GTA Roadwatch (was it you?)

I saw a light green metalic 147 GTA near some town just before Stonehenge (you'd never believe I was navigating !), can't remember the name now - on our way to sleep on the grass verge overnight and get the early morning ferry from Poole.

There can't be many that colour.

Saw a lovely silver 156 GTA SW today, on the A27 at Shoreham Airport.

First SW I've ever seen on the road!

(still prefer the saloon though! )

I saw a spotless 156 GTA on the A47 at Guyhern near Wisbeach at 13.45. Very nice!

hi i spotted a black 147 gta and have a picture of it on the back of an AA recovery van last night near the A50 stoke end. very gutted because it was mine :-( not sure what happened just a bang lots of oil and smoke. the engine was still running but it would not move like i did not have it in gear i think its the gear box?
anybody else have any ideas what it could be? its only just done 50k miles and has farsh on an 04 plate very sad day :-(

Sounds like the diff might have blown, might have taken the gearbox with it. Weren't you trying to sell your car?

I saw a red 147 GTA (05 plate) near Looe in Cornwall on saturday.

Originally Posted by toast82

hi i spotted a black 147 gta and have a picture of it on the back of an AA recovery van last night near the A50 stoke end. very gutted because it was mine :-( not sure what happened just a bang lots of oil and smoke. the engine was still running but it would not move like i did not have it in gear i think its the gear box?
anybody else have any ideas what it could be? its only just done 50k miles and has farsh on an 04 plate very sad day :-(

100% sure that the diff has gone through the gearbox - exact same thing happened when mine went! - sorry to hear about the the news, I was lucky as it was covered under warranty. I then had the Q2 fitted with the new box.

Originally Posted by toast82

hi i spotted a black 147 gta and have a picture of it on the back of an AA recovery van last night near the A50 stoke end. very gutted because it was mine :-( not sure what happened just a bang lots of oil and smoke. the engine was still running but it would not move like i did not have it in gear i think its the gear box?
anybody else have any ideas what it could be? its only just done 50k miles and has farsh on an 04 plate very sad day :-(

Sounds like the diff

I think we live in the same town toast - I was looking quite admiringly at your car on Pistonheads recently Shame this has happened

One silver lining ... gives you chance to put a Q2 in there

Saw a black GTA exactly same as mine in Bath on Friday about 8pm it would have been - 18" wheels, anyones? Looked clean! Was parked up so dont know who the driver was

Originally Posted by Dunkx

Red 147 GTA in Fallowfield, Manchester, yesterday about lunchtime.

I drive quite a bit around the Fallowfield area.. Black 156 GTA RE02...

Met a red 147GTA on the way out of tescos Buckingham, what a lovely evening for a drive wasnt it?

Originally Posted by halfnelson

Never seen a GTA on my travels, then saw two in a week - one red 156 saloon southbound on M1 in Yorkshire a week last Thursday, - then passed a grey/silver GTA saloon same colour as mine which was parked in a layby on the A30 in Cornwall last Tuesday in a torrential downpour! Had the foot down so by the time I'd spotted it was too late to beep...

That would have been me! Driving down to go home and see the folks I got to Bristol and the battery light started flashing the downpour starts I turn on the wipers.... Issy dies as I'm crossing the Taymar . I managed to just coast to a stop in the layby! It then took me 4 hours to get picked up and get towed to Penzance A***! Can't say I saw you, I think my head was in my hands at the time!

DC

Just seen a red 156 SW poking outa someone's garage in Alton (and I thought I had the only GTA in town!)

Saw a Black 147 GTA in Keighley last weekend and waved at the driver who waved back, saw a Blue 147 GTA in Huddersfield (most mornings actually) and a Red one on Caldedale Way in Halifax on me way home tonight...

Common as muck

Is it true that only 400 147 GTAs were originally registered in Britain?

Originally Posted by Wonderwall

Is it true that only 400 147 GTAs were originally registered in Britain?

390 is the number I heard quoted.

and 413 is the number I heard quoted

Saw a 156 GTA SW on the 1st lane M25 at about 6.00 pm this evening heading towards the A10 / Enfield turning, I was in the out side lane on the other side of the M25 - can't believe I noticed it !

Originally Posted by ben shephard

I saw a red 147 GTA (05 plate) near Looe in Cornwall on saturday.

That could well have been me!

Was staying five miles or so to the north for a couple of days while my nephew was graduating (or whatever they call it in the Navy) from HMS Raleigh at Torpoint.

I have to say i have never seen another 147 GTA on the road! It makes owning one feel all the more special! There was a 156 GTA on my girlfriends road in clapham junction though, looked awesome!

Saw a red 147 GTA heading towards Brum on the M6 as I turned off to the M60. Very good nick with a private plate

Saw cloverleaf146 this morning on the QE2 bridge.

I miss my GTA soo much.

Told you