Do you own the oldest daily smoker where you live?

[blguy1975]

Yes ,Bert the 323 Is the oldest car in the Street being 25Years Old , There is a 23 Year old Nissan Bluebird in the next Stret and a 1987 Toyota Camry 3 streets away ,both being owned by older Gentlemen,

The Guy next door has a 2001 Pug 406 ,now getting a rare sight on Uk roads.

 

Matt

[trigger]

Being a M reg, Mrs T's Golf is the oldest car in the street that i can think off!

 

My 1994 Volkswagen Golf 1.8 Cabriolet by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[eddyramrod]

Not any more!

[HillmanImp]

Being a M reg, Mrs T's Golf is the oldest car in the street that i can think off!

 

My 1994 Volkswagen Golf 1.8 Cabriolet by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Errr.....http://www.autoshite.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12512

[trigger]

Oh i meant parked in the street rather then in the garage as such...

[trigger]

It will be a weekend toy and for holidays and pottering about in, well thats the plan!.

[nigel bickle]

Yup. By a country mile

[Captain Slow]

Yes, I do. Mine's on the right, pic taken at Huddersfield Autojumble yesterday.

 

[Father Ted]

 

Not in the street, no. But in the works car park - Ohhhhh yes. I do get a lot of ribbing about how small it is and how old it is, and about the age of the car too.....

[trigger]

Nicely lined up car ramps!

[Father Ted]

Nicely lined up car ramps!

It moved as I drove up onto them. I gave it a good kick and shake and it didnt move so I guessed it was safe enough to crawl under.

[DSdriver]

Autoshite health and safety test:

 

I gave it a good kick and shake and it didnt move so I guessed it was safe enough to crawl under.

 

[worldofceri]

There's quite a lot shit old motors down my street, so with an 11 year old Volvo we're only about half way down the scale.

 

When we had a '77 Bedford and our '72 Beetle on the road, however, we had the oldest couple of dailies for a few blocks at least.

[theorganist]

No, although I am in third place, bearing in mind two of my cars are over thirty years old!!

 

There is a guy up the road who owns around eight Morris 8's (not all stored at his house) he is in the owners club. He has at least two of them as dailies a car and a van in Post Office Green (plus a Rover 200).

 

There is a family down the road who have a mid seventies VW camper and a similar aged Beetle both in nice condition and not scened up!!

 

There was a Hillman Imp also in my street but that has gone now, in fact it may have been the same people who now own the VW's come to think of it!!

[R9UKE]

Autoshite health and safety test:

 

I gave it a good kick and shake and it didnt move so I guessed it was safe enough to crawl under.

 

 

 

My Clio auto is beaten by a few months by the old woman up the street with her white Peugeot 205 Junior. Owned since new she tells me, 33k on the clock, looks like it's done 133k though...

[RobT]

Mines younger by 6 years ('88 BX) as an old chap in our block owns a 1982 Datsun Cherry in Gold Very proud of it he is too and rightly so.

[barefoot]

Mine are the oldest on this street by a country mile, both winter daily's are 1987 and the summertime campervan is 1979, there's a '72 beetle in the garage but that doesn't count. The bloke across the road drives a Mitsubishi Turbo nutter bastard but buys shite for his wife, her current is an S registered Mazda 323 thing.

That is the oldest for a couple of streets, but I've spotted a curious blue/green Sunny locally & theres a 1966 Sherpa drophead, but that only potters out in the Summer sunshine.

[Angrydicky]

My current daily is a 1966 Austin 1100, so easily the oldest thing in daily use.

 

A beige B reg Fiesta up the road is probably the next oldest regular user, there's a C reg Renault 11 Turbo and an S reg Allegro estate as well but neither ever seem to move.

 

Edit - Just remembered there is a Morris Minor and VW Camper - both 1968 - that are daily users in the street. The VW is completely standard and has been owned by an old boy from three years old. Has plenty of nice fibreglass 'n' filler repairs under handpainted paint

[John F]

Not at the moment... there's a fella up the road with a tidy 1989 E30 BMW, which beats my 1994 Calibra.

 

But if all goes to plan my 1966 Series 2a Land Rover should be off the driveway & back in commission by this time next year. That'll take some beating.

[Captain Mainwaring]

My C-plate 340 is definately the oldest car on our street that sees daily use. And probably the surrounding streets. Chap on a street not far from here ran an A-reg Rangie until fairly recently, when he replaced it with an 05-plate one.

[HMC]

My Daily smoker S class is the oldest on my street by a good few years. Our near neightbour ran a L plate rover 418sld untill christmas, at which point it was sent over the bridge, leaving Das Boot the oldest smoker.........

[Taff]

yup, daily is a 1994 polo and my other motor (though it's not actually on the street yet!) is the '59 ford pictures elsewhere. That car is actually older than the street itself I think!

[meggersdog]

My 1990 Discovery is the oldest in my street.For the last couple of months I have been running an N.reg Golf GTi which is the next oldest.Around the corner is an F.reg Mk4 Escort in daily use and around the corner the other end of my street is an F.reg Mini.There is an old Mk3 Spitfire (old G.reg I think) that gets used all summer.

[r.welfare]

My next door neighbour trumps me with a T-plate Mazda 323 with the usual near-terminal rear wheelarch rot. Looks a bit incongruous parked outside what I think is probably a £750,000 house (much bigger than mine I might add)...otherwise it's XC90/Disco 3/5-series estate land round here, so collectively we lower the tone quite a bit.

[MK5 Escort]

I'm near enough certain my Escort, which turned 21 last week, is the oldest car on the street unless there's any old beauties hidden in the garages that I haven't seen in the 10 months I've lived here. However it's not a daily driver so it's up to you whether you want to count it or not.

 

The next oldest resident is an 'R' reg mk3 Astra owned by an elderly chap who I've never seen without his tweed flat cap. It’s a povvo spec three door Merit in that dark metallic purple colour (not that lighter, solid one) with Halfrauds special wheeltrims which have yellowed with age. The windows are always steamed up, regardless of the weather outside.

 

At the top end, bumped up the kerb is a blue W reg Omega saloon 2.2 CD. It was very clean when we first moved here and to be fair still fairly presentable enough now. It's just doesn't have a 'cared for' look about it any more with dulling paintwork/alloys not cleaned properly - seems to have started it's general slow decline towards bangerhood.

 

Next door but one does have a very tasty locally registered (Brazier Bros. - now gone) three door X reg Peugeot 206 in dark metallic green. It’s a GLX model (I think...) and has factory alloys. It only ever moves when it pays a visit to the local paper shop to the best of my knowledge, which isn't even a mile up the road. Other than that, it never moves. When I say it's mint, I mean mint. I'll be surprised if it's managed to cross 10k mile barrier yet.

 

Our neighbours to the right of our house are an old couple, a very old couple actually. They don't even have a car rendering they're long driveway (which could very easily fit three modern-sized repomobiles), plus garage, pointless. They walk everywhere or get taxis.

[ashmicro]

@ The Das Boot moniker. That is one classy looking motor car.

[Shep Shepherd]

The Volvo is the oldest car on my street that's in regular use, as the roadside ornament 1966 Ford F-100 pick-up and the scrap-worthy 1988 Scorpio haven't moved for months. The 1965 Triumph Herald 1200 which shares driveway space with the Scorpio hasn't moved in the seven years I've lived here

[Cheggers]

Comfortably

 

[M'coli]

Yes - the Cav holds this comfortably. Even then, the wife's N-reg Peugeot 106 is the next oldest, 2 P-reg Fiestas are next, followed by an R-reg Audi GA3lf, then a smattering of S-reg stuff including some Corsas and a Jag.

[j-j]

My Daily smoker S class is the oldest on my street by a good few years. Our near neightbour ran a L plate rover 418sld untill christmas, at which point it was sent over the bridge, leaving Das Boot the oldest smoker.........

Rather like that!