Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Richard_FM]

7 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Courtesy of the eBay thread, the Lloyd 650.

Lloyd made almost all the components for their cars rather than use off the shelf parts, which makes owning them now a challenge.

[martc]

11 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

twas smashing the crap out of the DVLA/my special tool searching through AC Acedes Model 57 chassis numbers as you do

when this popped up

Steam! on an 07 plate what the actual...

 

little bit of googling later shows it to be one of these

working (and road registered!) scale model of a traction engine https://flic.kr/p/29v4pU6

 

its so amusing/weird to think of/see a steam propelled vehicle on modern plates LOL (kinda surprised they where given modern plates id of half expected such a thing to end up on a Q plate)

how do you even go about registering such a vehicle I wonder...

As a frequenter of steam rallies etc 'modern' registered miniature engines are fairly common. I don't think that registering them is too much of a pain as the Construction and Use Regs for steam road vehicles haven't altered much since about eleventy million years ago. Basically it amounts to not allowing ashes and embers to escape. And something about lights and whistles. Getting your boiler certificate is another matter though.

Here's another one taken at random from the t'interwebs. Interestingly this one is registered as a 'Burrel Min. Wagon'. Burrel were a famous builder of steam traction engines who went bust in 1928. I wouldn't have thought you could use another makers name (unless of course the builder of this is called 'Burrel').

[LightBulbFun]

3 minutes ago, martc said:

As a frequenter of steam rallies etc 'modern' registered miniature engines are fairly common. I don't think that registering them is too much of a pain as the Construction and Use Regs for steam road vehicles haven't altered much since about eleventy million years ago. Basically it amounts to not allowing ashes and embers to escape. And something about lights and whistles. Getting your boiler certificate is another matter though.

Here's another one taken at random from the t'interwebs. Interestingly this one is registered as a 'Burrel Min. Wagon'. Burrel were a famous builder of steam traction engines who went bust in 1928. I wouldn't have thought you could use another makers name (unless of course the builder of this is called 'Burrel').

interesting stuff  

Yeah I was wondering about that, they would not exactly be up to todays crash test regulations for example! (mind if you fired a traction engine at a concert/steel block at 30Mph it probably would just go straight through it!)

I knew old steam vehicles where exempt from a lot of stuff, but i was not sure what the low down was for registering something newly built!

I guess all the modern regulations that you have to get kit cars etc through just dont apply to steam propelled vehicles!

 

(I feel contractually obliged to tag @JimH LOL)

[JimH]

Boiler insurance for models isn't that big a gyp. The standards refer to pressure/volume ratios and most models fall into the "sound engineering practice" category rather than having to meet any modern design criteria. I have my own views on this as there appears to be a number of people playing fast and loose with what is or isn't a model.

 

Which sort ofreminds me...

[martc]

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

I guess all the modern regulations that you have to get kit cars etc through just dont apply to steam propelled vehicles!

You're right - the regulations apply to specific classes of vehicles, and it's the most recent regs that count. And I guess anything to do with steam won't have been updated for donkeys years.

I've had a quick snoop on the web and found this - http://shirevillageinns.co.uk/register/rmte.htm

It looks like someone built a model engine, got it's boiler certified then insured. The DVLA paid a visit and duly registered it and issued a tax disc. Quote - 'the inspection is purely to confirm the identity of the vehicle, not a safety or road-worthiness inspection'. In other words if it looked like what it should do it was registered! But this was in 2008.

[SteersWithThrottle]

Crash test regulations only really apply to volume manufacturers. For stuff like this, SVA (single vehicle approval) via VOSA would be the usual route, iirc.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I’m so old and spent all my life looking at anything printed or now online about all cars, it’s a surprise when I don’t recognise a particular photograph let alone a car I wasn’t aware of. I get really excited when it happens, and today whilst watching ‘ Hunters’ on Amazon I saw characters getting out of a black sedan with suicide rear doors , that wasn’t a Lincoln Continental, it looked from the back , like aThunderbird.

 

 

 

 

[bunglebus]

I guess like most Americans, it got fat over the years

[RoadworkUK]

Oddly, the '67 and '68 were my favourite generation of Thunderbird. That 4-door – suicide doors aside – pretty much offered the exact same package as the Mercedes CLS did forty years later. AND it had sequential rear lights and concealed headlights. 

[Richard_FM]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I guess like most Americans, it got fat over the years

Some had a radical downsize in the mid 1970s, though the results were not pretty if the Mustang II is anything to go by.

Prince drove one of those late 1960s Thunderbirds in the video for Alphabet Street.

[Noel Tidybeard]

the ABM Orbit?

 

allegedly the bonnet wouldn't open due to the mods

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, Richard_FM said:

Some had a radical downsize in the mid 1970s, though the results were not pretty if the Mustang II is anything to go by

Yeah they're a bit of an ugly duckling, the oil crisis and spiralling insurance on muscle cars ruining American car design for a long time. VW and Honda must have made a killing in the 70s

[bunglebus]

4 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

the ABM Orbit?

 

allegedly the bonnet wouldn't open due to the mods

Made for a film - think those are the only two made if my memory serves me correctly 

[Supernaut]

13 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I’m so old and spent all my life looking at anything printed or now online about all cars, it’s a surprise when I don’t recognise a particular photograph let alone a car I wasn’t aware of. I get really excited when it happens, and today whilst watching ‘ Hunters’ on Amazon I saw characters getting out of a black sedan with suicide rear doors , that wasn’t a Lincoln Continental, it looked from the back , like aThunderbird.

 

 

 

 

I love it! Especially in that shade of purple! Glorious.

[Volksy]

I like the Mustang II, and that thunderbird is hot! 

 

[Austat]

1967 Fiat 125 Executive concept:

I wonder if Toyo Kogyo used this as inspiration for the Mazda 1200 Coupe?

[STUNO]

2 hours ago, Austat said:

1967 Fiat 125 Executive concept:

I wonder if Toyo Kogyo used this as inspiration for the Mazda 1200 Coupe?

Close plate to my 1970 Mini, it was YCM 793

[Asimo]

Hyundai Grandeur?  Well 'tis new to me, I was trawling Autotrader for under £2500 and over 3 litres......

 

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201910233611953

[Richard_FM]

7 hours ago, Austat said:

1967 Fiat 125 Executive concept:

I wonder if Toyo Kogyo used this as inspiration for the Mazda 1200 Coupe?

It certainly looks very 1970s Japanese coupe

[1duck]

Vauxhall corsa convertible... this one is for sale on facebook at the minute, imported from australia so is a holden barina or some shit, but apparently they only made and sold 60 corsa convertibles in the UK to start with, i mean why the fuck you'd want one is beyond me, in australia maybe...but not here surely.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/910792672768586/

[face]

2 hours ago, 1duck said:

i mean why the fuck you'd want one is beyond me
 

Fo pull'n in da clunge boi.

[MKT]

5 hours ago, 1duck said:

Vauxhall corsa convertible... this one is for sale on facebook at the minute, imported from australia so is a holden barina or some shit, but apparently they only made and sold 60 corsa convertibles in the UK to start with, i mean why the fuck you'd want one is beyond me, in australia maybe...but not here surely.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/910792672768586/
 

Surprised to hear they only made sixty, I've seen two in the last year or so.

[Reluctant Adult]

Kia Clarus Estate. We only got the Saloon in the UK. Apparently available with a Rover KV6 - can anyone remember whether UK Saloons were offered with it?

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 6/12/2020 at 6:40 AM, bunglebus said:

Made for a film - think those are the only two made if my memory serves me correctly 

indeed only 2 made for itv programme out of mk1 fester

given away as prizes

as i remember the bonnet wouldn't open due to the additional bodywork

[sheffcortinacentre]

Used to see a blue one in Sheffield.

[Bfg]

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[somewhatfoolish]

Woof! I'd totally wazz my lotto winnings on one of those in electric flavour. 

[paulplom]

Spotted today. I've never heard of a fiat sedic.

[paulplom]

Ah, I thought it looked like that suzuki thing.

[GeordieInExile]

On 6/18/2020 at 9:35 AM, 1duck said:

Vauxhall corsa convertible... this one is for sale on facebook at the minute, imported from australia so is a holden barina or some shit, but apparently they only made and sold 60 corsa convertibles in the UK to start with, i mean why the fuck you'd want one is beyond me, in australia maybe...but not here surely.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/910792672768586/

That is the worst fabric roof shape I've ever seen.