Talbot Samba Cabriolet
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SambaS said:
tgr said:
oh yes. I remember the tagora adverts...
Tried to buy a Tagora last week, was too late though the owner scrapped it - - and the scrapyard squashed it. I tried.
t.twazzock said:
I really don't understand why people do that. He must have known that by now it's a very rare car and that the only people looking to buy it would be enthusiasts more than willing to pay an OK price and keep it on the road for years to come. Why bother destroying a car when someone will pay you good money and cherish it like you did? Other than pure desperation for cash it reeks of being a tt.
Maybe he had no option, stored in somebody else's barn or land perhaps? Besides scrap metal values are high at the moment and car values low and you don't know how long he was trying to sell it for.t.CDP said:
Maybe he had no option, stored in somebody else's barn or land perhaps? Besides scrap metal values are high at the moment and car values low and you don't know how long he was trying to sell it for.
I know, hence the 'desperate for cash' bit. Don't know the story of the car obviously, but I imagine that a car like that, once made known to an owners club, will be snapped up VERY quickly. Regardless of the motives, it's a shame.I had a Samba Cabriolet back in the early 90's. Very cheap alternative to the 205 Cabriolet at the time. 1360cc & twin Webers = lots of torque steer.
I'm a huge fan of big French barges, Tagora, 604, XM, CX etc but they never sold well in the UK, depreciated badly, and very few survive.
Have a look on Leboncoin.com for some local French beauties ..
I'm a huge fan of big French barges, Tagora, 604, XM, CX etc but they never sold well in the UK, depreciated badly, and very few survive.
Have a look on Leboncoin.com for some local French beauties ..
twazzock said:
I know, hence the 'desperate for cash' bit. Don't know the story of the car obviously, but I imagine that a car like that, once made known to an owners club, will be snapped up VERY quickly. Regardless of the motives, it's a shame.
Well this makes it more annoying actually the club were made aware of the car in November last year. People viewed it but no one committed. Btw I am now to my regret not signed up. I found out of the cars existance last week and rang the owner straight up to be told it was scrapped. Ive wanted one for yearsSambaS said:
Yea I was gutted as was the owner who really wanted it saved. Would have fit right in with my 80s stuff. However I did think one beige car might be enough! 
One Beige car is never enough!Great Samba, have come very close to taking the plunge a few times,either that or a Solara as me old man had one of them.
sort of off topic but related, I was hoping someone could tell me, do people love these cars because they were actually good, or because they were a bit rubbish but kinda quirky and interesting?
I'm not trolling and am genuinely interested as my only experience of talbot was a rotten old hatchback that was sat at my friends house for a while before the scrap man took it away, and as such I always regarded them as being in the same category as Skoda and Lada.
educate me PH
ETA: slightly more on topic, but the samba has a look of peugeot 205 about it... is this a coincidence? (like i said, i know absolutely nothing about Talbot cars. I couldnt even tell you which country they hail from; I always assumed they were east european like the Skodas and Ladas I mentally categorised them with)
I'm not trolling and am genuinely interested as my only experience of talbot was a rotten old hatchback that was sat at my friends house for a while before the scrap man took it away, and as such I always regarded them as being in the same category as Skoda and Lada.
educate me PH
ETA: slightly more on topic, but the samba has a look of peugeot 205 about it... is this a coincidence? (like i said, i know absolutely nothing about Talbot cars. I couldnt even tell you which country they hail from; I always assumed they were east european like the Skodas and Ladas I mentally categorised them with)
Edited by deadtom on Friday 24th February 19:09
0a said:
It'll need a total suspension rebuild and probably a new dash, rear seatbacks and parcel shelf. The place it's from is a right sthole, too.deadtom said:
ETA: slightly more on topic, but the samba has a look of peugeot 205 about it... is this a coincidence? (like i said, i know absolutely nothing about Talbot cars. I couldnt even tell you which country they hail from; I always assumed they were east european like the Skodas and Ladas I mentally categorised them with)
The Talbot Samba is essentially a Peugeot 104 shortcut (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talbot_S... ) and was the basis for the Peugeot 205 and Citroen VISA, using many of the same components. This makes parts available and, most importantly, cheap. There’s a buyers guide at: http://www.clubpeugeotuk.org/articles/peugeot_104_...Edited by deadtom on Friday 24th February 19:09
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