Classic cars

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  20 February 2011     14:1693491
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  those two were parked parked up in folkestone shopping precinct this morning, couldn't get a clear shot of the bottom one.
  
  any ideas what the make and models are?
• Guest 698

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  20 February 2011     14:4293493
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  Top one is a modern retro reproduction, possibly an Excalibur. Clues: no suicide doors! I think I have seen that one before at the Griffin at Chillenden on the Sundays when the old cars gather. The lower one looks like a Rolls Silver Seraph of about 2000 vintage. Can't tell for sure, can you put up a version in higher definition?
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• howard mcsweeney1

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  20 February 2011     16:0693501
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  best i could do a gloomy day with a cheapo camera.
  
  i did not have a pen and paper with me to write down the names, but if someone gets it right it will come back to me.
• Guest 657

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  20 February 2011     16:5493511
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  Put me down for a trip in the top one!
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• Guest 649

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  20 February 2011     17:4693512
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  The one in the lower photo is a Bentley my family have one but also you can see by looking at the wheels ,have alook again.
• Guest 649

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  20 February 2011     21:0093555
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  Howard have you forgot about this one.
• Guest 698

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  20 February 2011     21:2593561
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  It's an early Bentley Arnage 1998-2000 vintage. Same car as the Seraph bar the badges.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 649

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  20 February 2011     21:3293564
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  As I said Peter a member of my family have one,what a great car but they will not let me drive it nor will they let me drive the B.M.W. or the Range Rover,and the Jag,never mind I do get to look at them.
• Guest 702

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  20 February 2011     22:5193589
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  The Excalibur is based on the style of the 1928 Mercedes-Benz SS. Designed originally for Studebaker by Brooks Stevens. Stevens later formed his own company to make and market them.
  
  

  

  
  Photo of a Mercedes-Benz SS
  www.kenrbaker.co.uk - Photo Gallery
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  21 February 2011     07:4093594
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  the top car in howards pictures looks like a rollscanardly.