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Edited by Dynamic Dave on 25/08/2008 at 01:53
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Saw a Citroen LNA is beige in Kingsthorpe Northampton.
I was following a rather tatty drophead 1930's car in black the other day, being driven at a brisk pace for such an old car - no idea what make it was, but it was fairly large 2dr. Never seen it before around here.
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Stu,
I think that's the second reported sighting of an LNA round there. Reflection perhaps of the once prolific Cit dealer at Kingsthorpe hollow with a name advertised to and well known across the County. When I first moved up here c1990, the BX population was notably greater than round my old stomping ground of NW london where Cherrys/Sunnys from Dan Dan the Datsun man were preferred over Escorts and Sierras.
I also seem to remember stopping in Faringdon (Oxon) and noting an almost French preponderance of Peugeots; again a local dealer who'd raised his profile over those of Ford/GM etc.
Can a dealer who advertises wisely and builds local recognition still affect a town's ownership profile years later?
Edited by Bromptonaut on 05/07/2008 at 00:17
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>>I also seem to remember stopping in Faringdon (Oxon) and noting an almost French preponderance of Peugeots;
What! With the discount the local population got on the locally produced, I can't believe it!
Unless of course they knew better?
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BTT
I'm talking early eighties here!! The Peugeots were 104s and 305s.
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Not an unusual vehicle, but unusual circumstances. -
On a recovery transporter I saw an soft-roader SUV - think it was older-type Honda CRV, that didn't look like it had been crashed or rolled, but the roof had been cut off and was resting on top of the vehicle. All the pillars hac been sliced through by those hydraulic rescue cutters as if someone had needed to be rescued. But as I say, the vehicle didn't look damaged otherwise. It looked like it had been in good condition prior to the the roof removal.
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New to me in the flesh anyway, and not instantly recognizable either: half an hour ago, parked just in front of the house and leaving as I arrived, a large and somewhat bland and graceless silver rear end. After a moment I spotted the stick-on chrome leaping cat, then the discreet letters XF. No indication of engine type or size (I like modest and retiring ways in a car).
I fancy one of these new EuroJags after reading HJ's road test of the 4.2 model, and the car looks quite good from the side and front (bit of a brutish maw but it's the fashion) in his photos, but the full rear view at close quarters is a bit uninspired at first sight. Not that it would matter necessarily. Looks aren't everything.
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A while back, on my way to work at the ungodly hour of the morning - 4am! Joys of the newspaper business! - I saw a recovery vehicle with a very badly bent Gallardo on the loadbed.
Considering that Lambos are like hen's teeth, I called a mate who is a motoring journo, and told him the story, asking if maybe he had been responsible for the prang!
Turns out that the owner had taken it out on an informal track day, and been a tad enthusiastic. BUT being a complete git, had then hushed things up, and in the wee small hours had the vehicle moved to the nearby motorway, and parked it strategically next to a barrier, which was dealt a few blows with a large sledgehammer!
He then called the recovery chaps, and the insurers, claiming he had lost it as he braked cos some large animal cantered across the road ahead of him, hence the damage.
Insurance obviously WON'T pay out, because of the disclosure rules, but had he got away with it, they'd have been hit with a rather large repair bill.
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Went to my local Co-Op today and was amazed to see a Brabus conversion Smart. MOre money than sense IMO!
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bought out of the divi? You probably need to be on the wrong side of 50 to get that one!
JH
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Did a Google for a Smart + Brabus. £36,000!!!!!
Edited by Armitage Shanks {p} on 17/07/2008 at 22:41
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Don't know what sort of smart brabus that is, but a standard cabrio version is 'only' £15,000.
A friend has the brabus roadster - very nippy!
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The Coop again has a divi - no different from Tesco's Clubcard, really, but the term is back in use.
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Saw the following at Headcorn Aerodrome about 2 months ago, and managed to get a photo. Have been meaning to mention it, but kept forgetting. Anyway, when I looked at the photo that I managed to get I realised there was a website for it. Have a look on the link below- you're going to love this one!!! ;-)
www.killerka.com/
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Yesterday locally, an Austin A30. Looked absolutely perfect. Timewarp condition, as if it was brand new. Off white with red leather. Strikingly small by modern standards.
My mother had one when new. My father was a policeman and there is a family story of him being on points duty and being nearly mown down by my mother who failed to see his signal to stop. Well that's her story anyway.
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I overtook an incredibly ugly car the other day on the M25 - reverse-rake rear window a la 1960's Ford Anglia, and an arched body reminiscent of the failed 1930 Burney streamlined car.
I caught WILL VI on the boot - Googled it when I got home. Not one up on Prince William but apparently a Toyota sold only in Japan. This was an odd imported one.
I can think of no rational reason for either the design or the name of this car.....
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I overtook an incredibly ugly car the other day on the M25 - reverse-rake rear window a la 1960's Ford Anglia and an arched body reminiscent of the failed 1930 Burney streamlined car. I caught WILL VI on the boot - Googled it when I got home.
Hmmm. Looking at the Wikipedia entry that looks like it could be Citroen or Renault's next, ahem, "radical" design.
In fact, looking at the VS you can see where Renault pinched its apparently innovative Megane design from! And the Peugeot 307, Vaux Astra, Honda Civic, BMW 1 series.....
Edited by jase1 on 06/08/2008 at 03:00
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Parked in a side street (near the car boot sale) in a one-horse town near Limoges, a very sharp-looking 80s-style coupe that turned out to be a Bitter.
An attractive motor - to my eyes - that seemed to owe quite a lot to either Giugiaro (?) or the Pininfarina Lancia Gamma coupe of that era. I think it was actually a German effort, based on the underpinnings of an Opel. The steering wheel certainly had a bit of Vauxhall Carlton about it.
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Mr hannon,
Yes the Bitter was a German offering. It always struck me as a cross between a AM Lagonda and an enlarged Bi-Turbo. A great looking car IMO too that was based on the humble Vauxhall/Opel Carlton underpinnings with the six cylinder powerunits
Lucky you for seeing one :-)
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>Yes the Bitter was a German offering. It always struck me as a cross between a AM Lagonda and an enlarged Bi-Turbo. A great looking car IMO too that was based on the humble Vauxhall/Opel Carlton underpinnings with the six cylinder power units<
SWMBO, whose roots lie east of the Rhine, said: 'Well, at least it has a polite name'...
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08-reg Golf estate on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire.
First one I've seen, anyway.
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Huge big black 4 door saloon, almost certainly American origin. Swoopy faux aerodynamic lines to it. Very dramatic looking car. On German plates. If I had to guess, circa early 1950's. In Nantwich this afternoon. Only badging I could see said "Hudson"
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Did it have an oval back window HB? I remember those, and had a maroon-over-cream Dinky toy of the model. Last of the Hudson straight-eights I think (but just possibly first of the V8s).
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I'm sure it did have the oval window. The guy had the bonnet up but I couldn't stop. Looked like there was a lot of lateral space under there so I suspect an in line engine. Bit like an S-type jag on steroids really.
Edited by Humph Backbridge on 27/07/2008 at 19:54
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I saw a Hudson once in East Sussex parked up behind some garage - it was the big
4-dr 'step-down' style, early 50's I think. Rare car over here I think, doubt it is still about though, was in a village by the sea, in matt black.
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Too dim to understand how to do those tiny "owl" things or whatever y'call 'em, but having googled around a bit I'm pretty sure what I saw today was a 1949 Hudson Commodore Classic.
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Bumper Sticker in Boston (think Celts)
Green Background white letters.
"Vote O'Bama"
Unusually funny I thought !
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Should ensure default support from the Kennedy camp !
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Ah, those Celts and their (usually very understandable) political allegiances... 1961 or thereabouts, friend met a lachrymose Irishman in the street, much the worse for wear after drowning his sorrows (he explained incoherently) over the murder by Moise Tshombe and the then Colonel Joseph-Desire Mobutu (a former hack journalist and political nark but soon to be president and destroyer of what was still called the Belgian Congo), but at the behest really of the CIA, of someone he referred to as 'Patrick Lumumba' and claimed as a compatriot...
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In Bedford the other day.
Tatty, white Triumph Herald with rust streaks all over it, registration: RTA.
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A previous shape Nissan Micro with a paint job that changed colur depending on the angle viewed from.
A Sierra P100 pick up with a tipper body on it.
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A previous shape Nissan Micro >>
A Nissan Micro? If it was that small, you did well to see it at all.
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My speil chequers foiled.
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That's what I could do with - a spiel checker. ;-)
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A previous shape Nissan Micro with a paint job that changed colur depending on the angle viewed from.
My friend and his wife own one of those... From afar it's kind of a bronze/red colour... But at any one time you can see red, green, blue, purple, orange.... We've lost count. It's a standard colour Nissan offered at the time.
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>>From afar it's kind of a bronze/red colour... But at any one time you can see red, green, blue, purple, orange....
That's it. I had only seen it on TVRs and a special new Mini convertable ( last year in my local Mini /BMW outfit)
It just seemed so unlikely on such a "normal" sort of vehicle.
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It just seemed so unlikely on such a "normal" sort of vehicle.
Used to see a Primera with this paintwork - you can't get much more normal than that.
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In my 'Middle of nowhere' East Midlands village last week I saw large tanker type truck, for jetting and unblocking drains, right hand drive and belonging to an UK based firm but registered with Romanian plates! As I looked at it, a white van went past, no markings and didn't see which side the stereing wheel was, but registered on Spanish plates. What is going on? Is it a road tax trick?
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Immaculate Triumph 2000 saloon in shiny burgundy paint in our local Tesco car park this PM. On an "E" plate so that's about '67 / '68 isn't it ?
My Dad always wanted a 2.5 PI around then but bought a Wolesley 6/110 instead.
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My Dad always wanted a 2.5 PI around then but bought a Wolesley 6/110 instead<
How very sensible. The Wolseley may not have been exciting, but with the Triumph 'exciting' meant bursting into flames at both ends (often at the same time).
Curse my long memory...
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A Lancia Delta, HF I think, in Northwich.
JH
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M56 Chester bound this PM. New black BMW X6. Even uglier than the photos. Seriously aesthetically challenged. Horrible. Was going like the wind though.
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A sad-looking Austin A40 Somerset parked in Erleigh Road, Reading with a For Sale - £1,000 notice in the window.
What's unusual is that most 1950s cars are either mint or wrecks, but this one is somewhere in between.
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Just spotted a B-reg Talbot Solara in a car park in Woodley, near Reading. 4-door saloon version of the Alpine for those who ay have forgotten.
Didn't look too bad for its age, but far from mint.
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A Lancia 2000 in Frodsham. I don't think I've seen one of these before. A very attractive rear end (the car!) attracted my attention in a car park. I didn't recognise it but it looked BMW 1602 / 2002 ish but not quite and without the distinctive BMW badge. I was curious enough to walk over to find out what it was and found "Lancia 2000" on it - one of these tinyurl.com/5woze9 It was a beautiful car, sadly rusted through on one wing.
Then I got home, read the paper and nearly choked on my coffee seeing the pig ugly new Lancia Delta. Maybe it looks better in the metal. Do FIAT think it will sell better with a Lancia badge that a FIAT badge? I think the Lancia name should be allowed to RIP - Rust in Peace.
JH
Frodsham tripped the swear filter - I never thought it was that bad a place :-). Anyway sorted it
Edited by Pugugly on 09/08/2008 at 20:20
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'frodsham tripped the swear filter'...eh?
I know a really nice guy called frodsham - I'm sure his name has never given him any trouble.
A couple of weeks ago I passed a signpost (in Sussex I think it was) to 'Effingham'. I could understand that tripping the swear filter - reminded me of the old 'Carry On' films...
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 11/08/2008 at 13:38
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Just to clarify, frodsham didn't trip the swearfilter - frod did. Reason being someone used to refer to Ford as Frod (presumably in a puerile manner so it came across as fraud) whenever they mentioned it in their postings, hence why frod was added to the swearfilter. Unfortunately the swearfilter isn't intelligent enough to distinguish between the words frod and frodsham.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 11/08/2008 at 13:44
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Here's an odd one for consideration.
An N-reg (1995 prefix N that is), Mark One VW Golf. What?
Spotted in Reading last Friday, it was a right-hand drive and not badged as VW Golf - its badges on the boot read "Citi Blues".
Where did this come from? The only thing I can think is that there is somewhere many miles away, perhaps South Africa, where they drive on the left and have been manufacturing Mark Ones under licence long after VW production finished.
Any ideas?
Edited by Alanovich on 11/08/2008 at 11:10
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Yes they are still manufactured in South Africa and badged as the Citi:
www.vw.co.za/models/citi/
On a similar note, about a year ago on the M1 I saw an original Beetle with a 52-plate registration; presumably imported from Mexico.
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Yes they are still manufactured in South Africa and badged as the Citi: www.vw.co.za/models/citi/
Thanks - looks like they retail from about £5k!
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>> Yes they are still manufactured in South Africa and badged as the Citi: >> www.vw.co.za/models/citi/ >> Thanks - looks like they retail from about £5k!
You've given me a brainwave.. We're off to Mauritius at the end of the month, so I could try and get one as a hire car; they also drive on the left and its highly feasible they would get ZA manufactured cars there.
I've had a quick look but no joy. Found one link saying someone had hired a VW Citi there, but the link is 3 years old. I will have another search around..
;o)
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A few days ago I saw an immaculate two tone red and white Hillman super minx doing about 40/50 mph along the M6. Brave mixing it with the trucks!
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A Wolseley 16/60 struggling up Garrowby Hill.
A Triumph TR8 4.4 - what a noise!
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Beautiful blue,very original looking 'T-reg' Triumph Dolomite Sprint in the heinous traffic on the Marylebone Rd yesterday. Complete with back window sticker - 'the original 16v'. The sat nav hanging from the windscreen looked incongruous against the traditional wooden dash.
Lovely looking car though.
Cheers
DP
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Sunday is the worst day for traffic on Marylebone/Euston road these days. Quite apart from roadworks which are made absurdly obstructive on flimsy elf'n'safety pretexts, and apparently now take for ever, the phasing of traffic lights was deliberately sabotaged some years ago to create congestion and justify Livingstonian car-bashing. Central London cross-routes have also been systematically blocked, narrowed and made idiotically tortuous.
When is the new London administration going to purge TfL and hang the main culprits in chains outside the Tower as an example to everyone? I want to see blood, and I want to see it now.
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Yesterday on a leisurely sunday drive I saw what I think was an Austin 7 pottering along between Southport and Tarleton.... I followed the driver for a few miles at a steady 20mph before he turned off into a layby using hand signals to indicate. (proper ones, not those used by the cyclist being beeped at by an irate Focus owner earlier in the day!)
Couple that with the Austin 10 I'd seen earlier in the day it looked like a good day for vintage motoring in the north west!
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Saw my first new model Honda Legend today. It parked next to me so I had a good look at the interior. It seemed to be a quality piece of kit...wonder how much it will be worth in 5 years time?
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I still get grief from SWMBO for selling our lovely Legend coupe rather than taking it with us to France. She's right, too. It really was a quality piece of kit - and it never returned less than 30mpg. I used to floor the throttle (lovely noise) going up the steep hill west of Abbotsbury on the coast road in Dorset and the cassettes would fly out of the rack on the fascia and hit the back window!
Anyway - seen the other day, parked beside a main road in northern Dordogne, a Mahindra Indian Brave 'jeep' lookalike.
They were - maybe still are - made by Mahindra Bros in Mumbai using rights bought from Willys of the USA in about 1948, using in more recent years a Peugeot diesel.
I road tested one during a brief and ill-fated attempt to sell them in the UK, which would have been about 1989 or 1990. An experience I would not care to repeat.
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A friend of a neighbour had one about 10 years ago - truly awful. You could hear he was visiting well before he arrived at the house!
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Memories - the Police in my area hounded one of these off the road in the early 90s - it was 6 months old, the driver was an annoying little toerag with too much money - he failed the attitude test with the local cops and eventually him and his horrid little car taken off the road.
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Those Mahindra jeeps are pretty nasty (although the local police commissioner, one of the heroes of Ousmane Sembene's great movie Guelwaar set in the Senegal countryside, has a nice blue one complete with chauffeur).
But the French Paras I saw in Chad in the early eighties had what looked like brand new real 1940s Willys or Ford Jeeps. Apparently they were made in France and had modern engines, but they looked externally exactly, and I mean exactly, like the genuine article, complete with pick and shovel clipped to the side and jerrycan on the back with the spare.
Nice to think car nostalgia and good taste thrive in the upper reaches of the French armed forces I must say, anyway in elite regiments. We should be so lucky, knuckling under to the Cousins more and more. Do our squaddies have ghastly Hummers yet?
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Nice to hear from the old Colonials....;-)
The French 'Jeeps' really were - they were built to exact spec by Hotchkiss. There's still loads of them around the countryside, if you look hard enough.
Don't know about the 'H' word, but LRs are taking over in the tiny hamlet where we live. Our friends have just bought a house nearby and they have a Defender LWB station wagon; their friends are here this week from UK with the same; guy up the hill has a SWB station wagon and his brother has just bought a LWB station wagon to go with his canvas top Series One. I can confidently say none of them will ever buy a H-----r.
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I had a ride in a military Hummer once at Greenham Common, back in the good old days of the Cold War. Amazing piece of kit, I'd love one as a toy.
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Those Mahindra jeeps are pretty nasty >>
That reminds me, peeps: the main dealer I work for is going to start selling Mahindra trucks and SUVs sometime next year, along with some Chinese car as well. Story I've heard is the Chinese automaker was originally going to have their vehicles on our lot first, but there was some sort of financial meltdown, so now Mahindra have leaped ahead of the ChiComs.
By the way, somebody mentioned the Robin Reliant: anyone with a spare one lying about, we need it here in the Colonies.
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Something I never seen before coming out of work.
HGV driver stalled a rolling truck.
It was a 90degree left hander, truck was rolling up to the turn, loud crack as the engine stalled. Truck stopped, driver onto the starter and off again.
Never, ever seen an HGV stalled before.
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I have seen this happen at least a couple of times in our yard at work, usually happens when the driver tries to pull off whilst manoevering around.
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Outside, today, a Renault 5 Somethingorother - a posh series - a bit scuffed and dented but still almost respectable, well looked after until recently it would appear. In a sort of greeny-grey metallic, faded but sound looking.
It's for sale, asking price £500. The only selling point mentioned on the bit of paper in the window is 'leather seats'. And they are, nicely creased but sound dark ivory sort of colour.
But what of the works? I thought to myself. I am so old and bored now that I didn't peer in to see what the odometer said or glance under the sills for hair and clotted blood.
Is it a sweet garaged pet needing a cambelt or brake pads and easily obtainable for two or three Cs from its short-term second owner, or is it a knackered overheating horror needing welding and suspension? I'm not really interested enough to find out. My own car is still going although it's worse than shabby now.
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I reckon that would have been a Renault 5 Monaco. I want to think about 1700cc ? Seem to recall rust being a bit of an issue on Renault 5s. Might well be OK. Dunno, might not as you say.
Just a suggestion. As and when your Escort is finally ready to retire why not put a "car wanted" post in the classifieds on here with a few criteria ?
Not that it guarantees anything but I'd like to bet that there are some good motors kicking around the backroom due to the higher level of motoring interest inherent in its contributors. A real result would be finding that one of the genuine enthusiasts had something on offer.
Sorry if I presume too much. Just a thought really.
Kind Regards H
Edited by Humph Backbridge on 18/08/2008 at 23:22
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Monaco is the very one HB. No signs of rust, but as I say I didn't look closely.
No offence at all. When it has to be humanely offed the Escort will have to be replaced. There have been a couple of suitable motors through the system here including a Nissan QX. I chased a quite sound looking fwd Skoda here once although that came to naught. I could never quite work out whether I'd done something wrong, but it didn't seem to be the end of the world from anyone's point of view.
Edited by Lud on 18/08/2008 at 23:51
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I peered into it today. 98,000 miles I think, and it's an auto. It has tax and MoT but it doesn't say how long. Body looks very good. I think it's been garaged.
I still don't fancy it though.
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I think and it's an auto. >>
Lud,
Think this car dates back to my brief, inglorious career as a Renault salesman.
The colour is sea mist, which gained a nickname which I'm sure everyone can guess.
The 5auto was about the only small auto you could buy at the time, and we sold quite a few of them for that reason.
No pas meant it was hard work and it was also slow, but comfy in that spongy Renault way.
Not a good buy as a banger, I would suggest.
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Thanks ifithelps, but it isn't my sort of banger, don't worry! Very girly motor actually in that spec. But you would have to know the car inside out, and the girl, to expect one to suit a girl at that age. This Monaco has a nice chunky steering wheel.
The 5 was a slickly-styled little motor in its day though. I seem to remember a late 5 model - GTL? - was an early efficient, large-engined, very high-geared small car, and very economical it was. French roads and driving styles are responsible for a number of automotive design features I find very sympathetic - comfort, economy, high cornering speeds with spectacular roll and powerful brakes among others.
Edited by Lud on 19/08/2008 at 21:15
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Yep, quite right, it was the early days of official economy figures and the manual R5s scored well - particularly with the 5-speed box.
The garage I worked at was in north west London and the customers liked GTLs because they had 5/6inch wide rubbing strips on the side - good for parking knocks.
My favourite was the 5TS which had a bit more poke and was a bit firmer on the suspension.
The 5Gordini was the top sports version - wide wheels, more power, but noisy and a bit overdone in my view.
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VW Polo? Dune in black. Whats the point of that then? Has it a syncro 4WD system, or is it just a niche marketing model of Polo?
Strangely enough, in the same supermarket car park I spotted my second Volvo C30.
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Saw a Morris Marina Camper Van toodling across Sonning Bridge yesterday afternoon. In white and in very good looking condition too.
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Some Porsche convertible model or other (recent) with a (wait for it.......)roof rack. (!)
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On way into work this morning , the last of the Granada / Scorpio shape and it is still very ugly to this day!
Then during lunchtime saw an original Mark 1 Granada with vinyl roof!
This made me think, did the Granada die in Sierra time or was it Mondeo time? Looking at size of new Mondeo, you can see why Ford didn't think there was a space for a bigger executive car!
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Funnily enough I saw three different Scorpios today....was there a club outing today ?
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A BMW 2000 Touring, L reg (suffix, so that's..err.. '72?) near Bramhall. Spotless.
JH
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A convoy of 5 Austin Healey 3000s heading south on the A1M near Wetherby yesterday about 10.30 am. It was "persisting" down with rain but they were all sans hood.
;-)
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Coming up the M5 a few days ago. An MGA (I think, it had an MG boot badge. It looked like a Healey 100/3000 in the mirrors), but I could see front disc and caliper through the front wheel?
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Lincoln's Inn last week, an immaculate DeLorean on Ulster plates with "back to the future" where the plate manufacturer's details should be. Seemed to be in daily use.
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A "T" reg (suffux) Fiat Strada - 5 door in red. Seen Yesterday in Caversham, Reading. Looked very tatty too, amazed someone was bothering to keep this piece of junk running and I say that as a huge Fiat fan!
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Riding into London this morning, saw one of those Carmichael 6-wheeler range rovers, possibly mid to late 70's, although I didn't see the plate. Looked a bit tatty but it was going.
Riding home yesterday, saw a 2000ish boxster sprayed like a Zoo advert, with a lion on the bonnet, and a zebra (plus possibly ring-tailed lemur) on the flank, all surrounded by foliage. Assume it must be advertising, although I didn't see a name.
A while back I saw a late model black cab covered in synthetic grass. I told the cabbie through the window that it must be a 'beggar to polish' to which he was kind enough to smile indulgently, though I suspect it was probably the 832nd time he'd heard that (today)...
Cheers,
Alex.
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Anyone wanting to spot rare, interesting or just plain old cars should come along to the Rustic Fayre in Verwood, Dorset on Bank Holiday Monday. As well as the usual country fair attractions, there will be 120 vintage and veteran cars, plus loads of commercials and agriculturals. Also static ic engines, which I have never seen the attraction of personally!
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Someone once told me you can only show a stationary engine if you have an accessory wife who can sit beside it, knitting...
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Anyone wanting to spot rare interesting or just plain old cars should come along to the Rustic Fayre in Verwood Dorset on Bank Holiday Monday. As well as the usual country fair attractions there will be 120 vintage and veteran cars plus loads of commercials
Thanks for that! I hadn't heard about that one and it's only 20 mins. up the road for me.
My unusual sighting this morning was a Citroen CX Safari ( or whatever they called the estate) generally a bit tatty but finished in a very high gloss metallic bronze colour that reflected its surroundings chameleon style. Looked very odd indeed.
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An E reg Wartburg estate, in various shades of white. I'd have thought the tin-worm had got them all by now.
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I would have thought tin worm was the least of their troubles.
BTW, I saw that Mahindra Indian Brave again yesterday (see above). It had a 'for sale' sign on it.
Maybe someone could buy it as the basis of a collection of best-forgotten Third World and Eastern European off-roaders like the Dacia Duster and the UMM Transcat - anyone remember them?
Edited by mike hannon on 21/08/2008 at 14:58
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"Dacia Duster and the UMM Transcat - anyone remember them?"
Drove both when new. I seem to recall the Dacia Duster was rusty when brand new. Basic little run-around but then it was sunny at the time and all seemed good with the world. The UMM was great for getting round that famous quarry near Caterham that featured in a lot of 1970s dramas but incredibly crude on the road. You probably know it was based on the French-built Cournil and I saw one or the other apparently in running order recently in rural France somewhere. It wouldn't surprise me if it was a contender for the Hilux's crown as the vehicle Top Gear couldn't kill.
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In Surbiton, A G reg Nissan Pao in Aqua Grey.
Seems they only made 10,000 and none were sold by Nissan UK.
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A new FIAT 500 for sale in my nearest showroom.
The unusual aspect is that the Guy Salmon showroom ( Jaguar and Range Rover dealer) normally has vehicles such as almost new RR, Bentley Maserati, Ferrari, Porche etc in this window.
Earlier in the week the FIAT ( now sold) was on its own.
Is this a seal of approval for the new 500 ?
Tonight it is sharing space with a Maserati and an XK
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Saw a Citroen SM in Northampton the other day, looked very straight, in a goldish sort of colour.
One of my neighbours has had a 1930s 4dr sitting in the drive on and off for the last week or so. Its quite a dainty shape, longer and lower than most 30's cars I seen, but its always parked nose in so havent been able to glimpse the badge yet. Hoping it sticks around, its a real beauty.
When I was training to valet, on my way to work, there was a guy always coming to work
( suit/tie ) in a Ford Y, Im guessing that is mid-30's era. Lovely looking cars. Infact, Im a lover of 1930's styling so I guess I like most of them!
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Hi,
Just thought I'd share this with you. I saw an 84/85 B plate Honda Jazz today in a Birmingham supermarket car park. It was in stunning condition - no signs of rust, bumpers not faded, even the steel wheels looked very clean and rust free. An elderly lady was getting into it, so I assume it's been cherished since new and covers very few miles. I think there must be only a handful of these left in the Uk now (maybe single figures). I last saw one in 2004, bombing along a dual carriageway.
Anyway, just thought I'd share this rare sighting with you. I love these oddball Japanese cars of the 1980s and have no doubt I would have bought one (had I not been a baby at the time!). It must be in my blood, as I drive a 2004 Daihatsu Charade. Though it's not as rare as an original Jazz I rarely see more than 15 on the road in a year (and I travel around a fair bit).
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The old lady who lived next door to my nans old house had a Jazz of similar vintage, in silver. Hers was somewhat more battered as she tended to drive while intoxicated. She bought it to replace a Mini and still had it as recently as 2006.
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My english teacher had one! Doubt if many came in thanks to high price and import quotas.
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Good to hear that there are ones still floating around (or at least until recently). I remember seeing one in bright yellow! I seem to recall that the engine was very advanced for its day, with complex advanced valve technology (perhaps someone on here knows a bit more about this??!). However, seeing as so many of them seem to have been bought by old(er) women I think the technology may have been wasted on the weekly supermarket run! I suppose a modern day equivalent in the Honda Logo. I see a few of those around, and I hear they're supremely reliable. I also remember that it won the JD power survey a few years back (2003?).
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An immaculate (but turd brown) Reliant Scimitar GTC - nice open top driving in a surprisingly fresh and modern shape. Remarkably rust-free ;-)
joke: - Yes I do know it is fibreglass.
Edited by Pugugly on 24/08/2008 at 08:32
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just got stuck on the A55 near penmaenwar behind a german Kubelwagon full of WWII german officers but lucky passing though the village i noticed the american G.I's jeeps were'nt far behind(i swear its the truth)......and i've not even been drinking
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They were on the way to occupy the Dwygyflychi corridor - thus preventing the good burghers of Pydew access to the sea depriving them of the means to export treacle from the Chwitffordd treacle mines.
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you wait till i get into work tommorrow the boss told me i would be co-ordinating local projects he didnt say anything about collaberating with the third reich
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It'll be them wot smuggled the Andalucian Charcoals in, I'll be bound. Nice baked in a bit of Welsh treacle.
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