If autoshite did car hire

[hairnet]

Oh ffs - hope it's not too shonky

[eddyramrod]

You're in the USA and you've rented a Mitsubishi?  Didn't they have any actual cars left?  Where's your Crown Vic?

[anonymous user]

I thought you'd found someone who did really shonky cars, like in the old days.

When I lived in Warminster back in the 1980s there was a wonderful hire place Low Cost Wheels, where for £25 per week you got a Mk3 Cortina with various minor problems that they'd tell you about and how to manage them. (Using oil, water, etc). If it broke they brought you another one.

[mercrocker]

I wish Rent-a-Wreck was still a thing.....  

 

In the late 80s I used to get Mk1 Civics and knackered Escorts and a memorable Horizon off their local depot.   There was a franchise near my folks in Canada with stuff like Dodge Aspens and 305 "powered" Impalas which the hire forms insisted on calling "Bel Air"s.    You weren't supposed to take stuff out of town, either here or in Canada but I did hundreds of miles in these things - loved it!   

[andy18s]

There's a company here in Bulgaria where you can get a 306 or a mk3 Astra.....

[hairnet]

You're in the USA and you've rented a Mitsubishi?  Didn't they have any actual cars left?  Where's your Crown Vic?

read the date you blind aul fart - i also get no choice and malibus are not 300 horse and rwd theyre 185 and fwd and shit - even i would say no

 

and its says or similar so it could be anything - the last two times its been yaris or mini and they gave me an elantra

 

even when did belfast that was polo or similar and they gave the shite mokka

 

crown vic ftw sadly it wont be

[ProgRocker]

I wish Rent-a-Wreck was still a thing..... 

 

From memory, in that 1990s motoring documentary that has been discussed here in the past, one of the families was using a yellow 'rent-a-wreck' mark 5 Cortina estate. The children were very embarrassed about it. Or did I dream that?

[Jimbo]

Local to me is a rental company who specialise in renting bangers to Recently arrived USAF personnel. Hondas and rovers are favourite, this is before some of the Servicemen’s own inappropriate USA domestic market chod is flown in to have the lights europeanised and hog the roads.

[Dan_ZTT]

I rented a Dacia Logan in Marrakesh about 10 years ago, never seen so many dents and scrapes on a single car. Also no radio, and driving through a desert without functioning cold air blowers is fun*

 

It was very very cheap though.

[Datsuncog]

From memory, in that 1990s motoring documentary that has been discussed here in the past, one of the families was using a yellow 'rent-a-wreck' mark 5 Cortina estate. The children were very embarrassed about it. Or did I dream that?

Yep, that one was quite true - and better yet, it was an S-reg MkIV, if memory serves... (I'll look the pic out later - the series was BBC's 'From A to B: Tales of Modern Motoring', made in conjunction with photographer Martin Parr).

[eddyramrod]

read the date you blind aul fart

I love you too xx

[Matty]

If autoshite did car hire no one would ever get anywhere on time...

[jonathan_dyane]

I had a Chevy Malibu in Seattle last year.

 

It was awful.

[hairnet]

if i cpuld hire a 2cv............

[Jerzy Woking]

Car hire firm near my place in Spain rents 12 to 15 year old cars (Punto, Piccaso, C-Max for example) for €15 a day, including insurance and breakdown. They don't worry about dings and dents put on them, as long as it's nothing stopping them from renting. The cars don't look too bad for all that, and tyres, brakes and mechanical all seem good.

[Junkman]

I know, it's about 20 years ago, but a local garage in St Julian's on Malta had only two hire cars left that day - a Micra and a DS420.

So yes, it was the DS420 for me. Imagine my disappointment when I found out the other hire cars they had were a Ford Consul MKII and a '60 Pontiac Laurentian.

[eddyramrod]

Now THAT's a proper hire fleet!

[Junkman]

Yeah, especially considering the DS420 was slightly overhanging the ferry to Gozo in every direction.

[hairnet]

 and a '60 Pontiac Laurentian.

hnnng

[D Spares & Tyres]

Local to me is a rental company who specialise in renting bangers to Recently arrived USAF personnel. Hondas and rovers are favourite, this is before some of the Servicemen’s own inappropriate USA domestic market chod is flown in to have the lights europeanised and hog the roads.

That explains the Californian plated LhD Mitsubishi I used to see around Cambridge. It's now on UK plates. I thought it was an odd choice to bring over

[mercrocker]

I think many US servicemen used to have their motors brought over at no or little cost to them.   We had a US Army base near us on Southampton water - a big black Texas sergeant brought over his XJ6 coupe and there was an Army-plated Econoline bus knocking about too.   My own 79 Pontiac came off somewhere up near Mildenhall - still had Bay area parking tickets and garage receipts stuffed in the glove-box.   I think there was some kind of duty or return freight payable when their tour was up because the geezer I got the Grand Prix off had all sorts of stuff knocking about - mainly X-cars and those Buick Skyhawk things that looked like pimped-up Cavaliers.   

[SierraMikeHotel]

Spotted this in Deauville last month. If we'd had more time I would have done!

 

 

Edit: just realised you can't see it in the photo, the rear screen was marked up "Louez-moi!"

[Supernaut]

I had a Chevy Malibu in Seattle last year.

 

It was awful.

 

I also had a Chevy Malibu in Seattle last year.

 

I'm fairly sure it was the 250hp 8 speed auto version. It was bloody rapid!

[sierraman]

Whatever happened to rent a wreck in the U.K.? I’m assuming the legal side of it forced him out of business?

[catsinthewelder]

Customers don't tend to be very helpful when rental cars FTP and insurance is silly enough for ncap 5 star dullsmobiles. I think our policy has a maximum age of 5 years without paying extra.