Rare editions of normal hatchbacks
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Proo freader said:
Not sure how many of those they made?
The later 104 ZS 2 was limited to just 1000. It used the 1.4 XY engine , I think on the same twin 35 solex side draught carbs which the rallye used (but on the older 1.1 unit). Just over 90hp, certainly not shabby.
The later Talbot Samba, which was essentially the same car as the 104 had a Rallye special edition of which I think only 500 were made. This had an even more special engine, being a 1.2 version of the XY but on twin 40 Weber side draught carbs. The same engine was used in the limited Citroen Visa Trophe model (with a different cam) which was the first group B rally car officially produced.
Black Limited version of the AE86 Toyota Corolla, also one of my grail cars. It was their roll out model, in black, but a lot of gold bits. It even had a gold LCD clock when pretty much every other Toyota with that clock (for 15+ years) was in green.
Nice write up of the differences here
Nice write up of the differences here
Missy Charm said:
J4CKO said:
Nissan Cherry Europe and Alfa Romeo Arna, a weird combo of Nissan Sunny body and Alfa mechanicals.
Lancia Y10 been mentioned, there was a Y10 "Fila" which is the sportswear the more "popular" girls at school wore, along with Kappa, usually replete with fag burns.
In the US you could get a versions of the Chrysler Horizon, a dumpy early eighties hatch, called the Dodge Omni in a Shelby variant called the GLH-S so instead of some Simca 1.3 50 bhp pushrod rattle box thing like we got they got a 2.2 turbo with 175 bhp.
The Shelby GLS-H isn't, in fact, a Talbot Horizon. I wrote a piece about it on the AutosLancia Y10 been mentioned, there was a Y10 "Fila" which is the sportswear the more "popular" girls at school wore, along with Kappa, usually replete with fag burns.
In the US you could get a versions of the Chrysler Horizon, a dumpy early eighties hatch, called the Dodge Omni in a Shelby variant called the GLH-S so instead of some Simca 1.3 50 bhp pushrod rattle box thing like we got they got a 2.2 turbo with 175 bhp.
te forum:The Dodge Omni, which that Shelby is a variant of, isn't actually a Talbot Horizon. But it also is, in typical Chrysler fashion. In the seventies American Chrysler needed a small car to replace their Hillman Avenger captive import, which had been sold in the States as the Plymouth Cricket, so looked to the European arm again. They alighted on the then new Anglo-French Talbot/Simca/Chrysler Horizon and took the design back across the Atlantic.
The car design underwent significant changes Stateside to federalise various bits and pieces, as well as fitment of conventional strut suspension at the front and a range of different engines including the American 2.2 that became the basis of the powerplant in the Shelby GLSH pictured. The bodywork was altered in all sorts of ways to accommodate the American bits, which resulted in a car that was almost completely different to the European original yet looked almost exactly the same. One has to wonder about corporate operations, sometimes.
Could the Shelby have worked over here? No reason it shouldn't have, other than that we've never taken to large displacement four cylinder engines and the lack of spares support for the 2.2. The American Omni was also not engineered for RHD, presumably, as there was no reason to do so. It's also likely that the car would have had to have been 'de-federalised', as we wouldn't have accepted certain of the US foibles, such as sealed beam headlights, the cars over there ended up with; such a process would have entailed making special bits for it, as the European Horizon body panels were changed to fit federal bumpers, meaning it would be unlikely that Euro type bumpers would bolt onto the American car.
Ashtray83 said:
Terminator X said:
Golf Rally(e)?
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TX.
I too see your Rallye and I’ll raise you a G60 limited 16v g60, [Img]https://www.sarocosentino.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Golf-Rallye-7.jpeg[/thumb]
TX.
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thiscocks said:
Proo freader said:
Not sure how many of those they made?The later 104 ZS 2 was limited to just 1000. It used the 1.4 XY engine , I think on the same twin 35 solex side draught carbs which the rallye used (but on the older 1.1 unit). Just over 90hp, certainly not shabby.
The later Talbot Samba, which was essentially the same car as the 104 had a Rallye special edition of which I think only 500 were made. This had an even more special engine, being a 1.2 version of the XY but on twin 40 Weber side draught carbs. The same engine was used in the limited Citroen Visa Trophe model (with a different cam) which was the first group B rally car officially produced.
Wouldn’t say they were particularly fast but they were great, great cars. I should know I had two and my brother also had a black one as his first car…
Toyota Starlet SR. Huge TTE exhaust and spoiler along with 15” Speedlines as standard. For a 17/18yr old it was mega as it looked modified but wasn’t.
Edited to add - In Japan they did a 4wd version of the regular Starlet. Quite a few were imported to the UK and swapped out with the FTE Glanza or 5E Paseo engines. I can imagine a 250hp one of these with 4wd would be an absolute riot!
Toyota Starlet SR. Huge TTE exhaust and spoiler along with 15” Speedlines as standard. For a 17/18yr old it was mega as it looked modified but wasn’t.
Edited to add - In Japan they did a 4wd version of the regular Starlet. Quite a few were imported to the UK and swapped out with the FTE Glanza or 5E Paseo engines. I can imagine a 250hp one of these with 4wd would be an absolute riot!
Edited by Turkish91 on Friday 29th July 00:18
Edited by Turkish91 on Friday 29th July 00:19
Turkish91 said:
Ashtray83 said:
When I saw that Rear engine turbo golf in the Rallye reply I came here to post this. My mrs next door neighbour has a Limited! 
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