What happened to your former shite?

[mercrocker]

I'm going to crave indulgence here and revisit one of my Mk2 Granadas - already alluded to in my earlier post. 

 

A738DRB.   Absolute trooper.  

 

Bought it with some money from my Gran who was concerned to hear that my Ascona B had jammed at full throttle on the bypass with all the family on board.   It hadn't been a big drama - I just switched the bloody thing off.   It was fucked through so I turned her gift into a loan and went shopping.  

 

This was about 1994 and I had £500.   Eventually I found a local car dealer - one of these very effusive fellas who had probably failed English Literature at a fairly high level.  Shakespeare quotes in his listings, that sort of shit.   Right underneath all the flowery descriptions of G,H and J reg. VAG shite and doomed French stuff was a terse mention of a part-ex Granada in my budgetary range. 

 

I had to meet him at his house as for some reason it was in his private garage.  Bloody great palace in where all the footballers and nightclub owners lived.   An oriental house-maid served me lemonade (but sadly nothing else) on the terrace whilst a tennis match was being played.  On his court.  

 

He turned out to be a nice bloke and we did the deal.  The Granny was mine - Champagne gold 2.3Lx with grey cloth, sunroof and auto.  

 

After the decaying Opel it almost took me back to Zodiac and Pontiac levels of waftage.  I was very pleased, not least because Wife 1 had fled to northern wastelands with her Hubby 2 and my nipper.   Flogging the Ascona the full length of M1 and back at weekends was not being looked forward to. 

 

The car was more than presentable enough to provide bridal transport for the offspring of Wife 2 and also earned me plenty of Car Useage expenses in the course of my job as a Customer Service Manager.    

 

Unfortunately, an errant Volvo 740 being taken to the local car auction was so eager to escape its current owner that it didn't quite wait for me to go past the entrance and stoved in the offside front.   It looked bad but I got cash in lieu (there was no Cat. registration going on then) to the tune of £600, kept the car and spent £30 on new lighting.   The wing responded to a size 9 Western boot pushed against the apex of the dent and some not-very-clever rattle cannage. 

 

The following year, a hurtling Orion buried itself in the boot whilst I was stationary at some traffic lights.  After I took the details I looked down at the green river emanating from its smashed face and said to the bloke - "Your car's fucked, mate".   This time, it was a technical write-off and I got a hateful N-reg Laguna as a courtesy car.   Nothing seemed to be happening after a week or two so I took the Laguna back, jumped in the Granada and sorted it out myself with a mate.   A  few scrapyard parts and some wob on the rear valance put it right.   Astonishingly, about six weeks later I got a cheque "in lieu" minus a few quid for the "free" Laguna - glad I took that back.   It also got hit twice whilst parked - never did find the bastards and relieved of its radio-cassette in Luton after having a quarter light punched out.   

 

Eventually, as is always the fate with a faithful car or woman, another stunner caught my eye and I did the dirty on it, buying a 2.8 Ghia X from a bloke at work.  It was one of the most admired cars in the car park and I wanted it.... 

 

Poor old DRB went in the Free-Ads (remember those chod utopian days) for £200 and produced the sum total of 0 calls for about six weeks.   Finally, on Xmas Eve (FFS) at about 6.30pm some geezer rang up and asked if I thought the car would make it up to Tyneside (from the New Forest!).   No reason why not, I said - not a lie, I would happily have driven it there.   He turned up, paid the dosh and went.   Weeks and weeks later I saw it again back down our way.....Apparently the fella had promised to see his ex and kids for Xmas but his car had shat itself 2 miles into the journey and he was desperate.   Yep, made it fine and back home and he was very pleased with the car.   

 

Another year or so later and I saw the back of it in a local scrappy, still recognisable by the seamless wobbed-over rear valence!   I went in and asked what was happening to it - banger racing I guessed looking at the windowless Bluebirds and Cortinas dotted about.   "Nah, too good to race, that one, bloke's bought it - picking it up Friday" I was told. 

 

Saw the car at least twenty times over the following few years, each time looking a bit more battered and smoky - it still had the pinned up "headlining" I  had cobbled up after having failed to fix the leaking sunroof other than with some kind of mastic dogshit.    Like I said before, it died hard and didn't give up easily.....RIP A738DRB I will never forget ya.

 

Apart from wishing I still had it (goes without saying in a thread like this) I do hanker after the days when £500 got you a decent Mk2 Granny, indeed I still hanker for the days when ten year old cars still appealed to me.

[STUNO]

Part two of what was supposed to be a thread about my car history.

To say I was annoyed by what Chaseracer had done to my thread overnight would be to understate things. Unfortunately I do not contribute financially to Autoshite so have to rein myself in.

 

Breathe in..

 

to continue.

 

As you know I left Australia and a tired Ford behind.

After travelling From Los Angeles on a 2 month Greyhound bus pass I wandered about and stopped with friends of my parents in WallaWalla Washington for a while. Then continued to Vancouver to my cousin's Farmlet. A side trip to Vancouver Island got me a treat. 

I went into Hertz to rent "a small car please" to be told they had nothing left except a Pontiac Trans Am, if I wanted i could have that at the same price. About 20 milliseconds later I said yes. That was a couple of fun days just driving that about          .

Then it was back to Vancouver and on the bus to Montreal to stay with my sister. 

I also had an Aunt living there who drove a Morris Minor ! We did rent a VW beetle and travelled round the Northern part of New York state and across to the Maine coast as well.

That all over I travelled on to London.

Went to stay with Mum,s brother and family in Ealing  and had to get some transport. Aunt had a Ford prefect 107E from  from the late 50's which took us about and I remember the quiet knocking from its main bearings. 

Anyway back to me, transport was acquired in the form of a Vauxhall Victor 101 of 1966 vintage (see photo of the same colour one) and work started in a Gin distillery that had been started by someone called Gordon and his mate Tank.

 

 

Money now started to flow again so I was able to improve my style, so did that in the form of a 1971 Morris 1800s. For some reason I still have the invoice !

 

It looked just the same as this!

 

I was very happy with that. I still believe it had been breathed on by the firm I bought it off, The only suitable fuel was the 5 star then and commuting in london became a nightmare if it was not given a good blast up the M1 regularly to clear its throat. Power steering was also fitted to make life easy.  Probably my best buy ever, it was used extensively and used as transport when my family visited, taking us as far north as the Groats and to the South west to the end of the land, plus many places East and West on the travels. 

However in 1977 home was calling loudly and the Morris went to an auction and sold for 500 pounds. It could have been brought with me, but was showing the early effects of salted roads so was left. Someone here checked the plate and it is long gone....

 

To be continued whenever I get round to it.....

 

As a sideline I get a pension from the UK govt. now. Thank you all !

 

 

 

 

 

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Bloody hell - I don't think I can remember them all......... 

 

1st car (I was 14) - Cobra Replica unfinished project (Cortina based pop spec) bought through my uncle who ran a garage at the time. I worked weekends to get it together and have it through its check and MoT - nearly killed myself on his 'test track' out back and sod it immediately after. Couldn't get insured even when I did get to 17!

 

2nd (bought with Cobra money) - 911 wreck as owner was emigrating - again my uncles fault...... just couldn't afford the bits though. Gave up eventually and sold for what I had in it to a 911 'expert' - it was seen stripped in a local scrapyard not long after. I hadn't noticed the badly repaired accident damage underneath.... 

 

3rd - now old enough to actually drive. Cortina 2.3 Ghia from a RAF engineer who was on a 24hr notice posting to Cyprus. Fantastic and well looked after. I killed it launching it over the famous Wroxham hump backed bridge outside Roys of Wroxham after I missed the 10mph sign (fat git was leaning on it as it was just attached to the wall of the damn bridge itself!)

 

4th - MGB GT - had sat too long on 'dealer' forecourt at Coltishall. Promptly destroyed fibre oil seal that had dried out and sprayed the clutch. Typical of here - I'd bought it and promptly set off on a 300mile trip so was it was fubar'd by the time I got home. Local Sunderland garage took it on, unknown to me he was having marital problems, he took the car, cash for repair and the piss....... got it back worse than it went in. Fixed myself. Hit by old giffer on the local country lanes after he hadn't bothered demisting before setting off..... got paid - fixed it myself. Hit by stolen Omega involved in Police chase on Norwich ring road - totalled this time........ 

 

5th - Cavalier GLI - lovely, electrics all great - went like shit off a shovel and munched the miles. I really did love that car. Had a bit of an annoying habit develop where fuel relay would overheat and car die into long journeys. Just kept a spare and swapped em over - no real issue. Stolen and burned out on Sunderland sea front...... 

 

6th - MR2 AW11 - one of the first off the production line with factory towbar install (WTF!). Found at the side of the road on the way into work with a mate..... lady owner was great and we 'kept in touch' until I found out she was married! Car was fantastic until it started the omghgf routine. Sourced another engine.... all OK. At that point I was working for Bernie on F1 and was flying all over the place ad hoc. I left on one journey, got pulled around for teams testing for the upcoming season and genuinely forgot the originating airfield...... called a few but never found it again.

 

Series of company cars or hire vehicles in the middle as I was travelling a lot with work or contracting a few months here n there...... so purchase and re-sale would sometimes have taken as long as I was in a place.

 

Triumph 2500S - bought with a mate but I bought him out when he moved off to France. It's in the corner of the garage now - I rebuilt it, mate brake checked me while it was on a trailer and it jumped. I hadn't seen it work loose..... it didn't trash my E28 tow car but it was close! Gearbox is jammed in reverse...... may as well swap the engine for the Z31 turbo setup I have..... seems rude not to TBH.

 

78 Spitfire - brother in law owed me a chink of cash..... I took this instead. Turns out 'restoration' was a fucking bodge job involving newspaper, fibreglass and oiled rags! Total rebuild ongoing.... but slowly!

 

Z31 - bought for not many shackles over here in Belgium purely for track use. Put on a great show at RR 10 or 11 IIRC and was fantastic to just hook around in. Rotten beyond belief though so stripped and chopped up..... 

 

67 GT6 hillclimber - rolling shell. In the corner of current garage after most of the chassis has been replaced. I'll get it done one day......

 

E28 528i - Ebay cheap shed. Ran beautifully and was a fantastic tow car. Worst looking and filthiest car I've ever owned...... took a week of shit moving to have it so my ex would even get in it....... sold to African exporter nearby.

 

I then found a shed on a farm and started stocking it.........

 

*64 Ford Taunus Transit

*68 Austin 1100

*89 Pajero V6 3000

*73 Fiat 127 - race tuned

*88 I think - Isuzu Turbo - ex AlcyOne...

*90 Celsior 400 - ex Wuvvum - lovely thing that took me all over Europe and never ever let me down. Football friends would argue over who get in the back for the heated massage rear seats. It got hammered with parking dents within 2mths here in Brussels so paint was a nightmare. Was prepped for paint when stored.

*93 RangeRover 4.0 - rear bags went just after I got it - I knew they were leaking.... new ones fitted. Untraced drain on battery had me doing the door lock key jiggle tango if left for more than 4days. I got tired of that after a while.

*88 RS1600i - Swiss car I bought and drove up without issue other than it made me deaf. Had been well looked after until I got it. Bought a few original RS bits to replace what was damaged/missing..... they were in it when it went.

 

* Every one of the above went when I left the ex..... I went off on work to China. She went and moved all the cars/vans out onto the main road outside the barn. Local plod slapped em with parking notices, then towed the lot - that's a minimum of 200euros per tow.... then storage of 50 a day per car...... by the time I came back I couldn't afford to get them back as she'd cleaned out a large sum from the joint account too ( I knew about a lump - for a deposit for her - but she took a lot more than that) 

 

99 SAAB 2.0T - current tow n general duties..... lovely thing and I'm seriously impressed at the hammer it takes and keeps going.

 

75 Bedford CF recovery truck. Converted to Frontera diesel motor. Haven't even picked it up yet, I trashed my knee so am struggling with clutch operation at the moment. Need to finish physio and go get it in Bristol! If anyone has a yard to throw it in for a month to give me breathing space - I'd be obliged!!!! Beer n money in exchange of course.

 

74 Lada 2101 - sat outside. Running like shit. I discovered the mechanic previous owner who pulled it out of a garage hadn't fitted a fuel filter at all. He ran it to empty - so suspect crap in carb..... need to strip that and see if I can sort it - or order a new carb if fubar'd. Nice original car mostly - but came with monster light bar in the boot so may have been off rallying at some point. Interior is spotless though - so keeping it clean is a priority..... 

 

On the lookout for either another Pajero Mk1 V6 (or Monterrey - just missed one in NL this week) or a SAAB estate. Minidans over on the blue forum is pulling all kind of chains..... 

 

 

EDIT - forgot bikes..... 

76 Z650 - sold for peanuts.... of course they then became collectable.

81 XJ750 - ran this into the ground and totally neglected maintenance..... loved it of course!

hiatus

I forget the year - 2000 I think - RS Aprillia 125 full power 34hp version. Just got it last year and I love it. This'll be a keeper.

[STUNO]

Bump for those thousands who want to know what happened to my 55 years of cars thread. Grump, grump, grump.

[STUNO]

to continue...part 3 of my personal saga..

 

Still very pissed off with chaseracer, but I will get over him.

 

Well now, back to NZ and a family disaster over I had to do something, anything. 

So I rented a vacant shop in the big smoke Auckland and filled it with icecream,  smallgoods,cigarettes and newspapers and set to work making a fortune, or so I hoped. 

Transport was needed so a Triumph Herald estate arrived on the scene, just the thing for going to the wholesaler and loading up. A new radio was purchased to counteract the Herald's tendancy to rattle and crash. It could be turned up louder than the car noise. It lasted the time I had it and actually gave almost no trouble, except once.

As i entered the motorway from a slip road there was a severe wobbling from the steering. It stopped within a second or two and all was well, so on I went. Until I left the motorway. It became very obvious very quickly that one of the front wheels was not connected to the steering any more. OOPSSSSSS. Somehow a disaster was averted and I was able to stop and happily call a tow truck. A new ball joint and all was well.

During this time I had some spare cash so proper transport was acquired. A 1963 Daimler V8 became mine.  It was in very good mechanical and body condition, but the paint , a Maroon colour was terminally dull and the leather was hard from sun. I cannot remember how long I had the Daimler but it was several years. It suited me and was enjoyable. See the photos below. Triumph and Daimler colours as in photos, Holden was dark metallic green.

 

 

 

I was also selling a lot more so a better delivery car was "required". A Holden estate from 1969 became mine. just like this.

 

 

It too was a competent but boring and useful load lugger, it gave no trouble apart from needing a new radiator due to overheating on a long trip.

Round about this time someone wanted to buy the whole shop from me so I quickly took the deal and found myself the owner of a large house in a good suburb. 

There was no need for a load lugger so I convinced myself that a small economical alternative to a V8 was needed. in the form of a Morris 1300 in light grey.

 

 

I took a long holiday, travelling round the country in the Daimler, then got a job which turned out to be great fun. 

It was with a "lower eschelon " car dealer, we specialised in the cheap end of the market, and as our finance was all provided by the proprietor, so we could lend to anyone. Much of the stock was bought at auction and sold on finance. The secret was in the deposit. Charge a deposit of at least what the car cost and put it on monthly payments for 2 or 3 years. The vast majority of customers paid up, some ran into trouble of various kinds and paid what they could when they could, and a very few stopped payments after six months or so. We were never hard on the people as there was never any loss to the company. Many came back after their situation improved and bought another car. When Govt. regulations changed a homeowner was able to Mortgage a house to the company to buy a car, we only did it once. When the deal was done, Johnny the boss said it was a very bad deal for the buyer because the chap mortgaged his house for 10 years to buy a 10 year old car. that meant that by the time it was paid for it would be 20 years old and he found that was just wrong . 

I must have sold the 1300 by this time because I had an Anglia 109E for a while, until my Mother wanted rid of her AUSTIN ALLEGRO. Both White. 

 

 

 

That's it for today again , more later.

 

 

 

 

[STUNO]

Another day another part, no.4

 

I finished with those words AUSTIN ALLEGRO and a photo !

My Mother had one and when time came that a Toyota was an option it had to go. By that time it was very sick, but this is a country where cars were expensive and worth repairing.

The engine needed major work and the gearbox was a box of graunches, bodily it was perfect. I was still with the dealer and the mechanics there were given the job as a fill in spare time one. A rebored engine and rebuilt box transformed that Allegro to a very roadworthy car. It was comfortable and performed well. I travelled empty roads at night a lot so fitted a pair of 100 watt  driving lights which turned the road ahead to daylight. It was fun approaching a car in front and pulling out to pass while switching on those lights. I cannot remember how long I kept it but prob. a year or two, but something else took my heart and it had to go. 

Enter another Holden, a 1975 HQ Belmont (the cheap reps model) . Painted Light Blue with a White roof, and 3.3 L six.

 

 

I had this converted to run on natural gas which took approx 20% of the power away. With a big torquey motor this was not a problem so all was well, especially the $9 fill-ups with CNG. It also ran on petrol at the flick of a switch if wanted. Another relatively forgettable car and was kept a year or two.

Next was a small car, the family were suprised because they assumed I wanted big ones. But a Mazda 323 hatch was purchased in light blue.

 

 

I was by this time commuting a fair distance across Auckland, and the company moved further away, so the decision was made to leave there. A job was arranged with a subsiduary Co. in Rotorua so off I and the Mazda went. I had been rear-ended in Auck by a truck with extensive damage to the rhr and tailgate but the Mazda was repaired . 

It coped well with the 5 minute commute and was used for many long trips, but a car which never gives trouble is boring. It was showing big signs of engine trouble in the form of heavy blue clouds from the exhaust after descending hills  and accelerating, but never faltered. So I stayed with Japanese and bought a Ford. A 1985 Ford Telstar which was a Mazda 626 in drag, a White one.

 

 

This had been a reps car and while only a year old had done 100,000 plus km.

Once again  pretty forgettable but reliable. I must have had it a while as it needed rings at 200,000 not long before it was sold.

During this time the company I worked for went bust, so out of a job, so I called in some favours and started work for a friend as cashier in a gas station 4 nights a week, sometimes you do what you need to ! Trouble was it suited my wants then so I stayed too long.

One day a Taxi driver mentioned he was selling up so I bought him out.

Part of the purchase was his Taxi, a 1985 Ford Falcon in Maroon.

 

 

The taxi provided a good income and work when I felt like it so I was happy.

But getting middle aged so something had to happen, and it did.

A local lawyer sold me his Mazda Savanna, which is a JDM RX7. Now I was happy  ! It was Silver with a maroon interior, low, comfortable fast and went round corners faster than respectable. 

 

 

I moved house soon after and the new neighbour's son raced RX7's and dad repaired them. I got to know them, fortunately. Hard starting and much oil clouds spelt trouble and it was sent next door for a rebuild. A side seal on the rotor had gone so the engine was leaking oil internally. A new set of seals solved that and life continued.

The Taxi business progressed and a newer one purchased, a Nissan bluebird diesel . White ! and JDM

 

 

Next came a Toyota Corona (to you a Carina) JDM again and petrol 1800cc, diesel was too slow. The Toyota blew a head gasket at 300.000 km, the repairer was amazed how good the bores were, there was no wear, so a gasket was all that was needed.

 

 

Next taxi was a Nissan Laurel, which I kept as a private car after selling the business. Once again JDM

 

 

Getting older now I got sort of sensible, so the RX7 went to an 18 year old and I found a Rover SD1 locally being sold by it's 90 year old owner.

This is the actual car.

 

 

It was in good condition overall, mechanically perfect and totally rust free,but paint was dull and the headlining was starting to get old. It gave no trouble so lasted for several years and went to the Rover club locally.

 

We are not far from the end now but sleeping is needed, see ya later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MorrisItalSLX]

Enter another Holden, a 1975 HQ Belmont (the cheap reps model) . Painted Light Blue with a White roof, and 3.3 L six.

 

1975 HQ? Poverty Belmont with two tone paint? I iz confuzed.

 

But I am loving the story, such a diverse range of fantastic chod! Keep em' comin'!

[STUNO]

I was tired. it was a 73, my bumblest apologies. I lived in Canberra while in Aus. so your part of the coast was well known to me on my weeks off ! 

[STUNO]

I don't have many photos. But it is in this uncropped page ! ( I is not a tek Tick teknikel wizid)

 

 

 

[STUNO]

I just spent an hour or so doing another episode, then PUSHED THE WRONG KEY.

Will start again tomorrow             

[chaseracer]

Looking forward to it.

[Pillock]

It may still be saved in your browser, it saves drafts every few minutes (until you close the window)

[STUNO]

I closed the bloody window.

[STUNO]

A few photos of cars mentioned above in my posts. Not edited at all, just pages scanned from old photo albums. I tried to take them out but after 50 years they are well stuck in.

First the Herald on a holiday in South Island.

 

Marlborough Sounds between Picton and Nelson

At the camping ground in Nelson

Then at The Hermitage MT Cook

The Maxda 323 in winter. North Island MT Ruapehu and  MT Ngauruhoe

The Morris 1800 and don't forget the S

The 1957 Holden FE in Sydney

The 1955 Velox on the Mortlake ferry Sydney

and the ferry

 

Thats all (so far) folks, more coming.

 

 

 

[dozeydustman]

Repeat of previous post now with added pictures.

 

First car was a Samba Style C229FKL "Margarita" which had been retrofitted with an XY8 lump from a 205GT or XS. Looked standard but went like shit off a shovel. Note the 165/65 instead of 135 tyres. Died when a roadsweepers lorry pulled out in front of me. My brother nearly died in that crash. As you can see my dad had (still does) an excellent* taste in jumpers.

 

 

 

Talbot Horizon 1.3 LS Ultra B542MLX "Rupert". Owned for 3 years before I gave the "Talbot Trundler" to my aunt whose 205 had recently deaded. Distributor siezed and stripped the gearwheels on the camshaft so was scrapped. Hardly any rust as 1 giffer from new who garaged it.

 

ZX Reflex, L435TGJ (officially mum's) but I used it 99% of the time. Became a family pool car after the Horizon died, and eventually became my brother's car after he gave me his 205 he passed his test in. He killed it driving through a deep puddle at speed.

 

1975? (P reg) Simca 1100S "Harriet". Can't remember full reg but was one of the first with the Chrysler Avenger instrument panel. £100 from a motor auction. Sold to another student I was at uni with for £250. Whereabouts unknown.

 

205 XS E87LUL "Lulu". Bought at a motor auction for £50 after I sold the Simca. Early XS with the suitcase lump. Ran for 3 years, sold on to a complete knobcheese with no tax or ticket as spares. Tried to sue me as it was unroadworthy. He was bollocked for wasting court's time.

 

205 1.1 E664VGK "Martha" Was brother's car, previously his ex's. Ran it concurrently with the XS so had choice of suitcase power. Sold to a friend who's Mk4 Escort had been driven into.

 

1977 Reliant Scimitar TUW873S Overdrive "Jimi". Owned for 18 months before a British Gas van ploughed into back of it. Took off road to restore, chassis was terminally rusty in places, so I broke it.

 

 

1976 Reliant Scimitar OYH457R Auto "Beryl". Was used by me and dad in conjunction with the next car. Engine blew up on day I bought it, had it rebuilt but it was never quite right. Wanted to transplant the tuned lump + O/D box from previous Scim, but never got round to it. Took front suspension off to rebuild, then I moved away from home, dad sold it.

 

 

1998 Peugeot 306 DTurbo R699??? (Unnamed) Used in conjunction with second scimitar. Died on A2 at Cobham when sideswiped into the central reservation by a tosser in an Audi whom I was overtaking.

 

1999 Skoda Felicia 1.9D T512OGA Owned 2006-2011 "Rhoda". Longest I've owned a car. Bought on eBay for £1500 as very low miles and full Skoda history. Ran into ground taking mileage up to 150k. It just wore out in the brake & suspension department.

 

1993 Golf TD (low pressure turbo, no intercooler). Bought off a friend for £200. Ran for a year. Had over 200k on the clock but needed welding, brakes and a million other things. Named "Leonard" by mate's now ex fiancee.

 

1997 Ford Cougar V6 X G17 REA (originally W768???) - was dad's car, birthday present from them as him & mum just bought new cars. Needed rear suspension rebuild by 2016 and couldn't afford the parts as difficult & expensive to get.

 

 

2005 Saab 9-3 TiD Sportwagon G17 REA (originally DV55WGO) "Samantha" Still own it, but it's giving me grief!

 

 

Ford Focus 1.6 Ghia EN03HXW. Awful Pile of shite that gave me sciatica and bollock ache. Got rid of after 3 weeks.

 

Moar Photos will be added when I find some!

Edited December 2, 2018 by dozeydustman

[Tamworthbay]

One of my old cars made the local paper, sadly due to being stolen and driven into an off licence

[Mrcento]

Punto Cabrio- Sold to a Fiat enthusiast for parts as he wanted the pistons to put into a turbo x1/9

 

Cinq Sporting- traded in for money off a focus, was sold on by garage and reappeared for sale on Gumtree a few weeks later "bought for wife, she hates it", was never re-mot'd after that. Presume crashed/scrapped.

 

Focus- a disaster of a buy, biggest loss i ever made on a car, started making all manner of noises with the power steering, chopped it in to a garage, they sold it on, lasted about a year before being scrapped for rot. Made me feel better about the loss.

 

Sei Sporting- Got crashed into by a Bora, sold to a guy who rebuilt the front end and sold on, Was last seen in a village about 20 miles away. went for another year, wasn't presented for another MOT.

 

Punto HGT- Took a bump in the snow due to a woman panicking in a range rover of all things, sold to a lad in England + took another Cinq in part Ex. Lad set about restoring Punto, ripped the carpet out, found a ton of rot, gave up, scrapped.

 

Cinq Sporting- First engine let go, rings and head gasket, got me banned from a car park due to smoking it out. Went off road for a few months, repaired but was never "right" again. Ripped out engine. A mix up with the council saw them wrongly break into my lock up and trailer away engine and gearbox!, car was off the road for years, converted to a 1.2 16v and still own.

 

Vauxhall Calibra- broken in to, rear bushes were going, sold with MOT, never presented for another by new owner.

 

BMW 323i touring- Sold to a Police officer, he mot'd it for another year then scrapped.

 

Honda CRX del sol- sold to a specialist Honda breaker (for a profit).

 

Mondeo TDDI- Detonated like a clown car, sold to scrap man.

 

BMW 328i- Sold to terrorists on ebay, spent hours being interviewed by special branch.

 

Ignis sport- Sold to amateur Rally driver as spares car.

 

Discovery 300tdi- still own, future undecided, likely sold for engine donation to a defender, rot.

[chompy_snake]

Dead ... All dead .... I probably destroyed everything I owned ever except the T6 Volvo and the Mercedes. Both seem to live on

 

*Edit*

Also the Ronnie Pickering 2.0 conversion appears to be trooping on still somewhere in this parish

[bub2006]

Mine have either been dead or nearly dead. Not many have lived on.

[Christine]

Repeat of previous post now with added pictures.

 

First car was a Samba Style C229FKL "Margarita" which had been retrofitted with an XY8 lump from a 205GT or XS. Looked standard but went like shit off a shovel. Died when a roadsweepers lorry pulled out in front of me. My brother nearly died in that crash. As you can see my dad had (still does) an excellent* taste in jumpers.

 

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Talbot Horizon 1.3 LS Ultra B542MLX "Rupert". Owned for 3 years before I gave the "Talbot Trundler" to my aunt whose 205 had recently deaded. Distributor siezed and stripped the gearwheels on the camshaft so was scrapped. Hardly any rust as 1 giffer from new who garaged it.

 

ZX Reflex, L435TGJ (officially mum's) but I used it 99% of the time. Became a family pool car after the Horizon died, and eventually became my brother's car after he gave me his old 205GL he passed his test in. He killed it driving through a deep puddle at speed.

 

1975? (P reg) Simca 1100S "Harriet". Can't remember full reg but was one of the first with the Chrysler Avenger instrument panel. £100 from a motor auction. Sold to another student I was at uni with for £250. Whereabouts unknown.

 

205 XS E87LUL "Lulu". Bought at a motor auction for £50 after I sold the Simca. Early XS with the suitcase lump. Ran for 3 years, sold on to a complete knobcheese with no tax or ticket as spares. Tried to sue me as it was unroadworthy. He was bollocked for wasting court's time.

 

205 GL E-reg "Martha" Was brother's car. Was previously his ex's. Ran it concurrently with the XS so had choice of suitcase power. Sold to a friend who's Mk4 Escort had been driven into.

 

1977 Reliant Scimitar TUW873S Overdrive "Jimi". Owned for 18 months before a British Gas van ploughed into back of it. Took off road to restore, chassis was terminally rusty in places, so I broke it.

 

1976 Reliant Scimitar OYH457R Auto "Beryl". Was used by me and dad in conjunction with the next car. Engine blew up on day I bought it, had it rebuilt but it was never the same. Wanted to transplant the tuned lump + O/D box from previous Scim, but never got round to it. Took front suspension off to rebuild, then I moved away from home, dad sold it.

 

1998 Peugeot 306 DTurbo R699FKO? (Unnamed) Used in conjunction with second scimitar. Died on A2 at Cobham when sideswiped by a tosser in an Audi into Central reservation.

 

1999 Skoda Felicia 1.9D T512OGA Owned 2006-2011 "Rhoda". Longest I've owned a car. Bought on eBay for £1500 as very low miles and full Skoda history. Ran into ground taking mileage up to 150k. It just wore out in the brake & suspension department.

 

1992 Golf TD (low pressure turbo, no intercooler). Bought off a friend for £200. Ran for a year. Had over 200k on the clock but needed welding, brakes and a million other things.

 

1997 Ford Cougar V6 X (not disclosing dad's private plate) - was dad's car, birthday present from them as him & mum just bought new cars. Needed rear suspension rebuild by 2015 and couldn't afford the parts

 

2005 Saab 9-3 TiD Sportwagon G17 REA "Samantha" Still own it, but it's giving me grief!

 

Ford Focus 1.6 Ghia EN03HXW. Pile of shite that gave me sciatica and bollock ache. Got rid of after 3 weeks.

 

Moar Photos will be added when I find some!

That was a proper crash !       I'd had 4 like that before I was 20... Now , I is a captain slow  

[dozeydustman]

That was a proper crash !       I'd had 4 like that before I was 20... Now , I is a captain slow  

 

 

Bearing in mind that was at about 40mph into the rear side quarter or a 12 tonner, I think little Samba put up a brave fight. I ended up with a broken wrist, brother had his legs lacerated, knees broken and head injuries

[GeordieInExile]

I sold my 306 GTi to a young lad at the garage who's worked on it, MOT'd it and got it back on the road. Result.

 

My shitbox R50 Mini is now out of MOT and not taxed. Good riddance.

 

The last Puma I had was bought by a couple of Scottish lads who took it to the Nurburgring, they sent me a pic of it doing a lap!

[Lankytim]

The nice Jaguar X type diesel I sold a couple of months ago has disappeared from the DVLA database already ????

[sierraman]

My old X plate blue Mondeo has expired it’s test but still taxed and insured, presumably running round Rotherham illegally. Mind you I don’t think the penalty for unroadworthy vehicles is that harsh these days.

[pshome]

white 505 injection..

 

 

shame, was a really nice car...

 

The Tagora's do all well. The golden GLS found a new home in Switzerland, got new paint and a general makeover, very nice.

 

 

The two SX kick around Norway with a very happy new owner.

 

[Shirley Knott]

Of the multiple cars I've owned over the last 20 years or so MOT history shows there's only one that's not still on the road (A rusty Ford Ka)

 

Weirdly, last week I spotted my old red 1.4 Golf  had turned up on Gumtree for £850. I bought it for £600 and sold it for £650 two years later. Clearly Mk4's are now appreciating in value too, funny how it all works out  The seller was claiming it does 50mpg on the advert  *Don't think so pal* The main reason I sold it was the pants MPG and expensive tax.

 

I was actually half tempted to go and have a look, I brought Eunos junior home from hospital in that car, it never FTP'd and it still holds a special place in my heart.

[Floatylight]

Checked recently and all my previous cars are off the road, the last one sold was 407sw hdi which was sorned this August..

 

The one I miss the most - Tie between Cavalier GLS TD which had done £200k and a 306GLX TD which cost me £300 and was written off when someone went into the back of it at 285k miles, scrapyard clocked it to 70k and sold it on!

 

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[cpjitservices]

On 10/23/2018 at 10:29 AM, Floatylight said:

Checked recently and all my previous cars are off the road, the last one sold was 407sw hdi which was sorned this August..

 

The one I miss the most - Tie between Cavalier GLS TD which had done £200k and a 306GLX TD which cost me £300 and was written off when someone went into the back of it at 285k miles, scrapyard clocked it to 70k and sold it on!

 

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Your old Saab is outside of my house, booked in for MOT tomorrow. Picked it up from my uncles this afternoon.. Runs as sweet as nut. 

We shall see what the result is tomorrow.

[bunglebus]

Everything I've ever owned is now either dead or off the road for years. Only exception is a T3 VW van that I was given with a faulty auto box that just needed fluid adding. MoT'd it and sold it for a grand (most expensive thing I've ever sold and biggest profit), apparently to be shipped to Canada full of the emigrating buyer's possessions. But it's still here somewhere.

Oh and the MK2 Escort estate I bought for £20 in the 90s and kept as an occasional project for years sometimes pops up on eBay at increasingly higher prices

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, cpjitservices said:

Your old Saab is outside of my house, booked in for MOT tomorrow. Picked it up from my uncles this afternoon.. Runs as sweet as nut. 

We shall see what the result is tomorrow.

Good to see the old girl is still running. Fingers crossed she passes!