotted :D
It was a bastard stopping the work van in the middle of the road to get a photo of the Consul.
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby BTJustice » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:47 pm

The purple beetle is a club members old car. He just sold it a few weeks ago.
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby daveyboy » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:48 pm

BTJustice wrote:The purple beetle is a club members old car. He just sold it a few weeks ago.
It's just 2 streets away from me!I spotted it last monday.
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby daveyboy » Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:37 pm

Spotted these 3 in Govan yesterday! An old Vespa,Ford Granada (when did you last see one) and a Bentley.

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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby BrigitDoon » Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:31 am

daveyboy wrote:Ford Granada (when did you last see one)

They're a bit thinly spread these days, though they do have an enthusiastic following. The one you've captured is a later Mk2. There were front grille and tail-light revisions similar to the MkV Cortina sometime around '81.

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Earlier Mk2 Granada 2.3L. A friend had the estate version of this and we used to go to football matches in it. We used to load it up with all the kit and footballs and I used to ride shotgun. The guy used to hang the tail out 'round every corner with a deft touch for an alternative take on hedge-trimming. He traded it later for a shiny late-model 2.8 Ghia which was not subjected to such abuse.
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby engineer » Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:53 am

daveyboy wrote:
Lucky Poet wrote:Daveyboy, you are a magnet for old cars. Well spotted :D
It was a bastard stopping the work van in the middle of the road to get a photo of the Consul.


i seen a consul yesterday, with a DIY paint job. had 'V8 CONSUL' in black on the white rear wing, and an orange bonnet
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby daveyboy » Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:49 pm

I have spent the day working at Cumbernauld airport and spotted these.

Bedford Tanker.
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The nose of an Opel Manta.
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And 2 strange Ambulances (Known as a Jumbulance)

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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby BTJustice » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:04 pm

I have been trying to scan in some of my dads slides and came across a few of his old (was brand new in the pics) Cortina.
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And one with My Mum;
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby BrigitDoon » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:07 pm

That Mk II was registered in Bristol, I believe.

I remember our biology teacher owning one in the mid-80's. It was rather scruffy. In fact, it was a heap, and the butt of many a student's humour. One day the windscreen shattered as he was driving in. We teased him about his new air conditioning.

Continuing with the Ford theme, a friend of mine owned this XR4i back in the 90s.

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It was written off in an accident. Fortunately neither he nor his girlfriend were seriously hurt.

Another friend owned one and used to give me a lift into work. I remember it with fondness. A far nicer machine than the Capri in my opinion.
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby daveyboy » Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:54 pm

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Continuing with the blue ovals.Spotted not 3 hours ago in Falkirk was this mint MK V Cortina.
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Re: Old Cars etc Spotted

Postby roy » Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:01 pm

heres a daimler that i was sent to pick up a couple of weeks ago
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