A few of us on here like a little French car

[philw696]

Local vino?

C

Never short of that or Cider and Calvados here Chris.

 

[Guy]

As featured in the DT today. Push me Pull me design?

 

[GeoffCapes]

Saw this in Tescos car park this morning. Looks tiny next to a ‘Mini’

 

[philw696]

 

[Nibby]

Me in my Citroen GS Pallas early 80s.

 

[fphil]

Saw this in Tescos car park this morning. Looks tiny next to a ‘Mini’

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C15 tuning

 

[zagatoes30]

Me in my Citroen GS Pallas early 80s.
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Vert avantgarde, is that a little Honda Accord coupe next to you cars were so much smaller in those days

 

[Nibby]

Vert avantgarde, is that a little Honda Accord coupe next to you cars were so much smaller in those days

I think that is a Honda Accord.
The Citroen had a starting handle when you needed it, there was a hole just above the two Citroen emblem arrows in the grille where you inserted the handle. Mind you I think it might've been a bit of a passion killer if you was out on a date and you had to start the car with it, nowadays it might be a bit of a novelty but back then it was very old fashioned.

 

[RodTungsten]

I think that is a Honda Accord.
The Citroen had a starting handle when you needed it, there was a hole just above the two Citroen emblem arrows in the grille where you inserted the handle. Mind you I think it might've been a bit of a passion killer if you was out on a date and you had to start the car with it, nowadays it might be a bit of a novelty but back then it was very old fashioned.

And the alternator at the front exposed to salt and grit. Windings corroded = no amps. Rewound ours in the Uni workshop in Cottingham with Radiospares wire.

 

[montravia]

I think that is a Honda Accord.
The Citroen had a starting handle when you needed it, there was a hole just above the two Citroen emblem arrows in the grille where you inserted the handle. Mind you I think it might've been a bit of a passion killer if you was out on a date and you had to start the car with it, nowadays it might be a bit of a novelty but back then it was very old fashioned.

I not only recall the starting handle but having to employ it several times.
Quirky they were, but they just coped with anything

 

[Nibby]

I seem to remember the steering being very heavy and a lot going on under the bonnet even though it was only 1200.

 

[DLax69]

The CVCC here...

@Nibby, what are you doing in the passenger seat...?

 

[zagatoes30]

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The CVCC here...

@Nibby, what are you doing in the passenger seat...?

Not sure we had the CVCC here, if we did I missed it which is unusual as I read most of the motor magazines of the time (often got asked was I going to buy and even got asked to leave WH Smiths as I was there so long). They did one on Wheeler Dealers years back which was the first time I had heard of it.

 

[safrane]

Not sure we had the CVCC here, if we did I missed it which is unusual as I read most of the motor magazines of the time (often got asked was I going to buy and even got asked to leave WH Smiths as I was there so long). They did one on Wheeler Dealers years back which was the first time I had heard of it.

We did

UK’s rarest cars: 1976 Honda Civic Mk1, one of only a handful left on British roads (telegraph.co.uk)

 

[philw696]

That was my first wife's first car a 76 Civic remember it well.

 

[Nibby]

There was someone who use to go in the same pub who had this tiny Honda car in funky 70s orange colour, reckon looking online it was a Honda 600.

 

[philw696]

The Honda 600 was one of the first Japanese Micro Cars and remember most seemed to be Orange.

 

[philw696]

 

[Oneball]

As others have said car in Nibby’s pic is an Accord not a Civic.

 

[zagatoes30]

We did

UK’s rarest cars: 1976 Honda Civic Mk1, one of only a handful left on British roads (telegraph.co.uk)

No I know we had the Civic but not the CVCC version this had a strange combustion setup where fuel was ignited in a pre chamber before being sucked into the main cylinder pre ignited. This allowed for a much cleaner burn and more power and better emissions which was required for California strict smog rules.