The datestamp years.

[Cavcraft]

I don't know what happened to pre-2006, but here's some of the last 9 years in photo's.....

 

 

 

[Cavcraft]

Got pulled in this a few days after I got it. Looked far worse in real life

 

Our mate Mark's 'tina

 

 

Wet Scouser no.1

 

 

FRONTERAS ARE SHIT M8.

 

Someone making the mistake of leaving his Disco in the middle and going for a walk

 

Highlight of the day was wet Scouser no.2 who was repeatedly advised not to go into this bit of the course and not to try and restart his engine if he stalled in deep water. He didn't listen to either bits of advice and everyone on site came to laugh

[Cavcraft]

I didn't have this long, sadly, and (surprise, surprise, I think it ended up in the hands of a Mini owner

 

 

 

BX4x4 rescue. Still alive in N. Ireland?

 

Spent a few quid on this to get it back how it should be and it came up a treat

 

 

[Cavcraft]

 

ShaunB, one of yours?

 

I think this is the one that was absolutely minging when I got it, seem to recall having to drive home with all the windows open and spent yonks cleaning it. It was worthwhile though as it came up a treat and drove brilliantly

 

 

I swapped a Mercedes TE (with flames painted down the sides) for this. It was an ace little car, had one of my favourite ever car related trips in it when I drove to the Midlands to do the swap with Rodit off RR...

1256 automatic, so a right ball of fire. Not. Boot rack didn't last, you'll be glad to know.

 

Went to Doncaster I think for this, absolute bargain from a nice lad off RR. It wouldn't start when I got there but soon fired up and drove like a new car. Shouldn't have sold it as was a perfect daily car

 

This, I think, was part of the deal when the Vectra went

 

Trip to a Peugeot breakers somewhere near Ludlow with ShaunB to collect this Escort. Great day out in excellent company

 

Ah, yes, the old AX Fanny Batter van. My only two pictures remaining of this fine old steed

[Cavcraft]

Cheapo HGF that went again because the garage that repaired it trapped a water pipe I think

 

One of many

 

The flamed Merc estate. Knackered spheres meant it was a bastard to drive on anything as rough as a postage stamp

 

For some reason the only picture I could find of the Suburban I owned. Most of the fun of it was deliberately parking next (and thus dwarfing) Range Rovers

etc

 

Can't really remember this one

 

One to forget

 

Short term ownership went to an RR lad from the Wirral, I think

 

 

Only ran on gas, not petrol. Hated every second of filling it up at the pumps

 

 

Hopefully I scrapped this, must have been an off day

 

 

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[UltraWomble]

Ah I remember that AX.

Im sure you tried to sell me that Merc too.

 

Didnt the BX end up with a 1.9 TD?

[lincolndanny]

Isnt that Chevette on ebay at the moment with a masking taped arch?

 

Edit:gumtree actually and no, but looksy likey!

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/vauxhall/vauxhall-chevette-mot-11-months-drives-good-needs-some-tlc/1145016076

[Cavcraft]

UltraWomble, on 04 Dec 2015 - 2:16 PM, said:

Ah I remember that AX.

Im sure you tried to sell me that Merc too.

 

Didnt the BX end up with a 1.9 TD?

 

 

The silver 16V stayed as one (I think) the white estate had a 1.9TD conversion and the 4x4 went to N.I

[Cavcraft]

Soz if some of these are the same, I'm viewing them in small size... 

 

 

Seem to recall this had a massive blow in the exhaust which was stupid money to fi and I think was heavily bodged (coke can, masking tape) to get through a car auction

 

More loveable misery

 

Good God, I still remember the interior in this being Champions League minging. Great success with the Karcher though, it came up like new afterwards, and I would have won 'under seat bingo' forever with the vast array of sticky sweets, crayons, cutlery, Mcdonald's toys and various disgusting detritus. I'm pretty sure this was the worst ever as I recall finding baby or child excrement in it. Some people shouldn't be allowed cars 

 

2.0DTi IMMINENT FUEL PUMP FAILURE £1,100 A TIME TO REPAIR M8. Except there was no problem and  it was a really good car

 

I think we went on holiday in this. Absolute shit, cemented my hate of them which hasn't gone away

 

Oh dear. Bought (swapped) this blind and got mugged. Started packing up on the way home, don't recommend doing 25mph flat out on the M56 and using the hard shoulder when trucks were approaching. Managed to stall it by Helsby and had to push it up hill on my jack. An hour's wait for the RAC and my daughter and I spent the time pulling off the 'Pikey Subaru' stickers (not making that up) off it. Took a long while pissing about bleeding injectors and fixinf numerous daft faults, then it was great

 

2.0 16V. Why didn't I keep this? I still kick myself to this day about letting it go

 

See those roof bars? Welded to the roof. Yep, welded.

[Cavcraft]

Very very short term ownership, possibly weighed in (sorry) can't remember if this had the flap in the roof for ladders or not

 

Ridiculous 97" back box and spurious BHP claims came with this. Wanted one for ages, couldn't wait to get shut as wasn't nice to drive for more than about 5 miles and EVERYONE wanted to race me. Aside from showing up some tit in a BMW I just couldn't get on with it

 

 

 

Absolutely HEARTED this car. Got it cheap (at the time) and 'modified' it by adding door bottom stripes, snazzy alloys etc. Went everywhere in it, just loved it and still would feature in my top 5 cars. Sold it to a mate who managed to blew it up and scrapped it. Great shame, was genuinely gutted when I heard it's fate

 

More Transit, one of a few that had a dodgy starter so I just left it running when in use (working) most of the time. I think it was the 'LWB 100' with the single rear wheel and six stud pattern for max carrying capacity. Still wanted to pull at 80-85mph plus, but always seemed to want another gear to go with the 5 it had

 

 

 

Jesus this was dull. I reckon you could drive this non-stop for 50,000 miles, get out and then completely forget what it was

 

More again

 

This was absolutely MEGA on fuel, probably the best MPG I ever saw

 

Another I should have kept. I think it'd been lowered a bit and has an aftermarket exhaust. To drive, I'd liken it to a 205GTi but with better handling* and it was just a massive laugh to whang round in. *Except the next owner managed to stick it into a ditch after running out of talent at speed

 

 

Surprisingly nice to drive (insert own 'Pikey' comments here)

 

Shit it's gear linkage thing

 

Another stinking inside Astra 

 

[vulgalour]

This is great.

[Cavcraft]

If there was ever one car that nearly put me off Vauxhalls for life, it was this thing. Constantly in limp mode, never seemed to drive properly, dashboard lit up like Blackpool's sea front at night after several grams of Columbian Marching powder and I drove it through a puddle once which drove it absolutely haywire. I told the new owner all of it's foibles and exchanged it for a truly, truly horrific Focus which he lied about. He then wanted to swap it back with me because 'my girlfriend doesn't like the Vectra' but having smelled a rat and getting a phone call from Log Book Loans, it looked like he tried to get a loan against it first, then swap back. The LBL bloke was great, really helpful, and all the while me laddo is sending more and more desperate sounding emails. I did the honourable thing and held on to the V5 for weeks and weeks and weeks so he had to wait before he could get a loan...

 

I think this was free and I gave it to the boss of Autoshite

 

And this is the above mentioned Focus. Absolutely effing awful and was far more hateful in real life 

 

I loved this (sorry, H8RS!) it was the 323SE with the 2.5 engine and was a riot to drive I lied, this was the 1.9 with the winky wanky woo 'oil on garage floor' engine. Couldn't wait to get rid of it.

 

Vespa TX200, had some right good fun riding round on this and did quite a few scooter runs. Highly recommended if you like two wheels, though for ultimate noise/unreliability I want a Lambretta next time

 

Unusually* rusty rear arches for a Vauxhall, made better* with some Halford's stuff

 

I used to love spending summer evenings/weekends doing that sort of thing, kept me quiet for ages. 

 

I like these pictures, I used to wheel them out when the 'VWS ARE ACE' brigade used to bang on about how good they are. This was, as the pictures show, absolutely wank, I only got it because there was VALU in the diesel engine

[Station]

[Cavcraft]

Remember that time that Alan Partridge lost the plot, scoffed loads of chocolate and drove to Scotland in his socks? This must be the time that my mental breakdown coincided with his. Less said about these the better, I reckon

 

Why the f*ck did I buy this?

 

 

 

This just sat in my garage for years until I eventually spied my arse and sold it to an exporter

 

Slight aside, but can't leave out our mate the Cavcraft dog when we first got him

 

 

Here's another really good/valid reason I abhor VWs. The mobile swimming pool, constant source of hassle, forever breaking down. money pit bag of absolute shit that is the B5 Passat. Highlight* of ownership? Holiday to Skeggy and the turbo packed up after about 12 miles. Anyone want to guess how 'great'; that journey was? Mind you, I still laugh when I remember some VDUB hipster type started telling me how great they are when we arrived at Pontins. I spent about ten minutes lambasting them, all other VWs,and anything and everything to do with them going into great details about it's myriad problems. he genuinely just sort of stood there open mouthed and unable to escape my completely OTT insane tirade and just said something like 'fair enough fella' at which point I said something like 'Fair enough? Fair e-fucking-nough? You can have the bastard if you want it, I'll swap it for absolutely anything else that will get us home when the holiday's over' I didn't see him again for the rest of the holiday, maybe it was his last day?

 

I think I swapped this bag of bollocks for a trailer tent. One was a damp, windy, wobbly miserable shit tip for the elderly and incontinent, the other was a Conway Suncamp 

 

INTERLUDE

 

Peckforton, I think and the first time we let Sausages off his lead. He did really well for about ten minutes, then the appeal of coming back when called lost it's shine so he just pegged it for a few hundred yards until a couple [pushing a buggy managed to grab him for us

 

INTERLUDE OVER...

[vulgalour]

SAUSAGES THE BARBARA CARTLAND DOG

[Cavcraft]

...where were we? Oh, something about a trailer tent. Well, that went and was exchanged for this, which hit FULL HOUSE and the must (not) have accessory catalogue in 1991 or something. Bit of a sad tale with this, it went to an absolutely fantastic lad from another forum who very sadly passed away a couple of months later, having that dreadful 'big c' disease. RIP mate

 

Happier times now, to me this exuded (modern) Autoshite. I genuinely spent ages chasing the lad to sell me this and he eventually relented. It was a mega early 'N' plate with an Isuzu diesel engine, ex-taxi with 250,000 or something on the clock. It drove and looked exactly how you'd expect a 250,000 mile, ex-taxi diesel Vectra would do and I loved it for that alone. I think a leaking power steering pump and other things saw it off, what a shame, it'd be class to own it now

 

 

Now we're cooking, this thing was absolutely amazing. It was stupidly quick (3.0 pez) to the point  I (standby for seemingly INTERNET BULLSHIT COMMENT) was knocking on the back door of a Porsche on the way home who couldn't shake me off. The back wheel arch shit out quite badly which was a shame, the car was just fabulous from the best colour they came in to the leather and the power etc. Sold to a char-I-dee 'Garden gnome To Rome type racer lad. He must have had the best car to go in. This must be in my top ten 'shouldn't have sold it' list.

 

This was another quality buy.  Dirt cheap as either not running, or not running properly. Turned outa  pipe to the carb was on the wrong thing or something. Belting car, went to someone who was going to re-shell an XR2 or something which to me was a right waste of a real cracker of a car

 

More to follow if you haven't had enough yet...

[vulgalour]

Wow, that Fiesta takes me right back to the mid-nineties when they seemed to be everywhere.  Proper sensible bombproof little biscuit tins in proper car colours.  I've never owned one but if one appeared at the right time I totally would.

[lincolndanny]

Wow, that Fiesta takes me right back to the mid-nineties when they seemed to be everywhere. Proper sensible bombproof little biscuit tins in proper car colours. I've never owned one but if one appeared at the right time I totally would.

Also taught Ka's how to rot there filler caps.....

[Lord Sterling]

Hey! Merc 124 Estate

 

A great selection of unloved chod there Cav, who said you aren't a chod hero?

[Cavcraft]

Flipping wars, I'd forgotten about the enjoyment I got de-twatting this. I got an enormous amount of pleasure about doing so, what a sad bastard I am but I do enjoy it

 

No way did I drive it home like this from the other side of town. No way, Jose

 

Still, all's well that ends well. Or at least a bit better 

 

Didn't really use this enough to justify keeping it. Was really tidy though, another one for me to cry over when I retire to a nursing home without a penny to my name

 

I think I'd just got my buffer when I got this. I'll never stop loving these miserable spec'd Astras

 

My lucky* brother got this for his wedding car. E46 6 cylinder 2.5 manual, which (soz H8rs) was ace to drive

 

 

RIP AS BANER M8

 

Tidy 106 (Graduate, I think) we had for a short while

 

INTERLUDE

 

Tiddles, my lovely farm rescue cat

 

INTERLUDE OVER

 

Ex-B010x Cav, I think. Absolutely brilliant car, did like 1,000 miles in this in ten days or something and it was lush

 

 

Fire brigade? Bastards

 

This was, as you can imagine, pretty dire. But in an awful/ironic way it was therefore also ace 

 

Have an attempt at 'tail light' (or whatever you call it) photography as we both examine my current mental status to be sat her posting hopeless pictures of terrible cars... 

[Station]

Nice collection of photos there!

I think my favourite car out of the lot is none of them.

[UltraWomble]

 

another one for me to cry over when I retire to a nursing home without a penny to my name

 

 

 

 

 

Vintage Razors B, or artisan modern DE and SE razors - buy wisely and they can be a real money spinner.

Watched one go yesterday for just shy of £400. My best purchase - a 2009 iKon - made ten times what it cost me when I sold it a couple of years later - and they take up less space than a car.

 

Ive bought both prototype Sseygus razors and being sent another one to try out and review - then they will be wrapped up and stowed away until its time to eBay them on for a nice bit of coin in a couple of years.

 

I never had you down as a pussy person though.

[outlaw118]

There's a disturbing amount of Essex registered shit(e) there Billiam!

 

Is there something you need to share?

 

U IZ MAI ADOPTED BRUVVER AICMFP.

[Split_Pin]

I'd love another Vectra one day. Mine needed a few common Vectra bits doing through the years but it was a lovely car and the 2.0 xev unit was smooth and a great load lugger. Buggered pas rack was a fix too far for the Mrs and it had to go.

[barrett]

Vintage Razors B, or artisan modern DE and SE razors - buy wisely and they can be a real money spinner.

Watched one go yesterday for just shy of £400. My best purchase - a 2009 iKon - made ten times what it cost me when I sold it a couple of years later - and they take up less space than a car.

 

Ive bought both prototype Sseygus razors and being sent another one to try out and review - then they will be wrapped up and stowed away until its time to eBay them on for a nice bit of coin in a couple of years.

 

Nope, you've lost me

[UltraWomble]

Nope, you've lost me

My retirement fund - a stack of old and not so old razors - there are collectors who are seriously unhinged when it comes to finding a 1978 Wilkinson Sticky or Red Ring.

[Lord Sterling]

Shame you couldn't keep the Cortina, you could have a proper 70s FACE OFF with Trigger (who really needs to step up and start wearing brown/claret corduroys, lambchop sideburns and a zapata moustache )

[Cavcraft]

I can't actually remember if owned this or it's just a random picture. Looks right on my radar though

 

 

Was mine, did live up to reputation

 

Despite nasty accessories, was cracking car to drive

 

Wanted to like this, I really did, and could have been great. Sadly, it was just confirmed how utterly over-rated these things are and was hopelessly unreliable.

 

So dull can't remember much about it

 

Another one of the many I owned

 

Quite unimpressed with this one

 

Dude, WTF? Did I scrap this? Hope so!

 

INTERLUDE

 

Outside McDonald's, Skegness I think. As I took a picture of this a lad came up to me and said something like 'It's smart that isn't it?' I actually LOL'd and he just looked at me a bit odd and walked off

 

INTERLUDE OVER

 

1 IS A OLD TANK LOL

 

Can't remember much about this one, think it was pretty decent though

 

Lovely motor this GSi (is there a recognised illness for liking Vectras?) sold it too quickly 

 

I still don't know why I got this really 

[Station]

There are the odd pictures where I remember the odd post of you saying you just bought it!

I remember the flame decal Mercedes and the white truck thing, can't believe it was five years ago though.

[Cavcraft]

This still remains about my favourite ever car picture. Not taken by me

 

 

 

I think this was mine, pictured after I sold it. Top two in my 'shouldn't have sold it' list, be worth daft money now I expect. They were always rare and I think I found two for sale and this one on the same day! Mine wasn't for sale, but I asked the garage in Machynlleth if I could leave a note for the owner, and the rest is history. Failed it's next MOT on 'Fiat Strada left in the sea' levels of rust underneath, but I had it done

 

Guess what, it's another popular* Vauxhall

 

Told you it was shit

 

Terrible eBay find cheap in Crewe

 

Another 106

 

Ex-Sporty Spice Cavalier?

 

INTERLUDE

 

 

INTERLUDE OVER

 

Didn't have this long (council estate swagger)

 

Good news, this was knackered and went for parts