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Skizzer Rank: Isuzu Florian

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I rather like Dyanes - I'm not sure they're uglier, just less fashionable.

 

Mind you, looking again:

  • Double bonnet scoops
  • Concave sculpted sides
  • Bulging rear arches
  • Hofmeister kink
  • Large ground clearance but pretty average off road
  • Improbably large diameter wheels

... it's the long lost ancestor of the BMW X5!

 

That's me out then.

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dollywobbler Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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£6500, looks a little like a 60s one but is an '86 Special - one of the worst years for 2cvs with rust possible anywhere. The steel was like chocolate, from the shell to the steering joints and suspension arms - something from this vintage feels as if it's made from wet cardboard after a 70s example. Wheel geometry can be miles out on the rear since they couldn't be arsed any more by 1986 - often the cause of prematurely rotten chassis, not that they needed much encouraging when made of crap steel and barely protected.

 

Yeah, 1986 is so bad that mine has only managed 196,000 miles. (rear arm issues came later I think? Mine is on its original rear arms (and arm bearings!) and has no tyre shredding issues). They certainly do rot, but 1986 is probably better than a 1989.

messerschmitt owner Rank: Renault 16

messerschmitt owner

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this sounds not bad!

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C520924

 

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1 of only 252 phase-one 3.6L special XJR Sport Jaguars produced.

 

 

Basically, starts first time, runs and drives on the road lovely, I've been using it daily and enjoying it. Seats are very comfortable.1 full years MOT, 6 months tax. Showing just over 50k on the clock. There's about a dozen old MOTs, handbook, and owners manual.

£1200 ONO

Felly Magic Rank: Isuzu Florian

Felly Magic

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Proven to increase your chances of pulling that bird at work you've fancied for ages, roll up in this and by Wednesday she'll be putty in your hands.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-allegro-vanden-plas-1500-/171392512822?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item27e7ca3336

 

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I think this might be the one recently flogged by Anglia car Auctions. Reg seems familiar

dollywobbler Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

dollywobbler

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Ah, he had it then. I did phone up about the Acclaim but opted to wait to see if the chap seeing it today made an offer. He apparently did! Oh well. I'll have to wait to try a Triomatic.

trigger Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

trigger

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To be honest, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it DW, even at £200 I think the lad was robbed!

phil_lihp Rank: Lancia Gamma

phil_lihp

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Fiesta-LX-1989-/161339990874?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item25909ce35a

 

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I'm not sure that the seller quite gets the idea of eBay - the BIN is actually the guide price for their own auction of this car - and the gearbox is wrong but otherwise this looks like a little gem for £300.  I have an irrational attraction to these cars despite them having virtually no redeeming features over any other similar car of the era - considering that you could instead have had yourself a new Corsa, Uno, Clio, AX, 106 etc. these were absolute rubbish by comparison but they've got a certain charm to them.

phil_lihp Rank: Lancia Gamma

phil_lihp

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-ESCORT-MK4-1990-1-8-DIESEL-L-5-DOOR-HATCH-TRULY-AMAZING-CONDITION-/380949067906?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item58b2557882

 

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Was the 1.8 any good?  My father had a 1.6D one of these as a stop-gap car in the late nineties, it was the noisiest, slowest and most agricultural engine I'd ever known in such a relatively modern car.  Amusingly smokey on cold mornings and dead reliable though.

wuvvum Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Yo Wobbler, if you're after an example of a last gasp from a British* car manufacturer with red spotty bodywork, how about this badass mo' fo'?  In Wales and everything.  And I know how much you love Cityrovers.

 

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spike60 Rank: Renault 16

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I always preferred the bigger brother 944 but this looks honest enough$_57.JPG

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