Todays Spots in Colchester

[RetroMat]

campers:



and by far the most tastefull:

i don't think i've ever seen this shape Sunny estate before

NATO Belmont:

2cv

[RetroMat]

and best til last this little collection:

Renault 8 Gordini next to the 6 series?

saab and austin?:

[DarrenW]

Superb spotting!

[Ratdat]

retromicra said:

i don't think i've ever seen this shape Sunny estate before

I've got one virtually identical to that. Bought it off the 'bay near on two years ago for £75 and it's still going strong. When Mrs. Ratdat has finished using it to go to work in at the end of July I'm thinking if dropping in the 1.8 twink and box from a Sunny ZX as it's a bolt in job. And it just so happens I have a ZX sat in the shed. Mmmm sleeper ;D

I think they are quite a cool shape from the rear...

[arthurbrown]

Pathclear? I ain't wastin money on no stinkin' pathclear! Not when there's more tat to be hoarded!

[spottedlaurel]

Good pic's! That Sunny does look a clean one. Saw one of the earlier B11 (1982-86) models today, rarely seen nowadays.

You ever investigated that old Corolla in Colchester? In that big council estate near the bottom of Ipswich Road, guy also had an old BMW '02 of some sort. When I last saw it he had it parked on the road with now tax, looks like it had been there for a long time. Hope the Council didn't take it away..........

[Snoozin]

Those Sunny's (Sentra in our neck of the woods) make cool sleepers.... a chap who used to come into work often had one with an SR16VE (1600 Neo VVL variable valve timing motor) from a late model JDM Pulsar VZ-R, reputed to have 170 odd hp, it this thing could surprise much later and fancier machinery.

Love the old Saab too!

[michiel]

Cool pics, that 'collection' is sweet. If that's a real Gordini... it shouldn't just stand there. Drive it! Those Sunnys were called Florida in Holland, brings back bad memories since one of our dogs ended it's life under one years ago.

[RetroMat]

spottedlaurel said:

Good pic's! That Sunny does look a clean one. Saw one of the earlier B11 (1982-86) models today, rarely seen nowadays.

You ever investigated that old Corolla in Colchester? In that big council estate near the bottom of Ipswich Road, guy also had an old BMW '02 of some sort. When I last saw it he had it parked on the road with now tax, looks like it had been there for a long time. Hope the Council didn't take it away..........

I did go in search of the Corolla but didn't find it. Maybe i will have more luck tomorrow ;D a know there is a Laurel and a 910 Bluebird some where near that Sunny.
I didn't look at the rear of the sunny they looks quite funky like a fastback.

[spottedlaurel]

retromicra said:

I did go in search of the Corolla but didn't find it. Maybe i will have more luck tomorrow ;D a know there is a Laurel and a 910 Bluebird some where near that Sunny.
I didn't look at the rear of the sunny they looks quite funky like a fastback.

Ah well, maybe the Council got it then Be interested to see the Bluebird and Laurel, obviously. Saw a nice Violet come out of that estate years ago too, bet it's long since been exported/raced.

That B12 Sunny is very similar at the back to the previous B11 model....



So much so that before I realized they were a different model I thought they were just a clever facelift, as Japanese makers like to do with their estates.

[Davenger]

Where abouts were those pics taken?
I'll be back in colchester friday (tomorrow) so I might have to have a nose round

[RetroMat]

most of these pic were taken in estate at the bottom of castle park and leisure world car park

[kyteler]

I have to change a gearbox on one of those B12's for a friends missus. GA14 engine in it, we actually took the cam cover off a while ago and there was so much built up carbon in there it was UNREAL, it was literally caked on and yet it just keeps on trucking, it's only the gearbox that has died, so I'm grabbing one out of a GA15 powered Sentra, should do the trick.

[alpineandy]

I want that 8 gordini.....