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Dec 29, 2017 11:32:16 GMT
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I'd like to live somewhere like VW does!
I live in a little one-street village that was a thriving hub 50 years ago and had a booming linen mill, so there's loads of 50s-80s housing developments that now just house a couple thousand commuters and retired people as it's next to the M1 and slowly being amalgamated by the big town beside us. So the only interesting things that I know of after being here four years are a red Audi Coupe (Quattro shape) a few doors away, a Ferguson and a Massey tractor across the road, and there's someone with an E46 M3 and I sometimes hear a very loud Harley at odd hours which suggest the owner works shifts. Not good spotting here at all.
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Dec 29, 2017 12:32:07 GMT
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Nope. Three levels around me. Brand new (or as near as), dumped up years ago, flooded twenty times and dead, or mine. Virtually everywhere I go, mine's the oldest around. Not much in the way of retro's generally - with a few exceptions, everyone want's new, new, new! I suppose when your granddad drove a bullock cart and your dad had a 125 bike, you want to show progression.
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dazcapri
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Dec 29, 2017 14:26:04 GMT
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I've just moved (after 40yrs) back to the village I'm originally from no retros so far but loads of 4wd at least 1 lifted disco,xj Jeep,suzuki grand vitara with chunky tyres and a few jimnys from bog standard to winch equipped to a full on raptor painted lifted one. Mind you most seem to have lurchers/terriers so I could be living with a load of poachers.
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Mk3 Capri LS
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npp
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Dec 29, 2017 16:15:02 GMT
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very boring in the immediate neighbourhood around here, and not much different a few streets on. Best I can find is a Reliant Scimitar parked on the street and seeing little use, and a chap with two or three very low and rusty VW T2s.
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miaspa
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Dec 29, 2017 17:54:47 GMT
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Just back from walking the dog, a quick 15mins round the block and see couple of early 70’s beetles, further along round the corner Marina coupe and saloon.
Feeling cold tonight so not our usual route. But if I’d carried on. Cross the road in the next street lives Toyota CROWN, numerous VW vans of all varieties, though no splits. A couple fastbacks in cul de sac, round the corner. Lotus Elise and 90s Elan. Go a bit further and Rover P6 and a couple 50/60’s yank pick ups. These are all kept on drives no idea what’s in Garages.
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Found my flashing Pao again.
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shin2chin
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Making curse word cars slightly better
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Dec 30, 2017 20:57:43 GMT
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On my road there is me (obviously) and a guy with a 60's mustang of some discription in his garage.
Round the corner is a Mk2 driver, e30 325i, mk2 rocco all owned by different people.
At the edge of the village is an old 80's Audi 100 and a house with a garage I am incredibly envious of which has a stripped out racing midget in it.
I must add I know none of these people so really need to get out more and strike up a conversation.
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1977 PORSCHE 2.0na 924 1974 VW Beetle 1600
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Dec 30, 2017 21:26:55 GMT
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I live on a HUGE estate, I bought my first home at 19 yrs old in 84 on the very first street, fast forward 33 yrs & 3 houses later & there are thousands. A bloke near me has a stunning Karmann Ghia, but he’s a C U Next Tuesday, there’s a rotten old Mk1 MR2 close by, other than that nothing as I’ve seen, but given the size of the place, someone must have something hidden in a garage I’ve not spotted
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Dec 31, 2017 10:04:01 GMT
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A neighbour has a Willy’s Jeep,another' son has a Lexus LS400 with a camo paint finish.
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2010 Nissan X-Trail 2006 Vauxhall Astra 1.6sxi 1968 Daimler 250 V8 1996 MGF sold
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Dec 31, 2017 20:59:29 GMT
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Within a few hundred yards of my house can be found a 1650 Anglia 105E, a 1919 Crossley, 2 MkII Escorts, a MkIII Cortina, an RM Riley, A prewar Standard and a postwar Flying 9, a Triumph Vitesse, 2 Matra Murenas and another Dolly Sprint = plus my own 3 Dolomites. Plus a number of more modern Retro types like a daily driver 91 Rover 213 and a Sierra XR4.
Steve
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xcore
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My estates relatively new, around 5 years old, In the 3 months iv lived here so far the most retro thing iv seen is an occasional narrow body z3.
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Bloke across the street has a Merc 500SEC. He's aged horribly of late though, and I think he's also had a spate of extreme ill-health which has left him virtually house-bound. His SEC has just sat unattended for the entire year and hasn't been touched. He used to put it away in a garage every year so I suspect he's just given up on it now. I'm hoping to see him out one day so I can ask. I might have to buy it off him if he's given up, although it wouldn't be of interest to me as it's too expensive and complicated for my tastes. Shame to just leave it sat there though. I would be happy to try and arrange a new home for it.
There's a bloke round the corner with a white 1970's Merc saloon. Quite nice. He spends a fair amount of time on it every summer.
Bloke who runs a diesel injection workshop has a lovely old Nissan patrol into which he's wedged a 6.0 V8 and I've told him one day he will sell it to me. It's a beast. I love it.
A bloke in the next street has a Citroen Dyane and a really ancient moggy minor that doesn't run.he often chats to me. Just up from him is a bloke with an Lotus Omega which I see one day every summer and it always looks utterly stunning but lives it's life in a climate controlled garage somewhere. I chat to him and he's friendly enough but he's also clearly paranoid about revealing too much about the car.
Aside from that there's nothing at all round my neck of the woods. I stand largely alone in my old car hobbies, and as such I tend to be something of a character round here... that bloke who's always got an interesting old car that he's fiddling with every spare moment. Some people make a point of telling me how much they like to see someone taking car of an old car and working on it. Others, I have been told by friendly neighbours tipping me off, get a bit "Neighbourhood Watch" about my hobby and have discussions every now and then about whether they feel they are entitled to advise me that my car hobby is not welcome and lowers the house values.
Particularly when I had my ratty, post-apocalytic looking hand lettered and decal-adorned Bedford. Apparently there were numerous meetings where a petition was discussed to get me to stop parking it on the local streets.
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Paul
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Pretty much just me on my road making the estate look scruffy.
There's a T25 owned by a mobile mechanic, a modified Suzuki Swift and a V5 Golf 4motion that's parked gathering moss...other than that it's your usual Chelsea tractors and fleet Bummers.
Between about 20 houses there are 3 identical (and I mean same colour, same spec, all within a year) Qashqais. One family own a mini fleet of Citroen C1s. It's borderline depressing...
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Nothing really close as I live in a close with only 15 Bungalows but I drive past an LS400 with bolt on arches n lows every day plus a slammed matt black MX5 that parks outside Sainsbury's.
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96 E320 W210 Wafter - on 18" split Mono's - Sold :-( 10 Kia Ceed Sportwagon - Our new daily 03 Import Forester STi - Sold 98 W140 CL500 AMG - Brutal weekend bruiser! Sold :-( 99 E240 S210 Barge - Now sold 02 Accord 2.0SE - wife's old daily - gone in PX 88 P100 2.9efi Custom - Sold
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