What's the most favouritist car you've ever owned

[danthecapriman]

Love this..........had it since 2001 and I would have to be in deep shit to sell it.20140316_141310.jpgGroup shot from last year......20140503_182412.jpghall3.jpg

That Rover is gorgeous! Really really nice car!

[cros]

I'd be very happy with any of the cars on this page so far, tops would be the Rover.

[alf892]

Thanks for the likes! the pics flatter but it is one of those cars that get under your skin

[danthecapriman]

It's lovely! In fact I think we should see more pics of it, if you don't mind!

[Forty-two]

It was rusty, it had a blow on the exhaust manafold, it cost £50 to fill up when petrol was 50p a litre and did 200 miles to a tank.

 

The speedo cable broke, the upper tail gate was held down with a bungie.

 

I still miss this one.

[TimothyClaypole]

Not the car but same colour etc.

 

Paid £12995.00 for it second hand when i was on about £50.00 a month. It annoyed the company MD I worked at greatly wondering how I afford it.

 

Part exchanged for a 1.6 Polo after getting stopped doing 130 on the M1 before I went to court. 

 

[D Spares & Tyres]

Had a black GTI 16v - by god it shifted! possibly the most fastest thing off the line Ive ever owned - it was a very underrated car

an 18 year old version of myself nearly crashed one of those on a forestry track. I tried to handbrake it round a corner.............. how was I to know what would happen???

[D Spares & Tyres]

I`ve had literally hundreds of cars, as I`ve been buying and selling stuff since I started driving. Some nice stuff and some crap

 

 

The one I have most affection for is probably a 1985 Escort 1.6 diesel estate bought in around 2001 for £30, went everywhere in that car for a year or so, drove to France in it and covered 22,000 miles in one year then scrapped it for £20. should of kept it as it wasn`t that bad really though it was just tatty. I would buy another now if I could find one. 

 

Had so many incidents in that car the most memorable was going to a pub in france run by some English people and getting so pickled my girlfriend had to drive back to the cottage. She only really knew the basics of driving and put it through a fence.... the next day I went to a scrapyard and bought a load of expensive bits to fix the car up with whilst speaking minimal french..

 

Also remember losing it in Leicester one xmas eve doing some panic xmas shopping on the way back from somewhere, parked on outskirts of town and walked in then totally forgot which road it was in. Took literally a couple of hours to find it, walking each road out of town then back again while carrying bags of shopping.

 

Felt guilty about scrapping it, like murdering a friend

[brickwall]

Montego 2.0 Gti,

Metro Gta,

LR SIII,

RR.

[fordperv]

My favourite has to be my mk1 sierra 3 door base, it was bought for me by my dad on father's day 2001, i was 16 he knew that I wanted one, he spotted it earlier on in the week in the local paper said nothing to me and organised to go and get it on the Sunday, the passenger's quarter panel was caved in where the previous owner failed to handle the power of the 1.6, the engine and running gear was buggered, the interior was buggered and there was various dents all round, i didn't care as it was a solid base, me and dad worked on it together, he can't work on cars now due to ill health, when the car was straight and mechanically sound it got sent in for paint, it got put on road as a cosworth replica it was the only way of saving the car as most of its original stuff was borked, i loved every minute of driving it until one fateful evening a stupid woman in a people carrier pulled out on me from a side road, impact was imminent i had a split second decision what to do, i saw a child in the back of athe people carrier where I would've hit so I swerved left and stoved it into the side of a parked sprinter damaging the wing beyond repair, door, bonnet, bumper, grill and headlight i then lost heart and covered it up but I couldn't part with it and I didn't have the spare cash at the time to get the stuff, i repaired the damage in time and left it under a cover for a few years it moved house with me twice, then one day I decided to rip the whole car apart again, replacing the suspension brakes etc with the best stuff I could get, replacing a lot of other stuff as well along the way and building a new engine for it, it's nearly finished the only thing holding me back from putting it on road is getting it in the paint shop for a respray, I've been waiting for a space for ages now. I can't wait until it's finished and I can take my dad for a run out in it.

 

This is an old pic from when I tried my new wheels on

 

[Lacquer Peel]

 

The one on the right.

 

Blue exterior and interior, 4 speed manual with overdrive, rackety lorry engine (offensive noise and smoke levels) and lovably crap. Y I GET RID?

[D Spares & Tyres]

This 

A bit of history on it ,

Written off in 74 having taken an Austin 1100 with it , ive no history before this date 

Rebuilt ( read bodged ) by its then owner ( in Trowbridge at the time ) and flogged on 

Blown up by the next owner on the M5 coming back from their hols in Cornwall and towed to a garage for scrap somewhere in Devon .

Garage sorted it and flogged it on where it went to Plymouth .

Ended up in Exeter with this owner , flogged on and nic named the  chicken chaser by the new owner  .

Sold to someone in Yeovil who parked it in a field all day everyday with the tailgate open so the Horses she had could eat nice dry Hay from its nether regions. 

A few owners later it was hammered to obilivion driving to Oxford and back twice weekly ( From Yeovil-ish ) and eventually blown up towing the then owners dead Avenger home after it shat its diff .

Dumped outside for 4 years and sold on .

Vanished for years and turned up at a local scrappys where i bought it .

Cobbled together with S/H crap.

Written off 10 years ago but rebuilt again .

Currently looking sorry for itself but still alive at least

Was the phallic symbol in the background intentional?

[brickwall]

The sheep!!!!?????

 

See doctor pls.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I was thinking the chimmney. Or is it part of the steam powered imp?

[AndyW201]

This,

 

 

Bought as a stop-gap after having to sell my beloved C Class and needed a cheap runaround. Not a great spec, 2.0 with the not-that-sought-after 5 speed manual. Mix of pov and lux spec with cloth trim, manual rear windows and the uber rare roof wmounted non-electric aerial, but rear headrests, front armrest, leccy sunŕoof and outside temp display. This is the car that properly got me into 190s after the first one, which ironically I paid strong money for and got rewarded by it shitting its head gasket out. I got this one back in 2008 for £700 off the 'bay with full MOT and 6 months tax. The largest, most complete history I've seen on any car as well.

It was my daily for nearly 3 years and apart from regular servicing only needed two rear springs (one sagged, one snapped. Cheaply and easily sorted with a set of 30mm lowering springs), rear half of exhaust and a set of ball joints. It was a fantastically reliable car and was responsible for me liking old brown Mercs with beige interiors . (Some of you will have seen the later 1.8 manual on here that I owned later on, crashed and put on the road.) It is thought that only about 5 190s came over here in Nutria brown and I've owned 2 of them!

My favourite 190 looks wise, mainly because of those super-rare Lorinser dished 15 hole replica wheels. I had to sell them with that car as I was offered a really good price with them on, the only car to date that I have actually made money on! But I really wish I had those rims on my current car...

[Rusty Pelican]

I was thinking the chimmney. Or is it part of the steam powered imp?

Its the vans new zorst for extra umph 

[Six-cylinder]

The question is too hard to answer, I own an E type Jaguar but it’s a pain in the B…, the feeling I had when a bought a top of the range 1997 Range Rover 4.6 HSE in 2005 was “I have gone to the top of the class†I have always liked Triumph Vitesses since my first one in 1977 but I love my Citroen Visa 17RD as well. This is a bit like naming your favorite child, I just can’t do it.