A nice pair but too easy for a whatsthisthen!

[Hell Razor5543]

Possibly a relevant joke?

What do you get if you cross a pair of poplar trees with a pair of great tits?

[CitroJim]

What do you get if you cross a pair of poplar trees with a pair of great tits?

Go on James. I give up

[Northern_Mike]

And let's not forget the Avenger’s big sister - the Chrysler 180...

I'm loving this thread

Was the Hillman Hunter any relative? My dad had one of those, but I don't think I've ever been in an Avenger despite my schoolfriend's parents and some of my family owning all manner of tat in the 70s and 80s.

[CitroJim]

Was the Hillman Hunter any relative?

Nope, the Hunter was the Rootes Arrow and almost entirely different. The Avenger was a new design. At least Rootes didn't do as BL did and try to rehash old stuff into something new.

I guess the Avenger happened only on the back of the Plymouth Cricket development state-side as I can't imagine Rootes in the UK on their own had the resources to develop a fully new car.

The Avenger and Arrow range ran concurrently for a number of years. The Arrow was variously the Minx, Hunter, Sunbeam Rapier, Singer Vogue and Humber Sceptre. The latter being the posh one and the Sunbeam and Singer being available as a rather tasty Coupé.

There was also the hot Hunter, the H120 Holbay and that went quite well. Bit of a Q-car as externally it looked just like any other Hunter.

An odd fact about the Avenger was that it was never under-sealed from the factory. Another legacy of it's Cricket roots possibly as rust was never such a problem in the land across the pond.

[Hell Razor5543]

What do you get if you cross a pair of poplar trees with a pair of great tits?

Go on James. I give up

I bet northern_mike and addo have worked it out!

[NewcastleFalcon]

The wood is nice on the traveller and liking it dad then bought a wooden Mini Traveller. We all loved that car until dad replaced it after a good few years with BL's biggest horror ever. A dreadful Marina 1.3 Coupé.

spotted this at 2 minutes 50 seconds into "The Car has Wings" video on Wallow in Nostalgia-The Rank Organisation-Look at Life thread

regards Neil

[CitroJim]

That's the one except dad's was Island Blue and wore the plate JOM 414E. A lovely colour. I still wonder what became of it because when Dad traded it in for the Marina in 1972 it was immaculate.

[citronut]

The wood is nice on the traveller and liking it dad then bought a wooden Mini Traveller. We all loved that car until dad replaced it after a good few years with BL's biggest horror ever. A dreadful Marina 1.3 Coupé.

spotted this at 2 minutes 50 seconds into "The Car has Wings" video on Wallow in Nostalgia-The Rank Organisation-Look at Life thread

regards Neil

Mini, mini travler Hillman Minx and a slandered 10

[NewcastleFalcon]

Yes there it was in all its glory the product of the famous Italian design house pininfarina. I had been reading a little bit about their history just that morning.

A fine track record of car design, and responsible for this one-off Citroen



So what car was their famous badge on?



This


"Ah, Mr Pininfarina, Mr Hyundai here. Can you design me a metal box with a wheel at each corner?"

Regards Neil

Ps anyone know the name of the one-off Citroen?

[Hell Razor5543]

The "iWanThat"!

According to Google that may be the 'osee' 2001

[NewcastleFalcon]

Spot on James the points go to you. Best in Show apparently at the Geneva Motor Show in 2001-not surprising really it looks fantastic. I guess the company have to get as much business as they can... but the Hyundai Matrix? doesn't compare at all.

How about a bit of my original artwork for your prize



I still can't work out the punchline to your joke Give us a clue.

Regards Neil

[Hell Razor5543]

[NewcastleFalcon]

That's the one except dad's was Island Blue and wore the plate JOM 414E. A lovely colour. I still wonder what became of it because when Dad traded it in for the Marina in 1972 it was immaculate.

Stick it into vehiclecheck.co.uk its on the current database at least so it may well be still going strong.

regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

The Hillman Hunter got a bit of an airing on the previous page. My memories of it were commuting into town on a daily basis in a Hillman Hunter Topaz like this (lets hear it for the vinyl roof again )



There was always the overdrive moment when the lever was flicked-not as good an overdrive flicking moment as I subsequently enjoyed in my GT6. Much slicker... a literal barely detectable thumb only flick of the switch on the top of the gear knob

The Hunter also turned out to be one of my friends first cars, (not the topaz..just a bog standard white one) Mooching around town blaring out the Crusaders Street-life Album, and feeling more than a touch cool.

regards Neil

[CitroJim]

One of my friends had a Hunter when we were teenagers Neil. In fact it was the replacement for the Avenger he wrote off and nearly killed me. His previous car was a Reliant Regal van in which he used to practice cornering on two wheels

I was not wearing a seatbelt in the Avenger and was sat in the front passenger seat. I was sent flying through the windscreen when the car hit a telegraph pole, flipped upside down and ended up facing the wrong way in a ditch. The roof above where I'd been was crushed to about a foot high. Had I been wearing a belt the outcome may have been a little different. As it was I escaped with minor injuries. In fact the worst injury was suffered by the driver who suffered a broken collar bone. Another still has neck problems to this day though...

For many years afterwards the telegraph pole had a pronounced lean