Foreign Holiday Snaps

on lanza for 3 nights....will see what i can find.

and this

Seen in the station car park Otaki New Zealand last week

Side of the road Porirua (Chavtown) New Zealand

Here are a few from my Trip to Berlin a year and a half ago. I travel a lot and get lots of photos of classics, so I'll no doubt post more later.


A Barkas with a very dark past at the Ex-Stasi headquarters.

One of the many Trabis I spotted. This one outside the famours Trabi World, near Checkpoint Charlie. The same colour combo as mine.


An ex-Feuerwehr Transit van, used as a promotional vehicle. Spotted at the East Side Gallery near Warsauerstrasse.

Enjoy Chris. Just came back from a week Kreta. Only sun, nice people and good food!

Peter

Back into Rhodes Town today



Panda shaped but Seat flavour - I think that were called the Marbella in the UK but unsure what they are called here - regardless it had seen quite a bit of action



Shame that this really nice Vespa was all dressed up and nowhere to go



I'd guess that aren't too many of these Rover 400 series left in the UK let alone on a Greek island



Plenty of battered Nissan D21 pickups still being put to use on the island



Some odd shaped Fiat / Seat derived thing



Odd & small - anything goes over here



Smartish SWB Defender



Wearing it's patina well was this Beatle - later in the day we passed a luckyseven 'Dolly' clone but were on the move so could not get a pic of it



Late Escort Mk whatever & another Nissan D21 or were they still Datsuns then ?



This what must be getting rare Primera appeared to be attracting others to its favourite parking / final resting place



3 series Beemer & 159 Alfa alongside the Primera



A very faded red Renault 9



And a even more faded red & battered Skoda



There is the odd chink of half decent stuff here & there though - a rather clean Merc 123 series - I think it was the oil burning verity too



Into the mix comes a little @johnnybravo flavour



Loads of stuff like this still about - sadly they all appear to be in the same condition or worse - the brown forum could hold their annual conference / gathering here on the island and would not have to ship a single motor over



Finally its not just the boring everyday stuff that gets neglected, misused & abandoned

Some of todays spots include:



Rover 75 in decent nick in the hotel car park - we were later to spot the very faded sign & logos of what was the islands Land Rover / Rover / MG dealer but it would appear they went by the wayside a long time ago





There is no end of this type of stuff - all in use too



Likewise there is a lot of parked up / semi abandoned / fully abandoned stuff



Parked the hire car and went for a wonder around the traditional & quite stunning village of 'Koskinou' which is where we found this Lambretta



It would appear that you get away just about any type of minimal repair - bumper on this Alfa 156 was just held on with a few bits of wire





SWMBO requested a visit to the olive oil factory & shop which is where we found this little Fiat





Along with loads of heavy rusty stuff knocked up to mock an original olive oil press



2 pot engined tractor



Never heard of the manufacture



Loads more bits of stationary engines







Along with the largest 'Dellerto' that I have ever come across - however - it is a compressor and not a carb



Little Mini was just being used has a prop





Many other spots included a Mk1 MR2 Toyota, several 80's Jags - Mercs etc - but we were on the move so no pics - we also found the islands auto scrappy - but on a busy road and I don't speak Greek so no visit & no pics but shoved up by the gate was a stripped Yank saloon shell & a Type 2 VW van that looked complete - unsure how the scrappy stops in business though has they are so many motors abandoned you can just drive round until you find what want on something that's been dumped

i was on Rhodes a couple of years back (should be there now but i Thomas cooked it)

It rained for some of today (we got soaked but has its such a nice temperature out here - you don't mind so much) anyhow the rain appeared to bring all the 4 x 4's out



Jeep - then a few motors up from it



Was the Opel clone of the Vauxhall Frontera - the Honda next to it is possibly getting thin on the ground too



Defenders appear to be well liked but still rare over here





The Suzuki's are well liked too and normally to be found in abundance



Land Cruiser was very well cared for



Slight diversion - 2 very large cruise boats were in the harbour today - it meant that the quite narrow streets of the old town were densely packed with pedestrians





So this is how the local police force respond quickly to any incident



Never seen so many motors on the Cusp of 'retroness' - dumped & forgotten about





This is local scrap collector driving a piece of scrap - but he gets everywhere in it



This is a typical sight up ever other dead end lane or street



The well used



And the appreciated



But just occasionally you find the odd really well appreciated retro motor has was the case with little Toyota hot hatch

Last day tomorrow before we fly home in the late evening