chaseracer Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 I've driven past Rennes-La Janais where most (if not all) of my Citroens were built, but I was in the 309 at the time. I've been round Ryton, where that Peugeot was probably made (and the Avenger definitely was) but that was in 1988 and I still had the GS. I've visited Gothenburg-Torslanda and Trollhättan, though decades after owning the Volvo and Saab. Have you ever taken your car back to the factory where it was made? Six-cylinder and bangernomics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 Not on foreign shores, but...... MKT, jumpingjehovahs, bangernomics and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 not yet, but I very much plan/want to! plus i have many questions i want to ask the guys that run the show there (that and actually ID which Model 70 "WPD607G" is, it being the AC (Ironically enough), Model 70 that lives by the old Invacar factory) chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 been to all those places not in a car tho but to answer - no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Yugoslavia doesn’t exist any more so.... chaseracer and LightBulbFun 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Nope. The nearest I got was a Rover 827Si to Didcot, 13 miles away from where it was built in Cowley. I did walk past the now BMW-owned Mini plant in Cowley a couple of years ago. A Montego drove past me as I walked by the plant. Dick Longbridge and bangernomics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meshking Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 not yet, but I very much plan/want to! plus i have many questions i want to ask the guys that run the show there (that and actually ID which Model 70 "WPD607G" is, it being the AC (Ironically enough), Model 70 that lives by the old Invacar factory)I did my work experience at college at ferry works in Thames Ditton. There was nothing of ac there then, so I doubt you'll find anything now Sent from my SGP621 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17-Coffees Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Not quite the same, but My LS400 is 20 next year...And If i manage to get it road worthy, I plan to take it to where the Satnav says is the old Glasgow dealership (where, as far as I know, it was bought) and then to the current dealership location. Fingers crossed for 2020! bangernomics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Use to take my Nissan Primera back to Sunderland every day? Shirley Knott, spike60 and stonedagain 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 I doubt that I will be taking the Jag back to Coventry, and the only way the Hyundai is going back to Korea is in a million bits of scrap steel. But, the Toyota, it was made in Melbourne so that may be on the cards. It was built in the former AMI Port Melbourne factory, but it closed in 1994 and there is little left of it. The motor was made in the Altona factory which closed in 2017 when Toyota ended Australian production, but it still stands as the home of Toyota Australia so that will have to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 I went to Speke a couple of times in about 1981 in my 1972 Toledo; I don't even know where Toledos were built but it's about as close as I'll ever get. Pretty sure the factory had gone by then anyway. Years later, when I was delivering timber to building sites in a 1998 ERF, one of my drops was where the thing was built, except now it was a housing estate... Too late as always! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorRetro Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Sod that, I'm not driving my Perodua to Malaysia! ? Six-cylinder, DVee8 and stonedagain 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
castros_bro Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Drove my T60 to Biggleswade. garethj and BorniteIdentity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 At least most of your trip is overland! Huggy had to cross 3000 miles of ocean to get to me, I'm not doing that trip! chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Yes, took my truck on the classic truck roadrun and the lunch break was at the old factory where it was made. Always created a bit of interest. chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted November 3, 2019 Author Share Posted November 3, 2019 1 hour ago, MorrisItalSLX said: I doubt that I will be taking the Jag back to Coventry... Browns Lane is all houses now... 9 hours ago, brownnova said: Yugoslavia doesn’t exist any more so.... ...and the Zastava factory had a visit from NATO... MorrisItalSLX and Fumbler 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Close enough? chaseracer, Fumbler, Asimo and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthecapriman Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Only one of mine that’s been to its birth place is the Transit, but the old Transit factory is only in Southampton which is a few miles down the motorway from where I live so it’s not exactly an adventure! In theory I could take the Capri up to Halewood once it’s finished, but it’s not a Ford plant anymore I don’t think? The Mercury would need to be shipped back to the US, and go to St. Louis plant in Hazelwood, Missouri. But the plant closed in 2006 and has since been flattened. The Volvo was built in Ghent, Belgium. Not a million miles away and I think the plant is still there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightBulbFun Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 4 hours ago, meshking said: I did my work experience at college at ferry works in Thames Ditton. There was nothing of ac there then, so I doubt you'll find anything now Sent from my SGP621 using Tapatalk I have an Invacar Model 70 (I have wondered what happened to ACs old stuff, and their factory records, but sadly AC has been bought and sold so many times, that one point they denied ever making invalid vehicles!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 I drove past the Cowley factory last weekend, but I was in a Fiat Scudo at the time. However when we lived in Oxford in the early '90s we regularly used to drive past the factory in Dad's Montego on the way to Sainsbury's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 I've taken the Vectra C passed the old supplying dealer: Halesowen Motor House which is what is on the plates. However, it is originally a Yorkshire-reg'd car. Brand new, don't know where it was supplied but I suppose I'll take a snap next to Halesowen Motor House next time I pass, it's only up the road. I suppose at some point I could take it passed Ellesmere Port. Is there somewhere to take a good pic like the "plinth" at Q-gate MG-Rover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispian_J_Hotson Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 Is West Germany still in West Germany? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 5 hours ago, castros_bro said: Drove my T60 to Biggleswade. Would love to hear more about these. I met a bloke last year whose son had taken one on a mahoosive roadtrip. It’s, predictably, housing there now in Biggleswade - although, as a nice touch, the road is called Berkeley Close and back in 2015 this happened! Three Speed, Pieman and chaseracer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted November 3, 2019 Author Share Posted November 3, 2019 4 hours ago, BoggyMires said: Is West Germany still in West Germany? No, it's the western and southern parts of Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bezzabsa Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 The housing estate that once was Browns lane is a PITA, as Jag still have a small place there, but you have to drive through the estate to get there......usually Foreign registered wrecks littering every bloody corner, making shuffling a Scania through a but hard at times.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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