Which came First? Chicken or Egg?

[Joloke]

Can we have Bacon too?

 

[scruff]

One of the scottish lads on here has a Mk1 Cortina just as you describe, it is flippin ace

[mercrocker]

With you all the way on this.   When I was 17 I was offered a £25 Morris Cowley by an old bloke in a flat cap.   It was fantastic, smelt like a steam railway workshop, had never seen a lick of paint except over the rust patches and had a lairy old hall carpet on the floor.   Well, I didnt even have £25 quid at the time (over a week's wages) and nowhere to keep it.  

 

I have an exact replica of that car now, except it cost 28 times that to buy and I have spent a further £1000 putting it on the road.  It will never have fresh paint or a horrid polypropylene nylon "classic car" carpet.  It still smells like a preserved railway and as I approach retirement I am even considering damaging my remaining quiff with a flat cap.  

 

A certain proportion of old motors should definitely be kept like this as representative of 1960s/70s street furniture.   It's Derskine with that Cortina, I believe - an absolutely first class example of what I mean.  

[xtriple]

I'd love an Anglia with a 1500 GT engine, wide arches and banded steel wheels. Got to be in grey and without chrome. I lusted after one when I was a kid (I used to read CandCC instead of the Dandy!) and never got close.

 

The streets used to be filled with cars that looked tired and emotional but still seemed to work.... most days.

[fordperv]

The unloved capri has gone this way, you couldn't give capri's away, sierra's will follow price wise, if I didn't already have my Capri I don't think I'd buy one

[scruff]

I have always had old Land Rovers and they have now gone mental. I had a lad I know message me this week saying he is after a SWB Series 2 and can't find one within his budget. He's got £1500! Doesn't seem like 5 minutes ago I was picking Series 3s up in the Friday Ad for £500 with a long MoT. Having said that I am guilty of riding this wave as I sold my Series 1 for more money than I have ever seen in my life.

 

With you all the way on this.   When I was 17 I was offered a £25 Morris Cowley by an old bloke in a flat cap.   It was fantastic, smelt like a steam railway workshop, had never seen a lick of paint except over the rust patches and had a lairy old hall carpet on the floor.   Well, I didnt even have £25 quid at the time (over a week's wages) and nowhere to keep it.  

 

I have an exact replica of that car now, except it cost 28 times that to buy and I have spent a further £1000 putting it on the road.  It will never have fresh paint or a horrid polypropylene nylon "classic car" carpet.  It still smells like a preserved railway and as I approach retirement I am even considering damaging my remaining quiff with a flat cap.  

 

A certain proportion of old motors should definitely be kept like this as representative of 1960s/70s street furniture.   It's Derskine with that Cortina, I believe - an absolutely first class example of what I mean.  

 

You would love my a35 dude

[Tetleysmooth]

My first ever car was a 105e Anglia. Cost £55. Had it ages. Actually passed my driving test in it.

I've had Mk1 Cortinas for 95 quid, many, many Mk2 Granadas at varying prices, never more than 200 quid though.

A mark 2 Minx for 75 quid - almost immaculate that one.

A freebie Vauxhall Senator 3.0 12 valve..

I could go on, but you get the idea.

 

Always wanted a Humber Sceptre though, the Superminx shaped one. Closest I got was a Singer Vogue.

Try buying any of these now.

Never had a Capri though. Did look at a 2.0 Ghia once, but turned it down at 275 quid.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The cars that are now stupid money (Escorts, Capris etc) are the ones I paid buttons for 20-30 years ago because actually, they were a bit rubbish. A 1978 Escort 1300 Sport wasn't a very good car really.

 

So it's no skin off my nose if some daft sod pays 10 grand for it, crack on!

[barefoot]

My T2 is worth* ten times what I paid for it 20 years ago, I wouldn't be able to afford one now.

Even the specialist garages have changed, they used to have those special oil soaked floors, now the same bloke wipes up every drip off his shiny pale grey floor and has a coffee machine and charges more than the local Porsche specialist ever did.

[stripped fred]

2cv's are now quite expensive. I sold 2 rough ones for £100 the pair a few years back.

[DVee8]

20 odd years ago I payed £50 for a 1100cc yellow mini clubman with Datsun 120Y seats.Also £50 for mk4 1.6L Cortina and a bargain £200 for a orange mk2 Capri 3.0.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

It's all peaks and troughs. When the generation of mk1 Escort lovers is dead and gone, their value will slowly decline in the same way pre 50's cars have. Supply and demand. I do occasionally wish I had a crystal ball to foresee the next classic, but know the reality is that I never keep a car long enough to reap any financial gain.

[Dave_Q]

E30 BMWs, I had about half a dozen in a row a few years ago when they were priced slightly higher than weigh in value, now a rotten "project" seems to be worth £1500++.

 

Tried an E36 but it wasn't quite the same.

[twosmoke300]

Rear engine Skodas 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

My first car was a 71 Capri GTXLR and the price?

 

The best.....................

 

Free

 

Stupidly I sold it at the end of the 80's for £60 due to it running on 3 cylinders

 

£60

 

 

If it was a V4, that's what they sound like!

[michael1703]

Laguna 2's

 

First they were free and abandoned in car parks and now you have to pay £65 for one

[Rocket88]

P6 Rovers..............5 years ago, really nice one £1500, now double that, and rising

[Urko]

The cars that are now stupid money (Escorts, Capris etc) are the ones I paid buttons for 20-30 years ago because actually, they were a bit rubbish. A 1978 Escort 1300 Sport wasn't a very good car really.

 

So it's no skin off my nose if some daft sod pays 10 grand for it, crack on!

Totally agree. My first car was a Mk1 Escort Van £150. It was shocking. Later on I paid £500 for a really nice MK2 Cortina 1600E.

 

Later still £500 for a bay window VW panel van - that was shite.

 

I wouldn't thank you for any of them now and the prices they fetch, I'd be scared to leave them anywhere. I prefer stuff that people sneer at now

[rainagain]

2cv's are now quite expensive. I sold 2 rough ones for £100 the pair a few years back.

When I was at Uni, dumped behind the mechanical labs was a scruffy but otherwise sound 2CV that had been used to race at Knockhill. I checked the buyers guides online and found it was non rusty in all the places they usually rust. I asked one of the janitors about who owned it and the guy about bit my hand off when he found I wanted to take it. It belonged to the mech department who had used it as a project however as I was studying in the evil electrical department the mech department didn't want me to have it. The infighting was so bad that the mech department eventually got it towed way and scrapped rather than give it to an electrical student.  

 

Since then I've always fancied one but now I simply can't afford one.

[bub2006]

A lot of sheds my dad had growing up are out of my price range. Thing is though as mentioned before in 1990 for example a old car would have been 10/15 year old and looking decidedly ropey. Mid 70'sford for example. A 10/15 year old car today looks still pretty decent so it's all perspective

[garbaldy]

When I was buying escorts cortinas vivas and colts I was earning £35 a week I'm now on a bit more than that so can afford more for the same cars.

[SamR380]

2-Door Range Rovers. Dirt cheap 10 years ago, many bought and 'bobtailed' for pure offroad use.

[junkyarddog]

If you want 70's shite,HC Vivas are still quite affordable,

I got my last one for free,my other one cost £90,but that was back in 1992.

[derskine]

One of the scottish lads on here has a Mk1 Cortina just as you describe, it is flippin ace

 

It's a keeper this one.

[RayMK]

Rear engine Skodas 

 

My son and I had several Rapids and Estelles when garages and private sellers were almost embarrassed to sell them.  Just a few hundred quid bought a very nice example with around 30K on the clock.  Now, though we still regard them as the most satisfying and entertaining cars we've owned,  we are reluctant to shell out £1K for rusty rubbish or £3K for a nice one.

[HMC]

As a kid in the 80s and early 90s I always had a thing for mk2 escorts. A lady down our street had a metallic blue 4 door Ghia. I've always wanted one. They've long since stopped being in the small ads for a few hundred quid sadly.

[dave21478]

Loads of stuff.

My pals and I abused the hell out of Minis....saloons, vans, estates....bought and sold for a couple of hundred with MOT and tax in the late '90s. I cant afford to buy one now.

 

XR2s and XR3is have obviously succumbed to the OSF Retirement Fund collectors and cant be bought for normal money any more.

 

205 GTi s....every week the Scot Ads would have two or three in the "Under 500" section. Good luck finding one today for under 2k that isnt some ruined, half-assed "track car" with no interior, holes hacked everywhere and an OMP cage bird-shitted in.

 

Nova GTE / GSI, mkII Astra GTE, mkIII Astra GSI, Cavalier GSI or Turbo, Calibras....fuck, even the 8v models are going for strong money now.

 

A MKI Saxo VTR / VTS is impossible to find now or as with the 205s they are shitty old track cars. A good clean Impreza Turbo is getting hard to find, MX5s will be next. they are still around cheap enough but suddenly all the decent ones will be gone soon enough.

[dugong]

i wnted frd mex escrot now averag joe cnt afrd workin mans british escort sutch a shaem shr if u agre

[face]

A 1978 Escort 1300 Sport wasn't a very good car really.

 

My favourite ever car I owned was 1977 1300 Escort Sport. Twin Weber, Janspeed, RS alloys and lowered.

 

It was the nuts.

[Six-cylinder]

Early 1.3 Metro.