breakdown truck

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Re: breakdown truck

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suffolkpete wrote:
JPB wrote: One of these days I'll find a genuine, unrestored and rot-free RHD Tagora Diesel auto in the UK with one owner, low miles and on sale at under £2000, :x
I think you'll be waiting a long time, Tagoras in the UK are rarer than the proverbial rocking-horse droppings, however if you want to lust over a field full of immaculate examples, come to the Simca Matra Talbot international meeting at Beaulieu on 11-13th July 2014. ;)
:) I might just do that if I can wangle some time off so close to the end of the working year. Yes, I really would do a 680 mile round trip to look at a Talbot Tagora or two, even if their steering wheels are in the wrong place.

Rich, I'm not afraid of LHD, indeed I've owned around half a dozen LHD cars among the many (91 and quantity subject to upward fluctuation :oops: ) vehicles that have been registered in my name since I passed my car test in 1981. But I do like a challenge sometimes. Indeed I actively sought out a LHD Reliant kitten once, only because nobody else had one in the UK at that time. ;)
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#42 Post by rich. »

good lad!!
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#43 Post by Grumpy Northener »

One of these days I'll find a genuine, unrestored and rot-free RHD Tagora Diesel auto in the UK
:lol: :lol: :lol: Ho so very funny John - Back in the very early 80's I worked in a Talbot / Fiat main dealership - both were as bad as each other with Tagora's & 131's being treated to extensive paint / body retifaction as part of the PDI process - we were doing complete repaints on brand new cars that just had come off the transporter fresh from the factory :o The Alpines were not that much better either
1937 Jowett 8 - Project - in less pieces than the Jupiter
1943 Jowett Stationary Engine
1952 Jowett Jupiter - In lots of peices http://Jowett.org/
1952 Jowett Javelin - Largely original
1973 Rover P6 V8 - Original / 22,000 miles
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#44 Post by JPB »

Oh ye of little faith! ;) Autoshite members occasionally dig them up among the slightly less rare Polski-Fiat 125Ps and Simca 1301s so I'm certain that somewhere, there's one awaiting my discovery of it. :(
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#45 Post by rich. »

you are the eternal optimist... you live the dream.... :D
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#47 Post by JPB »

I like that three wheeled moped thing, but what is the white blotchy bit - that someone's added to the picture with editing software - hiding? Maybe there's a naked woman beside the car?
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#48 Post by rich. »

is it that fan of automotive oddities ms friel?
your eyesights better than mine :D
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