Ordinary Cars That Have Disappeared Off The Radar

[pistonfoot]

"Was thinking I had not seen many Alfa Romeo GTV's until I saw 2 today !"..................

.....still a good excuse to post my daily driver!

[Downward]

Going on about the Volvo

[//j17]

Keeping it Vulva been a while since I've seen a 480...

[Gunk]

I saw a clean 480ES last week and thought exactly the same, a very rare sight these days.

[grumpy52]

When did you last see a Yugo ?
or a FSO
any Talbot (Samba,Horizon,Tagora)?

[Gunk]

Renault 20/30, not seen one for at least a decade.

[IroningMan]

I followed an Austin Ambassador through Bruton the other day - it was even in the requisite Hearing Aid Beige.

Now I think of it, my parents' and grandparents' car history reads like a Who's Who of vanished motoring ordinariness:

Hillman Imp - pale blue
Sunbeam Rapier - metallic blue
Hillman Minx - pale green
Hillman Hunter - dark red
Hillman Hunter Estate - white
Fiat 132 - burgundy
Vauxhall Chevette - pale blue
Chrysler Horizon - blue
Chrysler Alpine - early one, with the reverse-slope headlights, in bright orange.
Bedford CF Camper - white
Datsun 180 Estate - mustard yellow
Datsun 280 Saloon - red
Peugeot 305 Estate - red
Rover 216 - blue
Vauxhall Cavalier Mk 3 - white

Plus a Triumph 2500 and a Rover P4 that have a bit more of a following.

[Gunk]

Rover 800, once the middle managers favourite company car, now a rare sight.

[dinkel]

Gunk said:

Renault 20/30, not seen one for at least a decade.

That was a superb car.

[Vanin]

Where's B'stard Child and his Monzas?

[LanceRS]

TooMany2cvs said:

Gunk said:

These used to be everywhere, can't remember the last time I saw one on the road. From memory they had very nice velour Recaros

My mother had one of those new, back in the day, after writing her Cavalier SportsHatch off. Black, A920XHL.

Always loved these, never see one outside a show now and even then they are rare. A friend of mine had the 1.6 SR as his first car, to my mind looked even better. He replaced it with a Nova SR, when did anyone see one of those?

[dudleybloke]

Not seen a PT Cruiser or Peugeot 1007 in a while.

[FiF]

Peugeot 1007, see one every day, our plumber's son has one, given free when his G'MA gave up driving, immaculate nick. I think they were never very common in the first place so perhaps not an everyday car?

Edited by FiF on Thursday 18th February 08:59

[TooMany2cvs]

dudleybloke said:

Not seen a PT Cruiser or Peugeot 1007 in a while.

And, right on cue, an FB friend posted a PT Cruiser needing a home last night... Tidy, but dead autobox, £100.

If anybody's daft enough, I can put you in touch...

[Hugh Jarse]

dead boring but £1k for a rarity thats a quite handy second car, not seen for donkey's years.
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C657958

[anothernameitist]

My first car!

[orb666]

Well this is my daily driver, I've not seen another in the year I've owned it. They didnt sell that well over here when new (too expensive), they built less than 400 in RHD and as far as I can ascertain there are about 6 left in the UK





Orb

[Gunk]

anothernameitist said:

My first car!

Mine was a 1974 Renault 5TL, another car that's completely disappeared from the roads.

[stuttgartmetal]

andyps said:

Keep it stiff said:

How about the Volvo 343? My mother had one in a rather dull mustard/yellow.I think I'm correct in saying that the 343 was Volvo's first attempt to get into the small car market and was the output from their acquisition of Daf.

I think it was preceded by the Volvo 66 as that was already a Daf production vehicle before the takeover, although I may be wrong on the dates:

as fast in forward, as reverse

Edited by stuttgartmetal on Thursday 18th February 16:02

[FiF]

And with the 6 volt headlights you could see as well to the rear as to the front.