Cars you didn't know existed...

[mickyc79]

This popped up on a gumtree search for cheap cars....

https://www.gumtree.com/p/isuzu/isuzu-piazza-turbo...

Rear wheel drive, lotus tuned suspension, turbo, 80's coupe....£995 doesn't seem too steep considering what you would pay for an AE-86 or similar.

Edited by mickyc79 on Thursday 26th April 09:16

[Hugo a Gogo]

I had no idea that they were RWD....

[Butter Face]

Colleague of mine had one back in 2012, very cool and interesting car.

That one looks a bit rough!

[shakotan]

Butter Face said:

Colleague of mine had one back in 2012, very cool and interesting car.

That one looks a bit rough!

Mostly died off because folks rob the LSD rear axle out of them as they are a bolt-in upgrade to older Vauxhalls.

[forzaminardi]

mickyc79 said:

This popped up on a gumtree search for cheap cars....

https://www.gumtree.com/p/isuzu/isuzu-piazza-turbo...

Rear wheel drive, lotus tuned suspension, turbo, 80's coupe....£995 doesn't seem too steep considering what you would pay for an AE-86 or similar.

Edited by mickyc79 on Thursday 26th April 09:16

I remember back in about 1988/89, as a schoolboy living near Glasgow, regularly seeing a red one of these and thinking "bah, it's an Isuzu, it must be st" but secretly being quite impressed by it. So now, almost 30 years later I click through to a Gumtree ad and find a red one for sale literally two miles away from where I lived in 1988, and where my mum and dad continue to live! Could this be the very car that, despite myself, I thought was pretty awesome?

[TallPaul]

Followed one of these today in London Village, assumed it was electric until I saw the badge on the side and Googled it.

[Ares]

TallPaul said:

Followed one of these today in London Village, assumed it was electric until I saw the badge on the side and Googled it.

"Police"?

I bet coppers today look back at garage sheet of 20/30 years ago, stuffed with Jag/Range Rovers/V8 Rovers/etc and just cry into their stab vests.

[Butter Face]

TallPaul said:

Followed one of these today in London Village, assumed it was electric until I saw the badge on the side and Googled it.

Eh? Am I missing something, It is electric?

[LuS1fer]

Ares said:

"Police"?

I bet coppers today look back at garage sheet of 20/30 years ago, stuffed with Jag/Range Rovers/V8 Rovers/etc and just cry into their stab vests.

Partly but I imagine a nearly silent stealthmobile is actually of far greater use.

[Ares]

LuS1fer said:

Ares said:

"Police"?

I bet coppers today look back at garage sheet of 20/30 years ago, stuffed with Jag/Range Rovers/V8 Rovers/etc and just cry into their stab vests.

Partly but I imagine a nearly silent stealthmobile is actually of far greater use.

...to sneak up on those dangerous criminals doing 34 in a 30? (or flicking the bird to a TrafPol?)

[TallPaul]

Butter Face said:

Eh? Am I missing something, It is electric?

Hydrogen fuel cell

[Butter Face]

TallPaul said:

Butter Face said:

Eh? Am I missing something, It is electric?

Hydrogen fuel cell

Ah yes.

[cptsideways]

What is this then, a picture on the wall at the JLR plant from the fifties

[Hugo a Gogo]

cptsideways said:

What is this then, a picture on the wall at the JLR plant from the fifties

a Rover jet turbine car
yes, really

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_JET1

[tr7v8]

What a lot of people don't realise is that Rover were doing Jet engine development & passed it all to Rolls Royce.

[Fast Bug]

There's one in the national science museum.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Fast Bug said:

There's one in the national science museum.

The same car, there was only one JET1

[Fast Bug]

I did wonder if there was only one or if they built a couple. My P4 jet beard skills are low

[StescoG66]

forzaminardi said:

mickyc79 said:

This popped up on a gumtree search for cheap cars....

https://www.gumtree.com/p/isuzu/isuzu-piazza-turbo...

Rear wheel drive, lotus tuned suspension, turbo, 80's coupe....£995 doesn't seem too steep considering what you would pay for an AE-86 or similar.

Edited by mickyc79 on Thursday 26th April 09:16

I remember back in about 1988/89, as a schoolboy living near Glasgow, regularly seeing a red one of these and thinking "bah, it's an Isuzu, it must be st" but secretly being quite impressed by it. So now, almost 30 years later I click through to a Gumtree ad and find a red one for sale literally two miles away from where I lived in 1988, and where my mum and dad continue to live! Could this be the very car that, despite myself, I thought was pretty awesome?

I take it you lived in either Torrance or Milton of Campsie?
I know this car - belongs to the chap that owns Campsie Coachworks in Lennoxtown. He sprayed my Sprint for me. Good guy :-)

[cptsideways]

Isuzu Pizza aka the Bedford Midi Coupe