Doncaster Station - What's that car?

[skedaddle]

Here's a picture from 1980 that I came across today taken looking over Doncaster Station.



Anyone know what the white car on the left hand side is with only the rear visible, 6th car from the bottom. Looks exotic for the time.

[JZZ30]

Datsun Sunny coupe?

[coppice]

I thought Maserati Khamsin before remembering that this is Donny. In the Eighties ...Nuff said?

[dontlookdown]

Yes it looks like one of those Datsun coupes to me. 120Y?

Any survivors probably rarer than a Khamsin these days, if not quite so valuable...

[kjs62]

Datsun or oossibly Renault 15?
Saw a Khamsin in the flesh for the 1st time few years ago for sale at goodwood revival fell in love with it but the 100k plus price put me off a bit

[RedAndy]

TVR Typhon

[Turbobanana]

Definitely a Datsun 120Y Coupe.

Although, bizarrely, I think there is a Renault 17 poking into shot in a similar way further up the picture, in what appears to be yellow.

[skedaddle]

JZZ30 said:

Datsun Sunny coupe?

Possible but I'm not convinced. The lines both above and below the window look too straight and the side window arrangement doesn't appear to have a break between the 2 glass panes. It also appears a bit pointier.

[skedaddle]

Turbobanana said:

Definitely a Datsun 120Y Coupe.

Although, bizarrely, I think there is a Renault 17 poking into shot in a similar way further up the picture, in what appears to be yellow.

Interesting - I don't remember the Renault 17 but it appears to match.

[williamp]

Hopefully P5b will pop in and tell us about the trains, too

[Stick Legs]

In the middle there is a Class 55 Deltic.

[ttthilvester]

Possibly TVR Tasmin?

[Venisonpie]

ttthilvester said:

Possibly TVR Tasmin?

Close, I think maybe a TVR Trident.

[Super Sonic]

Wasn't there a Talbot coupe with a simmeler roofline? Rapier?

[Bannock]

You might be thinking of the Sunbeam Rapier. I thought of that too and did a google. But I don't think it's one of those, doesn't quite match.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130542797@N07/320049...

Edited by Bannock on Friday 19th May 12:40

[healeyfan]

Bond equipe 2 litre

[shih tzu faced]

Gut feeling is Datsun 120Y as above.

Definitely not a Khamsin or anything else exotic, look at the wheels they’re titchy.

[Yertis]

The mid-late '70s were a low point in car design, IMO. So much sheer junk around at that time. All the cool stuff from the late '60s was on the way out, and all the cool stuff for the '80s was still in development.

[Super Sonic]

Bannock said:

You might be thinking of the Sunbeam Rapier. I thought of that too and did a google. But I don't think it's one of those, doesn't quite match.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130542797@N07/320049...

Edited by Bannock on Friday 19th May 12:40

That's the one, thanks

[LuS1fer]

My instant gut identification was Datsun 120Y Coupe.
Shadows and poor focus probably accounts for the apparent sharper rear window.