Turkish Delight - The Otosan Anadol

[barrett]

Sam sold his Anadol, annoyingly not to me as I was broke at the time. I was re-advertised on ebay last year using the same pictures and sold for less than the vendor paid. Presumably it's now sat in somebody else's shed waiting for work to start. I might get lucky third time round and bag it for a fifth of the original asking price or something. Ho hum.

[doug]

From Elvis Paynes excellent book The Reliant Motor Company.
What do you mean you don't have a copy??!!

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[Crackers]

Isn't Anadol a paracetamol tablet?

[Crackers]

Wait, no, that's Panadol. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Isopon said:

....poor bloody thing...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224572331869?hash=item34498dd75d:g:PQ0AAOSwHvthGBPi

If there's one thing in its favour, at least it's not the A8-16.

[danthecapriman]

21 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Isn't Anadol a paracetamol tablet?

I thought it was a cream for your arse!? 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

I thought it was a cream for your arse!? 

I see what ye did there:

 

[danthecapriman]

1 minute ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I see what ye did there:

 

When I first moved into my current house, there was a tube of that in one of the kitchen cupboards… wtf!?! Grim.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, danthecapriman said:

When I first moved into my current house, there was a tube of that in one of the kitchen cupboards… wtf!?! Grim.

Please tell me you didn't product-test....!

[danthecapriman]

7 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Please tell me you didn't product-test....!

Works well. Easy to apply while cooking dinner too!

[RichardK]

13 hours ago, Isopon said:

Thread resurrection!

poor bloody thing...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224572331869?hash=item34498dd75d:g:PQ0AAOSwHvthGBPi

Holy shit, one line listing and even then a steaming pile of bullshit about the window treatment.

It almost looks interesting until you realise what's been done and to what.

[High Jetter]

13 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

When I first moved into my current house, there was a tube of that in one of the kitchen cupboards… wtf!?! Grim.

Was it in one of the bottom cupboards?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, RichardK said:

....a steaming pile of bullshit about the window treatment....

At the end of the day, the nearside rear window line is a bit different to the offside. Hopefully the doors are the same sizes....

[barrett]

This talk of Anadols has reminded me of this cool video I saw recently, which is actually the first footage I've seen of the Reliant Scooter-Ski.

A typically great bit of Reliant publicity, it's packed with the firm's products including an Anadol A1 which could possibly be the bastardised red car currently for sale

Sadly the reg isn't visible. The other Reliants all look great, particularly the three Scimitars

It's interesting that Reliant had a handful of Anadols knocking around as late as 1967/68 and presumably beyond, but I guess they were 'samples' for anyone else looking to take up the 'package' dealof instant motor manufacture they were offering at the time. I suspect the Anadol and the gold and brown Scimitars are the same ones in the great 'Reliant products' photo from 1968 that was used as the cover of the Reliant book (although, perhaps tellingly, no Scooter Ski in this image)

[tooSavvy]

Ahh.... Botty Cream 

Don't all laugh at once.....

I have for a lifetime read the brand as >>

Anus - oll.

...... SWMBO pointed out is is politely referred to as >>>

Anew - Soll.

Who knew 🙄

[worldofceri]

7 hours ago, barrett said:

Cor! Check out that extended cab on the Ford D Series at the back! Is that something Reliant knocked up back in the day?

[doug]

Again from Elvis Paynes book, yes Reliant developed a fibreglass crew cab for the D series Ford.

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[barrett]

[Dick Cheeseburger]

On 8/15/2021 at 7:19 PM, Isopon said:

Thread resurrection!

poor bloody thing...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224572331869?hash=item34498dd75d:g:PQ0AAOSwHvthGBPi

Why is the rear quarter/window setup pissed? 

It wasn't originally. 

[Austat]

(Thread resurrection) I thought this was converted to RHD once it arrived on the British Isles. So there wasn't a RHD Anadol in existence until this example was "Barry-ed" ?

It isn't the only Anadol that was sent to the UK when it was new, some (low-quality) pictures online show an STC-16 that was imported over to the UK in the 70's, probably something to do with a Turkish diplomat or the UK-based embassy. Perhaps this might be a RHD example? In the first photo, I can kind of see the faint outline of a steering wheel on the right side of the car, and in the second photo what appears to be a steering wheel on the right side. Of course very hard to examine due to the image resolutions, but there might be (or might of been) a RHD Anadol all along.

Still an incredibly sad sight to see SRE 937G's fate today, all because some moron couldn't afford to mess up a 2-door Escort.

[Datsuncog]

Thought this thread might make a useful home for my pics of a lightly modded Anadol A8-16, which I happened upon in Altinkum in 2008. 

Not sure whether the different front end was done by the manufacturer or a subsequent owner, but it's a bit different to the rather more original version brought over by @Sam Glover:

With only just over 1,000 examples built, I doubt I'll be seeing many more - unless there's one lurking in an underground garage under the Turkish Embassy in London...?

[Austat]

To comment on my last post, turns out there is such a thing as a RHD Anadol A1. I discovered about an hour or so ago that there were plans to locally assemble them in New Zealand as the Anziel Nova. From what I read, they followed the footsteps of Autocars/Sussita in Israel, and got in touch with Reliant, later contacting Ford as it was going to be Cortina-based. Of course, like a lot of good things, the project didn't catch on but they did create this RHD prototype which is quite interesting. 

I've posted the Wheels magazine article from May 1968 on Shite Magazine Scans.

[martc]

1 hour ago, Austat said:

 to locally assemble them in New Zealand as the Anziel Nova.

 magazine article from May 1968 

I would have thought that back in 1968 there would have been enough middle aged men around in New Zealand who would baulk at a Turkish product with a name similar to ANZAC.

[GeordieInExile]

On 8/15/2021 at 8:45 PM, doug said:

From Elvis Paynes excellent book The Reliant Motor Company.
What do you mean you don't have a copy??!!

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That looks like a Bristol to me.

[Richard_FM]

9 hours ago, GeordieInExile said:

That looks like a Bristol to me.

With a bit of Ford DNA added to the mix.

[trigger]

Still for sale with a bollocks description

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225649366532?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=qvWWlGSHT-S&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=BC8qa6LGTzW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[sierraman]

7 minutes ago, trigger said:

Still for sale with a bollocks description

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225649366532?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=qvWWlGSHT-S&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=BC8qa6LGTzW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

Why would you Barry that thing up? It just looks awful. I get perhaps putting a better engine in but those wings look fucking shit. 

[Rustybullethole]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Why would you Barry that thing up? It just looks awful. I get perhaps putting a better engine in but those wings look fucking shit. 

Opinions are like arseholes and all that. I do agree with you though for me the wheels are the killer.

[Matty]

1 hour ago, Rustybullethole said:

Opinions are like arseholes and all that. I do agree with you though for me the wheels are the killer.

The wheels are awful. I'm gonna stick my neck out and say I really like the rest of it. And I'm not ashamed to say so 😜