You must be right MartMartin R wrote:Perhaps your mum had the Simca 1000 with the rear engine? Revvy, good handling. Looked like it had a "boot" but of course it was really the "bonnet"!
.. the engine was in the back I remember it and meant to mention it on my last post, good man you 
Naa.. not that one Stupot good try though My Ole Fruit
you got it sport
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.. you try and take over this place and it grinds my gears, so for that you get a
, some of us have been on here for a long time trying to get this thing running smoothly, .. but we always make the exception for new blood.. so
.. just don't try to take over the place Ok, it's like a pecking order thing or like a que.. longest beard and all that>>
... join in nicely and all will be ok
Mark1Stu wrote:Maybe it was a Simca 1301 Grant?
Okgaryc wrote:Grant
You shouldn't say things like that you might upset some people .................but not me I know you too well
Why don`t you go and make one of these
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GaryC
.. Right I'm on it.. but I need to go to sleep 1st Gaz and I'll get your prezzy done for you ... 
Yes got to be a fast version,Mark1Stu wrote:Trust your family to have the fast variety Dunc
Couple of tales about the Simca 1100 and Simca 1000.
My dad used a Simca 1100 as a curtesy car while his Volvo was being serviced. I was travelling with him when suddenly we went into a four wheel skid coming off a slip road. According to my dad, the pedals are much closer together than on a Volvo (he went to put the clutch in and pressed the brake pedal). Seemed a decent car - and I salute the person who restored the one in Gary's picture. A labour of love, with scarce parts supply, and little value I suspect. Good on him/her.
Now, the Simca 1000. Back in the day when our 3 girls were small (unlike me), I was on the search for a cheap 2nd car at the bottom of the depreciation curve - with the intention of my wife using it for a few years at near zero cost. Saw an advert for a Simca 1000, one of the last ones, with minimal mileage and went to take a look (as I'd just sold my wife's low mileage Renault 8 - which was big in comparison).
Thankfully, the double buggy wouldn't go in the boot of the Simca 1000 - or there may have been pictures of me squeezed in it. I remember the event as the guy who was selling it ran a toupee company. And owned one from the looks of it.
, but the other reason i remember it so well was the beating my dad gave my brother,it was a saturday my dad and i went out to a local car auction called siverdale nr sot, the auction that all the tat went through lots of mk2 jags bringing anything from £50-£200 squids makes your eyes water now,,anyway my brother was a lazy get fresh leaving schoool went to work at a steel works and quickly became a pi55head with the other workers and days off were spent lazin round in bed recovering so my dad had left him strict instructions to wash the 4 door saloon 1501 special it was in a torquiose blue similar to a Jensen colour, when we returned my dad went beserk my brother had washed the car using the green scouring side of a sponge the type you clean pans with because he thought it would clean the car better/easier ,so it looked pretty flat as you can imagine that was all our work planned out for the rest of the weekend
