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Nine picsDarrenW
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...by way of a kind of apology I haven't been around on here much for a couple of months. My head's been swimming with all kinds of weird and mostly positive stuff, but I've kind of taken my eye off one of the main online places that I gain so much from, i.e here. I promise to try harder. I like to put thought into what I post here (hard as that may be to believe) and I just haven't had the brain capacity and mindset for it. Some of these I've posted before, hope there's enough of interest for everyone though. I'll start with a "modern", although the shape is a classic to me: on the back, it says "raTTe". I like that. Dear God. Please, PLEASE can everything work right for me this year so I can have something like this? "French look" apparently. I love it: Scanned from the first car mag I ever bought, What Car? from about 1982. I was 9. GOT to be worth a caption: Lovely: ACE: TEN points to whoever is the first to tell me what this is. Clue: it was technically a production car, and made in Scotland. A HUNDRED points for anyone who can find me more pics of other ones: And a Barkas. Awesome:
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TEN points to whoever is the first to tell me what this is. Clue: it was technically a production car, and made in Scotland. A HUNDRED points for anyone who can find me more pics of other ones: It's an Argyll... Can I have a THOUSAND points for having seen that exact car in the flesh. It lived in Swansea, and was restored at the garage where my wifes car used to go for MOT etc. There is an interestined story behind it but it's too late to tell it now... maybe tomorrow...
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you don't need to apologise. really you don't.
good pics tho, i like that TT
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Nine picsDarrenW
@darrenw
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It's an Argyll... Can I have a THOUSAND points for having seen that exact car in the flesh. It lived in Swansea, and was restored at the garage where my wifes car used to go for MOT etc. There is an interestined story behind it but it's too late to tell it now... maybe tomorrow... OOOOH you swine! ;D Would LOVE to hear the story. In 1984 (when I was 9) I bought a copy of Autocar cos it had a special feature about the 25th year of the Mini in it, and I loved Minis at the time. Also on the cover and featured was a red Argyll GT, and in the back of my mind I've always had a fascination for them. That was saved off eBay a while back, I have the rest of the pics if anyone wants to see them.
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Nine picsDarrenW
@darrenw
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Also, an idea for the new forum: we should have a sort of virtual point system so we can award each other kudos for knowing pointless trivia like that ;D
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Saw that Argyll on ebay ;D
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i thought the 'french look' would be all yellow cars ?
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Nine picsarthurbrown
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The Metro Turbo (TT?) looks interesting & on those rims GOOD! Audi TT rat is a physical imposibilty. You CANNOT build a 'rat' from a 4-year-old rep / hairdresser mobile & as such the perpetrator should be hung by the nads. Sunbeam pic is KWOLITEA period, right down to the 'felicity kendal' dungarees. Lincoln & Argyll are interesting.... BUT.. We ALL wanna see the walshman trogging round in a J-spec Hiace, don't we. That would, indeed RULE
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Nine picsDarrenW
@darrenw
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What ARE those rims on the Janspeed Metro? Alleycats? J-Spec Hi-ace/Urvan. Bright 70s colour. Probably signal orange. Utterly slammed ('bagged if I win the lottery), moon discs, sorted.
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Nine picsarthurbrown
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alleycats / compo cx's would be my guess.... there were borbets in that style (C?) but I don't konow if they were avail. in that small a dish/offset/size
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my god! I know that there are 4 of these left on the roads in the UK....works out fine really, 2 for you, 2 for me.
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The thing is, they're not really that different from a Hi-Ace, a Bedford Mini or even a Mitsi L300. The look could be obtained relatively easily without even venturing near Vee-Dub money.
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The thing is, they're not really that different from a Hi-Ace, a Bedford Mini or even a Mitsi L300. The look could be obtained relatively easily without even venturing near Vee-Dub money. You're absolutely right. But its a Datsun!!!!!! I must simply own an E20. I'll make do with a similar period Hi-ace I s'pose....
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Nine picsDarrenW
@darrenw
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The look could be obtained relatively easily without even venturing near Vee-Dub money. Absolutely. Which is why I've been looking at those Bedford Midi van things, but ideally I'd like something more retro. Debadge it though, get some chrome on it and no "normal" person would have a clue what it is or how old it is. Especially with the right touches It'd just be a generic old J-Van
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You're absolutely right. But its a Datsun!!!!!! I must simply own an E20. I'll make do with a similar period Hi-ace I s'pose.... Good point...use a Nissan Urvan instead! Datsun never really existed anyway.
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"If in doubt, flat out!"
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from about 1982. I was 9. YOU'RE PETER PAN!!
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1988 V8 Rangey Bobtail :: 1968 Volvo Amazon 133 Ratrod :: 1977 Land Rover 88 :: 1985 Opel Monza GSE :: 1983 MKII Fiesta
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Someone is going to have to do a metro before they all dissapear! Would be so easy as engine and brakes parts can come off fast minis leaving just the dogey suspension to be converted to coilovers and a set od 13x8s and your there!
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;D There a little bit of info and a picture on here: www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/vehicles/road/cars/rare_classics/argyll_turbo_gt.htmland it says this on Wikipedia: The Argyll Turbo GT sportscar was launched in 1982 by the Duke of Argyll in the grounds of Inveraray Castle. It was built by Bob Henderson and Argyll Turbo Cars at Lochgilphead, and went into series production six years later, but few were made. Development costs amounted to £250,000. The structure is a combination of box-section chassis and tubular space-frame: by undoing 10 bolts, the entire rear end, suspension, gearbox and Rover V8 engine come away. Its top speed is 130 miles per hour. The new car was named after the original Argyll, in honour of a grandfather of one of the investors who worked in the Argyll factory at Alexandria. The car is designed to last – it has a glass-fibre body made next door to the old Arrol-Johnston factory in Dumfries by Solway Marine. Cool looking car, I had never heard of it before now.
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Nine picsDarrenW
@darrenw
Club Retro Rides Member 74
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from about 1982. I was 9. YOU'RE PETER PAN!! HAH HAH!! Nah not really, I'm just unable to count when extrememly tired ;D I was born in '73, on an L-Reg ;D
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Last Edit: Feb 4, 2006 11:41:47 GMT by DarrenW
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Nine picsarthurbrown
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Does that make you tax exempt then Walsh?
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