Foxy
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Making pink manly in the north!
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Sept 19, 2008 18:18:34 GMT
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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Simca 1300GT! I really, really like this car!       Do these even exist any more?  Also badged as the Chrysler/ Talbot Alpine! I want one!!!  Any other pics would be greatly fussed over! ;D |
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Last Edit: Sept 19, 2008 18:40:30 GMT by Foxy
I'm the handsome fella with the cheesy white specs or is that the cheesy fella with the handsome white specs?
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Sept 19, 2008 18:29:26 GMT
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ive never never heard a quiet engine on one of thease !!!! my uncle bought one from new still it rattled its tits off (timing chain problem if i remember correctly)
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Sept 19, 2008 18:32:12 GMT
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I used to hate these when i was 10,my mates dad had one and we used to argue who's was best,his dads,or my dad's renner 20. A most important subject when you're 10! ;D
I can't remeber the last time i saw one though,they used to be common as muck.....well the Chrysler/Talbot Alpine variant did.
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Car of the year 1976BenzBoy
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Sept 19, 2008 18:42:07 GMT
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A bloke I worked with years ago used to have one in two-tone brown and beige. It was a total rot-box and pretty rare then. I dare say most of them just disintegrated - I don't think they had much in the way of rust protection, or decent steel for that matter! ;D
Haven't seen one in years and years! Didn't we know them as the Talbot Alpine? Love the white placca bumpers on them.
A Euro-style one along the lines of similar era Passats and Audis would be most cool.
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Sept 19, 2008 18:52:31 GMT
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They were originally concieved back in 1973 as the Simca 1307/1308, but we did indeed know them as the Chrysler/Talbot Alpine, and its booted brother (introduced in 1980) as the Solara. www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/chry-alpine.html |
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Car of the year 1976milfordcubicle
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Sept 19, 2008 18:55:51 GMT
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I'm sure xbo11ox has one. It lived on as the Moskvich Aleko up until the late 90s I think!  There are some pictures on the internet of the abandoned Moskvich factory with rusting Aleko shells sitting on the production line but I can't find them.  |
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Last Edit: Sept 19, 2008 18:56:15 GMT by milfordcubicle
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Sept 19, 2008 19:11:51 GMT
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There was a mint alpine round the corner from my house until a year or so ago. It was original but had no rust anywhere! I hope it survives. I'm sure I read there was only 6 or so left on the roads.
When was the Talbot Horizon car of the year?
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Last Edit: Sept 19, 2008 19:13:01 GMT by Lankytim
1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES.  |
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Sept 19, 2008 19:19:21 GMT
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dad had one when i was a little nipper, well the talbot version, but he crashed into an old women in an little nova and the talbot just disinterged.
hated the noise of the engie through!
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Current Fleet:
2004 Audi A4 1.9tdi Sport Avant
2014 Ford Fiesta 1.25 (wifes car, curse word box)
1987 Volkswagen Polo CL
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Sept 19, 2008 19:41:14 GMT
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I had a gf that had a green Alpine S like the first one (grasshopper green IIRC). Wasnt slow but sounded like a biscuit tin full of nails and had a diabolical gearchange! Not to mention a tailgate that came down and twatted you on the head as you loaded/unloaded your shopping. Sheer genius!
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Last Edit: Sept 19, 2008 19:44:05 GMT by Deleted
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Sept 19, 2008 20:24:19 GMT
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IIRC wasn't the clattery engine just the valve clearences going out of adjustment really quickly? I had a Horizon Ultra for a while, i got given the valve clearence adjusment tool for those engines & used it on the car. It was quiet as a mouse afterwards!!
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Sept 19, 2008 20:24:45 GMT
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They came with a free bag of nails in the engine lol
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Resident Toyota Geek Current Fleet: HDJ81 Landcruiser, GZ20 Soarer, JZX81 Cresta
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Sept 19, 2008 21:05:22 GMT
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I still have nightmares about trying to change the engine oil filter on them damn things.......  |
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Rover Metro - The TARDIS - brake problems.....Stored
Rover 75 - Barge
MGZTT Cdti 160+ - Winter Hack and Audi botherer...
MGF - The Golden Shot...Stored
Project Minion........
Can you see the theme?
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Sept 19, 2008 21:13:05 GMT
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We had one of these. It was a rather good car compared to a lot of 1976s competing offerings.
Where it really went astray was in its gearbox. The gate used to wear somehow so the stick just stirred a random bucket of cogs. Want a gear? Point and hope!
Ours was weighed in eventually when its clutch started slipping and replacement was going to be stupidly expensive.
ISTR reading somewhere it was the first volume production car with electronic ignition as standard.
I have always regarded the Peugeot 309 as mechanically one of these with all the bugs sorted out. Better engine access, for one.
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Sept 19, 2008 21:29:17 GMT
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I have always regarded the Peugeot 309 as mechanically one of these with all the bugs sorted out. Better engine access, for one. That's because it was. The 309 only became a Peugeot by default, it was designed by Simca as the Talbot Arizona, the replacement for the Horizon and for the first two years the smaller-engined versions used Simca engines. |
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Car of the year 1976milfordcubicle
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Sept 19, 2008 21:46:41 GMT
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I thought 309s had the same chassis as the 205? Simca engines in the 1.3s though.
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gearoil
Part of things
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Sept 19, 2008 21:48:51 GMT
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Sept 19, 2008 21:57:17 GMT
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Sept 19, 2008 22:07:22 GMT
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The engines were very rattly, even from new. The same engine was used in the Pug 309 1.3. The noise is the camchain which instead ot a tensioner only had a rubber strip on the cam sprocket! We replaced the sprocket and chain on my dad's old 309 and it quietened it down a bit, only for a few thousand miles though. It never actually broke down through it. |
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Sept 19, 2008 22:09:58 GMT
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They were pretty reliable beasts IIRC....my mate had a 1300 Alpine S2 (Y-plated I think) and thrashed it stupid all the time. Never let him down, even if it drove like a cross-channel ferry.
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Sept 20, 2008 6:44:53 GMT
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Thinking about it I have a feeling we still have the headlights from ours. It was a 1500 with all the toys, so they have the wash/wipe fitted. Amazing the stuff you hang on to isn't it.
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"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor |
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