Modern Cars That Have Disappeared.

[itsnotagsr]

My old man and his business partner both had early SD1 Rovers. Both were superbly reliable, despite us living at the end of 15klm of dirt corrugated road. I shit you not, good cars.
Window switches were about the only failure in 8 years of ownership of both.
Dad was so impressed, he bought another Rover, a 416i...... Now, when was the last time you saw one of them?!

My Dad ordered a brand new SD1 in the UK where we lived. Broke down on the way home from the dealership! :D

[Captain_Slow]

Two V2 Monaros at my local shops this morning and another one lives around the corner from me. Looks like everyone in my neighbourhood is getting in on the action.

[Bob Vegana.]

I see sedan, wagon and ute variants all the time.

[bugle]

sb barinas.

Nah

[Bob Vegana.]

Owners club?

[Mr Purple]

I'd imagine they're all abandoned.

[XXX19X]

Fuck the middle one even has a set of MOMOs

[lumpy]

Owners club?

Apprentice hairdresser convention

[Marlin]

My boss forced me to daily a GSi with those same wheels. In that silver/gold colour with a fair bit of low it looked kinda cool for a small car, but fuck me it was dull compared to my 10 year older Swift GTi.

[9triton]

check the meta data on the barina photo = probably taken in the 90's

[I'm DJ!]

Saw a stag today, thought of this thread.

Haven't seen a c55 lately...

[yohoes]

Yep similar scenario. To work on old cars you need old equipment, and keeping that equipment going is a job in itself.

As an example, I recently got my hands on an old Genrad GDS3500 otherwise known as WDS.



They were made in 1997 or so, it's a touchscreen tablet PC running Windows 98, with a built-in multiplexer for the OBD and other test cables. This is one of the old Ford, Mazda, Jaguar and Aston Martin dealer diagnostic machines which were used from 1997 to 2007. There's a handful of people who are into keeping these things running. It's so old-tech it's hilarious. But it works and there are some things that it can do, which the newer devices cannot.


Thanks! It's something I am doing on the side.

I havent read the Mclaren article yet.. but i dont see why you cant image the hard drive of it onto a more modern computer / keep it as backup?

Its a PC with some add ons? Im guessing via a serial port?

[Jack Nicholson]

Are you asking about the McLaren laptop or the WDS in my pic?

Regarding the McLaren from what I can tell it's not the actual laptop which is the big deal, it's the CA Card which was put in it, it has a bespoke custom-made interface card to talk to the ECU, not an off-the-shelf piece of hardware. I do find it hard to believe they have only one, they probably have a couple more locked in a safe somewhere.

With the WDS the multiplexer where the OBD cable (plus the various other cables for voltage, current, pressure and others) is actually integrated into the motherboard itself so it's not really feasible to incorporate it into another PC, but fortunately several thousand of the WDS units were built so salvaging from other units is still an option. The software is no problem, actually it's quite common to put in a new hard drive and make a new installation (I myself have all the software and ghost discs for reinstallation).





I suppose with enough time and money anything is possible but it's not worth investing big money into reproducing these parts.

[bugle]

Owners club?

Fuck the middle one even has a set of MOMOs

Apprentice hairdresser convention

I pulled into a car park to find two Barinas parked with a space in the middle, so I parked in between them.
They are fake Momos!
I've also been known to cut my own hair sometimes.

[Bob Vegana.]

Yeah, I find myself parking near other Beetles. Although I do wonder if the other owners notice these sort of things too.