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On 7/7/2020 at 6:14 PM, egg said:

I did not know that there was a Pug 505 coupe concept. If they had built it, I might have transferred my ovlov 780 lust on to this objet de désir...

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There was a convertible concept as well, wow.

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2 hours ago, martc said:

Wait till you see the Lonsdale Poirot...



You’re wasting your time with that Lonsdale.

You either want to get a Ford Sierra Jack Frost (first year had dangly mirrors) or, my choice, a Moskvitch Aleko Jessica Fletcher.

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1 hour ago, Inspiral_Mondays said:

There was a convertible concept as well, wow.

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I'm sure that these were for auction a few years ago at Classic LeMans.

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1 hour ago, Inspiral_Mondays said:

There was a convertible concept as well, wow.

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Stunning, want. Think it made it into production though, maybe not a big seller.

 

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No not that Imp. Note it's cooled by a very 50's 'turbine blower' (no it's not just a fan) and also note it's 'adequate brakes'. The third paragraph sounds a bit sarcastic to me, almost as if the designer and president isn't to be believed.

More info here - https://www.undiscoveredclassics.com/forgotten-fiberglass/presenting-the-imp-lost-fiberglass-car-from-the-1940s/ this website could provide enough material to fill several pages of this thread,

 

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They weren't that confident about it with the 30day / 1,000 mile guarantee!

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2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Going by the driving I see in American dash cam videos, that must be a scary place to be

Russia seems that way from the amount of dashcam clips on You Tube from there.

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4 hours ago, Austat said:

1974 Delta 6, can't find any info on this:

 

Presumably a side-project from members of short-lived but superb postpunk band Delta 5?

 

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4 hours ago, Austat said:

1974 Delta 6, can't find any info on this:

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Was I the only person hoping to see a 6 wheeler when the name popped up? 

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4 hours ago, Austat said:

1974 Delta 6, can't find any info on this:

Google seems blissfully unaware of it. Maybe a one-off?

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On 7/20/2020 at 11:02 AM, bunglebus said:

Going by the driving I see in American dash cam videos, that must be a scary place to be

Where as in  the UK they hit the horn and swear a lot!

 

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Jesus, those dash cam compilations make me so agitated! I'm not sure how people can watch those on a regular basis, I can feel a panic attack coming on after a minute or so.

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52 minutes ago, barrett said:

Jesus, those dash cam compilations make me so agitated! I'm not sure how people can watch those on a regular basis, I can feel a panic attack coming on after a minute or so.

I'm subbed to the channel in @Remspoor 's post. The camera car drivers in some of the clips don' t actually help some situations when another motorist screws up as the often drive right into the danger zone. 

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Yeah I actually just watched about 10 in a row and the overall effect is more calming than I thought, mainly because of all the different regional accents shouting FOOOKIN CUUUNT over the top of the footage

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18 hours ago, barrett said:

Yeah I actually just watched about 10 in a row and the overall effect is more calming than I thought, mainly because of all the different regional accents shouting FOOOKIN CUUUNT over the top of the footage

They're a little bit of joy my wife and I share, laughing at all the different ways people curse shit drivers. The odd 'BELLEND' or 'DICKHEAD' thrown in for good measure. Think there was a 'COCKWOMBLE' once.

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veering totally off-topic but I ended up watching about about two hours' worth last night and got quite into it. The best one was a Scottish man who got accosted by a stuck-up woman in a car park for 'stealing his space' and he responded by saying 'hey, you need a shave! You've got a wee beard!' which really made me giggle

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I love dash cam videos, I think watching them and having my own dash cam has made me much more aware of the stupid shit other people do, and helped me pre-empt it.

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My favourite insult so far is "douche-canoe" on a US one.

Russian and Australian motorists seem to have a similar disregard for the right of way of other road users. The trucks especially in those countries are genuinely terrifyingly badly driven.

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On 7/21/2020 at 5:20 PM, Remspoor said:

Where as in  the UK they hit the horn and swear a lot!

 

Sad reflection on some people‘s priorities. Especially those videos of someone falling over and noone apparently bothering to see if they‘re ok.

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That's gorgeous. There's only ONE convertible left and it's had a full restoration - what a lovely little thing.

 

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Even cooler - it was restored by BMW apprentices in the same factory in which it was originally built.

 

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Personally I am aware of the FSR Tarpan having fought in hand to hand combat with them in several bustling eastern Bloc cities way back in the good old, cold old days. What I didn't know is that a Tarpan is an extinct wild horse that was found in Eastern Europe, the last captive one died in Russia in 1909.

FSR Tarpan | Adrian Kot | Flickr

Tarpan - Wikipedia

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