Daihatsu Charmant spotted.!!!

[djb222]

I had never seen a Daihatsu Charmant before today. Apparently only 3 on the road..

 

 

[Mike D]

You spotted that actual one? That's magnificent news if so

[djb222]

Naaah, that one's either been mashed or is in someones barn!

[Heidel_Kakao]

Pretty sure this is or was Hirst's.

With my old 323 estate at Billing in approx 2007.

[Datsuncog]

Scarce oul things... I know of one local(ish) example; someone's gone a bit STANCE YO! on it, but nothing too bad yet (or at least nothing too bad three years back, when I last saw it).

 

 

 

There used to be a Daihatsu dealership at the end of my street in the 1980s, so I remember dozens of these knocking about...

[Mike D]

That one is Hirsts ( you are very missed)

 

It took a nasty whack, i caught the feels hoping it was back on the road

[Dick Cheeseburger]

This one was spotted four years ago. Looks so clean.

[djb222]

That's the same one, didn't have chance to talk to the old fella.

[Datsuncog]

Just realising I snapped two more slightly sc3n3d Charmants at a rally at Kilbroney, Co. Down a few years back.

 

 

 

JXZ5886 - 1985 car wearing a 2016 Northern Ireland registration (and an erroneous Toyota badge). The dealer sticker from a garage in Tullamore, Co. Leinster would suggest this was originally an ROI car brought northwards - and now currently showing on SORN.

 

 

 

ASZ5157 - 1984 car wearing a 2017 NI plate, so possibly also with the same background as the silver car. Also currently SORN'd.

 

Hopefully these are both being stored somewhere nice and dry, and not dumped in a ditch somewhere because beige 80s Japanese saloons with banded rims are soooo 2017, dahling.