Pointless & impractical vehicles

[DRM]

For those who don't know if they are coming or going

Not the Ford Push Me Pull You contraption, it's the Leyland Truck that looks like a Morris Oxford was dropped on it from a great height
Edit having looked closely I think it's an Austin Westminster, it probably has a better MPG using the lorries running gear/engine

 

[Gwylan]

Not the Ford Push Me Pull You contraption, it's the Leyland Truck that looks like a Morris Oxford was dropped on it from a great height
Edit having looked closely I think it's an Austin Westminster, it probably has a better MPG using the lorries running gear/engine

I'm in error mode. It's an expensive additional mode that Leyland failed to commercialise properly

 

[PeteXXX]

It moves, too 😂

 

[Gunk]

 

[classic33]

 

[Gunk]

Have we had this one yet?

 

[Drago]

Have we had this one yet?

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Yes, see one on the open road some years ago. Half a dozen odd made.

There are one or two slightly different ones in green, superficially similar, but made by someone else.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Have we had this one yet?

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I seem to remember one in Beaulieu Motor Museum, from a lot of years ago

 

[classic33]

 

[Reynard]

The bottom one is much like many "wedge" concept cars from the 1970s. They're all a take on the Alfa Romeo Carabo that was designed in 1968 by Marcello Gandini (Studio Bertone). I've always adored the Carabo since I ran across a feature on it in one of my dad's classic car mags in the late 80s. Not sure I'd get a fortnight's worth of groceries or two cat carriers plus show kit in one, though LOL!

 

[classic33]

 

[classic33]

 

[classic33]

What the one above looks like on the road.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

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The builder also made a brilliant 2-door coupe & a 'Ute'

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/man-who-built-rover-75-coupe

 

[Beebo]

This popped into my YouTube feed.
I presume it has safety implications as the door area would be very weak.


View: https://youtu.be/AAtkoje4-eM?si=hqOGXfXc_6gkt3Gl