It just says Scimitar on the back of that one. I'm guessing he thought that was the marque.
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It just says Scimitar on the back of that one. I'm guessing he thought that was the marque.
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Nothing wrong with Reliant, made some awesome cars over the years.
I was headed out for a drive on Saturday morning and spotted these 3 parked up in Gosforth. They were heading to the NE1 car show to display their cars. Ford Focus RS up from 345bhp to 500, Audi R8 V10, and a Litchfield Nissan GTR with 800bhp apparently. 
Definitely should have taken a better photo.
RS, R8, GTR by MurfoS, on Flickr
Definitely should have taken a better photo.
RS, R8, GTR by MurfoS, on Flickr
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She had a few of them I think, I remember seeing a TV show about Scims, and she was on it, talking with a lot of fondness about them.
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Yeah she's mentioned on the Scimitar wiki page, apparently she has had 9.
Indeed. Didn't Ford sub out the design and construction of the mighty RS200 Group B rally car to Reliant?
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Just spotted this near my office. I'm guessing the ticket won't bother him.
I've purposesfully parked mine in places where I knew I was highly likely to get a ticket... and have already had 3... in order to avoid too small parking spaces or tiny multi-stories that have a high probability of causing damage to the car that's a lot more expensive than the ticket...
Presumably you'd pay given the opportunity, though. This was parked in a proper parking space, just without a valid ticket, I guess. It was gone when I walked back past half hour later, so I guess he wasn't aiming to stop long and just risked it.
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Yeah... spot like that I'd have paid.
It's more when the spaces are too small I'd have to take 2 spaces to open the doors and/or avoid careless numpties opening their doors into it, or the only place is an overly tight multi-story and I don't want to scrape anything.
It's more when the spaces are too small I'd have to take 2 spaces to open the doors and/or avoid careless numpties opening their doors into it, or the only place is an overly tight multi-story and I don't want to scrape anything.
This is why I can't go anywhere in my car without doing a complete risk assessment first. I have to know if the venue being visited will have parking, if the parking will be sufficient (either large spaces or at least a high likelihood that I can find a space on the end of a row/out of the way), if there's likely to be people wandering past, if there are high kerbs to be avoided, etc. Girlfriend hates it; she'd spend ages trying to get a spot close to the entrance, I'll spend ages trying to get a spot as far from it as possible.