Rare cars you dont see anymore,

[procta]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Sierra-1-...1c50cc62d9 my plans of getting the Sierra back on the road have gone out the window, hopefully it'll go to a good home,

worth more than a 100 quid that fella!

[fgrc76]

There is a reserve on it which it won't reach, but we'll see what the highest bidder offers n go from there

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As you can see it's been on for less than a hour, and someone has put in a bid already

[Pete]

Drive past this regular as the owner works 2 mins down the road from my house. First time I've managed to get a pic, its a TD aswell

[procta]

looks like a very late registered one if I am right?

[Pete]

Guess its one of the last ones, guys had it for years in good nick aswell!

[procta]

I wonder how many are still a live

[Poodle]

Drive past this regular as the owner works 2 mins down the road from my house. First time I've managed to get a pic, its a TD aswell

That looks great, i want a 505 in my life... Look like it's rallied too, what a hero.

[306carter]

Not exactlythr oldest most rare car but I saw a K reg Cavalier on the A180 near Grimsby last week. It had taxi plates on! Would love to know what miles were on it.

[procta]

Not exactlythr oldest most rare car but I saw a K reg Cavalier on the A180 near Grimsby last week. It had taxi plates on! Would love to know what miles were on it.

be mad if that's still in service! I recon it would have gone well around the clock a good few times! be like half a million miles!

[MisterGTR]

Coming back from lake Windermere I saw what looked like a minted white 309gti with red white and blue sticker on grill.

[Jimmy306uk]

Always get gems at our work haha

[1616six]

Not exactlythr oldest most rare car but I saw a K reg Cavalier on the A180 near Grimsby last week. It had taxi plates on! Would love to know what miles were on it.

be mad if that's still in service! I recon it would have gone well around the clock a good few times! be like half a million miles!

I don't think it would still be in service, isn't there a maximum age for a hackney carriage? I know there is a maximum age to bring a new one into service, I'm assuming there must be a maximum age for one before it has to retire?

EDIT: A quick Google shows 'usually' a vehicle of no more than 3-5years old can be put into service, and once they are 7-8yrs IN service, they don't renew the taxi license.. 'usually' being the key word though.

[r3k1355]

Nah every panel is different to a standard escort. You can dress a replica so it looks ok to the layman but u can tell!

Nonsense, they look identical.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-Co...true&rt=nc

[Orta]

Nah every panel is different to a standard escort. You can dress a replica so it looks ok to the layman but u can tell!

Nonsense, they look identical.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-Co...true&rt=nc

 
With all due respect you can always tell. The cosworth was built on the sierra body frame, the car itself is bigger than a standard escort. Hence all different panels. Google it mate

[r3k1355]

or you could look at the link and get the joke in the first place????

[procta]

Nah every panel is different to a standard escort. You can dress a replica so it looks ok to the layman but u can tell!

Nonsense, they look identical.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-Co...true&rt=nc

 
With all due respect you can always tell. The cosworth was built on the sierra body frame, the car itself is bigger than a standard escort. Hence all different panels. Google it mate

I haven't seen a Escort cosworth tbh, so I wouldn't know,  I was told the floor pan is a sierra floor pan that was welded in to the shell. But the floors were known to rot due to the welding or something? 

Seen a citroen camper c15 today and a old Toyota corolla hatch back on a L plate.  

[procta]

past a hillman avenger today, very rare sight to see anything with the word Hillman!

[Seb_Ryan]

Seen a nissan bluebird today with some old guy driving it

[bigcheez2k3]

Saw a Lancia Delta, bright yellow, LHD in Knightsbridge tonight <3

I have no idea about them so not sure if it was an Integrale, there was a badge on the back that said Evolution.

[chylledapps]

These used to be all over the place, my old man had them as company cars

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/a...?logcode=p

[procta]

fuckin hell a ford Granada! now that's while since I saw one of those! my lecture had two of them years ago. One was a v6 cosworth one, which was pretty sporty.

[Uberderv]

Ain't seen a Renault 19 16v for ages. Lovely interior

[MisterGTR]

Ain't seen a Renault 19 16v for ages. Lovely interior

The other car I wanted as a teenager.

[Herby7]

Saw a Vauxhall Senator yesterday K reg on the M3

[chylledapps]

I did think that half 6 this morning was a tad early to have the roof down when it was only 5 degrees outside

[toseland]

Not exactlythr oldest most rare car but I saw a K reg Cavalier on the A180 near Grimsby last week. It had taxi plates on! Would love to know what miles were on it.

when i went to get the 306 from toms in ipswich, the guy drove up in an OOOOLD Volvo (1986) 240GL estate...   had been around the clock (6 figure one,) so had done over a million miles!

epic

[procta]

i cannot remember the last time i saw a Saab 900 convertible! Got to say the saab 900 turbo was a tasty bit of kit in the 90s!
The mk2 cav is proper rare! i read in a mag some years ago, that some of the bits for those are extinct! The cabby ones, the replacement hoods have to be made up! Its sad really as i think the mk2 cav is one of the lost Vauxhalls now of that era. The nova, the astra all seemed to have survived, but not the cav for some reason! It was a popular motor back in the early 90s!
here is a one at croft, a salon version.

[1616six]

Saw a Granada yesterday.

A guy in my village has two of the saabs pictured above, a blue and a red one.

Same guy also has a mk1 fiesta soft top which I've never seen before so not sure if it's had a chop.

Another chap has a K reg Orion with blue LED sidelights & a huge exhaust..

[chylledapps]

i cannot remember the last time i saw a Saab 900 convertible!  Got to say the saab 900 turbo was a tasty bit of kit in the 90s!
The mk2 cav is proper rare! i read in a mag some years ago, that some of the bits for those are extinct! The cabby ones, the replacement hoods have to be made up! Its sad really as i think the mk2 cav is one of the lost Vauxhalls now of that era. The nova, the astra all seemed to have survived, but not the cav for some reason! It was a popular motor back in the early 90s!
here is a one at croft, a salon version.

I had 3 Cavs, a B plate hatch (broke the cam), a saloon CDi on an E plate (rear suspension collapsed into the boot) and the cream of the crop an SRi 130, (Shropshire hedges and fields didn't agree with it, well the front end anyway)

[RetroPug]

This weekend I saw an absolutely mint condition baby blue mk1 escort that sounded absolutely fantastic.