COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST! (Vol 3)

[GTRene]

Yertis said:

RATATTAK said:

GTRene said:

I do like those TR5 models, lovely front, way more classic than the later TR6

Italian design versus German design ... Italian always wins.

Well, I think you're both wrong

Seriously though, the TR5 styling is a bit of mess compared with the TR6. That redundant bonnet bulge, little bits of appliqué chromework scattered all over the place, 'TR5' badge offset for no obvious reason. Karmann did a good job of making the narrow TR4 shell look wider, and cleaning it all up.

Also the older I get the more I realise that the TR5/6 engine sounds nicer than nearly everything.

hahah, ok to be clear from my side, I like the looks of some TR models, namely the TR 250, the TR 4 and the TR5 and more favorite are the later IRS examples with their: Independent Rear Suspension.

and ow, a Surrey Top would also be a Plus.

btw, I just now learned that "TR" stands for Triumph Roadster... so simple, I had (name meaning) something sporty in mind...
also, some late TR series had a coupe/hardtop, so TR ?

[SunsetZed]

DickyC said:

Yertis said:

DickyC said:

RATATTAK said:

GTRene said:

I do like those TR5 models, lovely front, way more classic than the later TR6

Italian design versus German design ... Italian always wins.

Even Michelotti had his off days.

My favourite 'factoid' about that car is that the entire design budget was the same as Ford had spent designing the contemporary Escort's steering wheel.

Ooh, I like that.

I'm picturing a quiz night in a pub in Dagenham.

I'm hoping it's the fact you like not the car design Dicky otherwise I'll have to recommend an opticians!

[R5 KDT]

rallye101 said:

This is the Sunday morning kids football car till the weather gets worse, he has to get chauffeur driven in the back as its much comfier though!

Absolutely Beautiful!

[Dapster]

SunsetZed said:

DickyC said:

Yertis said:

DickyC said:

RATATTAK said:

GTRene said:

I do like those TR5 models, lovely front, way more classic than the later TR6

Italian design versus German design ... Italian always wins.

Even Michelotti had his off days.

My favourite 'factoid' about that car is that the entire design budget was the same as Ford had spent designing the contemporary Escort's steering wheel.

Ooh, I like that.

I'm picturing a quiz night in a pub in Dagenham.

I'm hoping it's the fact you like not the car design Dicky otherwise I'll have to recommend an opticians!

Is that actually true? A "factoid" is something that is definitely not true but has been repeated so often that it becomes accepted as the truth!

OED

"factoid
/?fakt??d/
noun
an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact."


Michelotti had a number of great designs in his catalogue, but I didnt realise that this was one of them!



https://www.classicandsportscar.com/gallery/24-mem...

Edited by Dapster on Tuesday 14th October 16:24

[DickyC]

SunsetZed said:

I'm hoping it's the fact you like not the car design Dicky otherwise I'll have to recommend an opticians!

Read back a bit. I said even Michelotti had his off days.

[generationx]

Doofus said:

rallye101 said:

This is the Sunday morning kids football car till the weather gets worse, he has to get chauffeur driven in the back as its much comfier though!

This seems to have missed comments. It's lovely!

That was a very similar colour combination to my first car, an R-plate Mk2 Escort Ghia. Superb.

[Yertis]

Dapster said:

Is that actually true? A "factoid" is something that is definitely not true but has been repeated so often that it becomes accepted as the truth!

OED

"factoid
/?fakt??d/
noun
an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact."


Michelotti had a number of great designs in his catalogue, but I didnt realise that this was one of them!



https://www.classicandsportscar.com/gallery/24-mem...

Edited by Dapster on Tuesday 14th October 16:24

I remember reading it in the early 90s. Must admit no idea if it’s actually true, but it looks plausible.

I thought the National was a good looking bus

[Isimmo]

Grenoble, last Tuesday evening- quietly sitting in the town centre car park. Looked lovely.

[Yertis]

Dapster said:

Just going back to this bus. Where I grew up a bus was exotic transport to the bright lights of Poole. I always thought that box at the back of the roof looked cool, but never knew what it was for. Can anybody tell me what it contained, and why some were short boxes and others were longer boxes?

[RATATTAK]

Yertis said:

Dapster said:

Just going back to this bus. Where I grew up a bus was exotic transport to the bright lights of Poole. I always thought that box at the back of the roof looked cool, but never knew what it was for. Can anybody tell me what it contained, and why some were short boxes and others were longer boxes?

I've always assumed it was AC.

[swisstoni]

RATATTAK said:

Yertis said:

Dapster said:

Just going back to this bus. Where I grew up a bus was exotic transport to the bright lights of Poole. I always thought that box at the back of the roof looked cool, but never knew what it was for. Can anybody tell me what it contained, and why some were short boxes and others were longer boxes?

I've always assumed it was AC.

So did I but it seems a bit of a luxurious idea for those days, in retrospect.

[Turbobanana]

Yertis said:

Dapster said:

Just going back to this bus. Where I grew up a bus was exotic transport to the bright lights of Poole. I always thought that box at the back of the roof looked cool, but never knew what it was for. Can anybody tell me what it contained, and why some were short boxes and others were longer boxes?

I lost half an hour this morning Googling the Leyland National.

Apparently the roof pod contained the heating and ventilation system. Except where it was absent, which occurred when the buses featured under seat heating.

There were also 3 wheelbases available, which I never knew. And Michelotti did design it, according to Wikipedia.

[some bloke]

Isimmo said:

Grenoble, last Tuesday evening- quietly sitting in the town centre car park. Looked lovely.

When I was working at a fancy hotel in Edinburgh in 93/94 a chap turned up in a metallic green one of those, with just 130 (a hundred and thirty) miles on the clock. It was a lovely car. I hit the rev limiter in 1st on the way to the carpark a mile or so away.

[droopsnoot]

Turbobanana said:

I lost half an hour this morning Googling the Leyland National.

Apparently the roof pod contained the heating and ventilation system. Except where it was absent, which occurred when the buses featured under seat heating.

There were also 3 wheelbases available, which I never knew. And Michelotti did design it, according to Wikipedia.

The original National had the roof pod with heating and ventilation, and was either 5.7m or 5.0m wheelbase, or 11.3m / 10.3m overall length. The B series had small louvres in the front panel to feed air to two under-seat mounted heaters, and I think were all the shorter 5m wheelbase / 10.3m length. The National 2 had an option of either, and a larger grille on the front, and had the same 5.7m / 5.0m wheelbase but described as 11.6m / 10.6m, maybe the extra 30cm was in the slightly bulbous front end.

National:



National B:



National 2:

[Still Mulling]

I'd been waiting ages for a picture of a bus...

[JeremyH5]

Still Mulling said:

I'd been waiting ages for a picture of a bus...

[Yertis]

Still Mulling said:

I'd been waiting ages for a picture of a bus...

I must be a fan of Michelotti's, despite the Scimitar. I like that bus design, the Stag, Spit and GT6 are some of my fave cars. But all I own of his work is the doors on the TR6.

[Yertis]

Turbobanana said:

I lost half an hour this morning Googling the Leyland National.

Apparently the roof pod contained the heating and ventilation system. Except where it was absent, which occurred when the buses featured under seat heating.

There were also 3 wheelbases available, which I never knew. And Michelotti did design it, according to Wikipedia.

[Byker28i]

Still Mulling said:

I'd been waiting ages for a picture of a bus...

Rather nice dark green Nissan 200 SX in the traffic this morning

[CHLEMCBC]

No picture as we were bowling along the Autobahn, but on my 9 country Euro jaunt in September I spent a very pleasant few kilometres leapfrogging a beautifully preserved, or possibly restored BMW 503

Very much like this one, although it was a darker, non-metallic blue, but with the same colour interior. Happily doing 130+kmh and looking fabulous!