Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[Metal Guru]

12 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

https://m.independent.ie/life/the-shamrock-the-flash-and-sleek-irish-car-that-never-got-out-of-first-gear-30600546.html

😎

Sounds like an earlier version of De Lorean.

[lesapandre]

8 hours ago, Austat said:

1967 Autobleu Peugeot 204 GT Frua Coupé:

Reversing looks pretty hit-and-miss.

[barrett]

I've always liked that 204, mainly because it's quite a bit worse looking than a normal 204 coupé and it looks like it's been nailed together with bits of MDF.

[Snake Charmer]

AC 289 Sports.

 

[LightBulbFun]

6 minutes ago, Snake Charmer said:

AC 289 Sports.

 

I love finding Genuine Factory registered AC Cobra's especially in  blue

because one of these is an AC Cobra the other one is an AC Acedes invalid tricycle, can you tell which is which without googling/looking it up?  

[Jack D]

The Peugeot pickup.  Spotted yesterday in Angola, apparently Chinese based.  Proper 4X4 with low range transfer box etc.  
 

 

 

And a press photo:

[Remspoor]

Another old Pug design still being produced, The Peugeot 405. Now named Khazar 406.

It still has Peugeot badges. Front and rear lights, together with the dash, are different to the 405. Looks like the ride height is elevated.

 

This link says that Hazar. Searches draw a black on that one. https://www.azernews.az/business/147043.html

[Leyland Worldmaster]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Another old Pug design still being produced, The Peugeot 405. Now named Khazar 406.

It still has Peugeot badges. Front and rear lights, together with the dash, are different to the 405. Looks like the ride height is elevated.

 

This link says that Hazar. Searches draw a black on that one. https://www.azernews.az/business/147043.html

https://www.drive.com.au/news/old-peugeots-never-die-they-just-get-made-in-azerbaijan-peugeot-405-still-in-production/

 

Found! I called it a 405! 👍 👍 👍 😎 😎 😎 

[cort1977]

4 hours ago, Jack D said:

The Peugeot pickup.  Spotted yesterday in Angola, apparently Chinese based.  Proper 4X4 with low range transfer box etc.  
 

Are you in Angola now? I used to go regularly but not been for a couple of years. I have spotted a very few Chinese made vw santanas kicking about but not much else of note.

[Jack D]

24 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

Are you in Angola now? I used to go regularly but not been for a couple of years. I have spotted a very few Chinese made vw santanas kicking about but not much else of note.

Yes I am,  loads of really interesting stuff knocking around on the streets still, especially if you have an interest in commercials.  

[Snake Charmer]

22 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

I love finding Genuine Factory registered AC Cobra's especially in  blue

because one of these is an AC Cobra the other one is an AC Acedes invalid tricycle, can you tell which is which without googling/looking it up?  

Difficult one with E and F plates, maybe a slightly higher chance of the E plate on a Cobra but I see a lot on F plates! Also, PPD 567E is on the front cover of Classic And Sportscar this month and so am I! 😎

[Aston Martin]

Aston Martin MGB 🤷‍♂️

 

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/meet-one-aston-martin-mgb-never-was

 

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, Aston Martin said:

Aston Martin MGB 🤷‍♂️

 

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/meet-one-aston-martin-mgb-never-was

 

I am just going to show my age again as I remember this when there was talk of ending the MG brand. I had a MG Maestro at the time and the two MG clubs were positive about the news that perhaps AM would continue making a MG B.

Over the years that car has changed hands a number of times. I did not know it was now in Germany.

Some aspects of this car are not so clean as it should have been, the windscreen, hood and rear lights. Awful. still at least it has the period factory built tied  line.

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

VW Logus. Vaguely familiar... 🧐

[Inspiral_Mondays]

3 hours ago, Aston Martin said:

Aston Martin MGB 🤷‍♂️

 

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/meet-one-aston-martin-mgb-never-was

 

Wow nice one, I‘d completely forgotten about Aston Martin trying to buy out British Leyland and save the Abingdon factory. I wonder how that would have turned out.

[AnnoyingPentium]

10 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

VW Logus. Vaguely familiar... 🧐

That's a whatchmacallit with a smack to the face, aye?

[OM646]

17 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

That's a whatchmacallit with a smack to the face, aye?

It's actually MK4 Escort based (or was it MK5?)

[AnnoyingPentium]

5 minutes ago, OM646 said:

It's actually MK4 Escort based 

Aye that's the one. I've been awake for far too long so I couldn't remember the name of it.

[warren t claim]

On 1/15/2022 at 12:49 PM, Remspoor said:

Another old Pug design still being produced, The Peugeot 405. Now named Khazar 406.

It still has Peugeot badges. Front and rear lights, together with the dash, are different to the 405. Looks like the ride height is elevated.

 

This link says that Hazar. Searches draw a black on that one. https://www.azernews.az/business/147043.html

I remember seeing some Middle Eastern students in Liverpool taking selfies next to a tatty 1974 Humber Sceptre parked on Bold Street. I think I can safely assume the students were Iranian.

[RoadworkUK]

11 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

VW Logus. Vaguely familiar... 🧐

 

The five-door version (Volkswagen Pointer) actually brings me to mild panic on sight. It's like a rupture in the space-time continuum.

Still, I reckon a Logus rebuilt with RS2000 / Cossie running gear would have the Pineapplists foaming at the mouth.

[Inspiral_Mondays]

3 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

The five-door version (Volkswagen Pointer) actually brings me to mild panic on sight. It's like a rupture in the space-time continuum.

Still, I reckon a Logus rebuilt with RS2000 / Cossie running gear would have the Pineapplists foaming at the mouth.

When I see things like that, I do wonder why they went to all the effort of restyling the rear end with all the associated costs for designing and manufacturing new tools for the panels, lights and interior trim, in order to build something that looks substantially worse than the original.

[AnnoyingPentium]

3 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

The five-door version (Volkswagen Pointer) actually brings me to mild panic on sight. It's like a rupture in the space-time continuum.

Still, I reckon a Logus rebuilt with RS2000 / Cossie running gear would have the Pineapplists foaming at the mouth.

Obviously that was an Escort before getting a hard smack, but that rear quarter window looked awful Vectra-esque before I remembered the Ford Escort looked like that.

[RoadworkUK]

1 hour ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

that rear quarter window looked awful Vectra-esque before I remembered the Ford Escort looked like that

I think they've made it a little bit more sit-up-and-beg than the Escort. It's like an Escort trying to be an Astra F

 

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

I think they've made it a little bit more sit-up-and-beg than the Escort. It's like an Escort trying to be an Astra F

 

It's like that image on the net.

Child: Can we have an Astra?

Mum: We have an Astra at home.

The Astra at home:

(see quoted image)

[catsinthewelder]

Iso Autocarro 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta

 

 

[Pieman]

Whatever the heck this is. 

[Snake Charmer]

27 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Whatever the heck this is. 

Half an X-Pack Reliant Kitten!

[sheffcortinacentre]

That was done in the USA by the importer to allow them to be sold for on road use over there.

[Rod/b]

Now then. I obviously knew that South Korea took the Mk2 Astra and Belmont and made them into the Nexia but HOO NOO that they were still made as late as 2016 in Uzbekistan? This NOS version has made it to the UAE somehow and could be yours for £5k.

 

[Austat]

WD Denzel, an Austrian Porsche: