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Mr_Bo11ox Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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To be fair, anyone who even contemplates going to look at that Rootes thing at £2750 deserves everything they get, one glance at it tells you its full of pigeon shit welding and wob.

The Reverend Bluejeans Rank: Isuzu Florian

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That Gazelle is utter scrap, a patched up, wag laden old snotter.

 

 

But I like it all the same. It's just like the ones I remember as a kid in the seventies, either in scrapyards or council estates. There are more than enough nice ones at shows driven by BO ridden paedos, but a proper seventies spec MOT borderline shitbox has an appeal.................for 250 quid. 650 was way more than it was worth.

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That Gazelle is utter scrap, a patched up, wag laden old snotter.

 

 

But I like it all the same. It's just like the ones I remember as a kid in the seventies, either in scrapyards or council estates. There are more than enough nice ones at shows driven by BO ridden paedos, but a proper seventies spec MOT borderline shitbox has an appeal.................for 250 quid. 650 was way more than it was worth.

 

I agree that it is wobbly but I don't think 650 was too bad a starting price when the R-R chap was flogging it - it was an MOT'd '50s car, wrap around back window and all. We don't know what he ended up selling it for and he's sold a fair few cheap old cars in the past too and is always honest with descriptions.

 

The "new" advertiser is clearly hoping that putting the word "Goodwood" in his advert will have the same effect as a Ford advertiser putting the word "Escort" in theirs.

The Reverend Bluejeans Rank: Isuzu Florian

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[the same effect as a Ford advertiser putting the word "Escort" in theirs.

 

 

Yeah, but nobody will pay the 6 million pounds that 'rough as arseholes' 1100 Popliers sell for.

pogweasel Rank: Isuzu Florian

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A friend of mine has put his "thing" up for sale on eBay. Bit on the steep side for a big boys toy...

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in fairness it is obscenely fast though.

Pete-M Rank: Isuzu Florian

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If that 2CV had started life in Japan it wouldn't be a left hooker.

 

Not necessarily. In their usual unfathomable way, the Japs quite often order LHD on imports as LHD is viewed as being a bit exotic.

 

However, as it's a 2CV, it'd have to be a particularly mental Jap to order one in the first place, so anything is possible.

Richard Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

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I suppose it makes sense in a way, if you're going to drive a French oddity you might as well have the French layout.

Pete-M Rank: Isuzu Florian

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Indeed.

 

Audi have just put a touch sensitive pad on the centre console of the A8 to control their version of idrive.

 

Supposed to be brilliant. If you're left handed.

CIH Rank: Citroen Ami

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And yet the yank JDM crowd go wild for right-hand drive.....funny how that works eh ?

Negative Creep Rank: Lancia Gamma

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I suppose it makes sense in a way, if you're going to drive a French oddity you might as well have the French layout.

 

 

It's not like you'd ever have to worry about overtaking anything

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I've read that RHD Citroëns are highly prized in France.

flat4alfa Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Hey, a nice Imp van

 

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Rare opportunity

£6995

Oh.

dollywobbler Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I've read that RHD Citroëns are highly prized in France.

 

Aye. There's a club dedicated to buying right-hand drive 2CVs! Always get plenty of attention when we're over there. Perhaps they can't believe that Citroen didn't bother moving the handbrake for RHD and need to see it for themselves. (Good job it's a narrow car!).

 

That Charleston is rather over-priced. The sort of people who are paying big money for 2CVs are either getting their own pride and joy restored, or looking to get into 2CVs for the first time and want the best - which will be RHD really. £5k is still top money. Maybe he's hoping for £6k.

Louise2cv Rank: Renault 16

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Overthere <-------, under the parcelshelf. About four or five inches left of the gearstick and down a bit.

dollywobbler Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Overthere <-------, under the parcelshelf. About four or five inches left of the gearstick and down a bit.

 

Yup, next to the driver's leg in LHD, passenger's leg in RHD (which occasionally has its advantages, and occasionally very much a disadvantage!)

warren t claim Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I've always found the 2cv gear pattern more suited to LHD.

 

On a similar subject, I got trapped in a Renner 4 once when I couldn't find the interior door handle.

dollywobbler Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I've always found the 2cv gear pattern more suited to LHD.

 

On a similar subject, I got trapped in a Renner 4 once when I couldn't find the interior door handle.

 

Aye. The CX and Dyanes are great for trapping people too. The French really do have a sense of humour!

wuvvum Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I've always found the 2cv gear pattern more suited to LHD.

 

On a similar subject, I got trapped in a Renner 4 once when I couldn't find the interior door handle.

 

Aye. The CX and Dyanes are great for trapping people too. The French really do have a sense of humour!

Early R4s were even worse - my 1967 4L had a bit of bent metal rod that you had to reach down inside the door to pull. At least the later cars had something vaguely resembling a handle, if you knew where to look for it.

outlaw118 Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Well bugger me with a stick!!!

That FSO iz orsumz :shock:8)

Can anyone speak Polish?

Looks like made 1989, low kms, but advert says1.6, text seems to indicate 2.0litre....

fiatdaft Rank: Renault 16

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its got the running gear from a fiat 132 by the looks of it,i'd have it.

cms206 Rank: Lancia Gamma

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It seems to be very much the exception to the rule to be honest, there are some which look like honeys on there for about 500 bucks...

 

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http://otomoto.pl/polonez-1-5-sle-C16901540.html

 

... but £4100 for that other one? It is lovely, but it's not quite that lovely... If they all end up at that price it's gotta be a better return than having bought a hudgie 2-door Scrote Mk2 some years ago and locked it away...

eddyramrod Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Me too! That's bloody lovely, and definitely a Fiat twink under the hood. Those sculpted wheels really suit it, don't they? I'd drive that baby anywhere. 8)

 

(edit: oops, and here's another one... I really must have words with Andreas about his...)

rml2345 Rank: Renault 16

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Bairgain! :shock:

 

Think of the admiring glances you would get driving it though.

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