Is it wrong that i want this?
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joncon said:
such a cool car !!
Really ? Do I live in a parallel universe ? 
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
Busa_Rush said:
Really ? Do I live in a parallel universe ?
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
+1!!!!!!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
Fleckers said:
ChrisRS said:
HOW MUCH ??????
t!they were a pile of s
te new...Talbot Horizon with a plastic body bolted on.
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.
Ten Ninety said:
there are far worse ways of spending £4k on a car.
Such as ? 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 Busa_Rush said:
Ten Ninety said:
there are far worse ways of spending £4k on a car.
Such as ? 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 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?
Ouch I almost want it
almost
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