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I saw this classic JCB still earning it's keep (is there such a thing as a classic JCB? )



And this Triumph Vitesse:

I guess the Vitesse's owner is expecting snow?

Following me through Maidstone yesterday afternoon - a Renault Fuego (B331LPF)

Not that old maybe, but when did you last see one?

Beejay

Whw I needed a gearbox for a Europa must have been 10years ago in a scrappy on Dartmoor.

A Fuégo? On Thursday, in the car park at work. It's beige and it's not the hemi-headed version, having instead the 1397cc "Sierra" engine, but it's never had its shell welded and shouldn't need any if the amount of Ensis fluid that the owner has thrown at it since it was new in 1983 is any indication.
It was funny to see a couple of young folk trying to load a filing cabinet into the boot without smashing that huge and probably quite expensive glass bubble hatch.

Alan, are you on holiday in Grangemouth or did the JCB belong to a visitor to your Island?
I can understand people travelling 400 miles in cars, but it must have taken some stamina to do it on a JCB!

JPB wrote:Alan, are you on holiday in Grangemouth or did the JCB belong to a visitor to your Island?
I can understand people travelling 400 miles in cars, but it must have taken some stamina to do it on a JCB!

Glad you noticed that John, I was pretty amazed to see how far it had travelled too, a bit ironic as now all it appear to do is move in a radius of 30', nice to see professional signwriting like that - such a dying art.

JPB wrote: A Fuégo? On Thursday, in the car park at work. It's beige and it's not the hemi-headed version, having instead the 1397cc "Sierra" engine, but it's never had its shell welded and shouldn't need any if the amount of Ensis fluid that the owner has thrown at it since it was new in 1983 is any indication.
It was funny to see a couple of young folk trying to load a filing cabinet into the boot without smashing that huge and probably quite expensive glass bubble hatch.

Yeah there is one of those local to me here, here it is (an old picture):

Nice! I've noticed that older Renaults seem either to have rotted away completely, or to survive in near perfect condition, there doesn't appear to be the proliferation of slightly rusty examples that you'd see of, for example, older Fords.
Maybe this suggests that Renaults rust where you can't see it and by the time you can, it's too late, so many are scrapped when owners get repair estimates?

Today's spots (so far) have been a very shiny Peugeot 404 saloon which looked like an A60 from a distance - no surprise there as Farina drew the basic shape that formed the basis of both - but demonstrated that it wasn't one by blasting past me on a stretch of twisty B road and gripping like s**t to a blanket as its driver threw it around a bend whose surface is still badly holed from the winter of two years ago.
The other spot so far was an equally shiny, early '60s Consul Capri with rock and roll blasting from its radio.

Nice Ferrari ragtop yesterday....cool number....X55FER.

Spose it must have been a 355 then....sounded lovely too.

Jonners

Red Rover 827 SLi - cross spoke alloys and a period body kit - A1 heading south

I'm sure its someones taste.......but not mine ......Hideous

Triumph Herald convertable, dark red. Waves exchanged whilst I was sat at the lights in the Track Sprint.

passed a de-lorean yesterday morn going oppsite way .....first time iv'e seen one outside universal

I'd like to compress "Today's top spot " into the weekend's top spots.
Starting with Saturday's ....a nice Olive Green Mark 3 Cortina " Consul" and a White convertible Stag in a loose convoy with me on the A323, and today a blue MGBGT, and an original " B" reg Mini Cooper in green. But I think the nomination for the Top-spot was the nice Riley Elf in the local supermarket. I've always like the specialist Minis of the 60's. I think its the sunny weather that brings them out.

It could be the weather, but it's equally likely - in the case of the post-'73 cars - to be the first day that they're "taxed" after the winter. This would certainly seem to apply to the even greater number of post-'73 and earlier, but non-VED exempt vehicles (old buses that are still working) I've seen around today.

I cannot claim this one as spotted by me, as it comes from New Zealand! A work colleague of my Wife's has just returned from holiday there, and know I am a fan of all things Triumph kindly took this picture for me.



What a nice lady eh?

Today I got waved at by an MG owner!!

triumphjon wrote:spotted a two door tolly in valencia blue with white roof , parked on the approach road to langston harbour @ portsmouth , 1jon

That would be this one: