Ten years ago

[dave21478]

20 years ago? some dick stole my mountain bike from outside uni. I bought a second hand replacement and a few days later some other dick stole the wheels off it.

Lesson learned - country bumpkin cheapo security is no use in a big city.

 

So I sacked bikes off and bought a mini. It was blue.

 

That was the turning point - I used to cycle everywhere, did dozens of miles in a day and since buying that mini I have been on a bike probably a dozen times. I hold that thief directly responsible for me being a fatty.

[DVee8]

20 years ago,i had just bought my first brand new car a Nissan Primera 2.0d LX 5 door in grey with 75 rampaging horses.Looked like this one with out the side stripes.

 

 

I also had one of these 3.0 ghia in signal orange.

 

[Split_Pin]

Same car I have now, Astra Coupe SO03 LUJ. A few others have come and gone over the years.

[scdan4]

2005 was the peak of vehicle owning for me. Some disposible income and living with a petrolheadish missus.

 

nsr125

vfr400

trx850

tdm850

 

allegro 1.3 in hearing aid beige

volvo 440 1.8. terrible, but was 75 quid

punto 1.3

sierra 1.8 td 

sierra xr4x4i  possibly still my favorite car ever

[flat4alfa]

45 years ago

Pants and wellies

 

40 years ago

Raleigh Tomahawk

 

35 years ago

Falcon racer with drop handlebars

 

30 years ago

Peugeot mountain bike

 

25 years ago

same Peugeot mountain bike

Opel Manta SR coupe

Renault Fuego TS

Alfasud 5M

 

20 years ago

Alfasud Gold Cloverleaf

Alfa 33 1.7 Cloverleaf

 

15 years ago

Alfa 155 Twin Spark

 

10 years ago

Daewoo mountain bike

same Peugeot mountain bike (now Wife's)

same Alfa 155 Twin Spark

Rover P6B 3500 LT77

Rover R3 216 SI (Wife)

Lancia Beta 1600 S3 saloon LHD

Rover R8 418 GSI

 

5 years ago

Alfa 156 2.4 JTD

Alfa 156 2.4 JTD Sportwagon

Alfa 6 auto

Alfa 33 Gold Cloverleaf

Alfa 33 Green Cloverleaf

Alfa 146 TI (Wife)

Austin Maxi 1750

Wolseley 18/85 Landcrab

Fiat X1/9 1500

same Lancia Beta 1600 S3 saloon LHD

Lancia Beta 2000 S3 saloon RHD

Lancia Trevi 2000 auto

 

1 year ago

same Daewoo mountain bike

same Alfa 156 2.4 JTD Sportwagon

same Fiat X1/9 1500

same Alfa 33 Gold Cloverleaf

Fiat Multipla JTD (Wife)

[purplebargeken]

2005. Hmm, I was recovering from being hit on the head by a bus, so the details of any cars at the time are really rather sketchy.

 

I had a Honda Pan European ST1100 and a Yam Diversion 600F. Car? No idea whatsoever.

[Clanger]

20 years ago it was this thing, only it was 20 years newer then - fucker is still parked outside and never misses a beat when I need it... well except for the odd flat battery.  I also had a Yamaha XJ650 and a Suzuki GS1000G as I was working as a dispatch rider in Hell A at the time (no pics though).

[MarvinsMom]

20 years ago......

 

that would be the mark 2 polo bread van, in cherry red and fitted with the mighty 1043cc engine developing, i think 45bhp.

 

it was actually a really good wee car, dating as it did to the time when vw actually made a nice, proper sensible car without any of the current bullshit that they suffer with today.

 

no rock hard arse smashing seats, and suspension that did its job.

 

brakes were wooden as it had no brake servo, but that wa the one draw back.

 

i would eventually write it off after running it into a bloody big wall. one of the tyres blew out, and i lost control in the followind slide.

 

F184MUP. or the little muppet as it was called. 

 

shame....

[Ghosty]

In 2005 we had a white sad face Fiesta 1.25 LX CVT with black bumpers and a metallic beige 190E 1.8 with the chocolate interior.

I didn't drive either because I was 10.

[MarvinsMom]

i refer the right honourable member to the answer i gave some moments ago-

 

BLOODY KIDS!!!!

[gordonbennet]

10 years ago, sod me seems a lifetime ago.

 

We had the present Merc 124 coupe, which SWMBO used to commute to work with, and got shopped regularly for her driving exploits which is understandable.

I used the W124 poverty spec E300 Diesel, grey with grey cloth and no bloody aircon or sod all else to go wrong, i'm an idiot and sold that on for no good reason, not even a mitigating circumstance to offer the jury.

 

Pretty sure we also had the short lived with us W124 E320 estate, that car was effin trouble, it went like a shit off a shovel cos it had the 5 speed auto box, but it's complete service history folder showed that nearly every one of its £19,000 worth of extras...dead serious there, bloke who bought it in 94 paid £31k for the base car and specced £19k's worth of extras, had failed at some point in its life and continued that trend during our brief ownership.

 

The galling being, and eff me have we kicked ourselves countless times since, is that we sold the ever faithful Volvo 940 Diesel estate (forgive me Father for i have sinned terrible) and replaced it with that bloody Benz estate of doom.

Eventually as they do the poxy OMGCHG shat itself and we flogged the bugger on as it was, it was just a shit car and we cut our losses.

[the judge]

20 year A549HTJ. A Diahatsu Charade cx. What a motor. Half a v6. Loved it. It lasted I kid you not,4 days. First night someone biffed it from behind. 4th night,stuffed into a parked car. Dumbass.

 

Every cloud,I bought A181NFR with the payout,1.1pop mk2 Fiesta. Fucking loved that motor. As did the chicks. No,really!!

 

 

Maybe it had its own phermones,but it was a mega passion wagon,never the likes has ever been seen since. Strange,since it smelt of old woman and leaking tenor lady pads

[Eddie Honda]

Ten years ago, I think my main daily was this 1750HL Auto:

 

Maxi 009 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

Subs bench was:

 

ERU118L 002 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

and

 

MZ250 004 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

Twenty years ago:

 

I think I just parked up the dark blue Rebel 700 the previous month and I was despatching this new, but prime chunk of BikeShite:

N48PGG 003 by E Honda, on Flickr

[forddeliveryboy]

Ten years ago, I think my main daily was this 1750HL Auto:

 

Maxi 009 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

 

 

Was that a diesel one?

 

20 years ago, I was using a Dyane (£150 from a CCC meet - I scrubbed off a shitty respray with thinners and revealed perfect original paint, except for one rear wing, the body and chassis were are solid as a late 2cv wasn't) and one of the first Saab 900T16's as dailies. Useless fact - being one of the first, it had a different inlet cam with one lobe half the profile of the other in order to increase swirl but meant it was a bit peaky). Lovely maroon leather, 30mpg, no rot. Sold for £700. Bugger.

 

[oldford]

10 years ago I had a Cardinal Red Cortina 1.6 Crusader as my only car.

 

 

 

20 years ago I had a different Cardinal Red Cortina 1.6 Crusader.

 

 

 

I also had a blue Cortina 2.3 Ghia with manual transmission.

 

 

Currently my choice of car has seemed to regressed 20 years, with a Cardinal Red/Strato Silver Cortina 2.0 Crusader.

 

 

And a Blue Ford in the form of a Wedgewood Blue Sierra 1.8 LX as a daily driver.

 

 

Before that it was a MK4 Cortina and a few MK3s, though my first and second cars were an Austin 1300 followed by a Triumph Dolomite 1850.

 

 

As you can see, I was quite (un)-imaginative with my user name.

 

 

 

[MarvinsMom]

so you only drive SAABS*?

 

do i win a prize?

[eddyramrod]

10 years ago, let's see....

Wife's year kicked off with this Hyundai Lantra wagon, which we'd just got back after some numpty pulled out of a side road straight into her NSF wing.

We sold it later and replaced it with this

...which was ok but nothing special and didn't stay long after the New Year.

Meanwhile my fleet:

Daily was supposedly this:

MG Maestro 2.0i, a staggering bargain from the roadside two years earlier.   I loved this car.

I also had some Americans:

1980 Buick Century, 3.8V6. 

1990 Chrysler leBaron convertible, 3.0V6

I loved both of these too, and would alternate daily duty between the MG and these.

Then in March my dad died and I inherited the blue Sierra 2.0GL hatch that was the last car either of my parents drove.  I don't have a snap of it, sorry, but I did keep the number plates when it went to scrap (G529 SND).  I had a mad moment on ebay and bought blind...

...which is in the background of the leBaron shot.  1983 Plymouth Gran Fury A38 copcar, believed ex-San Francisco PD.  With no floor.  Well almost none.  I never found anyone who would take on the welding, who I could afford to pay, and in the end sold it at a small loss.

[captain_70s]

10 years ago I was 13, so I drove sod all but wanted a Morris Minor or a Mini as a first car. I was weird. Dad had either a rusty but otherwise infinitely reliable '91 Rover 214 or a '98 Rover 420 which ran out of oil going down the motorway one day and exploded.

 

We also a 1999 Ford Explorer for towing trailers, driving around fields and transporting hay/straw/piglets.

[LabRat]

L reg fiat uno 1.1ie start (never did figure out if that was a spec ed, or a prayer!) that ran lovely, but rotted around me!

 

B reg Range Rover 3.5 manual twin carb effort. Has been dry stored for 12 years and the last owner "converted it to unleaded" by turning the distributor 180 degrees, so it only ever ran on 2 cylinders if you were lucky! Had to tow it back to my parents with

 

1994 Saab 9000 2.0 CD Eco Turbo with 4 speed auto, bloody lovely car and the only one I regret getting rid of. Was a dark blue/purple metallic that I've not seen since. (traded it in for a Toyota Surf, that set itself alight after 6 months... God only knows what was going through my brain to buy that fecking thing!)

 

 

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[eddyramrod]

Now if you want to go back 20 years.....

Mine was C246 MFV, my dad's was E278 WKB.  Yes, the famous Polonez Pair!  Lovely old barges and I absolutely would again.  Not these two, sadly: both went to a local banger racer.  Yeah I know, sorry.

There was also this, which was nominally my mum's, but I used it freely, as one does.

After the two FSOs were taken off the road, I'm fairly sure my dad bought his first Sierra (of two) which was this:

but I might have the timeline slightly mixed up here, that could have been 1996.  I do know that in the autumn I was back and forth to Chorley Car Auction looking for a cheap daily.  I missed out on a two-tone grey Capri (Cabaret? Calypso?) and a blue Talbot Alpine, and finally went home with this...

...which was being hawked in the street outside the Auction.  At least I can say I've had one, and it wasn't as bad as the stories at the time.  My experience of the Eastern Bloc cars is that none of them were really that bad, they were just cheap because the designs were old.

[I_am_Diesel]

10 years ago I was working on Ascension Island and I went halfers with a mate on a very early Shogun with the drivers side caved in and a Perspex drivers side window. The car share thing didn't last too long as he was always using it to go golfing so I convinced him to buy me out. I managed to buy a drink/drive accident damaged Mk1 Fiesta which I was able to re-commission and use for a couple of years. It all seems such a long time ago. I must try and dig out a picture of the Fiesta, I never took any pictures of the Shogun, it was an embarrassing shed.

[MarvinsMom]

my very first car was a skoda estelle, it is the only car i've ever sold for a profit.

 

rescued from a scrap yard with a bent back panel and bumper.

 

a splash of mushroom grey paint (think normal primer) and an mot later, and i sold it on 6 weeks later for a hansom £400 profit.

 

actually it was a damn fine car, and far better than its reputation would have you believe.

[catsinthewelder]

Around the start of 2005 I was handed the keys to my Stepmums 97 Clio to go and pass my test in.  When I got it home there was no space for it so with the help of the neighbours we pushed my old Fiat Tipo down to the fire station to be practiced on

 

The reason that there was no space was the Wolseley 16/60 that was also on the drive.  It was supposed to be the replacement for the Tipo but needed loads of work so was reluctantly ebayed when the camper arrived in 2006.

 

I passed my test in February 2005 and was told to return the Clio north for my stepbrother to learn in as my dad had tried to part ex this.

 

 

Against his new Corrolla and was offered about 47p so would I like it?

 

Against my better judgement I said yes and it was mine.  Despite being free that car cost me more than most of the rest put together with regular repair bills of £hundreds,  I should have kept the Clio.

[mossymossy]

20 years ago. Pictures are on paper. These cost money. I didnt take too many pictures of the shite I was drivin' around in then, but I will take a gander at my old albums and see what I have.

[purplebargeken]

I had a Yam TRX 850 too. Ace bike. It was red with the silver frame. I had carbon cans on it and it sounded ACE

 

It is still around somewhere

[outlaw118]

Daily was this Astra 1.8 Sport, bloody loved that thing

The toy was this Escort 1.8si (130ps) Pervertable/floppytop. A right crack - if you ignored the shake

[jonathan_dyane]

I had been running an immaculate 92 BX TZD Turbo which I had done loads of work on and the headgasket going was the last straw so I fixed that and sold it to a gentleman who of course found it perfectly reliable for the next 5 years or so.

 

I would therefore have either been driving a 1972 Dyane 4 (yes 435cc!) or I may have just finished rebuilding an orange 2cv for my sister and been 'proving it'. (The proving it also included driving it off a road and getting it stuck in a wire fence but that's another story...)

[chodweaver]

It's only through looking at the dates on old photos that I have the faintest idea what we were driving then. I thought to start with that we were still on our first camper - an '85 Talbot Express Camelot with the GRP high top - this being our first foray into 'sleep where you park' vehicles - and this was Mrs CW's daily drive for a while, since she had recently handed back the awful leased Chrysler Grand Voyager - thirsty, badly-built death trap that it was (she loved it though and is hankering after another now, esp as they are shite price). But I now realise we were on our second camper by this date a decade ago - a '90 VW LT35 2.4TD with a coachbuilt body boasting 5 beds. How it has survived all these years of ill treatment and lack of proper maintenance is a mystery to me, but I'm hoping it'll see us around Scotland next week all the same. Here's the ad posted two previous owners back

http://www.caravans-for-sale.com/adverts/138/13815/

It really doesn't look much different today. But while the vacuum cleaner/ironing board/clothes washer and drying rail were gone when we bought it, everything else was still there. And still is.

I was flexing my mid life crisis muscle for the first time and accordingly had passed a properly glacial but comfy pogweazeled 1.8TD LX scrote estate on to a mate and picked up an '89 T bar MR2 from a very pleasant South African bloke in Theale for 1300 quid. Er. I still have this too, though it is now languishing on a SORN for the second extended period since I bought it. It has done sterling work in between though - being a low miler when I got it at 88k, it's now got 233k on it. Original engine, second hand gearbox, apparently ringed by a previous owner so what registration mark it should be carrying is another mystery. It has the rot something bad too, and I worry that I won't save it this time cos I'm a lazy bastard and frightened of the welding it'll need too. Pics to follow if I can find them.

[philibusmo]

20 years ago. Pictures are on paper. These cost money. I didnt take too many pictures of the shite I was drivin' around in then, but I will take a gander at my old albums and see what I have.

Am I right in thinking that 1995 would have been the Mk3 Escort that lightly electrocuted me and the blue Saab 900 with pink spots or did that come after the disastrous CX? My 3 year old brain didn't manage to memorise the order of the various heaps that you drove us around in back then.

 

In 2005 I was 13 so had an Apollo bicycle and many Scalextric cars, but no actual automobiles. I wonder of any photos of my Scalextric collection have survived as I had well over a hundred cars at one point.

[STUNO]

Ten years ago I was trying to recapture long-lost yoof. A waste of time for a fat old bastard but I really liked driving this :

 

 

Daily was a 94 Nissan Bluebird non turbo 2 litre diesel which was glacially slow.