Forgotten cars

[Drum]

Some of these lists are shite click bait but this did throw up some cars I'd never heard of, never mind forgotten.

https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/to ... z#image=20

The monteverdi 375 was one I lusted after having had it in a set of top trumps. That and a DeTomasa Pantera

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[JimH]

How could anyone forget Monteverdi? Not when they could design a chassis like this.



Christ on a crutch.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

These will never be forgotten by me , my favourite toy as a kid was my Dinky 375, even after the chrome window frames fell off.

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This has been my iPad opening page for years

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And Hadleigh ( a sort of posher Saint) drove one of only half a dozen RHD Monteverdis.

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I love all Yank engined big coupes from Gordon Keebles and Bristols to Jensens and deTomasos but apart from an AC 428 I think a 375 would be first on the Euromillions list.

[Warren t claim]

These will never be forgotten by me , my favourite toy as a kid was my Dinky 375, even after the chrome window frames fell off.
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This has been my iPad opening page for years
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And Hadleigh ( a sort of posher Saint) drove one of only half a dozen RHD Monteverdis.
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I love all Yank engined big coupes from Gordon Keebles and Bristols to Jensens and deTomasos but apart from an AC 428 I think a 375 would be first on the Euromillions list.

Not an Iso?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

These will never be forgotten by me , my favourite toy as a kid was my Dinky 375, even after the chrome window frames fell off.
D0C6EDA6-9C04-49BC-B1AB-F732D5055B0A.jpeg

This has been my iPad opening page for years
E59BA871-3357-4496-B830-CFA6702BB822.jpeg

And Hadleigh ( a sort of posher Saint) drove one of only half a dozen RHD Monteverdis.
1093DDCC-EF05-440E-98FE-F314FFCFE20F.jpeg.

I love all Yank engined big coupes from Gordon Keebles and Bristols to Jensens and deTomasos but apart from an AC 428 I think a 375 would be first on the Euromillions list.

Not an Iso?

If you mention ISO or Facel Vega you might summon The Austrian.

[Hooli]

Especially if you mention the US spec lights they got when imported over there.

[JimH]

If I were going on a spending spree my first yank-tie would be a Longchamp GTSE. There is just something so delightfully batshit mental about them.



There is plenty of other merkin V8 engined stuff I would like but I draw the line at the Monteverdi rubbish.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The biggest issue for all those 70’s Anglo, Italian evenFrench ( remember Monica) Yank V8 things was this:

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In most cases a quarter of the price, faster, more refined and a dealer in every town. It was better than the real exotic Italian and German coupes too.

But it’s ugly you might have said then, now of course since Bangle and the bloody Japanese and Koreans changed the definition of ugly, it’s beautiful. I give you :

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[Hooli]

The XJ-S is better looking than an E-Type in my eyes. Until you go racing & then the lightweight E-Type just wins on the looks department.

[JimH]

Yeah, but the existence of a remotely properly engineered car for a fraction of the price makes the sheer mentalness of the Longchamp even more mental.