How Long Have you Had Your Car?

[trigger]

I'm rubbish at keeping cars, the longest car I've ever own has been the Mk3 and I bought that Jan 2012.

[ShiteRider]

1980 cortina gl - august 2014 (currently off road waiting for shopping list of MOT fails to be rectified)

1982 cortina gl - april 2012 ( currently off road, but has tripled in value in my ownership. Most likely to be sold on soon to fund a dolomite/viva/ 2x rusty cortinas)

1982 cortina 2.3 ghia S - february 2013 (slowly having a rustoration, ie doing the bare minimum to make roadworthy)

2001 vw lupo - october 2006 ( been off road since 2011 when it was replaced on daily duties by a slighty fucked '83 cortina)

2002 ford fiesta - june 2013 ( current daily, has seen more abuse than jimmy saviles' back seat but still won't fucking die)

2002 peugeot partner van - january 2015 (cat C write off, waiting for the fiesta to die so it can take over.....)

[Rusty Pelican]

1965 Singer Chamois , bought Dec 1987 -- currently on the road

1966 Commer Imp , bought Jan 1991 - currently on the road

1986 BMW 318i , bought May 2008 - currently on the road .

feck me they are all alive .

[Sudsprint]

 Land Rover series - 39 years

 Rover P5b - 36 years

 Rover P6b - 27 years

 Saab 99 - 2 1/2 years

 

 I have had other cars as well run under bangernomic protocols usually lasting 4 or 5 years

 at a time to get every last bit of use out of them.

 

 Colin

I have had my Elan since 1987 but I can see i am still just a boy at this malarky

[LabRat]

So far, the mondeo has lasted 3 weeks.

 

Usually i end up with some unsalvageable shiteheap thats on its last mot and 6 months off the scrapheap!

 

The last one was a volvo 940 that shagged its gearbox up totally and had to go cos ive got no space to store it... Fortunately its in the hands of a mad old giffer who is busy spending ££'s to get the old girl running again.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Can't remember exact date so er

 

1983 Fiesta mk1 950 - 2002 now off road

1988 Fiesta mk2 XR2 - 2006 again off road

1988 Fiesta mk2 950 - 2012 daily driver

2005 Fiesta mk6 ST - 2005 bought it new

1994 Frontera - 2014

2000 Swift - 2014 hope not mine much longer

[colnerov]

You've got to be the winner! What's the secret?

 

 Hi, no secret really I just hate selling cars, not the principle just the process. When I have restored cars in the past a friend of mine usually sells them for me. The modified ones usually get broken for the parts to round again in something else.

 

But mostly I am the end user.

 

 Colin

[derskine]

Mk1 Cortina - bought in 2010

Polo GT - bought in 2013

Renault 18 GTD -  bought in 2014

Volvo 340 - bought in 2014