The growl of the deuce and half is always something to behold. A well “sticked” centurion ARV is something else though with the meteor growling in the arse end.
They do seem to be cycling upwards. I even saw an example of my Daf 66 coupe - admittedly pretty much concours - asking 12k.
On a more mundane note the humble Peugeot 104 is now being advertised for up to 5k and 40k for the ZS model.
I have my eye on another Lancia HPE before they go silly.
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Its all doom and gloom in the world at the moment so lets start a happy thread.
Owning a classic car is becoming increasingly trendy in France ‘youngtimers’ !!!. Loads around where i live.
I have my beloved Saab 900 classic but I would love to own a Lancia Integrale. (I think I have something in common with a member on here !!)
So what classic car would you love to own and drive in France ?
I Think i have finally managed the upload…
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Delta HF by any chance?. If so then do a welding course beforehand.
Not if you source them in the right place.
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most of the ones i have seen needed extensive welding doing to them. The best one i have seen came from California… A Stratos would be nice.
No contest for me. After having owned over 80 cars, the best were: Standard Flying 9; NSU Ro80; Saab 9000Carlsson; Subaru XT; TR2 (my first). The worst: Ford Granada sweepback; Cortina GT; Riley 1300Kestrel; VW Passat; and many others…(All these are, of course, IMHO)
My choice couldn’t be anything other than the Ro80. I rebuilt one of their engines - without any special tools! Such a pity their engines were so under-developed.
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A friend’s Dad had an Ro 80 when we were about sixteen. An amazing car but it killed NSU. I had a NSU TTS as my first car not long afterwards.
The Wankel concept, while elegant, initially had all those seal issues (is that why you rebuilt it 
) though Mazda seems to have fixed that. A colleague had an RX7 as a company car years ago which he seemed to like. Though I’m sure he wouldn’t have bought it with his own money. I guess that was the height of rotary development but I don’t think the squishy combustion chamber was ever really going to work from an emissions or economy point of view.
About ten years ago, the late lamented Andrew Brodie a good pal and a leading Citroen expert, especially SMs, offered me a GS Rotary with a spare engine! They’re very rare because Citroen bought most of them back and crushed them. In retrospect I should have bought it. The GS is a lovely car and I wouldn’t have done enough miles in her to blow two engines.
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I passed my test in a GS. I saw Wankel engined GS at a car meet las summer.
I’ve just spent half an hour looking for a photo of it without success. 
I wanted to post a pic - how do you do it?
But I did find this - and one of the Ro80s I owned is seen for a few seconds at 2m20sec. Reg. NHV 619L
Maybe the one I turned down 
I did mention it to Brodie again but he’d already sold the spare engine and I thought one might not be enough with what I presumed would be limited spares
Hopefully when life returns to normalish I will get another chance. I’m fairly sure I know who it belongs to but he normally turns up in his Panhard.
some memories… great photos…
I was offered one for £200 by some departing Aussies who used it as a daily driver round London. Trouble was, at the time £200 was 8 weeks wages…
But when money was a bit more available I became a Citroenophile - 1 xCX, 2 x DS, 1 x BX, 2 x GS, 4 x Dyane.
1 Dyane was stolen before I could get back to where it was parked, having paid - probably by the seller.
Another caught fire and burnt to cinders on the slip road into Heston Services M4 westbound. I only turned off because the g/f, who was always complaining that smells in cars made her feel sick, kept moaning about smelling ‘something hot’. As we slowed down from 60mph to about 20mph flames burst through the bulkhead at her feet.
I’d been given this Dyane by a multi-millionairess friend who had got bored with ‘slumming it’. She bought a Saab drophead, not knowing that underneath it was actually a Vauxhall Vectra. 
I’d like a convertible Maruti ambassador or diplomat I’m not sure what it is called - I think it is originally some old British car. Or a traction avant. Possibly the traction avant has the edge.
Based (loosely) on an old Morris Oxford , terrible cars from what I remember, unless you’re an indian taxi driver in India, loud horns though. Saw one once with 2 steering wheels, one for the learner and one for the instructor.
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I saw one in a showroom in India once and had to have a look. I cut my finger on the bonnet seam 