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Supernaut Rank: Talbot Tagora

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I'm posting this again just because I can't work out my excuse for why I haven't collected it yet. Apart from driving a 1300 crossflow across most of France would make an epic collection thread.

FTFY. When you collecting it?

Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Actually considered that for a moment, as the tax isn't that bad, but 24 - 34 mpg at today's diesel prices... No thanks,

Good! One less person for me to bid against.

barrett Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Panhard 24s are great to look at and great to drive, although the C has such a short wheelbase the handling can be a bit odd. You sit very low, with a huge glasshouse, and they are occasionally a little unnerving. A lhd 24CT with drums is definitely the one to go for. The brakes aren't bad enough to make me think discs were necessary, and the drum wheels really do look the business. The rhd cars were so compromised, as I discovered the hard way, they're really not worth bothering with (lucky there are only about five left).

 

I can't imagine what sick train of thought led somebody to try and convert a Panhard engine to four plug/dual ignition, though. Is there any possible advantage to that? You can easily fit a wasted spark ignition which surely does the same job with about 1/1000th of the complexity. And you really don't wanna go making a Panhard more complex.

 

I think it's a bit of a joke that they don't work very often (says the man with two dismantled Panhards in the shed) but actually the engines are great, and as long as it hasn't been too fucked about with or driven by an unsympathetic owner there is no reason why they shouldn't just go on forever with minimal maintenance. The trouble is lots of people think they can 'improve' things and just make them worse. A good Panhard on song is hard to beat under any circumstances and they ought to be left well enough alone.

Lacquer Peel Rank: Talbot Tagora

Lacquer Peel

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Actually considered that for a moment, as the tax isn't that bad, but 24 - 34 mpg at today's diesel prices... No thanks,

Eminently veg friendly.
egg Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Well owning a Panhard 24CT is certainly a before I die/petrol 'runs out'* aspiration. I'm not going to say also a great leccy conversion potential, for fear of being shot.

oldcars Rank: Lancia Gamma

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That Tata is class. Thye are normally rotten, that one only* has advisorys for inner sills. That would be brilliant for towing my caravan. Rock up with this and the old Marauder at a caravan club site. No one would come near me.

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Supernaut Rank: Talbot Tagora

Supernaut

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Ha. I've just read some reviews of the Tata Safari and it working on veg would be the first plus point I've come across. They must be awful.

 

https://www.totaloffroad.co.uk/vehicles/tata/dont-do-it/

The Safari is a solid foundation for, well, nothing. It’s just a horrible, horrible thing, and under no circumstances should you ever buy one. It fails to deliver on any of its promises, implicit or explicit. And in EX form, it simply confirms that age-old adage: you can’t polish a turd. Especially not when what you’re trying to polish it with is another turd.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

When are you collecting it?

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Lacquer Peel Rank: Talbot Tagora

Lacquer Peel

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I'm sure by £15k new car standards they were quite shit but I'd try one out for shiter money.

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Supernaut Rank: Talbot Tagora

Supernaut

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I'm sure by £15k new car standards they were quite shit but I'd try one out for shiter money.

Yeah, the review just made me want one more. I'd ask if I'm wrong in the head, but I think most people here would think in the same way.

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pandamonium Rank: Renault 16

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I'm talking to the seller of the Peugeot 205 1.6 auto, and waiting to hear about someone who may buy the Wagon...

Watch this space.

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Tadhg Tiogar Rank: Talbot Tagora

Tadhg Tiogar

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....I got talking to a man who owned a RHD 24CT, I think it was a 1964 version with the drum brakes that showed through the wheel centres.  I asked him what the best thing was about driving it and he said the pleasant surprise of actually getting to his destination....

:lol:

pandamonium Rank: Renault 16

pandamonium

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I'm talking to the seller of the Peugeot 205 1.6 auto, and waiting to hear about someone who may but the Wagon...

 

Watch this space.

 

Well fuck. He's sold it to his neighbour. He did take the time to call me and let me know, seemed a decent old chap. 

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NorfolkNWeigh Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

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Ha. I've just read some reviews of the Tata Safari and it working on veg would be the first plus point I've come across. They must be awful. https://www.totaloffroad.co.uk/vehicles/tata/dont-do-it/

My Godfather bought one of these, brand new, when he retired. He claimed it was a very well built , top quality vehicle and an absolute bargain. He moved to Spain and only traded it against a Duster last year.

 

His job before retirement? A QC inspector at Longbridge...

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