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To skip back a bit, my dad (also a mechanic) had one of these with a Fiat 2l twin cam from a 131 bolted into it. Lairiest tail happy thing I ever drove. Terrifying.
I'll see your Boomerang and raise you a Bulldog.
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Turner Guy you little rascal 😆
Ha ha the Fuego was just awful 😆
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Just to balance this thread back to the uncool. I wanted one of these, then I owned one, then I didn't.
That old Alfa GTV is one of the coolest cars EVER made
My Dad had one - I learnt to drive on it - he very nearly bought a Renault 17TS instead of it but I think one of the electric windows on it failed as we were looking at it.
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How about a Kia Soul then, which I think doesn't look too bad:
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or
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or Nissan Cube:
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I don't mind the Juke:
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My mother had a Singer Chamois:
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And my father had a couple of Sunbeam Rapiers:
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which were a lot better looking that the Rapier that came after it:
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For me
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Uncool you say? I had one of these and I'd have another in a heartbeat.
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Mine handled like a dream, did 40mpg and was one of the most rewarding cars I've ever driven.
I'd also have one of these:
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My brother had one, it felt a lot like the Golf - as it should, for they shared a floorpan and front suspension, but was much more refined and with the active rear axle it tucked into corners beautifully. I suspect it's a rubbish track car with all that weight in the nose, but as a road car it was sublime.
Disappointingly I have not found anything Barryish to post on this thread.
However, for those wanting a good read I'd recommend the following.
http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=33064
Takes a few pages to get going, but is a jolly good read. I rate it up there in the company of such esteemed STW threads as "What's this joker on about"
Silly Barry
My old Merc - The Great Blue Shark - the best car i've ever had
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When the Allegro got "vroomier"
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I never knew that they build a hot Allegro.
Hideous cars!! 😀
Amazingly another Multipla fan (the older shape though). insurace for me is coming out at about £2k though. Though thats becausehaving a multipla as a first car is a little unwise really.
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Pigface - MemberI give up in what universe is a Uno Turbo not cool, driving one was like being in a rocket propelled tin can.
eeerrrrrr in any universe that still have a fiat uno in it! Its a fiat uno with a turbo! sooooo uncool its not even funny 😉
I had a fiat uno btw and loved it, hence I will have the ie at some point.
But cool it is not 🙂
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Even though it was a "sporty" Allegro, the marketing people could never get away from beige! (never seen a beige ferrari.....)
I give up in what universe is a Uno Turbo not cool, driving one was like being in a rocket propelled tin can.
Tell me about it Pigface! My mate had one. I think describing at a tin can would be giving Fiat build quality a reverence it barely deserves. It still is the most utterly insane vehicle I've ever been in. I've been in a lot faster cars, but nothing felt as life-threatening as that thing! Like putting a jet engine in a roller skate!!
I had one of those Alfas
1966 Giulia sprint gt veloce from California
It had a later interior and front panel and I just didn't have the cash for getting it back to original
Sold it for under £4k about 3 years ago. The bloke that bought it got the correct step nose front panel fitted at an alfa specialist about a year ago. The specialist told him it was the cleanest body he'dever seen on a 105 coupe
Going to regret getting rid of that car for a long time
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I used to have one of these and loved it. They are now some of the worst of the boy racer modded cars I see on the roads and it makes me cry 😥
Still secretly want one... until I remember it's problems.
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Just before I sold 🙁
Ha ha Binners I am glad you understand. Simply the maddest vehicle I have ever driven, left you shaking with a mix of adrenaline and mortal fear but wanting to have another go 😆
Nothing has ever come close to it apart from the first Renault 5 GT Turbo, then they calmed them down as well.
Nothing has ever come close to it apart from the first Renault 5 GT Turbo, then they calmed them down as well.
I used to know a guy who had one of those. The turbo gave it a massive, sudden burst of power but the lag was about a fortnight; probably explains why most of them ended their days in a field behind a hedge, upside down and rotating quietly.
These are seriously uncool
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I have had 2 of these in my life, one was cruched by my parents while i was on holiday and the other ended up on its roof in brockswood golf course.
RIP the LRO.
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OK, here's another Alfa then:
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Loads of not uncool stuff here!! Volvo and Skoda excluded.
This was a childhood dream car
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I think the cool/uncool decision should be made as if Top Gear was doing it...unfortunately. If you think they would rate the car uncool then its in!
Those cars are not uncool at all - you want them because they are quirky hip trendy cool.
This is what I want, and is the least cool car here:
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Estates are never cool, so an estate version of the much-maligned XJS can only be the automotive equivalent of Dwayne Dibley.
And I want one.
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This
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That Talbot would be the ultimate MTB vehicle
I do remember working on similar Talbots back in the day and they were horrible vehicles - but they did have a certain charm 🙂
Jools - that pick looks like the back of Mam Tor?
Always wanted one as a kid and, as I'm still a kid, I still want one:
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Jools182 I had a 1600gt junior...
Messiah, a mate of mine has a g60, and besides that frowny headlight thing and the borbets, his [i]looks[/i] rather unmolested. It has got blue hoses and then he lost me on whatever else he did to the engine, and he claims he 'lost' an r32 on the motorway down here last time I saw him. 😀
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There are a couple of roadgoing (just!) UMM's that live near me too. Well uncool and I so want a go in one!
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I remember working for McAlpine and the site agents had Cavalier Commanders, thought they were very cool back then.
http://howrareismycar.co.uk/cars/remaining/6/make/VAUXHALL/model/CAVALIER+COMMANDER/page-1.html
Cool site to find how many cars are left.
Rogerthecat - Yup its top of the broken road
Bikebouy - pics
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With you on the Matra Rancho. Must have been the same for whoever designed the Discovery
Saabs are never uncool
Unless they're a badly restyled Subaru
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Argh, my eyes.
Soooo, uncool.
Especially as I have one! 🙂
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Captain Flashheart - spot on - very cool car!
Damn! 😉