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    #26
    Old cars that now look tremendous.

    I'll add the MkIII Capri to Bored's Mk I.



    The VW Corrado. (I had one of these.)



    The Vauxhall Chevette



    Volvo P1800



    VW Karmann Ghia



    Morris traveller



    Ford Zephyr

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      #27
      Old cars that now look tremendous.

      Gilbern Invader



      Jensen Interceptor

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        #28
        Old cars that now look tremendous.

        The Corrado there made me think of old Scirocco as well, and of course the Golf.

        But I reckon the 1980s Polo is a bit of a cracker.

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          #29
          Old cars that now look tremendous.

          hobbes wrote:

          Volvo P1800

          Brdzzzt! Repitition!

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            #30
            Old cars that now look tremendous.

            Thinking of Bored's Renault 5 plus the mini got me in mind of an arcade game from the 1990s called GTI Club, which they had at our local bowling alley. That was brilliant - you could either race them round (I think there were shortcuts) or play bomb tag (crash into each other to pass the bomb). (the rendering hasn't aged as well as the cars themselves have though)

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              #31
              Old cars that now look tremendous.

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                #32
                Old cars that now look tremendous.

                Brdzzzt! Repitition!
                Shit, of course. It was a Volvo then.
                I conflated it the Jag XJS from the Ian Ogilvy days.

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                  #33
                  Old cars that now look tremendous.

                  A couple of 60s monsters I've admired over the years:

                  Vanden Plas 4 Litre:



                  And the only Rover of the era missed, the mighty P5:

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                    #34
                    Old cars that now look tremendous.

                    The Renault 5 to go for was the Gordini Turbo.



                    Oh and don't forget the Ford Escort Mexico.

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                      #35
                      Old cars that now look tremendous.

                      Shootout of the Hot hatches:-

                      Fiesta XR2



                      Vs

                      Peugeot 205 GTi



                      Vs

                      Golf GTi Mk 1



                      Vs

                      Fiat UNO Turbo

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                        #36
                        Old cars that now look tremendous.

                        No contest. The 205 and the Golf.

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                          #37
                          Old cars that now look tremendous.

                          I quite like the old Consul.

                          And Kevinho is right about the old Polo. That is the perfect shape for a small hatchback - like a mini-estate, in order to maximise luggage space.

                          I considered getting one of them as my first car, but in the end I plumped for the Fiat Panda (a 96 model) as it has the same 'mini-estate' profile, with the vertical rear glass. (It's considerably more upright, of course.)

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                            #38
                            Old cars that now look tremendous.

                            Since Hobbes has mentioned some classic GT cars, I feel compelled to mention my favourite old GT from the 60s, the Gordon Keeble GK1:

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                              #39
                              Old cars that now look tremendous.

                              Yeah, for nailing the proportions/lines/cohesion of design/getting it all just about perfect, I've always thought the Golf/Rabbit above was the high water mark.

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                                #40
                                Old cars that now look tremendous.

                                Ad Choices is now trying to sell me a Vauxhall. I don't know which thread will have generated that one.

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                                  #41
                                  Old cars that now look tremendous.

                                  We had a number of Warthogs during the late seventies and early eighties. Mainly painted in black Hammerite.

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                                    #42
                                    Old cars that now look tremendous.

                                    Sits With Rivelinho wrote: Mrs. S's stepbrother used to have one of these, with "suicide" back doors. In two-tone green like this if memory serves:

                                    There's an all-grey one of those in day-to-day use here in Pinner.

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                                      #43
                                      Old cars that now look tremendous.

                                      What's that one up top, GO?

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                                        #44
                                        Old cars that now look tremendous.

                                        A Wartburg estate. As wrongly posted by Sits in the other thread...

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                                          #45
                                          Old cars that now look tremendous.

                                          I can understand the hatred of the AMC Gremlin, but I think they look pretty sharp when done right. My best mate had one in high school, and it was a horror show.

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                                            #46
                                            Old cars that now look tremendous.



                                            Well I thought it looked good, even if they were a bag of spanners

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                                              #47
                                              Old cars that now look tremendous.

                                              Talking of attractive bags of spanners:-

                                              Reliant Scimitar GTE



                                              And the SE4

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                                                #48
                                                Old cars that now look tremendous.

                                                My dad had one of these from '73 to '78 (exactly, colour and all). I can still remember the sound of the engine, as it roared its way to about 8 mpg.

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                                                  #49
                                                  Old cars that now look tremendous.

                                                  Gangster Octopus wrote:
                                                  Originally posted by Sits With Rivelinho
                                                  Mrs. S's stepbrother used to have one of these, with "suicide" back doors. In two-tone green like this if memory serves:

                                                  There's an all-grey one of those in day-to-day use here in Pinner.
                                                  I'm not sure if that's a Rover 60 or 75, if the former then it was our family car for much of my youth. My Dad had a succession of Rovers, largely because they weren't Jaguars ("only spivs drive them") but were classier than anything BMC put out at the time.

                                                  WOM my love, and ownership, of Gremlins has been recorded previously. Cobalt blue with an all white interior... [sigh]

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                                                    #50
                                                    Old cars that now look tremendous.

                                                    WOM - You should get some trim like that on your cube.

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