boobydoo Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 Hello Everyone!Although I've posted a few comments this week I haven't officially said hello as a new member.I'm the anorak with the three Tagoras as seen at MB Stevenage in a previous thread. I'm so thrilled that you all hold the car in the high esteem it so richly deserves!I think the proudest day of my life was when I finally persuaded a friend of mine to part with the white GL model that he'd discovered in a Scottish lock up in 2003. Originally, the car was a dealer demonstrator in Glasgow until sold on to an old boy who hardly used it and who then died leaving it languishing, covered in spilt creosote for a few years locked away.With a mileage of just 17,000, the interior (very rare blue colour only manufactured for two months!) was mint so all it needed was a re-spray in original Ermine White.So, I'm the fourth owner and mileage still just 20,000. The GL was pretty boggo.... 4 speed, windey windows, PAS an option! so it was deleted from the range in 1982 as a bit of a no-hoper! I'm sure no others have survived..in the UK anyway.The red one at the NEC is an SX, 33,000 miles. Again mint interior but had to practically get the car resprayed due to frilly wheel arches and nicks and scratches here and there.The third I bought last year as a rolling resto but at the moment it's just languishing at work under a tarpaulin as I've recently moved into an old cottage that needed a fair bit spending on it so I'm a bit strapped for cash!I just love old naff cars and owned a fair few! Two Hunters, a TR7, Chrysler Avenger, Viva HA, Vauxhall Viscount, Fiat 2300, Chrysler and Talbot Alpines..but now its just the T's and a Simca 1100(which resolutely refuses to start at the moment!)Anyway, rest assured they are in good hands and get treated with kid gloves! Come and say hello if you ever see me out and about in 'em!!Thanks for having a great website...ye do make I laarff!!
dollywobbler Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 Welcome! Cor, a no-hoper in a range that was a no-hoper! Ultimate Autoshite!
trigger Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 We are not worthy! Welcome to the fold, It sounds like you will fit in perfectly here! :lol:Have you got any photo's of them?.
Captain Mainwaring Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 It's people like thee who keep these wheels rolling...glad to be one of the first to welcome you to the forum.
boobydoo Posted January 30, 2010 Author Posted January 30, 2010 They're all tucked away for the Winter at the mo, but I will post some as soon as I can!
michiel Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 Bienvenu sur l'Autoshite! This 1100 was mine once (Dyane in the shot a happy coincidence).
carlo Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 Hi boobydoo. Had a nice chat with you at the NEC last November; you may remember me drooling over your SX - I did mention this forum and it looks like you found it!Love to see some nice photos of the Tagoras, yours wasn't very well positioned to get good photos at the show.
Mr Lobster Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 3 Tagoras! That should give you almost God like status!
boobydoo Posted January 30, 2010 Author Posted January 30, 2010 Hi Carlo,I remember you! Yes we had that great concrete pillar in the way! Our stand was originally going to be part of the Citroen stand but they asked us to swap prior to the show...cheeky beggars..they must have known!
boobydoo Posted January 30, 2010 Author Posted January 30, 2010 Bienvenu sur l'Autoshite! This 1100 was mine once (Dyane in the shot a happy coincidence). Will car manufacture ever again reach this zenith!!
VWPowered Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 wow awesome i like tagora's see afew here being in the land where they were chucked together.. i found these three all together next time i went past they were all gone hope one to to have a tagora welcome to the madhouse
Volksy Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 Welcome!With these Tagoras your really spoiling us!
Milford Cubicle Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 I've never even seen a Tagora apart from in photographs. Utterly heroic stuff, welcome to autoshite.
Mash Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 A very warm welcome. The Tagora represents something of a cult status in Autoshite land as you will have gathered. I spent ages looking over your SX at the NEC, it truly is amazing. Well done for being so enthusiastic about these forgotten cars Of course what we all want to know is what a Tagora is really like to live with. Are they really naff and deserving of their lemon status or are they as we would hope, one of the best kept secrets in the automotive world.....?
Vin Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 Like many on this site I love the Tagora. I have only ever seen one in the flesh. A light metallic blue one, a bit down at heel, Y reg and a Coventry VC number. It was on Kettering road in Northampton. 1994. I shall always remember :)EDIT: In fact, this has jolted a memory. At the end of Talbot Rd (where I then lived) where it met Kettering Rd where the Tagora was spotted....there was always parked a beige Yugo Sana owned by a very elderly lollypop man.....
boobydoo Posted January 30, 2010 Author Posted January 30, 2010 Of course what we all want to know is what a Tagora is really like to live with. Are they really naff and deserving of their lemon status or are they as we would hope, one of the best kept secrets in the automotive world.....? Definately underrated. Motor magazine gave their long term test car quite glowing praise in 1982!! I think it was maybe a bit ahead of its time..a very stark , modern interior at a time when Ford and Vauxhall were still doing the wood and chintz thing!I enjoy driving the GL best cos its the most reliable!! The red SX is a bit tempermental and I wouldn't venture too far in it. The RAC know me and it quite well now!! They are extremely comfy (typical French), the GL as no grunt at all being a 2.2, and it desperately needs 5 gears...but the SX is like sh*t off a shovel when its running right!I get mixed reactions. Most people go "Ooh! A Solara!" til they look at the badge ..and then they just look non-plussed. A few get excited by it when I'm filling up or something and a few look at me pityingly!I remember one bloke shouting across the street "Oi, mate fill it with petrol. It'll double the value!"The little Simca actually gets most attention cos its bright green and old giffers (as you call them!) go "Aw, I had one of those!"NOBODY has ever said that to me when in the Tagora!!!
strangehighways Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 1000 times welcome!You really have the ultimate shite car. There have been many posts about Tagoras and I don't think any other member of the forums owns one, let alone three. It was destiny that you were to join us! I cannot wait till an Autoshite summer meet (here's hoping). If you turned up in your Tagora, I think we would all faint.
trigger Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 If you turned up in your Tagora, I think we would all faint. I'm looking forwards to that!
seth Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 Just remembered that I have a couple of photos of your white one from Croxley Green in '08 This must be your Simca too? From Kebworth last year.
mouseflakes Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 Hello Booby,Good to have you on board. There are too few shitey french luxo-barges remaining in the UK. Well done on keeping those Tagori (?) in such fine fettle.
VWPowered Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 liking that 1100 also...no crafty mint solara's or horizon's in the mist is there
Pete-M Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 Greetings and Salutations Ãœbershiter!Magnificent collection of the Holy Grail there. 3 Tagoras... that's truly astonishing. My dad ran a Peugeot Talbot Dealership in 1981 and I've never seen more than two at once. What took you so long to find Autoshite? This place must have more mentions of the Holy Tagoras than anywhere else on the web!Oh, and can you find me a nice, immaculate Pug 604 STi? Must have leather! If you can find 3 Tagoras, that should be a piece of piss
VWPowered Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 Oh, and can you find me a nice, immaculate Pug 604 STi?not sure about leather but at this price you could aafford a retrim in whatever colour you like lolhttp://www.leboncoin.fr/vi/90582805.htm?ca=14_s
Talbotman Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 Fantastic to see you on here! Is the red sx the ex patrick collection car? Had heard that it had gone to look a bit down at heel before it had been sold on a few years back. There is another gl in existance in the uk - its very rough and its been parked in an open yard in bleanavon in wales for a least ten years or so now its also white with the blue ribbed interior the body is totally shot but the car is complete its an early car on the w plate.Did try to buy it as parts for my own car but the owner would not sell. Ive got a 2.2 gls myself but its very rough and ideally im looking for a donor car to sort it- do you know of anything around?
UglyAmerican Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 Never seen one in person but lust lust lust!Welcome!
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