Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[vulgalour]

Heard about the Talbot Wind today and was going to post it in here.  You can blame serial Simca fettler Scmick over on the blue forum for the knowledge.

[pshome]

Anyone else heard of the Talbot Wind?

 

talbot_1100_vf2_wind_concept_by_heuliez_1.jpg

good try, but cant beat the 504 'Loisirs'

[Felly Magic]

How the hell did people get in to the back seat in that 504? The bulkhead looks to still be in place, what a bizarre thing

[Tadhg Tiogar]

similar simca LCV base to the Rancho ... Heuliez are a coachbuilder in that there French France ...

 

They were a coachbuilder. Not any more. Although there is another firm of that name which builds buses. Not sure if related to the defunct one.

[flat4alfa]

Anyone else heard of the Talbot Wind?

talbot_1100_vf2_wind_concept_by_heuliez_1.jpg

 

There are some fantastic* staged photos of this with some awkwardly-posed models.  Well worth a look

 

[Junkman]

 

Yes, this was a regular production model available to the public. But only 250 were sold.

It was followed up with a two rotor model and the engine later became available in the Samara s well.

 

[cros]

Not really belonging here, sue me etc., but when they had their outboard division Perkins built an experimental diesel Wankel, something that was not at all easy to pull off. Well someone had to say it.

 

[quicksilver]

 

Yes, this was a regular production model available to the public. But only 250 were sold.

It was followed up with a two rotor model and the engine later became available in the Samara s well.

 

I'm pretty sure Sam Glover owns one of them there Wankel Ladas. Goodness knows where he found it.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I'm pretty sure Sam Glover owns one of them there Wankel Ladas. Goodness knows where he found it.

 

Those must have been an entertaining drive; freakish performance from a car meant for the proletariat. I read somewhere that the Soviet police used them.

[Junkman]

Initially only the police used them. They became available to the public later.

A Lada never was a car for the proletariat. You had to be very privileged to get one.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

...A Lada never was a car for the proletariat. You had to be very privileged to get one.

 

Nomenklatura, then.

[somewhatfoolish]

What else are they to do when some plonker takes them to a damp Welsh beach for surfing...

Presumably they're listening to their Talbot rust vigorously in the salt sea air...

[D Spares & Tyres]

There is a Suzuki Jimney pick up truck near me. Doesn't look a bodge job. It has a proper plastic mouldings. Looks like a factory job but never seen another

[vulgalour]

Courtesy of the Junkman, I learned recently of the ultra-cool Geo Storm wagon.

 

 

[somewhatfoolish]

My old man had one of those, same colour too; they're like cockroaches, it refused to die despite a regime of benign neglect, just occasionally a bit of trim would fall off. Flogged it to a bloke from Manchester who came 250 miles to buy a shite old LHD car for £300.

[Snipes]

 

Spotted one of these today. Foreign plates, ofcourse.

[chaseracer]

Not really belonging here, sue me etc., but when they had their outboard division Perkins built an experimental diesel Wankel, something that was not at all easy to pull off. Well someone had to say it.

 

Thank you for tossing that one off... 

 

Meanwhile, can everyone else hear that Simca Windthingy dissolving?

[LC Torana]

Anybody put a Talbot Wind on gas?  'Cause I heard the exhaust is likely to blow.

[Timewaster]

There is a Suzuki Jimney pick up truck near me. Doesn't look a bodge job. It has a proper plastic mouldings. Looks like a factory job but never seen another

http://www.kapsuzuki4x4.co.uk

[bunglebus]

Saw one of these gorgeous* creations recently

 

[Skut]

Came across this on a Russia webpage about home built soviet cars.  Was rather taken by this 'KD' based on a Ukrainian ZAZ with those fab wheels that are mostly brake drum.   Six were made and it looks quite a nice combination of professional and cartoony with its it scoop down half the length of the car.   Some other crackers on there as well

 

http://nevsedoma.com.ua/index.php?newsid=249470

[RayMK]

Wow!  There's some interesting stuff there.  A few are quite pleasing to the eye - I particularly like the first of the white fastbacks and a white saloon that looks dated in a 1960s Lancia sort of way. Edit: Just looked again.  Well, maybe not like a Lancia but I like its awkward proportions.

[rantingYoof]

Saw one of these gorgeous* creations recently

 

Ssangyong Tivoli...proper future shite.

[JeeExEll]

^^ Skut's Russian cars link, 3 posts up.

 

14th car down, yellow one from 1985 looks a bit mini-Dodge-Challenger-ish. Anyone translate it's name so I can google it?

 

Lots of interesting cars on that link.

[Skut]

^^ Skut's Russian cars link, 3 posts up.

 

14th car down, yellow one from 1985 looks a bit mini-Dodge-Challenger-ish. Anyone translate it's name so I can google it?

 

It translates as Proton. Its supposed to be powered by a forklift motor.  

[jollyfkr2]

I was in Warsaw at the weekend and saw this, I never realised that the Matiz was sold as an FSO...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I was in Warsaw at the weekend and saw this, I never realised that the Matiz was sold as an FSO...

Neither did I

[Magpie215]

 

 

I had this a few years back.

How about an avensis estate with 260bhp and 4wd.

 

Has the engine and running gear off the Celica GT4

 

Very rare in the uk and mine was the even rarer manual version at the time I believe the only manual in the uk there were a few automatics about.

 

Toyota Caldina GT-T chassis code ST215W if you want to google????

[Datsuncog]

^^^ Ah, so that's what that was.

 

Used to be one of these smoking about local to me. I rashly assumed it was an Avensis estate belonging to someone who'd won a trolley dash at the JDM_YO! warehouse.

 

Haven't seen it for over a year now, but seems like I ought to have appreciated it a little more at the time. Bloody quick, no doubt.

 

 

(don't think this is the same car, but it looked identical)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

calfield.jpg

 

I had this a few years back.

How about an avensis estate with 260bhp and 4wd.

 

Has the engine and running gear off the Celica GT4....

Is that not a bit like the Toyota Auris that they stuffed a 265hp V6 into? And then called it the Blade Master or something similar?