Mash

So I got fed up of driving a sensible, reliable, economical Japanese hatch and have taken the plunge and got myself the Alfa Romeo I always wanted. What could possibly go wrong?!!
 
Picked this beauty up today courtesy of your friend and mine, D_Hirst Esq. Lovely condition, stacks of history and only 61k miles. It drives bloody lovely and it makes a change for me to have something that actually handles pretty respectably!
 
It's a 1.8 T Spark 16V and has been owned from 6 months old by the same chap, even had a full respray about 5 years ago.
 

Jeez what a lot of negativity. Trig's just having a bit of a laugh, I thought it was amusing, not having heard of it before but it's so true when you watch old eps of TG.
 
Lighten up guys.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-RENAULT-11-TURBO-SPARES-OR-REPAIR-DRIVE-AWAY-/141129231925
 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C455958
 
I want to make sweet, passionate love to this car for hours. I am weird.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C455971
 
This looks ace for £750!, If I hadn't got the Acclaim I'd be all over this as a runabout.

Mrs Trigger: Mike, you really ought to start thinking about buying something different, I'm getting tired of your obession with these Civics, and shave that beard off too, your not Dollywobbler!

What you have to remember is that it is just that - an affordable small car for developing countries.  If it was imported here you'd want it to be very cheap.  The expectation of new car buyers in Europe is much higher and if this was brought up to that acceptable standard there'd be no point - there's the Micra already and the price would be too high.
 
My understanding is that Datsun is a new name to most young people but one that does have a heritage.  They don't remember the days when the cars were slated and in a lot of these countries the Datsun image was not the same as the blinkered one over here.
 
I know I'm biased having 3 Datsuns in my fleet but I do think they deserve to succeed and I think it's a cool idea reviving the name for a budget brand.  After all, the large cars like the Cedric and Laurel were never given the same credibility here as the smaller cars and in the domestic market Nissan predominated anyway.  One of the reasons Datsun was used here in the first place was to differentiate from wartime Nissan products so that grandpa wasn't too offended.
 
I'm not sure calling it Cherry or Sunny would have worked though.....

Only 4 made?  Thank Christ for that.  Unless that means 4 completed and the other 100 sat languishing in gardens in bits after the enthusiasm/cash/wife left.

***Barn find of the week***
 
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1984-FORD-FIESTA-1-3-GHIA-BLUE-Barn-Find-back-in-time/161075539967?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D286%26meid%3D266981570183677845%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D1048%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D161077675034%26

Audi 80 Sport. My mate had one of these when we were kids. It was fucking EPIC. I loved it. Properly fast compared to all the other shit I had driven up until that point. 
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1986-AUDI-80-SPORT-SILVER-/221257413433
 


 
 
I suspect this is because you live in fucking Narnia. WTF is going on with the snow on the car? Is it always winter but never christmas? Are you Mr Tumnus?

The chauffeur was astounded that Stuart Hall got away with his obscene behavior for so long...

"If you've stepped in dog shit then you can take those bloody shoes off!"

You broke up oasis to do this for a living noel???

"Bollocks, some slag in a yellow tranny has already turned over the bookies"

Got mine - although it was registered on the 2nd August!
 

Wow!  Cordia Turbo!

Got mine - although it was registered on the 2nd August!
 

I chanced upon the Postal archive website this evening and I hadn't realised they had so many ace vans in preservation.  The link below goes to the heritage fleet listing.  Click on the article number down the left column and it brings up a larger image.
 
My faves would be the Leyland EAs which are nigh on extinct but also the TV Detector van which is an actual MORRIS Sherpa!!!
 
I'm easily pleased.
 
http://catalogue.postalheritage.org.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?srch_AnyText=heritage+fleet&dsqWords=Phrase&srch_AltRefNo=&dsqCmd=SearchBuild.tcl&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqServer=localhost&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&btnSearch=Search

No, Stanza is a completely different car although the resemblance to the B12 Sunny estate is there if you squint a bit!  Dollywobbler is right - there was this and the older shape B11 that ran concurrently up to 1991-ish.
 
This model Sunny is a confusing one because only the estate and coupes are actually Sunnys proper.  The hatch and saloons we got (N13) are Pulsars everywhere else which is descended from the Cherry range hence N and not B in the model code.
 
*anorak off*

No, Stanza is a completely different car although the resemblance to the B12 Sunny estate is there if you squint a bit!  Dollywobbler is right - there was this and the older shape B11 that ran concurrently up to 1991-ish.
 
This model Sunny is a confusing one because only the estate and coupes are actually Sunnys proper.  The hatch and saloons we got (N13) are Pulsars everywhere else which is descended from the Cherry range hence N and not B in the model code.
 
*anorak off*

Say good bye to Grandad he's not coming in our lovely new car, it's something to do with forced labour on the Burma Railway

I mostly stick to 1/43rd but I have some of the more chodley 1/18 like the Norev CX and Otto R14.  Just got the Norev R16 in black which is lovely.  And I've got the IST Lada in beige which is identical to the one my grandad had.  I had to treat myself to the Otto Fiesta XR2 Mk2 as well as these models are just fabulous.
 
A 1/18 Marina or Allegro is high on the wish list but boggo British cars are few and far between in this scale.  Wolseley 6/80 police car would look fab too.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-mk3-Super-rare-3-door-ghia-1-3-1-owner-from-new-58k-vgc-original-/181163914185

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1979-DATSUN-120Y-ESTATE-28-000-MILES-2-PREV-OWNERS-LOADS-HISTORY-/261235868808
 
Very cool

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1981-FORD-FIESTA-POPULAR-PLUS-BLUE-/130934892885
 
What a sweetie!!!!