Talbot 1100GLS

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I see this car regularly and it looks pretty cool on it's French reg plates. Looks to be in regular use. I know nothing about it though. Thought I'd share. It says Talbot 1100GLS on the back but no model type.

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That belongs or did belong to Autoshite founder Mr H Sceptre

[mk2_craig]

Leicester?

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Leicester?

Yes

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That belongs or did belong to Autoshite founder Mr H Sceptre

Really? It's a nice looking car and I don't think I've ever seen one before. Does anyone know which model it is or is it just called the 1100?

[eddyramrod]

Yes, it's the estate version of what we used to know as the Simca 1100.  To be wearing Talbot badges it must be quite late, just pre-Horizon perhaps.

[Faker]

My first-ever car was a 5 door simca 1100 in that colour!

VRM KiA5533

 

AND!!! It was 1976... and it was scrapped in 1983 due to rot!! It actually looked fine, but the rear underside was gone! Major mot fail. My dad replaced it in 1983 with a very fresh alpine VRM MiA6168.

 

AND!!! At the time in norn iron, the first MOT was at 7 years of age.. it was scrapped at its first MOT!

[Braddon81]

It's a late badged car. The 1100 was made up until 1982 as a value model undercutting the Horizon and ended its life as a Talbot.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I helped drag a Simca van version of one of these out of a garden in the early 90's. Bearing in mind it would have been less than 15 years old, it was absolutely rotten. Uber rare at the time, as well.

This beige beauty certainly is an eye catcher - great spot.

[Zantimisfit]

Remember the first time I went to France as a school kid and the place was absolutely crawling with these. Difficult to take in that Simcas were the best selling cars in France for a while given that they are more or less totally forgotten now.  In 1980 the Paris police still had Simca 1000s. Chrysler did a 'great' job when they took them over. Everything they touched turned to ash in about six months!

 

As a nerdy aside shouldn't a late Talbotised 1100 have a black grille and plastic trimz? This looks earlier. Or is all that in my head?

 

Lovely to see it still plying its trade.

[Junkman]

GIB ffs!

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GIB ffs!

I don't understand your acronyms.

[Vin]

That's a great car that, love it. I remember the thread when that was collected, must be a few years now...

 

How long can you run round on French plates then??

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2011, sadly all the photobucket photos have now gone.

[quicksilver]

It's a later version of this. This one is apparently the sole UK-registered survivor of the Simca-badged estates.

 

1973 Simca 1100 GLS Break by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

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Does anyone have a link to the previous thread?

[Sigmund Fraud]

I don't understand your acronyms.

Autoshite standard advice : get it bought for feck sake !

[capsuleboy]

I'll buy it if its still knocking around Leicester!

[mk2_craig]

Cant find the original thread after a half-arsed search, its probably ruined by all that Photobucket bollocks anyway.  Some moving pictures instead:-

 

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I don't think I could afford it even if it was for sale, which I doubt!

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I will say that it doesn't seem to move that much as always parked in the same place...

[Squire_Dawson]

Lovely car which really suits the colour. The poor thing needs some urgent attention to its door though.

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Lovely car which really suits the colour. The poor thing needs some urgent attention to its door though.

Hadn't noticed that. Almost want to put some rust killer on it when I pass by next...

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Just shown a photo of this to the wife as I was trying to explain autoshite and our love for the undesirable and unloved cars. She said 'it's the ugliest thing I've ever seen, like a mini bus'. I don't think I can show her the autoshite way...

[AnthonyG]

The Talbot badge looks homemade, they didn't use those Simca type badges but plastic ones like you got on the bonnet of a Alpine or Solara. It's probably a early/mid 1970s Simca model.

[Junkman]

I'll buy it if its still knocking around Leicester!

 

No jumping the queue here, alright?

[cros]

I ran a lhd one in the 70's. They work fine but the engines sound like skelingtons copulating on a tin roof and gearchange is Maxishit. I delivered lots of new ones including the 3 different van styles and they're all like it, handling was decent though. Cassette points adjusted with an allen key through the side of the distributor, and rust tended to break out in a rash. I'd rather have one than any of today's equivalents.

 

Heuliez versions that got away.

[Junkman]

Cassette points adjusted with an allen key through the side of the distributor

 

Good old S.E.V. Marchal.

[Shep Shepherd]

There used to be a pale yellow 1100 Break in my village in the early 1980s. Its hubcaps reminded me of KP Skips

[mercrocker]

The Talbot badge looks homemade, they didn't use those Simca type badges but plastic ones like you got on the bonnet of a Alpine or Solara. It's probably a early/mid 1970s Simca model.

 

My Talbot-badged Simca/Dodge 1100 hi-top van had exactly that type of Talbot badge on the bonnet edge (and a Dodge transfer, G50-style on the RH rear door)  It was a 1980 model.