Specs You've Never Heard Of Before.

[Junkman]

Citroën GS Basalt

 

 

5000 black and red hydraulic leak cruisers called Citroën GS Basalt were sold by the French in 1978.

The Basalt was the only all-European special model of the GS series.

The formula was simple, but effective: black varnish adorned with vermilion side stripes,

while the interior was decorated with a black and red pattern that did a sterling job bleaching in record time.

Citroën also added bling wheel caps and front fog lights.

Then they had the Beelzebub cut a hole in the roof.

 

Bon Appetit.

[Junkman]

There was also the Roland Garros in white or white, I thing Pug is still doing these on the 108.

 

Yeah, but isn't Lacoste a country mile more cheesy?

[Bianconeri]

Apologies if my ageing memory bank has mis-remembered or simply made some of these up but this is what I THINK I can recall - 

 

Mk 4 Ford Zephyr Special - Uranium blue, Parchment vinyl roof, Zodiac wheel trims. 

 

Viva X14 - Fourteen (count 'em) extras!   Including radial tyres and electric washers IIRC! 

 

There was some sort of "Gold" Viva too, both of these on HCs. 

 

Hillman Avenger - "Top Hat" which was metallic blue with white vinyl roof and the "Sunshine" Avenger which didn't feature a sunroof (because bendy) but came on a 2 door in pus yellow with grubby white half-vinyl roof. 

  

I believe both Avenger Tiger incantations were actually LE models too. 

 

Triumph 1500 "Silver Label"   I might have made this one up or simply mis-interpreted an old period advert.   Its to do with the front badge changing colour. 

 

Reliant Regal Supervan 21E.    Out-extra'd the Viva X14 with 21 "Free" Extras.   You probably wouldn't want at least 9 of them, though. 

 

Ford Granada Consort - pre-facelift Mk2 with gorgeous metallic green offset with green cloth seats.  Yum.  

 

As well as the aforementioned "Jeans" Beetle I remember a "GT Beetle" on the big screen body and something else in metallic silver-blue that I have forgotten (this one had sporty wheels, too). 

 

As nobody else has yet mentioned them there were those (later) Harlequin things too on Polo and, possibly in some markets, the Beetle itself. 

 

There were also run-out 105E Anglias in metallic gold and silver just as the Escort was being launched.  Strangely, the paint didn't seem to fall off these.... 

 

Oh, and those black Mk5 Escort "100 years of Ford" editions which a bloke at work strived to keep from rotting because he thought it might be worth something one day. 

 

Speaking of black - there was a Princess limited edition in all-black which I cannot think of the name for.     

  

Hillman Imp Caledonian - base model in red (usually or always - can't remember) with I think old Sunbeam wheel trims and a little white coachline.   Right at the end of Imp production I think. 

 

MG BGT  Jubilee models in BRG with gold stripes, these were distinct from the run-out LE models in bronze or silver a few years later.   See also those Jubilee Marinas in Citron with, gasp, tinted windows!      

 

Probably more, but brain is melting.....

Wasn't the black Princess the "Special Six"?

 

I did try very hard to get one of the run out Ovlov 480 Celebrations for Mrs BN in the mid 90s, metallic red with grey leather if memory serves. Very few sold new to punters (allegedly) as became the car of choice for Mrs. Dealer-Principal (allegedly, allegedly, etc...). Mrs BN bought a Mercedes instead.

[Bianconeri]

Citroën GS Basalt

 

 

5000 black and red hydraulic leak cruisers called Citroën GS Basalt were sold by the French in 1978.

The Basalt was the only all-European special model of the GS series.

The formula was simple, but effective: black varnish adorned with vermilion side stripes,

while the interior was decorated with a black and red pattern that did a sterling job bleaching in record time.

Citroën also added bling wheel caps and front fog lights.

Then they had the Beelzebub cut a hole in the roof.

 

Bon Appetit.

GS still a cracking bit of kit though.

[red5]

Proton Panache*. Best special edition ever. Not biased, honestly.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Granada Chasseur (and could some people please stop misspelling that?)

 

 

Beige-brown paintwork, inside is a settee in "Jamaica Brown".

Includes infotainment from of a Blaupunkt stereo cassette radio and is unpleasantly drafty courtesy of a non Breadvan proof sunroof.

With the Ford Granada Chasseur, which is French for "hunter", the Mercedes T-Modell challenger from Cologne tried to entice

Audi 100 Avant masturbators and Citroen CX Break pseudo intellectuals.

Only genuine with the fitted luggage set in the boot.

I had one in 92, the luggage was mouldy, as were the seats, I swapped it with a banger racer for a W116 350 SE . One of the saddle bags did service for many years as my jump lead and auction tools

[Junkman]

Lotus Esprit John Player Special

 

 

Limited to 100 units, this wedge is a legend. Superflat, superlight, mid engine. Often copied, never reached.

[Junkman]

Opel Kadett Schneekönig

 

 

The Opel Kadett snow kings offered nothing more than an equipment pack, which included, wiper interval,

sports rims, a "grippy" four-spoke steering wheel, radio with traffic info function buttons and a laminated windscreen.

Incidentally, they were launched in the Autumn before the 1978/79 Winter of the century.

[Junkman]

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[Junkman]

[Junkman]

Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado Bicentennial

 

 

Hailed as America's last convertible, in fear of a legislation that never got past the Senate, 200 of them were made

to commemorate 200 years of ruthless destruction of an entire continent and then some.

All of them were "Bicentennial White", had patriotic blue and red coachstripes, a white leather interior with red piping,

red carpet and red dashboard, as well as a plaque on the glovebox door reminding owners suffering from dementia

of what they are driving.

 

[RoadworkUK]

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(edit at 21:02 - What? I 100% didn't post this. 9 0 what? Who knows!)

Edited March 27, 2017 by RoadworkUK

[adw1977]

Mk2s were avl in taxi spec too.

 

They certainly were.  Lovely heavy duty vinyl upholstery:

 

And post facelift too:

[Timewaster]

Doesn't that Nova Swing have Chevette door mirrors?

A lot of low spec / early Novas had them.

[Bianconeri]

I was tailgated in an urban 30 limit for about five miles this morning by an Audi A4 Moron Edition.

[stormee]

Maximum brownness!

 

[stormee]

A GL w/ leather and automatic, nice.

[stormee]

They certainly were.  Lovely heavy duty vinyl upholstery:

Ford Cars May 81 072-073 Granada S Packs, Diesel, Taxi.jpg

 

And post facelift too:

Ford Cars July 1983 106-107 Granada Diesel L and Taxi.jpg

2,8i GL S is simply awesome, never seen one. Ghias were not badged in D as S, had the package, though. Also very rare: 2,8i S, sold in D as 2,8'injection', as far as I know. Never saw an S here.

[stormee]

Erdbeerkörbchen facelift

[NorfolkNWeigh]

2,8i GL S is simply awesome, never seen one. Ghias were not badged in D as S, had the package, though. Also very rare: 2,8i S, sold in D as 2,8'injection', as far as I know. Never saw an S here.

In the UK the Mk2 was launched with a 2.8iS and the S pack as in this brochure came along in 1980, presumably to bring the Granada into line with the Cortina which lost the 2.0S in favour of S packs when the Mk5 came along.

The facelift In 82 brought with it the 2.8 Injection, complete with spoilers, Recaros and White TRXes, a lot of them were 5 speed manual too.

Jack Regan's 2.8iS

 

A 2.8 Injection

[stormee]

I'm almost sure that the 2,8iS I once saw at the Techno Classica was a pre-facelift. I remember black badges, though. Or it was a 'injection' badged as an S for a foreign market, Switzerland, or even Austria. Junkman surely will know.

They dropped the Taunus S along with the Cortina S, I remember only a few GL S, no Ghia S at all.

[Junkman]

Junkman surely will know.

No I don't.

 

What's actually the question?

[Negative Creep]

They certainly were.  Lovely heavy duty vinyl upholstery:

Ford Cars May 81 072-073 Granada S Packs, Diesel, Taxi.jpg

 

And post facelift too:

Ford Cars July 1983 106-107 Granada Diesel L and Taxi.jpg

 

 

Minicab spec includes

 

- hazard lights that come on as soon as you stop to allow easier parking right in the middle of the road

- extra heavy duty horn for when you sit outside someone's house at 11pm

- two bald tyres as standard

- stereo permanently tuned to a station no one has ever heard of

- free insurance offered in your brothers cousins mates name but that's definitely you Officer

- weird clonking noise coming from the back

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Minicab spec includes

 

- hazard lights that come on as soon as you stop to allow easier parking right in the middle of the road

- extra heavy duty horn for when you sit outside someone's house at 11pm

- two bald tyres as standard

- stereo permanently tuned to a station no one has ever heard of

- free insurance offered in your brothers cousins mates name but that's definitely you Officer

- weird clonking noise coming from the back

I think Skoda has that market sown up now.

[stormee]

Whether the 2,8i S is pre- or a facelift model. And if sold in Germany (maybe a Swiss model).

[stormee]

Whether the 2,8i S is pre- or a facelift model. And if sold in Germany (maybe a Swiss model).

 

No I don't.

What's actually the question?

[adw1977]

Whether the 2,8i S is pre- or a facelift model. And if sold in Germany (maybe a Swiss model).

No idea about Germany, but in the UK there was a 2.8i S model available in 1978:

 

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/61090099@N04/7653178680/

[sierraman]

Phwoarr Gas Shocks!! Does anyone remember when it was in vogue to fit Monroe Gas Shocks?