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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 05/27/2019 at 05:53 • Filed to: hour rule, Valmet, Talbot, Horizon, carsoftumblr

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1981 Talbot Horizon limo by Valmet Automotive, Finland

1-of-1

built for reasons unknown

kanadanmajava1 > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/27/2019 at 06:04

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My co-worked was involved in this project when he was a summer trainee at the factory.

pip bip - choose Corrour > kanadanmajava1 05/27/2019 at 06:08

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please ask him why was it built?

does it still exist?

if so, where is it?

Nauraushaun > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/27/2019 at 07:01

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seconded

kanadanmajava1 > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/27/2019 at 07:21

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I’ll ask when he returns to the office. The car is currently located in a museum near the factory. I think the middle picture is from the museum.

kanadanmajava1 > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/27/2019 at 08:30

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The factory guys built the 6-door horizon after my colleague had already returned to his studies. But he was there when they were designing a 6-door version of the Talbot 1510. He did some chassis strength analysis for this. It didn’t progress beyond the drawing table and the Horizon was built instead.

“They just built things, so no particular reason wasn’t needed.” was his comment about why it was built. I guess the R&D guys had quite a lot of free time for weird projects as they did have a running factory but not any own products to design.

The Finnish built Talbots were “ Saabified” as they used locally built seats and wiring harnesses that were quite similar to ones that Saab models used .

pip bip - choose Corrour > kanadanmajava1 05/27/2019 at 08:41

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cheers for that info.

say thank you  to your colleague for me