I may have mentioned that my Step Father was the Steward of the Sunningdale Gold Club, there were many, many lovely cars in the carpark, including, a Monteverdi 375!
However, I was but a callow youth and the sous chef's hot Anglia was the only car for me!
Though I did rather like the first XJ6's especially the lilac one!
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Re: Forgotten cars
I’m sure some of the youth on here may not be aware of some of these, but for more mature of us here’s some reminders of some mid 60’s muscle.
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Re: Forgotten cars
Another fan of the DeTomaso Longchamp here. Like a Ferrari 400, but for proper bastards rather than complete cunts.*
I’ve only ever seen a Monteverdi once; in the pit lane at Santa Pod in 1973. It wasn’t starting, several blokes were fiddling with it, two massive 4 barrel carburetters on long inlet manifolds suggested “tuning”. The closest that it got to running whilst I watched was an impressive blowback and carb-fire.
**Actually I really fancy a Ferrari 400 automatic: nearly as good as an XJS but significantly prettier.
I’ve only ever seen a Monteverdi once; in the pit lane at Santa Pod in 1973. It wasn’t starting, several blokes were fiddling with it, two massive 4 barrel carburetters on long inlet manifolds suggested “tuning”. The closest that it got to running whilst I watched was an impressive blowback and carb-fire.
**Actually I really fancy a Ferrari 400 automatic: nearly as good as an XJS but significantly prettier.
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Re: Forgotten cars
It does seem to be a common denominator that these exoticars running pretty stock American engines have a lot more trouble with the installation than the donor vehicles.
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Re: Forgotten cars
Iso Lele.
About forty years ago I met a bloke in a massive shed in the middle of Hereford who was selling an Ro80. In that shed in a cloud of cold-running autochoke-smoke was a yellow Iso Lele. It seemed to be hovering like a spaceship. There was at least one, maybe two, other Leles in there. Some rotten S800s and the NSU. Which was much worse than the one that I had just got rid of for half the price.
I’d never seen an Iso outside of my Observers Automobiles. Not seen one since. Awkward looking thing.
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Re: Forgotten cars
Intermeccanica Indra. Corvette-powered, hand-built steel body styled by Scaglioni. 27 fastbacks were built and a number of earlier notchback cars although the only ones I believed to sell in any number at all were these handsome fastbacks.
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I love this one.
I keep floating the idea of one instead of another waggon but no dice.
I keep floating the idea of one instead of another waggon but no dice.
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Re: Forgotten cars
It is very hard not to love the Grifo.
I particularly like the rear view. It gives of the vibe of the bastard love child of an AM V8 and a Ghibli.
Not everything from Isi was a success. In order to maintain the yin yang balance of the universe they were forced to make the Fidia absolutely gopping.
Although the car wins some points back by causing a small inward smile every time I mis-read its name as "Flidia".
I particularly like the rear view. It gives of the vibe of the bastard love child of an AM V8 and a Ghibli.
Not everything from Isi was a success. In order to maintain the yin yang balance of the universe they were forced to make the Fidia absolutely gopping.
Although the car wins some points back by causing a small inward smile every time I mis-read its name as "Flidia".