Most unexpected & spectacular spot?

[MkX]

Aug 31, 2016 21:01:22 GMT The Jackeria said:

Yep, that's definitely the type of thing I'm talking about!

[georgexs]

A few years ago when I was leaving the Goodwood FoS, was driving down a dual carriageway and the Jaguar XJ220 powered Transit van that served as the test bed for the XJ220 running gear came bombing past me at about 100!
Funny thing was I'd seen it earlier in the day in the paddock at Goodwood, parked up at the side of the paddock, getting zero attention as not many people will have realised what it was, it had the back doors open so I clambered in to get a look at the engine

[davethepieman]

/\ I love the stereotypical "white van man" adornments on that, right down to the McDonald's detritus on the dashboard. Proper Goodwood humour.

[georgexs]

Sept 2, 2016 14:01:32 GMT davethepieman said:

/\ I love the stereotypical "white van man" adornments on that, right down to the McDonald's detritus on the dashboard. Proper Goodwood humour.

Yeah they really make it! One of my lecturers at uni worked for TWR when they were developing the XJ220, apparently the transit was chosen as the test bed because they walked out into the car park and found the vehicle with the closest wheelbase they could! 

[miaspa]

I really wish I had a picture of the car I spotted last night just southeast of Norwich. Going very slow, on poorly surfaced road 1967-68 Ferrari 330 P4. I say 68 as it was on an F reg. Not sure if replica or original didn't get full reg number as coming towards me. Now trying to google if there is such a road going car.

[MkX]

Sept 10, 2016 8:12:11 GMT miaspa said:

I really wish I had a picture of the car I spotted last night just southeast of Norwich. Going very slow, on poorly surfaced road 1967-68 Ferrari 330 P4. I say 68 as it was on an F reg. Not sure if replica or original didn't get full reg number as coming towards me. Now trying to google if there is such a road going car.

Interesting spot, almost certainly a replica.

[MiataMark]

Earlier this week in Swindon, an immaculate black MK2 RS2000 with full X-Pack body kit.

[awoo]

Driving in the rain today near Worthing, saw 3 Citroen SM, lotus Europa, 911 rs and an old coupe bmw. All within 5 mins plus a bunch of other interesting but not as rare cars. Think there must have been a show on. No pics sorry

[georgexs]

Sept 10, 2016 21:05:15 GMT awoo said:

Driving in the rain today near Worthing, saw 3 Citroen SM, lotus Europa, 911 rs and an old coupe bmw. All within 5 mins plus a bunch of other interesting but not as rare cars. Think there must have been a show on. No pics sorry

Probably related to the Goodwood Revival!

[highvoltage]

Back in about 1978 my folks owned a little hotel in Harrogate,nearby was a large posh hotel called the Majestic.One day i was out on my bike and ventured into the Majestic car park where there were row upon row of vintage Bugattis.There seemed to be hundreds of the things,Type 35's,51's,57's etc all on foreign plates with international owners who looked equally exotic and well travelled.

At 10 years old i didn't fully appreciate what i was seeing really even though i loved cars.I've never seen another Bugatti in the wild since.

They were there for about two days and i spent much of that time riding about in the car park pulling wheelies on my knackered Chopper rather too close to millions of pounds worth of automotive art.
Every now and then i got shouted at but i had no idea what they were saying anyway

[Clement]

One Sunday morning I was too lazy to get up, and heard something special going down the street. Blinds closed and living on the second floor, I couldn't see anything of course.

A couple dozen minutes later the noise happened again, I hastily rushed to the window: it was merely a silver Daytona minding its own business, nothing special there really.

[miaspa]

Sept 10, 2016 8:12:11 GMT miaspa said:

I really wish I had a picture of the car I spotted last night just southeast of Norwich. Going very slow, on poorly surfaced road 1967-68 Ferrari 330 P4. I say 68 as it was on an F reg. Not sure if replica or original didn't get full reg number as coming towards me. Now trying to google if there is such a road going car.

Found it, Noble P4 replica



Auction back in 2012

[MkX]

Sept 13, 2016 14:25:40 GMT miaspa said:

Sept 10, 2016 8:12:11 GMT miaspa said:

I really wish I had a picture of the car I spotted last night just southeast of Norwich. Going very slow, on poorly surfaced road 1967-68 Ferrari 330 P4. I say 68 as it was on an F reg. Not sure if replica or original didn't get full reg number as coming towards me. Now trying to google if there is such a road going car.

Found it, Noble P4 replica



Auction back in 2012

Some replicas are better than others!

[omegod]

I recall seeing an old battered Ferrari 400 pulling into the local tip with a box trailer attached full of old curse word , not what you really expect in Liverpool, lovely old eccentric chap driving it

[jonk]

Aug 27, 2016 10:40:21 GMT DarrenW said:

I think an XJ220 must be amongst my most unexpected too... Like a shark in my rear view mirror, I kept catching glances of it about five cars back on the motorway and then it finally took aaaaaaages creeping past me with about 2mph speed difference in a long stretch of 50mph average speed cameras. Glorious.


Jaguar XJ220 R110AAR - photo by Retro-Motoring




There's a bit more information about this particular car here: www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-britishcars/readers-car-of-the-week-jaguar-xj220/34923

[jgtr]

Aug 27, 2016 11:36:54 GMT MkX said:

Aug 27, 2016 10:40:21 GMT DarrenW said:

I think an XJ220 must be amongst my most unexpected too... Like a shark in my rear view mirror, I kept catching glances of it about five cars back on the motorway and then it finally took aaaaaaages creeping past me with about 2mph speed difference in a long stretch of 50mph average speed cameras. Glorious.


Jaguar XJ220 R110AAR - photo by Retro-Motoring

Love that plate!
One of my Dad's mates has a 220, I think he uses it a fair bit.

I knew a guy working for Jaguar in the 1990's when they were trying to pre-sell the XJ220's. Take-up had initially been excellent & oversubscribed but with recession & the collapse of supercar / classics prices lots of customers bought their way out of the contracts. Basically the sales staff then needed to find customers who were wealthy enough to stump up £50K with the expectation that their car wouldn't be delivered for a couple of years. I think the sales staff were being offered something like £50K in commission for pre-selling one, (over £100K today).

I think that due to the recession the original spec was significantly down graded and the final production versio was far from what Jaguar originally promised. This hit sales significantly and there was just not the demand to support production :-(

[pedalcarjoe]

my lad spotted this in Stockport a couple of weeks ago

[Seth]

I see you there hiding in my mirror!



Was pretty stonking to see one in regular central London traffic.

[lufbramatt]

Sept 14, 2016 10:31:18 GMT jgtr said:

Aug 27, 2016 11:36:54 GMT MkX said:

Love that plate!
One of my Dad's mates has a 220, I think he uses it a fair bit.

I knew a guy working for Jaguar in the 1990's when they were trying to pre-sell the XJ220's. Take-up had initially been excellent & oversubscribed but with recession & the collapse of supercar / classics prices lots of customers bought their way out of the contracts. Basically the sales staff then needed to find customers who were wealthy enough to stump up £50K with the expectation that their car wouldn't be delivered for a couple of years. I think the sales staff were being offered something like £50K in commission for pre-selling one, (over £100K today).

I think that due to the recession the original spec was significantly down graded and the final production versio was far from what Jaguar originally promised. This hit sales significantly and there was just not the demand to support production :-(

The prototype had a V12 and they promised it would have 500bhp, in the end they used a turboed V6 related to the one found the Metro 6R4 rally car. Some guys that had put a deposit down tried to sue Jaguar to get out of the deal, but the judge ruled that Jaguar were in the right as the V6 delivered 542bhp and was more powerful that they said the V12 would be.

I've had a couple of nice spots, a few years back Nick Masons Ferarri 250GTO came past me and my dad while we were out cycling in the New Forest, heard it coming miles away before it flashed past us, just managed to catch the "250GTO" number plate to confirm it was his.

A few weeks back I saw a Ferrari Enzo coming the other way as I was driving down the A229 into Chatham, I was shocked that anyone with enough money to be driving an Enzo would want to come anywhere near the place, assume he was lost.

[awoo]

The guy that owns Karen Millen has a pretty sick car collection apparently and I believe he has an enzo, he also lives in Kent up the northern bit so it may have been him.