MrRegieRitmo Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Got magazine reviews / tests for the R14 on a P plate which came in Aug 75! Obviously it must have been a late P reg, the car wasn't even sold in France until 76 & we didn't get it over here until 77 so even R plate would be very very early! Mines an April 78 S plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 The blurring of the margins I've seen include, MkI Fiesta' on B plates (MkII was available by A reg), MkV Cortina on a B plate (Sierra was available by Y reg), a Rover SD1 Vitesse on an E plate (the 800 was around from D reg), an original style Audi Quattro on a G plate (the curvier B3 style Quattro was around from D reg) and a Toyota Supra KA70 (late 80s / early 90s style) on an L plate (the final style Supra came in at K reg)Edit: Also seen MkI Sierra's on D plate and MkII Sierra's / Sapphire's also on D plate.MkII Granada's on C plate but MkIII Granada's on B plate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Yeah, the Mk2 Granada estates carried on being made into a C-plate. I don't think I've ever seen a saloon on a C though.Funny thing - I've just been to Asda and in the car park I saw a Reliant Fox on an F plate. Which beats the next newest Fox I've seen by about five years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 Wouldn't have mattered if it had hung around somewhere before being registered - it was never going to rot!F is for Fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 Granada saloon on a C plate - you can just about make out what year letter it's on! C888-something. Think there's also a restored police spec one in the Glasgow Museum of Transport. Otherwise, same old story with everyone wanting the new model and stocks of the old hanging around till they're discounted enough to shift them - it's hard to remember now just how big a deal the "new" year letter was in the 1980s... people would buy just about anything to get the latest plate on their driveway. Definitely a handful of Rover 800s on a C reg though, but not sure I've ever seen one Wasn't uncommon for UK motoring magazines to run "first drive" type articles with a left-hand drive car on obviously false UK registrations, months or in some cases years before the first RHD examples hit the roads here. Bonus points to anybody spotting a Fiat Tipo on an E plate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milford Cubicle Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 Mk1 Subaru Justy - I'd be buying this if I had a driving license anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 I'd be buying this if I had a driving license anymore. WTF? Spill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milford Cubicle Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 Totted up 12 points so I'm banned for six months. According to the Northern Constabulary my Subaru Justy can do 115MPH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 Challenge it - it will be unsafe! (the conviction not to mention the speed!).This sort of thing was talked about on Retro Rides or was it my Alfa forum, I can't remember which! I'll try & track it downEdit: Oh so you've got a Justy already then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 Is this of any use? http://retrorides.proboards86.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1179153268&page=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstraight6 Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 Compact and Bijou http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1984-Honda-TN550- ... dZViewItem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbird Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 1980 FORD CORTINA MK5 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1980-FORD-CORTINA-MK5-2-0-PINTO-BANGER-RACING_W0QQitemZ300130368638QQihZ020QQcategoryZ29755QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 They want to cannibalise it first! Wow, anybody interested in a car that runs fine till we pull it apart then give it to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spottedlaurel Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Toppo in this case is presumably some sort of contraction of the words topple over? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mitsubishi-Minica ... 0133793601 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spottedlaurel Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Lunchtime challenge - read this listing without feeling a bit queasy. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/mitsubishi-lancer ... 0128469987 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I've already drooled over that Sapporo. Amazing that it's only a few years newer than my Galant. Mk1 Justy, but price a bit high? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Subaru-Justy-1-2- ... 0137203039 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 wuvvum, SL.......err have you two had a liquid lunch or something?.......wuvvum, you've given us that Sapporo twice two posts apart & SL the Justy has already been posted further up by Milford Cubicle! Sorry 'n' all, but get with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Lunchtime challenge - read this listing without feeling a bit queasy. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/mitsubishi-lancer ... 0128469987COCK-BASKETERY of the highest possible order. Summary: Twat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Some garlic tat for you: http://cgi.ebay.fr/Renault-14-R14-GTL-1980-Roulante-CT-a-Passer_W0QQitemZ190132974060Runs well, needs a bit of welding on the sills apparently, £70. http://cgi.ebay.fr/citroen-LN-collection_W0QQitemZ1301353492732CV-engined! I wouldnt mind one of these. They are practically worthless in France. http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330146893448&This ones in Paris, easyjet over and drive home, jobs a good 'un. £350 with 4 hours to go. http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250143047690Heres another, one owner, right on the south coast though so an epic drive home seeing as you've only got 652 ccs. http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190132206976Looks very sound, only £100 at the moment, needs shifting quickly though apparently. http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110150515890The bo11ox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 http://cgi.ebay.fr/Renault-14-R14-GTL-1980-Roulante-CT-a-Passer_W0QQitemZ190132974060Runs well, needs a bit of welding on the sills apparently, £70. http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330146893448&This ones in Paris, easyjet over and drive home, jobs a good 'un. £350 with 4 hours to go.God I love French cars! That 2nd R14 is the mutts.....and if I hadn't sourced a UK one I'd be seriously tempted. LHD would be a pain though! What's that blue saloon? I can't view eBay at work. If you or I wanted that LN enough & there weren't any nearer ones, I'd move heaven & earth for it. You would drive it back from the South Coast of France, slowly but surely, with no little determination or enthusiasm. But to be honest even the LNA crops up over here as a right hooker reasonably often, more than an R14 anyway. You'd have to be well into them to insist that it should be an LN (which wasn't sold over here) rather than an LNA! A white Y plate LNA lived around the corner from me until about 6yrs ago, so comparatively recently. Guess what they swapped it for?.........a white AX! I bet they were really fun to be with..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I'd only want the LN, an LNA is OK but you might as well just get a Talbot Samba. I like the idea of the 2CV engine whirring away up front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Sorry, too many late nights and an excess of forums to keep up with! Anyway, two out of three of mine were new, and that Minica Toppo makes up for it I think. An ideal addition to MikeD’s Mitsubishi collection I would say.Blue saloon is a 1973 Datsun 1200 (B110). I’ve had one, very endearing little things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1984-vauxhall-carlton-CD2000i_W0QQitemZ180138674743QQihZ008QQcategoryZ9858QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemCheap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 I'd only want the LN, an LNA is OK but you might as well just get a Talbot Samba. I like the idea of the 2CV engine whirring away up front.Likewise the Peugeot 104 3 door - is that more like the LN or the LNA & Samba?I'm not so keen on the LN rear lights which are smaller & have no reverse in the cluster but the LN is purer & more interesting, agreed. Like the difference between the early & late style Citroen Visa's. I won't mention the transition of GS to GSA because that went through more than just a vague facelift. Ooops :oops:I have a model of the Citroen LN 'Bi-Cylindre', in the same light blue of course! Infact the only time I recall seeing one in the flesh plus photographing it, was also that light blue colour as is the one you eBay linked to us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 We had a Citroen LNA as a runabout at my parents' place in France for a number of years. Although it was an A, it still had the 602cc engine. It was a 1979 model in metallic green, and it had 50/50 split fold rear seats, which I thought was very advanced for the time. My dad used it to teach me the delicate art of clutch control when I was about 11 - I'd been learning in my mum's 205 diesel, on which you could more or less dump the clutch at idle and it'd keep running. With the LNA any less than 3000rpm and it'd stall. I loved it though - so simple and basic, but hilarious fun to drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 http://cgi.ebay.fr/STOP-campingcar-peugeot-J7-D-pour-pieces_W0QQitemZ200128866705 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoterstangen90 Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 wowww http://cgi.ebay.fr/TEILHOL-RODEO-1982-p ... dZViewItem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 http://cgi.ebay.fr/STOP-campingcar-peugeot-J7-D-pour-pieces_W0QQitemZ200128866705A little on the expensive side for what it is, methinks, but undoubtedly an interesting vehicle. Mr. Bickle??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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