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by Asimo
Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:54 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Place related car names
Replies: 92
Views: 2125

Re: Place related car names

Handley Page: Halifax, Hereford, Hampden.
Oh cars; err - Dodge Aspen, Alfa Romeo Montreal, Cadillac Allante, Opel Manta, Porsche Cayman, DeTomaso Vallelunga
by Asimo
Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:29 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: EBay Finds
Replies: 12431
Views: 2873354

Re: EBay Finds

A Tasmin was an eccentric choice in Corvette land!
I tried one once, also a f.h.c., I didn’t buy it. It did drive very nicely but the body and interior were just too shonky to put up with.
by Asimo
Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:31 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: EBay Finds
Replies: 12431
Views: 2873354

Re: EBay Finds

Lots of money, but whitewalls apart, I rather like the look of this.
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https://hymanltd.com/vehicles/7542-1974 ... 420-coupe/
by Asimo
Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:26 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Forgotten cars
Replies: 37
Views: 1507

Re: Forgotten cars

Iso Lele. IMG_2756.jpeg About forty years ago I met a bloke in a massive shed in the middle of Hereford who was selling an Ro80. In that shed in a cloud of cold-running autochoke-smoke was a yellow Iso Lele. It seemed to be hovering like a spaceship. There was at least one, maybe two, other Leles in...
by Asimo
Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:04 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Forgotten cars
Replies: 37
Views: 1507

Re: Forgotten cars

Another fan of the DeTomaso Longchamp here. Like a Ferrari 400, but for proper bastards rather than complete cunts.* I’ve only ever seen a Monteverdi once; in the pit lane at Santa Pod in 1973. It wasn’t starting, several blokes were fiddling with it, two massive 4 barrel carburetters on long inlet ...
by Asimo
Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:35 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: EBay Finds
Replies: 12431
Views: 2873354

Re: EBay Finds

This is a cool old mashup: ‘30s body from a Bentley on a ‘50s Jaguar chassis with a few ‘70s Jag bits. IMG_2752.jpeg The modern radio needs to be binned however. IMG_2753.jpeg ‘Twould suit me better than anything original because I can’t leave alone. The ‘49 Chevrolet is probably a more realistic pr...
by Asimo
Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:49 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: EBay Finds
Replies: 12431
Views: 2873354

Re: EBay Finds

Obviously this needs wheels and tyres
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and an air filter
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Nice way to spend £7k however. After all, some folk spend that much on modern shit. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 8848298762
by Asimo
Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:23 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Found pics
Replies: 6617
Views: 1055957

Re: Found pics

Not an S800, it’s a Matra-Simca Bagheera.
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Bollocks, THAT picture.

As you were. (I’ve never seen an S800 that wasn’t uttrly rotten)
by Asimo
Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:09 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Crash! Bang! Wallop! - Eddie Honda Shirking His Duties Edition
Replies: 3436
Views: 322550

Re: Crash! Bang! Wallop! - Eddie Honda Shirking His Duties Edition

I blame Dukes of Hazzard for a generation that believes cars and trucks can fly.