Cars you didn't know existed...
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pd2 said:
Usget said:
Apologies if we've had it before but OMG THIS IS A SIX WHEEL DRIVE CINQ.
It’s a Renault 5 6x6.They even did one with turbo body....
https://www.garaz.cz/clanek/renault-r5-turbo-6x6-j...
Sorry for cross post to another motoring forum, but this is cute as hell, and I had no idea it existed... (Toyota)
https://jalopnik.com/gazoo-racing-restored-an-earl...
https://jalopnik.com/gazoo-racing-restored-an-earl...
Zad said:
Reminiscent of the Matra Rancho, which promised so much and delivered so little. 30 years ahead of its time!
My father had a Rancho, it was my favourite car of his. Green with an engine that liked to fall out. I'm sure he told me it was half steel and half something else, can't remember what though. I used to sit in the boot and the dog would sit on the back seat.ajprice said:
blearyeyedboy said:
poing said:
I'm sure he told me it was half steel and half something else, can't remember what though.
Iron oxide. 
poing said:
ajprice said:
blearyeyedboy said:
poing said:
I'm sure he told me it was half steel and half something else, can't remember what though.
Iron oxide. Didnt they try other sorts of plastics?
ajprice said:
blearyeyedboy said:
poing said:
I'm sure he told me it was half steel and half something else, can't remember what though.
Iron oxide. 
That Renault Cinq 6x6 looks to me like a small CX Loadrunner, for the man who wants to drive a lot of stuff across a continent very quickly.
Both- and that Matra, in spite of my jest- are very cool vehicles.
Edited by blearyeyedboy on Sunday 27th January 21:35
Mr Tidy said:
Actually I did know they existed as I saw one at the Earls Court Motor Show in 1973 (I think).
So here is the Monica 560, which I thought at the time looked simply stunning - and still looks pretty good IMHO!
Engine was a 5.6 litre Chrysler V8 - hence the 560 name.
That's a Monteverdi 375/4 behind it.So here is the Monica 560, which I thought at the time looked simply stunning - and still looks pretty good IMHO!
Engine was a 5.6 litre Chrysler V8 - hence the 560 name.
Doofus said:
Mr Tidy said:
Actually I did know they existed as I saw one at the Earls Court Motor Show in 1973 (I think).
So here is the Monica 560, which I thought at the time looked simply stunning - and still looks pretty good IMHO!
Engine was a 5.6 litre Chrysler V8 - hence the 560 name.
That's a Monteverdi 375/4 behind it.So here is the Monica 560, which I thought at the time looked simply stunning - and still looks pretty good IMHO!
Engine was a 5.6 litre Chrysler V8 - hence the 560 name.
blearyeyedboy said:
Yes, but I couldn't resist the jest.
That Renault Cinq 6x6 looks to me like a small CX Loadrunner, for the man who wants to drive a lot of stuff across a continent very quickly.
Both- and that Matra, in spite of my jest- are very cool vehicles.
The CX was conceived by Pierre Tissier in response to the requirements of the French newspaper industry's headache of getting news distributed through the country at high speed overnight. The CX had a payload of 1 metric tonne and could travel at speeds well in excess of an HGV, and deliver direct to point. Reports were that they would cruise at 160km/h on the deserted Autoroutes.That Renault Cinq 6x6 looks to me like a small CX Loadrunner, for the man who wants to drive a lot of stuff across a continent very quickly.
Both- and that Matra, in spite of my jest- are very cool vehicles.
The chassis were used for more exciting applications such as this one, transporting the film crew chopper on the Paris Dakar.
Pre CX, Tissier did the monster DS
And a 1 off SM (I'd like to have been at the lunch where someone thought a utility vehicle with a Maserati engine and the world's most complicated suspension system was a good idea)
Edited by Dapster on Monday 28th January 10:26
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