Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Slappy]

Even better, the Cascada has some hidden rear facing lights that emerge should the boot be open, like the Insignia estate. I noticed it on the M27 whlist someone was changing stuck on the hard shoulder. Had a WTF was that moment.

[cros]

Fiat LDV? Its just not possible to get a better name than this*.

Shitty place to break down though.

*FSO Matiz is close though..

[Bfg]

.

a ghost from the past..  'Ghost' Pontiacs.. with at least two different models made   

 

 

 

 

 

 

a little more here  and again .. here

Bfg

[quicksilver]

I've seen a Cascada.

 

Just the one.

I actually saw one the other day. It was blue and didn't look too bad, much better than the grey one Vauxhall's marketing department insisted on posing against drab backdrops in the rain to make it look as attractive* as possible. There's no way I'd pay anywhere near 30 grand for it though.

[Lacquer Peel]

 

Daewoo Honker 2000

[John F]

Honker...!

 

LOL!

[chaseracer]

So when you buy a 23 year old Buick convertible in 2040 this is what you get?

Compare it with the 23 year old Buick convertible I bought in 1983!

 

I googled "1994 buick convertible" to see what you'd get if you did that now...

 

[Supernaut]

 

Daewoo Honker 2000

While searching for more photos of the Daewoo Honker, I stumbled across the DZT Pasagon. It's a hell of a looker*.

 

[Junkman]

I googled "1994 buick convertible" to see what you'd get if you did that now...

 

Was there one?

[John F]

While searching for more photos of the Daewoo Honker, I stumbled across the DZT Pasagon. It's a hell of a looker*.

 

 

Ha! It's a botoxed Post Office Sherpa.

[chaseracer]

Ha! It's a botoxed Post Office Sherpa.

 

Crossed with a Talbot Express.

[chaseracer]

Was there one?

 

Regal, apparently.  Though it wasn't, particularly.

[Lacquer Peel]

While searching for more photos of the Daewoo Honker, I stumbled across the DZT Pasagon. It's a hell of a looker*.

 

http://www.honker.com.pl/index.php/honker-cargo-opis-modelu

 

WTF! They're still making these old crocks, powered by a home grown engine! Poland's equivalent of LDV didn't go bust and is thriving. Who knew?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Shit!!!!!! Great find!!! Why have I never seen one rumbling round Crewe or Wisbech???

[cros]

I can see problems with that should you need to tupp a shy one on the back seat.

[cros]

I didnt know about Saehans, I've lead a sheltered life.

 

[Tayne]

Is that Chevette based?

[sheffcortinacentre]

Is that the south American one with a fibreglass body?

[cros]

South Korean, they did cars too, nothing as exotic as the plastic Uraguyan crew-cabbed Chevette though.

Can't find a picture so probably imagined that, have a plastic fastback instead.

 

 

[cros]

This is a replica of a Vauxhall prototype, an unholy union of Daimler/PA Cresta. I had my first ride in a Conquest Century the other day, a car with lots of quirks that must have cost a fortune to produce on a low-volume offering. It's no surprise that they investigated creating a successor by marrying Turner's fine V8 with a Luton body. Herman Munster would have approved.

[cros]

A couple of ugly runts that were,unfathomably, offered in the last year of E series Velox production.

[cros]

Headlamp peaks aside, much better looking.

[STUNO]

And another Aussie offering, the Chrysler Royal. Aus only and a parts bin special with some redesigning and local manufacturing thrown in. Chrysler Aus were making the early fifities Chrysler/ plymouth/ Desoto and wanted to update. US hq was not interested so Aus went their own way.

This was produced from 1957 to 1963 as saloon, estate and utility. It was succeeded by the Valiant which was a big success in Aus unlike the Royal which only just sold enough to save itself.

They were popular with some police forces for highway patrol as they had a lovely V8 and could chase most others down.

 

 

 

[STUNO]

That Daimhall reminded me of Armstrong Siddeley's small car offering. That was slated as ugly when new, bit I think the Daimler offering gets it very wrong, especially from the C pillar back. And why did they change the wipers to something that Vauxhall found was deficient.

Armstrong Syddeley vvvvv

[vulgalour]

^  Take one Hillman Minx Mk7...

 

 

...stretch a MG A to fit...

 

 

... finally invent some rear arch wells and inexplicable side scallop to make it your own.  What a terrible looking mongrel of a thing.

[11001010]

[MiniMort]

I'm ignorant:

[vulgalour]

There was a BASE version of the Mk1 Cortina that I only learned about a few minutes ago.

 

 

 

Looks like the sort of thing to be made under license in India, like the Standard Gazelle. but was what you ordered if you were a REAL penny pincher back in 1962.

[JeeExEll]

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Holy sht, what is that? I want one.

[chaseracer]

...Chrysler Royal... Aus only... parts bin special...

 

Anyone else been playing "spot the bits"?