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  1. Had one of these as well, a 1981 vintage Morris Ital, cost me 150 quid, ran it for a year before it fell apart.
  2. The powers that be don't want us to have a car.........any car.
  3. Another one that I owned. Bought in 1992 at 4 years old with 13,000 miles for £1200. As an ex miner the cars that you saw in the pit car park were Riva's and Reliant Robins. I loved mine, not the last word in sophistication but it did a job.
  4. He has lusted after one too, it's me in 1969.
  5. What about the Ford corsair
  6. Anybody remember the Yugo zastava?
  7. Mine didn't but it was in that colour, I quite liked it.
  8. Had one of these as well, Lada Samara, cost me £350 with less than 40,000 miles on the clock, never failed me either, I ended up giving it to a mate who had fell on hard times, he ran it for another 2 years.
  9. Yes we got them in the UK, I remember seeing quite a few of them on the roads in the early noughties, the MK1 lumbering down the road like an automotive frankenstein. Mine cost 475 English pounds with 41,000 miles on, when I scrapped it local scrappy had no idea what it was.
  10. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Kia Shuma, I owned one of these a few year back, easily the most forgettable, boring car I've ever owned, also the most reliable. Dissolved into a pile of its own rust, the Mazda engine would have lasted forever, the bodywork not so. I had the mk2, only slightly less hideous to look at than the mk1
  11. For me heated seats, brilliant over the last few months, brilliant in the summer as I can put it on in the middle of a heat wave and burn the oversized arse of my 6ft 5, 20 stone son who let's out a "you bastard " cry when he realises what I've done. For the Wife an automatic gearbox as she can't do hill starts after 20 years of practice, has burnt out more clutches than I can remember so she can't roll backwards in this car and has no need of putting her foot flat to the floor while hardly moving in a forwards direction perspiring and hyper ventilating.
  12. On my team it's the usual German PCP'd fodder, Audi Q7, Audi A7 (×2, both brothers), Ceo has a newish S Class, BMW 5 series, Tesla, don't know which one, not remotely interested and up to last Christmas my old Peugeot 206, yes I was badly letting the side down, I'm now in a virtually free 2005 E Class with lunar mileage so I'm more "acceptable " now, they've known me long enough to realise that I really don't give a f#ck about appearances and won't join the rent a car mob.
  13. The foot operated parking brake in the Merc. Not a massive inconvenience given it's an automatic but I also had one in a manual C Class. Why, oh why oh why did they ever invent such a pointless, stupid thing. It used to give the wife nightmares doing a hill start in that thing. Does it work any better than a normal handbrake? No, just another example of a stupid German over complicating something for the sake of it.
  14. I remember some of the winning quotes in AT back in the 80s for dealers selling cars in the sub £1000 section Lots if flash for little cash Be quick with this one Condition can only be described as showroom This won't be here long Older but wiser This was pre Internet days of course so all you had to go on was usually one picture, but cars were rarely as described.
  15. Yep the classic for a heap of shit with 2 days MOT left that will "fly through another no problem ", well fucking test it then! Amoeba brain doesn't know that you have access online to the last MOT with 75 advisories none of which they will have bothered with. Then there's the "this car has wanted for nothing " and on viewing the tyres have 2mm of tread at best, it's held together by the carpets and hasn't been washed for 5 years, much like the vendor.
  16. That grass car park where the BMW is parked, it's not Bridlington is it?
  17. Shedking

    End of shite?

    It's mostly a sea of overpriced Fords and Vauxhalls at 3 times the price of 3 years ago, as I said a shoulder sagging experience.
  18. Shedking

    End of shite?

    Wouldn't want any of them especially the 5 series, I'll stick with what I have.
  19. Shedking

    End of shite?

    The thing about running shite is that it's an incredibly hard mentality to shift even if you want to, well it is for me anyway. As a younger man and father for 38 years now I never had much money so running a shitter was all I could afford. Now nearing retirement and all the kids having left home long ago, although they keep coming back (selfish b@stards) and being reasonably financially secure I've come to a point where I can afford much better but I can't bring myself to do it. Indeed well to do friends and work colleagues have questioned my sanity in my chosen motoring path with such winning quotes as "come on mate, you can do better than this" with the Peugeot, or at work "for just £450 a month you could be driving one of these, you wouldn't miss the money " referring to some soulless box that they PCP but it's a way of life now because I've been doing it for so long. So it's all the more depressing to scour for sub 2 grand cars and not be able to find anything that you would want to own. I suppose that I dropped on lucky with the E Class, time will tell, it's all good so far and I've found that it's not as frightening as I first thought second hand parts wise or for self servicing so I think that I'll carry on with cheap sheds for as long as I can.
  20. Shedking

    End of shite?

    In April 2019 I paid £475 for a Peugeot 206 with 46,000 on the clock. Had nearly 4 years out of it before it snapped it's timing belt on Christmas eve. Looking on Autotrader there was nothing under 2 grand that I wanted to own and made for very depressing reading. I was about to give up and spend a wad of money on something nicer when a client rang me. He heard about the Peugeot, he had just bought a 2020 C Class and didn't have space on his drive for all his cars. He desperately wanted rid of his old E Class to free up room. Firstly I didn't want a Mercedes and secondly I didn't want a diesel with lunar mileage on it but I needed a car before returning to work after the New Year. After driving it (he'd serviced it religiously for 10 years) and having fitted a brand new turbo and diesel pump in the last 12 months, had it remapped also it went like stink, was as smooth as silk and so comfortable. So for well under a grand I was back on the road and looking down the bonnet at a 3 pointed star. I must say that I love driving the thing, if it does implode it was cheap enough for me not to be too out of pocket because trying to find anything resembling reasonable for under the 2 grand mark was a soul destroying experience.
  21. Yep never known a time like it for those of us who choose to run a shed, pickings are slim and prices through the roof, anything within reason I'll repair but I know with these cars that they can on occasion really empty your pockets.
  22. At the sign of the first ruinous bill it will be weighed in seeing as I paid next to nothing for it, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
  23. I had a W210 E320 Cdi for 4 years and loved it but the W211 E280 cdi that I have now is better in pretty much every way to drive. I'd not had a diesel for 8 years but for seamless progression the W211 is lovely. I hardly notice the gear changes and it pulls like sh#t off a shovel. Doing a steady 70mph on the motorway gets 1600 rpm so it's just ticking over and the ride quality is wonderful, it's like floating on air.
  24. There is a lot to be said for being an anti social, standoffish bastard when in certain company or placed in certain situations that are uncomfortable through no fault of your own. Then there are other occasions when being a complete and utter bastard is the only way forward, it's good for the soul.
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