Torsten's Toss! Is Back!

[bigstraight6]

Neat MK1 Corty on Wolfies remember something similar on every street in the late 70's

[Torsten2001]

and here's some shite from the M1 last week:

[michiel]

Is that coupe behind the Triumph 2000 a... damn, tip of my tongue... hold on... Buckley?

[Torsten2001]

honestly no idea, really cute though

[ChinaTom]

It ain't a Fairthorpe with those fins, but it may be a:

 

Turner MkII or 950S

 

Falcon

 

Alexis and Ashley made some specials like this, but not with those fins to my knowledge

 

Berkeley is the best guess for the rounded shape, but tales of a hard-top for these are thin on the ground

 

It does look bloody familiar but looking at other photos of what I suspect it is reveals a detail that procludes it. The 2000 was quite a large car, and the sportster on tow doesn't look small enough to be one of these British babies.

[ChinaTom]

No matter how much I wanted it to be one, it isn't. One of my all-time "must own before dying" treasures, the Sprintzel Sebring Sprite Coupe

 

 

only 6 made apparently. But not shite, so here is a Berkeley that can be classified as such:

 

 

intit great?

[michiel]

Cheers Tom! That Sprinzel is gorgeous.

 

I'm leaning towards the Falcon MK3 now...

 

Huge pic for the lover of moss covered Falcons:

http://www.1950sspecials.com/Showing%20what%20a%20nice%20shape%20the%20Carribean%20is.JPG

[michiel]

After some eyewrecking staring at the tiny pic Torsten posted I've dedcided that the one I posted IS that exact car! (Falcon Caribbean)

[Torsten2001]

Good work Michiel!

[michiel]

Well, Tom's suggestions were a big step in the right direction! Funny how finding the exact car makes you feel like a proper Poirot

[ChinaTom]

Michiel - totally agree with your findings. Nice one Sir.You can be Johnnie Wark, I'll be Arnie Muhren. (That'll be soccer-shite)

[michiel]

[Torsten2001]

Feast on this cack, driven by some lovely people who wouldn't let the learner pass therefore helping all the cars behind who had pulled over to let them reverse enjoy the sunshine while they called the police!!! I suggested the police might ask them to do the same as everyone else had just done and let the learner pass

around the corner from the Racing BMW, might be related

Prefect

Interceptor

Alfa

Vitesse

[Torsten2001]

abandoned in an abandoned garage

nearby...

dead Lancia

When Audis were interesting

[michiel]

Ooh, Fulvia Zagato, and an early one I think. Want.

[Torsten2001]

I've been a bit slack but here's a few UK spots to start with

 

 

Check out the Elswick (?) behind the Mini that's been there for YEARS!

 

 

[Torsten2001]

Then I had to go to Paris to pick up this:

 

and while I was there I spotted these in Romainville:

 

 

bike shite in the centre of Paris, a beautiful VeloSolex 3800

 

and then this piece of shite on the Perifique, fcuked in every panel with a blown exhaust, it was so bad I pulled back after overtaking it to take a photo!

 

Then keeping the British end up the Scottish Sun double decker belching blue smoke, you could smell it before you could see it! It was making a terrible racket too, the driver was suitably embarassed!

[nigel bickle]

Tell us about the bike ... (and the Elswick -he said quietly)

[Torsten2001]

this batch was after a 2500 mile trip around France and into Italy starting with bike shite in Nice

a gorgeous Honda CB350 Four

and a lovely Honda Dax 70

then normal shite

 

an H!

 

Then in Italy I spotted this wee truck, is it a Piaggio?

 

Then on my way from Nice to Cannes I stopped at this Museum I've passed loads of times

worth a visit for this Alpine based on the Renault 4CV

and this mock up of an early French garage with two Salmsons and a Terrot motorcycle

 

less than 100 yds away was this Simca truck

 

then I spotted some scrap yards so had a wander with my camera

a 21 Ambulance on its final journey

 

a Hanomag

A Saviem

 

A Renault 15/17?

 

you can't really tell but this is a 204 Convertible

 

an H!

 

crashed Lancia

 

a Pug van, GS, CX with Minis and Metros hidden

 

Then I found this abandoned scrap yard

 

Off to Cannes where I found this

 

Did they import the 324 diesel to the UK?

 

base Lada Samara

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/6776165074aef863fd304004d5039ff8f4dea168c25690e55e38ab503a2546ecb28e5946.jpg

 

a GME Rascal, Lutons finest!

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/962850491ba1b2fa8e2bcde69a2777ada8a8c8d1f128104d7d58740db300ba6acbbf56e8.jpg

 

Renault Rodeo

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/95660248fb4d316cd1ca4fcc64a421c307cfc179b1cf6943564f2da5f8f6433adcd57e71.jpg

 

Very smart Lancia

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/99497066a32b19e467c0cbbed8959c19b79e57a3d5c1546a0b78a571091832b319bff787.jpg

 

Then to Orange for this 4

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/10555698ed57e300d7344f0b1ca5eda37a9f3a5caec1ae928e14139474289679530d0930.jpg

 

An then Bordeaux for this crop

Unsure about the Make but it starts with an S

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/403940109610d23a85d8af03fabc4e509162011d8b52e9903d6e74abb67f7ef1b7c00eb5.jpg

 

Taunus and Samba or is it a Pug/LNA

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/968693303bd56f52b96ffe793f881ed3f16475fcddf0351417c2ba4891af65c61deb9037.jpg

 

Rare Citroen pick up

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/4808248034fe64d537f2a549221be686b028cb8a04bf3ba0e9a4ff3e4be2beae9307f9b6.jpg

 

on the N10 near Angouleme

127

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/1188565282854045513d39a2aa371e6c736f09ea3daa4a7ecb10f20b744b156bb811c92e.jpg

in the same yard a 4CV and a woods full of 20's

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/8014784684250ed2260ac62e3c99600ec06c2bbb1e83d034ef8dd32fdaf0fad86f713647.jpg

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/615015440337c452352f2a8cddeeec89f937b04ba719ce37296fc9d61e2c7d74ab57ed29.jpg

 

Then cross country to Deux Sevres

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/63772867ebaf54e337af727a09f296ebbcdde5f262ad611cb75ba913ef8faea5a1b99d38.jpg

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/103590983cad82203019c50e64a74a88a90b29899b2f85b1595e5234875942cda711c54c.jpg

 

lovely Simca

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/301681744a7bfa04b9df77298e2889f697780f681e3cd8c3741c38a418ba748f8ddd0012.jpg

 

in the same yard a 504 & fintail

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/781207117da420ab274083727797300d9ab7e8f43a500249b4e4ee60785f5ddae64b91da.jpg

 

mystery micro car/GS/BX

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/10872849fd844ea9b43cb4ee2151f5f29d8e227659b1125cd051ff83597f55e6f9ffe3fb.jpg

 

Then to Chef Boutonne where I pottered around on my mates UK Mobylette

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/50097288bd6a0e8c5bcca27bbb341d23972d9c763e85c2f23468bacf897e02ffa4ebf249.jpg

 

and spotted a barn with a Panhard, a duo of 15/17's and a 203 I could barely see

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/69822345e355d85689558500153e0fbe6f463b9880c84e5724e44d398618707a56035bbc.jpg

 

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/11379482e ... 6a89ee.jpg

 

this has been sat in a field for a couple of years

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/31339585bf351b8b7f73c822437479337bb077be04bc4d8d9a617d09eaf1998c1399e30d.jpg

 

The local garage, very interesting out the back but no camera that time

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/98579738660d581f7e0a5648e223804ae3553f1f0ff67e5040aa7484c4753d24759b4d6e.jpg

This tiny windscreen belongs to the tiniest microcar in France!

http://img4011.photobox.co.uk/646865466e6c9b1674ae4e8dae39b739bcf66fed3dbaa6d8fd98b20e2be7566c068d8d84.jpg

[Torsten2001]

the bike is a Kawasaki W650 and the Elswick is a Mini in different clothes prototyped as a Mini replacement and then produced as an Invalid Carriage for the cool, it's in Hackney just off Kingsland Road

[mk2_craig]

Superb stuff Torsten!France a much sparser country with generally lower land values, perhaps this is why there's a better rate of old junk just lying around doing nothing

[mouseflakes]

Field of Dreams!

 

[Torsten2001]

I love France, you don't have to try!By the way, the Diahatsu Domino 2 on page 9 is now mine!

[wuvvum]

Wow. What a selection. I think the white microcar is an early-mid '80s Aixam - probably with a single cyinder Lombardini diesel as I think they'd stopped using Mobylette engines by then ( ). Don't quote me on that though as although the shape says Aixam the ones I've seen have had different rear lights to that one. They never imported the 324 and 524 diesels to the UK, for the simple reason that they were crap and would therefore have clashed horribly with BMW's yuppie image. In France the marque image is not quite the same (although they are still a class above the Fords and Opels) and the French have a bit of a fetish about diesels, but even then they didn't sell particularly well there, because of the general crapness of the engine. For a time they did a 324D, without a turbo, which has to be the slowest BMW since the Isetta.

[r.welfare]

Awesome pics! Agree that France is great - unlike Munich which I visited earlier this week and spotted very little, 'cept for loads more Frogface Scorpios than you might credit in such a wealthy area, and a brace of Trabants. No pics unless I can work out how to get them off my work mobile

[Alpineandy]

France a much sparser country with generally lower land values, perhaps this is why there's a better rate of old junk just lying around doing nothing

And the french aren't as gulible as the UK when it comes to 'being green'.Most of them are far 'greener' than our enviro-mentalists already.

unlike Munich which I visited earlier this week

I agree, I was there thurs/fri/sat. But if you know the right places... (I lived there for a year)

[Dead_E23]

For a time they did a 324D, without a turbo, which has to be the slowest BMW since the Isetta.

I somehow doubt that! My Dad once had a 1977 E12 518 automatic. It had 90 bhp, felt like it weighed as much as a Tiger tank and could hardly drag itself down the road. If you clogged it from a standstill in 'D' it would do nothing for about a second before lumbering off at walking pace, which made roundabouts rather worrying. Perversely, it was also equipped with the most powerful brakes of any car I've ever driven!

[wuvvum]

For a time they did a 324D, without a turbo, which has to be the slowest BMW since the Isetta.

I somehow doubt that! My Dad once had a 1977 E12 518 automatic. It had 90 bhp, felt like it weighed as much as a Tiger tank and could hardly drag itself down the road.

Well the 324D had about 74bhp if memory serves, but an E30 is lighter than an E12 and they all had 5-speed manual boxes, so your dad's 518 may have it beat for dog slowness...

[michiel]

Super update, a Panhard 24 BT or CT, wow!

 

This Domino? Sell it to me if you get tired of it, wantwantwant!

 

[stoterstangen90]

cool dax