out and about in my taxi

[STUNO]

not exactly shite.but iv'e not seen one of these before

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[retrogeezer]

Looks like a Paseo convertible??

[STUNO]

Yes retrogeezer , did a search and it shows Paseo and Cynos to be the same car

[MrRegieRitmo]

Never seen a cabriolet one over here though. The Paseo is an odd sort, on the rare occasion you see one, you're reminded of their existence. I'm not sure what niche they were designed to fill but they barely featured on the Richter scale. I would guess they were aimed at 100NX customers. I would sum them up as nice little coupes but slightly bland & not very notable for anything unlike the Sera! Looks much more interesting as a dhc though!

[r.welfare]

Toyota GB probably had some import quota to fill when they bought in the Paseo - my elderly Parkers Guide (great reference) indicates they were only sold here 1996-99. Probably due to the small coupe "explosion" of the NX100, Hyundai Scoupe, Mazda MX-3, Tigra and Puma.

[fordpoplier]

I agree the Paseo is an odd sort. You see them not too often here (never a convertible) and I've wondered if they were ahead of their time for the US market which is now finally accepting that small 3 doors are ok.

[STUNO]

Public Transport New Zealand 1964

The stop here was to top up the radiator with sea water

[STUNO]

Pulled up behind the Cynos DHC and thought "that's nice" so took a couple of shots. I remember now that toyota NZ put the Paseo out when out was first made as a coupe, I can't remember the year. they sold 1 and then gave up !

[STUNO]

Daimler off to a wedding

A VERY RARE LEYLAND P76...note the bonnet tie-down strap (forward opening)a good one of these is expensive now

[r.welfare]

P76s are wonderful, just wonderful. If the evidence is to be believed, actually a much better car than the contemporary Valiant, Falcon and Holden, just never equalled the sum of it's parts mainly due to manufacturing quality.Amazingly there have been two for sale on UK EBay in the last 12 months, one about 20 miles from here (where Retrogeezer used to live!).

[MrRegieRitmo]

and no-one went for them??

[STUNO]

r welfare ...the Leyland P76 should have been a great success for BL. but they made a mess of it. the car was pretty well trouble free but BL were in a mess at H.Office as you well know. that contributed greatly to it's demise.they also had a huge job to do to break the dominance of Ford and GM in Australia .

now a couple of very nice spots from today

this civic was in outstanding nick . could have been nearly new

[r.welfare]

Lovely Civic! We never had the saloon - we got the Triumph Acclaim instead, which was pretty much the same thing.Interesting that the Audi 80 is a V6, all the 80's of that shape I saw in Australia last year were V6s.

[MrRegieRitmo]

2 cars we didn't get over here then!We didn't have any V6 80s did we?I wonder why the UK was always overlooked for the most powerful variations of cars?!

[michiel]

That Civic nearly knocked me K.O. (sorry), what a beaut!

[r.welfare]

We did get the V6 Reg, in 2.8 and (later) 2.6 flavours, just they didn't sell many. I believe they were diabolically expensive, esp. in quattro form. Most plumped for the 2.0 8-valve (a very nice car) or the 1.9 diesel.

[MrRegieRitmo]

I guess if people had that much money to spend they'd have just bought a 100 instead!What's the deal with 8 valve? Surely the more valves the better? I never understood why you could get a Golf GTi 8 valve & a GTi 16 valve, why would anyone choose an 8 over a 16? Also when every 'not-very-special' Escort or Mondeo seemed to have 16v plastered on the back how can anyone crow about an 8v Audi?

[r.welfare]

Umm. Not always. Multivalve engines are great for developing power at the top end, but not everyone wants to drive at 6000+rpm down to the corner shop. Older, overhead 8-valve engines (such as the BMC B series) develop more torque low down so you don't need to row through the gears revving the nuts off it to get away from the lights. Although it's more difficult to extract the same power as a multivalve.So - 80 probably more popular as an 8-valve as cheaper and more relaxed to drive (in fitting with it's "execk-yoo-tive" status). Golf 8v still sold due to insurance rumpus of the early 90s probably.Try pulling away from a junction in a car equipped with the VW twin-cam 16-valve 1.4 motor (like my wife's Fabia) to have a graphic demonstration why all this whizzbang trickery ain't always great. Less than 4 grand on the tach and you've even odds that you'll stall it!

[Dead_E23]

overhead 8-valve engines (such as the BMC B series) develop more torque low down

This was very noticable in the MkII Golf - a friend in the trade used to stock loads of GTIs, and we both preferred the 8v because of the extra torque. In situations where you might need to change down a gear in the 16v, you could just clog the 8v and off it would go. The 16v felt frantic by comparison.

[STUNO]

Two of todays spots. Peugeot was very nice

$4200 = 1400 pounds, not cheap but a very good one

I wish I had some money!

And more to come

[STUNO]

On and on the shite rolls round

Most of these from a place in town where everyone parks car for sale...quite convenient

[pogweasel]

A great crate!

Bonus points, and as the cool kids say "mad props" to anyone tough enough to roll around in that.

Dirty, mismatched panels, dents, shonky repairs, obscure Jap barge?

It's ticking all the boxes!!!!

[Spottedlaurel]

Mmm, that 929 certainly is quite impressive isn't it?Nice selection of Mitsubishis there too - Colt looks very tidy, I like the Galant, but that '70s-toilet blue Sigma Like the additional boot handle.

[pompei]

Going back to the 8v vs 16v thing, I think most people preferred the Alfa 1.7 8v, if for no other reason than the 16v was a pig to work on. I think the earlier 155 8v also had a timing chain as opposed to belts on the 16v which adds to that feeling of security

[STUNO]

Some people don't even bother to clean their cars out

when they put ad's on E bay.

This chap tried really hard to make his car look good

even a flag in the radiator..It's a Hudson Super Six

[mk2_craig]

Lovin the plate on the Trooper to the left. Reminds me of this guy

Whose XJS had "DIDL1N" on the front

[Sid]

Lovely Civic! We never had the saloon - we got the Triumph Acclaim instead, which was pretty much the same thing.

That saloon is stunning but surely the Triumph Acclaim was based on the longer, wider Ballade?

[reallyloud]

Those Armitage Shanks Mitsubishis are strangely attractive in that hue. Would I be right in assuming that 90's French and UK cars are uncommon in New Zealand? The Rover and 306 are probably the most common cars in scrapyards, on bricks or on fire at the moment.

[r.welfare]

I'm amazed that they sold them there at all, when you think of the geography (and size of market) involved - particularly as neither the R200/400 or R5 were sold in Australia, and the 306 only in very small numbers. I'm intrigued by the Opel badging on that Vectra (aka Cavalier Mk3) too - I did see a couple of Calibras in Oz.I bought a fascinating book called the "Dog and Lemon Guide" while in Oz which lists pretty much every car sold in NZ and Australia between 1980-2005, and it's amazing to see what actually did make it to NZ...including the only MG-badged estate ever marketed (Montego 2.0i Countryman to the rest of us).What I find interesting about the NZ motor industry is the amount of tin that was assembled locally - Todd Motors was famous (if you look into this sorta thing) for building CKD kits of Hillmans (Hunter, Avenger), Mitsubishi (Galant) and Datsun (200B) all at the same time, but reading through some early 80's copies of Wheels (Australian equivalent of 'CAR') all the Japanese players were building locally in addition to Ford and Holden, but some you wouldn't expect to (Izusu, Subaru) were as well!From what I can make out, secondhand Japanese imports decimated the new car market and local production with it in the early 90s (just before the UK market cottoned on to grey import stuff)...interestingly Australia doesn't seem to have suffered as much, but there's only Toyota, Holden and Ford left there now since Mitsubishi announced their decision to close up shop earlier this month.

[STUNO]

You are quite right R.welfare the NZ market is tiny and I can't understand why we got such a huge range of makes here. it just don't make sense.I trawled th net and came up with the 2005 registration figures which also show what a huge impact used car ex Japan have had.. Even manufacturers such as Toyota bring in used cars 2005 FIRST TIME REGISTRATIONS 5,713 NEW CARS (FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY ) 12,116 USED IMPORTS 17827thats for a start. an odd statistic is that per head of population NZ has more Ferraris than any other country. ODDI,ve read The Dog and Lemon guide but don't remember much of it.Do remember that much was made of the fact that the writer of the book drove a 1955 Morris Oxford :lol:Family had a Todd Motors dealership for many years (humber hillman dodge plymouth peugeot mitsubishi are some of the makes I remember)Todd also was europa fuels (russian petrol)Ladas were swapped for butter with Russia