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Classic car spotting this week.

ghce
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This mornings adventure to my vintage car clubs coffee and conversation meetup.

And a suprise for me a Fiat 124 Abarth from 2017, I had no idea Fiat had reintroduced this model back in to their lineup of cars.

Even a Nash Metropolitan in there too!

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Any TR6 owners? This is a mid 70s car I'd really like to own at some point.

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Ahhh. In 1974 I was living in Montreal and working my way through the Avis inventory at weekends ("What have you got that I haven't driven before?" Avis were very kind to me!)

I tried a Mustang Mk 2. The most horrid, gutless, understeering monstrosity I'd driven since an initial production Morris Marina. Yes, that bad. Was never offered a Rambler although I'd have tried it if I could.
You mentioned having driven a Mustang. American Motors might have beaten the Ford Mustang to the market, had AMC had deeper pockets. The Milwaukee firm BUDD produced the sheet metal for AMC. They designed and built (one only) a sporty convertible which they wanted to introduce to the market. This car was shopped around the car makers, hoping to find someone interested in producing it. The car was built on a Rambler Classic chassis. This car could have beat the Mustang into its segment, but nobody bought the idea. The car exists today, in a museum. Known as the 1962 Budd XR 400.

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AG77 AG77
Any TR6 owners? This is a mid 70s car I'd really like to own at some point.

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I've owned two Triumph Spitfires and have worked on several other Triumphs including TR6s over the years. Triumph built a really good sports car in its day, and the early TR6s are at the very zenith of Triumph's manufacturing.
 
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Waltesefalcon Waltesefalcon
I've owned two Triumph Spitfires and have worked on several other Triumphs including TR6s over the years. Triumph built a really good sports car in its day, and the early TR6s are at the very zenith of Triumph's manufacturing.
You can buy a nice driving condition tr6 in the US under $30k (less than a grey market Daytona LOL). I feel like there's a lot of value here for a beautiful roadster with overdrive. Finding one with little to no rust being the challenge.
 
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You can buy a nice driving condition tr6 in the US under $30k (less than a grey market Daytona LOL). I feel like there's a lot of value here for a beautiful roadster with overdrive. Finding one with little to no rust being the challenge.
30k sounds like a lot of money, but I've been out of circulation for awhile. The last one I worked on, which was a nice one, was sold for 7k. But that, was close to twenty years ago.
 
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Waltesefalcon Waltesefalcon
30k sounds like a lot of money, but I've been out of circulation for awhile. The last one I worked on, which was a nice one, was sold for 7k. But that, was close to twenty years ago.
You can still buy one for $7k. It'll be a rusty and likely non-running project car. Not a fight I'd personally be looking to get into.
 
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Over the years I had 6 AMC Ramblers from late 60s to mid 70s models, they were good solid battering rams, heavy but seriously strong.
They were assembled locally here in Melbourne by AMI (Australian Motor Industries) from CKD kits, and marketed by Toyota dealers, under the Rambler brand long after AMC dropped that branding in the US.
 
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Nice to see @ghce ’s photo of the Ford Zodiac.

In 1956, my parents moved the family from Bolton to London and my dad started working at Fords in Dagenham. Through whatever scheme Ford ran for their employees, he upgraded our classic black Ford Anglia for a green/cream 'two tone' Zodiac with white-walled wheels albeit without the sun visor or additional headlamps.

I remember that the bench front seat was a novelty.

Nice to see one again.
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Nice to see @ghce ’s photo of the Ford Zodiac.

In 1956, my parents moved the family from Bolton to London and my dad started working at Fords in Dagenham. Through whatever scheme Ford ran for their employees, he upgraded our classic black Ford Anglia for a green/cream 'two tone' Zodiac with white-walled wheels albeit without the sun visor or additional headlamps.

I remember that the bench front seat was a novelty.

Nice to see one again.
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There was another MK1 there, a convertible pimped out to the max with stickers and custom art nuvo paint styling, fluffy dice etc but I was too slow with the camera. Will snap a photo of it next time.
 
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50's Bel Air, this one had a Mitsubishi 4 cyl diesel engine and Toyota gearbox. Owner/driver had become a good mechanic maintaining and rebuilding it. That me in the picture, not him.
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50's Bel Air, this one had a Mitsubishi 4 cyl diesel engine and Toyota gearbox. Owner/driver had become a good mechanic maintaining and rebuilding it. That me in the picture, not him.
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1955. The original six or 265 cid V8 had probably clocked a million miles before becoming beyond repair.
 
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280SL

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Had a little difficulty getting perspective on the side on shot
 
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Had a little difficulty getting perspective on the side on shot
I really love those. One of my grandmother's best friends had a white one with a tan top. I remember that car well.
 
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I really love those. One of my grandmother's best friends had a white one with a tan top. I remember that car well.
I drove one around London once. I was very self-conscious but also noticed the number of pedestrians who were looking at my silver hood down car as I drove past 😀
 
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One more from Cuba. I dont remember what makes this was, Buick straight eight? Lovely car.
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