A rare beauty

[TooT]

Lovely looking car that. Guessing not quick with only 63 hp.

[FarmerPug]

What would be the point in going fast, no one would be able to enjoy looking at the car

[TooT]

Yeah i know that im not thinking ripping up the road at eye bursting speeds, just pulling out of a junction and getting up to speed.

[FarmerPug]

look at this bargain
http://belfast.gumtree.com/belfast/74/66666774.html
£1300 for a v6 and its only got 93k miles

[FarmerPug]

Whats this curious looking car:

The one between the 206 and the rover 25, ugly back end it looks like something from BL but i wasnt close to it so didnt get any name ugly as sin though.

[steve_earwig]

Isn't it a reliant ss1?

[steve_earwig]

[FarmerPug]

Ive been on the reliable encyclopedia and you seem to be right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Scimitar
what an ugly machine, i always thought of the reliant scimitar gte the v8 one when i though of scimitar i never thought this was made under the same name, does it have some fantastic driving experience or any redeeming feature

[steve_earwig]

look at this bargain
http://belfast.gumtree.com/belfast/74/66666774.html
£1300 for a v6 and its only got 93k miles

Didn't see this one before, that's sickeningly cheap

[Woody]

I like the way this example has been complimented by the bent roof rack. Very nice

I'll be willing to bet the roof rack is holdin' that thing together

[Woody]

Sorry didnt realize this thread was 11 pages long.... I'll read the rst of it now

[FarmerPug]

steve did you really not see it, i put that on a while back still could be there NI buyers arent much fans of petrol cars like that.

[HimBigChief]

The Scimitar GTE was a Ford Essex V6, not a V8, unless they did a V8 version. My dad used to have an SE6A, brown with velour interior. What a retro machine. Complete fibreglass body, but weighed in a 2ton, so not a light machine.

[FarmerPug]

but the 3 door estate was a cool looking machine, whatever engine it looked the buisness. I suppose a ford v6 is a better engine than some BL rubbish under the bonnet.
Was it quick?

[steve_earwig]

steve did you really not see it, i put that on a while back still could be there NI buyers arent much fans of petrol cars like that.

That's a shame, I can't see the year on it but even if it's an '01 it'd be worth 4 times that here. If the steering wheel wasn't on the wrong side of course

And where was I on September the 11th? Driving an SE5A back from Cornwall with my mate who'd just bought it. RS3.1 spec, 4 speed with overdrive in canary yellow. It'd been sitting for a while but still went like stink (speedo was out, I pulled along side an M3 and my mate peered in at her dash and she was doing 80, the Scim said 65 and I'd already had it over the ton). It was also urinating petrol out all over the place and one of the tappets kept working its way loose. What a journey that was, coupled with the fact that when we got to the seller's they were glued to the news where a plane had just flown into the WTC, as we watched another one hit. There was no radio in the car, we didn't know what the hell was going on and had no mobiles with us. On the way back to London we were wondering if it would still be there...