Reply With QuoteMk1 Cavalier Coupe in gold
For some inexplicable reason it was cheaper to insure than the virtually-identical Opel Manta
Got written off when someone ran up the back of it in City of London on the morning of the Lord Mayor's show.
Mine was a VW Beetle with chrome bumpers from 1978 in white!! It was (sadly) full of rust as my parents bought it for £400 as a life lesson. It had a hole in the floor, so when it rained the water would fill up the footwells!
By far the slowest car I ever owned, but it had character by the bucket load, oh and rust, so much rust!!
Mk1 Cavalier Coupe in gold
For some inexplicable reason it was cheaper to insure than the virtually-identical Opel Manta
Got written off when someone ran up the back of it in City of London on the morning of the Lord Mayor's show.
A ford cortina MK2 1600E.....loved it to bits and its still about i think
Peugeot 104 sport. For about a year, till I rolled it down the side of a hill. I remember keeping the gear knob as a souvenir, since it was pretty much the only salvageable thing. Wonder where it is.
Mine was a Morris Minor bought new by my grandmother in 1969. My father still has it and it will come my way again when he finally hangs up his driving gloves.
Lots of happy memories of that car not least the trip to the south of France...
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An orange 1975 Ford Escort Mk2 1600 Sport which the owner had bored out to 1700cc.
A blue 1983 Talbot Samba in 1993, only had it for the 6 months between passing my test and heading off to uni
A1972 VW Beetle in light blue, got a picture somewhere. Pretty rough condition, holes in one wing I used to patch with masking tape and spray with a rattle can
Loved that car.
I had 2 of those Opel Mantas, nice looking cars.Originally Posted by Scepticalist
Mk1 Cavalier Coupe in gold
For some inexplicable reason it was cheaper to insure than the virtually-identical Opel Manta
Got written off when someone ran up the back of it in City of London on the morning of the Lord Mayor's show.
From an age before mobiles/digital cameras so doubt I've got any photos of my old cars.
My first car Bought in 1959 with a two hundred pound bank loan from National Provincial.
The Morris Isis with it!s 2600 cc ex Healey engine was quite a handfull round the Cornish lanes.Mine had the reg number HMV 1 or it might have been tother way round......didn't think anything of it at the time, now worth a few bob.
Swapped it in against my next car an Austin Healey 100 M in full Le Mans spec bought from the major of Bodmin.Think it cost me £495........today, who knows.
Those were the days, the next was a Porsche Super 90 365 Convertible. It was a petrol heads bonanza, my mate bought the ex Castellotti (?) Ferrari from his widow for £1800, it was a 250 MM worth today? At least half of Yorkshire. ;)
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Green Mini Pickup - circa 1973.
An M reg ('74) Saab 99GL with the Triumph 1750cc engine in it in Cameo Beige.
Tough as old boots in the 4 wks that I owned it until some tosser in a stolen BMW wrapped it up outside my parents house at 3 am.
I went on to ownership of another 4 Saabs after that then sold the last one, a 900 T16s to get some funds together for my matrimonial house.
Just like this one...
Ended up with this as the latter...
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Austin Allegro 1500SDL
Uncomfortable, slow, dreadful to drive and unreliable.
I test drove a Manta Irmscher i200 back in the day, great looking car. They had an even hairier one, i240, complete with Group B arches.
My first car was a white 850cc 1965 mini, but I never had it on the road (legally!) as I was too young to drive. Once I reached 17 and passed my test my first road legal car was a 1968 Daimler V8 250 in silver grey with the manual overdrive option, I bought it from the neighbour across the street who'd owned it from new. I wish I still had it today!
In 1985 I had a two year old BMW 316. It was light green metallic with a sunroof. I thought I was the face driving around in my ski coat and highlighted mullet. At the time I was living in central London and had nowhere to park it, so it spent most of it's life in my Dad's garage.
In 2006 I had 6 year old Golf. My mates mum gave it to me as she was sick of me not getting my licence and thought having a car would motivate me.
It' worked.
CPK 474H was a 1970 Ford Capri 1600 GTXLR - bought of my brother who had (badly) resprayed it dark blue above the swage line and silver below. After his ownership and mine, only a few bits of bodywork (plus loads of p38) , the prop shaft and rear diff were left from the original car
Renault 12TL.
Don't see many of them on the road now for some reason.
A burgundy mini clubman. Paid £70 for it. It was a complete piece of crap.
Mine was a C reg Peugeot 205..1.9 diesel...in a grimey yellow which was covered in big red spots where I'd dosed it in rust killer...hence the nickname 'The flying phlegm'...died on the way driving from Edinburgh to Newcastle Airport as the fuel pump conked out and caused some fatal chain reaction...fortunately the AA man managed to get me doon to the toon in time for the lads holiday flight...apart from the colour and windows that slid back down into the doors it was a remarkably good giggle for £300...then got my mates nova GTE...ooooh
I blew all my savings (£1000)on an MG Midget 1500, it was tidy but underneath was nothing but rust. I stripped her down and ordered a British Motor Heritage (BMH) bodyshell; BMH kept delaying release of the shells so I sold it as a trailer-away project for £200 and bought a British Leyland Mini 998 that was almost fit for the scrap heap.
I remember aged 17 and dating my now wife who lived in South London breaking down on the South Circular in that Mini, I found a phone box and called my now father-in-law requesting he tow me in, for those who don't know, Mini's didn't have a towing eye. We hastily attached a rope and commenced towing during the Friday evening rush hour, upon reaching a slight incline on the one-way system, I recall hearing the unmistakable sound of shearing metal followed by seeing the front end of my car disappearing up the road swiftly followed by me grinding to a halt in the gutter! Great memories!
A mini 1275GT in denim blue VEN 826T similar to this but no alloys.
Mine was a 79 capri 1.6L the passenger side footwell used to fill up with water when it rained
After I passed my Police driving test, I bought a Cortina MK2 which was yellow with purple flashes down the sides....I loved that car till the engine blew up on the moor road to Whitby 😂
Very poor colour match on that front wing.A mini 1275GT in denim blue VEN 826T similar to this but no alloys.
My first car was a mini too, a 1275 engine in a 1000 shell, all professionally done by a local chap who worked at Longbridge.
TOH 807S was its reg. Be worth a few bob nowadays.
E reg escort estate diesel In Red ,not my choice but you don't moan when it's free
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Yep, mine had a similar colour miss match but on the nearside wing.
I had a couple of Mantas too, but they were cars #2 and #3. Number 1 was a 1980 Ford Cortina Mk. V resplendent in beige and filler, YRV 762V
A Mini and although it was only a few years old it was already rusting and it was a bugger to start in the damp and had a good old choke for fun as well.
I am sorry but for those who think the old days of cars were good i am glad things have moved on.
Do remember the number plate YBV 34 R.
Triumph stag
aka All rust and agroAustin Allegro 1500SDL
Uncomfortable, slow, dreadful to drive and unreliable.
Way back in 1976 I passed my driving test. I was looking/hoping to get a MK1 Ford Escort. My dad bless him bought me a black 1963, HA Vauxhall Viva DML154A.Not quite what I wanted, but it was in very good condition and it served me well.
Ford Escort mk2 estate, it belonged to the company my father worked and I got it cheap :-
Followed by a Talbot Sunbeam :-
They did bitd when we all had dads who did their own repairs and bodywork, spraying using holts rattle cans . My dad had an austin 2200 and the headlight fell out so he used a coca cola tin , rivets and plenty of plastic padding filler ( remember that ?)
Sunbeam Stilleto for me - a 1967 F reg that was older than me! Lots of rust but lots of oversteer fun too.
A chocolate brown vauxhall chevette saloon.
That looks like a Series 2 Sunbeam Lotus less the side stripes or a Sunbeam with Lotus interior and alloys? Beast of a car, my mate has a Moonstone Blue S2 Lotus tucked away in his garage.
Followed by a Talbot Sunbeam :-
A30. Back springs went , swopped them for land rover ones. Smoke would fill the cab from terrible fabric covered wiring. The horn started off one night. On its own. Like it was friggin haunted! Pos
Not technically mine but acquired from my mum was a horrendous Fiat Uno, I'm not sure what the theives were hoping for from such a bad car but it was broken into three times and stolen once... I say stolen... when I got home it was about 20 feet from where I had left it, I think the manual choke put them off!
First one that I bought was a Peugot 306 Mardi Gras... dreadful... only broken into once, I wish they had stolen!
VW Golf Mk 1 - 1.1
Loved it until i managed to terminally break something in the engine and had to sell it for scrap..
Austin Metro for me. Dark blue in colour and a veritable feast for tin worm! Somebody had swapped out the 1.1l engine for a 750cc Mini one as well so it was super sluggish. No pics sadly as they rusted away like the car. No fond memories. Sold for about £50 less than I paid after a year so not all bad.
My first car was a Polski Fiat 126 in dark blue. The most luxurious about it was the electrical windshield wipers, some of the models had manual ones. I am quite tall and getting in and out of the car was a major achievement every time. That doesn't mean I didn't have sex in it, don't ask me how we did it. After a couple of months it died in a mysterious nightly accident.
Next car was two steps up and it also lasted a bit longer:
2000 Ford Puma 1.7 in Moondust Silver.
Mine was one of these, but in battleship grey. £150 of joy - Hillman Super Minx estate. Had it for about a year before the engine gave up on the M5.
Mine was a Wolseley 1100 (or was it 1300?!) .
It was an automatic, in Glen Green.
I think it cost me £110..that was back in 1980, in the channel islands.
Mine was a 100k miles plus Rover 214 Si 16v.
A car that was brilliant and only replaced by another Rover - a 200 BRM.
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Mine was a 100k miles plus Rover 214 Si 16v.
A car that was brilliant and only replaced by another Rover - a 200 BRM.
X reg Mini Metro in a burgandy colour with cream velour interior. I put a Pioneer head-unit (tape-deck) in it and two big speakers on the parcel shelf.
This: pic lifted of the 'net. I choose this one because mine had the same specs. 1974 Citroen Dyane 4.
After a year of ownership, the car was a hopeless piece of junk. I had to drive it all across the country my parents' home and the Army barracks every weekend and vice versa. The brakes went south when a brake cylinder started leaking on the front drums... breaking was something of a roulette. My mom decided that the car had to go and ordered my dad to give me a loan for a better car.
A Honda Civic
Up until this day, I miss this car. It was great to drive. And, tbh, in my memory on par with my current VW Up! Shown here the correct model year, with the 'blob' lights on top of the bumpers. Mine was a silver metallic, two door without the go-faster striping and the fancy wheels. Mine had 12" steel rims on Vredesteins. I remember that when accelerating, there was always a hiccup when revving. In hindsight, it was the carb's design.
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