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PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:40 pm    Post subject: Cars in unusual places Reply with quote
Dug these photos out to post elsewhere, thought they might be of interest here too Smile






Any other shots like this out there?

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cycle cars can fit in even smaller vehicles...

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Smile 'tis a sight to behold, watching the Carden being loaded up!

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
And highly illegal, I'd think!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
As I recall the overhanging cycle car was supported on a substantial metal platform.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Possibly one of the wheelchair conversions with a hydraulic ramp?
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another unexpected sighting some years back, was the famous Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost AX 201, stopped in a quiet housing estate with its bonnet raised. At the time R-R was still located in Crewe and presumably one of the maintenance chaps in their historics department was attending to a malfunction with the car's engine.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wow! Certainly a nice find, i've never seen AX 201 myself - yet.

Once driving at night through the cotswolds on New Years Eve I saw a lot of Austin Sevens appear out of the darkness - I believe there'd been a road run on, but definitely unexpected as far as I was concerned.

Also a 1950's British motorcycle at the head offices of a UK Airline, and outside a training centre for another UK Airline a lovely brown Triumph 2000
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not exactly a car, but a couple of years ago I went to a charity jazz concert held in a barn. The owner used it as a base for his landscaping business and displayed in pride of place in the adjoining office was a brand new looking 1970s Laverda Jota.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I used to drive one of my Morgan 3-wheelers , in the darkness, with only the side lights on. It did not have any headlights. Must have given a few people a shock , coming the other way.... As long as you could just see the hedges or side of the road there was no problem, even on a moonless night ...
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
En route to work one morning, we chanced upon Jaguar D-Type 774 RW in a queue of traffic. At the same junction, a few months later while again travelling to work, we spotted another genuine D-Type waiting to turn right (the registration no. escapes me, OKV something I think, it was a pale lilac colour - sort of).

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Back in September, I didn't expect to see a 1911 Sunbeam racing car parked in the middle of Tenbury Wells. But........


1911 Sunbeam by geoffp5, on Flickr

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hickeys I think!
Quite a character --
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