Good cars you don't see any more?

[Moi]

Renault R16 and the rear engined R10...

What about a Rambler Rebel...

[AllanB]

You guys have owned some crap.


I had a Morris 1000 when young. Wish I kept it. They are around but fairly few now.



Happy with my AUIII XR6 - mint. Lots of rough ones around, I'm starting to get guys come up and compliment mine and reminisce about theirs. Not 'old' as a 2002.


Escort 1600 - cool when I was 16. Crappy now. RS2000 is collectable.


I owner a SE 1600 Corolla way back, heaps better than the escort of similar years. Have not seen one for years.

[Kickaha]

Oh, forgot, Morris Marina ute - you don't see many of THEM these days...

Thank fuck for that, although we did have an Austin princess in at work last week and they're probably worse

[Oakie]

Had a BMC freeway station wagon. It rolled onto its side in the main street of Oamaru once when we got a puncture. Was ok it only scratched the door handles though. Got that one from Smash palace wreckers for $275 with rego and wof. Sold it back for $100 when they ran out.

Ahh Smash Palace. I remember them. Played indoor cricket against one of the people there ... big fella ... ran into me and it felt like I'd been hit by a truck.

[ducatilover]

Where the hell are the Borgward Isabellas and Tatras?



I still hope the OP was joking about the 380, absolute shit heaps. Not that Falcodores have been much moar betterer.

[scumdog]

Ahh Smash Palace. I remember them. Played indoor cricket against one of the people there ... big fella ... ran into me and it felt like I'd been hit by a truck.

Probably J.R.

[Hitcher]

Here are some Cars you don't see anymore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hwE0slNd3Y

[Motu]

Cars pre Jap import have just disappeared...that'd be roughly pre 1990. For me it's all the special tools that every workshop had. Every workshop had a BMC flywheel puller, needed when doing a clutch on a Mini or 1100/1300. They also might've had a BMC lifting hook - this put the engine at the correct angle for removal, then you dropped it on the floor, repositioned the chains, and then it lifted the engine vertical for taking it off the gearbox. We had a Hillman Imp sump cradle that fitted onto a floorjack for removing an Imp engine....another shop had a Bedford gearbox cradle. Hydraulic lifter pullers, J1 Bedford rear hub pullers, no one had the Triumph 2000 rear flange puller. Later on we had the OHC Cortina tappet adjusting spanner, and the 12 spline head stud socket....also the viscous hub spanner used on other vehicles too. Lots more I can't remember this late at night. edit - adjustble reamers with guide....for doing kingpins.

Walk into a workshop these days and they won't know what they are. Last place I worked at they threw all this sort of stuff out, the guys didn't have a clue what they were. (I got some of it.)

[Brett]

I gotta soft spot for things that are German and go fast. Wouldn't mind a McLaren P1 at all...but that's as British as I would go. But I would really go there. Like really really. P1 = yummy. Like really yummy. Like 20 year old single malt sipped out of Taylor Swifts belly button yummy. Only more yummy. Yes, I like the P1. Lots. Big Lots.

[Waihou Thumper]

I had a 1953 E493A Ford Prefect.
3 speed gearbox, vacuum pump windscreen wipers, so the faster you went the slower they went
It had a cool propeller handle on the dash for opening the front windscreen up for ventilation...
It was my first car and Mum loaned me $387 to buy it...I had the other $13, as the price was $400.
The perfect car for a Westie going to Massey High School. It had to be parked down the road with the other kids cars and I was cool..NOT!
Not until I got a Mark II Cortina with a Mark I gearbox in it with flor change!
I even had the GT dash. Then I graduated to a Mark III GT, red and black. Bought that off Ted Tracey Motors as I recall. Seriously cool.....

[skippa1]

Where the hell are the Borgward Isabellas and Tatras?



I still hope the OP was joking about the 380, absolute shit heaps. Not that Falcodores have been much moar betterer.

I had a borgward isabella........

[mossy1200]

I had a New Zealand made Trekka complete with skoda motor that they installed backwards to a normal skoda so the gearbox was in reverse direction.
Mine had dual rear wheels double width style.

[Laava]

I had a New Zealand made Trekka complete with skoda motor that they installed backwards to a normal skoda so the gearbox was in reverse direction.
Mine had dual rear wheels double width style.

Think you might have misread the thread title?

[5150]

1977 CL Chrysler Charger. 265 Hemi with factory four on the floor. It had a steering wheel so big, I thought it came off a truck. The engine just had a fresh rebuild, and the guy that did it built it to E49 big tank specs with triple SU carbs. That thing was a rocket. Paid 8K for it in about 97, sold it for 15K in 99. Just saw it on TM last year for 90K. One of those cars you will only have once in your life time. Blew V8 Commys off the lights, and gave one BMW yuppy with a genuine E30 M3 a good run for his money between Taupo and Tokoroa. Poor bastard only got as far as the drivers door trying to pass me up the hill (with passing lanes). Then the Charger was gone. I rolled into Tokoroa for gas, and he didn't turn up there till about 2 minutes later. Was red and pissed off. Tried to tell me that his clutch kept slipping so he couldn't make the pass stick.. Just had to have a chuckle. Miss that car like hell.

[James Deuce]

Thank fuck for that, although we did have an Austin princess in at work last week and they're probably worse

There's still one running??????

I had a Sunbeam Talbot for a work car for three months. It was a flash Austin Princess. The gear lever was attached to the linkages with a split pin. This allowed one to randomly select any old gear except, thankfully, reverse. It was nominally a "5 speed" though I could never be sure, because I'm pretty sure I selected at least 30 different forward ratios during my time with it. The pin was replaced three times in one week. Each failure left me pushing 2 tonnes of what felt like a car with no air in the tyres and no wheel bearings through busy intersections. I left the key in it, went home and rang the boss and told him it needed a tow truck and crushing. The slow and agonising death of the British Motor "Industry" took far too long.

Back to the OP, a Mitsi 380 is an utter blanc mange to drive. I've never had a car hit the bumb stops entering a 60 kph corner at 80 kph. Except a Mitsi 380 that is. My overwhelming impression of the 380 is "beige". And horrible. And "Whyyyy?"