Some French Spots

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Another lot:

 

Whats this then? Peugeot 402?

A 203 I believe, as seen on the wings & wheels thread - see I did learn something!

this is a 203, so its defo not one of those!

 

[MrRegieRitmo]

Oh ok 202 then! http://autoshite.commlm/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3053&start=15

[MrRegieRitmo]

Google says I'm talking out of my backside - my apologies it seems you were right all along! Apparently Peugeot had a whole range of these hideous things! Your one is bigger than that 202 so probably is a 402 like this one after all!

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Cheers reg! Heres another load.

 

This one is smaller so it must be a 202!

 

 

This kadett was class in a glass. The engine was super quiet, as smooth as a modern lump.

 

What a way to travel, this looked impossibly cool in the french sunshine.

 

 

Bloody hell look at that!

 

 

 

HENRI CHAPRON

 

Lovely!

 

Nice 104 'shortcut'

 

This thing called itself a 'beauté', blacked out sills and colour coded wheels suggested otherwise to me.

 

Any guesses for this one? Its super obscure.

[Adrian_pt]

Rosengart Supertrahuit.The Peugeot '02 family is absolutely gorgeous. Great spots!

[MrRegieRitmo]

The Peugeot '02 family is absolutely gorgeous.

That's one way of looking at it

[Mr_Bo11ox]

bloody hell that didnt take long, it said 'supertraction' on the grille, it is a Rosengart however!

[nigel bickle]

Gorgeous-just gorgeous.Ship em all over- I'll build another (illegal) barn,

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Heres a few more:

 

Thelma + Louise in their E-type. Annoyingly for them, it would not start when they tried to set off. I expected them to be set upon by a thousand slightly beery frenchmen offering help and advice, in the end this red-faced be-suited geezer won the lottery and set them on pushing. Good work!

Allez! Put your back into it girls! I'll deal with all these levers and what have you.

 

My camera started playing up at this point taking ages to 'save' a pic. This means that loads of pics were ruined by folk wandering into the shot:

 

THANKS

 

YEAH THATS GREAT LOVE, CHEERS

 

OH BRILLIANT, NICE ONE

 

Oh give me strength. FFS LOVE DO YOU WANNA JUST SHIFT YOUR - Oh hang on its Mrs_B this time. Carry on!

 

WHAT! That would have been a great shot.

 

NOT YOU AGAIN!

 

These musicians looked 'clinically bored'.

 

The excitement was all too much for this guy.

 

Excellent hat!

 

Some class outfits were on display. Check this guy on his 'motor bike' 5thelma + Louise on the right too)

 

Always a good idea to have a religious presence at these car do's.

[MrRegieRitmo]

 

THANKS

 

YEAH THATS GREAT LOVE, CHEERS

 

OH BRILLIANT, NICE ONE

 

Oh give me strength. FFS LOVE DO YOU WANNA JUST SHIFT YOUR - Oh hang on its Mrs_B this time. Carry on!

 

WHAT! That would have been a great shot.

LOL that illustrates perfectly what was mentioned on the wings & wheels thread (again).....

 

Some nice photos there SL, while it's nice to be shown the story behind the exhibit it does annoy me when the vehicle's half obscured by boards containing plaques from every show it's been to in the last 5 years. More so when surrounded by bodies reading!

Christ that is without doubt the most frustrating thing about car shows, doesn't matter which but you spend 3 times the time it should take photographing cars waiting for zombies to get out of the damn way in their own sweet time. Even worse when you've been waiting for ages, finally get a clear shot & then some other body wanders into view meaning you either have to halt your finger on the shutter button again, or delete the promising picture you just took because it has an arm or a torso right across it!

[Karmann Ghiaman]

All your pix are ACE Mr. B, but I really did guffaw out loud when those people wandered into shot (not because they did, but 'cos of your captions)! P.S. Do you like all Karmann Ghias, or is it just silver convertible ones?

[r.welfare]

WITH THIS ROCHER YOU ARE SPOILING US. Tremendous shots, wonderful stuff. And there was me thinking the French had traded in their elderly motors wholesale for new tin based on my trip to Paris, an issue of "GAZOLINE" notwithstanding.Pacer is the standout for me. The French always did seem to go in for whacky Yank tin, judging by the amount of obscure 70s/80s USA motors that get trashed in 80s/90s French films (and films set in France - Never Say Never Again for example).

[michiel]

Will you adopt me Mr B? Great pics, even better words.Oh and the 4CV Barquette thingy, any more pics of that one? Merci en avance!

[Mr Lobster]

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Not sure what this is, I think its a half-simca half-ford vehicle from when Simca was formed and took over Ford's manufacturing operations in France. It has a V8 engine I think.

 

That'll be a Ford Vedette then.

 

Brilliant pictures, I am off to France this weekend however I cannot even begin to hope to see anything like this amount of quality F tin.

[michiel]

^!another one for my list of dream passengerial suicide door cars!^

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Next lot:

 

These two geezers were milling around in their popemobile, blessing folk, the guy in the back often had a bottle of beer in his hand.

 

'old car totty' was thinner on the grond than the LM classic, but not totally absent:

 

 

 

 

More good outfits:

 

 

Now some french humour. Heres how it works:

 

1) put on a jeremy Beadle beard, and dress up as a copper.

2) Sternly invite your mates to step into your 'police booth' for questioning about a recent crime incident.

3) Rush round the back and snap the priceless look on their faces as they peep out through the two round 'windows':

OMG LOL!!!!111!!!!11!112²²11!!!

 

Now simply photograph them in this compormising position and post it up on myspace sending a link to everyone you/they know including their pre-school kids LOLOL etc.

 

In fact, the trick is that this is so unfunny, you end up thinking 'WTF?? Who on earth is going to laugh at that? the guy is off his head ', at which point you start to chuckle at the sheer ludicrousness of it, then you realise, its got you - you're now laughing (at it).

 

OK some more cars:

BURT REYNOLDS IN DA HOUSE

 

This Taunus V4 was driven by a couple of young lads who looked absurdly cool in it.

 

This Beta Spyder was in perfect nick.

 

OMGz

 

 

 

The driver of this had dressed himself up as a Gendarme and kept giving mouth-to-mouth to his mannequin passenger. WTF?

 

This guy was going for it in the 'roofrack full of crud' stakes - suitcase, an inflated inner tube, and a plastic Lobster.

 

Not just any old roofrack either.

 

 

 

This guy has fastened some gubbins onto his car which allowed it to run on cat piss or something. Check his get-up!

 

 

'Dont talk to me about rat look'

 

Heres the Taunus guys.

 

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/Mr_Bo11ox/Brittany%20CC%20do/P5110634.jpg

This thing had door frames made from 2" square section hardwood - not often you can say that about a car.

 

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/Mr_Bo11ox/Brittany%20CC%20do/P5110635.jpg

Just some old Delage or summert.

 

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/Mr_Bo11ox/Brittany%20CC%20do/P5110639.jpg

 

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f114/Mr_Bo11ox/Brittany%20CC%20do/P5110641.jpg

This 75 V6 had had its paint toasted by the sun, but was totally unrusty and unmessed with. Lovely!

[mirafioriman]

Nice one! Lots of nice cars there. Where abouts in France did you come accross all these? Are you back home in England now?

[michiel]

OMG!

[seth]

Excellent stuff MrB. Cheered me up no end on this miserable day. I often have trouble determining whether you're taking photos of the cars or the people.....

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Heres a few more, trucks this time:

 

This truck was full of fellers dressed up as old women, Les Dawson style.

 

My favourite picture! This guy just having a break from being funny.

 

Mobile garden shed

 

savage looking thing.

 

 

 

Check the blue thing out, its a promotional vehicle for bottled gas!

 

 

Lord knows what this is.

 

 

 

Yo Wuvz! Convert yours into one of these.

 

 

Check this mental sandwich van!

 

 

 

One more lot and i'm 'spent'.

[michiel]

Hilarieux! Those promo-things are superb, would love to drive a Butagaz bottle to he shops.

[Spottedlaurel]

Excellent stuff M. Bolleaux. The commercials are particularly wonderful, this one...

 

 

Looks like the designer was inspired by a rodent with its cheeks stuffed full of nuts.

[Mr Lobster]

Looks like the designer was inspired by a rodent with its cheeks stuffed full of nuts.

LOLZ

[Mr Lobster]

 

That is just the sexiest thing evar!

[fotorabia]

jus on a Gallic thread ...for sale in the nxt town..this curious beast could end up truly economical if u just used the the bicycles...

 

 

Peter Carson was the project person on this vehicle he didnt make the racks to hold the bikes on but it is modeled on the tour de france races as a support vehicle and i see it as a promotional vehicle or something similer or even a beach buggy it has seat belt fittings etc

 

anyway..$500 no reserve..kinda cute..

[pompei]

I particularly like that red cylindrical thing, and its wooden screen surround.

[mk2_craig]

 

Don't think I've ever seen a preserved bin wagon, makes a nice change from the usual flatbed with vintage car/tractor/assorted crap on the back. Probably smells vile though

[Jazzy Jeff]

These pictures are all wonderful. I can hear accordion music in my head just looking at them. Which probably isn't a good sign of my mental health when you think about it.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey i've found a few more!

 

Think we might have seen this already.

 

Simca truck

 

Yo Bickle, have you got one of these?

 

 

Watch where you're going mate! *crash* Aarrgghhh!! etc

 

Look at that little sweetie.

 

Stunning!

 

I bet if you have 50 of these in your garden in France, you dont get an enforcement order to shift em off the local jobsworths.

 

Arty shot! Check me out.

 

Dunno what this fugly old bathtub is but it had 2cv mechanical bits by the loks of it.

 

 

super cool

 

Heyyy, just like the one at the bubble car museum! Except not rotten as a pear.

 

 

LOVE these.

 

This could have been a star of the show for me. This 504 was absolutely arrow straight with a mint interior, it looked to me like it was totally original. Absolutely delightful.

[Baz]

super cool

 

That is truly beautiful!