One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Drago]

Saw this today , I think it's our neighbours sons...
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1992, had a cheeky look at its MOT history and while its generally only doing a few hundred miles a year...its last failure was in 2006, plenty of advisories but that's quite impressive

Those 80 cabs go for reasonable money, which is surprising as they weren't brilliant cars and wobbled like a Johnny Kidd and the Pirates song. They did look neat with the top down though.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Those 80 cabs go for reasonable money, which is surprising as they weren't brilliant cars and wobbled like a Johnny Kidd and the Pirates song. They did look neat with the top down though.

Real integrity of build, if not structural integrity. Mrs BF had a 90 bhp saloon which struggled to get up hills, but which was built like a bricky-outhouse for the purpose of personal evacuation.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I might have a ride over to this next weekend
It’s not too far away

(off the A61, Wakefield- Leeds road)

 

[srj10]

 

[Drago]

Great engines for the time, a German attempt at old fashioned US brute force, but why did they make them so hideously ugly?

 

[Pblakeney]

Great engines for the time, a German attempt at old fashioned US brute force, but why did they make them so hideously ugly?

I had a friend whose neighbour had access to one of those, a 911 and a Golf GTI.
The Golf was her preference as the 911 was overkill and the Merc was "a heap of ****".

 

[Drago]

I'd love to be able to fit in any of them!

 

[Jameshow]

Real integrity of build, if not structural integrity. Mrs BF had a 90 bhp saloon which struggled to get up hills, but which was built like a bricky-outhouse for the purpose of personal evacuation.

I had two 80 a 2.0 petrol and a TDI. Both 90 iirc.

Great cars bombproof but dull!

An S2 would be wonderfull! ££££😢

 

[Ian H]

Did someone say 'bombproof'?
Moskvich 1500 - an occasional visitor to the town.

 

[Drago]

Did someone say 'bombproof'?
Moskvich 1500 - an occasional visitor to the town.
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Strangely cool.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

This just popped up on Fiat Forum - a Peruvian Fiat Tipo.

https://www.fiatforum.com/threads/happy-to-be-among-fiat-experts.517551/#post-4817882

 

[gbb]

Did someone say 'bombproof'?
Moskvich 1500 - an occasional visitor to the town.
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Guy at work in around 1978 had one, saloon I seem to remember. He gave me a lift in it one day, awful thing, heavy, very mechanically loud and really quite rusty.

The advertising at the time proudly exclaimed they were 'built for the Russian winter'
That may be true, but they weren't built for a British one

To see one nowadays is a rare thing indeed, they disappeared off the roads quite quickly back in the day, never a good sign.

 

[Way-Out-West]

An Austin mini van with numerous battle scars.

 

[biggs682]

A couple of VW's spotted this morning

Oh and for the record the garage I served my apprenticeship at was a Moskovitch,Lada and NSU dealer and for some unknown reason we were always kept busy

 

[Drago]

^^^ is that in Welly, Martin?