Extinct cars

[adw1977]

13 hours ago, SEATMad said:

Singer SM1500 & Hunter - 3 Left

This one caught my eye because if they don't survive in the UK, would they survive anywhere else?  But actually there appear to be survivors in Australia and even a LHD one in France. 

John Lloyd on Flickr

Definitely function over form in that design!  

[Stinkwheel]

As the thread popped up again, i ran some of my chod through how many left

Wow, i have a unicorn it seems

[SEATMad]

6 hours ago, Gompo said:

There's a Charmant on a SORN in London (below), as far as I know. Spotted by a few previously although not by me unfortunately. No idea what what happened to Hirst's?

 

 

Yeah I've seen this one floating around Flickr for a long time now. This was snapped by @bramz7 last year I believe. 

[neil72]

9 minutes ago, SEATMad said:

Yeah I've seen this one floating around Flickr for a long time now. This was snapped by @bramz7 last year I believe. 

Here it is in 2021, i think its SORN now

 

[neil72]

And here's the well know Stellar back in 2022

 

[SEATMad]

1 minute ago, neil72 said:

Here it is in 2021, i think its SORN now

 

Yeah it's not SORN, hopefully to return one day. Maybe someone who knows the location can have a look? This could be a unicorn now

[DSdriver]

Do we have a thread for Unicorn cars?

[Datsuncog]

I photographed a pair of Charmants at the Kilbroney Classic Car show in Rostrevor back in 2017 - both looked like they'd been given a bit of a going-over by the JDM YO! massive, so they may not have clung on to life for much longer.

Must see if I can find the pic.

[SEATMad]

42 minutes ago, DSdriver said:

Do we have a thread for Unicorn cars?

I’m sure there’s one lurking around the AS archive might as well start a new one though. 

[SEATMad]

41 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

I photographed a pair of Charmants at the Kilbroney Classic Car show in Rostrevor back in 2017 - both looked like they'd been given a bit of a going-over by the JDM YO! massive, so they may not have clung on to life for much longer.

Must see if I can find the pic.

Guaranteed to have been “slammed” 😂

[DSdriver]

1 hour ago, SEATMad said:

I’m sure there’s one lurking around the AS archive might as well start a new one though. 

I should have said Unicorn Shite cars 😄

[sierraman]

I saw a Nissan Stanza Haynes Manual in the Charity Shop the other day for a whopping £4. I didn’t have the heart to tell them the statistical chance of someone walking in that owns a Stanza and already didn’t have the manual was about the same as being able to reach and touch the sun with your own hands. 

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, SEATMad said:

Guaranteed to have been “slammed” 😂

Someone with a thick padded hat, a baseball jacket and one of those big earlobe things will have had hold of it. 

[Datsuncog]

2 hours ago, SEATMad said:

Guaranteed to have been “slammed” 😂

They were.

I think one of them may have been 'stanced' also, for maximum tyre wear/ balljoint failure.

26 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Someone with a thick padded hat, a baseball jacket and one of those big earlobe things will have had hold of it. 

Ah, you know him then!

[junkyarddog]

4 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Ah, you know him then!

Actually I do!!

He has a Youtube channel now,Cannibal cars.

[5speedracer]

How the hell are there 8 FSO 125p left. The build quality and rustproofing* were lamentable.

[sierraman]

12 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

They were.

I think one of them may have been 'stanced' also, for maximum tyre wear/ balljoint failure.

Ah, you know him then!

Not quite as much a a chav. More Alt-Metal. 

[Datsuncog]

4 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

He has a Youtube channel now,Cannibal cars.

Fantastic - I'll have a watch of those later, looks like there's some pretty awesome/ hopeless projects he's taken on.

(2) Cannibal Cars - YouTube

[Stuew]

[SEATMad]

17 minutes ago, Stuew said:

Would this be the one where the owner was here for a short while then went ghost? 

[SEATMad]

25 minutes ago, 5speedracer said:

How the hell are there 8 FSO 125p left. The build quality and rustproofing* were lamentable.

Surprises me that more 125p's have survived than Polonez's 

[IronStar]

4 minutes ago, SEATMad said:

Surprises me that more 125p's have survived than Polonez's 

125p had retro look going for them, Polonez on the other hand…

 

FSO Caro. A singular licensed example. 
Also Yugo Sana. 2 on the road, both red, possibly to be joined by two more 😄

[Datsuncog]

4 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

I photographed a pair of Charmants at the Kilbroney Classic Car show in Rostrevor back in 2017 - both looked like they'd been given a bit of a going-over by the JDM YO! massive, so they may not have clung on to life for much longer.

Must see if I can find the pic.

Found 'em.

Was shooting into strong sunlight, so any front pics aren't much cop.

However, the mangled trim above the drivers doorframe on this one suggests it's been lifted using a hiab at some stage... dents and hastily rattlecanned rust spots also perhaps indicative of a less-than-fastidious owner...

Better pics from the rear.

JXZ5886 - currently showing as SORN.

DVLA records show it as declared registered in June 1985, but first registered with DVLA in August 2016 - so almost certainly a car from the Republic of Ireland that was brought up north. Rear window sticker for a garage in Tullamore (Co. Offaly) backs that theory up.

Removal of the Daihatsu badge smacks of a travesty perpetrated by someone who wants an AE86 Twin Cam, but can only afford an ex-scrapyard Charmant - and probably doesn't deserve either.

ASZ5157 - same story, pretty much - declared manufactured in 1984, first registered with in DVLA March 2017, so likely also a ROI car originally. Also shown on the DVLA database as currently SORN'd.

Despite the wheels, this Charmant looks to be slightly tidier and less messed with - but if it's still fitted with the declared 1290cc engine, then it's not really a ball of fire anyway...

Best case scenario, seven years on from these pics: owner is near completing a painstaking nut and bolt restoration of them both in a gleaming workshop somewhere, cognisant of their extreme rarity and caring nothing for the cost.

Most likely scenario - the owner(s) raked the arse out of both of them for a year doing donuts at deserted crossroads in the South Armagh countryside, then something important broke/ rust became rampant, and they're currently buried under 300 bales of haylage in the corner of a farmyard outside Hamiltonsbawn.

[quicksilver]

47 minutes ago, 5speedracer said:

How the hell are there 8 FSO 125p left. The build quality and rustproofing* were lamentable.

Probably imports brought in by Polish immigrants. It wouldn't surprise me if FSO numbers in the UK have actually increased in recent years because of this.

And here are the two surviving Mitsubishi Cordias. The white one must have returned to the road recently as the red one used to be the only one taxed.

[sierraman]

14 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

Probably imports brought in by Polish immigrants. It wouldn't surprise me if FSO numbers in the UK have actually increased in recent years because of this.

And here are the two surviving Mitsubishi Cordias. The white one must have returned to the road recently as the red one used to be the only one taxed.

Most polish people I know wouldn’t be seen dead in an FSO. It’s a sign of poorer times for them. The only person I knew of having one was some friends of my grandparents, they were the type that had to have a new car so it’d probably be that it was the newest cheapest thing you could buy. Funnily enough the garage at the bottom of our street were for a time a Polski Fiat dealers. Long before my time before you ask! 

[lisbon_road]

Not that long ago, I saw this at a garage close to where I work.  I was told that it had been recently brought over from Poland.  I dug the picture out as I couldn't remember what it was, and looked it up and the DVLA think it is a Fiat.  Not sure about that.  Must be pretty rare, whatever it is.

 

 

[barrett]

13 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Most polish people I know wouldn’t be seen dead in an FSO. It’s a sign of poorer times for them. The only person I knew of having one was some friends of my grandparents, they were the type that had to have a new car so it’d probably be that it was the newest cheapest thing you could buy. Funnily enough the garage at the bottom of our street were for a time a Polski Fiat dealers. Long before my time before you ask! 

I think you'll find the opposite is true. RHD Eastern European cars are hugely popular as exports back to the old country - in Poland, Czech, Russia etc. Young enthusiasts don't have any of the baggage older peple might associate with the cars, and there are massive 'scenes' for retro Eastern Bloc motors over there.

[Volksy]

Didn't Hirst - formally of this parish - have a Charmant?

[tooSavvy]

2 hours ago, sierraman said:

I saw a Nissan Stanza Haynes Manual in the Charity Shop the other day for a whopping £4. I didn’t have the heart to tell them the statistical chance of someone walking in that owns a Stanza and already didn’t have the manual was about the same as being able to reach and touch the sun with your own hands. 

Yeah..... Not one I pop into often 😉

🚙💨

[IronStar]

22 minutes ago, lisbon_road said:

Not that long ago, I saw this at a garage close to where I work.  I was told that it had been recently brought over from Poland.  I dug the picture out as I couldn't remember what it was, and looked it up and the DVLA think it is a Fiat.  Not sure about that.  Must be pretty rare, whatever it is.

 

 

That’s Polski Fiat 125p. Currently SORN.