spunkymonkey
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Post by spunkymonkey on Jun 2, 2010 20:48:16 GMT
Decided (after my sightings today) that it's time the DOC forum had a "spotted" thread for interesting cars seen out & about. Personally, I don't seem to manage many sightings but this afternoon the quality more than made up for small quantity. I got to Llandudno for some wiring bits for our trailer and, while I was parking, this drove in and parked outside Halfrauds: Now, that's not a bad spot in anyone's book. But then, having done my shopping, something had changed: Yep, two blown Bentley's in the same car park on the same day (though not quite the same time sadly). The second one was joined by a rather nice Healey (proper one, not badge-engineered BL thing): and a Triumph that almost matched Sheila for sheer class: My shopping trip ended up taking (slightly) longer than I'd expected!
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33grinder
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Post by 33grinder on Jun 2, 2010 21:41:58 GMT
Lovely motors and lucky you for being in the right place at the right time! Good idea for a thread. Perhaps Mr. B might want to put a sticky on it.
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spunkymonkey
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Post by spunkymonkey on Jun 2, 2010 21:57:12 GMT
The scary bit with the red Bently is it's a 1923 3 litre, supercharged (unique for 3 litre apparently). The standard 3 litre gave 70HP and a top speed of 80 so a supercharged one is going to be rapid. But it only has (mechanically operated) brakes on the rear wheels - basically what we'd call a handbrake today.
So that's 1800kg or so of car (think 3 Dafs give or take) doing 80+mph and only a handbrake (in today's terms) to stop it. Yoiks!
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Post by 33grinder on Jan 24, 2011 1:01:54 GMT
I cannot believe that nobody has spotted a classic car on their travels (DAFs excepted of course) since June, so I thought I'd give this thread a bump. Here's a Reliant Scimitar GTE I spotted in the car park of my local hardward purveyors. What a lovely shade of seventies beige. I wonder whether any royal posteriors have rested on those chocolate velour seats? If it's good enough for Princess Anne then it's good enough for me!
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Post by Patrick on Jan 24, 2011 9:25:26 GMT
I lived next to a Mitsubishi Garage in the early nineties - they were also a Reliant dealer and it was around then that the company Middlebridge tried to resurrect the Scimitar with a 2.9 Sierra lump in. The garage had one in their showroom for a while and it was rather lovely in a sort of "Metaflake" cream/beige combination (if you see what I mean). "Pearlescent" is another way of describing it. They are a good timeless design though really.
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Jan 24, 2011 17:51:25 GMT
A middlebridge Scimitar liver 150yards up the road from me.
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