More cars you didn't know existed...

[ajprice]

MightyBadger said:

ajprice said:

Toyota Curren. A JDM version of the 1994 Celica (the 4 headlights model), but 2 door and with a different front and rear end.

They were all two door?

Celica hatchback boot - 3 door
Curren saloon boot- 2 door

[rodericb]

ajprice said:

MightyBadger said:

ajprice said:

Toyota Curren. A JDM version of the 1994 Celica (the 4 headlights model), but 2 door and with a different front and rear end.

They were all two door?

Celica hatchback boot - 3 door
Curren saloon boot- 2 door

Celica run as "liftback" (hatchback) and "notchback" (your saloon boot) for quite a few years. I looked at the Wikipedia article which says the "booted" variant was produced until 1999. Toyota run a number of brandings across the retail network in Japan and the Curren was made for one of them. We did get the boot versions of the Celicas here in Australia as well as the liftback.

[ajprice]

rodericb said:

Celica run as "liftback" (hatchback) and "notchback" (your saloon boot) for quite a few years. I looked at the Wikipedia article which says the "booted" variant was produced until 1999. Toyota run a number of brandings across the retail network in Japan and the Curren was made for one of them. We did get the boot versions of the Celicas here in Australia as well as the liftback.

Maybe I went too specific to the Celica. All I meant was a 3 door is a hatchback or 'liftback' boot, a 2 door is a saloon or notchback boot.

[MightyBadger]

ajprice said:

Maybe I went too specific to the Celica. All I meant was a 3 door is a hatchback or 'liftback' boot, a 2 door is a saloon or notchback boot.

2 door coupe with liftback for the Gen 6 Celica., but yes I agree.

Enjoyed mine, was a fun car.

[yellowjack]

Not sure if it's already been mentioned, but a period photograph of this...



...popped up on my Instagram feed last night.

The photo in question...


Designed by aeronautical engineer (airships mainly), WW1 naval officer, weapons and munitions inventor/developer, Baronet, and sometime Tory MP Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamline_Cars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennistoun_Burney

ETA:

Youtube has some British Pathe newsreel footage of the car(s) in motion (although it had no sound when I played it)...

Edited by yellowjack on Thursday 28th April 11:06

[seefarr]

I found a classic car shop in Delft that will rent you "Old Timers" for a day. They had a DAF 66 which was a cute little thing I'd never heard of before. Sadly they have a CVT gearbox for some reason.

[eldar]

DAF also had a model, imaginatively called the Daffodil.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAF_Daffodil

[Fast Bug]

seefarr said:

I found a classic car shop in Delft that will rent you "Old Timers" for a day. They had a DAF 66 which was a cute little thing I'd never heard of before. Sadly they have a CVT gearbox for some reason.

Mum had 3 or 4 DAF's when I was a kid. Useless fact of the day is they can go as fast in reverse as they can going forwards

[Mr Peel]

That DAF 66 with a manual box and a bit of power. Imagine

[Matt Cup]

Fast Bug said:

seefarr said:

I found a classic car shop in Delft that will rent you "Old Timers" for a day. They had a DAF 66 which was a cute little thing I'd never heard of before. Sadly they have a CVT gearbox for some reason.

Mum had 3 or 4 DAF's when I was a kid. Useless fact of the day is they can go as fast in reverse as they can going forwards

Which is probably why they were used for reverse racing in Holland.

[21st Century Man]

I think the phrase is "Those crazy Dutch!"

I took one in PX once, they do indeed go just as fast backwards as forwards.

[droopsnoot]

Mr Peel said:

That DAF 66 with a manual box and a bit of power. Imagine

Like this?

https://www.autosport.com/general/news/daf-v8-supe...

[austinsmirk]

Didn’t they also kill a number of people : working on them, up on axle stands. They start car and it’s flying off backwards at full tilt ? I’m sure that’s not an urban myth.

[witteringon]

yellowjack said:

Not sure if it's already been mentioned, but a period photograph of this...



...popped up on my Instagram feed last night.

The photo in question...


Designed by aeronautical engineer (airships mainly), WW1 naval officer, weapons and munitions inventor/developer, Baronet, and sometime Tory MP Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamline_Cars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennistoun_Burney

ETA:

Youtube has some British Pathe newsreel footage of the car(s) in motion (although it had no sound when I played it)...

Edited by yellowjack on Thursday 28th April 11:06

The (1929) Austin Seven alongside the Burney in the photo seemingly has survived, according to the Austin Seven Clubs Association Chassis Register, still with its original registration number! It is, however, listed as a 'special', so is likely to have been re-bodied at some point in its 93 years.

Edited by witteringon on Thursday 28th April 19:38

[rodericb]

seefarr said:

I found a classic car shop in Delft that will rent you "Old Timers" for a day. They had a DAF 66 which was a cute little thing I'd never heard of before. Sadly they have a CVT gearbox for some reason.

IIRC, the CVT was the DAF USP.

[F1GTRUeno]

rodericb said:

seefarr said:

I found a classic car shop in Delft that will rent you "Old Timers" for a day. They had a DAF 66 which was a cute little thing I'd never heard of before. Sadly they have a CVT gearbox for some reason.

IIRC, the CVT was the DAF USP.

Including putting one in a pair of FW15 test cars for Williams in 1993.

[Cold]

rodericb said:

IIRC, the CVT was the DAF USP.

ISWYDT.

[randomeddy]

That reverse DAF racing is hilarious.

[Leins]

1990 Maserati Racing. Still under the 2L tax rules for Italy, using a 24v twin-turbo V6 for 283hp

[Mammasaid]

Cold said:

rodericb said:

IIRC, the CVT was the DAF USP.

ISWYDT.

Isn't reverse racing a Daf a bit of a Fad?