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Has anyone seen a Sierra P100 in living memory or have they all rusted away to dandruff sized pieces?
 
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 :thumbs:Home - Regent Street Motor Show

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Leafster said:
Isn't that a Volkwagen 1500/1600?

Still rare these days.
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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.
 
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 said:
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.
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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. :D
 
Leafster said:
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. :D
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Yes looking at them now I remember we called them Type 3's and the estates squarebacks.
 
ringo said:
Yes looking at them now I remember we called them Type 3's and the estates squarebacks.
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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. :cool:

*goes off to google VW Type 4s, 5s...*
 
Great car. There is an estate version of that out on the street in Balham. Has seen slightly better days but not beyond hope.
 
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 :cool:

ETA : See also ringo 's post #442, page 15 of this thread :cool:
 
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William of Walworth said:
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 :cool:
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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.
 
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