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Rare car spotting
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30/06/2006 18:18
30/06/2006 18:18
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Thought this thread would be a good place to put cars that you might spot that need mentioning. Just the other day i clocked an RS200 on the back of a lorry. first one i've ever seen. Last week i saw a couple of cops in a fully marked police Lancer Evo 8/9. Sod that coming after ya! Yesterday i saw something that needs mentioning. A Ford F350 pick-up truck. Now this thing is fccuking huge to start with, but the guy has fitted enormous, 2 foot flared arches to the rear of it and added a couple of double tyres. all in, it was at least double the width of an old escort cabriolet that was next to it at the lights. It really was the most horrendous thing i've ever seen... 
F****** b****** thing...
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142745
04/07/2006 15:58
04/07/2006 15:58
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Was the F350 like this? If so, that's fairly standard.
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142747
04/07/2006 16:48
04/07/2006 16:48
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RS200 yesterday! In a petrol station near me, I vaguely kow the guy who owns it. I filled the bike up as he was filling, had the rear open as the tank is under there. Bet that was hot to drive round in yesterday's weather though. He also has an Escort Cosworth reputed to be running around 800bhp. He's not a youngster, probably in his 40s, likes his cars, so the 800bhp story could well be true. I also saw an Auburn Speedster last week which I think was genuine too. Great idea for a thread, btw!
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142748
04/07/2006 17:15
04/07/2006 17:15
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Saw a Renault Avantime last week. Seeing as they only sold 29 or so here thats pretty rare!
If they did then 24 of 'em are for sale now on autotrader 
Looking good value to me too 
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Re: Rare car spotting
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04/07/2006 17:59
04/07/2006 17:59
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saw two arial atoms gunning it on the M56? couple of weeks ago. not rare, but was still good, saw a merc SL55 AMG and an audi RS4 racing on a dual carrageway just off allerton road, if i wasn't in the van and was in the coop, i would have took chase (and got made a show of) ha
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Re: Rare car spotting
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04/07/2006 18:46
04/07/2006 18:46
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There is currently a yellow Lamborghini Gallardo parked up in Aberdeen Airport Car Park, haven't seen one of those before looks
I've seen that a few times now, last time was up at Reg Vardys when they had some sort of event on. 
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Re: Rare car spotting
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04/07/2006 19:00
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800bhp esc cos not sure abot that . a lot of mates over 10 have cossies 3doors/saffs (rwd and 4x4) and esc running from 340-700 . we have never heard of a 800bhp esc in uk.it would surely be know on passion ford. also martin hadlands is going to be 700bhp . in corfu there is 800bhp esc i think. there is a 200mph+ saff that around 800bhp in uk . in norway they have a few 750bhp cossies friend worked over there one summer now has own jap tuning company in midlands. not saying the guy has not got the money but it would cost so much.my friends would like to see whats being done to it. what turbo hes got a gt40 or simaler and he would need a liner box or again somthing simaler
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142755
04/07/2006 21:08
04/07/2006 21:08
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Fully kitted Dodge Viper (huge spoiler etc) on the M25 on Sunday - Grey with white viper stripes and white racing decals. Clearly he would have tasted third gear humiliation had he not been travelling on the opposite carriageway  I also worked out that the coop was less common than the Ferrari 430 Spider, having seen 2 in a 3 hour drive, and no coops. 
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142756
04/07/2006 21:53
04/07/2006 21:53
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Yesterday i saw something that needs mentioning. A Ford F350 pick-up truck. Now this thing is fccuking huge to start with, but the guy has fitted enormous, 2 foot flared arches to the rear of it and added a couple of double tyres. all in, it was at least double the width of an old escort cabriolet that was next to it at the lights. It really was the most horrendous thing i've ever seen...
Yep, sounds standard enough - those things are huge, 7.3l turbo diesels IIRC with about a gazillion lb/ft. They are the farmers weapon of choice around here - I've even seen one pulling an unloaded HGV low-loader trailer.
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142757
04/07/2006 22:00
04/07/2006 22:00
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There's a red corvette lives near me which I see quite often...pretty rare in the UK 
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142760
04/07/2006 23:41
04/07/2006 23:41
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I've seen a couple of 599's in the last week - they look pretty inconspicuous.
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142761
04/07/2006 23:48
04/07/2006 23:48
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There's a red corvette lives near me which I see quite often...pretty rare in the UK
Is it little?
No, but the bloke who drives it has small feet 
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142763
05/07/2006 00:55
05/07/2006 00:55
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There's a red corvette lives near me which I see quite often...pretty rare in the UK
There are 2 around where I live...one silver, one purple with yellow chequered flag patter (is foul)...see them quite often - still turn me head each time!
There is an American car enthusiast who lives not too far from me who has some mad machines...got some dull looking 70s box on the drive at the moment, but had a (rubbish version) Mustang there a while back...and always has a huge great big 50s Chevrolet Bel Air (or something like that) on the drive too...saw it driving along the other day - utterly mad.
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Re: Rare car spotting
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05/07/2006 00:57
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142765
05/07/2006 00:58
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nice little town car that joe
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142766
05/07/2006 01:01
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also, on a side matter:
how do you get a nice short linky dink rather than the newbie rubbish I've got displaying. I thought I could just write over the url, but all I got was a dead link.
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142767
05/07/2006 01:24
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Just click 'URL' in the Instant UBB Code bit.
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142768
05/07/2006 01:27
05/07/2006 01:27
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142769
05/07/2006 01:35
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I followed a Maybach once, guess you don't see those every day...well not in Sutton anyhow 
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142770
05/07/2006 02:19
05/07/2006 02:19
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Saw an Enzo on the M25 the other week, all covered in racing stickers.
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142771
05/07/2006 03:45
05/07/2006 03:45
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I saw an Enzo in Brighton a while ago. Maybe they're not rare now 
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Re: Rare car spotting
#142772
05/07/2006 05:57
05/07/2006 05:57
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Common as muck, try spotting a coop within half a mile of me!!!!!!
I have never ever seen an Enzo on the road, does that mean I live somewhere very exclusive where these common cars can't get to?
Nowt but Veyron's round here
Up yours Photobucket.
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