Today I saw a classic and took a pic thread!

carchaeologist wrote: »

This comes up as a Cortina 1300, must use cortina running gear? Strange looking car!

Yup, Cortina. Bit of history on them here
http://books.google.ie/books?id=glKW-Kh-lmcC&pg=RA1-PA392&lpg=RA1-PA392&dq=beauford+mini+body&source=bl&ots=uETrYAmbfh&sig=sJEr4xNOgmzPDXxdVOUBraR7eqE&hl=en&ei=Uq3sTavGMoOo8QOdp6WtAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=beauford%20mini%20body&f=false



Nice book for oddball info!

carchaeologist wrote: »

This comes up as a Cortina 1300, must use cortina running gear? Strange looking car!

Here is the front of that.... thing ..:

Diabhalta wrote: »

Here is the front of that.... thing ..:

Burn it with fire!!!

Scimitar GTE, notice the Morris Marina door handles on it too!

Silvera wrote: »

What is the black car beside the Marina?
Kinda reminds me of a Bristol..

You are suppose to be in awe of the Marina, not looking at that other stuff:p:D

Carrigtwohill, Cork. It's not really a classic, but is interesting enough - (especially here in Ireland). It says 120L on the bonnet - that's how they are called in Czech and in England they are called Estelle (it's a RHD, so not sure why is there a 120 badge). 120=1200cc, 105=1050cc etc. Engine is in the rear and the radiator is in front (which isn't the best combination in hot summer while you're stuck in the traffic). This car handles like a motor boat and needs some skill when driven on snow, because the front of the car is very light. Very easy to maintain and really immortal, however they are slow, loud and vast majority of them in Czech are scrapped but you can still see them in rural areas and they are still available to buy.



This is the same place 3 years ago (picture is taken from the bus). The green is 110R, very popular car in Czech and price of this car is going up every year (hopefully it wasn't scrapped). You can see next to that blue Transit light of another white 120. The red one seems to be ok back then - somebody must have wrecked it meanwhile. Shame, because put this kind of car back on the road is matter of one full box of parts (if it's mechanically sound).



This is all gone now...



There were probably two more Skodas... behind the gate on the right side..

They were all badged as 240 (260 for 6-pots) from around 1983 onwards. The 140 and 340/360 series also followed that numbering system, though the 360 was a 2.0 litre 4 cylinder.

It's interesting seeing the mix of Zastava and Yugo branding - the company was Zastava (Fiat bought them out in 2008), but Yugo was the brand they mainly used for export markets.

Tofaş is an even more obscure manufacturer - from Turkey, again making old Fiats under licence, but this Dogan yoke is actually a facelifted 131, and apparently the upmarket version

Tofaş currently manufacture the Fiat Doblo and Fiorino vans which are sold here.

G Luxel wrote: »

I know that these were sold here as Fiat-Iveco...there is one abandoned in a field outside Cork city........

This is a Zastava lorry/truck and as mentioned by zilog_jones, they were bought out by Fiat in 2008

zilog_jones wrote: »

They were all badged as 240 (260 for 6-pots) from around 1983 onwards. The 140 and 340/360 series also followed that numbering system, though the 360 was a 2.0 litre 4 cylinder.

One Volvo mechanic was explaining these codes to me years ago, so you're probably right, because I'm not really sure. By the way that 2.0 litre 4cyl engine in 360s was a Volvo engine and those 1.4 and 1.7 in 340s were from Renault. I used to drive daily for almost two years a Volvo 360 and even that it's not widely accepted by enthusiasts as a real Volvo this 3 series were great cars. They had Leaf springs on the rear so they were like nailed in the corners but on the other hand this wasn't that great feature on the bumpy roads and potholes, because the rear was bouncing, therefore the drive wasn't that comfortable. They also had transmission between the rear wheels so the weight distribution was better and the car was less likely to understeer. That 2.0 had 100HP which was really enough for this kind of car and had pretty good acceleration. The air vents were adjustable for each passenger separately, so driver could turn off the rear vents and use just the front. It had a small light above the ignition box when the door was opened, rear arm rest and really comfy seats etc etc.

I still have this car, but for last three years it's sitting and rotting. It had some troubles to pass the NCT back then and at this point fate of this car is in the stars. I will see how expensive it will be to put it back on the road, but i really don't know when it comes to this and as the time goes the chances are smaller and smaller. The guy who has this car on his field said that it would be great to put there 2.3 engine with turbo. I think it's really a good idea, question is if the state of the car will be good enough for this (wheel arches and doors on drivers side were already quite bad). Volvo 300 is a great car, that's for sure (until today i still have the Volvo keyrings on my keys to remind me this car). Sorry for offtopic, my apologies.. Little bit of nostalgia fell upon me.

Here is a link for some picture of the launch of TCOC's 4 Provinces in a Classic at the Mansion House. If you don't know what the project is about, read through the posts before the pics otherwise, scroll down!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056279188

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