Show Us Your Motors!

Hyburnate · 25 Apr 2014 at 22:41

Damn that's sexy

Clarkey · 25 Apr 2014 at 22:42

Couldn't have picked a worse pic for that cheap shot, Audis have the best fit and finish in the game.

Blackhawk47 · 25 Apr 2014 at 22:43

Participant said:
Tell that to the new 3 series.

The fact that your MPG is your highlight summarises your car.

Whatever, I love it. The fact I don't change cars every 5 mins like everyone else on this forum shows I'm happy with it. It's the best car I can afford to run.

Janesy B · 25 Apr 2014 at 22:46

Hey, I've had the same car for 3 years.

Participant · 25 Apr 2014 at 22:49

Clarkey said:
Couldn't have picked a worse pic for that cheap shot, Audis have the best fit and finish in the game.

My comment might have not made immediate sense. In the 3 series thread, BH was talking about the bonnet gap, whereas now he's defending a similar gap on his car.

Blackhawk47 said:
Whatever, I love it. The fact I don't change cars every 5 mins like everyone else on this forum shows I'm happy with it. It's the best car I can afford to run.

It looks very tidy, I was only kidding. I've still got the Golf I bought in 2009; we're still really happy with it. Tempted to post a 40k mile report and see what reaction I get

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Blackhawk47 · 25 Apr 2014 at 22:52

Participant said:
My comment might have not made immediate sense. In the 3 series thread, BH was talking about the bonnet gap, whereas now he's defending a similar gap on his car.

It looks very tidy, I was only kidding.

Haven't mentioned anything about panel gaps in this thread. At least Audi intergrate it into the design. Jaguar manage to do it, why can't BMW.

Helios1234 · 25 Apr 2014 at 23:08

geekman said:
I'm sorry you had to see that, Subway is one of those things you can't eat in a dignified fashion If you see me again come and say hi, always good to meet OCUK members!

Ha, will do next time.

Tomcat825 · 25 Apr 2014 at 23:15

Haha yeah I was just being funny with the panel gap comment, tis banter.

rjk · 25 Apr 2014 at 23:19

OhEsEcks said:
More than likely. Or an old Rover or MG.

If you got a look at the hood ornament, you can ID them from that. It's easier with American cars, since not only did they change hood ornaments for models, but also engine sizes and years on particular manufacturers. I think Cadillac had two different designs for the same model and same years, the only difference was one was designed for the V8 and the other was the V16 (and the V8 only lasted a year before being upgraded for 1939/1940). Similarly they had different hood ornaments for the same car, just different years (trumpter / heralder, later replaced by a heron, which was replaced with the Goddess [similar to the Spirit Of Ecstasy on Rollers]).

Good info, thanks as I mentioned, I'm pretty ignorant to most cars built before 1960

Scottland said:
Is that at Snugbury's?

Yeah. The weather was nice and there is some outrageous roads round there.

teenwolf · 25 Apr 2014 at 23:59

rjkoneill said:
Good info, thanks as I mentioned, I'm pretty ignorant to most cars built before 1960

Yeah. The weather was nice and there is some outrageous roads round there.

Up the road from me..

Westyfield2 · 26 Apr 2014 at 00:25

I'm still betting on RJK's mystery spot being a Austin Sixteen... or "Gangster Wagon" as I call then

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Blackhawk47 · 26 Apr 2014 at 00:29

Westyfield2 said:
I'm still betting on RJK's mystery spot being a Austin Sixteen... or "Gangster Wagon" as I call then .

I thought it was a 30s rolls royce lol.

Jonny ///M · 26 Apr 2014 at 00:34

dacads said:
Almera GTI, don't see many of those about

The green Almera Gti quota for Scotland I think!

OhEsEcks · 26 Apr 2014 at 00:35

Westyfield2 said:
I'm still betting on RJK's mystery spot being a Austin Sixteen... or "Gangster Wagon" as I call then .

The slats / grill running along the bonnet doesn't match an Austin 16. On the 16, they're staggered in length.

Edit: Looking on the internet, where the bonnet meets the grill is different on the 16. It also appears to have 3 side windows. The one in rjk's pic only has two.

Westyfield2 · 26 Apr 2014 at 01:00

OhEsEcks said:
The slats / grill running along the bonnet doesn't match an Austin 16. On the 16, they're staggered in length.

Edit: Looking on the internet, where the bonnet meets the grill is different on the 16. It also appears to have 3 side windows. The one in rjk's pic only has two.

Ah. I didn't actually google it, was just going off memory as a friend's got one.

Cookeh · 26 Apr 2014 at 01:01

Jonny ///M said:
The green Almera Gti quota for Scotland I think!

Ruined by the bird poop

Sonea Fifer · 26 Apr 2014 at 13:13

rjkoneill said:
went out for ice cream on Monday

this thing showed up. dont know what it is but looked nice

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Looks like a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pilot"]Ford Pilot[/URL] to me.

Janesy B · 26 Apr 2014 at 13:49

It isn't one of those either.

OhEsEcks · 26 Apr 2014 at 16:59

It's a Humber Snipe or Super Snipe. The 2.8 straight six is the Snipe, the 4.0 litre straight six is the Super Snipe. Both came in the two window style like rjk's picture, but I'm not sure what the hell it was called (saloon body, sports saloon body, 4 door coupe, who knows). Also, the hood ornament will have been a Snipe (bird).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Humber_Super_Snipe_Mk_I_1946.JPG

The only problem with the above picture is the door hinges. On rjk's pictures it looks like the hinges are at the top (it could just be reflection / light on the picture) and bottom of the door, whereas on the wikimedia picture, they're at the middle and bottom of the door and similar Humbers don't have that (top / bottom) configuration from what I've seen on t'internet.

SDK^ · 26 Apr 2014 at 17:17

Blackhawk47 said:
Haven't mentioned anything about panel gaps in this thread. At least Audi intergrate it into the design. Jaguar manage to do it, why can't BMW.

Probably because those cars have the worlds biggest front grilles. It's bigger than my central heating boiler

Less deign and more big piece of plastic, floor to top of bonnet.