Today I saw my first....

[sirwiggum]

2012 Ford Focus saloon

On (Southern) Irish plates.

Looks good, like a mini-Mondeo and less Tortoise-like than the hatchback.

The UK does not get the saloon anymore, hence the interesting sighting of the spiritual successor to the Orion.

[leestudd30]

Pretty certain I saw a Chevrolet Volt at the weekend. I also saw a Matra Simca Bagheera!

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... WQ&cad=rja

[steve_earwig]

I don't think I ever saw one of them on the road.

...the Bagheera was created using stock Simca components, including the engines, gearbox and suspension elements

So the engine rattled like a socket set in a tumble drier too

[FarmerPug]

I havent seen one of these in a while:

a very clean well looked after 1.8 bluebird

[lozz]

I havent seen one of these in a while:

a very clean well looked after 1.8 bluebird

you wont see many of them anymore,

they get used for : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qTU1oMCe5k

[FarmerPug]

Even the wikipedia page says that about the bluebird they ended up in destruction derbies, they were a strongly built car.

[jasper5]

Ah! Nissan Bluebird !

I'm a true expert on those cars (well, I used to be)!

Fantastic motor, I had 2 of these myself, the 1.8 was the best.

[lozz]

ive had a few blue birds,

the mk1s ihad tho seemed better than the mk2 altho they had the datsun logo,

iwas always cleaning the carbs on them, where does all the sand come from iused to think

[FarmerPug]

whats that one a mk1 or 2?
my grampa had one when i was a child it was a diesel one never gave a moments trouble not too quick but it was very comfy and had all the 80s tech like electric windows central locking etc the best bit was the power aeriel.

[lozz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Bluebird

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Primera

[FarmerPug]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_T12_/_T72

[lozz]

We didnt see most of them mate,
ithink most of them where Mainly sent to Austrailia,

ive had that many datsuns icarnt remeber whats what with them as of the Mk1/or phases etc,

We used to buy nissans /datsuns because they where cheap, the Bluebirds where a bit thirsty mind so things like the 100a /120y Sunnys etc where more favourite,

the Bluebirds where like the 406s very popualar as taxis

[jasper5]

The Bluebird in the picture is the mark 2.

I started my apprenticeship in 1970 at a Skoda dealers who sold up and were bought out by a company that set up a Datsun dealership in 1974.

I met my wife way back when she was a customer, she had a brown 120Y with a brake fault.....we've been married 25 years in 3 weeks time.

Lozz, those Bluebirds were a pain for dirt/sand in the carb jets, plus the auto choke sticking, not to mention valve stem seals breaking up causing oil smoke.

I loved my time working on the Datsun/Nissans, great to work on, easy life, not like today's crap....I took the cylinder head off a XUD engine on friday (head gasket job) took me 5 hours to get it off! God knows how long it will take to refit.

I have another head to take off tomorrow on a 2007 Vectra SRi.

[plod]

Saw a Renault Alpine on thursday on the A34 going to Southampton - hadn't seen one of them for a few years

[lozz]

[quote="jasper5"]The Bluebird in the picture is the mark 2.



Lozz, those Bluebirds were a pain for dirt/sand in the carb jets, plus the auto choke sticking, not to mention valve stem seals breaking up causing oil smoke.


Ithink every one ihad burnt oil. More noticable changing up or down a gear on hills
as of the Carbs. people where sticking them in apan of water and boiling them, Never worked for me tho


good luck with the Veccy mate, ihate those modern veccys they shouid of kept with the same principals of the mk2 -3 cavaliers, much easier to work with
and more reliable,