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Rick
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 Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:08 am Post subject: Cars launched in your birth year? |
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If you do a search, on google or wherever, for "Cars launched in" followed by your birth year, what cars do you share your own year of birth with? Wikipedia will probaby come up with a summary.
Divulging the actual year isn't required 
Gems for myself include the Alfa Romeo Montreal, the Citroen SM, Lambo Urraco, and the ZIL 114 limousine.
Less glamorous are cars such as the Hillman Avenger, Chrysler 180, and the infamous Ford Pinto.
RJ
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clan chieftain
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:18 am Post subject: |
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 Wikipedia comes up with 27 for my year. Too many to mention but there is the Standard Vanguard . Jowett Javelin just to name a couple.
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Dipster
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Location: UK, France and Portugal - unless I am travelling....
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:21 am Post subject: Re: Cars launched in your birth year? |
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| Rick wrote: | If you do a search, on google or wherever, for "Cars launched in" followed by your birth year, what cars do you share your own year of birth with? Wikipedia will probaby come up with a summary.
Divulging the actual year isn't required
Gems for myself include the Alfa Romeo Montreal, the Citroen SM, Lambo Urraco, and the ZIL 114 limousine.
Less glamorous are cars such as the Hillman Avenger, Chrysler 180, and the infamous Ford Pinto.
RJ |
What a youngster you must be then! |
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Riley Blue
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These appeared the year I was born. Without resorting to Google, how old will I be in November?
Allard P1
Armstrong Siddeley Whitley 18
Austin A90 Atlantic
Bond Minicar
Cadillac Coupe de Ville
Cadillac de Ville series
Dodge Coronet
Ford Anglia
Healey Silverstone
Leyland-MCW Olympic
Lincoln EL-series
Nash Statesman
Oldsmobile 88
Riley RMD
Rover P4
Saab 92
Škoda VOS
Toyota SD
Triumph Mayflower
Triumph Renown
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roverdriver
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Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Only one 'car' and that was the 'Jeep CJ'. Two trucks in the USA, and a Swedish Scania-Vabis L10 truck.
Obviously my birth year was not a good one for new models, with the possible exception of yours truly.
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Rick
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:31 am Post subject: Re: Cars launched in your birth year? |
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| Dipster wrote: | | Rick wrote: | If you do a search, on google or wherever, for "Cars launched in" followed by your birth year, what cars do you share your own year of birth with? Wikipedia will probaby come up with a summary.
Divulging the actual year isn't required
Gems for myself include the Alfa Romeo Montreal, the Citroen SM, Lambo Urraco, and the ZIL 114 limousine.
Less glamorous are cars such as the Hillman Avenger, Chrysler 180, and the infamous Ford Pinto.
RJ |
What a youngster you must be then! |
You're my best friend ever 
I don't often here those words nowadays!
RJ
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peppiB
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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Austin A40 Devon, Sheerline and Princess
Bristol 400, Ford Pilot and Lambretta scooter plus others, the same as Clan Chirftain |
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Bitumen Boy
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Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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| riley541 wrote: | These appeared the year I was born. Without resorting to Google, how old will I be in November?
Allard P1
Armstrong Siddeley Whitley 18
Austin A90 Atlantic
Bond Minicar
Cadillac Coupe de Ville
Cadillac de Ville series
Dodge Coronet
Ford Anglia
Healey Silverstone
Leyland-MCW Olympic
Lincoln EL-series
Nash Statesman
Oldsmobile 88
Riley RMD
Rover P4
Saab 92
Škoda VOS
Toyota SD
Triumph Mayflower
Triumph Renown |
62? |
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Riley Blue
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Location: Derbyshire
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Wrong...! 
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Keith D
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Location: Upper Swan, Western Australia
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Using Rick's formula on Google, the following were launched in the year of my birth:-
Lancia Esaro - Italian truck, mainly military.
Sisu S-21 - Truck built in Finland, mainly military.
Toyota AC - Jap sedan that looked something like a Chrysler Airflow.
Toyota KC - A crude Jap truck built largely of wood. Used for starting aircraft engines.
Toyota KCY - Amphibious vehicle built on KC mechanicals.
Volvo PV444/544 - A Volvo sedan that was built until 1966.
I am only familiar with the Volvo!
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Dipster
Joined: 06 Jan 2015
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[quote="riley541"]These appeared the year I was born. Without resorting to Google, how old will I be in November?
10 years younger than me I reckon.... |
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badhuis
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Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| riley541 wrote: | These appeared the year I was born. Without resorting to Google, how old will I be in November?
Allard P1
Armstrong Siddeley Whitley 18
Austin A90 Atlantic
Bond Minicar
Cadillac Coupe de Ville
Cadillac de Ville series
Dodge Coronet
Ford Anglia
Healey Silverstone
Leyland-MCW Olympic
Lincoln EL-series
Nash Statesman
Oldsmobile 88
Riley RMD
Rover P4
Saab 92
Škoda VOS
Toyota SD
Triumph Mayflower
Triumph Renown |
67?
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badhuis
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My birth year had a lot of new cars. Among them:
Aston Martin DB5
Hillman Imp
Iso Grifo
Mercedes-Benz 600
Rover P6
Triumph 2000
Vauxhall Viva
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Penguin45
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Mini. Anglia. AH 3000. Wolseley 6/99. Jaguar MkII.
P45.
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Bitumen Boy
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Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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| riley541 wrote: | | Wrong...! |
I had an idea that the Triumph Mayflower appeared in '53, but on checking up found this was the last year of production  I have a soft spot for the styling of the Mayflower though I don't suppose I'd care for the driving experience, what with a three speed column change and a little sidevalve engine that seems to have been considered underpowered even back in its day. It hardly adds up to something that would be practical around the Valleys... |
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