egg Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 BL Bloke and chodweaver 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 On 9/30/2019 at 10:02 PM, egg said: In the mid-90s, you got your Ford US catalog on CD-ROM Wow, the Ford Aspire looks shite. Somehow I ended up in posession of a CD ROM of the original Ford Focus back in 1998/9. I didn'y have a PC then so I used one of the PCs at college to check it out. I think I flogged it on eBay some years ago. egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 vonmon and JeeExEll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Not so many cars but well filmed and a reminder of those who fought for us all of those years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 cor blimey etc. JeeExEll, Remspoor and Alan_Green 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 ^ That is indeed quite mad. Found an old Top Gear featuring the Lotus Cortina, never seen this one before. Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 skattrd, timolloyd and vonmon 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Amishtat, bunglebus and JeeExEll 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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face Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 4 hours ago, JeeExEll said: I always liked the 131 2000 Sport versions of these. Far cheaper second hand than a RS2000 and sounded better. Really nice seats too and a more 'chunky' looking interior. But, oh boy, could they rust!! A friend had a wreck of a 1300 2-door which his mum gave him. Like the one in this vid but orange and S-reg. Late one afternoon around 1987/8 a stone hit his toughened windscreen and smashed it into a million bits. Problem was he was in Portree on the Isle of Skye (hillwalking trip) and he lived in Aberdeen, with work early next morning (postman). And it was a freezing November night. Drove it all the way home in the dark with no windscreen at all. About 220 miles. “Italian Marina”? Is he trying to put people off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Mother Fumbler learned to drive in a 131 Mirafiore estate in sporty flavour. Father Fumbler was able to hightail it at 70 (over railbridges and got air) to Godfather Fumbler's wedding. Oh yes, it rusted. It rusted good, and this was after they had a shit brown coloured Renault 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 My dad had (I think) a talbot horizon rollered with black gloss. It had a fiat twin cam engine fitted and went like stink. What talbots were rear wheel drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 ^ Talbot Sunbeam? Or maybe Avenger. For a brief period late 80s you could buy kits for installing the Fiat TC into various cars. I think Street Machine mag (or maybe CCC) covered this in a feature. More Fiat, this time FWD. Neat looking cars, but when last did you see one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Absolutely love these. skattrd and egg 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Driving road test after about 11.30. Listen to 1700 German V4. face 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 In French, but still Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 On 10/6/2019 at 6:12 PM, Remspoor said: That's awesome, I've lived in Chelmsford most of my adult life so this is much appreciated Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudsprint Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 19 hours ago, JeeExEll said: ^ Talbot Sunbeam? Or maybe Avenger. For a brief period late 80s you could buy kits for installing the Fiat TC into various cars. I think Street Machine mag (or maybe CCC) covered this in a feature. More Fiat, this time FWD. Neat looking cars, but when last did you see one? I had two, a red one and a blue one with stripes all over it. Superb little cars and by no means the most rust prone FIAT in the 70s. It was totally outclassed by the Alfasud Sprint and Scirocco although it was a lot cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 This is absolutely fucking mad. From 1981. DAF racing in reverse. Skip to about 1.00min. face 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 21 minutes ago, JeeExEll said: This is absolutely fucking mad. From 1981. DAF racing in reverse. Skip to about 1.00min. people where doing that 20 years prior in Invacars! someone about to have a bad day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Remspoor Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 A good series so far. First of 4 to date. face 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) Listen to that Volvo 3.0 straight 6. Oops at 1.45. (Slightly repetitive vid, but you get the idea). Some early 70s Marcos sportscars were fitted with the 164 engine. I can see why now. In the very early 60s there were plans to produce a Volvo V8 powered 'large car', as part of an evolution of the Amazon. Unfortunately, the idea was binned. The V8 went into production but was used in trucks and boats rather than passenger cars. Dohhh!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_B36_engine Volvo 3.5 litre V8 184 anyone?? Even better, a late 60s / early 70s factory V8 fuel-injected Volvo 185 estate. Edited October 11, 2019 by JeeExEll Remspoor, hennabm and BlankFrank 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 face, lesapandre and JeeExEll 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 mmm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3VOM Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Peter Anderson goes to see Cold War Motors tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Nice review of an interesting car face 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Some hot* Mitsubishi Galant V6 & Peugeot 607 action: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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