Wobland Spottage

[NergleFuttocks]

Typo! UPL 274!! Fat fingers… looks like a 1.5 on dvla.

[mercrocker]

RME then...!

[Hooli]

Must be nailed over a Golf to be keeping up with modern traffic

[mercrocker]

It already has IFS, torsion bars, hemispherical combustion chambers and (on that one) hydraulic brakes. It is modern traffic....

[panhard65]

Spotted this classy trailer in Asda car park the other day.

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[Max Thunder]

Hi
Raunds Northamptonshire
Belongs to a lady who is a career were my Mother lives (But not my Mothers unfortunately) Built by a local lad who unfortunately passed away at an early age .
Now owned by another family member.
Fun Fact . On or around the 1st of August 1973 this was the first vehicle spotted by my brother and I with the new L registration. I was 10 years old

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[Uncle Albert]

[LynehamHerc]

There's something wrong with that VW.
It's a 76 reg but is an earlybay or crossover, which stopped being made in 71/72.
Maybe it was an import, it does seem to be LHD, and the date of registration is that when it was imported?

[Eddie Honda]

There's something wrong with that VW.

Aye, it's not on fire

and the date of registration is that when it was imported?

Was always the case up until 1981ish

[mercrocker]

Current reg was granted on importation (or first UK registration) until they twatted about putting the age "suffix" at the beginning with the second generation of "A" plates in 1984. Q plates (using the Q instead of the current date letter prefix) arrived at the same time. If a car qualified for an age-related, rather than Q, it was drawn from unused stocks of the appropriate prevailing year letter.

TL:DR - If it is Y-reg suffix or before it will almost certainly have got the current "new" series of plates when it was first registered here.

Anyway, fuck all that, I didn't expect to see that Gurney-Nutting Bentley replica (think this is one of those that was created around a post-war MkVI rather than a "proper" Bentley) in amongst everything. That, too, has a period-correct registration for the era that it is purporting to be from - simply achieved in this case of course by transfer onto the donor vehicle. This style of Bentley is the one Terence Cuneo used great artistic licence to show racing the "Blue Train" - a stirring but largely mythical tale of the great Woolf Barnato.