Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2
Discussion
uk66fastback said:
Is that Merc black or some deeply dark winey red colour?
I'm going with a dark wine colour. DVLA has it as black...but the MOT history has it as Purple. Slightly amazing to see it's not been off the road long either, last passing an MOT 2 years ago in 2020 (and no mention of rust then! Plenty previous though).
Dr Interceptor said:
TonyRPH said:
That looks like a very rare Designo Almandine car - Almandine was discontinued in 1995, but bought back in 2000 for a special run out model. I think there were only 50 RHD cars.The Almandine colour discontinued in 95 was a totally different colour to what came back in the special edition
Original Almandine
Designo Almandine
Edited by Dapster on Tuesday 6th September 13:51
Levin said:
I think the person you're replying to might be Dutch, based on the username (though their English is impeccable). I believe the Sunbeam name was used for export.
Yes - the Netherlands. Also explains why I had never seen an Imp before in my life.A year later I had a holiday in the UK. The very first car my friends (who also were unaware Imps existed) and me saw on the docks in Dover was a Hillman Imp!
Rootes threw away a couple of makes on the continent, starting late sixties. I have a Dutch car magazine where the "Singer" Chamois was printed in the New Cars listings at the back of the mag, but all new advertisements for the new Chamois (1964) metioned Sunbeam as the make. I have never seen an originally delivered new in the Netherlands Chamois as a Singer. They were always Sunbeam Chamois.
So Singer was changed to Sunbeam. Then a year or two later Hillman was also changed to Sunbeam. Humber suffered the same fate, they were Sunbeams here (luckily after the Hawk / Super Snipe were discontinued).
Around 1969 at the Sunbeam dealer you could choose between a Sunbeam Minx, Sunbeam Hunter, Sunbeam Vogue and a Sunbeam Sceptre. All basically a Hunter of course. Do you think the Dutch public would know the differences between the variants?
badhuis said:
Yes - the Netherlands. Also explains why I had never seen an Imp before in my life.
A year later I had a holiday in the UK. The very first car my friends (who also were unaware Imps existed) and me saw on the docks in Dover was a Hillman Imp!
Rootes threw away a couple of makes on the continent, starting late sixties. I have a Dutch car magazine where the "Singer" Chamois was printed in the New Cars listings at the back of the mag, but all new advertisements for the new Chamois (1964) metioned Sunbeam as the make. I have never seen an originally delivered new in the Netherlands Chamois as a Singer. They were always Sunbeam Chamois.
So Singer was changed to Sunbeam. Then a year or two later Hillman was also changed to Sunbeam. Humber suffered the same fate, they were Sunbeams here (luckily after the Hawk / Super Snipe were discontinued).
Around 1969 at the Sunbeam dealer you could choose between a Sunbeam Minx, Sunbeam Hunter, Sunbeam Vogue and a Sunbeam Sceptre. All basically a Hunter of course. Do you think the Dutch public would know the differences between the variants?
Do you have any idea what this is?A year later I had a holiday in the UK. The very first car my friends (who also were unaware Imps existed) and me saw on the docks in Dover was a Hillman Imp!
Rootes threw away a couple of makes on the continent, starting late sixties. I have a Dutch car magazine where the "Singer" Chamois was printed in the New Cars listings at the back of the mag, but all new advertisements for the new Chamois (1964) metioned Sunbeam as the make. I have never seen an originally delivered new in the Netherlands Chamois as a Singer. They were always Sunbeam Chamois.
So Singer was changed to Sunbeam. Then a year or two later Hillman was also changed to Sunbeam. Humber suffered the same fate, they were Sunbeams here (luckily after the Hawk / Super Snipe were discontinued).
Around 1969 at the Sunbeam dealer you could choose between a Sunbeam Minx, Sunbeam Hunter, Sunbeam Vogue and a Sunbeam Sceptre. All basically a Hunter of course. Do you think the Dutch public would know the differences between the variants?
It's killing us...
Turbobanana said:
badhuis said:
Yes - the Netherlands. Also explains why I had never seen an Imp before in my life.
A year later I had a holiday in the UK. The very first car my friends (who also were unaware Imps existed) and me saw on the docks in Dover was a Hillman Imp!
Rootes threw away a couple of makes on the continent, starting late sixties. I have a Dutch car magazine where the "Singer" Chamois was printed in the New Cars listings at the back of the mag, but all new advertisements for the new Chamois (1964) metioned Sunbeam as the make. I have never seen an originally delivered new in the Netherlands Chamois as a Singer. They were always Sunbeam Chamois.
So Singer was changed to Sunbeam. Then a year or two later Hillman was also changed to Sunbeam. Humber suffered the same fate, they were Sunbeams here (luckily after the Hawk / Super Snipe were discontinued).
Around 1969 at the Sunbeam dealer you could choose between a Sunbeam Minx, Sunbeam Hunter, Sunbeam Vogue and a Sunbeam Sceptre. All basically a Hunter of course. Do you think the Dutch public would know the differences between the variants?
Do you have any idea what this is?A year later I had a holiday in the UK. The very first car my friends (who also were unaware Imps existed) and me saw on the docks in Dover was a Hillman Imp!
Rootes threw away a couple of makes on the continent, starting late sixties. I have a Dutch car magazine where the "Singer" Chamois was printed in the New Cars listings at the back of the mag, but all new advertisements for the new Chamois (1964) metioned Sunbeam as the make. I have never seen an originally delivered new in the Netherlands Chamois as a Singer. They were always Sunbeam Chamois.
So Singer was changed to Sunbeam. Then a year or two later Hillman was also changed to Sunbeam. Humber suffered the same fate, they were Sunbeams here (luckily after the Hawk / Super Snipe were discontinued).
Around 1969 at the Sunbeam dealer you could choose between a Sunbeam Minx, Sunbeam Hunter, Sunbeam Vogue and a Sunbeam Sceptre. All basically a Hunter of course. Do you think the Dutch public would know the differences between the variants?
It's killing us...
Turbobanana said:
badhuis said:
Yes - the Netherlands. Also explains why I had never seen an Imp before in my life.
A year later I had a holiday in the UK. The very first car my friends (who also were unaware Imps existed) and me saw on the docks in Dover was a Hillman Imp!
Rootes threw away a couple of makes on the continent, starting late sixties. I have a Dutch car magazine where the "Singer" Chamois was printed in the New Cars listings at the back of the mag, but all new advertisements for the new Chamois (1964) metioned Sunbeam as the make. I have never seen an originally delivered new in the Netherlands Chamois as a Singer. They were always Sunbeam Chamois.
So Singer was changed to Sunbeam. Then a year or two later Hillman was also changed to Sunbeam. Humber suffered the same fate, they were Sunbeams here (luckily after the Hawk / Super Snipe were discontinued).
Around 1969 at the Sunbeam dealer you could choose between a Sunbeam Minx, Sunbeam Hunter, Sunbeam Vogue and a Sunbeam Sceptre. All basically a Hunter of course. Do you think the Dutch public would know the differences between the variants?
Do you have any idea what this is?A year later I had a holiday in the UK. The very first car my friends (who also were unaware Imps existed) and me saw on the docks in Dover was a Hillman Imp!
Rootes threw away a couple of makes on the continent, starting late sixties. I have a Dutch car magazine where the "Singer" Chamois was printed in the New Cars listings at the back of the mag, but all new advertisements for the new Chamois (1964) metioned Sunbeam as the make. I have never seen an originally delivered new in the Netherlands Chamois as a Singer. They were always Sunbeam Chamois.
So Singer was changed to Sunbeam. Then a year or two later Hillman was also changed to Sunbeam. Humber suffered the same fate, they were Sunbeams here (luckily after the Hawk / Super Snipe were discontinued).
Around 1969 at the Sunbeam dealer you could choose between a Sunbeam Minx, Sunbeam Hunter, Sunbeam Vogue and a Sunbeam Sceptre. All basically a Hunter of course. Do you think the Dutch public would know the differences between the variants?
It's killing us...
Turbobanana said:
Do you have any idea what this is?
It's killing us...
pff, I thought it would be easy, but can't find it, it looks like some old plastic britisch car, so I looked at bond and unipower and some other strange brand old cars, but no good luck... then I looked in a big old car guide from all brands, still no luck...It's killing us...
Yertis said:
Fastdruid said:
Last MOT in 2006 so it's been off the road at least 15 years. Only a 71 or 74hp petrol 1.4 so nothing particularly exciting.
Still cool though.In my imaginary collection after winning the Euromillions (which as I do a lucky dip on when it hits stupidly high) there absolutely would be a few BX's in there.
GTRene said:
Turbobanana said:
Do you have any idea what this is?
It's killing us...
pff, I thought it would be easy, but can't find it, it looks like some old plastic britisch car, so I looked at bond and unipower and some other strange brand old cars, but no good luck... then I looked in a big old car guide from all brands, still no luck...It's killing us...
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