Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[martc]

 

 

 

[bunglebus]

How about a nice Lancia Phedra? 

 

[louiepj]

Diahatsu Materia... Just followed one of these for a few miles. Dear lord the back looks awful in that desirable way!!

[cros]

 

What's this? Did the Atlas have a bigger brother? I know its cab was tried as a Scammell mechanical horsey horse replacement but I've never seen anything as exciting or exotic as a Standard 20. Maybe its just a dream.

[cros]

 

More Standard shite. Belgium (Imperia) built Vanguard Estate for when you prefer a scramble to gain entry to the rear seats. This vehicle wouldn't be top of my list for going on a cop shooting spree with two other hoodlums, but it was the perps choice in the Shepard's bush massacre.

I can't find a picture of the side, but believe it was originally a van with windows added later. The marque became distorted by a recent lazy author-

"The Vauxhall Vanguard car was quite quickly recovered by the police and closely examined for fingerprints..."

[barrett]

  On 22/11/2018 at 10:43, cros said:

What's this? Did the Atlas have a bigger brother? I know its cab was tried as a Scammell mechanical horsey horse replacement but I've never seen anything as exciting or exotic as a Standard 20. Maybe its just a dream.

 

 

India-only, I believe

[cros]

  On 22/11/2018 at 16:24, barrett said:

India-only, I believe

We was robbed.

I've found this snappy advert for the Standard 20. Looks like they cunningly slipped in some extra panels to make the already bloated Atlas even bigger.

[AnthonyG]

There was also a Leyland version of the Standard Atlas from around 1962, was offered as something small for the truck dealers to offer their lucky* customers until the BMC merger in ‘68. I imagine most of these customers bought Transits or Bedfords instead, I know I would have.

[mercrocker]

  On 22/11/2018 at 11:06, cros said:

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I can't find a picture of the side, but believe it was originally a van with windows added later. The marque became distorted by a recent lazy author-

"The Vauxhall Vanguard car was quite quickly recovered by the police and closely examined for fingerprints..."

 

I always remember it as an actual Estate Car but I was only 6 at the time.   A bloke down our street had one and traded it against an Austin 7 Mini at about this time, which led me to speculate to Mum that No.28 might well be Harry Roberts' hideaway......

[bunglebus]

Toyota Alphard presumed JDM tho

 

[Timewaster]

Only a little spec difference but I followed a 2001 Vauxhall Combo with a tailgate.

I've never seen one before.

[bunglebus]

Aurus anyone?

 

[Tayne]

China?

[bunglebus]

Surprisingly Russian

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurus_Senat

 

 

 

 

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The Aurus Senat is part of the Kortezh series, which will include a sedan, a minivan and an off-road vehicle

[martc]

  On 28/11/2018 at 10:37, bunglebus said:

Surprisingly Russian

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurus_Senat

 

 

 

I posted this in the Bikeshite thread - the IZH 'convoy' motorcycle. Putin does not want foreign (BMW) motorbikes escorting his limousine so Rostec (an umbrella organisation who co-ordinates the activities of defence and high tech Russian companies) organised the development and production of this beast using the IZH brand. It weighs 510kg and has a top speed of 155mph. Expect to see them alongside the Senat. There is talk of exporting them...

 

[bunglebus]

How have I lived until today, unaware of the Jet Electrica 007?

 

[cros]

  On 23/11/2018 at 16:45, mercrocker said:

I always remember it as an actual Estate Car but I was only 6 at the time.   A bloke down our street had one and traded it against an Austin 7 Mini at about this time, which led me to speculate to Mum that No.28 might well be Harry Roberts' hideaway......

I see the gentleman in question no longer has to rely on mates for lifts as he took his test after his 42 year stretch. Parently the infamous Vanguard had a TR2 engine and floor change.

[mercrocker]

Here is another thing I had never heard of.....I knew there were Lincoln-branded trucks but this one snuck under my radar about 16 years ago, apparently....

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Blackwood 

 

Could have had a good career as combined hearse and flower car.....

 

 

 

 

I kind of want one.....

[Supernaut]

The Lincoln Blackwood is very autoshite, because it was a massive flop.

[chaseracer]

  On 02/12/2018 at 10:01, Supernaut said:

The Lincoln Blackwood is very autoshite, because it was a massive flop.

 

Just over 3000 sold in total.  That's about a single day's production of the F-150 it's based on.

 

Possibly.

[Bfg]

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Australian Austin 7 Meteor

[Jim Bergerac]

  On 15/11/2018 at 22:49, Alusilber said:

Certainly not heard of that one before. Not to be confused with Evanta, Ant Antstead's sports car company!

Speaking of whom and in line with this thread, he's just unveilled another new car with a new venture: http://dowsettscars.co.uk/coming-soon.htm

[cros]

 

Marvia Rolls, what a cracker. The Indonesian company did imaginative things with Suzuki Jimmy's, not sure if it formed the basis for their 'Gentlemans Racer'.

This would be my choice, I don't like to appear too conspicuous.

[somewhatfoolish]

Need some fake brake discs and calipers for those alloys; the ashtray-sized drums give it away.

[cros]

 

Here's a nobby little chap, the Volvo Venus Bilo from 1933. A concept car, they only did just the one which scuttled off to Denmark. I went to a tractor museum in Denmark once, just thought I'd mention it.

[cros]

  On 04/12/2018 at 08:32, somewhatfoolish said:

Need some fake brake discs and calipers for those alloys; the ashtray-sized drums give it away.

Have you seen the contraption on the side of that faux-roller? It might be an auxiliary pedalling mechanism or something. I think this motor is right up there with the car that had a swans head on the bonnet and could actually do a shit.

[somewhatfoolish]

Looks like a stirrup pump or something; perhaps it's for filling up with when there's no convenient petrol station or water tap, you just dunk a hose in a handy roadside bucket of pez/mild'n'bitter manned by an urchin and waggle the stick for a while...

[cros]

I like cars with senseless gadgets because I can unbolt them and get some of the purchase price of the car back. This was one of my more lucrative bit of mechanical declutterings-

Who wants that shit hanging off the axles for 5 years, then when you finally get a puncture it's seized solid and all the oils pissed out?

[martc]

  On 06/12/2018 at 14:49, cros said:

Have you seen the contraption on the side of that faux-roller? It might be an auxiliary pedalling mechanism or something. I think this motor is right up there with the car that had a swans head on the bonnet and could actually do a shit.

 

The problem is I knew about the Brooke 25/30 Swan car since seeing it in a book 30 years ago, but for the uninitiated...

 

[cros]

I'd have this particular mechanism up on eBay in a trice, I'd wager the novel birdshit trick palls pretty fast.