Classic Diesels

[DodgyBastard]

I've had a few classic diesels over the last few years.
The best ones out of this lot were the 305s, the 240d was probably the slowest, the Sierra was the noisiest.

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[sierraman]

Whatever happened to the Sierra? 

[twosmoke300]

Was replaced by the Mondeo ?

[sierraman]

Funny bastard! I should know that! ?

[lesapandre]

I'm hooning about in my 1995  Citroen C15 van today. 1.8 diesel. They are so useful. Done 700 this month - these are a great design based  on the Visa. I note prices are on the up too on Ebay too - anything decent seems to make about £1000. 100% recommended here. Every French farm seems to have one too.

[Supernaut]

15 hours ago, sierraman said:

The Yanks got into diesel albeit briefly...

Drum, of this very forum, owns one of them. Not seen him around for a while though.

He turned up to SF18 in it. It sounded like a truck and the suspension somehow moved horizontally as well as vertically.

[Datsuncog]

Had to be done...

[Asimo]

The DERV Oldsmobile was also available in Coupe.

 

https://www.custojusto.pt/faro/descapotavel-coupe/coupe-5-7-v8-diesel-20794846

[sierraman]

In a land where it’s 70p a litre for fuel I don’t know why you’d go for the diesel... 

Different matter now though, it would be worth having one for sheer oddity sake. 

[wuvvum]

Not impressed by the superfluous apostrophe in the official GM starting instructions...

[lesapandre]

Some of the GM diesel saga here:

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-american/curbside-classic-1978-oldsmobile-delta-88-diesel-in-defense-of-the-olds-350-diesel-v8/

Not to be confused with the Detroil Diesel V8's as fitted to various GM trucks and pick-ups which were reliable.

[adw1977]

AA Drive and Trail magazine did a long term test of a Renault 20 GTD in 1982, the report talks a lot about the issues around running a diesel at that time.

Flickr link

[captain_70s]

3 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Drum, of this very forum, owns one of them. Not seen him around for a while though.

He turned up to SF18 in it. It sounded like a truck and the suspension somehow moved horizontally as well as vertically.

 

[adw1977]

19 hours ago, Steve79 said:

I'll show you slow! Ford Grandad mk2 with the indenor 1.9 litre putting out 54bhp. Replaced very shortly after by the Indenor 2.1D with 63bhp. Anyone who bought either of these must have been a masochist!

The earliest brochure I have with the Granada diesel (2.1) is this one from October 1977 :

The April 1977 edition still has the Mark 1 Granada, with no diesel option.  Unfortunately I don't have any of the editions inbetween.

[sierraman]

Maybe the 1.9 wasn’t officially imported to the U.K. 

[r.welfare]

I’ve never seen a Granada in the wild with those “bright wheel covers”, as the brochure describes them.  They must have dropped them early on.

[sutty2006]

The  GM V8 diesel was a horrendous engine. Prone for headgasket failure. My mate had one in his caddy and it grenaded not long ago. He’s currently putting a 6.5 humvee turbo diesel in it now. Lol

[angle]

19 hours ago, GeordieInExile said:

Does anyone still make an N/A diesel...?

Was the last one the Mk5 Golf SDi? 0-60 in a smidgen over 16 seconds... 

[Dan302]

6 minutes ago, angle said:

Was the last one the Mk5 Golf SDi? 0-60 in a smidgen over 16 seconds... 

I had one but it ate it's injector seals and filled the sump with diesel, was painfully slow to 60 but fine once on the move.

[sierraman]

Like a man possessed I had to know about the mythical Granada 1.9 diesel. From what I can find it was a European only model, we only got the 2.1. Sadly. That’s not to say none made it here, plenty may have been exported by servicemen etc. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

1 hour ago, r.welfare said:

I’ve never seen a Granada in the wild with those “bright wheel covers”, as the brochure describes them.  They must have dropped them early on.

I once saw a Coleman Milne hearse with them on, apart from that either Autocar or Motor had a long term test estate that they ran for years  that had them.

Not that I'm obsessed with Granada wheels and trims, or owt.

[ProgRocker]

My last car was the first diesel I have owned: the ex-Essex constabulary 1994 Escort saloon 1.8 L diesel in white with matt black bumpers. Increible buy for £250 + £112.50 VED for 6 months. It sipped fuel. It was slow, noisy and an engine that was as coarse as a badger's arse but I liked it. When the engine was idling you could not make out a still image in the rear view mirror.

[sierraman]

13 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I once saw a Coleman Milne hearse with them on, apart from that either Autocar or Motor had a long term test estate that they ran for years  that had them.

Not that I'm obsessed with Granada wheels and trims, or owt.

Remember the stretched estates they used to do?

[adw1977]

2 hours ago, r.welfare said:

I’ve never seen a Granada in the wild with those “bright wheel covers”, as the brochure describes them.  They must have dropped them early on.

I had never noticed those wheels before!  They were very short-lived, as by February 1978 the diesel had the same wheels as the L:

[Eddie Honda]

I really should get this oil burner back on the road...

Volvo_340DL_D_88-D-14183_001.jpg by E Honda, on Flickr

[sierraman]

Can’t remember a 340 diesel. What unit is it? 

[Dirk Diggler]

Renault 1.6, never seen one before that wasn't a saloon

[Eddie Honda]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Can’t remember a 340 diesel. What unit is it? 

Irish market only in RHD. Volvo "D16" which is better known as Renault F8M.

Uses the 360 bodyshell with spare wheel in the boot floor and has a number of diesel model-specific features such as loads of soundproofing foam and plastic fuel tank.

A 340 1.4 CVT - with 5 gut-lords on board and a boot full of lard - will easily out-perform it.

[Eddie Honda]

49 minutes ago, Dirk Diggler said:

Renault 1.6, never seen one before that wasn't a saloon

I'm surprised it wasn't a saloon, although I hadn't seen any before or since. I don't go looking for them, but the only other two RHD diesels that I know of are/were in Scotland and were grey imports.

[Datsuncog]

On ‎9‎/‎16‎/‎2019 at 12:38 PM, Datsuncog said:

Peugeot 404 was sold in the UK in 1.9 diesel format in the mid-60s.

Mind you, one version of the 404 Diesel that nobody got to buy was this oddity...

Built by Peugeot as a one-off record-breaker, a 404 Cabrio body was fitted with rather lovely lightweight streamlined panels and a 2163cc diesel unit - expressly to showcase the properties of its oil-burning units.

It ran at an average of 99mph over 72 hours at the Montlhéry circuit south-west of Paris in June 1965, covering 5000km.

A month later, with the smaller 1948cc unit fitted, it covered a further 11,000km at Montlhéry, this time managing an average of 100mph.

All in all, it managed to net 40 endurance records for Peugeot before being retired, the manufacturer's point about diesel's potential speed and reliability in its passenger cars having been definitively proven.

Happily, the car is still owned by Peugeot and puts in regular show appearances.

Would.