Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[High Jetter]

ADO 16 hatch? Oh no, R16 was far more innovative.

[bunglebus]

11 hours ago, R1152 said:

Discovered whilst leafing through a 1970 copy of Motor: that Crayford made an "estate" (more hatchback IMO) conversion for the Austin 1800.

Very hearsey. I approve

[Yoss]

That's the 3-Litre estate. I once owned a normal 3-Litre and the guy I sold it to turned up with one of these with a trailer on the back. 

[Rod/b]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Very hearsey. I approve

If they’d swept the roofline down and kept the rear screen level with the rear windows that would look awesome. Sure maybe you couldn’t get a twin-tub washing machine and mangle (or whatever shit people used to lug about in the olden days) in but whatever. Maybe a split tailgate would have worked nicely too. 

[R1152]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

ADO 16 hatch? Oh no, R16 was far more innovative.

The chap who owned the garage in the village (it was a family business) told me when I had my R16 that the R16 showed up just how bad the contemporary British offerings were, without being mental like a DS - all-alloy engines, electric cooling fan, five bearing crankshaft, load-compensated braking at the rear and a ride no British car could touch. 

[Yoss]

 

10 minutes ago, Rod/b said:

If they’d swept the roofline down and kept the rear screen level with the rear windows that would look awesome. Sure maybe you couldn’t get a twin-tub washing machine and mangle (or whatever shit people used to lug about in the olden days) in but whatever. Maybe a split tailgate would have worked nicely too. 

If they'd spent some money altering the rear door frame they could have made it look like a normal estate. It suffers from the same problems as the P6 and XJ6 estates, though not to the same extent, with downward sloping rear doors completely failing to match up with the stuck on estate section. 

The tailgate appears to be from an Austin 1100 estate but mounted more upright. It fits the 1100 perfectly. 

But doesn't fit the 3-Litre at all. 

[barrett]

Here's the 1800 for anyone interested. It might just be the only acceptable car Crayford ever built

[quicksilver]

1 hour ago, barrett said:

Here's the 1800 for anyone interested. It might just be the only acceptable car Crayford ever built

An interesting conversion but I don't see the point of it after 1969. Surely it was a lot more expensive and didn't do much a Maxi couldn't do.

[Austat]

Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV Turbodelta, Alfa's first turbo model:

[Crackers]

Holy wow. 

What a honey! And what a noise!! 

[Austat]

1968 DAF 55 Siluro concept by Michelotti:

[Austat]

Opel Manta B 1300: 

 

[fatharris]

Too much of a filthy poor for an Evoque convertible?

Think the Nissan Murano CrossConvertible just isn't niche enough?

Then step forward and ingest the Volkswagen T-roc convertible.

Sorry.

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[TheOtherStu]

Following on from the VW Gol (which looks a bit 1970s Jetta like), there was a 3 door estate version called the Parati.

 

VW really were masters of the 3 door Estate weren't they. I loved these back in the day.

[MikeR]

this made interesting reading .. google ..

pontiac tempest rope drive

[vulgalour]

Remiss of me not to mention the recent discovery of the Kia Joice after this thread happened https://autoshite.com/topic/46343-i-saw-an-car-but-what-was-it-mystery-solved/

The peculiar-in-the-UK Kia Joice.

[chaseracer]

23 hours ago, fatharris said:

...step forward and ingest the Volkswagen T-roc convertible.

Sorry.

...why VW axed the Golf cabrio, then a few years later effectively brought it back as this.

[bunglebus]

[adw1977]

Sunbeam Venezia Superleggera.

According to CarBrochureAddict on Twitter, it was designed and built by Touring in Italy, based on the 1592cc Humber Sceptre and only around 200 were made in 1963 and 1964.

A bit different from the rest of the Rootes range at the time!

[JeeExEll]

Wow, that Sunbeam's a new one to me.  It's a bit like a cross between an Alpine and a Minx and maybe some sort of Lancia or early BMW coupe.  Never seen that before.

 

Some more info in this link

https://www.below-the-radar.com/sunbeam-venezia/#iLightbox[image_gallery_1]/3

 

Wonder if it had an older brother . . .

[Muniphobia]

I remember reading about one found in a farm outbuilding in Classic and Sportscar and it had been damaged possibly by a farmhand to move it out of the way damaging the front of it.

[sdkrc]

Toyota Publica

[GeordieInExile]

Had to double take there, for a second I thought it was a Trabant they produced under licence!

[EightMegs]

The Starlet was originally a version of the Publica which is why the chassis codes begin with a P.

[Three Speed]

From the 1963 World Car Catalogue - apologies for the quality 

[sdkrc]

Weird Japanese shit from carfromjapan.com

And the Mitsubishi Debonair interior. WOW

[MisterH]

1 hour ago, sdkrc said:

Weird Japanese shit from carfromjapan.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really like the look of that, sort of an R32 Skyline Saloon

 

Oh wait

[Rusty Pelican]

Never knew this was even tried 

[High Jetter]

Reminds me of a Nova

[Timewaster]

3 hours ago, Rusty Pelican said:

Never knew this was even tried 

It isn't pretty is it? 

I'm surprised they didn't add a chrome grill and call it a Riley.