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Post by adrianmay on Feb 15, 2013 1:53:06 GMT
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Post by dit on Feb 15, 2013 12:00:25 GMT
Oh, that's a lovely car, AM!
Part of me would love to be in the position whereby I could just casually think, "OK, I love driving my beautiful car, but now I'm going to just casually leave it here", rather than, "I am driving a quarter of a million pound car here so I have to be really, really careful, right? Mustn't scrape it, must keep it safe, must worry about it....."
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Post by amie8 on Feb 15, 2013 18:57:15 GMT
I kid myself and other people that that's why I drive rubbish old cars.
And it's a well-known fact that Bentley owners can't park (see Top Gear out-takes, passim)
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Post by adrianmay on Feb 21, 2013 0:34:54 GMT
Apparently, the place to go for Bentley's new and old is the bus stop. A Grandpa was picking one of the kids up today in this (excuse quality, taken surreptitiously, awkward) 2012 Flying Spur  And they drove off in the same direction as we did thus  I can't ID this, no emblem on it, just thought it interesting. Guesses?    |
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Post by xjsarah on Feb 21, 2013 0:39:42 GMT
The red car is a DeLorean. There should have been a 'DMC' logo in the space between the two rear light clusters. A very cool sighting indeed!  |
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Post by adrianmay on Feb 21, 2013 0:46:12 GMT
Is it? I've never seen one in red, only silver. It looked like it needed a wash though and no flux capacitor. ;D
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Post by xjsarah on Feb 21, 2013 0:49:33 GMT
Yes, it's definitely a DeLorean. I identified it with help from my OH. Plenty of images on Google as well.  |
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Post by adrianmay on Feb 21, 2013 0:57:02 GMT
Yes, it's definitely a DeLorean. I identified it with help from my OH. Plenty of images on Google as well. Hee, hee. Looking up cars for me (the clueless) on google images is always like looking up a word in the dictionary you can't spell at all. Where do you start? psoriasis, tsunami etc ;D |
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Post by xjsarah on Feb 21, 2013 1:04:48 GMT
LOL!! I meant that your looking at Google Images would confirm my identification of the car. I know it's difficult when you don't know where to start. Been there myself. Also, it must be said that neither of those two words you cited are English, so I reckon you could be forgiven if you couldn't spell them!  ;D |
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Post by amie8 on Feb 21, 2013 1:05:17 GMT
Try "red car". See how far you get
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Post by adrianmay on Feb 21, 2013 6:21:51 GMT
OK just being silly now, I "spotted" this one in my husband's photo album. His grandmother and a 1962 Ford Anglia 105E. Yes, the Harry Potter Car ;D I was surprised to read they were sold in the US. An article I read said only the deluxe models were sold here and had a base price of $1600.  |
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Post by ladylurker on Feb 21, 2013 8:40:54 GMT
My granddad had a pale green Anglia once. I can't remember the car itself, but I remember him speaking very fondly of it. Love the DeLorean also, very cool. But it really needs a flux capacitor. ;D (I'm a little bit proud I actually recognised it.  ) |
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Post by amie8 on Feb 22, 2013 1:32:10 GMT
We had an old Ford Anglia when I was very young, and my older brother's first car was also an Anglia.
The Deluxe model, eh? That must've been the one with the ashtray
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Post by rx7 on Feb 22, 2013 22:12:00 GMT
Wow, a red one! My brother saw one all pimped out to look like the time machine when he was driving from home to New York where he was stationed. I saw a silver one minus the time machine parts locally once.
There is a place out in California where you can actually order a flux capacitor....can't remember the name of it though.
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Post by adrianmay on Mar 25, 2013 0:06:08 GMT
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Post by amie8 on Mar 25, 2013 22:27:47 GMT
Belongs to a dog that doesn't require much headroom probably.
Can't say I'm a big fan of flamboyant spoilers. Had an after market jobby affixed to my BMW. It served no useful purpose, but to over-weight the boot lid so it fell on my head whenever I let go of it.
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Post by adrianmay on Mar 26, 2013 1:30:18 GMT
Belongs to a dog that doesn't require much headroom probably. Can't say I'm a big fan of flamboyant spoilers. Had an after market jobby affixed to my BMW. It served no useful purpose, but to over-weight the boot lid so it fell on my head whenever I let go of it. I'm not normally impressed by additional bling on a car, but I thought this one had some thought put into it and a bit of style as a piece on it's own. Hee, hee did you really have a spoiler put on your BMW or did you buy it that way from a previous owner? You incorrigible youth, you. ;D |
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Post by amie8 on Mar 26, 2013 20:46:46 GMT
Belongs to a dog that doesn't require much headroom probably. Can't say I'm a big fan of flamboyant spoilers. Had an after market jobby affixed to my BMW. It served no useful purpose, but to over-weight the boot lid so it fell on my head whenever I let go of it. I'm not normally impressed by additional bling on a car, but I thought this one had some thought put into it and a bit of style as a piece on it's own. Hee, hee did you really have a spoiler put on your BMW or did you buy it that way from a previous owner? You incorrigible youth, you. ;D It was already on the car when I bought it. It was the most basic 320i and the only extras on it were the M3 spoiler and some fancy-ass wheels. You could tell it had been originally ordered by a bloke. A woman would have chosen carpets and aircon or leather seats as extras - home comforts - instead of look-how-big-it-is bling. |
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Post by adrianmay on Mar 28, 2013 21:47:22 GMT
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Post by ladylurker on Mar 28, 2013 21:58:14 GMT
Your mum collected Corvettes? Wow. Mine painted flowery motifs on porcelain plates. ;D  |
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Post by adrianmay on Mar 28, 2013 22:06:24 GMT
I'm not normally impressed by additional bling on a car, but I thought this one had some thought put into it and a bit of style as a piece on it's own. Hee, hee did you really have a spoiler put on your BMW or did you buy it that way from a previous owner? You incorrigible youth, you. ;D It was already on the car when I bought it. It was the most basic 320i and the only extras on it were the M3 spoiler and some fancy-ass wheels. You could tell it had been originally ordered by a bloke. A woman would have chosen carpets and aircon or leather seats as extras - home comforts - instead of look-how-big-it-is bling. I'm with you on AC and leather. In my mind, they are standard features and non-negotiable. Exterior bling isn't going to anything for me when I'm sitting in traffic with the cloth seat absorbing my sweat as I suck in diesel truck fumes from the window being down. |
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Post by adrianmay on Mar 28, 2013 22:27:09 GMT
Your mum collected Corvettes? Wow. Mine painted flowery motifs on porcelain plates. ;D Haa, haa. ;D They were less expensive than what she really wanted, Jaguars. Mostly, they were bought to trade-up for the next one. If she particularly liked one, it stayed. When she got older and moved to California, she sold them off except for one. The last one in her collection, a 68 coupe V8, was totaled by my father 13 years ago. Moral of the story: Never let men touch your toys. They have no idea what they are doing. That advice could apply to many situations |
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Post by jmsquared on Mar 28, 2013 22:49:54 GMT
I think I would have liked your Mum.
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Post by FizzyLogician on Mar 28, 2013 23:50:10 GMT
I think I would have liked your Mum. Me too. And I've never even heard of a Calloway Corvette. |
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Post by ladylurker on Mar 29, 2013 0:22:14 GMT
I think I would have liked your Mum. I second third this. |
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Post by adrianmay on Mar 29, 2013 7:01:08 GMT
I think I would have liked your Mum. Me too. And I've never even heard of a Calloway Corvette. I think I would have liked your Mum. I second third this. Pretty much everyone did. Sentimental digression here. Some of my strongest memories of my mother are in regards to her cars. She didn't just buy them and store them away, she used them as everyday commuting cars regardless of the weather. In summer, old corvette's are prone to vapor lock and in winter, regardless if they were posi-track, they really slide around on the snow and have very low clearance. It didn't matter to her. They were her cars and she did a lot of the work on them herself. Amusingly, she had a corporate job so each day she'd drive into work in full suit jacket, skirt, high heals, gold watch and jewelry, with nails perfectly painted. If the car broke down you'd find her on the side of the road with the hood up and tools in hand still perfectly quaffed fixing the car herself. She knew each car and all it's quirks very well. BTW those t-tops leaked horribly. I also remember lipstick stained tissues stuffed in the cracks to keep the rain from plopping on my head on the drive to school.  |
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Post by jmsquared on Mar 29, 2013 9:43:44 GMT
How absolutely wonderful. What a woman!
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Post by Wyvern on Mar 31, 2013 0:25:40 GMT
I often see spectacular exotics wandering around near here - I live in Footballist country, and the main road joins a motorway into London. Even so, today's sightings were good - a black Nissan GTR, a beautiful white Audi R8 Spyder and then - my very first 'in the wild' sighting - an orange McLaren MP4-12C, which made a gorgeous noise and looked so much better on the road than the it did at the car shows where I've seen it exhibited |
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Post by Wyvern on Apr 14, 2013 1:54:16 GMT
And... coming out of London yesterday, I saw my first truly wild Lamborghini Aventador opposite Harrods It was that red-orange that seems to be the car's signature colour. (I have seen - and heard - one on the road before, but that was driving away from Top Gear Live last year, so it doesn't completely count) |
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Post by Vivienne on Apr 14, 2013 13:28:50 GMT
I saw a Subaru BRZ I believe. I was behind it as always happen so I didn't get to see the whole car but it was a beautiful shade of blue.
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