Is it wrong that i want this?
Is it wrong that i want this?
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ChrisRS

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1,787 posts

246 months

Shaw Tarse

31,888 posts

232 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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Yes it is!
But I like it too!

Benbay001

5,892 posts

186 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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Land Rover Hearse?

gareth.e

2,071 posts

218 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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yes.

joncon

1,515 posts

252 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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such a cool car !!

LooneyTunes

9,391 posts

187 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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Benbay001 said:
Land Rover Hearse?
Reminds me more of the Popemobile...

vrooom

3,763 posts

296 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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that car used be every where in early / late 80's !!!!

Iwantoneofthose

355 posts

221 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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I am a fan of these too.
Dutton made something similar in it's 'Sierra'. I know... I had one!


note: not mine, but similar ^^^

Fleckers

2,880 posts

230 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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bamberwell

1,266 posts

191 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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they were bloody terrible cars, look kind of retro cool but they're st

sassanach0

217 posts

261 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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this must be the only one on the planet that isn't rotted out!!!

ChrisRS

Original Poster:

1,787 posts

246 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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Somewhere in the loft i have a corgi or matchbox toy version in yellow

MrMoonyMan

2,702 posts

240 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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Awesome want.

Remember one of these used to park round the corner from my parents house when I was 10. Thought it looked brilliant and just the sort of thing they should get.

Looking back it now I appreciate it may well be horrible to drive, but I still think it looks cool! smokin

Busa_Rush

6,930 posts

280 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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joncon said:
such a cool car !!
Really ? Do I live in a parallel universe ? smile

They couldn't give them way when they were new, used ones were always just a few hundred pounds. They came rusty from the factory, the petrol engines had the noise and smoothness of a diesel but the fuel economy of a petrol engine twice its size.

They were horrible edifices on wheels, handled like a wardrobe on stilts and came in some horrible colours with the naffest spotlight available on any vehicle.

Give me a Morris Marina or an Austin Maxi or even a landcrab any day over this thing smile

bamberwell

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191 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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Busa_Rush said:
Really ? Do I live in a parallel universe ? smile

They couldn't give them way when they were new, used ones were always just a few hundred pounds. They came rusty from the factory, the petrol engines had the noise and smoothness of a diesel but the fuel economy of a petrol engine twice its size.

They were horrible edifices on wheels, handled like a wardrobe on stilts and came in some horrible colours with the naffest spotlight available on any vehicle.

Give me a Morris Marina or an Austin Maxi or even a landcrab any day over this thing smile
+1!!!!!!

Scuffers

20,887 posts

303 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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Fleckers said:
no st!

they were a pile of ste new...

Talbot Horizon with a plastic body bolted on.

RedWhiteMonkey

9,119 posts

211 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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Saw this at a motor show in Stuttgart in March




Ten Ninety

244 posts

205 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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ChrisRS said:
Somewhere in the loft i have a corgi or matchbox toy version in yellow
As a small boy, I had a green die-cast Rancho. It had the opening tailgate, little plastic spotlights and everything. I loved it. And it is unequivocally still a genuinely cool car, especially for those of us of a certain age. Irrespective of how rubbish it might be as a means of transport, there are far worse ways of spending £4k on a car.

Mind you, I have a brown Allegro estate in my fantasy garage which probably tells you everything you need to know about my application of 'taste' to motor vehicles.

Thanks for posting though. Made me smile. smile

Busa_Rush

6,930 posts

280 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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Ten Ninety said:
there are far worse ways of spending £4k on a car.
Such as ? smile I can't think of anything you could buy which would immediately rape you for at least 75% of what you paid and leave yellow lines of rust on your drive ! And your wife certainly wouldn't want on be seen in it either smile


perdu

4,885 posts

228 months

Monday 2nd May 2011
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Busa_Rush said:
Ten Ninety said:
there are far worse ways of spending £4k on a car.
Such as ? smile I can't think of anything you could buy which would immediately rape you for at least 75% of what you paid and leave yellow lines of rust on your drive ! And your wife certainly wouldn't want on be seen in it either smile
These were the most fragile horrible pieces of doodah I ever had the misfortune of working on as a breakdown patrol, back in the day

The plastic used to fall off the interior

And the exterior used to rust off the plastic bits outside

The tappets could be heard from two miles away on a tediously awful French engine

They were distinctive though

Strangely interesting nowadays too...

but really

HOW MUCH?

eek

Ouch I almost want it

almost