Coupes

[sirwiggum]

perhaps a good time to say its the e types 50th birthday and its a coupe/convertable.

E type is somewhat overrated.

It looks too barrel sided and the tyres too skinny.

Compared to an Aston of the same era, it looks too feminine!

[FarmerPug]

i was going to mention the alfa spyder but perhaps its too feminine.

[Doggy]

I'll see your Sunbeam Rapier and raise you

I used to have one of these, (when I was 19). Picture, if you can the glorious '62 Capri, in dark green metallic, black vinyl roof, dodgy white coachlines, lowered about 50mm, 2.5" eggsauce, wide alloys with massive front camber, 1650 twin-cam.....

Oh and another set of 4 headlights, mounted under the originals

[puggy]

mmmmmmm always did have my doubts about doggy

[lozz]

Hey! dont knock the FSO Poloneza

its quite popular still, over here in the land of its birth

FSO = For ... Scrap... only..

[lozz]

Ooooh, lovely wibble wibble anorak

Look Lozz - an after-market heated rear window!!

I'll see your Sunbeam Rapier and raise you

nice motor that,
irember seeing one going thru a car auction in a lovely blue colour,
ihad a bid on it but was about £150 short so ididnt come home with it

They look a bit like that stephen kings Christine car in Red


Edit: doh it wasnt a rapier ibid on at auction

it was a consul capri

one on here in the same colour of blue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Capri

[FarmerPug]

the fiat x19 and triumph tr7 did you who remembered them actually like the styling?

[steve_earwig]

Er no, to be honest.

[puggy]

Long long time ago i owned a X19 , total pile of shite , totally
unreliable , seemed to relieve itself of parts on a daily basis ,
underpowered but for the time quite a nice shape . Only saving
grace for the rust bucket formerly known as a TR7 was when they
put a V8 in it and it became the TR8

[steve_earwig]

All triumphs had that traditional Triumph styling until it came to the TR7, which was designed by the same idiot who designed the Awful Austin Princess.

[FarmerPug]

The 504 coupe is an under rated but very good looking car especially the convertable, sort of like peugeots triumph stag and id say peugeot had a much more reliable car than triumph did.

What about the renault fuego, my dad said he owned one for about a month hated it and got a cortina instead.

[steve_earwig]

My old man had one but he was into buying and selling then so I don't remember much about it. This was in the day when they had carbs and little in the way of electronics so nothing for them to balls up at the time. He also had a string of R16s, apart from the weird looks they were actually nice comfortable cars. He had his last TX for many years and very little went wrong with it, eventually it got tin worm because of a botched repair on the NEARSIDE back wing and he flogged it to an enthusiast about 10 years back. 1979-2001, what do you want?

[FarmerPug]

one coupe that is very good looking is the volvo p1800

[Catflem]

was the reliant scimitar gte (princess anne had one) considered to be a coupe

The Scimitar SE4 was a coupe, Tom Karen of Ogle reworked the design and turned it into an "estate" , which was known as the SE5 GTE. He also designed the Raleigh Chopper

Here's my two, the red one's an SE5, the white is an SE5A, and both are tax exempt , which is just as well because keeping the buggers in gogo juice soon eats up the money saved on the rfl , but, If you're looking for a cheap classic, they're hard to beat.