Forum newbi but established buyer of junk (my wife's words)

[Sambarallye]

Hi,

 

I stumble across your great forum whilst googling talbot samba shite and was refreshed by the relaxed openness of all you guys, I'm usually on the Quattro forums due the my long term love affair with the original quattros of the 80's but those places are very clicky and judgemental so I'm glad to be here a I appreciate the quirky and odd along with the main stream classics.

 

So rather than list countless pics of cars I currently own and those I have sold on this is my photo dump for you to look thru -

 

http://community.webshots.com/user/WRQUATTRO

 

The 84 Quattro and the sprint samba on the rolling road are runners and the first samba I bought ( on the purple trailer) is awaiting a sympathetic resto, it was I'm ported by ernie Larton in 1984 from Belgium and then passed thru several different owners. I rescued it from a guy who was part way thru stripping it out to go rallying in, a lot of he genuine Peugeot talbot Motorsport parts where missing but a few trips to France have turned up the rare missing parts so I need to get this project rolling again.

 

The uk spec samba was bought new and sent away for the floor plating up ready for a genuine factory alloy roll cage (which it still wears), a carbon bonnet was made for it but is very crude even by 80's standards. It was then used in anger on many of the southern circuits (I have dozens of scrutineering slips from various tracks/hill climbs), its such a nice solid genuine car hat it's out most weekends in he summer.

 

Anyway enough about my cars I'm off to we'd thru this forum.

 

Cheers matt

[michiel]

Bienvenu/wilkommen! First thing I saw was a brown Metro... excellent.

[mk1_4dr]

Welcome to the forum my good man.

 

It sounds like you and your cars have quite a story to tell...

[Sambarallye]

Bienvenu/wilkommen! First thing I saw was a brown Metro... excellent.

 

The metro was parked up in a disabled bay at sainsburys ( popped into buy dinner) so I had to hang around as I knew it would belong to the same person who originally bought it all those years ago. Low and behold the chap must have been in his mid eightys and wearing the same colour cords as the car. I seem to remember that all four corners had been scuffed off the bumpers.

[Sambarallye]

Welcome to the forum my good man.

 

It sounds like you and your cars have quite a story to tell...

 

 

Yep, at the moment we are trying to find a bigger house that has the required space for all of the cars I have tucked away in council lockups. It's a curse that I have to bare.

[Spiny Norman]

Welcome to the shitest old car forum there is!

Loving the old 200T quattro too, useful old beasts these were.