Wanted Mainly Mint Minx now too mint due to change in circumstances - Caution: Range Rover Content!

[Junkman]

[r.welfare]

Wow!

Looks like a Minx or Rapier at that age?

[dollywobbler]

Brilliant!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

That's amazing! Putting the distinction in WBOD there

 

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[Jim Bell]

Holy moley. Thats actual autoshite gold.

[andy18s]

So that explains the Beige trousers........

Well bought

[vulgalour]

*picture of knackered gold Talbot Solara*

 

It's not Chinese*, British, post '86, LHM suspended, Peugeot or Rover so I reckon I'm in with a chance with this guess.

 

 

I... er... how did I do that?

[Alexg]

Amazing!! This place is having a Simca overload at the moment, and that's a good thing.

[Shep Shepherd]

Are you really going to use the car as a winter beater? It looks far too nice for that sort of role.

[bub2006]

Is it an auto box too? Very nice.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Allegro's clutch has gone. Awaiting recovery.

 

[Pillock]

Awwwwwww, flaps.

Nice Solara though.

[dollywobbler]

No tow rope? That'd make a truly superb caper.

[hairnet]

lovely solero

 

insania using the allegro as the taxi tho

[barrett]

Since when do you need a clutch to drive an Allegro?

[trigger]

That's just brilliant (not the breakdown of course, that's a right shitter). I've never seen that one about before.

 

 

Snap!

 

[Skizzer]

Really??? A two tone beige Solara? FOR REAL??! You utter heroes!

 

Shame about the Allegro clutch.

[Squire_Dawson]

Probably the slave cylinder gone pop.

[HMC]

Turning into quite a caper! Love the WBOD.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I am now riding in the Solara. The Allegro is on the back of a flatbed making the same journey solo.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I suppose the Solara is really a pre 86 405 ( OK, 87) so it was inevitable.

[Felly Magic]

OOFT, that is pure filth, and we have Mystic Vulg on the forum now too. 

[LC Torana]

OK, you have acquired a classic car to cherish and pamper, but where's your WBoD?

 

Bait and switch.

 

44 gallon drum in the boot - really?

 

Oh, and I love how it's a VdP - how very dare you call it anything else, but when the clutch goes, it's suddenly just an Allegro.

[stripped fred]

Very nice! Well bought. What engine does that have?

[Felly Magic]

This is Simca-tastic! The beigeness gives it even more WINNAR status, I suspect there will be much spaffage over this latest Junkman purchase

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

00:19 still some distance from home.

 

[chodweaver]

"I want that Chicken Badge I recently awarded myself with being withdrawn with a vengeance, so that at least a fraction of my former status can be reinstated"
 
 
I'm trying to engage Mystic Vulg's second sight to get a glimpse of what the future holds for the Junkman/Solara love affair, but all I'm getting is fields full of people bowing down, chanting...
 
 'we're not worthy'
 
and a big stone tablet with the words 'your Atonement is complete' on it...
 
Heroic enterprise, chaps

[Braddon81]

That's an absolutely beautiful Solara, and a total bargain at the price it was advertised at. Top purchase!

[vulgalour]

The Allegro did not fail to proceed.  It gallantly fell on its own sword so that Conrad might experience the joy of being chauffered home in the Solara and be in the company of the Junkman on one of the rare occasions his trousers are not of offensive hue.

[Junkman]

OK, where do I start?

 

First of all, many, many thanks to all of you! If it weren't for you, I'd have nowhere to share my utter chuffedness with the car.

 

Secondly, home has been achieved.

 

Thirdly, what we have here, is a 1985 Talbot Solara Minx (= pov spec) that started life in German taxi beige all over.

Its former owner, i.e. the seller, a wonderful man with sheds full of Simca/Talbot/Maestro/VdP shite (he is, as you may have guessed already, on good terms with PShome),

gave it this rakish Autoshite Racing Team two tone paint scheme, which was originally reserved for Rapiers. That's why many people are a bit confused whether it's a Minx, or a Rapier.

It does have the 1.6 litre Simca pushrod engine mated to a Peugeot 5 speed manual gearbox for astonishing motive power. It even sounds totally Simca.

It also has PAS, but apart from this, everything is keep fit and blanking plate paradise.

 

Fourthly, initially the car was a bit lumpy at low revs and stuttered a lot, but ran fine once up to speed. Also, there was no tickover, it just died.

The seller had warned me that what little petrol was left in the tank is very old indeed. So I brimmed it with BP's second finest and after a while it ran a lot better and even developed a tickover.

However, sometimes this is still a bit lumpy and the car sometimes still stutters a bit when going at a relatively low constant speed. At other times, it's running flawlessly.

So I guess it's still a matter of contaminated fuel, which should go away after a while.

This is the only fault I can find apart from the boot illumination not working! Everything else works as it should, including the interior light and cigarette lighter.

The car is a lot bigger than I remembered them (I haven't seen one in the flesh for ages) and the ride is typically French wafttastic with some delightfully grotesque body lean when cornering.

 

 

And finally, I just can't believe Vulgalour's clairvoyantness.