Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Why I killed my YouTube channel. Of course there are some positive comments too, at first. But this relentless tide of hate is not something I want in my life. 12220
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoLottie 🚙 @lottiedrivescars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I cannot begin to describe the insane sound that came out from my mouth as I spotted this yesterday morning. Fresh out the tube at 8am, Human League playing (excellent timing) and boom… an Saab. #weirdcarbs #saab99turbo 77210
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoJD Burgess @blacktopmagazine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Silly details from Rustival (sorry, I don't really take pictures while I'm there). 3407
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Oh man, this Mazda 6e interior is really tickling my boat. 3130
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoRuss Wallis @russwallis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It’s Throwback Thursday! Todays collections, 3/4 and side profile throwbacks are: #Britishclassiccars #AlfaRomeo164 #R4 Find all of these artworks and loads more apparel: t-shirts, mugs hoodies ect, on my website www.rjwcreativedesign.co.uk Link in bio 1/3 151
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoBob P. DJ @bob-p-dj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I've always thought it's a Mk1 Granada (longer door handles)👍 Volvo's agency had previous form with Ford comparisons😆 But after a few years I think you'd appreciate the engineering of smooth-riding Ford Granadas equipped with their independent rear axles & double wishbone front axles since the 70s 😎 121
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Awesome. I have briefly driven an UMM, round a yard. It managed to feel both indestructible and yet like it was about to shake itself to pieces at the same time. I do hope they start making them again. 170
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I remember being so impressed with this Suzuki SJ ad back in the day that I went straight out and bought……an airbrush 180
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I’ve always thought the car on the left is a Granada, but I’d love to know for sure. Anyone from 80s-era Abbot Mead Vickers in da house? Fantastic campaigns, by the way, if so. 192
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoSimon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is ROARING ahead on views, biggest opening couple of hours we have had for ages! Check it out, before YouTube runs out of electrons 022
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoBob P. DJ @bob-p-dj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Don't miss Rory's always brilliant 'Weird Car Meet: East Anglia' at The Heron on Sunday 11th October from 4pm 🚗 Put the date in your calendars now, and see you there 😎 Lame excuses for not being there, are not acceptable 😀 #CarBluesky #WeirdCarBS 132
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Really good post here. It’s been a few years since I rode a motorbike regularly, but I can’t think of anything more divorced from the ethos of bikes than paying a subscription fee for software. This shite has to stop 150
Reposted by Grand Thrift Autominiphernalia.co.uk @miniphernalia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026NEW!! Repro Austin-Rover Tax Disc Parking Permit Holder - www.miniphernalia.co.uk/tax-disc-hol... 153
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoChloe Phillips @vhschloe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A wild Renault Mégane Fidji 1.6 16V appears! Been in the previous owner's family from new in 2002! They moved on, and viewed us as the perfect place. Totally original and surviving well at 93k miles. Needs some stuff, but was £0 so that's easy to justify! Runs and drives with no rust! #WeirdCarBS 5485
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I had stop/start in my 1984 VW Polo FormelE. It worked just fine, though it did have a rocker switch to turn it off in cold weather. If you’d told me back then that US politicians would one day consider stop/start a hate crime, I’d have looked at you very strangely indeed. 170
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Who knew the M4 at Reading on a Wednesday night could be pretty? (And lest anyone start worrying, photo taken by my passenger and yes I was overtaking someone, not randomly hogging lane 3 of 4…unlike many others.) 181
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoRob Adcock @robadcock.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Another one of MG Rover's "could have beens" currently on display at the British Motor Museum - the #Rover 75 Coupé concept, built to celebrate the company's centenary. It now belongs to a private individual and is on loan to the museum. #WeirdCarBS 5304
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Currently in Germany. Satnav got so fed up in the traffic today that it started amusing itself by drawing willies on the screen 150
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Am I the only one picking up faint styling echoes from the Vauxhall FB Victor estate? 270
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Bit more involved to set up than a DJI Osmo and a suction cup, eh? (But then I suppose they did have all the time in the world) 4110
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoBen Hooper @popup-breakdown.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Genuinely stunned by Sweden. If it wasn't the fairytale archipelagos, warm cities and lush wildernesses, it's the £1.36/litre 98 E5! So sad to only be spending 24 hours here, but I will definitely be making my return. With such vast spaces and lonely roads, I do see why US cars make sense here... 1152
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoBen Hooper @popup-breakdown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Sweden is already delivering for #weirdcarbs Not shown are the countless hot rods, the immaculate Volvo 145 Estate, and period modded Opel Manta B on the very chill motorway. Happy to report the Starion did Copenhagen to Stockholm on one tank, about 405 miles (out of a 75 litre tank yikes) 3288
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Yet another example of the AI slop that’s flooding #carrestoration YouTube, aided by hundreds of thousands of botfarm views. I’m going to have to unfollow @ukclassiccars.bsky.social, it posts way too much of this s*** 550
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Say what you like about the Marina, it did have good door handles: aerodynamic, ergonomic, robust and even aesthetically pleasing. There, I’ve said it. 0100
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I love my Skoda but it is slightly disconcerting driving around with Roland Rat grinning up at you the whole time. 1252
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoIndecisive Auto @indecisiveauto.bsky.social · 12/08/2026New Video out - this time it's a POV Drive of my 1983 MK1 Citroen BX 16 TRS 2113
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It’s gone weirdly dark… Last time I saw an eclipse was in Spain in 1999, driving through the Pyrenees. We projected it through a pinhole on to the bonnet of a rented Seat Ibiza mk2. 1120
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoBen Hooper @popup-breakdown.bsky.social · 11/08/2026In the UK we don't readily associate Denmark with car culture, but what a meet that was. So much variety, summed up by seeing an ex-1976 motorshow Maserati Merak SS parked next to a 2dr Opel Ascona B. Tonnes of interesting metal, and the potential for far more on a "busy" night 1162
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 11/08/2026All the talk of BMW Inka Orange lately makes me applaud the bold choice someone made ordering this 2018 Lexus CT200h. Full marks for not following the herd. @gentil.bsky.social 6280
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoJD Burgess @blacktopmagazine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/... This would be $4999 in the US.autotrader.co.uk1995 Honda Civic for sale for £499 in LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE1995 Honda Civic for sale in LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE from MZD Motors Ltd - Find your perfect car today with Autotrader 3101
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026“And because they’ve been so fortunate till now…nobody’s quite sure what to feel. Possibly glee. ‘When Bad Things Happen to Rich People’ hasn’t been written yet.” — Michael Lewis, The Money Culture 020
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoJD Burgess @blacktopmagazine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026A few more 'back in the day' SVX pics before it's packed off to the garage. 2264
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoBob P. DJ @bob-p-dj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Agreed that the 00s PT Cruiser has more character than the 80s Audi 80 - it was designed to do so👍 However, when the Audi 80 was designed, square-edged, thirsty & rusty cars were everywhere🚗 The 80 was different then, but other brands copied its aero design✍️ It's the Vitara that's just old & filthy😆 141
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoRuss Wallis @russwallis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It’s Throwback Thursday! Todays collections, 3/4 and side profile throwbacks are: #CitroenXantia #Mk2FordCortina #Peugeot205GTi Find all of these artworks and more apparel: t-shirts, mugs hoodies ect, on my website www.rjwcreativedesign.co.uk Link in bio 1/2 141
Reposted by Grand Thrift Autoawjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The DAF museum in Vermont has a 66 wagon I went for a spin in some years ago. Tho it might not have a sedan. 151
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoGareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This is excellent. 097
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 03/08/2026That would make the Carlton a significant advance on the FE Victor it replaced. Which has its charms, but silence is not a strength, thanks to the Haybaler engine, a 4-speed box (in the case of mine) and the aerodynamic efficiency of a mid-size Gothic cathedral. 0160
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoTamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The 19,999th post on my blog, from this morning… booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2026/08/biso...booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.comBison HuntersWith Soviet jet bombers like the Myasishchev M-4 (NATO reporting name "Bison") able to undertake intercontinental nuclear attack missions, ... 3143
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoChloe Phillips @vhschloe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It's been a minute since I posted to the YouTube channel! Let's sit down and have a catchup! youtu.be/ghA_1VlHkNw #WeirdCarBSyoutu.beWhere have I been? - Let's catch up!YouTube video by VHSChloe 4145
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I keep getting cheery notifications from YouTube telling me that someone thinks I’m too stupid, poor, ugly, posh, old, lazy, boring, inauthentic, left-wing or generally charmless. This latest is by no means the worst, but it’s the last of many straws. 1/3 6110
Reposted by Grand Thrift Autominiphernalia.co.uk @miniphernalia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026#AustinRover Coffee / Tea Mug. Let the chaps at work know you insist on drinking your beverage from a propa mug! - www.miniphernalia.co.uk/austin-rover... #MiniMonday 031
Reposted by Grand Thrift AutoTamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 20/07/2026If our first date involves you secretly recording our convo an feeding it into an LLM, then our second date is probably going to involve a padlock, a tube sock, and a 911 call. 2222
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Made a little more progress with remaking my Rancho today. First picture is from this morning, the others are how it used to be. I probably won’t post a video; people just don’t watch them. 4231
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Either the new Jag prototype has more ground clearance than we expected, or my neighbour has zebras. 1192
Grand Thrift Auto @grandthriftauto.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Went to the monthly Swansea Motor Club meet this morning to catch up with some friends. There were several really lovely cars, but I only took one photo. One. Photo. I really am useless at this social media thing. Sorry. 3241