Pictures of old or rare vehicles

[truckdoctor]

early beetles seem to be fetching good money, but not many are customised they all seem to be very restored or rat look.

I like the window and the tyres best

 

[truckdoctor]

Arctic explorer

 

[Exuptoy]

Some cruel ones in here! The guy in the Kadett seems to love taking out the furniture!

The sound of that S2 Quattro though at 2:40! Love it.

 

[stuvy]

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I watched a brilliant programme about that on bbc4 a while back

 

[Exuptoy]

Forgot I had this pic.

Working offshore in 2015 talking in the workshop with one of the Shell engineers and a guy who specialised in turbines and compressors, we got talking about cars and projects. I said I had the mini and the T2 Bay at the time, the Shell engineer Ted said he had a Renault 5, a restored Renault 5 Turbo and a Citroen 2CV which was his fav. The turbine guy says I’ve only got the one..........he top trumped us all!

He’d paid £12.5k for it when his house was only £36k (many years back I’d assume) and a further £12.5k for the engine build! I asked him what it was worth these days? £150k, £180k? He said he’d been offered £400k for it!
Had even lent it to his mate to take it round Donnington I think it was and loaned it to a mate as a wedding car! Reckoned it was better than money in the bank!

 

[moose]

Fairthorpe Rockette, (Library picture) Had a Triumph Vitesse 6cylinder 1600cc engine. Owned by a friend, I think he said it it was only 2 of 5 with the three headlight bonnet, is putting triple SU's he did start complete nut and bolt rebuild but motor bikes got in the way. Believe he also had all the body moulds, when the company closed down.

Bond Equipe GT4S 1300, library picture Mine was black nicknamed the black monster it had a Spitfire MK3 1300, that a certain Company in Oxford, Oselli made to stage 3 race tuned, it had more power at the back wheels than a standard 2lt 6 cylinder Triumph Viteese, The list of the conversions to my car went over two pages of fullscape paper.

I am confused found this picture of a Bond Equipe GT4S Convertable, I bought what I thought was the only one ever converted from the person who made it, so to find this picture with foreign plates. I bought it in parts and i the end I broke it up as it was so badly damaged.

Bond Equipe 2lt Convertible Library picture I still have mine, but not been on the road for 17 years, mine has the 6 cylinder 2.500 engine on carbs, but the car used to be raced, still has the roll bar, was raced with a injected 2.500

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Library picture. Not sure if I have put a picture of another car I have a Glenfrome Portway awaiting rebuild.


I have already put pictures of my 6x6 Scottorn Range Rover,

Narrowboat Daisybob my home for the last 20 years, travelling into London for a boat festival with a friend

 

[moose]

Sorry the Glenfrome is 6 door and the 6x6 is my Scottorn playing in the mud, at Billing Aquadrome

 

[mr haynes]

Given the Fairthorpe above thought i'd better post the Ashley i had from the same genre

 

[Farside]

Forgot I had this pic.

Working offshore in 2015 talking in the workshop with one of the Shell engineers and a guy who specialised in turbines and compressors, we got talking about cars and projects. I said I had the mini and the T2 Bay at the time, the Shell engineer Ted said he had a Renault 5, a restored Renault 5 Turbo and a Citroen 2CV which was his fav. The turbine guy says I’ve only got the one..........he top trumped us all!

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He’d paid £12.5k for it when his house was only £36k (many years back I’d assume) and a further £12.5k for the engine build! I asked him what it was worth these days? £150k, £180k? He said he’d been offered £400k for it!
Had even lent it to his mate to take it round Donnington I think it was and loaned it to a mate as a wedding car! Reckoned it was better than money in the bank!

Bloke I knew, his father had one, paid about 7K. That was about 1983. As he said, he could have had something new that would rot and rust down the driveway, or buy that, with the reasonable expectation that it probably wouldn't depreciate any further. His son was a prick though; destroyed a Snap-On screwdriver of mine and never replaced it.

 

[Bullet2012]

ACL Rodeo! Plastic thing built in 1971 on a Renault 4 chassis and running gear. They made about 70,000 of them and I think this is the only Mk1 in the UK. I've had it more than 10 years and it's almost on the road. Just needs working on for a bit to finish it. It's supposed to have a full length canvas roof.

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never realised that was your avatar. Looks like a French Mini Moke. Very cool.

 

[stuvy]

Some seriously rare cars in this thread

I have one at work but can’t break its cover as it’s a full front cover and centre spread so sworn to secrecy as they have offered to help out if we give them the feature

 

[mr haynes]

Falcon Caribbean possible prototype. Had removable hardtop.
Built on Morris 8 chassis when 50's specials were all built on ford. Another that came and went...

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Old, 1975, rare, Ossa the least popular of the Spanish trials bikes, but I loved it, so much so i still have one.


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You coud just about lob a rock into @8ob ’s yard from where this was taken - Ash Ranges

My first bike was a canary yellow ossa gripper 350, weighed about as much as the forth bridge

 

[Mick Annick]

My first bike was a canary yellow ossa gripper 350, weighed about as much as the forth bridge

You must be a fair bit younger than me then!

 

[Tinbasherdan]

You must be a fair bit younger than me then!

31 bought it off a lad at school for 300 quid and had to re ring it within about 4 days. Put a set of rings in and sold it about 6 months later for 700 quid, lad wouldn’t talk to me, think him and his dad thought they’d done me over for 300 quid. I’d have another tomorrow, or was a fun old thing. Have got my eye on an Armstrong mt500 in a garage round the corner from me, I’ll catch the guy one day and see what’s happening

 

[johnny7]

1939 Austin K6-3 Tonner, It used to be round the corner from my road, Not seen it in ages though

Some pics from a vintage car show here in Sheffield..

 

[Mick Annick]

Ha, younger than both of my sons.

If you get the Armstrong and need any help with it PM me, our local roofer has six of them, and restores them as a sideline. Just before lockdown he did one for Charles Couthard, the former French champion.

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Ha, younger than both of my sons.

If you get the Armstrong and need any help with it PM me, our local roofer has six of them, and restores them as a sideline. Just before lockdown he did one for Charles Couthard, the former French champion.

Will do. I’d prefer an mt350 to be honest, Lille more useable but I’ve missed the days when those were cheap

 

[Matchless]

31 bought it off a lad at school for 300 quid and had to re ring it within about 4 days. Put a set of rings in and sold it about 6 months later for 700 quid, lad wouldn’t talk to me, think him and his dad thought they’d done me over for 300 quid. I’d have another tomorrow, or was a fun old thing. Have got my eye on an Armstrong mt500 in a garage round the corner from me, I’ll catch the guy one day and see what’s happening

Make sure you can start it!

 

[Matchless]

1972 Cessna F172M with a Lycoming 0320E2D, I bought it in the 80's and sold it in 2004 after my bike crash, took it to my old premises and resprayed it around 1999? cannot remember, it is still flying and based at Stapleford Essex, about 5 miles from my house, sorry for the poor pictures, scanner died!