Are you into shite out of choice

[petr]

Oh no its gone and sent its self! Before I had finished. Was going to say have a Prius only modern car I have test driven and was so impresed I bought a used one has charecter and just keeps going and going.very good on fuel cheep tax easy to service engine just the same as normal and brakes are normal, he rest looks after its self!

Will carry on having old cars as just like them and alwas a good talking point.

[Mr Livered]

I suspect we're all into shite by choice, even if we're also skint - otherwise we wouldn't be spending our time browsing a beige website devoted to the love of shite.

 

I started on shite purely out of necessity. In the mid 90s, when I first passed my test, I had a Landy Series 2 which was ace. In 2000 I got a brand new Defender instead.

 

Serious buyers remorse. Never again. From now on it's shite all the way.

[kinkersaab]

For me like most others its choice.  I spend all my working week and have done for nearly 20years selling and buying moderns. There are very few moderns I like or desire.  I loved the citroen C6, so I got a cheap one, and wish I had left it as a dream, it wasn't bad by modern car standards, but it wasn't an xm / cx, and even at only £4k tied up, it was too much money tied up to throw away if it went tits up.

 

Part of it is because I make my living dealing in the things, it makes no sense for me to work all week earning it only to through it all away on my own car depreciating!

 

I love driving, I love cars, I hate the whole vw audi sheople type thing, I hate borrowing. I find I get far more pleasure out of something that most consider as scrap.

 As some may have read, on sat I bought a 55 plate Porsche Cayenne in black with black leather non runner but prob not much wrong, and whatever is wrong its worth spending money on to make right and would still be the cheapest Cayenne in the world however, I am crossing my fingers that a dealer comes to take it away today leaving me with a wee bit profit and some time to enjoy my newly acquired xantia td...  I am feeling fortunate at the moment that in my fleet I have some great cars costing relative buttons, at the moment none of them are for sale and most prob never will be, I have no need for anymore but if some chod comes along I will snap it up and add it to the collection.

 

This is not a look at all my cars post, but for the money I have tied up, I cant think why everyone doesn't do it!

 

saab turbo convertible 1992, one of THE BEST left I think.  Paid £2200 9 years ago  (my fave car ever)

 

Alfa 166 v6 manual (my summer daily)  paid £750  done about 10k in last 6 months.

 

2003 Subaru outback   paid £750, had it near 2 years, done 15k so far in it (my winter car)

 

2005 legacy estate  paid £2000 3 years ago  (wifes winter car)

 

99 Z3 2.8, paid £1300  2 years ago done about 10k  (wifes summer car)

 

old allegro, cant remember how  much, but it wont ever be worth less

 

x19  came with wife

 

93k  300sl, paid £1000....no need for it...but it wont ever be worth less either...

 

all that adds up to the price of a used fiesta or something, but I have lots of cars, I will never get bored of and they will all last for a long long time.  I reliase im fortunate to have the space for them, but other than that my motoring is bloody cheap compared to most, and, I LOVE it.

 

* however, we must remember but we need these knobs to buy newer cars to keep us in shite and me in a job

[brickwall]

I'm debt free and live in relative luxury. Shite helps this, plus I could never afford to buy some of the cars I have had if they were new or nearly new. At 25 there was no way I could afford a new Supra, so at thirty I bought a clapped out one and had epic fun.

 

  Older cars have personality, whatever that means, but the main thing is that I'm a mototrist and not simply a driver. I enjoy the road and trying out the good and bad cars that have been out there. I'm happy with an Allegro with a suitcase on the roof as I am with a Daimler with attaché cases strapped to the boot floor and a hamper in the back.

[chaseracer]

The newest, lowest-mileage car I've ever had is the Blingo, which I bought from a Main Stealer with 8700 miles up.  

 

Eight years later it's knocking on the door of 110K but has been serviced on the button and repaired when necessary, so runs nicely and has taken me all around the UK and Europe.  Ownership is open-ended and I have no plans to replace it.

 

I don't fix the battle scars any more, so it tends to be given some space...

[forddeliveryboy]

kinkersaab, please tell me more about the 166. They must be the cheapest way of owning the V6,

[Sigmund Fraud]

I'm into shite out of necessity. Modern cars are awful, for all the reasons already mentioned, and I can't afford "proper" classic cars.

 

If I won the lottery, I would buy a derelict multi-storey car park and fill it with old shitters. My daily would have to be an XUD-converted Citroen SM running on veg.

[kinkersaab]

kinkersaab, please tell me more about the 166. They must be the cheapest way of owning the V6,

well, its my 3rd one. both previous ones ended up dead quite quickly, both were twinsparks, I said I would never have another t spark but if the 3.0 manual came up I would have it, it did, and I love it.

it s 6 speed manual with now about 110k on it, its had a belt and got a stainless pipe on it that sounds fantastic, its in a shitty green colour with tan leather which I like.  I drive it hard everywhere and it returns 27mpg average. o have done about 10k in it which would equate to about 50k of "normal use"    I also live up 3/4 mile rough track which it takes at speed. I am certain I am the "end user", but whilst it all works im enjoying it to the max.  I have spent quite a bit on it re doing the various rear susp bushes and a lambda sensor for the mot.   I will add some pics shortly.

[kinkersaab]

the only pic I seem to have.

[daverapid]

I can't afford expensive cars but if I could I'd still be driving the crap I do now, but maybe more of them. I have absolutely no desire to own a modern car.

[Shep Shepherd]

I can afford to have a modern car, but old cars are much more fun, not to mention that a £400 car can do the same job as a car costing ten times as much. Also, RWD Volvos rule

[Bren]

My father never really had new cars, 2-3 years old were as new as he bought.

 

However when interest rates peaked at 15% in the late eighties and were nearly made homeless, it made aware of the perils of having stuff on tick - it was a lesson I will never forget.

 

Hence I only ever bought cheap cars - not nasty ( a lot of them were actually a bit tatty), I bought my current vec 2 years ago for £3.6 k because it was too cheap to turn down and I needed something that would eat up my commute to work.

 

However, I will go back to circa £2k cars after this because there are real bargains to be had if you are'nt fussy about what you drive.

 

I was talking to a work colleague who said he had £250 a month to spend on a new car - i would feel more comfortable with a £250 car.

[Guest Lord Sward]

I run shite out of choice.  

 

I've bought a few brand new cars, but you find yourself constantly worrying about them to excess.  Stone chips, dings from parking near humans, that kind of thing.  Once you've driven them out of the showroom, they're used.  Now I know there isn't much out there that is as nice as a new car, but its an expensive hobby.  

 

Shite, if done correctly can be a lot less hassle and somewhat more rewarding - they can even earn their keep due to being less precious.  Some of the best cars I have had for been for buttons;  Ã‚£60 Maestro 1.3LX, £180 Chrysler Neon mk2 (4-speed auto pop-pickers), £500 Merc 230TE (cheaper than a removal van for two house moves) £100 Primera (cheaper than a skip for building a new drive) £300 Audi A4 Avant (cheaper than hiring a pick-up truck for a new kitchen) and a £150 Xantia Estate (cheaper than a builder's van for building a new extension)

 

But staying all that, they maybe cheap to buy, but I don't skimp on servicing; branded tyres, synthetic oils, that kind of thing.  None ever let me down (unlike the newer stuff ironically).  Then when you've finished, if they're still fit for retail, you get your money back.

 

Sub-monkey shite FTW.