Timewaster Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 10 hours ago, JimH said: In a post about gearboxes @Talbot said... I never knew this car existed. I cannot imagine who drove a Horizon and thought to themselves "You know what? This would be great if only it were even more clattery" They thought it would be quieter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 26 minutes ago, Timewaster said: They thought it would be quieter! It was. chaseracer and Timewaster 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 PGO Cevennes; a car that looks like the love child of a Porsche 365 and a Daihatsu Copen. Just as expensive but looks like a kit car and from a manufacturer very few people, if anyone has ever heard of. 1duck, bunglebus, myglaren and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Just seen this pic of the FSO Polonez Cargo on FB... new one on me So I had a little google.... Wow!!! Would. myglaren, Kade, bunglebus and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1duck Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 11 hours ago, Dick Van Diesel said: Whilst I tire of the facebook mindset whereby anyone with something festering in their drive is seen as a 'selfish twat' (personally, I normally have something festering in the drive, as do many of us on here, and would never sell to a random door knocker) the owner of the Horizon and the aforementioned Moggie vans clearly is a selfish twat. You say that but moggy vans will probably follow minis up to stupid cash, at which point he can post the vins to the new owner and sweep the rest into the bin for profits. The guy is clearly just a very canny business man! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdisk Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 22 hours ago, JimH said: In a post about gearboxes @Talbot said... I never knew this car existed. I cannot imagine who drove a Horizon and thought to themselves "You know what? This would be great if only it were even more clattery" I had one of those in the 1980s, petrol of course. It still rattled like Mums sewing machine! LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 This popped up on my Instagram today too... an electric Yugo from 1991!! Now that’s an EV I’d be more than happy with! jumpingjehovahs, LightBulbFun, inconsistant and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 And now.... On the same theme as the Polonez Cargo these 205 van type something... Slightly different to one another, but variations on a theme... BL Bloke and Yoss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 This just popped up on YouTube. Apologies for the waffle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STUNO Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 This shows the Timbs Special "as found" at about 1 minute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon.k Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 On 5/24/2020 at 4:06 PM, Talbot said: Having a car that is so notorious for galloping rot with such a long-lived engine as an XUD is why I can weld. And leaving Peugeot and Citroen owners like me confused when they open the Haynes xud manual to find lots of the main pictures are of some kind of talbot no one’s ever seen. twosmoke300 and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 On 3/3/2020 at 8:01 PM, bunglebus said: Saw one of these in France today. Most exciting! 20 hours ago, brownnova said: And now.... Didn't spot any of the modified hatchback ones but there were a few (presumably) factory ones in rural France brownnova 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 I've seen a handful of them over the years, but they're certainly not common: Peugeot 205 XAD by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Peugeot 205 XAD by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Neither is the 205F van for that matter. When I was looking for them I remembered this Polo oddity, hidden behind the Mercedes: Mercedes SEC W126 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Apparently a Transfer model made by Gruau: https://petrolblog.com/2015/07/vantastique-volkswagen-polo-transfer/ Looks like they also did a Fiesta conversion, but I don't recall ever seeing one of them: bunglebus, Sir Snipes, brownnova and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 On 5/24/2020 at 4:06 PM, Talbot said: I had three Diesel Talbot Horizons, and several more petrol ones. I can say with a fair degree of certainty that the XUD engine-d cars were smoother on the road than the simca engine-d ones.....Having a car that is so notorious for galloping rot with such a long-lived engine as an XUD is why I can weld. Coincidentally I just stuck a photo of my dad's Horizon on another thread - he lived in a seaside village and that car was looking poor by the time of it's first MoT. There were a couple of Simcas in the area that were also rotten and, in the dark, they all sounded the same. Only thing I recall on the Horizon which I only drove a handful of times was that the brakes seemed incredibly hard to feather as they snatched - kind of all or nothing. He traded that in against a Skoda Rapide (which wasn't). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWeldedShut Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Ah OK - reason I cam to this thread. Vauxhall Monaro? Reading the 'ask a Shiter' discussion on Sierras and there's a link to carcavesscotland.co.uk which (of course) I had to visit. There's a £10K Vauxhall Movano on there. Wow! There's a pricey van methinks. Nope - looks like I'm a troglodyte, Murano - it's a thing. Even got a discussion on the forum about it. I guess I'd stopped reading car magazines by the time that one reached the UK (and I was driving a star shite car - Mitsubishi Spacewagon, 2.0l petrol - so not in the Murano league - and at £10,750 I'm still not) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 38 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said: Only thing I recall on the Horizon which I only drove a handful of times was that the brakes seemed incredibly hard to feather as they snatched - kind of all or nothing. Horizons were actually remarkably high mechanical specification cars. They had double-wishbone front suspension, independent trailing arm rear suspension, torsion bar front springing and two-piston fixed front brake calipers on fairly large discs. The brakes, as you mention, were astonishingly powerful for such a humdrum car and you had to be a bit careful with them. As a Horizon was the first vehicle I really worked on, I was genuinely surprised to see that so many other cars have a "lesser" specification when it comes to braking and suspension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 On 5/25/2020 at 10:24 AM, brownnova said: And now.... On the same theme as the Polonez Cargo these 205 van type something... Slightly different to one another, but variations on a theme... Top one's by Durisotti, t'other is the 'factory' version by Gruau. I looked out the brochure just now, so that's work fecked for a while...! brownnova 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Those vans remind me of those conversions for wheelchairs that seemed to be common in the 1980s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Found images of MK2-5 wearing them! NorfolkNWeigh, face, Aston Martin and 4 others 4 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 motorpunk, sheffcortinacentre and NorfolkNWeigh 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 On 5/26/2020 at 12:01 AM, jon.k said: And leaving Peugeot and Citroen owners like me confused when they open the Haynes xud manual to find lots of the main pictures are of some kind of talbot no one’s ever seen. The bx manual tells you to remove the battery tray with 3 bolts iirc. Which would be fine and dandy if it wasn’t welded in on production cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 8 hours ago, bunglebus said: You'd think they'd match the wheels for he promotional photo shoot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian_pt Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 The poor Opel looks worryingly like it's being humped. Meanwhile, lucky* UK customers could go to Blackpool and blow their hard-earned on an "FSO Freedom": a camper conversion on the base of the FSO 125 pick-up, done by Madisons. The guy who converted them says, with admirable understatement, "there weren't many made". warch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 The Renault 900 prototype code name: MindFuck (probably) I honestly thought it was one of those joke cars and had to google it LOL adw1977, vulgalour, Dick Longbridge and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieInExile Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Those caravan conversions remind me of this:- Three Speed, paulplom, Yoss and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 On 5/30/2020 at 11:41 PM, bunglebus said: Poor Mini. First an upturned boat fell on its roof and then it was swallowed by a carnivorous caravan chaseracer, LightBulbFun and RayMK 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Vanden Plas 1800 prototype: Yoss, worley, bunglebus and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Ooh I like that! Anyone else see a resemblance to the Shadow T2 in the side roofline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 I knew it existed, but I didn't know it survived! LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Ford Fiesta Tuareg Concept, the origin of SUVs? If only today's SUVs were this cool: sheffcortinacentre, paulplom, face and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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