Best Retro pic of 2006

[skamanfrank]

I've not really been retro tiding for long- only since september, and I don't even have a camera, so the only pics I have are of my car from friends' borrowed cameras! (I'm afriad I'm also going to be naughty and post more than 3 becuase I can't for the life of me decide between them!)

All taken when I went out for a drive one day, determined to get some photos of the car





Looking to the drive ahead!




Just 15 minutes drive away from the centre of Leeds!

[Speedman]

Got a few:

The day I went to the REME museum near us and ended up being allowed to clamber over and photograph the first UK import Beetle


First race meet of the year at Castle Combe, got to sit in a Formula Vee single seater in the pits


The end of the busiest day ever, Dubs @ the Park show, a 14hours setting up, running and paking away, but great fun


Day we collected our GTi


Pistonheads meet in November, nice colour


Great idea for a thread ;D

[dp]

2002gimp in da house:
Its coming up to the end of the year so show us your best Retro pics of 2006! Ones you've taken yourself mind

Rollin in the Shop Hack behind Max in the 34 coupe going to Stockholm Cruise late this summer....



Once there, found a good spot to hang checking out the cruisers.....



Although not all of them "dogs".........



DP says: Just one of the great events of 2007....

[B-8-D]

my bruvs old v8 capri but i played with the pic a bit...
i think it looks ok though::


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[bstardchild]

No apologies from me for the content of these pictures

Right first

After 6mths of graft having reduced the monza to just a shell at one stage fallen way behind schedule and ended up doing a triple and some (30 hrs solid fighting to beat a deadline to get the monza on the road I returned from the final stage getting an exhaust fitted) parked it on the drive and sat down looked at the back of the car and thought - "yep that was worth all the effort"



After an engine blow up on it's first track day, a rebuild plus run in and worries about reliability - to do a couple of laps of the Le Mans circuit and take a few pictures was a really good feeling



And having made a 1000 mile round trip i resolved to sort the rest of the cosmetics out and this is it finished



And sorry if I can't count but my favorite one of the year is this one - not taken by me as I'm driving but hunting down and despatching an S2000 (amongst other things) on a track day was a wonderfull end to the year - the way he's checking his mirrors makes me chuckle ;D

[bstardchild]

phoenixc said:

Lost a lot when my hard drive crashed so I only have my photobucket pics and the ones Bstardchild posted back to me on CD (Thanks again )

Just happy to help - I included my pics & Videos of RCS too I think

[HoTWire]

Forgot to say,.. this is also Very high on my list :

[bodieanddoyle]

just 3? jeeez

just looks right to me. nice setting, lovely bug, nice sky and I didn't shake while taking it
taken at framlingham gala day


still my fave after dark pic. slater's fezza taken at the 1st "take over southend" cruise. to quote stuyizz; "festa meets tron" ;D
apologies for the wallpaper sized pic


and just to remind me I do still love it, rumbleford in the grass at easton farm park classic car show. despite the costly engine rebuild thats now imenent

oh, and I've taken an estimated 4000 pics this year

[spottedlaurel]

For HoTWire....





If someone was clever enough I guess these could be merged? I do have them at full size if anyone wants to have a bash at it.

For me, my selection of not necessarily the best but three that summarise what I do/enjoy:



Drive my cars.



Take pictures of rusty old rubbish.



Enjoy the company of people with similarly cool old motors

[PhoenixC]

Not great but considering amount of Whisky consumed its not a bad effort

[Mr K]

phoenixc said:

Not great but considering amount of Whisky consumed its not a bad effort

what time was that taken? don't understand how i can not be in it unless it was after i had left (2ish iirc)

[samyboy]

this could take a while...


gotta love wales


and a hot summers evning less than a mile down the road

car show wise 2006 has been a great year seen some truely amazing cars down the pod roll on 2007 and i must make it to CARS

[SeventyNine]

admin said:

Forgot to say,.. this is also Very high on my list :

oh my that is AWESOME - do you have the high res - desktop material for sure ;D ;D ;D

[V8imp]

this is my fave and its my car

[Hirst]

This is hardly calendar photo material, but this is of the Charmant after claying, polishing and waxing, was surprised how well the paintwork came up, it doesn't look bad for "metallic beige". I was taking loads of photos of the car at that point pleased at how good it was looking! At last the dream of owning a Charmant has come true.


And the good news is I just got my Christmas money through so it's getting insured and taxed again in January. Stay tuned for photos that aren't of it parked in my driveway.

[RetroMat]

a few from me:

it was sunny, i had some petrol so i went driving ;D


2 of my favorite cars of '06, in convy to CARS


another CARS pic:

[reanimation]

nickyboi said:

phoenixc said:

Not great but considering amount of Whisky consumed its not a bad effort

what time was that taken? don't understand how I can not be in it unless it was after I had left (2ish iirc)

This was early in morning just as the line up was assembled. On camp site I spent so long 'waking up' cleaning and spraying my pits, washing face that at the time I thought Me and BGT were last got prime front loaction Win! you must of squeezed in after I got no pics of the line up either, good work SL.

[marinanut]

I've got a shedload still on the hard drive, but this is cool, from the Rolling Road Day in Ipswich..


And a really 'clean' car from the MGOC run....darn country lanes...

[80mojo]

Gotta be this one for me. ;D




This one didn't work quite as well (couldn't get close enough to the Lightning.




This one (remember the Superkings billboards?)




This for the giggle... ;D




Finally, this for a caption competition?