Old new cars, or new old cars?
Old new cars, or new old cars?
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vladcjelli

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3,370 posts

187 months

Friday 18th March 2011
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Read some of this thread, http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Got me wondering what other older cars are still being manufactured for foreign markets which could be imported for novelty value.

I had seen the VW campers that Danbury Motors ship over from Brazil but wondered if there were any other interesting motors around.

I'm not stuck in the past, just not willing to move on without a fight.

Gompo

4,748 posts

287 months

Friday 18th March 2011
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Peugeot Roa or RD for me please:


XitUp

7,690 posts

233 months

Saturday 19th March 2011
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Hindustan Ambassador.
http://www.merlingarages.co.uk/home.htm




Pug 504 was made in Nigeria until 2005.

Lada Niva.
http://www.markkey.co.uk/


hidetheelephants

35,786 posts

222 months

Saturday 19th March 2011
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Is the 504 not still made in Kenya? I think they were still churning them out in 2005, bloody expensive though(~£20k). Practical Classics did an article about it IIRC.

ambuletz

11,749 posts

210 months

Saturday 19th March 2011
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Aren't the original VW camper vans still being sold in brazil? (according to fifth gear) Some enthusiasts go to the lengths of getting them imported. More character then the current one

Gompo

4,748 posts

287 months

Saturday 19th March 2011
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ambuletz said:
Aren't the original VW camper vans still being sold in brazil? (according to fifth gear) Some enthusiasts go to the lengths of getting them imported. More character then the current one
vladcjelli said:
I had seen the VW campers that Danbury Motors ship over from Brazil
..And they look a bit wrong anyway as they're water-cooled.

davepoth

29,395 posts

228 months

Saturday 19th March 2011
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Gompo said:
..And they look a bit wrong anyway as they're water-cooled.
Enterprising people have made a replacement radiator in the shape of a spare tyre. Looks pretty good. Also they can now maintain 60mph which is a bonus.