Classic car spotting this week.

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The side windows had non locking plexiglass sliders.

That's right -- and to make it worse the key number was engraved on the front of the ignition lock! Too, too easy to steal.
 
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Maybe not rare…. But what the hell is a British Market one of these doing in Southern California? My money is the only one in the US.


Why go through all the effort to import one? A non hot version of a Citroen BX? (Hot versions never came in RHD)
 
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MRC MRC
Not recently, not even this century, it's 1975. Mine is back row 3rd from right.
60’s Elite?
 
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Maybe not rare…. But what the hell is a British Market one of these doing in Southern California? My money is the only one in the US.


Why go through all the effort to import one? A non hot version of a Citroen BX? (Hot versions never came in RHD)
Even more unusual it’s on U.K. plates! Looks very tidy. I used to get a lift to school in one of those. Shame it’s not a GTi! Gotta love a quirky Citroen.
 
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Even more unusual it’s on U.K. plates! Looks very tidy. I used to get a lift to school in one of those. Shame it’s not a GTi! Gotta love a quirky Citroen.
It’s not exactly uncommon for Euro plates or JDM plates to be on the front of cars in CA. It’s not exactly illegal. Technically we are required to have a California plate on front and back, but enforcement of the front plate in very sporadic. It’s not uncommon to see European delivery plates (red stickers) behind a CA plate on the back.

in fact I ran this for awhile on the front of my car.

(reproduction plate, real frame from the Munich dealer)
 
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60’s Elite?
1958-64 Elite, Lotus Type 14. No-one really expected so many to turn up. the majority of the production went to the USA.
 
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The petrol grun black hole

Lovely W123 TE. A good friend has a 280 TE. What’s yours?

I take it it needs floors, Sills and wings? Lovely colour!
 
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I had the pleasure of taking this 1946 MGTC for a spin this week. It has been owned by the same family for many decades. It certainly tested my double-de-clutching skills!


Ah double-de-clutching, I always do it when I am out in JCW Mini and to be honest as much for the sound as anything else 😀
 
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Maybe not rare…. But what the hell is a British Market one of these doing in Southern California? My money is the only one in the US.


Why go through all the effort to import one? A non hot version of a Citroen BX? (Hot versions never came in RHD)

First registered 31st August 1989 MOT expired March 2018
 
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Lovely W123 TE. A good friend has a 280 TE. What’s yours?

I take it it needs floors, Sills and wings? Lovely colour!

Thanks. It's a 230te, I bought it to be my daily driver and family adventure car. The passenger side inner sill is rusted through and there are pretty shoddy older repairs I want cleaned up so I figured best to bite the bullet and have new floors and sills put in and be done with it.

It's a lovely car to drive, very relaxing compared to my other vehicles!
 
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Local Porsche Club concours day today, was a great afternoon indeed

 
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I didn’t actually spot the pictured car this week….I borrowed the picture off the web .It is a 1956 (oval rear window) Volkswagen. When I was in junior high, the VW was just new in Canada. One of the custodians at our school bought one, and parked it out on the street in front of the school. The school was accessed up a wide staircase of about a dozen steps. From there, you proceeded over a wide concrete sidewalk, across the playground. The sidewalk was about 100 feet long. Then, you came to another set of a dozen ot so stairs leading to a portico front entrance to the school. Six or eight of the school wags picked the VW up, carried it up the stairs leading off the front sidewalk, carried it the length of the sidewalk leading to the building, up another set of stairs, and deposited it laterally in the portico, right up against the outward opening doors. Nobody could use that entrance! The school principal was not amused! He knew just who to delegate to carry the VW back down to where the owner had parked it!

 
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Few classics spotted in the neighbourhood

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I didn't get a photo because I saw it while driving but this weekend I saw what appeared to be a nicely sorted fire engine red MGTF near my home. I hope to spot it again soon.

My new neighbor owns a 79 Triumph Spitfire, not a show car by any length but a nice driver. We've had a few long talks about Spitfires and I've promised to go dig up a box of SUs and whatnot I still have from when I owned a couple Spittys.
 
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Since we have an volvo 1800, here is my 1800E with an early jensen 1800,
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