quicksilver Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Found this for sale thread from 2008: http://www.turbosport.co.uk/showthread.php?t=127595 M904KRP was apparently the only Tickford XR6 wagon development car and appears to survive although it hasn't been on the road in a decade The Tingewick car was likely the same colour (DVLA says green but it looks blue to me) but a sedan and possibly also on an M-KRP reg. JeeExEll, Mrs6C and NorfolkNWeigh 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Also just remembered this Aussie Mini is in the UK, imported in 2016 (OBZ 868 is its UK reg and probably also its Aussie one). Note the different doors with quarterlights and revised handles to meet Aussie regs. OBZ 868 - 1968 Morris Mini Cooper S (Australian-spec) by Adam Floyd, on Flickr Sudsprint, Mrs6C, LightBulbFun and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Just remembered I've got a brochure for these things somewhere, Ford's misguided idea that all Ford fleets would buy one for the chairman instead of an XJ6 , trouble is they were more expensive than a Jag and probably not as good to drive as a Granny 2.8i Ghia X. I only ever saw one , parked outside the Ford office just south of Oxford St in the space that at various times Mustangs and Mercury Monarchs had been seen. Shep Shepherd, Ohdearme, warren t claim and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 46 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said: Just remembered I've got a brochure for these things somewhere, Ford's misguided idea that all Ford fleets would buy one for the chairman instead of an XJ6 , trouble is they were more expensive than a Jag and probably not as good to drive as a Granny 2.8i Ghia X. I only ever saw one , parked outside the Ford office just south of Oxford St in the space that at various times Mustangs and Mercury Monarchs had been seen. Not to mention it looks so much like one that everybody would think it was just a Granada with a funny grille, making it rather pointless as a status symbol. I wonder if they sold any at all given that luxobarges that look like lesser models have a long history of failure (Pug 605 or Renault Safrane anyone?) and there were hardly any dealers to buy one from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Mine is the last year of the 12v ( green rocker cover as you say) ,the 24v was avl in the next version the BA. cort1977 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jikovron Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 1 hour ago, overrun said: Yeah, I know the lad, lives up here. Shame I never saw it in person. @Jikovron may be able to offer some info? Aye that's a blast from a past life, Pandaman got it I think after seeing it in a piston heads advert, it had potential but the rust issues were abit extreme and the engine needed a rebuild which would have proven a sizable job finding bits given it was a Holden 308 rather than a common relatively speaking as muck 307 SBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 On 1/26/2020 at 9:29 PM, RoadworkUK said: I think I'm right in saying that, although there's an overwhelmingly strong resemblance, the Falcon and Granada didn't actually share any common panels. Barely anything was shared. In the flesh, it’s more of a size up over the Granada I went in a good few when I lived over there, years ago. It was the width of them that stood out the most Brits would talk about how well their Granada’s handled. But no Aussie would say the same of their XD Falcons. Sold well as Utes though, which were well regarded and ran into the ground, twice over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 3 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said: Just remembered I've got a brochure for these things somewhere, Ford's misguided idea that all Ford fleets would buy one for the chairman instead of an XJ6 , trouble is they were more expensive than a Jag and probably not as good to drive as a Granny 2.8i Ghia X. I only ever saw one , parked outside the Ford office just south of Oxford St in the space that at various times Mustangs and Mercury Monarchs had been seen. There's an '86 LTD which has been in abandoned in this car park near for as long as I remember. I recall seeing it multiple times since I was about 4 years old, I'm now in my mid teens. It's in good condition though, being undercover. Amishtat, mk2_craig, 500tops and 5 others 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Did any Morris 1500s come to Britain? Mrs6C and adw1977 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 10 hours ago, quicksilver said: Also just remembered this Aussie Mini is in the UK, imported in 2016 (OBZ 868 is its UK reg and probably also its Aussie one). Note the different doors with quarterlights and revised handles to meet Aussie regs. OBZ 868 - 1968 Morris Mini Cooper S (Australian-spec) by Adam Floyd, on Flickr I heard an interesting fact the other day that BL of Australia were ordered by Australian authorities to change the doors handles on their Minis for safety reasons, it was something under the lines of them injuring pedestrians I believe. At first they put rubber guards on the front facing corners of the door handles during c.1969-1971. Then with the introduction of the Clubman range, they changed the door handle design so that they didn't stick out in c.1970. https://classicregister.com/id-guides/info-guide-1969-1971-morris-mini-cooper-s-mk2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmsguzzi Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 https://fbwat.ch/1VcMHKHB2TnKqma0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 On 1/26/2020 at 2:24 PM, MorrisItalSLX said: On the P76 front, there were 2 sent for evaluation, a saloon and a coupé, the latter never reaching production. There is also a Targa Florio in the UK too. All 3 of these cars survive to the best of my knowledge. Interestingly, a while ago I turned up a pic of a UK-registered P76 saloon doing the tourist sights in 1973... SOE 326L - Birmingham plated, so possibly there's a link to Longbridge? Seems to be a different car from the orange one in your pic, PLW 286L (London plate), which does indeed seem to still be around - currently out of tax, but a new V5 issued in late November last year. So maybe there was more than one on UK roads... I understand the blue Force 7 coupe, eventually used by Lord Stokes for his own personal transport, arrived into the UK a bit later, in mid-1974 - hence the M-registration. I believe it was shipped to New Zealand around 2004, and now lives happily with an enthusiast. Sadly, nearly all of the 56 or so complete and part-built Force 7s were destroyed in 1975, having hung around the Zetland factory for nearly a year after its closure. Apparently Leyland Australia couldn't sell them on the open market since they hadn't yet met type approval regulations; although eight examples were saved and later auctioned off as collectors' items. Ow. I do love the P76 myself, and if I had the time and money I know where I could find myself a few restoration candidates... Amishtat, Mrs6C, MorrisItalSLX and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 10 minutes ago, Datsuncog said: Sadly, nearly all of the 56 or so complete and part-built Force 7s were destroyed in 1975, having hung around the Zetland factory for nearly a year after its closure. Apparently Leyland Australia couldn't sell them on the open market since they hadn't yet met type approval regulations; although eight examples were saved and later auctioned off as collectors' items. Ow. All of the surviving examples were the mid-range Force 7V, of which I have an owners manual for, but there has been some discussion about the existence of 2 top spec Tour de Force examples. These modern photographs are the only evidence of their existence, but I’m convinced they are out there. Somewhere. mk2_craig, Shep Shepherd, Datsuncog and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 I really hope they are... it's not beyond the realms of possibility that staff formerly involved in the Tour De Force's development might have found a way to spirit them out of the shuttered factory before the crushers moved in. It's brilliant to think there may indeed be some automotive unicorns still in hiding! MorrisItalSLX 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 JOE 526L Amishtat, Datsuncog and Mrs6C 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Targa Florio YJT 246M Shep Shepherd, LT84, JeeExEll and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 _EL 445L http://www.leylandp76.com/private/uk/kev.html Datsuncog and Mrs6C 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Interesting stuff on the P76. That page implies the red car is JOE 526L repainted and re-registered (which is plausible as JOE 526L is now on a modern Saab), and that and the orange one PLW 286L were the two sent over for evaluation. There's a couple of interesting bits on AROnline to confirm: One reporting Leyland hoped to sell 5000 of them in the UK and intriguingly also that the station wagon would be more popular, but a P76 wagon never materialised here or in Aus: https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/leyland/p76/leyland-p76-in-the-uk/ One on the fate of the UK cars, which implies both still existed with the same owner in 2012: https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/leyland/p76/essays-a-tale-of-two-leyland-p76s/ Mrs6C and Datsuncog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 5000 of them... that’s the fuzzy logic thinking of BL all over. 5 of them perhaps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 2 hours ago, quicksilver said: but a P76 wagon never materialised here or in Aus There was a prototype, and it still exists too. Mrs6C, LightBulbFun and chaseracer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 There’s a Holden Commodore estate about three streets away from me. https://www.holden.com.au/cars/commodore-sportwagon Did a double take at the badge as I initially thought it was a new version of the Vauxhall griffin, until I clocked the nameplate on the rear. Mrs6C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 33 minutes ago, AnthonyG said: There’s a Holden Commodore estate about three streets away from me. Sportswagon was as much as 30 percent of total Commodore sales, ten years ago... Not now though ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 ^ But what's that in the bottom left of the pic?? . . . There were two of them . . . The Scottish Falcon XB GTs. Link to more info - http://www.aus-ford-uk.co.uk/html/the_scottish_gt_s.html Both cars scrapped long ago but 'number plate' refers to a driving school at Ingliston near Edinburgh. Connection with the race track or just advertising for a driving instructor from that area? Don't know. Datsuncog, sheffcortinacentre, Austat and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 I hate to see cars that have fallen into disrepair, makes me want to rescue and restore them. Probably why I'm so skint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Hereford, Aldi car park a few years ago. Holden Adventra Mr_Bo11ox, warren t claim and Mrs6C 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 On 1/26/2020 at 9:11 PM, TripleRich said: Larger Mk2 Granada with a V8? Yes please! Did any make it, I've never seen one? I'm not sure if it was a V8, but one was raced at a Swaffham Icebreaker circa 20 years ago (maybe more). In slightly different vein...... 1988/89 Holden Nova (Toyota Corolla) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr adw1977, Angrydicky, jumpingjehovahs and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs6C Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 13 hours ago, JeeExEll said: http://www.aus-ford-uk.co.uk/html/the_scottish_gt_s.html Both cars scrapped long ago but 'number plate' refers to a driving school at Ingliston near Edinburgh. Connection with the race track or just advertising for a driving instructor from that area? Don't know. This place, I believe...https://www.ingliston.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullett471 Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 On 1/27/2020 at 8:11 AM, TripleRich said: Larger Mk2 Granada with a V8? Yes please! Did any make it, I've never seen one? Only thing they shared was the headlights. I have two of the XD (as above)..one a 1979 Fairmont Ghia with the 4.9 V8 (302 Cleveland) and a 1981 Falcon GL with a 4.1 straight 6 Datsuncog, Banger Kenny, Asimo and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 10 hours ago, Asimo said: Hereford, Aldi car park a few years ago. Holden Adventra Those are really rare even in oz because they are a bit shite really. Think they rushed them out to compete with the territory. Just a regular dunny door wagon but the 4wd didn't work very well in the dirt. Asimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 7 hours ago, mullett471 said: I have two of the XD (as above)..one a 1979 Fairmont Ghia with the 4.9 V8 (302 Cleveland) and a 1981 Falcon GL with a 4.1 straight 6 Nice I do like those wheel too. Do they have a name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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