Back to the Future

[dellzeqq]

seen in Balham High Road yesterday! How very odd!

 

[Davywalnuts]

No chance of getting the flux capacitor to work along there!

8.8mph perhaps??

 

[iLB]

what a film though

 

[Perfect Virgo]

Excellent spot! The last one I saw was in Lord Montague's Motor Museum at Beaulieu in Hampshire.

 

[gaz]

Saw a tank parked in Croydon back in the early 90s.

I think a bloke used to do drive it purposefully to piss off the council.

he still does drive it, the guy lives in Norbury and has a huge merlin on the side of his house.

 

[Velorum]

Has a V6 Renault engine. Hope he has an up to date AA relay subscription.

Nice aluminium body though.....................

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Boot full of coke probably!

 

[Headgardener]

he still does drive it, the guy lives in Norbury and has a huge merlin on the side of his house.

I don't think merlins are that big, the female is about the size of a kestrel and is slightly larger than the male. If you are talking about the RollsRoyce aero engine which powered the Spifire, Hurricane and Lancaster heavy bomber and was also the basic power plant for some of the british tanks in WW2 then that's different.

 

[dellzeqq]

NYC plates, by the way, so presumably on a world tour.........

 

[User169]

Saw a tank parked in Croydon back in the early 90s.

I think a bloke used to do drive it purposefully to piss off the council.

Got to school one day and there was a tank parked in the playground. An ex-pupil based at Bovingdon Camp went AWOL with the tank and decided to pay his old school a visit.

 

[Blackandblue]

Maybe we should start a cars spotted from movies/tv thread.

Magnum PI's ferrari?
General Lee from the Dukes of Hazard?
The 2CV from the For Your Eyes Only (I remember Citroen releasing a limited edition with fake bullet holes all over the car).
Kitt from Knight Rider
Herbie

All of these I have seen at one time or another - but not got pictures to prove it.

And, to be fair, none top the De Lorean.

Now, the Batmobile - that would be something.

 

[Chris Sirrus]

People are still driving them around - that's cool. I saw one in the Ulster transport museum. One of the curatorss there actually worked on the production line and said they never once saw John Delorean on the shop floor!

I've seen the one it the Ulster Transport museum too, never spoke to the curator though.

I've seen the one in the San Diego motor museum too, their exhibit said the factory was shut down because of the troubles and not because Delorean was a crook.

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

Maybe we should start a cars spotted from movies/tv thread.

Magnum PI's ferrari?
General Lee from the Dukes of Hazard?
The 2CV from the For Your Eyes Only (I remember Citroen releasing a limited edition with fake bullet holes all over the car).
Kitt from Knight Rider
Herbie

All of these I have seen at one time or another - but not got pictures to prove it.

And, to be fair, none top the De Lorean.

Now, the Batmobile - that would be something.

When the Herbie film first came out, VW did a promotion using the stripe and '53' number on their cars in showrooms. Company I worked for at the time printed the 'Herbie Artwork'.... I obtained a set and still have it some where...

 

[Blackandblue]

Anybody seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

 

[rikki]

Nice aluminium body though.....................

Stainless steel, I think.

**pedant alert**