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I see all 'types' driving all sorts and vintages of trolley..... with a 'loose dog' in the back/rear parcel.
 
Possibly being thwackked on the back of the head with a baseball bat might conjour up a sharp reminder as to what happens if the dog doesn't STOP... from 60mph... when you do!!
 
 
TS

Modern roads can be terrifying when you are driving an older car. I'm generalising when I say pre 1970..There are plenty of cars built before 1970 that this doesn't necessarily apply to as well as plenty of cars built post 1970 which it does.
http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Boston-pensioner-Anne-Pattrick-dies-M1-motorway/story-21948074-detail/story.html
Last weekend this couple were involved in a pile up on the M1 in their Ford Anglia. A 30 year old man was arrested at the scene. The crash involved an Mx5, and LDV, and a Ka as well.
According to John S of Practical Classics fame who new the victims they were hurled through the windscreen, the Anglia being pre seat belt, and didn't stand a chance.
I've refrained from commenting on Facebook but it does bring a broader point. until 2010 I clocked around 50k motorway miles a year and doing that mileage you see every type of Nympton driving and learn quite quickly that defensive is the way to a longer life. Sadly no out of defensive driving will save you from the idiot and I suspect that is what happened here.
However had they been driving a vehicle with seat belts fitted Anne might have survived. I like to think that they knew the risks involved and were making an informed decision.
This sort of incident effects all of us who are interested in older cars and just wait for the clamour for 'removing old death traps' from the roads whilst little mention will be made of the fact that it appears to have been caused by a selfish and aggressive driver.
 
I have to admit that I've always been very wary of driving certain types of cars on the motorway. My old Morris Minor had no seat belts and was made in 1954..long before the dawn of the British Motorway. Driving it on a busy Motorway was always a terrifying experienced mostly because you felt so exposed. Now i used to own a Westfield and never felt as exposed as I did in the Morris. I had similar feelings driving my old series land rover on the motorway. I think it is a combination of things but you become remarkably aware of the lack of power and that it is this inability to pull away quickly from trouble that contributes to my feeling vulnerable.
 
Despite yearning after a 50 s car I'm well aware that the lack of safety features does put me off somewhat. Non collapsible steering columns, no crumple zones, no passenger cage, no seat belts, no dual brake system. Etc etc. Whilst these won't protect you from a numptie they will go some way to improving your chances of walking away.
 
It's no accident that my 1982 chod is a 244.. I know that unlike some of the cars I have owned I can put the kids in the back of it. The in laws don't bat an eyelid when I put them in the 244..They would raise an eyebrow when I used to put them in the Triumph 2000...
 
I have to admit that any chod buying I do is often influenced by the safety of the vehicle for carrying passengers. Especially kids and that seat belts ..with proper mounting are a double plus essential.
 
hopefully this tragedy will remind people why dangerous driving is unacceptable.

The warranty never runs out. But that's only because it never begins in the first place.

Austin Allegro 1.3 manual 
Mint interior 
Good bodywork 
Low mileage 


The car could do with some tlc to bring it up to standard, the passenger wing has recently been replaced and needs painted to match the rest of the car. The inner wing isn't great and has a bit of rust which needs sorted. The car starts and drives quite well, it handles nicely and stops well. 
I've recently fitted a clutch slave cylinder, it selects gears well and pulls nicely. 

I'm after a cash sale of £550 shiters discount  but may consider a swap for something a bit newer say 80's-90's 

5 months tax 
11 months mot 
 

 

 

 
 
I'm after a cash sale of £550 shiters discount  but may consider a swap for something a bit newer say 80's-90's 
 
The car is located in Dunfermline, Scotland.

Firstly,  apologies for one of my first posts being a for sale thread. I'm a longtime lurker and have signed up several times only for my username and password to stop working for some reason. Anyway I have 4 cars and it takes the piss getting the wheely bins out, and the 205 has gone from dependable daily to unused ornament through no fault of its own. 
 

 
Well, that's not strictly true, it has developed a rattle due to one or more paggered engine mounts. The top mount has perished so it could well be that swapping that would cure it, but equally likely is that the bottom mount needs changing, which is a little more involved but still no problem for a competent spannerer. My current problem is the fact that real life is getting in the way and I won't realistically have a spare weekend until the MOT is nearly up. The car still drives fine but it needs sorting as the car also lacks a radio to drown out the rattle.
 

 
Now I've made it sound really bad, the good bits:
MOT til end of october
2 sets of wheels (originals in need of refurb and 14" partner rims with branded tyres)
Still red rather than pink
Funky striped sports seats
Pretty quick, and feels faster
Everything electrical works (there isn't much but still)
Twin choke carb for noticeable step in power delivery. GTIs lack this and are therefore inferior
61k miles
All the locks operate from the same key. x2 keys
Stays bone dry when it rains
New numberplates, springs and brake pads
Hilariously good fun to drive, nothing feels like a 205 and this is the most fun one I've tried.
 
Few  more pics

The parking ticket was a joke one btw


 
These seem to be rare and it drives like the odometer is telling the truth so offers around £400 would be nice
 
 
 
 

Be like me, but with more red and the correct grille

 
Hardly the most descriptive of descriptions. 
 
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-414/291180172111

In the beginning I drove shite cars because that was all I could afford. Many years have gone by since those carefree days of a freebie 1960 Austin A40, and suchlike. The car was 18 years old, a year younger than I was. Now I'm driving a 1993 Mercury, for which I paid not very much really, and a 2007 Tacumablob for which I paid retail (but that was to get rid of the horribe Blazer). The Mercury is very much by choice. It is absolutely shite, as it was a low-selling model new and virtually unheard-of on this side of the Atlantic. As American cars go (and surely just that gives it a head start!) it has only fine hints of the style and luxury that drew me to the breed. But, it's cost me less than my stepson's Golf Blumotion lost in the first six months and is immeasurably more fun.
I just checked my Euromillions from last night: one number. What would I be buying? More old American shite mostly, but the finest examples I could lay hands on. I'd mostly avoid the hyped-up models in favour of more bread-and-butter stuff like late 50s station wagons. I might also keep something like a newish Transit for daily round-town duties. More important would be a suitable house to keep them at, I certainly wouldn't be staying in this little terrace! There must be a 4 bedroom bungalow for sale overlooking Windermere, with planning permission for a car barn...

I like maintaining good products well, and making them last as long as possible, i love getting an old car up to as good as new condition, mechanically anyway, bodywork depends on the type of car and use its getting.
 
I don't mind paying for quality in the first place whether its new or used, that applies to all products, but my idea of quality doesn't pair up with the computerised shit cars that been made for the last ten or more years.
Yes we could afford new cars but they do bugger all for us, my mate's always buying himself and his missus new cars, fuckin near on £30k for his missus' MINI....WTF!!!...i hate the sight of the bastard heaps, and her previous 3 spent more time in the workshops than on the road, utter shit, now on the 4th bastard.
 
I just aint having certain things, no wanky automanual gearboxes, i'd sooner slit me wrists than have an electric parking brake, i used to like Diesels when they were simple, now they're ticking bloody time bombs.
 
Only bought one new vehicle in me life, that was a Hilux, thats my idea of engineering excellence, simple and tough.
 
Unfortunately the lorry i drive at work is only 18 months old, had it from new and i keep it in good order, but as said in other posts thats got no soul either, if i want to all i have to do is point it and steer thereby reduced to a  steering wheel attendant, instead of that i control the auto gearbox manually and thoroughly enjoy getting better fuel figures than the sister lorries all driven in full auto...silly i know but i hate the fuckin computers that much that i feel compelled to prove to meself that i can still do it better matey.
 
I've asked work time and time again to get me a Hino (Toyota group) lorry, good old fashioned if it aint broke don't fix it engineering...a proper gearbox and real wiring that connects things like it should, even the mad Irish lads can't break the buggers.
 
Suppose i could pack me job in and buy meself a Hino, but too bloody old to start that owner driver shennanigans now, plus me job is too good to pack in.
 
Some of the lorries we have at work now sport electric parking brakes, what a load of bollox and one on demo at the mo has radar controlled cruise control which will brake the lorry automatically if you get too close to the vehicle in front.
Sounds great dunnit...yeah till the fucker goes wrong and jams the bloody brakes on full pelt at 55mph on a crowded wet motorway, the parking brake apparently will apply automatically too as it does in modern shit cars, but if like Passtas the bloody thing comes off when it feels like it there's gunna be 44 tons trundling off on its jack jones....all in all there's too much automated shit now and the more they put in the less i want to play.

My biggest gripe about most modern cars is that they have ceased to be machines and are now consumables. Obviously this has been going on for years but it has reached daft levels. They express much that is wrong in our society..throw away culture, shallow image, lack of self reliance, flawed soundbite environmental science, over engineering, isolating people from other people and their environment, bloated bulky aggressive and hostile design (with a few exceptions) ...The automotive expression of the over reactive defensiveness of the general behaviour of people in our time. ..me...I prefer a more elegant vehicle from a more civilised time which is why I drive a CX.. (or at least I do when it's working!)

Indeed - they look like a fat lasses' arse cheeks.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CLASSIC-MINI-AUTOMATIC-TAX-EXEMPT-/271555931896

Blimey!
 


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MITSUBISHI-CELESTE-COUPE-2000GT-5-SPD-1977-MEGA-RARE-BARN-FIND-TOTALLY-ORIGINAL-/201134012223

Reasons for Refusal of an MOT Certificate:
 
15.6 Looks fucking stupid
 
 
Advisories
 
21.3 visit Specsavers on the way home

Potential purchase is in Sheffield, and I can apparently get there for £31. Why do I even own a car?! Trains can be stupidly cheap. 
 
Car sounds good, owner sounds normal and pleasant. Do I commit? It's a car I want much more than a Volvo (sorry Scotland).

I had a Rover 600 Diesel for the day earlier in the year courtesy of my local MOT station. I don't know how something so dull left such an impression on me. I was straight on eBay looking for the fast model. I also have a overwhelming urge for an early MK5 Escort XR3i just because I like the front grill.

Say "Sim-Sala-Bim" and it shall be done.
 
 

 
Nightfire red are the best colour of ever.

*Dog in bee suit not included.

Buy a Volvo, get a free* Scottish passport, absolutely** free***!
 
 
 
Welcome

As per the thread title, hello! Ive been lurking here for a month or two and thought I'd emerge from the shadows of the interweb. I have a minor, possibly treatable, tendency to buy odd-looking cars, and at present have a 1990 Saab 900 convertible, a 1994 Range Rover LSE, a 1974 Citroen DS, and a 2003 VW Golf. I know the Golf is anonymous, not odd-looking, but perhaps the others make up for it. I live in Lincolnshire, on the edge of Grimsby, but am a southerner by birth and upbringing. Before the oil runs out, I'd love to own a '60s yank tank and a Volvo 240. There. That's probably enough random information to start with

SIERRA HARLEQUIN.

Who in there right mind would bother ?  1989 Sierra Ghia 
 
   A friend of mine bought this in 1999 as scrap for a few spares as the head gasket had gone  and it was parked up a few parts removed and it was left   September 2012  i bought it to use as spares and loaded it up and took it home      Once it was unloaded i gave it a quick look over and a rinse as my intention was going to be to use it for spares for an early D reg Mk2 i have  The interior was grotty as in the last 13 years the windows had been left partialy open     There was also a dead rat in the glovebox ! The engine hadnt been touched for ages and the distributor was missing    after a rinse it still looked  horrible   Next step was to get it running  , i took the plugs out and filled the bores with diesel  and left it for a week . When i went back to it i tried a socket on the crank pulley and gently moved the engine back and forth until it had done a few turns on the socket  so i was happy it was  not seized , so i fitted a distributor and timed it up  but as the car had air con i had to move the a/c compressor out of the way just to get the belt cover off .  The next bit was messy as put a battery on it covered the plug holes with rag and turned the key and after a few turns the oil light was out .  The electric fuel pump was also missing so i fitted a replacement then poured some petrol in and primed the fuel system . After a few turns the engine started and sounded ok but as there was no water in it as the rad had rotted out i turned it off   I moved it out the way and got on with other jobs April 2013 even though it was running it diddnt run well due to the head gasket problem so off with the head   It all looked very good so with a quick clean up , some new stem seals and a gasket it went back together  I removed all the air con stuff in front of the rad as it was very rusted up , there was no pressure in the system anyway . I fitted a decent radiator and now it runs lovely    While the sun was shining i also swapped the bonnet as the original was rotten and replaced the headlamps    It was at this moment i realised i had started repairing a car that i had bought as a  breaker    March 2014  Time to make a final decision what to do with this  break or fix  So it was time for a very hard look at it  The rear inner sills were as i expected   The outer sill to floor seam has rotted on the passenger side  the front wings were better than i expected   Next step was to get all the grotty trim out and have a look at the inner sills and floorpan   And thats all the rot !  For a car thats been parked up in a field with the windows open for nearly 15 years not bad at all. All 4 doors had rotted out as well so i replaced them with some sapph doors  the whole car needs paint but that will be later so it has a blue bonnet , magenta doors, and the original bit is olympic gold   Like i said who in there right mind would bother ?    I think the term "right mind" says it all      Its time for this one  to wait its turn again now for a while   before any more gets done

This is the autoshite.
 
The reason we are here is because we buy and use utterly wank cars.
 
I don't see the point in falling out - it's not fucking pistonheads - we are here to laugh at ourselves and the automotive abortions we call transport.
 
Take a chill pill. I don't think any of us takes ourselves that seriously - do we??

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/181456391077
 
Vendor is an excellent chap and keeps his cars in great condition. This is a very nice example.
 
He's from Yorkshire so don't expect a bargain

There's plenty of dishonesty on here. I once recall someone (several people, really) saying Corsas were for twats. Well I'm a wanker not a twat, so that's pretty dishonest of them.

Jesus H Christ. The battery lasted just short of an hour after purchase. Its my problem to deal with. I really dont give that much of a shit. I was a bit disappointed thats all.
 
Im sorry I didnt fully outline the precise timescales on my first post so everyone could fully consider whether the seller is a cock or I'm a cock.
 
And cheers for the PM threats Breadvan.