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  1. Think there's now a couple of For Sale/ Wanted threads running, aside from the sub-forum...but this looks to be it here:
  2. ☑️ French ☑️ Noisy ☑️ Bumpy ☑️ Fun Ticks all boxes...
  3. Hope you get this going! As it's a 'known car' in XM circles, someone somewhere should have a few pointers on where to look. Can confirm that Club XM's one of the better single-model clubs out there; plenty of enthusiasts with mechanical knowledge and experience to back it up. I once had a Cortina fitted with an aftermarket immobiliser where the activation switch was hidden under the carpet in the driver's footwell. Basically you had to kick at the corner where the bulkhead met the transmission tunnel in order to get it to start. The floor wasn't really all that sound, and... well, you can probably guess the rest.
  4. Nissan apparently killing off the Datsun name, for a second time: Nissan signals the end of the road for Datsun cars - BBC News
  5. @wesacosa- confusion no more! (Pretty decent music/shite joke, IMHO)
  6. Same manufacturer, similar market segment - 21 years apart.
  7. Found it! Seems it was indeed made by Palitoy. I'd thought it was probably made by another manufacturer - the quality was ok, but not brilliant. That's a very small part of my mind that can rest easy now...
  8. Lovely to see the big Action Man vehicles - I had a load of hand-me-downs from my older cousin, including the Foden truck (with doors and hatch present, but without the rear load cover or fold-down side bits), a Jeep with a missing bonnet, a self-propelled gun (as shown at the top left of the poster above), some bits of a howitzer, a motorbike and sidecar, and a sandy-coloured staff car that looked vaguely like an overinflated Kübelwagen. They were all pretty well used when they passed to me, and even more used whenever I sent them on their way - think I sold them at a car boot sale when I was in my late teens. The SPG seems to have been a Palitoy item, but I'm not sure whether my Jeep was by them as well or another toymaker. Would have been nice to have them still, but they were pretty big!
  9. Oh, wow. Now that's something. Do the S1 cars have the daft little tippy-tappy keypad to enter the immobiliser code? The one on my S2 estate was, erm, temperamental at times.
  10. ...with the hood stuck in the 'down' position, and rain forecast for later?
  11. With the house move now imminent, the 'Rolla has been called upon to do some load-lugging. It can actually swallow a fair amount with the rear seats laid flat. Fair play. In less happy news, after several weeks of messaging another Outback owner - who professed an interest in mine for spares, but couldn't be tied down re. dates or logistics - sadly it seems that time's up for the crispy fried Subaru of many Shiters. I need it off the driveway urgently. Not quite the outcome any of us hoped for - but with the MOT long since expired and the insurance swapped over onto the Toyota last month, offering this onto the open market to the mouth-breathing twonks general public could only end in more headaches. I've enough metaphorical plates to keep spinning right now; this is just another thing that needs to not be nipping at me. I've cancelled the legal fig-leaf MOT booking for mid-May, which should also net me a £30 refund - giving a grand total of £390 back my way. It's such a nice driving big thing, and I'll really miss it. Every single owner it had on this forum has done their damnedest to help it live on; I kinda feel like I'm the one letting the side down by admitting defeat. But ultimately it's Subaru's own lack of rustproofing which has been the problem - and watching that episode of Hoovie's Garage featuring a Subaru Baja of similar vintage reassures me that it's maybe the right decision... once the underbody on these things starts to go, it seems to go pretty swiftly. I'm not sure what lies behind the plastic panels on mine, but I daresay it's nothing good. It's been a blast - but I think that's me and the Subaru marque done for now...
  12. It's hard to know whether to put such things in the abandoned thread, or the spotted thread... There was another place near to us that had the mortal remains of a Beetle 1303 filled with flowers, but it closed a fair few years ago now. I can remembers the Viva Owners Club getting Very Cross Indeed in the late '90s about some garden centre in England who had knocked the windows out of a really clean, really early HC Viva and filled the interior with soil and petunias...
  13. Oof, that looks decent! Very nice colour, and the stripes look bang-on. Wonder if Matchbox might have shifted more of these Gus's Gulpers if they'd been a more appealing shade than day-glo pink or appliance white?
  14. Best of luck for the test today - rooting for you here. Spirit of Autoshite, right there!
  15. Dare I say... that looks better than might have been expected? Maybe the layer of Bondo effectively gave it armour-plated properties? Glad to see it looking relatively unscathed, regardless!
  16. Garden Centre shite. This 126 used to be part of an annual festive display in the lobby, with a roof rack of seasonal delights and (sometimes) a Father Christmas mannequin behind the wheel. These days, it's not looking so chipper. A very down-at-heel Standard Ten, in a walled garden area. Pretty crispy, and missing quarterlights won't be doing it many favours either. No wonder its mascara is running. 60cc (?) Laverda scooter, still wearing what looks like its original Republic of Ireland number plates. At least this one's kept under cover - I know bugger-all about scooters, but this can't be a common thing?
  17. Coachbuilt special - I understand there were a total of four 130 Familiale estates built, all by the Como-based firm of Officine Introzzo. Absolutely lovely cars, one of my all-time favourites. Here's Agnelli's in action! Glorious big barge.
  18. That's from a late version of the Corgi Juniors Emergency 999 playset, I think. I had a Duple Vista coach with similar 'smoke effect' paint up the side, from this earlier set.
  19. Not much on the Matchbox front over this side of the water either: a scant couple of unwanted baggage trucks is all that remained in the Tesco dump bins last time I looked, while stock on the pegs was restricted to the modern London taxis on the 'UK Collection' long cards. It's fortunate, in a way, as it means that temptation hasn't been waving at me...
  20. Aha, yes indeed - I can see how my Pilen version has clear similarities to the Dinky Simca. I'm equally unsure of the chronology of Dinky's various European operations - some squinting at Wikipedia seems to indicate that the 1308/ Alpine was one of a handful of late-1970s models designed and made by Pilen in Spain, some of which were then sold in France fitted with Dinky bases and 'Made in Spain' marks. 11539 VW Scirocco 11540 Renault 14 11541 Ford Fiesta 11542 Simca 1308 GT 11543 Opel Ascona Dinky Toys - Wikipedia Interesting that Pilen then must have decided to 'Talbot-ify' their casting to depict the post-1980 facelift version of the 150/ Alpine - and if Pilen amended the tooling after Dinky's collapse to add the Talbot name and the new nose, maybe that would count as a unique model (or variant, at least)? Annoyingly, I no longer have the Pilen model so don't know if there was a reference number on the base...
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