DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Has anyone seen a Sierra P100 in living memory or have they all rusted away to dandruff sized pieces?
Cars You Never See Anymore
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Reaching out
Just remembered, it's the annual london to Brighton Veteran car run; I hope it goes better this year than last year.
Also, Regent Street is closed tomorrow for this
Home - Regent Street Motor Show
Also, Regent Street is closed tomorrow for this
Home - Regent Street Motor Show
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
The originals had to be taken off the road because they were over braked. After a couple of years they solved the problem by removing the servo. Bloody good car though.Loved these
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
I think it was Pinin Farina
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
It's a VW Karmann Ghia. To me a VW 1500 is a flat windscreen Beetle and a 1600 is a rounded screen windscreen Beetle.
A lot of Beetles were kept alive for a bit longer with Mexican replacement panels but they're rusting away too. The Ghia's have got very thin on the ground, although there was always a yellow convertible off Coldharnour Lane when I lived there.
Leafster
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This is the actual car
TYPE 3 1600TL FASTBACK For Sale Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom | AutoMotoClassicSale.com
TYPE 3 1600TL FASTBACK For Sale Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom | AutoMotoClassicSale.com
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Ah yes, Fastback was the name I was trying to remember
Leafster
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It came in three body styles - saloon, estate and fastback. Most of the models I used to see were estates and fastbacks.
Leafster
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It's odd what sticks in the mind and what doesn't. Someone posted an old photo on Facebook a couple of weeks ago of the local bus depot before it was knocked down. In front of it was parked a car - a Talbot Tagora! If someone had asked to me list PSA cars from the 1980s I would never have thought of it, but seeing a photo of one and it all came flooding back.Yes you're right, they really are getting unfamiliar. And my memory is going
I like the estate models that got the Cal job, all lowered and smooth.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Yes looking at them now I remember we called them Type 3's and the estates squarebacks.It's odd what sticks in the mind and what doesn't. Someone posted an old photo on Facebook a couple of weeks ago of the local bus depot before it was knocked down. In front of it was parked a car - a Talbot Tagora! If someone had asked to me list PSA cars from the 1980s I would never have thought of it, but seeing a photo of one and it all came flooding back.
Leafster
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I didn't ever think of them as Type 3s even though they are. I think the estates were marketed as "Variants" in the UK. I might be wrong on that.
I hadn't really thought about this but I've just looked it up and Type 1s are Beetles and Type 2s are Kombis.
*goes off to google VW Type 4s, 5s...*
moose
like some cat from Japan
4s are downright weird, and 5s are Transporters. My Golf's a Type 15, which is a subtype of Type 1.
Interestingly, VW recently file a trademark for Type 7, so who knows what they have up their sleeve.
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dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
My first car was one of those in grey and red. It had a red leather interior with a front bench seat. 1600 which was good for those days. Reg was 16 NML. Wish I still had that plate.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Strangely there's none of these beauties left on the roads!
Search results for 'talbot tagora' - How Many Left?
Strangely there's none of these beauties left on the roads!
Search results for 'talbot tagora' - How Many Left?
Now I know where Aston Martin got the idea for the Lagonda
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I hate them all except the stanced Allegro.
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The dear Capri is now 50.
I had a Mk3 for a year or two, sadly only the 2 Litre as I could not stretch to the 2.8 or 3 litre. Still great fun.
The humble Ford Capri as we know it, has also now turned 50. In spite of their pretending to be Mustangs or Chargers, they were great fun to drive.
Ford Capri - Wikipedia
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I had a Mk3 for a year or two, sadly only the 2 Litre as I could not stretch to the 2.8 or 3 litre. Still great fun.
mx wcfc : Is that Citroen parked up in a Waterloo (SE1) backstreet? There is, or was, a very small commercial garage nearby that specialises in those models. I use to see several of that time parked up near to each other round there when I lived/walked/cycled in the area ....
Classics of their time anyway
ETA : See also ringo 's post #442, page 15 of this thread
Classics of their time anyway
ETA : See also ringo 's post #442, page 15 of this thread
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plurker
tú no tienes la culpa mi amor que el mundo sea feo
mx wcfc : Is that Citroen parked up in a Waterloo (SE1) backstreet? There is, or was, a very small commercial garage nearby that specialises in those models. I use to see several of that time parked up near to each other round there when I lived/walked/cycled in the area ....
Classics of their time anyway
It is. There are several old Citroen models parked there, they've been on the street for at least nine years - I used to cycle past them every day. They do move occasionally so are runners.
