Unlikely Cars That Share Parts

[Matt]

What cars do you know that share parts with cars that are radically different or where you wouldn't expect to find shared parts?  I'll kick off with the Aston Martin DB7 that shares taillamps with the Mazda 323 and interior door handles with the first generation MX-5.

 

[DVee8]

Marina door handles?

[Bren]

Esprit has SD1 rear lights.

[brickwall]

DeLorean has everybody's parts.

 

S1 Disco had Monty rear lights. One old  land rover had Rolls Royce sides and blinkers.

[forddeliveryboy]

Various Lotus with interior door handles from Maxis, was it, or Marinas? Perhaps they were the same. CX Mk2 door mirrors for TVRs. Citroen gearboxes went into Lotus and Maseratis.

[inconsistant]

S1 Disco had Monty rear lights.

Maestro van.

[brickwall]

MAN bus rear lights were used on a few cars iirc.

[brickwall]

The Rover 400 lights were used on some supercar; I can't remember which, though.

[barefoot]

924/944 has suspension - torsion beam, trailing arms and wobble struts from a VW 1303.

And door handles.

[Paul Dupart]

That bloody ugly Metrocab that had mk2 Granada front grill/lights and mk3 Escort estate rear lights.

 

And the London Taxi FX4 that had Austin/Morris 1100 mk2 rear lights. Which looked good.

 

'Boy, should I get out more....

[Junkman]

Jensen Interceptor has Maserati Sebring door handles, which doesn't help much if you need them.

The 1959 Cadillac was designed around the 1959 Buick front doors.

[Asimo]

 

The doors.

 

[Skizzer]

CX door mirrors went on all sorts of things, including the Esprit after the Peter Stevens restyle.

 

Aston rear lights are always out of someone else's parts bin:  The early 90s Vantage ones were from a mk2 Scirocco, and I believe the William Towns DBS/V8 ones are off a Hillman Hunter of all things.

 

 

Edit:  Yeah yeah, I meant Virage not Vantage.  

[Paul Dupart]

I think (cos I had one) Marina had a Toledo gearbox (early rwd)?  And they shared the diff with the TR7?

[saucedoctor]

VW Shitrocco and Aston-Martin Virage rear lamps.

 

Rover R8 lights were on the Jaguar XJ 220

 

 

 

 

[dugong]

TVR Griffith (90s) used upside-down MkIII Cavalier tail-lights, the Chimaera MkIII Fiesta jobs. 

[DVee8]

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The doors.

 

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The doors

 

[mercrocker]

The cost of plastic engineering seemed to be too high for most small volume makers.....Look at the tail lamp shite that graced Bristol cars, from Hillman Super MInx to Vauxhall Senator.   Ban the bomb Corty units went on to TVR Granturas (original one) and the Unipower Mini had HA Viva units...

[Vin]

I know it's only rear lamps, but still an unlikely combination...

 

[willswitchengage]

 

[robinmasters]

I think it's heritage qualifies it as shite:

 

 

[RoadworkUK]

Rolls Silver Spirit headlamps used on Leyland Royal Tiger Doyen coach,

 

Lister Storm had Audi 80 rear lights.

 

Ford Ka was built exclusively from steel dredged up from the Torrey Canyon.

[chaseracer]

I think it's heritage qualifies it as shite:

 

 

 

Yes, I've always liked that generation of Punto.

[chaseracer]

Citroen Dyane indicators...

 

[michael1703]

Nobel m12 rear lights from a mondeo

 

[derskine]

Fuel sender

 

 

[PhilA]

^ Is that steam from the exhaust on the Rover a la HGF?

 

Anyhow.

 

Pagani Zonda:

 

Ford Th!nk:

 

--Phil

[martc]

....Ban the bomb Corty units went on to TVR Granturas (original one) and ...

 

....every single ice-cream van ever made in the 1970's.

[Asimo]

Lotus Elise S1 /  Renault 4 :  Headlights

 

Lotus Elan S3  /  Renault GTA  : rearlights

 

Lotus Esprit  /  Renault 30, 25, GTA, Master :  Gearbox   (Unless it was an early one in which case it had a Citroen SM 'box)

[willswitchengage]