Cars you didn't know existed...

Cars you didn't know existed...

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mickyc79

582 posts

107 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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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

23,378 posts

232 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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I had no idea that they were RWD....

Butter Face

30,192 posts

159 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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Colleague of mine had one back in 2012, very cool and interesting car.

That one looks a bit rough!

shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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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

2,281 posts

186 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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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

1,517 posts

257 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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Followed one of these today in London Village, assumed it was electric until I saw the badge on the side and Googled it.

Ares

11,000 posts

119 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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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

30,192 posts

159 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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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

41,086 posts

244 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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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

11,000 posts

119 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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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?) wink

TallPaul

1,517 posts

257 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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Butter Face said:
Eh? Am I missing something, It is electric?
Hydrogen fuel cell

Butter Face

30,192 posts

159 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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TallPaul said:
Butter Face said:
Eh? Am I missing something, It is electric?
Hydrogen fuel cell
Ah yes.

cptsideways

13,535 posts

251 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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What is this then, a picture on the wall at the JLR plant from the fifties


Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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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

7,186 posts

227 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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What a lot of people don't realise is that Rover were doing Jet engine development & passed it all to Rolls Royce.

Fast Bug

11,597 posts

160 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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There's one in the national science museum.

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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Fast Bug said:
There's one in the national science museum.
The same car, there was only one JET1

Fast Bug

11,597 posts

160 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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I did wonder if there was only one or if they built a couple. My P4 jet beard skills are low biggrin

StescoG66

2,108 posts

142 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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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

13,535 posts

251 months

Thursday 26th April 2018
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Isuzu Pizza aka the Bedford Midi Coupe
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