Let's Play, WTF is That!?!

[Abscate]

[finster]

"It can’t be British, both taillights are working"

probably because it's been restored with chinese parts!

the seventies were the nadir of the british motor industry
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[GArBa]

[Rick Anderson]

My '59 Beetle and it's older two-wheeled German sibling - a 1957 Maicomobil.

And once again with a few more Germans - a Heinkel Tourist and a Maicoletta

[finster]

that's no fun, you told us what they are! nice bikes though, I always liked the look of the heinkel tourist. the maicomobil has uk reg plates for london...
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[Emily's Owner]

[KTPhil]

About 30 years ago, my brother's brother-in-law rented a beautiful Rolls Royce Silver Shadow convertible for the day of his wedding. Of course we had to check it out, and popped the hood.

In this example of British Motoring, the Queen's car... was a Frigidaire A/C compressor and an AC/Delco alternator.

I guess the embarrassment of this offense was less than the sight of a RR being towed for electrical failures!

I've got a photo of my brother in his surfing jams in the driver's seat with his board hanging our the back seat, hilarious!

As we drove around in jeans and t-shirts, we figured we looked like either drug dealers or rock stars.

[busdaddy]

Was there a bottle of Grey Poupon in the glove box?
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[notchboy]

[ToolBox]

[finster]

I used to know somebody who worked at the RR works in the eighties. he said everything was was graded into three levels - top, good, acceptable. the cars with all the top rated parts/finish went to the arabs, good ones to the states and the home market got the 'acceptable'. this was driven by the importance of the markets and the fact that the brits would accept anything with an RR badge and were less prone to complain or fuss.
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[EverettB]

I saw this today on a side street.

Convertible Beetle and ?

Any guesses?
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[mukluk]

Fiat 126
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1960 Ragtop w/Semaphores "Inga"

[GArBa]

from the shape of the logo & badge on the engine cover, I'd say a FSM 126p (same thing as a FIAT 126, all later 126s sold internationally were made by FSM anyway)
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'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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[finster]

I've owned a couple of fiat 126 cars in the past, a good cheap and cheerful drive although sadly both were solid roof cars without sunroofs. saw loads of the polski fiats running around poland in the mid 90s during a visit - seemed no limit on what people would load into/onto them - they called it 'maluch' or toddler.
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[EverettB]

Cool, they actually have at least 2 of them so they must like them.

There's a blue one too but it was behind a fence so hard to take a photo.
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[GArBa]

It's a nice and fun car to drive, we had one in the family but quality was a bit hit and miss, I remember it spending more time being fixed than driven.
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cars:
'97 type 1 1600i
'14 type AA Seat Mii (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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moped:
'82 Benelli Magnum 3v

[mark tucker]

sounds like the members vw's in our local vw club...perhaps they need some old fiats!!

[Abscate]

That’s why is called ‘ fiat money’

Fix it again, Tony
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[GArBa]

Ok, this is a prototype... but no googling please.

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cars:
'97 type 1 1600i
'14 type AA Seat Mii (sadly dead after 270.000 km)
'22 type C1 T-Cross
'23 type AC3 Hyundai I10 (VW no longer makes small cars!)
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moped:
'82 Benelli Magnum 3v