Cars You Never See Anymore

[Leafster]

A Darracq cannot be mentioned without mentioning Genenieve.
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I did think about mentioning Genevieve but the one I drove was ten years younger.

The Peugeot I drove in the L to B was actually in the film though.

 

[hash tag]

I saw a standard 10 being driven along Chelsea Embankment earlier. It was this colour and looked like is was used regularly.

 

[Leafster]

I saw a standard 10 being driven along Chelsea Embankment earlier. It was this colour and looked like is was used regularly. View attachment 285134

One of the teachers at my Primary school had a 10 (or possibly an Eight). I remember it looking old-fashioned even then (the late 1960s / early 1970s). We * were all far more interested in the purple Lotus Europa one of the other teachers had!

* Well, the car obsessed kids were.

 

[hash tag]

A purple Europa? They are few and far between anyway, but a purple one?

 

[Leafster]

A purple Europa? They are few and far between anyway, but a purple one?

Don't forget we're talking late 60s/early 70s.



Apparently the colour is "Roman purple"

 

[pseudonarcissus]

.. bought my first Mk1 Escort. It was a 2 door 1.3L, that ended up a few weeks later as a 1.6 with twin 45s, a dog box and a Quaife LSD, a remote servo and adjustable Konis.

it was a bugger changing them back after a front end shunt and before the insurance man visited.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I had some REAL performance cars in my youth... Morris 1000 Traveller, Austin Allegro, a Maxi, a 2CV Dolly, Alfa GTV6 (best car), Mini Shitty, Jeep Cherokee (well, I was living in Texas), Golf GTI (20 years too late), Mini Cooper, Mini Cooper S, Fiat Turbo, Mini Convertible....and now a wonderful, top-of-the-range Renault Kwid (Wikipedia informs me this is exclusive to the Indian and Brazilian markets...it's a privilege to have it, I guess).

13 in 36 years

 

[Dogsauce]

Don’t see these in the UK much, iirc they ended up in a ridiculous insurance group (due to ease of theft) that made ownership unattractive, so most got shredded quite early.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Don’t see these in the UK much, iirc they ended up in a ridiculous insurance group (due to ease of theft) that made ownership unattractive, so most got shredded quite early.

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Snippet of useless information... The rear lighr cluster on the Orion will exactly fit a MK5 Cortina. It's only the outer lens that was changed.

 

[dessiato]

There’s a few of these



in the town to which we’ve moved. I suggested Mrs D might like one, or the convertible, she’s not convinced.

 

[marty21]

I reckon I've had over 320 cars but I've only ever made money on 5 of them: Countach, Countach part out, Murcielago, Pantera and R32 GTR.

The ones I really wish I had kept were the E36 M3 GT, E34 M5, Evo 6.5 TME and Renault Clio Williams.

320! If I'd owned 320 , at my current rate of ownership, it would take me 1920 years

 

[hash tag]

Don’t see these in the UK much, iirc they ended up in a ridiculous insurance group (due to ease of theft) that made ownership unattractive, so most got shredded quite early.

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I had an Orion 1.6 I Ghia for a while.

 

[hash tag]

I had some REAL performance cars in my youth... Morris 1000 Traveller, Austin Allegro, a Maxi, a 2CV Dolly, Alfa GTV6 (best car), Mini Shitty, Jeep Cherokee (well, I was living in Texas), Golf GTI (20 years too late), Mini Cooper, Mini Cooper S, Fiat Turbo, Mini Convertible....and now a wonderful, top-of-the-range Renault Kwid (Wikipedia informs me this is exclusive to the Indian and Brazilian markets...it's a privilege to have it, I guess).

13 in 36 years

Alfa GTV6 (best car)

 

[hash tag]

By coincidence

Standard 8

 

[hash tag]

I remember getting excited about an RS 3.1 Crapi, so much so that I bought it, and sold it a week later when I realised it handled like a new born giraffe.

I only ever had one Capri. I was skint and needed a car quickly to get to work. I bought it for £90 with three months MOT on it. It got me to work till the insurance money on a previous car that got stolen came through..

A week before the MOT ran out, a neighbour did an unofficial MOT on it, and came up with three sides of A4 of fails.

It was a death trap. I scrapped it.

My MK3 Capri was great fun. Slid out easily around corners, roundabouts Etc. Perfect.

 

[Elpenor]

I had an Orion 1.6 I Ghia for a while.

My granddad had one in the early 90s, prior to that he had a Vauxhall Chevette

 

[Dogsauce]

The Maestro was the traditional grandad car a couple of decades ago (along with Metros). Can’t remember when I last saw one. Someone at work offered me one for nothing about 20 years ago but I didn’t have a license then.

 

[20Bees]

I’ve had 17 cars in 47 years. The one I most regretted not buying was a black Mk2 Capri. I test drove it with Dire Straits Making Movies blaring and loved it, but my (ex) husband suspected they were lying about its history. Heard they scrapped it a few weeks later but it could’ve been fun for a summer.

 

[Dogsauce]

Nice vintage Corolla at the petrol station this morning

 

[Dogsauce]

Nice bike ride around the estuary this morning, a couple of things spotted on the way…





Nice garden ornament

 

[DownwardDog]

Ford Prefect 100E before anybody asks me...

 

[Dogsauce]

The eagle-eyed might notice a slight difference in shade between the back door of the Escort 1100 and the rest of it - looked like it had been replaced and resprayed not quite the right shade.

That‘s one tradition we seem to have lost, that of aged cars being driven about with different coloured doors/wings. Is it because stuff doesn’t rot as much or do people just have higher standards? If I was ever to take on an 80s classic like a Sierra I’d be tempted to have a mismatched door for authenticity.

 

[Dogsauce]

Ford Prefect 100E before anybody asks me...

Looks like the sort of thing that would have been ‘bangered’ in the classic era.

 

[Saul Goodman]

The eagle-eyed might notice a slight difference in shade between the back door of the Escort 1100 and the rest of it - looked like it had been replaced and resprayed not quite the right shade.

That‘s one tradition we seem to have lost, that of aged cars being driven about with different coloured doors/wings. Is it because stuff doesn’t rot as much or do people just have higher standards? If I was ever to take on an 80s classic like a Sierra I’d be tempted to have a mismatched door for authenticity.

Cars used to be a pile of rot at 10 yeas old. We have so many different metal alloys now, and they last a lot longer.

 

[Dogsauce]

Cars used to be a pile of rot at 10 yeas old. We have so many different metal alloys now, and they last a lot longer.

I also suspect that swapping a door over after a knock isn’t as simple as it used to be due to electrics etc., will be more expensive even for one from a breakers with fitting, so people more likely to get it done on the insurance and have a proper job done.

 

[hash tag]

It did develop into a thing for a while

 

[Elpenor]

And of course here

 

[Saul Goodman]

Bus wankers!

Edit: Great minds...

 

[dessiato]

Bus wankers!

Edit: Great minds...

I shout this at people sometimes. I don't think the Spanish get the reference.

 

[not-bono-ever]

that escort mk1 would last 30 seconds in the UK before being twocced