Eight years ago

[dollywobbler]

Just because I was virtually rummaging through some old photos, I thought it might be a good idea to hurl up pics of some of your old chod from eight years ago.

 

Here's my 2CV, in France. I'd owned it for five years by this stage. Believe it or not, it was already halfway through a major restoration - the bodyshell had undergone a LOT of work and it now sat on a galvanised chassis. I couldn't afford to get the outer panels sorted though.

 

2005 was also the year in which I did a very silly though. I bought a 160bhp BX 16v from Keith Adams. It was sheer lunacy.

 

I actually paid good money for this. My first 4x4. It seemed to have no suspension at all. I should have bought a Discovery.

 

This was rather better.

 

£375, 2-litre 5-pot and ran well after I reversed the connections on the cooling fan so it actually sucked through the rad rather than blew...

 

Add yours!

[scruff]

2005 started with this 1989 LR 90, 2.5 turbo diesel, no power steering. Felt like a Ferrari after my shit old Series III.

 

 

However it wasn't a Series and after a few months I swopped it with my best mate for this.

 

 

3.5 V8, Range rover diffs, cherry bomb exhaust and Sierra seats. Went like shit off a shovel and huge, huge fun.

It was also a total bitsa and a bit rough, I later rebuilt it using another 2a and ran it as my daily before selling it to a friend who said he'd look after it... but that's another story.

[dollywobbler]

I approve of that Series II V8 very much! I still have the urge for a Series, but I much prefer permo 4x4. Am sure it's possible to bodge the necessary ingredients together. 

[scruff]

Not as good on roundabouts then though.

[Mr Lobster]

2005 was a year of (relatively) great change for the Lobster fleet.

 

Sold this - 

 

 

 

Shouldn't have as it was a very good one and needed relatively little doing. I was having one of those 'fed up of old cars' times though so it got sold.

 

Daily was this -

 

 

Which I actually loved. Company car as I was employed by an agency that had a Ford contract. Zetec 1.8 TDCi with climate pack. After 9 months and 28k I could have bought it very cheaply indeed. Wish I had.

 

Instead, I bought this -

 

Alfa Romeo 145 Cloverleaf by Mr Lobster, on Flickr

 

Which I also loved. Lived up to all the Alfa stereotypes - unreliable, expensive but huge amount of fun. Another one I miss.

 

And after thirteen years of owning it, this went off to meet its maker. Waited too long to do anything with it which meant it was fairly rotten. Pity.

 

[vulgalour]

Eight years ago I hadn't yet passed my test, ridiculously.  It was mostly the cost of it rather than any ineptitude on my part, I managed to pass theory, hazard and practical tests on the first attempt so I can't be that bad a driver, right?

 

Anyway, I've had chod even before I was legally allowed on the open road, but in 2005 I had this, which I would later sadly have to sell after having owned it for 12 years.  I think I've got over this now, I no longer want to buy it back... unless it's for sale and I have money burning a hole in my pocket, of course.

 

I would later go on to systematically ruin* this car by modifying it and I killed several kittens and half a convent of Nuns before we parted ways.  This Polo was last seen living in a field in Nottingham next to a ridiculous American car, but it's on SORN until Feb 2014 so it's at least not yet dead.

 

[Negative Creep]

In 2005 I was still into the Max Power scene, so I was driving this

 

 

Ok, so the bonnet and lights look a bit shit in retrospect. But it did have a VTR engine so wasn't slow, and those wheels still look the tits

[Jim Bell]

Eight years ago I didn't have a licence. So much time wasted.

 

That 16v BX looks amazing DW. Surprised you parted with that one.

[panhard65]

A few from 2005 The white astra was my main car for a while as the interceptor was drinking too much fuel doing 400 miles a week. Just a small fraction of that years cars

Just remembered the safrane stage I had about 6 that year. They were actually worth money back then

[brickwall]

I remember that blue thing from somewhere..hmm.

[phil_lihp]

What a great idea for a thread - slightly worrying in a way though that 2005 is already 8 years ago.

 

 

I had been driving this since 2002 - my first car, known as 'the beast' to my hilarious friends.  It built itself a reputation for being slow and chronically unreliable.  By times I sold it in March 2005, it looked shiny and was rust-free but was mechanically knackered.  It only lasted a few more months before getting cubed.  The chrome petrol cap was a stylish attempt to help seal the rusty fuel filler, petrol tended to piss down the side of the car otherwise.  By times this photo was taken for an advert, it was sealed with mastic.  

 

It was replaced with this:

 

 

Which felt like the starship enterprise in comparison.  However, it later turned out it had been in a nasty accident in a past life and was never right, the passenger front tyre could be scrubbed bald on one edge in a few thousand miles and no amount of tracking and camber adjustments stopped it.  Riddled with niggly little faults and problems, it nonetheless saw me through a lot of changes in my life in the next 2 1/2 years.  

 

Eventually it was traded in to a Ford dealer against a W reg Focus in about 2007 when I got sick of it.  By then it had more electrical gremlins, a leaking radiator, tended to overheat due to a faulty heater valve, had rotten sills and was looking pretty rough for a 90k mile car.  I was amazed to see it still in use just a few months ago, albeit looking very unloved with filthy Zetec alloys and a thick coating of algae.

[Micrashed]

I was riding this every day

 

And the family hack was this

yes that is me

[hairnet]

driving the xantia that rean has now and mostly tootling about on an ex police pan european st 1100

[Wilko220]

Eight years ago, I was mostly blezzing about in this.

 

 

I absolutely loved it, despite it costing me a fortune to keep on the road.

Sadly, it was so shonkily built that I couldn't afford to get it through another MOT, and the bloke who bought it off me broke it. I understand that the 2.0 Turbo engine was going to end up in a Maestro (which must have been dangerous fun).

[barefoot]

Eight years ago 2005, I'd had the 1303 for 20 years, the 944 for 11 years and the T2 for 9.

I still own all of the above.

 

It was to be another five years before I bought a Scirocco,

but it was the year I sold this....

 

 

This is a picture of a Trabant 601S next to a great big pile of shit.

 

For those of you not overly familiar with the joys of 2 stroke / column change madness, 

the pile of shit is to the right of this picture.

 

Trabant is apparently German for something like Satellite/Friend - I suspect it means 

a little bastard that won't leave you alone.

 

Six years we played together...

I'm still a little sad that VFK/Very Fine Kar is gone but

it was shite 

and I'd rather have been involved in a crash involving a damp cardboard box...

 

 

[dollywobbler]

Eight years ago I didn't have a licence. So much time wasted.

 

That 16v BX looks amazing DW. Surprised you parted with that one.

 

It really wasn't amazing. It was a right ol' shonky shitheap with 170k on the clock. Absolutely flew though. I had to sell it as I just couldn't resist taking it beyond 4000rpm into the 'madness' zone. Sadly this very easily resulted in very naughty speeds. Sold it to a friend, who fairly swiftly moved it on. Then the rear suspension pretty much fell out because of how rotten it was...

[Largactil]

Uber rubbish pic, but 8 years ago my daily was a 'modern'...

 

 

Took it on for the last 12 months of a 3 year lease - £199 per month.

 

It was 3.0 V6 pez Privilege spec. Thirsty, but nice to roll in... (Did 15k in a year!)

 

Was also playing boy racer with this:

 

 

Heady, pre-recession days indeed...(!)

[ProgRocker]

In 2005 I was driving the SEAT Ibiza. Best car I have owned to date. Was more reliable than my current car.

 

Ibiza by ProgRocker77, on Flickr

[Tetleysmooth]

As far as I remember, eight years ago was the time of the:

 

 

Swapped it for a white e32.

[Spiny Norman]

8 years ago I'd just been promoted to a job with the word 'manager' in the title so I thought a suitable upgrade in my wheels was required.

 

I bought one of these, and it proved to be one of the most enjoyable daily drivers I've ever had.

 

[Junkman]

It will be 8 years in January that I decided to lead a more insular lifestyle.

The first car I bought upon arrival in this country was this one:

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I was living in France 8 years ago, probably will turn out to be the best years of my life. Daily driver was this:

 

[Shep Shepherd]

Here's The Volvo, pictured at some point in 2005. Doesn't look all that different in 2013, which is both a testament to the car's build quality and my attempts to keep it half decent:

 

[nacho man]

2005 was a year of (relatively) great change for the Lobster fleet.

 

Sold this -

 

 

 

Shouldn't have as it was a very good one and needed relatively little doing. I was having one of those 'fed up of old cars' times though so it got sold.

 

Daily was this -

 

 

 

 

Which I actually loved. Company car as I was employed by an agency that had a Ford contract. Zetec 1.8 TDCi with climate pack. After 9 months and 28k I could have bought it very cheaply indeed. Wish I had.

 

Instead, I bought this -

 

 

 

Alfa Romeo 145 Cloverleaf by Mr Lobster, on Flickr

 

Which I also loved. Lived up to all the Alfa stereotypes - unreliable, expensive but huge amount of fun. Another one I miss.

 

And after thirteen years of owning it, this went off to meet its maker. Waited too long to do anything with it which meant it was fairly rotten. Pity.

 

I was also rocking a 145 cloverleaf that was also unreliable and expensive but also fun.

 

[ShiteRider]

In the first half of 2005 i was rolling around in a very tidy silver over grey sierra sapphire 2.0LX this got flopped on to a mate of a mate never to be seen again....or taxed :'(

I replaced it with a super mint 2.0 glsi sapphire in white (K125ANM), i loved that car it was immaculate, and easily my favourite car i've ever owned.

Unfortunately bravery met physics and physics won..........i ripped a lampost out the ground with it on 26/10/2006. It still pisses me off now, that i killed it trying to show off to some bird whos' name i can neither remember nor face picture.

[Angrydicky]

In 2005 I couldn't drive (I was only 14) but I got ferried around in my dad's cars. 1982 Triumph Acclaim CD (black), VRY 972X and this:

 

[DVee8]

2005 I was running a 1996 Renault Laguna 2.0rxe this was chopped in for a 2001 Vauxhall Vectra 2.2SRI

[quicksilver]

In 2005 I'd not long passed my test, left school and got my first job. My transport was the beige Fiesta that I'm sure you've all seen. My sister used to hate me picking her up from school in it but it's still my favourite of the 4 cars I've had. Dad was running the same Vauxhall Zafira he still has now, and the hobby car was the orange Dolomite that I ended up driving after we sold the Fiesta.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

2005 was a major turning point in my life , one which included in no particular order bankruptcy,house repossession ,arrest,6 year affair coming to light, bollock cancer and a brand new Galaxy and S Type being replaced with rusty Disco and V reg S80.

You know what? That tatty old Disco stayed with us till this year and was the best car I've ever had. The first time I drove it,it cheered me up and the fact that no one; creditors,HMRC, bailiffs was interested in taking it off me was a bonus, it was also the car I took my long suffering wife out for our first reconciliation date in. It made her realise I was serious about doing things legitimately and not trying to be a flash c*#*# as usual!

[Volksy]

Pretty sure I was driving round in this at the time.

 

 

Sold to Torsten from here and still on the road by the looks of it.