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Pillock Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Perhaps they've blurred the reg out on the photo because it wasn't that one, it's just an image they found on the net to illustrate for the 99% of the population what a Freight Rover looks like.

 

TBH I think that was the best name they had.... Brings to mind images of a quarter mile long train made up of P6s full of coal.

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The Halfords badges denoting it's a 3.5 V6 on the second one really add a touch of class*

What a fucking bell-end. £10k?! Really? Moog's one is the bargain of the fucking millennium then!

 

Actually, going by the way the adverts are written... are they both for sale by the same person? Both in Norwich too.

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I saw that Goodwood & burst out laughing. £795 maybe on a good day

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I saw that Goodwood & burst out laughing when it was posted on the previous page   ;-)

Mr_Bo11ox Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Just the number £7550 shouts ‘mental’ before you even look at what the goods are. It’s as if he though he wanted £7500, so cannily put an extra £50 on thinking he would let an eager punter knock £50 off to seal a quick deal.

 

Verdict: Should be placed into social care as soon as possible.

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flat4alfa Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I am disabled and my issues have got worse

 

The fella might already be 'in care'

 

On one hand I get all empathetic.

 

On the other I think nutter.

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There's something extremely odd about that Tina. The entire description is "automatic power steering" but neither of those things were ever available on the 1600E. Also no mention of why a 1970 car is on an S-reg. I reckon it's a bitsa and the guy's dreaming if he thinks it's worth anywhere near 50k.

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There's something extremely odd about that Tina. The entire description is "automatic power steering" but neither of those things were ever available on the 1600E. Also no mention of why a 1970 car is on an S-reg. I reckon it's a bitsa and the guy's dreaming if he thinks it's worth anywhere near 50k.

 

and the ad reckons tooleater but DVLA says 1.6

 

Love the glass sunroof as well, those never leak and always add value

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Even when I was a lad, 1600E orions were the holy grail. Lads had XR2s, 3is, Orion Ghias, but nobody had ever seen a 1600E in the flesh. A few people claimed to have a cousin/uncle/neighbour who had one with an escort turbo engine in and that was basically the best and most adult and respectable car anyone could imagine when I was 15.

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My dad had a really early immaculate 1983 Orion Ghia, looked the shit (well IMO) in red with pepperpot alloys, and (factory) tinted windows. He bought it off a work colleague who had had it for years, the wife of the bloke he bought it off was almost crying as we drove off. This was around the year 2000 so it was just an old knacker at the time and worth absolutely nothing.

 

Sadly it went for an MOT and they over filled it with oil (??????) and never ran again, was traded in and scrapped. I'd have gone crackers - it drove in there and he used it every day for work so wasn't broken - but my dad doesn't like to make a fuss.

 

I nearly cried when it got carted off for frag.

 

Had I been older I'd have saved it, but I was still in middle school. I'd love an early one with the black 3 slat grille, but OSF tax means no chance unless I win the lottery. I couldn't really care less about Fords, but would make an exception for one of these.

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Even when I was a lad, 1600E orions were the holy grail. Lads had XR2s, 3is, Orion Ghias, but nobody had ever seen a 1600E in the flesh. A few people claimed to have a cousin/uncle/neighbour who had one with an escort turbo engine in and that was basically the best and most adult and respectable car anyone could imagine when I was 15.

 

Not in my town...  Fords of that era, especially something with a CVH, were seen as naff.  Cars to have were 325i, Audi 80 Coupe, Cosworth 190E -  or you were an oik.  Mind you, I grew up near St Albans.

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