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On hindsight, most of the alternatives weren't much better back then.
A friend of my Dad's ended up in a hedge when a rear suspension mount pulled out of the bodywork on a 3 or 4 year old Talbot Sunbeam. I remember MKIV Cortinas with broken chassis around the rear suspension at 5 or 6 year old.
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
- Location
- Canada eh! Your land of back bacon.
Odd… my mind immediately went to an Italian car as well… a Lancia Beta coupe, but it does say something about them doesn’t it.
Oh sh!t. My memory let me down. My Dad's car wasn't the Sud, it was the Beta.
Not that it makes much difference. 😉
IIRC, Lancia's reputation in the UK was so bad, they actually stopped importing cars here. I also remember a Fiat Strada that was about 9 months old coming into a tyre company I worked for. It was absolutely riddled with rust, the roof was the worst. Transpires Fiat gave the owner all their money back (save a token amount) and let her keep the car, saying it must have missed its rust proofing at the factory.
The thing with the Italians is they make/design (pretty much) the best looking cars, scooters and cycles but the build quality isn't always the greatest.
matticus
Guru
SECURITY! Come quick!
Someone's let the Petrolheads out of their box again - and worse, given them access to the internet!
Someone's let the Petrolheads out of their box again - and worse, given them access to the internet!
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Yep, they had excellent 5 speed boxes, discs that really worked and handled better than any escort.
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Astonishing. The same car pictured just weeks earlier!
Toshiba Boy
N+1er
- Location
- By the beach, West Zummerzet
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
- Location
- Canada eh! Your land of back bacon.
I have a Vespa in the garage that has had 18 years of all weather use on Ontario’s well salted roads and it looks like new. I simply don’t understand it!
my friend‘s Fiat 124 Sport made up for it though… I swear you could hear that thing making crackling noises in the night as it rapidly converted itself into brown dust.
