UltraWomble Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 People you wouldn't have thought of as owning/ driving shite I'll start the ball rolling with Michael Fish and his C reg Maestro...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-41616367/michael-fish-revisits-1987-s-great-storm admittedly it might just have been used for the film being a 1986 car, but phucket we can dream johngarty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 I Know ex Spitting Image voice master & hologram Chris Barrie likes old stuff - I think we can forgive his Sherpa Coupe as he owns and drives a Jaaaaaaaag XJ6 eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Claudia Winkleman still drives the 1.4 Golf she got for her 30th birthday, which wasn't yesterday.I didn't think they made a 1.4 mk1 swallowtail w00dy, stonedagain, stormee and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Jacob Rees Mogg , in addition to a Derby Bentley and an immaculate T1 that he's owned since his 20's, he drives a ' rather old and battered Lexus' every day. I'd like to think it's just like Mason, but could of course be a 6 month old Hybrid, who knows what the multi millionaire Dickensian Toff considers old and battered. stripped fred and Squire_Dawson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 Ann Widdecombe loves* her Ford Focus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 Princess Diana learned to handbrake turn in her Metro fordperv, 11001010, cpjitservices and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 He is sadly departed for some while now, but I remember Patrick Moore owned an upright Prefect for some 50 plus years as well as a Triumph 2000 which I think remained his everyday motor for the rest of his life. Also seem to recall reading that Paul Merton owned a Montego Countryman long after they were "normal" family cars. Fabergé Greggs, cms206 and Squire_Dawson 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabergé Greggs Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 The most mentioned car and owner combo in Autoshite history- Princess Anne and her Scimitar Sigmund Fraud, Aston Martin, Eddie Honda and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Jacob Rees Mogg , in addition to a Derby Bentley and an immaculate T1 that he's owned since his 20's, he drives a ' rather old and battered Lexus' every day. I'd like to think it's just like Mason, but could of course be a 6 month old Hybrid, who knows what the multi millionaire Dickensian Toff considers old and battered.Looking at this picture , I’d say most of us would consider this Lexus to be a new car.He also has a newish Discovery for ferrying his kids around. NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Sir Winston Churchill is famous (at least to banger-boys) for his Farina Morris Oxford but the last vehicle bought on his behalf was actually a Hillman Husky. A bloody Hillman Husky! Even the village Plod round our way moaned to my Dad about getting one of those as an area car in 1966 instead of another noddy bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Princess Diana learned to handbrake turn in her Metro The car that pops into my head for princess Diana is that special s1 escort rs turbo warren t claim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timolloyd Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Doesn't The Queen still run a P5? I'd like to think she's on here under a suitable pseudonym, getting tips for using fibreglass to repair the a posts eddyramrod, Jerzy Woking, cms206 and 24 others 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Wasn't it Di who kicked off some hoo-haa with an Audi cabriolet 'cos German or summat? Upset all the Battenbergs and Saxe-Coburgs apparently. chrisjvm, Richard, Jerzy Woking and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Alexei Sayle has been fond of old chod in the past, owned (still owns?) a Cit C6. FakeConcern and Banger Kenny 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capsuleboy Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 The Popes got a Renault 4... Junkman, Fabergé Greggs and UltraWomble 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Wasn't it Di who kicked off some hoo-haa with an Audi cabriolet 'cos German or summat? Upset all the Battenbergs and Saxe-Coburgs apparently. Rings a bell, I think she had a few Aldis over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 My brain tells me Queen Mum had an Austin 3-Litre. This may not be true but my brain thinks it is. I think an ex-3-Litre owning friend of mine told me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 The most mentioned car and owner combo in Autoshite history- Princess Anne and her Scimitar inconsistant, Junkman, Maurice Marina and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonbennet Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 The late art critic Brian Sewell liked his old motors, he ran a W126 coupe for donkeys years. mercrocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 John Peel put half a million miles on a Mercedes 190. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2731309/Portrait-of-a-driver-John-Peel.html mercrocker, stripped fred, Banger Kenny and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Furious Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 I saw an Austin 3 litre on the M6 a couple of months back, had never heard of it before so I googled it when I got to work, turned out the very same car has its own website. http://www.austinthreelitre.co.uk/ treehugger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Doesn't The Queen still run a P5? I'd like to think she's on here under a suitable pseudonym, getting tips for using fibreglass to repair the a posts timolloyd, bub2006, AMC Rebel and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Lots more here.... http://autoshite.com/topic/18707-unlikely-autoshiters/ UltraWomble 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Sir Winston Churchill is famous (at least to banger-boys) for his Farina Morris Oxford but the last vehicle bought on his behalf was actually a Hillman Husky. A bloody Hillman Husky! Even the village Plod round our way moaned to my Dad about getting one of those as an area car in 1966 instead of another noddy bike. Didn't Churchie have a coach built VDP 3 litre 2 door? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 There has been talk of such a thing but never found any evidence other than anecdotal tales of it being destroyed on the oval. Probably somebody shifted a b post and made up a wider pair of doors to wind up the car clubs. His standard Oxford was widely documented, however.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Boris Johnson is the obvious choice here. He drives a Y reg Focus and a battered, M reg Toyota Previa. ProgRocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayne Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Nile Rodgers still drives his yellow p38 Range Rover.We never got a yellow p38 over here, his was a special edition for the US market (unlike that badly painted mess in Layer Cake). ProgRocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 The car that pops into my head for princess Diana is that special s1 escort rs turbo c1b41067d3af2abf619dbe5a727e13c0--princesa-diana-ford-escort.jpg That escort is now part of this dude's...fucking epic ....collection of Ford legends https://www.pistonheads.com/features/ph-features/rs-royalty-the-bonkers-collection/23965 johngarty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Case Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Not quite shite in absolute terms, but Warren Buffet, possibly the world's richest man, drives a three year old Cadillac XTS, having part-exed a 2006 Caddy for it. Relatively, it is marginally cheaper than a Volvo S90, which of course is now beginiing to show up on the AS radar http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/15/autos/warren-buffett-cadillac-xts/?iid=EL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 June brown (dot cotton ) has/had a 100e, Jon colshaw has a mk3 cortina & mk1 Granada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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