Talbot Tagora - are there any left on our roads?

[Guest Renault20tx]

Just as per the title really. I remember back in 2006ish, there were still occasional spots posted on here. Are any still about? Photos would be great if so, thanks.

[Hertz]

Computer says not many no.

 

https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=talbot+tagora

[lincolndanny]

Its the sort of car where if you randomly found one no matter what condition it was in, you would have to buy it!

[mercrocker]

Forgive the shit technology but I possess neither a scanner nor decent digital camera.   However, this is a poor phone pic of a shot I took in 2008 at the Rhythm Riot, Camber Sands, East Sussex.   Its the last time I saw a Tagora - it turned up again in subsequent years but I haven't been back there since 2013.   Last UK registered one that I remember was locally in Hampshire but I never got a shot of that - it would have been around 1995/6....

 

 

[Stanky]

  On 17/11/2015 at 22:45, Hertz said:

Computer says not many no.

 

https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=talbot+tagora

 

Its the wrong year. That GL only comes out every 3rd year so you have to wait until 2017 then track it down, a bit like geocaching.

[Guest Renault20tx]

  On 17/11/2015 at 22:48, lincolndanny said:

Its the sort of car where if you randomly found one no matter what condition it was in, you would have to buy it!

You couldn't get a lot of parts when new apparently. Always wanted one, if only for the oil pump driven from a cog off the drive shafts! How the engines never seized in idle, I'll never know!

[Tayne]

Three UK Tagoras on here at one point.

 

PSHolme has a couple over in Germany.

[Guest Renault20tx]

  On 17/11/2015 at 22:54, Tayne said:

Three UK Tagoras on here at one point.

 

PSHolme has a couple over in Germany.

All gone home/scrapped it would seem! According to Howmanyleft, they're extinct!

[fred]

Not seen one in yonks

 

My old woodwork teacher had one from new as a kiddlywinkle and thats all my real knowledge of standing by one

[Asimo]

  On 17/11/2015 at 22:53, Renault20tx said:

Always wanted one, if only for the oil pump driven from a cog off the drive shafts! How the engines never seized in idle, I'll never know!

Wot? Tagoras are rare, but completely normal engineering-wise.

[Guest Renault20tx]

  On 17/11/2015 at 23:05, Sorn Me said:

Wot? Tagoras are rare, but completely normal engineering-wise.

Its what I was always told about them. Like I say, no idea how it would work though

[Tayne]

http://autoshite.com/topic/11693-tagora-sx-help/

 

Car in question is on SORN.

[Tayne]

http://autoshite.com/topic/19332-classic-sportscar-march-2015/

 

Both of these no longer show up on the doovla website.

[TagoraSX]

My SX is still here and the restoration will begin shortly.

 

I know of a GL in London and Boobydoo has 3.

 

There is another SX undergoing restoration in Manchester? The chap also has a Renault 30 I think.

[Guest Renault20tx]

  On 17/11/2015 at 23:28, TagoraSX said:

 

 

There is another SX undergoing restoration in Manchester? The chap also has a Renault 30 I think.

 

Sounds like a certain D Bowker - steer well clear if it is, he'd rob his own mother by all accounts

[Junkman]

  On 17/11/2015 at 22:54, Tayne said:

PSHome has all of them over in Germany.

 

EFA

[Mr_Bo11ox]

  On 17/11/2015 at 22:53, Renault20tx said:

You couldn't get a lot of parts when new apparently. Always wanted one, if only for the oil pump driven from a cog off the drive shafts! How the engines never seized in idle, I'll never know!

 

The drive shafts are at the back, how TF are they going to pump oil round the engine? I think you've read one too many MSN 'top 10 worst cars of all time' articles

[oldcars]

There was a white one at the nec in 2014, next to the Aleko.

[Taff]

dad had three in total, two in pale green with beige velour interiors (both auto's) and a burgundy manual that was bought as an MoT fail and broken for spares. I seem to recall that the tyres were hard to get hold of and the burgundy one had wheel that leant themselves to a more readily available tyre? We pulled the engine out of the burgundy one, I don't recall it being anything out of the ordinary. Big for a 2200cc but not especially unusual.

 

Dad will have some pictures somewhere, I'll get scans on them when he gets back off his hols. At the risk of calling Jehovah, I didn't much care for driving them but as my daily at the time was a '78 TransAm, that's more likely to be down to me, rather than the Tagora

[inconsistant]

  On 18/11/2015 at 10:48, shumarialto said:

There was a white one at the nec in 2014, next to the Aleko.

 

[oldcars]

Mot until July 2016 and taxed until Jan so its still here 

[pshome]

Tagora, rare ?

 

 

they even win rallys in the UK

 

 

 

[pshome]

  On 17/11/2015 at 23:05, Sorn Me said:

Wot? Tagoras are rare, but completely normal engineering-wise.

Well, putting a pair of triple Webers with no idle circuit nor any proper cold start device into a large saloon car is a bit odd. Makes the car pure fun to drive though, once you got it started.

 

[Asimo]

^^^^I searched high and low for that carburettor set to fit to my GTA V6.

 

Surprisingly, I never found one.

[pshome]

  On 18/11/2015 at 18:58, Sorn Me said:

^^^^I searched high and low for that carburettor set to fit to my GTA V6.

 

Surprisingly, I never found one.

 

there was a set on ebay last week, went for a reasonable price. Next time i spot these, i will let you know.

 

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Weber-3-Fachvergaser-Porsche-911-914-6-A310-Talbot-Tagora-PRV-/262134147179?

 

you need the hot cams and manifold from a Tagora as well, otheriwse there wont be much difference, except for more fuel wasted.