Rarities On The Road

[Range Rover Blues]

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[davidlandy]

RRB its not like either of those - the back is like a chevette hatchback but the no. plate was higher up.

[Range Rover Blues]

Is the firstone not lke the chevette hatchback? it's so long since I've seen one :-k

[Pete]

 The best Opels were the Kapitan, Admiral and Diplomat saloons and the GT for a sports car. I don't think that Vauxhall did an equivalent of any of them.
 I had a Kapitan in 62 and a Diplomat in 65. Never had an Admiral or a GT, but mates G/F bought him a GT, lucky sod.
 Last Opel I owned was a Commodore GSE coupe, that could really pick its feet up, handled quite well too.
 One of the few positives of getting old. You can remember when there were some well built cars about, and back in the  60s with BFG fuel costs, you could afford to run them.
 Pete

[Bush Tucker Man]

As we were leaving the house yesterday morning to go up to Coxwold for a wedding, a Volvo 480 pulled up at a neighbouring house on the Lane.

They must be getting rare nowadays??,
I'll keep an eye out for it pulling up again, shall I?

[Tommo]

i saw a volvo 480 today pulling out of a junction. and i thought the exact same thing, must be getting rare.

weird.

[V8MoneyPit]

Apart from the Saab Sonnetts, our local garage looks after a BMW 850 too. It was pretty rare new, but you don't see many of them now. One of the few BMW's that I think looks really nice.

[Bush Tucker Man]

i saw a volvo 480 today pulling out of a junction. and i thought the exact same thing, must be getting rare.

wierd

Was it blue??? (wonder if it's the same one)
My wife almost bought one quite a few years ago (pre-marriage)

Apart from the Saab Sonnetts, our local garage looks after a BMW 850 too. It was pretty rare new, but you don't see many of them now. One of the few BMW's that I think looks really nice.

I believe indicators were still an optional extra back then???
(but 'Red-Braces' were a standard fitment!)

[V8MoneyPit]

Apart from the Saab Sonnetts, our local garage looks after a BMW 850 too. It was pretty rare new, but you don't see many of them now. One of the few BMW's that I think looks really nice.

I believe indicators were still an optional extra back then???
(but 'Red-Braces' were a standard fitment!)

 :lol: :lol:
But I do quite like the shape. A sort of upmarket Vauxhall Calibra  :lol:

[carbore]

Re Vauxhall/Opel.

Open is the euro badge for GM, the Vectra etc in Europe is the opel However I think that they used to sell "hot" vauxhalls as opels in the uK as the vauxhall brand was a bit stuffy, just like Toyota and Lexus today.  One example is the Vauxhall VX220 which despite being good had the brand appeal of M&S trainers, whereas in Imported Opel Speedster was rare and intriguing.

My nomination for rare would be the NSU RO80, they are lovley looking.

[carbore]

Just been back reading and saw that link to photo of Camero. Id be bloody furious if someone posted a picture and the address (near as dammit, picky of the house) of my car for something like that one. Not a good idea.

[Bush Tucker Man]

i saw a volvo 480 today pulling out of a junction. and i thought the exact same thing, must be getting rare.

wierd

Was it blue??? (wonder if it's the same one)
My wife almost bought one quite a few years ago (pre-marriage)

I saw it pulling up yesterday, so here it is;

Click on pics to enlarge




Plus;
I went out to pick up a parcel from the Royal Mail sorting office a couple of miles away & saw a very tidy Clio Williams
It looks surprisingly unmodified/un-chavved, or are even they aware that it's something
special??




Digressing slightly, we once had a Clio (mark 1) as a courtesy car, it was okay, but with my seating position (fairly upright), there was b*gger all headroom.

I'm only about 5'8"/5'9" & my hair was being brushed by the headlining

[Range Rover Blues]

My nomination for rare would be the NSU RO80, they are lovley looking.

Now there's a rare car, not many sold and very unreliable.

How about a Sunbeam Rapier H120 :-.

[Tommo]

i saw a volvo 480 today pulling out of a junction. and i thought the exact same thing, must be getting rare.

wierd

Was it blue??? (wonder if it's the same one)
My wife almost bought one quite a few years ago (pre-marriage)

I saw it pulling up yesterday, so here it is;

Click on pics to enlarge




Plus;
I went out to pick up a parcel from the Royal Mail sorting office a couple of miles away & saw a very tidy Clio Williams
It looks surprisingly unmodified/un-chavved, or are even they aware that it's something
special??




Digressing slightly, we once had a Clio (mark 1) as a courtesy car, it was okay, but with my seating position (fairly upright), there was b*gger all headroom.

I'm only about 5'8"/5'9" & my hair was being brushed by the headlining

That looks like the one! there was a woman driving it and it was out denholme way.

[V8MoneyPit]

This was at the garage this morning. It's a LHD French model with the power brakes (a button on the floor!). I always wanted one of these. Amazing machine.

[Range Rover Blues]

Hmmm, they were very "different" wern't they :-k

[V8MoneyPit]

Hmmm, they were very "different" wern't they :-k

They were of a time when Citroen were still way ahead of anyone else in the industry. Not just platform engineers who stick different bumpers and badges on the same vehicle that everyone else uses too. The DS was, and still is, one of the best ride quality vehicles ever built. And it looks space age even now!

[Range Rover Blues]

Wasn't it built back when the Gov't owned the company :-k  bit of a different ethos to BL then :lol:

[V8MoneyPit]

Wasn't it built back when the Gov't owned the company :-k  bit of a different ethos to BL then :lol:

 :lol: :lol: Oh yes, the wonder that was British Leyland. Talking of rarities on the road.....
Allegro
Princess and Ambasador (wedge)
Maxi

Oh how I miss them.... not! All of them had such potential, but the build quality was so horifically poor, they never stood a chance against Japanese imports that, well, just worked as they say in the advert!

[Dr Evil]

A Citroen DS pulled alongside me in my local petrol station only yesterday, what a cracker. Pale blue with a white roof, not seen one for years.
Going back to the start of the thread, I had a Rover Sd1 V8S in "pendelican" a sort of creamy white, horrible car, always going wrong. I also had a Capri 2.8i and 2 Opel mantas, a tangerine orange SR hatchback and a red GTE coupe, lovely cars, all of them.
Tell you what I haven't seen for a long time, a Porsche 912/914 the VW based ones, really like them, different.

[Range Rover Blues]

Porch 912, they've all been classic rallied, same as the MkI Escorts and 'Tinas :(

[Dr Evil]

Here's one for you good 'ole boys

[Tommo]

mk3 tina?

[Dr Evil]

Yup. 2 door GT pre-facelift. Fitted with 3 litre V6, burluddy quick, not known for its handling, but that one was ace, with a few tweaks !!

[gtomo2]

Saw these two on the road a bit back both nice old movers





And my old rally car wish i had keep it in a garage now and not wrote it off

[Bush Tucker Man]

Like the Chevette.

I had a hatch, but only a 1256

EJX 675Y My first car

[Range Rover Blues]

OMG, Sunbeam Lotus :shock:

Rare as rocking nnhorse poo with hen's teeth in it.

[gtomo2]

OMG, Sunbeam Lotus :shock:

Rare as rocking nnhorse poo with hen's teeth in it.

Yea a fantastic car you could just throw it at a bend and it would go around it with the back end hanging out nice. Plus it was fast it had a skip brown motors engine rebuild.

[Range Rover Blues]

Funnily I know at least 3 people who have had on, Rich has had a couple and regretts selling them I know, but you just don't see them anymore, at all.

[Dr Evil]

one for BTM