Wow! I loved the 205 - had a couple of 1.9 GTi's back in the day.
Cracking little cars.
Uncountable threads about new cars, new lease contracts. It produces wonderful pictures of wonderful cars, I give you that.
But who drives an old car as daily driver? I'll start:
Peugeot 205 1.6 Automatique 1992. I'm sure there are members here with older daily drivers.
Sailed through the MOT today.
Wow! I loved the 205 - had a couple of 1.9 GTi's back in the day.
Cracking little cars.
So clever my foot fell off.
Using this every day while the Riley is off the road.
Having seen some of the cars Unclalec drives, he’s going to be a clear winner from the start!
I drive a 2009 Mercedes CLS350 but that’s only 14 years old.
A few candidates in this other recent thread :
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...ar-old-or-more
That one is 1966, but I have recently dropped a diff from a Midget into my other one which is 1969, so I'm going modern once the axle is bolted back together. It is getting new brakes at the same time. The longer legs will come in handy on the infrequent motorway trips.
They're perfect for a town commute, 5 miles each way. I do have a Peugeot Partner as a works van, but it really doesn't like short journeys, the dpi filter clogs up.
I put a Mini heat exchanger in the H reg Minor, and the heater is surprisingly good which is about the only driver comfort available. A pair of (BMW) Mini front seats await my fabricating a subframe; now that will be a quantum leap forward comfort-wise.
The one arm steering wheel is much older. 1955 on the DS I believe. It remained a trademark at least until 2000 (XM), possibly later.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Darn it, beat me to the Lagonda. As a lad from. Newport Pagnell, I remember them well.
I’m driving a reasonably new XC60 at the moment and it’s lovely, but retirement beckons and I’m thinking of changing it for something less complicated to maintain and cheaper to run. Maybe an old v70 or something along those lines.
I won’t have the oldest daily driver, but I am seeing the appeal of bangernomics- a totally different thread, I’ll grant you.
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'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
When I was in junior school, the class members has to do a bit of a stand up project each.
I liked cars back then so I penned a hand written letter to Aston Martin and I recall addressing it to Newport Pagnell (which I thought was on another planet back then).
They responded with oodles of glossy press packs in a lovely folder highlighting their cars of the time and the future.
The Lagonda was launched in '76 so I was 9 yrs old.
Made up doesn't describe how I felt to get a response from them.
Not sure how many marks I received for the project but it didn't matter - I had this fantastic car literature that nobody else in my part of the universe did.
I was a happy kid, all good haha
Two 20 year-olds on the drive.
Cars, obviously.
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
I ordered a set of those 'French' yellow H4 headlight lamps for the Peugeot. Simply, to make it more 'in sync' with its model year. Hopefully a lot of fun for 20 euros!
Dang it, I've been outdone thoroughly on the older daily drivers! I was running an '05 Golf GTi up until October (it ticked over to 203,000 miles, so was time to retire it), now got an '09 plate Honda Civic. I've driven older, and higher mileage, cars for some years with mostly success (I did take a bath on a Volvo V70 a few years back, sometimes you just buy wrong and I did!)
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
You'll regret that if you ever drive at night. Not only were they dreadful to start with, crossing a foreign car at night was plainly blinding. That became even worse when they allowed them and most people converted their cars to white bulbs.
Mind, compared to modern headlights, even the white ones are crap. But the yellow are just on another level of "faeces-ness".
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
My 22 yr old practical classic rolling restoration …
I endorse your decision.
My 1969 2-door arrived after I had this one for a while.
I bought it from a UKIP candidate and had a few surprises, but sorted them out and used it briefly. I found it utterly charming with its Art-Deco dash and Riley-like split screen, but to be honest it was way short of the later models on the useability front. Much slower, much less visibility, and what a nightmare replacing the windscreen wiper motor! So I sold it and bought the aforementioned newer one.
Hey! modern-car guys - imagine trying to get your head round this array of hi-tec instrumentation!
Yeah - my mate was explaining to me that the killer is often that in an older car because it doesn't have modern crumble zones and other features that even if you are still able to function and your legs were crushed, you'll likely find the doors are jammed and you cannot get out without being cut out where as with a modern car, the doors will still open.
"A man of little significance"
I know. We had the same in France, as I imagine most other countries did (although it wasn't Austin 7s ); It's more to link the post to a certain school of thought (I use the term loosely).
Regardless, it would be amusing to see how the proponent react when the car in front select reverse instead of first gear when the light goes green.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
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The anteriority was not disputed as you can read earlier.
Motorcycles with a steering wheel? Oh, it was about other road users. Because we all know that it’s always others that make our roads so dangerous.
Usually stupid ideas do not have a best before date. So yes, it’s an old «*joke*» that may even not have originated in this country.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
My 1990 944 turbo comes out a few times a week even in the winter. I have been wondering, as our winters get predominanty wetter, if maybe I change that and stick to a less corrosion prone option for winter months.
One of my brothers has a 25 year old Mitsubishi Evo V, his pride and joy, and weekend driver.
He swears by this stuff;
https://www.lanoguard.co.uk/products...assis-care-kit
There is a sheep smell for 2 or 3 weeks after each application, but it seems to work! :-D