{"id":25664,"date":"2012-02-29T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=25664"},"modified":"2022-08-08T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:21:49","slug":"simca-1000-rallye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/simca-1000-rallye\/","title":{"rendered":"Simca 1000 Rallye"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With fuel prices soaring and the daily necessities of negotiating town traffic, a person’s thoughts often turn to small, nippy, affordable motors.<\/p>\n

But the current crop of pocket rockets, apart from, perhaps, the Fiat 500<\/a>, are so uninspiring.<\/p>\n

There is of course, the perennial Mini to think about – and enough of them available to make an original mini a realistic and practical classic classic purchase.<\/p>\n

But of late we in these towers have been idling away a moment or two thinking about tracking down a Simca 100 Rallye.<\/p>\n

You can see how that boxy, squat format created by Carrozzeria Boano, combined with the back-happiness of the rear-mounted lump, made this an ideal tool to chuck around.<\/p>\n

The classic little car not unlike that other old fave the Hillman Imp<\/a> proved hugely popular all over France in the sixties and seventies.<\/p>\n

Abarth himself made forays into tunage of the mille<\/em>, but Simca themselves came out with the lovely Rallye version of the car in the latter stages of its illustrious, if understated career.<\/p>\n