Post your favourite forgotton 70/80's car when you were younger!!! - Page 3

Rogue Wave · 14 August 2007, 08:32

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Originally Posted by BigFella

Had a Lancia Beta HPE VolumeX similar to this:

- boy did that supercharger make a lovely noise and she used to motor along pretty well

Mind you it rusted nearly as fast as it accelerated

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They were sweet cars. nippy little mothers...Unfortunately mine was the only car I have ever crashed. ouch! It was only 3 months old.

Re rust I have a Delta HF turbo that has been disintegrating for the last 3 years I need to do something about...like scrap

I am surrised that considering how bad they are at rusting and how good they are at motoring that nobody makes a kit car based on a Delta. C'mon Codders tell me thay do make an old man happy!

Ciao

codprawn · 14 August 2007, 10:59

Don't know I am afraid. However there is one STUNNING kit car that uses somne Lancia and ALfa engines - the Stratos.

http://www.hawkcars.co.uk/hf3000/index.html

Nauti Buoy · 14 August 2007, 11:59

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Originally Posted by Biggles

Andy,

How on earth could you get in and out of a mini

Nick.

I'd imagine a bit like the scene in a certain Police Academy film.

Hightower · 14 August 2007, 15:30

I nealy bought a Lancia Fulvia 1.3 V4 (very quick car for the engine size and was rallied to)......Till common sence prevailed

Limey Linda · 14 August 2007, 17:21

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Originally Posted by Hightower

I nealy bought a Lancia Fulvia 1.3 V4 (very quick car for the engine size and was rallied to)......Till common sence prevailed

I remember those. The most off putting thing was the name Fulvia. Sounded like a vaginal deoderant.

mdt · 14 August 2007, 18:04

this is one of the Italian cars from the 80's I would have in that dream garage...

and before you all start I know it is only a Alfa 75 in a party dress but it still looks

codprawn · 14 August 2007, 22:29

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Originally Posted by mdt

this is one of the Italian cars from the 80's I would have in that dream garage...

and before you all start I know it is only a Alfa 75 in a party dress but it still looks

Nothing wrong with a 75 - still have mine!!! When that Alfa SZ first came out I thought it was hideous but it has grown on me a lot since then - I think it was just way ahead of it's time which reminds me....

codprawn · 14 August 2007, 22:32

Anyone remember the Talbot Matra Rancho? Probably the World's first "softroader". Eat your heart out Rav 4!!!

It was way ahead of it's time but sadly not even a 4x4 - then again how many people who own such vehicles ever need it?

Biggles · 14 August 2007, 22:36

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Anyone remember the Talbot Matra Rancho? Probably the World's first "softroader". Eat your heart out Rav 4!!!

It was way ahead of it's time but sadly not even a 4x4 - then again how many people who own such vehicles ever need it?

Had a friend with one. Bit darker orange than that. Good looking vehicle for its day.

Heres a better looking one.

ian parkes · 14 August 2007, 23:00

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Golf GTI , I have owned many of the cars taked about there but only more than one golf .
Sorry I lied had 2 minis and 2 alfsuds .

wish I still had my last golf the last of the Mark 1 campaign model with the P slot alloys .
also had a tuned scirocco with full bilstien suspension it would get both needles on the stop peaking at about 130 mph .
Never really had a dream car only a dream bike GPZ900r brand new in 84 no car could get near that for me .

Dirk Diggler · 14 August 2007, 23:02

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Originally Posted by mdt

this is one of the Italian cars from the 80's I would have in that dream garage...

and before you all start I know it is only a Alfa 75 in a party dress but it still looks

I bought an RZ a few years ago, in a moment of madness from the maserati dealer in Lyndhust on the way home from the boat jumble. it was great to drive, but not the greatest build quality. Road holding was superb, and the engine had a lovely sound to it. Wife hated it, so i sold it to a pal who has cherished it for the last 8 years!

ian parkes · 14 August 2007, 23:30

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Originally Posted by Biggles

Had a friend with one. Bit darker orange than that. Good looking vehicle for its day.

Heres a better looking one.

more like remember the old Simca with super rattly tappets , thats all it was with a fibreglass body , they fell apart very quickly complete crock of sh**

Biggles · 15 August 2007, 00:30

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Originally Posted by ian parkes

they fell apart very quickly complete crock of sh**

That would aptly describe nearly all 80's cars.

And for those that love BMW's I remember the 2002. An ugly mother. In fact looks very much like an Austin.

Biggles · 15 August 2007, 00:33

Is this the most infamous car of the 70's ?

Biggles · 15 August 2007, 00:36

And the most loved !

ian parkes · 15 August 2007, 00:40

quote biggles "That would aptly describe nearly all 80's cars."

quite true actually , exept for the german offerings most fell apart . But that rancho was probably worse than the crapest scoda of that time . I used to work as a mechanic in a "pugshit talbot stealers" at the time and it was the joke car amongst the mechanics .
we used to drive them into the workshop and just rev them at the door , thay would rattle like hell and all the other guys used to fall about laughing . Thay also made the Matra Simca Bagheera if memory serves correct , again with the rattling simca engine , that was nearly as bad but did kind of look the part .
How i used to hate working on that french junk. It was as if they looked for ways to make things difficult .

Biggles · 15 August 2007, 00:50

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Originally Posted by ian parkes

It was as if they looked for ways to make things difficult .

And French cars haven't changed ?

Everyone seems to copy them nowadays in the difficulty stakes but the French still seem masters of awkwardness. And the repair costs that are associated with that awkwardness.

Not quite that exclusive as Nautibouy and his £200 + front light bulb change on his Land Rover recently.

codprawn · 15 August 2007, 02:05

All new cars are going that way. With the new Astra if you blow a headlight bulb it's no good just changing it - still won't work - you have to have the computer "reset" by the dealer!!! I don't know why the EU are allowing such blatant rip offs to happen.

Limey Linda · 15 August 2007, 02:58

Oh,you mean disconnecting the battery for a min. and then reconnecting.
Stop blaming the EU for everthing. I agree it sucks. but the British public supported it so "you make your bed and lie in it". Blow up the Chunnel, separated from the EU and go back to being a free trading nation. As you can see I saw the writing on the wall 25 years ago. What a shame for a once proud Nation that has turned into a bunch of whiners with no sense of personal responsibilty.

Rant over.
T.

mdt · 15 August 2007, 07:18

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Originally Posted by ian parkes

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Golf GTI ,

ahh but seeing as how all this was about FORGOTTON cars from the 70/80's the MK1 can not be coverd... as you can't forget this, can you?

They are truly amassing wee cars, and I think that is a theme that is going on in this thread all the cars we have enjoyed in the past have been light and simple and that is something missing from nearly all of today's cars the new Golf GTI is almost twice the weight of the old MK1.