Secret Shitters

[UltraWomble]

People you wouldn't have thought of as owning/ driving shite

 

I'll start the ball rolling with Michael Fish and his C reg Maestro...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-41616367/michael-fish-revisits-1987-s-great-storm

 

 

 

 

 

admittedly it might just have been used for the film being a 1986 car, but phucket we can dream

[UltraWomble]

I Know ex Spitting Image voice master & hologram Chris Barrie likes old stuff - I think we can forgive his Sherpa Coupe as he owns and drives a Jaaaaaaaag XJ6

[cobblers]

Claudia Winkleman still drives the 1.4 Golf she got for her 30th birthday, which wasn't yesterday.

I didn't think they made a 1.4 mk1 swallowtail

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Jacob Rees Mogg , in addition to a Derby Bentley and an immaculate T1 that he's owned since his 20's, he drives a ' rather old and battered Lexus' every day.

I'd like to think it's just like Mason, but could of course be a 6 month old Hybrid, who knows what the multi millionaire Dickensian Toff considers old and battered.

[UltraWomble]

Ann Widdecombe loves* her Ford Focus

[UltraWomble]

Princess Diana learned to handbrake turn in her Metro

[mercrocker]

He is sadly departed for some while now,  but I remember Patrick Moore owned an upright Prefect for some 50 plus years as well as a Triumph 2000 which I think remained his everyday motor for the rest of his life.  

 

Also seem to recall reading that Paul Merton owned a Montego Countryman long after they were "normal" family cars.

[Fabergé Greggs]

The most mentioned car and owner combo in Autoshite history- Princess Anne and her Scimitar

[mercrocker]

Sir Winston Churchill is famous (at least to banger-boys) for his Farina Morris Oxford but the last vehicle bought on his behalf was actually a Hillman Husky.    A bloody Hillman Husky!    Even the village Plod round our way moaned  to my Dad about getting one of those as an area car in 1966 instead of another noddy bike.   

[fordperv]

Princess Diana learned to handbrake turn in her Metro

 

 

The car that pops into my head for princess Diana is that special s1 escort rs turbo

 

[timolloyd]

Doesn't The Queen still run a P5? I'd like to think she's on here under a suitable pseudonym, getting tips for using fibreglass to repair the a posts

[mercrocker]

Wasn't it Di who kicked off some hoo-haa with an Audi cabriolet 'cos German or summat?   Upset all the Battenbergs and Saxe-Coburgs apparently.

[mk2_craig]

Alexei Sayle has been fond of old chod in the past, owned (still owns?) a Cit C6.

[capsuleboy]

The Popes got a Renault 4...

[Guest Hooli]

Wasn't it Di who kicked off some hoo-haa with an Audi cabriolet 'cos German or summat?   Upset all the Battenbergs and Saxe-Coburgs apparently.

 

Rings a bell, I think she had a few Aldis over the years.

[Yoss]

My brain tells me Queen Mum had an Austin 3-Litre. This may not be true but my brain thinks it is. I think an ex-3-Litre owning friend of mine told me.

[UltraWomble]

The most mentioned car and owner combo in Autoshite history- Princess Anne and her Scimitar

[gordonbennet]

The late art critic Brian Sewell liked his old motors, he ran a W126 coupe for donkeys years.

[Captain Furious]

I saw an Austin 3 litre on the M6 a couple of months back, had never heard of it before so I googled it when I got to work, turned out the very same car has its own website.

 

http://www.austinthreelitre.co.uk/

[chaseracer]

Doesn't The Queen still run a P5? I'd like to think she's on here under a suitable pseudonym, getting tips for using fibreglass to repair the a posts

 

[mercrocker]

Lots more here....

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/18707-unlikely-autoshiters/

[Lankytim]

Sir Winston Churchill is famous (at least to banger-boys) for his Farina Morris Oxford but the last vehicle bought on his behalf was actually a Hillman Husky.    A bloody Hillman Husky!    Even the village Plod round our way moaned  to my Dad about getting one of those as an area car in 1966 instead of another noddy bike.   

 

Didn't Churchie have a coach built VDP 3 litre 2 door?

[mercrocker]

There has been talk of such a thing but never found any evidence other than anecdotal tales of it being destroyed on the oval.   Probably somebody shifted a b post and made up a wider pair of doors to wind up the car clubs.     

 

  

 

His standard Oxford was widely documented, however....

[Angrydicky]

Boris Johnson is the obvious choice here. He drives a Y reg Focus and a battered, M reg Toyota Previa.

[omegod]

The car that pops into my head for princess Diana is that special s1 escort rs turbo

 

c1b41067d3af2abf619dbe5a727e13c0--princesa-diana-ford-escort.jpg

 

That escort is now part of this dude's...fucking epic ....collection of Ford legends 

 

https://www.pistonheads.com/features/ph-features/rs-royalty-the-bonkers-collection/23965

[Justin Case]

Not quite shite in absolute terms, but Warren Buffet, possibly the world's richest man, drives a three year old Cadillac XTS, having part-exed a 2006 Caddy for it. Relatively, it is marginally cheaper than a Volvo S90, which of course is now beginiing to show up on the AS radar

 

http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/15/autos/warren-buffett-cadillac-xts/?iid=EL

[sheffcortinacentre]

June brown (dot cotton ) has/had a 100e, Jon colshaw has a mk3 cortina & mk1 Granada.

[Bobthebeard]

I believe that the Queen has a fleet of Rover 75's tucked away as an investment. She drives a tidy V6 around Balmoral apparently. These cars can only appreciate surely. Ahem.

[Felly Magic]

I think US Ventrillioltwat Jeff 'Achmed' Dunham has a pair of AMC Gremlins in his vast fleet, and Mr Regular of RCR wants a Pugrat 206 and his daily is now a mk1 MR2 which replaced Sillicone Sally, his heavily sealed up Honda Fit (Jazz)

[Ghosty]

Don't RCR have an undisclosed camera car? The MR2 is Mr R's personal car.