Have You Seen Any Interesting Cars On The Road Lately?

[ALFAitalia]

Lovely.... and sounded like the Devils own car!

 

[ChrisHGTV]

Saw this in Roanne, France today (Here for the cycling festival). It’s a 1985 50th Anniversary Pulsar, quite a cute little thing. Not seen one before. I was surprised, seems nowhere near as valuable as I thought it would be. Saying that the only one I found sold for AUD 20k a couple of years ago. This one was immaculate inside and out.

 

[Gollom]

Saw this in Roanne, France today (Here for the cycling festival). It’s a 1985 50th Anniversary Pulsar, quite a cute little thing. Not seen one before. I was surprised, seems nowhere near as valuable as I thought it would be. Saying that the only one I found sold for AUD 20k a couple of years ago. This one was immaculate inside and out.

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Puts me in mind of a Fiat X1/9

 

[Darrell]

Saw this in Roanne, France today (Here for the cycling festival). It’s a 1985 50th Anniversary Pulsar, quite a cute little thing. Not seen one before. I was surprised, seems nowhere near as valuable as I thought it would be. Saying that the only one I found sold for AUD 20k a couple of years ago. This one was immaculate inside and out.

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That’s a new one on me.

 

[ALFAitalia]

Not a VERY interesting car.... but an interesting colour choice! Sorry about quality....it was too far away really.

 

[StMarks]

Spotted this old bus parked up this morning. Only showing around 70k on the clock, and the interior was a very clean (and quite tasteful imho) cream leather with red piping.

 

[Williamwoo]

Lovely old Austin (A50 I think) spotted near me, complete with its quaint 'Austin of England' badges. Slightly incongruously, it had a towbar fitted - I'd hate to get stuck behind it if it was towing anything!

 

[ALFAitalia]

Nice old things........and yes its an A50, a 1956 model. And yes, with a mighty 50 horsepower from its 1500cc engine you would not want to tow much more than a small box trailer with it.

 

[BTB 500]

And yes, with a mighty 50 horsepower from its 1500cc engine you would not want to tow much more than a small box trailer with it.

Jetski maybe

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

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Lovely old Austin (A50 I think) spotted near me, complete with its quaint 'Austin of England' badges. Slightly incongruously, it had a towbar fitted - I'd hate to get stuck behind it if it was towing anything!

A beaut. Austin Cambridge.

Given that amazing condition, I wonder if it's an import from Japan, where Nissan assembled them

Like a Morris 1000, it could easily have towed a caravan back in the mid-50's. Just not as fast or as well as a "more modern car."

If only we had access to a Caravan expert from the South Coast to advise.....???

 

[ALFAitalia]

It only weighs just over 1000 kg...so not a lot of weight to control a caravan......so a max of 750kg would be my advice......so thats trailer tents and the lightest folders. But with just 50 horsies its going to be a struggle up the hills!!

 

[BTB 500]

Old caravans weighed a ton (well, a lot more) with glass windows, rigid steel chassis, solid wood fittings, etc. but people still towed them with average family cars. Just very slowly, I guess!

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Old caravans weighed a ton (well, a lot more) with glass windows, rigid steel chassis, solid wood fittings, etc. but people still towed them with average family cars. Just very slowly, I guess!

Exactly. By modern standards, certainly not, but back in the day, surely they would have used something like the Austin Cambridge A50 to tow a two berth caravan?

(Oh, and don't ask about the brakes)

Reaches for his Google.....

 

[pmcgsmurf]

 

[Williamwoo]

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Oh wow - always loved the look of those. Great colour too.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

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Another example of my lack of taste. I’ve always loved one of the least-loved Ferrari models all time. That said they made it for a very long time, so when new the target market clearly loved them too - it’s way before the era of “of course we can consider your interest in model X, although placibg orders for models a, b, and two c might help us to prioritise your interest”

 

[benzboss]

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Proper motor...

 

[Darrell]

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Beautiful Ferrari 400i
We used to call them the gentleman’s Ferrari and Michael Winner owned one (I sat in it)

 

[sidehustleveteran]

I'm not sure it this has been done before - but I thought it may be fun to do again, even if it's a resurrect.

Similar to Scott's scrapyard thread, but with the cars/bikes not quite so dead.

The only rule being that it must be something that you've seen on the road or out and about, and not from car shows/events, or photos from the internet.

Anything goes, as long as it floats your boat.

Here's my starter to ten, seen just down the road the other night.

1973 MGB GT, a proper chrome bumper model:

There's a Noble, not sure of model, that lives up the road from me.

 

[Darrell]