Ten years ago

[dollywobbler]

Apparently there's a shortage of quality threads, so let's see how this one pans out. In short, what was your fleet ten years ago? Doesn't have to be to the day. 

 

I'll be joining in later, but need to dash for food having just started this thread. Sorry. This thread had better be full of win when I get back. FANKS.

[Lankytim]

I think I had a Volvo 940 estate 16v......

 

And a Volvo Amazon!

[Felly Magic]

Skoda Fabia 1.4 Classic Plus on a 51 plate, and a Fiat Uno 1.1 iE S 3 door on an L. Both cars were unreliable money pits

[scaryoldcortina]

My photobucket only goes back to 2006, but here's the state of play 9 years ago.

 

 

I think I was using a 1989 orion 1.6 as a daily back then.

[panhard65]

2005 eh I started with a Maserati Biturbo spyder (sorry no pics of that one) The Jensen Interceptor.

My daily was an Astra

and a 16v Fiat coupe

This thing also appeared for a short while

It was so special we better have a couple more pics

Thats about all the interesting ones 2006 was a lot better with Sunbeam Alpines and Matra Bageera's

Nearly forgot I also had my first hearse

[mercrocker]

Well, I have had my Minor and VW T25 for 10 years so that puts paid to that being of interest....Mrs Rocker's mount was a W124 260E back then before it shit itself.   Pretty sure we still had a CF Bedford lurking around then too.

[MarvinsMom]

very boring company car at the time.

 

nicknamed the bucket it was a mark 2 ford focus ghia, that had been thrashed since it was delivered, and had a lovely coating of moss growing around the windscreen and along the door window trippers. 

 

it only ever got washed 2, maybe 3 times in the 3 and abit years, and 150-odd thousand miles i had it, and that was when it had been for a service and the state of it must have disgusted/shamed/given someone some illness at the mainstealer while it was there.

 

it was a good car, it was whipped though when it went back.

[HMC]

I dont think I have a single pic from 2005, but from memory...

New honda civic type R WK05UOX sold to buy a house

1981 Jaguar XJ12 tdL333X broken for spares

1970 triumph herald convertible XCR159J sold then joyridden

1961 morris minor 950AOD big ends went and sold

1964 citroen 2cv (425cc and 18BHP) DUJ190B chassis snapped in half and was donated to local 2cv specialist

1989 citroen 2cv charelston F428SMP sold uneventfully

1974 Saab 99 NDL170M sold to be restored. DVLA says hasnt happened yet.

1985 saab 900 T8 C917NEW Crashed through a dry stone wall and part exxed against...

1990 saab 900 LPT H330KMO which saw out the year.

[Richard]

Ten years ago I had just done this to my Savanna.

 

 

I still miss that car. I'll try to find a picture of it not broken.

 

It was replaced with this

 

 

Which was newer than the car I drive now.

[JohnK]

10 years ago I had just left school and wasn't old enough to drive!

[MarvinsMom]

10 years ago I had just left school and wasn't old enough to drive!

 

bloody kids!!!!

[Keymaster]

89 Mercedes 190E

94 Metro Rio Grande

00 Smart Pulse

05 Grand Scenic

 

The Renault was the least reliable by some considerable distance.

[John F]

I had a white Cavalier 2.0 SRi 16v, shortly to be replaced by my current V6 Calibra.

[Richard]

Here's a picture of the Savanna pre-accident.

 

 

It's an unfashionable view on here but I thought it was a better car than a 405. I bought it from a cartoonist who used to work on Judge Dredd and 2000AD.

[Asimo]

You don't want to know, I don't want to remember but it was this 1.4 Golf:

Despite being the only new car I ever bought (and with cash) this is the only photo in 7 years and 100,000 very dull miles, which says it all really.

[Vin]

10 years ago my daily was my Fiat Brava. I'd had it a year by then. I do still own it, though it is Sorned and sat in a council lock-up.

 

I had my Panda 45CL too, which had been back on the road the previous summer. I also had the 126, the restoration of which I had just finished.

 

I also had the van, which I hadn't started work on at the time.

 

That was it. In ten years I appear to have added to the 'fleet' rather than depleted it...

[Mr A Lawrence]

Ten years ago the missus had a 3 yr old BMW mini and I had a H reg vw polo breadvan.

[drum]

'93 405 SRi

'87 240 estate

'94 xantia diesel

[Vantman]

Saab 900T16S--

 

Volvo Amazon--

 

And an Alfa Romeo 164 2.0 Twinspark as my daily driver. No pics though.

[Fat_Pirate]

I'm not the only one looking at old photos and thinking "surely that's not 10 years ago!?!", am I? 

 

 

Anyway, check out my fancy Benz!  I loved wafting about in that, though being a 2 litre auto it certainly wasn't fast.  Little chappy there was rushed to hospital one day when I was at work; I hammered it down the M3, infuriated it would barely do 120mph.  

 

He's a huge, scruffy teenager now.  Benz long dead.

[DVee8]

2005 i had a 2.2 sri vectra,Mrs V8 had a Peugeot 306 1.4 meridian

 

 

 

Pics from google but same colours.

[scaryoldcortina]

Others from around a decade ago -

 

Small rear engined cars

 

 

Sporty* coupes

 

 

Kit car junk storage

 

 

And Bikeshite (I'm horrified to realize that this bike is still parked now exactly as it is in the photo but with so much stuff in front you can't see it. I'll get a pic tomorrow)

 

[chaseracer]

I had the Dyane, of course - it was definitely on the road at the time because the 2CV World Meeting in Kelso had happened a few months previously.  

 

Daily was XM #2 (K871WPF/AAZ4871), which was moved on less than a year later to be replaced by the Blingo of much recent towage.  XM #1 (the original AAZ4871) was on the drive, being slowly broken.  Domestic Management was on her third Micra, a diesel K12, which was surprisingly OK.

[danthecapriman]

I had my Capri,

This Volvo 340 1.7 GL,

This Volvo 244 2.1DL, which was my daily at the time.

These pics aren't from 2005 though, just the only pics I have of them on photobucket.

 

And I had a Transit 120 van.

[lincolndanny]

Rather scarey realising what was 10 years!

 

10 years ago to the day this is what I was up to...

 

http://passionford.com/forum/restorations-rebuilds-and-projects/75495-strato-silver-erst-now-a-black-one.html

 

20 years of age and single. How I miss those care free days

 

 

[cort1977]

We had my trusty 1.7 TD Cavalier and a boring Peugeot 206 for the missus who didn't like driving the Cavalier any more because 'it always went wrong'.   It was fine when I drove it, it just didn't like her.  

 

Current W210 also doesn't like my wife it somehow refused to shift out of park for her recently, I just got in and started it normally.   Don't know how she does it.

 

No pics because I'm hopelessly disorganized and lazy.

[cort1977]

Ooof, like that RS Turbo.  

[Jazoli]

Nothing shite or exciting really, 

 

 

was the wifes and I had this

 

 

Sold them both as I moved to Spain and took this with me

 

 

And bought this when I arrived to commute on

 

 

And the mondeo estate in the background for child ferrying duties.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Here's a picture of the Savanna pre-accident.

 

 

It's an unfashionable view on here but I thought it was a better car than a 405. I bought it from a cartoonist who used to work on Judge Dredd and 2000AD.

I had two of those, the first a 1.7 petrol then a 2.1 diesel 7 seater

 

Fantastic cars but the rot got to mine, replaced with an Espace around ten years ago

 

Preferred the 21

 

Also had the Standard Pennant then too and a MK3 Capri and an Astramax van

[worldofceri]

I had to have a good search through the photos as I'd no idea off the top of my head.

 

Turns out 2005 was the year I acquired a lightly broken Accord which I spruced up a bit and made about £20 profit on twelve months later.

 

 

My old Renner 5 must have been on the road still at the time as it's in the corner of this pic.  And the Beetle would have been around somewhere as we've had it since 2001.