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talbot horizonarthurbrown
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Jul 26, 2007 12:59:03 GMT
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I'll take the furgoneta mixta comercial e isotermo Talbot Horizon diesel please. Preferably with a mixed cargo of goats and chickens. Mediterrainian peasant wagons ftw.
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Jul 26, 2007 13:02:00 GMT
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I've been having dirty thoughts about that one too, not about goats and chickens though. Never seen that one before. Oh, and I also want the one below that very veery much, please Santa...
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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talbot horizonDez
@dez
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Jul 26, 2007 13:56:59 GMT
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we (me and a couple of mates) had one of these as a field car when I was about 14. it has been rally prepped(offroad tyres, bash plates underneath, harder shocks, stripped out, etc.) we bought it form the local car auctions for the lowest possible price of £1 + the minimium £20 comission. it was brush painted brown, with all the suspension and engine bits painted red, and the remains of abeige interior. classy. that was 8-9 years ago, and it was terminally rotten then. we found the entire front wing was made of ally gauze and filler when we sideswiped an oak tree the headlight fell out so we then drove it with the passenger shining a 100000 candle power spotlamp out of the windscreen they jump well though, it used to fly over the 25 foot long bmx tabletop using the landing as the takeoff and clearing the whole thing. until we rolled it and it was too bent and bashed to carry on, and it was duly scrapped and replaced with a mk1 fester, which was pants in comparison.
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Last Edit: Jul 26, 2007 13:58:57 GMT by Dez
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redgt2
Part of things
praise the lowered!
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Jul 26, 2007 19:22:04 GMT
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update on the horizon........................................................................
ok that's too far away so i will give you the update now...lol
fantastic nick for age... looks like a metallic champagne colour with a brown metallic middle bit...wheels look TOTR for one of these..not sure if alloy or wheel trim..apparently it needs one bit weldin but that maybe the exhaust which is known to be knacked....
oh and its a special edition...says on the boot..lol
if anyone is interested in gettin' it back on the road let me know and if the chap sells it i'll mention it to ya sometime down the line...
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Jul 26, 2007 20:47:03 GMT
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This is one I had a couple of years ago.
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bobz
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Jul 26, 2007 22:05:52 GMT
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update on the horizon........................................................................ ok that's too far away so I will give you the update now...lol fantastic nick for age... looks like a metallic champagne colour with a brown metallic middle bit...wheels look TOTR for one of these..not sure if alloy or wheel trim..apparently it needs one bit weldin but that maybe the exhaust which is known to be knacked.... oh and its a special edition...says on the boot..lol if anyone is interested in gettin' it back on the road let me know and if the chap sells it i'll mention it to ya sometime down the line... Oooo, Gold and Brown with alloys, that should make it a 1500 Pullman, it should have PAS
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Last Edit: Jul 26, 2007 22:06:37 GMT by bobz
Don't plan anything, it'll start raining!
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Jul 26, 2007 22:13:52 GMT
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update on the horizon........................................................................ ok that's too far away so I will give you the update now...lol fantastic nick for age... looks like a metallic champagne colour with a brown metallic middle bit...wheels look TOTR for one of these..not sure if alloy or wheel trim..apparently it needs one bit weldin but that maybe the exhaust which is known to be knacked.... oh and its a special edition...says on the boot..lol if anyone is interested in gettin' it back on the road let me know and if the chap sells it i'll mention it to ya sometime down the line... Oooo, Gold and Brown with alloys, that should make it a 1500 Pullman, it should have PAS Mine was a Pullman and it had power steering and it was an automatic that was supposedly never made!
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redgt2
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praise the lowered!
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Jul 26, 2007 22:20:01 GMT
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I need to add a pic to this thread don't I?
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talbot horizonbriandamaged
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Jul 26, 2007 22:29:37 GMT
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There....an ocean of puppy poo. ;D
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redgt2
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praise the lowered!
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Jul 26, 2007 22:51:25 GMT
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yeh but TM yours looks like a lotus sunbeam if u were to look very quickly and didn't have ya talbot thinkin' cap on....
reminds me of a dude i knew with a J reg red toyota supra...he pulled some bird in a nightclub but didn't think he would get lucky...she was well fit and luckily for him blonde..she took one look at his car and said,"wow a Ferrari"... needless to say he got laid....lol
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I can't think about these Horizons without remembering:
1. The tappet noise from afar 2. The TV advert sung by some bint off who looked like she'd just done good service in a shampoo ad. Was it Petula Clarke?
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Jul 27, 2007 19:45:41 GMT
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yeh but TM yours looks like a lotus sunbeam if u were to look very quickly and didn't have ya talbot thinkin' cap on.... How does it look like a Lotus Sunbeam, I can't see that not even if i squint a bit!
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impmann
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Overcoming stupidity is the greatest challenge left to mankind
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Jul 28, 2007 16:26:50 GMT
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Guys, Its rare that I criticise anyone/anything said on here but: "Good Handling" WTF? These things have EVIL handling, with understeer that is legendary. They are horrid things to fling around. My wife nearly died trying to drive one around East Sussex in the rain - it just wouldn't turn in. New tyres didn't help. Only slowing down to the sorts of speed that get snails impatient meant that tyre squeel and clenched cheeks didn't ensue in the corners. We had one back in 2003 - our everyday car was destroyed in a serious crash and we needed something cheap to smoke around until the insurance paid out. And £100 later, an ultra- low mile burgandy Horrorzone ended up sat on the driveway. And it was shockingly poor - the only things I can say about it that were kind were: 1) it had a good flat load carrying bay 2) it cost £100 3) we sold it for more than we paid for it. And that is about it. Random stupidity about these cars: the alternator fitted to "our" one was only fitted for a three month period as an interim measure meaning that locating a replacement when it inevitably ate itself, inevitably in the p1ssing rain on a Friday night in rush hour on the A2 by Bluewater was something akin to finding poor quality wobbly children's play pony droppings whilst pogo-sticking backwards up Mt Everest. Speedy Spares found one, but it entailled going down there and physically searching through boxes of unlablled Alternators until we found something that was almost the same. When eventually we managed to palm the blasted thing off on some mad collector fella who exported it to Australia (apparently, they were never exported there originally so my old shed is the only one in the country - Sorry, Australia!), we actually danced in the road outside our house. They are truly rubbish IMHO and if there are only 6 left on the UK roads its for a good reason. I mean, if they were any good people would bother to save them, right? And me - I HATE them with a passion. On a positive note, there is a Talbot Sunbeam laid up on the driveway across the road from my house. Looks kinda cool with its green tartan seats!! ;D
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1964 Hillman Imp 1976 Hillman Imp 1967 Hillman Imp (And a few projects dotted around the country)
Just cos something is good for you doesn't mean its good for everyone - for example Marmite does not make good Dog Food.
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Jul 28, 2007 16:43:31 GMT
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Haha Tim, you sure know how to sell a car! Although a description like that probably COULD sell a car on here actually. This has to be one of the only places on the net where useless tat is actually appreciated (Also, that talbot over the road, you not nicked the lump yet to make a 930 for one of the imps?!)
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Jul 28, 2007 20:09:51 GMT
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I can't think about these Horizons without remembering: 1. The tappet noise from afar 2. The TV advert sung by some bint off who looked like she'd just done good service in a shampoo ad. Was it Petula Clarke? It was actualy the Sunbeam.... www.peterice.com/petulaclarksunbeam.htm
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.
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