Sam Glover

Sam > would it be a big ask to find out exactly what you've got in your collection?

Yes.

ARO 242

Anadol A1

Austin Apache

Barkas B1000

Bedford VAL

Bond 875

Citroën Ami 6

DAF 33

Dacia 1310

Dacia Coupe

Dacia Shifter

Datsun 120Y Coupe

GAZ Chaika

IZH 2125

Lada 2101

Lada Niva

Lada Riva

Leyland Princess 2

MGB GT6

NSU Ro80

Panhard Dyna Z

Pontiac Trans Am GTA

Rover 2200TC

Rover 3500S

Rover Maestro

Å koda 1000MB

Å koda Favorit Freeway

Tatra 603-2

Tatra 613-4 KATi

Tatra T600 'Tatraplan'

Trabant 1.1 Kombi

Trabant 601 Limousine

Trabant Kubelwagen

Volga M21

Volga M22

Volvo 66

Volvo 164

Volvo 240GL

Volvo 245

Volvo 262C

Volvo 343 Variomatic

Volvo 1800ES

Yugo 55 Sport

Yugo Sana

Yugo ZLM

Zaporozhets 968A

what's the Devonshire autofilth collective?

I mean the collective farm of superior Marxist vehicle appreciators in Devon. Everybody is equal in democratic socialism, but perhaps the most equal of their number is Mr Nowill.

RHD Sanderos and Dusters will be coming the the UK at the end of this year, but both are far too good to be interesting.

The surviving RHD Tavria is still in the Devonshire Avtofilth Collective. It's in fine fettle. They're really not that bad, appalling build quality aside. Borderline stylish.

Sam

Gosh!

I, too, would invest actual money in one of those Moskviches. A collective rescue effort has already been discussed between myself and Comrade Andrew353w.

I'm not well-versed in the other forum, though. Can anyone extract some contact information?

Yours in the name of democratic socialism,

Sam

I've been mercilessly thrashing this luxury home for six weeks, but have now grown tired of it.

Temptation exists to drive it to a scrapyard for profit. But first... does anyone fancy it?

It's not very good, but it is very cheap.

Will swap for other cars or items.

Statistics:

- MoT until mid-October.

- Taxed until the end of July.

- Neighbour-wowing Jewish Racing Gold paintwork.

- 'Sports' tailgate.

- Automatic gearbox technology.

- 140,000ish miles.

- Previously owned by Scooters, like all good Volvos.

- Soon to feature in the Spring issue of Practical Classics magazine.

- Front wing streamlined using accident damage.

- Roof-lining removed for extra fuel economy.

- Working CD player with free original copy of 'Doolittle' by the Pixies.

- Slippery, spanky black leather interior.

- Folding seat camper conversion function.

- Constant loss windscreen washer system.

- Capable of cruising at 100mph while delivering literally miles per gallon.

- Slightly sticky LH front caliper, resulting in warm fog-horn sound on every 50th pedal press.

- Tires have plenty of tread, but lack pedigree.

- Front left tyre may smell of dog urine.

- New control-arm bush at cost of over £8.50.

- Mildly rattly front steering/suspension parts - a tired balljoint or two, perhaps?

- Otherwise mechanically adequate.

- 1/3 of a tank of petrol.

- Would suit fly-tipper, sheep rustler or dogger.

Drive it home from Chippenham, Wiltshire.

PM or give me a ring on 07748 593408.

Sam

 

 

WOW!!! A Volga estate!!! Right hand drive, too! Rare as the proverbial snow flake in Hades, the Elstree studios had two blue ones, that were used in "The Champions" and other 1960's TV series made there. Given the paucity of their availability I suspect that this might be one of them, albeit re-sprayed. Great to see one! Thanks, mate!!

Excellent! Here's this car now:

As far as I know, this is one of two UK-spec M22s in existence. There's another in a private collection in Derbyshire. The two desperately scratty examples that were festering on a driveway in Surrey have disappeared - presumed scrapped. I recently met a chap who claimed to have personally crushed the blue car that appeared in Thunderball and The Champions.

In know of five UK-spec M21s - three in the UK, one is Moscow and one in Vladivostok.

If anyone has any leads, though - please holler.

Sam

Phwooorrr... a Dacia Denem is top of my dream car list. If anyone stumbles across any leads, please do let me know - sam@samgloverlimited.com

I have a restorable Shifter in the Avtofilth Repository - a 'Special Edition', no less - and I'm hot on the heels of another. I've also just liberated a 1310 (standard Romanian issue - so nothing special). It was intended to be a parts car for the Sport, but it's far to good to cannibalise.

I feel the UK also needs an Oyak-Renault Toros.

I'm taking a luxury North Korean holiday in a few months... shall keep my eyes peeled for hard Stakhanovite car-thrashing action. After all, 'every resident of the DPRK owns a modern motor vehicle'.

Sam

Music to my eyes, Chris! It's good to know that this car - the UK's only Oltcit? - has fallen into the hands of a true pervert (a term I bestow upon you with the greatest respect). It was imported a few years ago by Paul Johns - a true hero among Stakhanovite car collectors.

It's the car that the Visa should have been, Romain build-quality and cat's piss plastics aside.

I believe there's a RHD Axel (or maybe a couple?) in a private collection in the UK. What our sceptred isle really needs is an early chrome bumper version. A Romanian friend has been keeping his eyes peeled, but finding a decent one is proving more challenging than expected.

Sam

Phwooorrr... this is glorious.

 

I have 8d 09h to talk myself out of bidding, but I fear the charm of this luxury home may be too strong.

My fears turned out to be well-founded. Gosh, I'm excited. Yesterday a Yugo Sana - today this. Is this indicative of bourgeois leanings towards running-dog Italian design houses?

Sam

They are rather lovely. Though how's this for wacky? Also AEC Regal. Not sure what the fin is all about!!

Phwoorr... bus fin. I've suddenly realised what the Flxible Visicoach was lacking.

...the other bus on my 'dream car' list (unless we're talking ugly Soviet minibuses, of course).

Sam

Before the Routemasters, BEA had these beauties, AEC Regal IVs with special bodies - the higher rear floor allows luggage under the floor - just like a modern coach.

 

That's totally lovely.

Fabulous find, there, Mr Quicksilver! This photo is now the star exhibit in the VAL's flimsy history file. It's clearly received desultory showers of love and attention over the last few decades. The parties responsible get a B for effort, but a C- for taste.

The state of its sister vehicle is truly alarming. If it was maintained to the same level as mine, then the chassis and mechanicals were probably in good order - perhaps explaining why somebody filched them and dumped the body. Perhaps they now live beneath a far more valuable Italian Job-spec body?

Although I am a 'distressed look' fetishist, the coach is going to require fairly intensive restoration to prevent the from body dropping to bits when subjected to Britain's failing infrastructure. As has already been pointed out, these were barely structurally sound when new. My long-term plan is to make it shiny - possibly orange - and sensitively convert the pikey interior into a Seventies modernist palace.

Sam

OH. MY. GOD. I think you've just won this thread with that baby, it takes shabby chic to a whole new level. I've always loved those VALs and Viceroys are very rare now as Duple bodies of that era seemed to be made of balsa wood panelled in cardboard.

 

It had a sister too, which apparently now has even less structural integrity.

Non-PCV Bedford VAL70 VDX115K at Manby Showground, June 1994 by Scatmancraig1974, on Flickr

Phwooorrr... this is glorious.

I have 8d 09h to talk myself out of bidding, but I fear the charm of this luxury home may be too strong.

Sam

Fabulous bus horror. I'm moved to further sully this thread with my own shit bus: a 1971 Duple Viceroy-bodied Bedford VAL70. It's both woefully underpowered and dangerously lacking in structural integrity. This example has the added benefit of being in really bad condition. Quite a lot of the mildew is structural, and the remnants of the rear window can still be seen glistening on the hard shoulder of the A14.

Sam

One of each plz! That mustard Moskvitch is just superb.

I think you'll find that's an Izh...

Why not just clean it up with thinners and put the union back in with a huge blob of chemical metal? Mash plenty into the hole so it hardens around the thread of the union. If it doesn't work, you've lost nothing. But I'll wager it'll hold indefinitely.

Aluminium braze would be an easy way to repair it properly:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-x-Aluminium-rep ... 27bb41d03b

It really does work. But you'd have to strip the engine down to do it.

Which ex-Palmer DAF is this?

Sam

Hot van wedge, from àÃÂä:

The prototype was even better:

If there is a dedicated Shite museum, sure!

Gosh! Now that's an idea...

In fact, 'museum' makes an ideal collective noun for 'shite cars'. Saying 'I have a number of shite cars' sounds far less impressive than 'I have a museum of shite cars'.

Here's more Roa smut.

The first three were taken in Islamabad-e-gharb, where I'd broken down. The first one's slightly out of focus on account of my not being hungover enough to operate a camera. Just looking at it makes me fancy a bacon sandwich and some pornography.

I find the paint finish in pic 5 particularly stimulating.

The only obvious visual difference I can spot between the Roa/RD and the less exotic FWD 405/Pars is the rear wheels. They never seem to fit properly on the Roa. Maybe the track of the Peykan axle is an inch-or-two too narrow?

Sam

NICE ONE!!!! I would love to go to Iran for a holiday, i reckon i'll wait till the middle east calms down a bit though (could be a long wait). I would be travelling there mainly with the intention of having a proper close look at one of these rear-wheel-drive 405 things as they sound seriously shite, defo worth travelling to see.

You know you want one. A winning blend of 80s styling and 70s dynamics... available now.

Go to http://www.ikco.com/Products/Fa/Models.aspx?SeriesName= and paste پژو+روا onto the end of the address line.

The Iranian car industry is pretty interesting, do you have any information about the Khodro 405s? The RD which is a 405 body plonked on Paykan underpinnings is especially interesting.

Good! The Iran Khodro Pars is basically just a really badly-made 405. And the increasingly populous Samand is a clumsily-rebodied 405.

But the RD (later called the Roa) is far more interesting: a 405 shell with Peykan running gear - so rear leaf springs, front MacPherson struts, a live rear axle and a four-speed gearbox from the Hillman Hunter. All dragged along by a fuel-injected 1600cc Hillman Avenger engine. They're quite popular due to the proliferation of Peykan spares.

Here are a couple of pics taken by my own fair hand:

I think the angular Citroen buggy thing was - confusingly - sold as the Mehari in Iran. This Citroen 'Bush Baby' range was made in various countries... see also the Namco Pony.

For real Iranian filth, I refer you to the Kish Khodro Sinad:

...and the Veek:

Hot!

Apparently Otosan had a couple of Pinto-engined FW11s for testing and evaluation, but they decided they'd be too expensive to productionise.

The Cagdas was a slightly later proposal, developed in-house at the Koc Holding Research and Design Centre. Its most novel feature was the Turk Rotatif Motoru - a 2-rotor Wankel designed by Otosan and built in prototype form by Weslake Engineering.

Eventually, Koc decided to keep on flogging the Anadol horse instead. Many of the Cagdas' styling features were successfully mangled onto the A8.

Here's the FW11 at the Koc Museum, Istanbul:

...and the Cagdas:

...and a random pic of the glamourous A8. Phwooooorrr...

I feel it's important to remind you that Koc Holding also own the air-conditioning company Arcelik.

Sam