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Post by Sam Tyler on Jun 28, 2020 21:14:45 GMT
Certainly not the best looking of motors!
It had a very 'industrial' build with pipe fittings up to the headlights and something not too dissimilar to scaffold tube for the bumpers.
I doubt the designer went on to further his/her career at any major motor design studios.
Sam.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jun 29, 2020 13:33:44 GMT
I think I've seen that blue Enfield thing somewhere before on the net, I think it was a one off, like a strange big yellow 2 door squarer more modern looking car they made as a one off as well.
Not sure if the yellow car had a name, but it had 4 wheel drive, a 4.2 litre Jeep engine, and big rectangular headlamps and looked like an oversized version of a big Fiat saloon. I've seen a photo of that too when it was on display at a show in The Isle of Wight too and below is a link to an article which describes it, (yellow car at foot of the page).
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jun 29, 2020 14:29:19 GMT
Thanks for the info Gerry, that yellow car does have some similarities to the blue one, apart from both being particularly ugly cars the cabin style looks similar.
I wonder what condition they are in now, as one-offs I'd have thought the owner(s) would have tried to keep them up to spec.
Sam.
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Post by B16YUG on Jul 9, 2020 20:51:20 GMT
I was lucky enough to be a child in the late 70's and early 80's growing up in Hong Kong...
Imagine a 7 year olds imagination when your Dad comes home and says we are going to move to Hong Kong - great I thought I'm going to live in the factory where Action Man was made! (Remember all the toys that used to have Made in Hong Hong rather than China like now?)
Anyway one of the first memorable toys I received in the summer of 1980 was a "Big Wheel" - they were a plastic wheeled trike, check this promo video if you haven't seen one (I'm not even sure if they were a thing in the UK/Europe)
I have very fond memories of racing around the tiled floor of the lobby on the block of flats we lived in, I could get the plastic wheels to properly drift about everywhere... those were the days... and to this day my only 3 wheeled excitement!!
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