One car you really miss.

[Roverageous]

Strange one this, as the car I'm going to nominate is the same make and model as I currently drive.

 

A 2001 Rover 75 which was a blind eBay win. It was green, low spec & a 2.0 v6 engine which was utterly unremarkable in the power and MPG stakes - but sounded lovely.

 

I think I paid £375 for it from a builder - it was the car his wife used & came with an extensive history folder.

 

Kept it for a year and did a 3000 mile road trip round France in it which was great.

 

Fond, fond memories. Really bonded with that car!

 

 

 

[DVee8]

A red Nissan Primera 2.0Gt s reg in red 4door.Purchased new in 1998 sold 2000 for a shit Renault clio 172.

[mercrocker]

W116 Mercedes 280SE.   Needed about £500 spending on it, a fraction of what my other stuff has cost but it scared me at the time and I sacked it off.   It had had a full MB specialist rear suspension rebuild too.   Sorry, Merc, I sold you short..... 

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

My 2.0 L series diesel MG ZR, It was fucked and rusty you couldnt see the clock and the light didnt work on the fuel gauge so you had to shine a torch on it at night

 

It just felt right i cant describe it really but i loved that car.

[purplebargeken]

Can't narrow it down to one, but I really miss my '89 Landie 110 van and the FX4 Taxi.

[dollywobbler]

I was worried I might have to mention the XM here, but the truth is, I don't miss it! Sure, I do miss the novelty of a car that rises up when you go for a drive, but there was plenty I didn't like. Overall, enjoyed it, glad I bought it, but also glad I moved it on.

 

So, mostly, i'm just missing my 2CV. Off the road since April 2015, and still in pieces, spread out around the country.

[ShiteRider]

Ford sierra sapphire 2.0 glsi. Identical to fordpervs' but white.

Loved that car, driving like a twat and stuck it into a lampost at 40. Everyone in the car walked away, but ten years later i still get stiff neck in cold weather as a reminder.

[Asimo]

I've mentioned this before, so at least I'm being consistent: Citroen Ami Super: just a brilliant little thing.

[For Fiats Sake]

 

It's still on the drive in bits, but I will miss my Panda Fizz, the car that got me hooked on them, once it goes for scrap.

 

 

 

 

[srad34]

My old 1994 Celica GT4 ST205, in 'look at me' bright yellow, proper fast and wiped the floor with them pesky flash Impreza's

[MarvinsMom]

maestro vanden plas, this one infact

 

 

had it i think about 9 months, ended up spending a small fortune on it, putting the carb stepper motor back on, new bearings and a full cylinder head on it amongst other things so that it would start first time and run properly.

 

i loved it, but Kerry didn't. it had a sun roof that in the best traditions of all sun roofs leaked, but only on the passenger side which was ok for me, cos only i would drive it!

 

sacked it off for the Jaguar cos i fancied a change, i mean the XJ6 was nice really nice, if needy, far more so than this ever was! 

 

plus the car was mostly mint bodywise, after one winter outside you could see the cars body start to deteriorate and i was feeling bad about not taking better care of it. i found it comfortable to drive, with an exceptionally smooth, if slightly wallowy ride. it had no power steering though so parking it could be "challenging"....

[uk_senator]

My 1981 Supermirafiori Panorama 1600TC, my Fiat Argenta (which was the most unreliable car I ever owned, but I still wish I had it now), my Rover SD1 2600 Vanden Plas, my 944 cabrio & my Ferarri 308GTS QV, which is now worth about 40k more than when I sold it.. *doe!*

[uk_senator]

Oh, & my Lancia Thema Turbo... And my Tempra SX SW 2.0..

[Dick Cheeseburger]

This old girl. Still miss it 12 years after I sold it.

[hairnet]

mk1 fiesta ghia in gold while at college got rear ended by a bus while sat in it

[strangeangel]

My 1986 R4F6 van, scrapped due to rot in the rear chassis which could probably have been sorted. I was just finishing Uni, though, and had to move out asap with nowhere to keep an unroadworthy French conveyance, so off to the bridge it went.

 

It was as brilliant as the £50 Mini 1000 auto that replaced it was wank.

[Skizzer]

Mk2.5 Polo G40. Flippin hilarious vehicle that I'd have back tomorrow.

[cros]

I miss my GS van the most; they were always rare in RHD so when I spotted a rough one at the side of a Black Country Citroen dealership for a few quid in 1987 I grabbed it.

I went to collect it a couple of days after having a vasectomy (never again), and it wouldn't start. Being near the top of a slope down to the road I pushed it a few yards and jumped in as it gathered momentum, catching me nuts on the edge of the seat as I landed. The engine started and I drove home in agony - a wheelbarrow would have made a more appropriate conveyance to shove them around in for the next couple of weeks.

The GS went to work, usually fully laden, and covered lots more miles. Though common now I think it was the only van with a rev counter fitted as standard at that time.

[mouseflakes]

My '67 Renault 10 with 1400 R11 engine. It never looked any better nor any worse than this in the eight-odd years I had it.

 

[DaveDorson]

I had a Poorsche 924 that I wish I'd still got.

 

Stripped out hooligan machine

 

And my red XJ40 was great too

[fred]

Too many to mention, most of them. But Pick one .... The Ventora without a doubt 

 

 

[brownnova]

The one I miss so much, my username is dedicated to it...

 

THE brown Nova.

 

 

Sadly scrapped following a damning post service report from Halfrauds so called auto centre, which the older wiser me would have completely ignored! As they were clearly profiteering bar stools.

[Junkman]

I miss quite a lot of cars I had, in particular my '78 Caprice Classic, Auto Union 1000 4 door and Peugeot 304 Break. Thinking about this just now,

I oddly don't really miss any of the exotics I ever owned, despite I could comfortably retire now had I kept them.

But is there one I want to have back?

Probably not. I'm way too scared they wouldn't be as good now as they are in my memory, in a meet your hero sort of way, if you know what I mean.

I'm also a chronic repeat offender, having had 11 '57 - '63 Imperials and a few technically related '64 - '66 ones, albeit those always only short term,

15 Granada MKIIs, countless Renault 4s (I don't remember how many) and I'm now on my fifth 405 and fourth P6.

More than having sold any car I had, I rather regret having bought the same ones over and over, instead of adding more variety to the mix.

In the face of having owned almost 300 cars hitherto, this must hint at a pretty serious psychosis.

 

I'm quite tempted to to open the counter thread to this one - cars you were glad to be rid of.

It'd be a lot funnier to read stories about the half arsed chod that was happily bridged, or unloaded onto unsuspecting members of the public.

[andy18s]

Avon Sunbeam Lotus,with all the Skip Brown stuff you could throw at it

Made it almost undriveable in the wet but was so much fun

[Supernaut]

 

This magnificent little bastard. I bought it in April 2010 for £300 as an MOT failure. All it needed was a track rod end and the handbrake adjusting.

 

It was the 1.9 XUD turbo, and the rev counter never worked. However, I fitted a boost gauge and got silly, with it peaking at 24psi. Full boost in the wet was fun, wheelspin in 3rd gear!

 

I also fitted the half leather seats from a Meridian spec phase 3 306.

 

During my ownership I even converted it from a Lucas fuel system to a Bosch system, just so I could tune it more easily and run it on veg. I even replaced the rear axle mounts too.

 

In August 2013 it spat out a conrod on my way to work, then went over the bridge. It was on 156k miles when I bought it and died at 179k.

[Vince70]

The car I miss the most was a rather mundane 1994 1.6 Audi A4 which I bought as a cheap stop gap to get me out of a tight spot which I won on eBay for £281 and in the ad it didn't sound brilliant with a window held in with cardboard and a key scratch down the side and it hadn't been used for six months but when I bought it I found I had bought a lovely little low mileage gem which I kept for 4 years and even then it had to be prised away from me.

 

I found a new window unit in the boot and used the clips off that and got the window working again and it seemed to me when it was replaced by a newer version of the same car that the later version wasn't nowhere near as well built as the earlier B5 as things like panel clips headlamps and trim etc had been changed for parts that were a lot cheaper quality.

 

It was lovely and old school under the bonnet as well with a nice little 1.6 which had a distributor and never failed me once and was more like an old Audi 80 rather than a modern A4 and so was the build quality I even paid out and had the side repainted to get rid of the scratch and it had just the right amount of electrics with central locking and electric front windows up front but nothing too much over the top.

 

I also miss my old Audi 80 as although at the time it was 20 years old it still looked as fresh as the day it was built without a spot of rust.

I still think that an Audi built between about 1985 till around 95 can't be bettered when in comes to quality.

[sierraman]

1997 Mondeo, bought for £550, ran for 70,000 miles and 7 years. Sold it on for £275. Had to put a new clutch in it at 100k but to say it never let me down I was impressed.

[rantingYoof]

Thinking about it, I really have fond memories of my 45 2.0TD as it was the car I drove myself to my wedding in, it then took us on two holidays, including to Wales where it did hill starts on 1 in 5 inclines without so much as stuttering once - in fact doing the whole round trip and all the driving on holiday including some spirited blatting around the Beacons and using just under 3/4 of a tank. Bought with no history, on condition alone, it gave me two years and 18k of completely mechanically fault free motoring and I have massive respect for it.

 

But that's respect, not love. Engine notwithstanding, the bits of trim and build quality made it an irritant for the last few months of its time with me.

 

What car makes my heart ache a bit when I think about it driving away from me with a new owner inside? The V70...

 

If ONLY I had bought the 170hp model rather than the 140hp. When the one and only 'issue' with a car is that it's a little down on power then you know you've actually found a good 'un. Unfortunately I didn't think this at the time and sold it on and replaced it with a Vauxhall in a frock which made whoosh noises.

 

Sigh.

[RoadworkUK]

My 825. I only put it away in the garage yesterday and I miss it already.

[scruff]

 

I bought this Audi Coop back in 2010 from Keith Adams for £400 or something like that (1.8 four pot TWOTRO) with the express intention of going on honeymoon in it. A month before the wedding our landlord decided he wanted the house for his daughter, money was then squeezed to breaking point so the Audi went.

 

Unbeknown to us it was acquired by a consortium of friends who then presented it to us at our wedding reception, we went on honeymoon in it to France via a few days in London and had a great time. Should have kept it really but had other stuff going on so it went on eBay and our friends split the wonga.