12/8!

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 08/12/2016 at 15:27 • Filed to: Fiat, 128, Graveyard

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Run of the mill four door

Fancy coupé

Less fancy but more practical 3P with bonus Dutch

Two doors, big bumpers and extra lights (two sets of indicators!) for the Americans

Where they end up. Bonus points for identifying the brown car in the background.

If you want to see more of this graveyard, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

fintail > Cé hé sin 08/12/2016 at 15:34

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Looks like a Hillman Avenger, strangely enough sold in Murka as a Plymouth Cricket in the early 70s. I’ve seen at least one in my life.

RallyWrench > Cé hé sin 08/12/2016 at 15:35

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Morris Marina?

Cé hé sin > fintail 08/12/2016 at 15:40

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It’s certainly an Avenger, but it could have been a Hillman, a Chrysler or a Talbot.

It’s the newer model with straight tail lights so not a Hillman. Statistically it’s more likely to be a Chrysler.

Cé hé sin > RallyWrench 08/12/2016 at 15:43

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Not quite. Fintail got it!

fintail > Cé hé sin 08/12/2016 at 15:48

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Oh that’s right, I forgot about the different badges, and that the Chrysler name existed in Europe for some time.

Crickets were only sold on this side of the pond for a short time, as Chrysler soon switched to Mitsubishi for their captive imports. Probably just as rust-prone, but maybe more reliable.

The rust on the cars in that scrapyard link is mortifying to me, I live in an area where most never rot out quite that bad, and cars can sit outside for 20+ years and remain solid , if they are on dry ground. The old MBs, Citroens, and some of the now-rare Japanese cars are especially sad.

Cé hé sin > fintail 08/12/2016 at 15:54

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If you live where it rains and almost nobody has a garage, rust happens! It’s not common to see pre-2000 cars here and mine (1994) is on its last legs.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Cé hé sin 08/12/2016 at 17:28

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I’m RallyDarkstrike and I approve of this classic FIAT-related message! :P

anon-sxmcyecofnu1eocpqsk9iq > Cé hé sin 08/12/2016 at 20:14

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Yugo.

fintail > Cé hé sin 08/12/2016 at 21:49

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I suppose the roads there are treated with something harsh in the winter, too?

We have a high duration of rain, rather than a huge quantity. It’s generally mild, which I think helps old cars survive. There’s also almost no real inspection process, so old cars can stick around. I see 80s material daily, sometimes even older cars.

Cé hé sin > fintail 08/13/2016 at 04:58

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Not much salt, no. Months of damp weather is enough.

fintail > Cé hé sin 08/13/2016 at 12:37

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Must be the garage impact then, or at least covered parking. As the majority of residential housing here was built after the car became a normal working class appliance, many if not most residences have covered parking.

Cé hé sin > fintail 08/13/2016 at 17:10

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Houses here were built with garages when cars were a luxury and owners treated them as such. Nowadays nobody has any interest in having a garage and older houses (those from the 40s or 50s say) which were originally thus equipped either have them full of junk or converted into living space. To add to that there are likely to be at least two cars in the house and that’ll cause problems with a single garage

Take these ones. The bits at the sides were originally garages.

fintail > Cé hé sin 08/13/2016 at 17:42

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You’ll see converted garages here too, which irritate me - it would be a deal breaker or a negotiation point if I was buying. Or people who put $500 worth of junk in the garage and park a $35000 car outside, logical.

I remember seeing that in England, the front “garden” area converted to parking. I guess with the fairly rigid inspection culture, maybe cars today wear out before they rust, so garaging them isn’t as important.