Jimmycrackcorn Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Morning all, I cam across this forum after following FatHarris thread on his MG over at Barryboys. After looking through some threads I feel at home here, I've always owned shite that's usually been the cheapest I can afford and spent the least amount I can on running them. I currently have in my fleet a £500 LDV Luton and a £330 Picasso. I've not long started work at a Jaguar breakers and I have just picked up a 3.0 V6 S Type for the princely sum of £200, needs about £50 of parts and a few hours on it to get it through it's MOT. Also on the drive a C4 I picked up for £250 with a knackered clutch and what appears to be a dodgy fuse box. That's being put back on the road for my old man and to date has cost around £130 to put right and should be ready for an MOT in the next couple of weeks, sooner if I get the time to work on it and depending on the weather. R9UKE, Sigmund Fraud, brickwall and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripped fred Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Morning all, I cam across this forum after following FatHarris thread on his MG over at Barryboys. After looking through some threads I feel at home here, I've always owned shite that's usually been the cheapest I can afford and spent the least amount I can on running them. I currently have in my fleet a £500 LDV Luton and a £330 Picasso. I've not long started work at a Jaguar breakers and I have just picked up a 3.0 V6 S Type for the princely sum of £200, needs about £50 of parts and a few hours on it to get it through it's MOT. Also on the drive a C4 I picked up for £250 with a knackered clutch and what appears to be a dodgy fuse box. That's being put back on the road for my old man and to date has cost around £130 to put right and should be ready for an MOT in the next couple of weeks, sooner if I get the time to work on it and depending on the weather.Welcome along! Sounds like you'll fit right in round here. Would be interesting to hear about your trials and tribulations with that lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legasoil96 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 HelloI joined this because I like old heaps. I prefer old commercials to cars though. I like flimsy french stuff, Renaults. I have a MK1 master lwb van with an agricultural 2.5 litre sofim. Thats my runaround and business vehicle. catsinthewelder, D Spares & Tyres, Asimo and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steved40 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Hello, I'm me. I have a strange fascination with all things BLARG and am desperately trying not to buy a Rover 75 / MG ZT as I have no use for it, nowhere to put it and buying it will probably result in divorce proceedings. You will all help me with that, won't you? Steve chaseracer and inconsistant 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 You'll be fucked here Steve! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Spares & Tyres Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Ooo er Wrong forum beko beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Isn't that the initiation ceremony? Where did I go then? I feel dirty now... D Spares & Tyres, TataBobu, Sigmund Fraud and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Hello all Stumbled across this site by accident while looking for tips on a particular car while in my usual obsession with ropey old cars... I didn't realise that there were other like minded people who like cars that others would reject and not seemly be like everyone else and put down £xxx p/m on finance deal for a spanking new boringly reliable box thing...! Currently in my garage is a rather non-shed like 57 reg Civic (well I need a safe, reliable car to keep the fiancée happy...) and at the moment a 2002 Astra Mk4 1.6. The Astra was acquired from the fiancee's grandad as a) to get him off the road, sold fiancee's beloved MX5 MK3 to help fund a house purchase... Despise the thing. Actually surprised me how good handling it is... Then 62k on the clock and garaged for the last 10 years, the rubbery bits haven't worn too badly. Even the gearbox is still pretty tight! In the last 8 months of ownership I have had to replace 2 rear shocks, radiator, thermostat, one rear spring, one front spring, 2 rear tyres (after 13 years on the car they were pretty perished...). But it did get through its last MOT with zero advisories However now that is reliable and, as the other half says, damn ugly, I've been doing the fatal thing of browsing through gumtree at <£500 cars. Found a rather ropey, high mileage Saab with no MOT going cheap that I'm really rather tempted by... Si. brickwall and mk2_craig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PUDDS Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 More of this type of thing please^ Show us your field!I'll visit it over the next week & pop some pics up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ashmataz Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Hi! I've just joined today after lurking around for a few months, so here I am! I love 80s and early 90s Fords, and like many in here get a bit of a thrill from seeing cars knocking around that seem to becoming rarer and rarer by the year. Also fun to find late registered cars that leave you thinking 'how long was that sat in a warehouse for before somebody decided to buy it and register it?' I've never seen that G-reg Capri in person only in pictures, but I'll find it one day Saw one of these yesterday for the first time in years. I always thought they looked really futuristic and still do IMO Jerzy Woking, inconsistant, R9UKE and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleon-Fonte Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Hello everyone Had heard about the site but it never dawned on me to join up until recently. I've had a fairly tragic car history, starting with a Volvo 340 1.4 and also including such illustrious delights as a Peugeot 307 automatic (am I the only one who owned a 307 and occasionally enjoyed it?). My current two cars are a Daihatsu Sirion 1.0 and a Rover SD1, and sometimes both are even on the road at the same time. Currently my eyes are being caught by Citroen BXs and Volvo 360 GLTs, so I could be well on my way to buying my next broken, rusty wreck soon. R9UKE, trigger and Asimo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusty Sills Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 including such illustrious delights as a Peugeot 307 automatic (am I the only one who owned a 307 and occasionally enjoyed it?). I had a 307 2.0 hdi estate and found apart from being anonymous and un-dynamic I quite liked mine and dare I say it was a reliable car in my 4 years of ownership but then it was raped by a bus and written off!!!And welcome, please join in with the general bollocks that is discussed and enjoy. Cleon-Fonte 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bogtrot Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Afternoon All, Long time lurker etc,etc, now decloaking with a small vignette of my current collective shite. 1) 1998 V70 2.5 auto, 100K genuine giffer carriage c/w hand crafted cabinet maker styleee centre console and glove compartment and fire extinguisher holder, rounded off with obligatory National Trust sticker and door dink. 2) '02 Audi A2 1.4 diseasel, mobile biological incident and surprisingly spirited once turbo kicks in. 3) 1998 1.6 400, 68K inherited from dad who having ' aerodynamically modified' it and succumbed to dementia suggested I should 'keep it going', usual OMGHGF but I do love it. Tam, trigger, Craig the Princess and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcd1979 Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Hi all im Dave, a mate tells me to join up I try and turns out I already had nearly 2 year ago, well I met a few of you last week at cannock and colc yesterday when fetching the rover 75 and you all seem a nice bunch eddyramrod, Tam, brickwall and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwick Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 I own a citroen gsa and have a interest in 1960s hot rods and customs. Cavcraft, catsinthewelder, KruJoe and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickwall Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 Welcome along all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Hello - I've been lurking for a few days after finding this site via petrolblog and then Ian Seabrook's Vids. This site is brilliant. Feel obliged to share my car history to 'prove' I can fit in Cars owned2000-2004 - 1991 Fiat Uno Fire2002-2003 - Mk2 Escort 1.3 GL (sold it before the scene tax started!)2004 - Fiat X1/9 15002004-2006 - 1991 Sierra Sapphire Ghia 2.02010-2011 - 1998 Corsa Breeze2011-2013 - 2002 Astra G2013-2014 - 2001 Astra G2014 to date - 2002 Ford Fusion Cavcraft, ShiteRider and SiC 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noseypoke Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Hi all,new on site (again)See Hauserplenty + eddyramrod are still going strong.I've got a 53 mini one ..shite compared to my old original mini's..I hate computers in cars,bring back CARBS.. (a mini's not a mini if it don't have outside door hinges) eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Welcome back.... er, who did we know you as before? Edit: I've just seen your posting in Lou's Merc thread! Yay Phil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Er...I appeared to have signed up several hundred years ago and then do bugger all else - not unusual for me. I will keep it brief (also a struggle for me once I get started, but here goes) I would like the Court of Shite to consider the following offences (all current - I know that "consider" thing is really supposed to be for previous crimes I haven't owned up to, but I am not sure I'm ready for all that just yet) in order of potential interest - 1956 Chevrolet 210 - easy the rustiest car in the Universe - mine for 15 years and I am making slow progress (still finding more rust) by the time I get it on the road I'll be needing to replace some of the stuff I've already replaced due to the age of it. Oh, and it is RHD, and has been here from new - to give an idea, this is the car most people would call a "Bel Air" although it isn't one. 1968 AMC Rebel SST Convertible - complete with badly repaired rear accident damage, full of filler, but basically sound and MOT'd and operational. Also RHD, also been here all its life. Electric Hood, Windows, Power steering and servo brakes. On Van tyres as they are as close to the original profile of crossplies it had when when new. Awful, yet good. Probably my most consistently reliable vehicle in the 9 years I've had it and easy to mend. 290 CI V8 with a weedy and leaky 2-barrel carb = not huge performance, but great once it's built up speed. Requires acres of work, yet seems (so far) to tolerate my shoe-string maintenance. 1967 AMC Rebel SST Convertible Much the same except it stood outside for 20 years before I bought it for parts. Ironically, it's better in almost every way except that it's a non-runner due to having no original brakes left on it, the carb (and the accelerator cable) having rusted solid, and the wiring being fried in places. It is currently on my yard serving as a neighbour irritant and to ward off potential girfriends. 2005 MG ZT-T I paid stupid money for this with two owners, low miles and FSH cos I'd always fancied one (or a R75). It promptly overheated. A radiator and several other expensive and time-consuming interventions later, it gave up by overheating on the way to Rover Club meet. Currently in my garage (while the AMC rots outside) awaiting either surgery or the fitting of a S/H engine I bought. Both engines currently out. 2005 DIsco 3 Bought from ex-girlfriend, after WBAC pointed out that someone had had the spare wheel away and various other shortcomings and offered her 10p* for it - she's already "upgraded" to a brand new Nissan Juke, so she wanted rid and sold to me at a small massive profit over the WBAC offer. The Disco has hence become my daily - but man maths and logic dictates that rather the getting the flip on with the MG, I need a cheap snotter to run around in to avoid putting too many miles on it and incurring expensive bills as I really only got it for occasional use. trigger, ShiteRider and Craig the Princess 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Worthless without photos! Seriously, welcome aboard, you'll find there's a bunch of us who appreciate the American tin. Whereabouts are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShiteRider Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Please god put up pictures of your Rebels!I love AMCs, a rebel or rambler is high on the want list. Ultimate would be a '70 rebel 'the machine' in red white and blue. Any AMC would do though, they seem so much more interesting than their contemporarys from the big three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Worthless without photos! Seriously, welcome aboard, you'll find there's a bunch of us who appreciate the American tin. Whereabouts are you? Please god put up pictures of your Rebels!I love AMCs, a rebel or rambler is high on the want list. Ultimate would be a '70 rebel 'the machine' in red white and blue. Any AMC would do though, they seem so much more interesting than their contemporarys from the big three. I am near Loughborough, Leics I have bought these RHD Yanks over the years as they were cheap - (some) Yank "scene" folk sneer at RHD and no-one (present company excepted) likes AMCs. As I don't really want to hang out on rainy fields in summer listening to Bill Haley-alike bands, wearing cowboy boots and with my car draped in the battle flag of the confederacy, this hasn't troubled me too much. I keep a (short) spreadsheet of the AMCs I see advertised for sale in the UK so I have a sort of AMC register trigger, worldofceri, ShiteRider and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyNuts Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Hey guys!!! I just stumbled on this site today after a comment about it by email from a mate of mine - we were discussing a car on ebay... and he mentioned this place... so here I am!!! My rusty wreck is a 1.4 Honda Civic T reg... yeah you know.. the real old dogs that were pretty square shaped. Not much is right with it, bent drive shaft makes the axle / drive shaft grind against each other whenever the brakes are used, boot leaks more water than a bucket of holes, the interior is just as bad, the stereo is dead and the heater only works on speeds 3 and 4! Other than that... it's like new! with a value of £20 to match We do have another old dog too... and an old cat... fitted to the exhaust... but more on that later... once i've finally got it sorted. Happy new year! trigger, Urko and Cavcraft 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Welcome in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RustyNuts Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Thanks! Nice to find a site like this where lads can be lads and have a bit of banter without the forum filters lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Welcome all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hello, I am Monkeh, And I have 1 expensive piece of shite: a Chrysler 300c CRuD remapped to ~260bhp, Soon to take on another piece of not so expensive shite back in the form of my favourite Swedish Volvo RWD (see a pattern here?). Ill Keep that shtum for the time being...I am from Newport South Wales... So keep the sheep away please. Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiltox Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hi all Long time lurker, first time poster! I'm always tinkering with some useless shite and do a bit of trading on the side but it's usually more modern stuff than is appreciated here - my real shite love comes from what I end up using as a daily driver - current shite of choice is a 1998 Skoda Felicia estate and a 2001 Kangoo 1.9D slow mobile for load lugging! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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