Which Car Do You Remember with Affection from your Youth?

[Drago]

I do and guess what.

You fitted for Ford V4 to keep it alive?

 

[Illaveago]

Alvis Stalwart ! 6 wheel drive, 4 wheel steering and amphibious.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Mustn't forget my very own first car. This is what £185 would get you back in 1981:
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Forgot!!

This was at a local show, back in 2016


As was........... this.............

The first car I ever drove was a MKV Cortina in a field, aged about 12. It was a Ghia no less, nothing but the best for me
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There's one in a garage, partway between Wakefield, & Leeds, on the A61
I know the owner, & it may be the one he had in his early 20s
(same colour, & a Ghia)

Talking of Triumph..
The Triumph Acclaim..

Two, at a garage, at Featherstone (now gone)

 

[screenman]

You fitted for Ford V4 to keep it alive?

It was alive when I took it in p/ex, it went through Brentford auction a few days later, I was not going to take the chance on retailing it.

 

[Profpointy]

Alvis Stalwart ! 6 wheel drive, 4 wheel steering and amphibious.

Loved those as a kid and now. They just look like something off Thunderbirds. I guess I could sort of afford one now but realisticall parking it in the street won't be exactly neighbourly as well as the inevitable no mot phases likely with such a beast5

 

[Illaveago]

Loved those as a kid and now. They just look like something off Thunderbirds. I guess I could sort of afford one now but realisticall parking it in the street won't be exactly neighbourly as well as the inevitable no mot phases likely with such a beast5

No problems with floods and you could loads of bikes in the back.

 

[Dirk]

Anyone remember the NSU Ro80?

An old drag racing acquaintance of mine, Eamon Hurley, had quite a good business going, converting Ro 80s to Ford V4 & V6s.
Funnily enough he used supercharged Ro80 motors in his drag bike.

 

[Drago]

It was the Comotor engine. The tip seals were changed to a new material by 1971 which utterly solved the problem, but the reputational damage was done.

Citroen did a GS with the same engine. They only sold 800 or so, and bought them all back so they wouldn't have to keep manufacturing spares. The same engine t'was also used in the Van Been OCR motorbike, which cost more than a house.

 

[Dirk]

It was the Comotor engine. The tip seals were changed to a new material by 1971 which utterly solved the problem, but the reputational damage was done.

Citroen did a GS with the same engine. They only sold 800 or so, and bought them all back so they wouldn't have to keep manufacturing spares. The same engine t'was also used in the Van Been OCR motorbike, which cost more than a house.

Do you mean Van Veen?
I've ridden a Suzuki RE5 and a DKW Sachs, both rotaries. Very smooth.

 

[Drago]

I meant Van Veen, but Android decided it knew better.

 

[Levo-Lon]

The Datsun Cherry @Richard A Thackeray
Guy up the road had one same colour 2door.
He hit my Dad's Land Rover Safari at well under 30.the cherry was toast, propper wrecked the Safari was a quick lump hammer repair

 

[Drago]

A 7.5 tonne truck rear ended my Dad's olde Volvo 240 estate.

The truck was written off, the Volvo survived. That is a true story.

 

[Reynard]

As was........... this.............
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I had one of those Datsun 100A things as a Tonka Toy! Bright lime green, you pulled it back and it went. Still have it somewhere.

 

[slowmotion]

The original Panda was a great design. Seem to recall that it was designed to be mostly made of straight panels for economy. And of course the amount of metal was minimised. It had very good clearance underneath - I've been up some very tough off road tracks in a Panda. Tracks that would be impassable by many more modern cars because of their low skirts. You wouldn't want to go a very long way up a big road in one, particularly the 750cc one, but I still think it is a great car.

Oh, and congratulations Richard for getting an Italian one in.

apologies, it was @slowmotion

The windscreen was completely flat and it had a single wiper that could create quite a side swipe of water when you hit the screen wash switch. A particularly obnoxious convertible driver jumped a hundred yards of queuing traffic on a Friday afternoon and tried to nudge in front of me at a red light on the Chelsea Embankment. I noticed him out of the corner of my eye, stared straight ahead, and hit the wiper and screenwash. It probably saved him the cost of a shampoo.

BTW, this wasn't a stunt that you could pull very often. Pandas turned to rust at the faintest hint of moisture, despite all of Fiat's assurances about their improved bodywork protection.

 

[Reynard]

The windscreen was completely flat and it had a single wiper that could create quite a side swipe of water when you hit the screen wash switch. A particularly obnoxious convertible driver jumped a hundred yards of queuing traffic on a Friday afternoon and tried to nudge in front of me at a red light on the Chelsea Embankment. I noticed him out of the corner of my eye, stared straight ahead, and hit the wiper and screenwash. It probably saved him the cost of a shampoo.