Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[JeeExEll]

That pillarless 4-door Mazda Eunos above is a good looking car.

Check this one out.

Looks American / Australian General Motors. Maybe powered by a 4 litre six or a 5/6/7 litre V8? A bit like something Kojak would drive.

But it has Mazda badges?

It's the Mazda Roadpacer from around 1975. A what???

It was powered by this.

A 1.3 litre low-torque high-revving rotary Wankel engine in a 1.6 ton car. Intended as an 'anti-pollution, low emissions' car. It did 9mpg.

Things didn't end well.

[Snipes]

I really like the wheels on the 1800 DOHC too

[bunglebus]

I know about the VW type 147;

But I'd never seen its prototype before;

 

23cbb09ffdb8652298f32b90983cb32a by RS, on Flickr

[Alusilber]

I stumbled across an Enfield 8000 in the Lisbon Tejo power station museum last year, which I wasn't expecting.. Jonny Smith (him off Fifth Gear) also bought one recently and turned it into some crazy electric dragster - it's got its own website here. I recommend reading the blog he wrote about it from the start if you have some time to kill.

[MorrisItalSLX]

That pillarless 4-door Mazda Eunos above is a good looking car.
Check this one out.

Looks American / Australian General Motors. Maybe powered by a 4 litre six or a 5/6/7 litre V8? A bit like something Kojak would drive.
But it has Mazda badges?
It's the Mazda Roadpacer from around 1975. A what???
It was powered by this.

A 1.3 litre low-torque high-revving rotary Wankel engine in a 1.6 ton car. Intended as an 'anti-pollution, low emissions' car. It did 9mpg.
Things didn't end well.

A Holden HJ Premier with a Wankle and wing mirrors, pure class.

[Timewaster]

Jensen Tempo seen here rescued by a Facebook friend from deep in a bramble for a very ambitious restoration, along with an even worse spares car.

Seems they were a German van built under licence all over the place.

[vulgalour]

I barely know anything about those Tempo vans, I understood they had some sort of VW connection and assumed they were a rebodied Type 2 van affair.  Seems that's not quite correct, and the Jensen layer is an added bit of badge engineering complication?  Would like to learn more, at any rate.  Thanks to Schaefft I now want a Mazda Persona in red, four door hardtops with full width rear light bars and flat-top arches are the cars of winners, frankly.

[Timewaster]

The new owner of those barely Tempo shape piles of scrap has a Matador van presumably to use as a base for restoring and / or creating  a Jensen Tempo.

[bunglebus]

Tempo Matador started as FWD tube chassis van/pickup with a VW engine and box under the driver's seat

 

 

 

Then went on to have connections with other manufacturers when VW wanted to concentrate on their own commercials

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bunglebus]

The Tempo lead me down a rabbit hole that lead to...

 

 

 

The Renault Rambler. There's even a Renault Rambler Rebel, presumably never owned by Jonathon Ross.

 

 

(A re-badged AMC, but who knew?)

[STUNO]

Mazda Eunos Cosmo for sale in NZ only $36,000.00

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/mazda/auction-2164073809.htm?rsqid=2862c37c613e467e8b79511bdf108f20-002

[Schaefft]

Only 3 rotor production car in the world, one of the first cars with satnav and fuel consumption that would put any V8 to shame. I love them!

[bunglebus]

A Toyota Raum, apparently

[Chris2cv]

On 7/13/2019 at 2:00 PM, JeeExEll said:

 

Check out the Enfield Safari's sister, the Neorion Chicago 4X4, also based on the Jeep V8. Some info on Wiki.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neorion_Chicago

Anyone want to buy one?

Found more info here ↓, which has a bonus vid in it

http://www.thepetrolstop.com/2014/07/neorion-chicago.html

 

There is (or at least was last year) one of them on the Isle of Wight, near Ryde. Thought it was an odd kit car, so rather surprised to find the truth, and that  it is so rare. Probably understandable though!

[lesapandre]

Bijou - Citroen with a nifty estate addition. This is about somewhere.

[lesapandre]

Enfield reminds me of the Lamborghini LM 002 4x4

[JeeExEll]

A bit more of the yellow Enfield Safari. Didn't notice before but it's LHD. Edit to earlier post to add that it's actually powered by the 4.2 inline-6 AMC Jeep 258, not the period 360 5.9V8 as first thought (DVLA check shows 4228cc).

Interesting little hinged opening window vents, with dash designed to suit ('Shit, where have my wallet and house keys gone, I'm sure I put them down here somewhere'). 

It looks like we've been here before briefly in 2012 . . . .

https://autoshite.com/topic/11260-whatisthishite-i-know/

 

[Sheefag]

Have we had the Australian Cortina Van?

More here - https://www.shannons.com.au/club/enthusiasts/mk2cortinapv/garage/1967-ford-cortina-440/?fbclid=IwAR3kdSf3_Rw8eUtovq-88vFAqH8Oib04cB3JXN2qAGCZ9jfXEN3yjBNXXjw

 

 

[Sheefag]

A bit more about it -

 

[Alan_Green]

Brings to mind Mad Max's van.  Holden Sandman:

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

There were also MK1 vans made/converted for a bakery I think there were 2 known to survive.

[Alan_Green]

Which in turn brings to mind a Chevy HHR van (Heritage High Roof).  I had one of these a few years back.  It was alright.

[Sheefag]

I always thought GM missed a trick not offering the HHR over here.

[bunglebus]

Renault e-plein air...

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Last week, I saw a giant modern H-Van on a transporter, on the Autoroute near Lyon. Thought it was a one off custom or something, but no!

it seems a company will sell you a kit for about €40,000 to transform any size of Citroen van,

[cort16]

Fuckin hell. Not sure what to think of that

[17-Coffees]

Soon to be selling over priced ‘specialty foods’ at an event near you...

[NorfolkNWeigh]

It would be cheaper than buying a real one , then a trailer and the seemingly compulsory Disco4 to tow it everywhere.

[quicksilver]

One from FOTU that caused a lot of head scratching. It looks like an Alfetta but bigger and badged 'Alfa Romeo 2300 Rio'.

It was made in Brazil and sounds like complete and utter shite that nobody wanted. The Brazilians were moving to ethanol fuel so Alfa ended up with a load of unsaleable petrol-engined cars that they dumped on their European importers. They sold badly there too and quality was so bad that the importers eventually had to buy almost all of them back. The ones in the Netherlands were then stored outside for 3 years and sold on with no warranty, pretty much destroying what was left of Alfa's reputation there. It must be a miracle that this one has survived.

[egg]

here's the rear end...