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Being the very new proprietor of new-to-me Peugeot estate got me thinking about the marque, when I remembered that I really used to fancy a particular Peugeot back when I was a kid. It was the Peugeot 505, and the only model that ever really had a foothold in Canada.
We were travelling across the West to the Rockies in Alberta once, and there was one parked outside our motel. I remember talking to my dad about it, and saying that I liked the way it looked - especially its cool front lights shape.
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Any odd* cars you fancied in your childhood?
*Odd meaning the sort of car that would be less likely to have attracted the interest of your mates.
In the late 70s a chap in our village used to own one of these Talbots - as a kid I thought it was dead cool!...
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...can't say I'd want one now though! 😀
Both of the above are ace :-D.
Subaru pickup would be my choice.
My dad's mate had eclectic tastes in cars when I was growing up. He had a Bond Bug at one time! 😀
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The car I remember most was a Citroen CX that my dad borrowed off him for some reason (can't remember why now). I thought it was fantastic and long held the belief that I'd own one one day. I remember persuading my dad to get me a brochure from the local Citroen dealer and cutting out all the pics and pinning them on my bedroom wall.
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As a teenager I was obsessed with having a Bedford CF2 Van and converting it into a camper / party bus / A-team command centre
.....bought an Austin mini Metro instead.
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also wanted one of these...
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perchy, we had a CF2 with that exact colour scheme! It even had a sunroof.
Argyll GT
When I was in my early 20s I used to want one of these, but could never afford it....
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...is impressed
I wanted a Fiat X19 a lot at one point.
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It probably would have been even more of a money pit than the 25 year old S2a Landy that I ended up buying.
I always wanted a Volvo 480 when I was a yoof...
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Skoda 110R/130RS.
Still want one.
Any thing from Citroen's acid days.
I had a Dyane, which was an amazing car in so many ways.
Actually, a brand new C15 van would be lovely.
footflaps - MemberWhen I was in my early 20s I used to want one of these, but could never afford it....
Is a Golf VR6 an 'odd' car for someone to want, then?!
Not from my childhood but strangely appealing. Shame Renault politics did their best to kill it
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I had an X19 - cracking little car - stuck an Uno Turbo lump in it, then a 20V Coupe Turbo - used to eat GTI's, etc for breakfast!
Have a hankering to do another with a full digital dash, this time.
The Argyll was made in Lochgilphead (where i went to school for a few years back in early 80's) and my mums dad used to occasionally do work for Bob, he had a tiny workshop which was full of stuff that fascinated me as a kid and i used to love going for test drives down to Inveraray and back as it felt like getting into a spaceship but more often than not there was mechanical issues with the cars and they ended up getting trailered back to the workshop. For a brief time though i was the most popular kid in the school 😀
I'll pop over later and see if my mum has any pics in her scrapbook.
Bedford van and 480 +1 . I think, if I analyse that, it's probably because I had the matchbox cars.
I still want a vauxhall viva hc or firenza. Not even a droop snoot, a normal one. But I think these days you basically have to buy a VIN plate and a ton of sheet metal and make your own
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I like the Avantime! shame they didn't do a 2.0 diesel version!
Had a 480, great car!
I have some saddo cars at the moment, including an Austin Princess and a Reanult 5 Monaco.
I had me one of these when all my mates were lusting after XR2's and 205 GTI's.
Ugly but well hung.
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Percy I had the Alpine version of the 5. Awesome little car, lost my licence with that one...
Ahem....
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In the later 80s I fancied one of these!...
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Mitsubishi Galant as a wee little lad
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Is a Golf VR6 an 'odd' car for someone to want, then?!
No idea. In my 30s I finally could afford a nice car, so bought the VR6's successor the Golf V6 4motion (1st car with the Haldex AWD system). Absolutely loved it, even though it drank petrol like is was going out of fashion...
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The X1-9 was a good car to get parts off for my Panda. I was planning on stealing the wheels off a breaker's one when I got rid of the 4x4 and bought a Mk. 2 Golf GTi.
After my dad bought one, I always fancied the Rover Vanden Plas. It was the first car that I ever saw a V8 in and was one of the most luxurious vehicles I have ever been driven around in. Then my mum killed it. I remember wanting the salvage the engine out of it...
Lada Niva Cossack! Love em. Apparently you can still buy them new, but i'm not spending 10k on one!!
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Woke up one morning when I was about 6 and found this in my Dad's Garage......It was a prize in a CoCa Cola competition and he was delivering it to the lucky winner...
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Denim upholstery and a fridge in the boot....full of Coke.
Pretty cool when you're six.
I fancied a Peugeot 405 Mi16 4x4, which you could get in NZ, but they didn't bring to Oz. T16 would be even better.
Galants/Legnums are ace. Face like a scottish granny playing bingo.
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Still lust after them now.
I had a Citroen BX which looked like that. It was the best ever car I've owned for long journeys, (and I was travelling for work back then, so it did plenty of them.) Finally got rid of it at 180k miles as the hydraulics were just too expensive. My cousin had a 16v one. Mental.
Anyhow, wanted one like this. Owned one briefly and would again, but arkward to Cary a bike.
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When I was 8, this is all I wanted:
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When I was 12, I tried to persuade my dad to get one of these:
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I failed.
And when I was about 20 I wanted one of these:
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I failed.
I did however get one of these:
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love to have a go in these, not sure I'd want to own one though
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What's the second thing you posted, klunk?
I had a BX, one of the first ones. It was sh!te. Possibly due to being pre-owned by my dad, I don't know, the choke valve would stick open in cold or when it felt like it.
Should never had traded from the GSA. Did have a big carrying capacity though.
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went bust in 2009 (theres was a top gear review IIRC Clarkson liked it, lots of references to dope smoking dutch madness)
it was hamster
I learned to drive on one of these bad boys. 8)
It was quirky, futuristic, went like a train (to my 17 year old foot anyway) and did silly miles (iirc, we sold it to a work colleague of my dad who saw 200k on it)
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Always thought there was something strangely appealing about these ugly mofos:
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One of those cars that, right from the moment it was released, looked like a concept car from a previous decade.
Alfa Romeo Montreal.
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2.6l V8 and a new body on the chassis of the Giulia coupe. Not great to drive allegedly, but quite a looker ( in my 20 year old eyes at least)
On the BX thread within a thread, my BX16v was absoultely fantastic to drive with excellent brakes, superb combination of supple suspension and nearly neutral handling for a front driver and close to 150 hp/ton .... When it was working properly.
It even broke down on the way back home from picking it up for the first time- the pipe from high pressure pump to accumulator fractured, spraying hydraulic oil over the hot exhaust manifold. In the 10 months I owned it it was working as it should for about 6 weeks, but not consecutive weeks. When the same pipe fractured for a second time I decided we had to part company.
I also forgot this one. Maybe it was because we had it for a lovely fortnights honeymoon on the west of Scotland, maybe it was the quickest car I had driven to date, but by 'eck it was fun.
IIRC, it was a 2.0 petrol and Volcane model with uber stiff springs. Proper hot hatch territory that nearly had me into Loch Sunart more than once 😯
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*Edit* Completely ballsed up a load of links. Harrumph.
Sorry about that. Ignore me, carry on....
One of those great big Peugeot Estates from the 70/80's.