Cars you didn't know existed...

[tali1]

E36Ross said:

Mitsubishi Chariot Resort Runner GT,
Evo running gear... 4wd and 230bhp.

My mate's

[morgrp]

Hugo a Gogo said:

ToothbrushMan said:

i seem to recall that the subaru impreza took a while to gain any interest from car enthusiasts so was off the radar and id certainly not heard of it until the mags picked up on it. they would have us believe these cars were mainly owned by farmers but would they have really had 2 litre turbo bonnet scooped bewinged saloons or wagons down on the farm?

Subarus were popular in the dales in the 80s long before the Impreza and before Colin McRae, Gran Turismo etc made them popular
WRX only came out a few years into the Impreza production too

From Memory, the first truly fast Subaru I remember was the Legacy 4cam Turbo - Much like the Impreza it was something of a rally weapon in it's day:

[Halmyre]

morgrp said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

ToothbrushMan said:

i seem to recall that the subaru impreza took a while to gain any interest from car enthusiasts so was off the radar and id certainly not heard of it until the mags picked up on it. they would have us believe these cars were mainly owned by farmers but would they have really had 2 litre turbo bonnet scooped bewinged saloons or wagons down on the farm?

Subarus were popular in the dales in the 80s long before the Impreza and before Colin McRae, Gran Turismo etc made them popular
WRX only came out a few years into the Impreza production too

From Memory, the first truly fast Subaru I remember was the Legacy 4cam Turbo - Much like the Impreza it was something of a rally weapon in it's day:

They rarely looked so pristine in Mr McRae's hands...

[Eviltad]

Halmyre said:

morgrp said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

ToothbrushMan said:

i seem to recall that the subaru impreza took a while to gain any interest from car enthusiasts so was off the radar and id certainly not heard of it until the mags picked up on it. they would have us believe these cars were mainly owned by farmers but would they have really had 2 litre turbo bonnet scooped bewinged saloons or wagons down on the farm?

Subarus were popular in the dales in the 80s long before the Impreza and before Colin McRae, Gran Turismo etc made them popular
WRX only came out a few years into the Impreza production too

From Memory, the first truly fast Subaru I remember was the Legacy 4cam Turbo - Much like the Impreza it was something of a rally weapon in it's day:

They rarely looked so pristine in Mr McRae's hands...

Yup, that's how I remember them.

[ncbbmw]

Abbott said:

RSteve said:

Spotted on eBay via Northern Retro FB group..
'1981 JAGUAR XJ 4.2 LADBROKE AVON'
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/232224470298?rmvSB=true&am...

It's a hearse, Shirley

Certainly not a hearse, Ladbroke Avon was a well known body shop Based in Millers Road Warwick. I visited them many times in the late 70's early 80's and remember seeing the Avon Estate's being built, They didn't look too good even then, the Roof line just doesn't look right in my view.

They also took the roof off a few XJC's

http://www.simoncars.co.uk/jaguar/avonjags.html

They were a large bodyshop and they accident repaired cars production line style, the building was long and thin, cars went in the back door, passed through the strip down bay, into repair, paint oven and out the other side into trim refit and final prep, from there out the front door onto the road.

http://www.simoncars.co.uk/coachwork/avon.html

http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/cars/jaguar/xj4/av...

Edited by ncbbmw on Thursday 9th February 00:14

[exelero]

Cliftonite said:

That's a Trabant 601, but probably on other badge, Trabant was an interesting car, made of paper which was leaking and rusting as well

[Hugo a Gogo]

exelero said:

That's a Trabant 601, but probably on other badge, Trabant was an interesting car, made of paper which was leaking and rusting as well

No, it's a Lloyd, made in Bremen (there was a UK Lloyd car company too, no relation)
made of metal, but very early Lloyds were made of wood and fabric

Trabant was made of plastic, similar to bakelite, made from waste from dye industry with waste cotton fibres in it

not paper or cardboard

[Jimmy Recard]

Yes, that's a Lloyd. Obscure little company

[Hugo a Gogo]

they were very successful in the post-war era in Germany, number 3 behind VW and Opel

[Jimmy Recard]

Hugo a Gogo said:

they were very successful in the post-war era in Germany, number 3 behind VW and Opel

I didn't know they sold so well. Not obscure in its day then (at least to Germans)

[Abbott]

Saw one of these in Paris tonight.
http://www.polaris.com/en-us/slingshot/slingshot-s...

[Alpaca]

Jazzy Jag said:

well, I never...

Likewise...there's a convertible Micra of this shape down my way.

[Wills2]

Doofus said:

Hugh Jarse said:

I was ten years old.

So was I, there or thereabouts. I was just surprised, without any real reason. I just kind of assumed that if you've heard of a 924, you've heard of a 924 turbo.

Do you know of the 924 Carrera GT?



That's a turbo too

This is turning into the "cars you should have known existed" thread.

[Willy Nilly]

Saw an Audi Q2 at the weekend. WTF? I assume it's a Fabia on stilts.

[kambites]

Willy Nilly said:

Saw an Audi Q2 at the weekend. WTF? I assume it's a Fabia on stilts.

More like a Kodiaq, if you must make such comparisons; it's MQB based.

[Hugh Jarse]

Karmann Ghia meets the Jetsons

[MarshPhantom]

rohrl said:

RSteve said:

Spotted on eBay via Northern Retro FB group..
'1981 JAGUAR XJ 4.2 LADBROKE AVON'

Jesus christ those proportions are awful.

You could imagine seeing the Munsters driving around in it.

[nicanary]

Hugh Jarse said:

Karmann Ghia meets the Jetsons

Sold in the UK as an Auto Union.

[shakotan]

exelero said:

Cliftonite said:

That's a Trabant 601, but probably on other badge, Trabant was an interesting car, made of paper which was leaking and rusting as well

It looks a 'bit' like a 601 if you squint, but the Trabant was much squarer.

[rohrl]

Mercedes-Benz X-class pickup