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A few weeks ago, an old Lincoln or Pontiac (I think) coupé on a transporter on the M25 going clockwise near Heathrow and (a couple of weeks apart) at the same spot (A24 Leatherhead Bypass, passing the turnoff for Headley Court) an Ariel Atom and a BMW M1. Also spotted lately some 4 Triumph Stags, three Rover P6s (one of which belongs to the Met and is armoured and was used to transport Mrs Thatcher - they also had a Mk10 Jag, another P6, and two SD1s at a show at Brooklands), two or three Rover P5s, three Morris Minors (one saloon - bright purple - the owner is known to me - and two powder blue examples, a Traveller and a convertible), several Jag E-types, an XK120 (with an E-type in central Woodstock), an Aston Martin DB6 Volante on the M25 near Godstone, going clockwise, an Austin Seven, regular sightings of a C-reg Rover SD1 next to Waitrose car park in Cobham, Surrey, with Rangey 4L V8 and BMW Orient Blue respray, looks very nice, a MkII Jag and a Porsche 928 at a small secondhand dealer in Hertfordshire, a 944 parked in Leatherhead, hordes of 911s at Blenheim Palace recently (I was there for a very different reason and, in any case, have a deep hatred of all Porsches except the front-engined ones), a Singer Vogue/Humber Sceptre Mk1 at the Givons Grove roundabout on the A24, having come up from the Dorking direction, two Jag XJSs (one coupé, one convertible), a Lamborghini Countach, two MG Midgets (one an Austin-Healey badged example which lives round the corner from me), numerous MGBs, a MkI and a MkIII Cortina, a MkII Capri, the odd VW Karmann Ghia, a few Range Rover Classics, the odd old Land Rover, an BMW E23 7-series, a Studebaker Hawk coupé, a Bristol 411, several Alvis TD21s, a TE21, (all the Alvises, the Studebaker, the Bristol and the Morris Traveller all parked in a street near Guildford College, which I attended, and the other two Morrises and the Austin 7 at the college itself). I think I might have seen a BMW 2002 recently, too. I've also seen the odd Citroen DS and SM in recent months, plus a couple of Triumph Heralds (one lives round the corner from me, a few doors down from the Austin-Healey Midget or whatever it is - this Herald is thoroughly rotten and shares space outside this house with an MG TC or similar). The other Midget I've seen shares a street with a white Daimler DS420. Oh, does an Audi R8 or some kind of 1990s Ferrari count? I'm pretty sure a late-model Mini doesn't... I've also seen at least four Merc W123s, two 2-doors, a 4-door and an estate. The 4-door was also spotted at the same Waitrose as the SD1, along with a Mk4 Cortina estate... Satisfied yet? I'm not sure if I've got everything, but it's all I can remember just now. Oh, and three BMW E39 Tourings - one in the very rare Toledo Blue, two in the less rare but still not common Oxford Green (one, curiously, on the Woodstock Road in Oxford! The other doesn't really count as it belongs to my parents). Right, I think that's it. Unless anything I saw on recent visits to Mercedes-Benz world counts, which means a Pagoda, three 300SLs, a 600 Pullman, a standard 600, a 450SEL, and others...
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You have left us nothing Sir.
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He's saved them up for weeks, but is clearly a true car bore, one of us, even if he did take notes.
I see this thread as something you do as and when, like radio when you are being a freelance hack. Radio people love immediacy, and so do we car bores. It's a thrill to be told of that Model T chuffing through Kentish town, or that Ferrari whooping and stuttering through the Glens... .
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Lud, there was no note-taking, those were all straight from memory. I also saw an impromptu gathering a little while ago at Sissinghurst in Kent (National Rust) of various cars on the Austrian register, mostly 1920s-30s - two old Lagondas, possibly a W. O. Bentley, an old AC, plus a pair of LHD E-types (silver convertible, red coupé). Again, all from memory.
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no note-taking
As I said, one of us. Mind like an abandoned classic car dealership...
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