Barrow Wheels: H-reg Proton Alert!

[eddyramrod]

Another little treat from my birthday jaunt to Keswick...

You certainly don't see many of these, and even fewer wearing Vauxhall badges.  It's not looking too bad for 30 years old, is it?

[lesapandre]

It's 'n' 👌 FAB

[lesapandre]

Holden and Opel badges too - circa 4000 sold in UK in total. Can't say the last time I saw one in the wild tho.

[danthecapriman]

Certainly don’t see many of those around now. The guy that owned the garage I used to take my work van to collected them! He had 3 or 4 dotted around in various stages of being stripped and rebuilt.

Happy birthday btw🥳

[eddyramrod]

Just the one today, spotted yesterday at The Range...

[eddyramrod]

How often do you meet a R107 SL parked outside your local Post Office?

Not only that, but it was a stranger, I don't think I've ever seen it before.

The rest of these are from yesterday at the Lakeland Motor Museum...

I had a 940 estate, it was one of the first cars I bought from AS.  The next two also reach back into my past, way back to the 70s!

Gorgeous Mercury Coupe dates back to 1941.  Car of the Day for me, but the Herald was extremely close!

[lesapandre]

12 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

How often do you meet a R107 SL parked outside your local Post Office?

Not only that, but it was a stranger, I don't think I've ever seen it before.

The rest of these are from yesterday at the Lakeland Motor Museum...

I had a 940 estate, it was one of the first cars I bought from AS.  The next two also reach back into my past, way back to the 70s!

Gorgeous Mercury Coupe dates back to 1941.  Car of the Day for me, but the Herald was extremely close!

A 'Mercury 8' I think. 3.9L V8. And one of the last cars overseen by Edsel Ford who set up the new marque in 1939. Edsel Ford died in 1943.

[eddyramrod]

Spotted these this morning, a couple of streets away.  Both owned by the same lad, he thinks very highly of them.

[eddyramrod]

Amazing what you can find at Asda...

This next location might look familiar!  It's not that long ago I papped a grey Proton that had been through this very forum before it ended up here, right around the corner.  And now he's got this...

[cms206]

On 20/05/2025 at 23:19, eddyramrod said:

This next location might look familiar!  It's not that long ago I papped a grey Proton that had been through this very forum before it ended up here, right around the corner.  And now he's got this...

WOAFT!!! H-reg saloon, sadly a 12v rather than an 8v but absolutely astounding.

[sierraman]

On 18/04/2025 at 22:14, lesapandre said:

Holden and Opel badges too - circa 4000 sold in UK in total. Can't say the last time I saw one in the wild tho.

I found a brochure for one the other day. They struggled to hide it being basically a bit of a farmers truck really. Same for the Frontera, you couldn’t disguise how unsophisticated it was with some bits of velour trim and a radio. 

[Dobloseven]

7 hours ago, sierraman said:

I found a brochure for one the other day. They struggled to hide it being basically a bit of a farmers truck really. Same for the Frontera, you couldn’t disguise how unsophisticated it was with some bits of velour trim and a radio. 

It was of course a rebadged Isuzu Trooper.Very much of its day,a big old school 4x4.Makers needed a 4x4 to sell and hadn't the resources to develop one on their own.Arch rivals Ford came up with the Maverick,a rebadged Nissan Terrano.Think the Isuzu had a better image than the Vauxhall and was quite popular with hardcore caravanners.The much better selling Frontera,again popular with caravanners,was based on the Isuzu MU which was never sold in the UK,but fitted with a bewildering range of GM Europe engines and was actually made in Luton.Happy days indeed.

[High Jetter]

The Isuzu seemed popular in Ireland