New members, introduce yourself here.

[Remspoor]

21 hours ago, Jessi said:

Hey everyone, my friend recommended this forum to me so here I am. I have 4 cars currently

My cars are 

1988 Mercedes 190E, 1999 Mercedes C200, 1999 Mercedes E430 & 2000 Mercedes A190

Welcome to the forum.

Coffee and  stroopwafels are on the table. Help yourself.

[stuboy]

4 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Welcome to the forum.

Coffee and  stroopwafels are on the table. Help yourself.

 

[Remspoor]

On 03/02/2025 at 21:06, stuboy said:

 

that is a warren?

I meant more like this

[High Jetter]

There is a @kevins amongst us, plus others

[Aar0sc]

On 14/11/2024 at 10:53, Aar0sc said:

Delighted to say I have some new shite, £1400 worth of 2007 Volvo V70 SE Auto, 2.4D. 168,000 miles, all the toys, full leather, very good stereo, pulls very well (I am having to be a lot more careful than I was with the disco). Unfortunately a light smell of cigarette smoke but I’m hoping to clean that out this weekend. Apparently wasn’t smoked in but the owners wife was a smoker… he told me after I’d bought it. 

Just over 2,000 miles later I am delighted. Smoke has gone after a few cleans, does 48mpg on the motorway, only annoyance now is I fitted a grin Bluetooth and can’t get the stereo to fit back properly again. 

[warninglight]

On 08/02/2025 at 21:07, Aar0sc said:

Just over 2,000 miles later I am delighted. Smoke has gone after a few cleans, does 48mpg on the motorway, only annoyance now is I fitted a grin Bluetooth and can’t get the stereo to fit back properly again. 

Thought you'd have had it clipped back in place by now!

[Aar0sc]

On 13/02/2025 at 14:13, warninglight said:

Thought you'd have had it clipped back in place by now!

Still haven’t, and my wife has tidied the screws away now! I can’t get it all the way in, it’s very annoying, but it doesn’t move on acceleration. 

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Aar0sc said:

Still haven’t, and my wife has tidied the screws away now! I can’t get it all the way in, it’s very annoying

I hear you, bro 😀

[ambassador84]

New member here so hello everyone. Mainly on here for the Shite In Minature forums but I also own a 1989 Rover 820Se so well versed in owning auto shite 😜

[Wibble]

1 hour ago, ambassador84 said:

New member here so hello everyone. Mainly on here for the Shite In Minature forums but I also own a 1989 Rover 820Se so well versed in owning auto shite 😜

Welcome aboard. There’s a lot of love for Rovers here. Pics please!

[ambassador84]

12 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Welcome aboard. There’s a lot of love for Rovers here. Pics please!

Many thanks. I don't have many pics on my phone. Just a couple.

[Wibble]

2 hours ago, ambassador84 said:

Many thanks. I don't have many pics on my phone. Just a couple.

That looks ace!

[ambassador84]

4 minutes ago, Wibble said:

That looks ace!

It should do, it rarely leaves the garage 😅😅

[stuboy]

On 23/02/2025 at 15:26, ambassador84 said:

It should do, it rarely leaves the garage 😅😅

welcome too the club, how long have you owned it?

[ambassador84]

8 hours ago, stuboy said:

welcome too the club, how long have you owned it?

Many thanks. I've had it since 2017 and replacing a long line of BL "classics" I owned from the days you could still pick them up off Ebay for just a few hundred quid 😀

[clayts450]

On 23/02/2025 at 11:29, ambassador84 said:

New member here so hello everyone. Mainly on here for the Shite In Minature forums but I also own a 1989 Rover 820Se so well versed in owning auto shite 😜

Old Rovers rock. You'll do well here, sir

[ambassador84]

1 hour ago, clayts450 said:

Old Rovers rock. You'll do well here, sir

Ha! That was I was hoping 😀😉😉

[ghostdancing]

hello gentlemen, new member here from south  italia, i own a 72 fiat 128 coupe (daily shite) and a 95 fiat cinquecento ( the most modern car i ever owned, i use it  for heavy duty, when i do not want to get the 128 dirty carring firewood, cement bags and mixed stuff), also like to build up '80s small trail bikes; miss ghost also own a 00 ford puma 1400, unfortunatelly it's currently in a sorry state; i follow the british forums (retrorides and autoshite), like the Ken Loach movies, and Jonathan Coe and John Le Carre books;  i was in the Kingdom many years ago (i was 10 years old, with my parents) it was 1978..i still remember the old cars (exoctic models for a young italian boy, already interested in cars, of course) that i saw in that trip, many of them unknown in italy, and it's fun to see again  these cars now in the british old cars forums

[Snipes]

Hey everyone, not a new memeber but have returned after I think about five years or so.

[GXI1.3]

Hi, 18yro mechanic / labourer

Love daihatsu charades.

Currently own:

1992 Daihatsu charade gxi G102 : for a automatic, it moves and you can definitely have some fun, sadly needs a bit of resto work, and haven't had the cash flow for it yet 

2014 Yamaha Ybr 125 : fun little light weight bike, fun to sling gears over the hills like a motogp rider, when in actuality your not even speeding XD

1994 Suzuki GSX 400 S KATANA : Needs restoring and TOO rare to risk when I'm this young, and if you know about this bike and its flywheel, you know why i cannot risk it, ( they are known to sling the magnets out and possibly coat ur nice leathers in oil )

Wanting but not yet :

XJ6 2014 : fun little bike but cannot ride, no A2 yet, and insurance would probably want my kidney for a down payment.

[stuboy]

3 hours ago, GXI1.3 said:

Hi, 18yro mechanic / labourer

Love daihatsu charades.

Currently own:

1992 Daihatsu charade gxi G102 : for a automatic, it moves and you can definitely have some fun, sadly needs a bit of resto work, and haven't had the cash flow for it yet 

2014 Yamaha Ybr 125 : fun little light weight bike, fun to sling gears over the hills like a motogp rider, when in actuality your not even speeding XD

1994 Suzuki GSX 400 S KATANA : Needs restoring and TOO rare to risk when I'm this young, and if you know about this bike and its flywheel, you know why i cannot risk it, ( they are known to sling the magnets out and possibly coat ur nice leathers in oil )

Wanting but not yet :

XJ6 2014 : fun little bike but cannot ride, no A2 yet, and insurance would probably want my kidney for a down payment.

welcome aboard HMS Autoshite

[AltheJazzman]

Hi. @inconsistant has been hassling me to join this forum for ages. I even joined once, but with my real name which didn't really look right, so I re-registered. My reluctance was that I'm on the committee with the Porsche 924 Owners Club and they're a great community of hands-on people with obviously the same car, and we have a pretty active forum already. However the fun of joining here is to post about my other shite, where people understand the draw of pouring money and effort into something that doesn't make any financial sense.

My car history has been mostly vans and transaxle Porsches. In my 27 years of having a driving licence, I've only owned 8 cars, I still have 3 of them, and I've only ever sold 1. The other 3 were scrapped!

Here's the list in order of purchasing:

• 1989 Austin Maestro van 1.3 petrol. Was my Dad's work van. Crashed into a Honda Civic at 20mph on a wet country lane when I was young and stupid.
• 1998 Vauxhall Combo B van 1.7 n/a diesel. Something went wrong with the injection pump. I didn't know what that was then, so scrapped it.
• 2001 Vauxhall Combo B van 1.7 n/a diesel, now 1.5TD and many other mods. Long project thread coming soon...
• 1985 Porsche 944 square dash 2.5. Bought because I could for £1200, and I liked Porsches from a Need For Speed video game.
• 1983 Porsche 924 2.0 n/a scruffy, converted it into a track car. Gave it to my mate.
• 1996 Vauxhall Corsa B 1.5TD. Bought for parts for the van. Ran it for 2 years. Got my money back for the engine alone. Kept all the spares.
• 1980 Porsche 924 Turbo. Unicorn car, extremely rare colours, once in a lifetime chance to buy at a bargain price.
• 1959 Lotus Seven series 1. Ford Sidevalve 100E 1172cc. Was my Grandad's for 50 years. Has been modified to look like a series 2, but has been "wrong" for longer than it was original. Painted with a brush. Wrong wheels etc etc.

I also took my CBT in 2022 when petrol prices started to get silly, and a year later took my full bike test and bought a 1994 Yamaha SR250 because it's the simplest form of powered transport I've ever worked on, it does 80mpg, and 80mph, and every journey is exciting.

[stuboy]

2 hours ago, AltheJazzman said:

Hi. @inconsistant has been hassling me to join this forum for ages. I even joined once, but with my real name which didn't really look right, so I re-registered. My reluctance was that I'm on the committee with the Porsche 924 Owners Club and they're a great community of hands-on people with obviously the same car, and we have a pretty active forum already. However the fun of joining here is to post about my other shite, where people understand the draw of pouring money and effort into something that doesn't make any financial sense.

My car history has been mostly vans and transaxle Porsches. In my 27 years of having a driving licence, I've only owned 8 cars, I still have 3 of them, and I've only ever sold 1. The other 3 were scrapped!

Here's the list in order of purchasing:

• 1989 Austin Maestro van 1.3 petrol. Was my Dad's work van. Crashed into a Honda Civic at 20mph on a wet country lane when I was young and stupid.
• 1998 Vauxhall Combo B van 1.7 n/a diesel. Something went wrong with the injection pump. I didn't know what that was then, so scrapped it.
• 2001 Vauxhall Combo B van 1.7 n/a diesel, now 1.5TD and many other mods. Long project thread coming soon...
• 1985 Porsche 944 square dash 2.5. Bought because I could for £1200, and I liked Porsches from a Need For Speed video game.
• 1983 Porsche 924 2.0 n/a scruffy, converted it into a track car. Gave it to my mate.
• 1996 Vauxhall Corsa B 1.5TD. Bought for parts for the van. Ran it for 2 years. Got my money back for the engine alone. Kept all the spares.
• 1980 Porsche 924 Turbo. Unicorn car, extremely rare colours, once in a lifetime chance to buy at a bargain price.
• 1959 Lotus Seven series 1. Ford Sidevalve 100E 1172cc. Was my Grandad's for 50 years. Has been modified to look like a series 2, but has been "wrong" for longer than it was original. Painted with a brush. Wrong wheels etc etc.

I also took my CBT in 2022 when petrol prices started to get silly, and a year later took my full bike test and bought a 1994 Yamaha SR250 because it's the simplest form of powered transport I've ever worked on, it does 80mpg, and 80mph, and every journey is exciting.

welcome along

[Lonestar]

Hi, I've been a lurker on this forum for a  couple of months, but thought it was time I posted something.

I currently own a 2012 Vauxhall Astra SRi Sports Tourer and a 1988 Vauxhall Carlton CD (won from Retroshite).

I'm mainly into Vauxhalls (pre-PSA/Stellantis) and Rovers (used to own a 1994 220 Coupe Turbo many years ago).

[Wibble]

2 hours ago, Lonestar said:

Hi, I've been a lurker on this forum for a  couple of months, but thought it was time I posted something.

I currently own a 2012 Vauxhall Astra SRi Sports Tourer and a 1988 Vauxhall Carlton CD (won from Retroshite).

I'm mainly into Vauxhalls (pre-PSA/Stellantis) and Rovers (used to own a 1994 220 Coupe Turbo many years ago).

Welcome aboard, this is my Carlton CDi I owned in the early 90s:

I still own the Senator I bought a few years later. You’ll fit in fine.

[Wibble]

3 hours ago, Lonestar said:

Hi, I've been a lurker on this forum for a  couple of months, but thought it was time I posted something.

I currently own a 2012 Vauxhall Astra SRi Sports Tourer and a 1988 Vauxhall Carlton CD (won from Retroshite).

I'm mainly into Vauxhalls (pre-PSA/Stellantis) and Rovers (used to own a 1994 220 Coupe Turbo many years ago).

PS, sorry, whispering now, but yours appears to have the wrong front bumper. CDs had standard front fogs. Worth trying to find the right one. Has it got all the other CD spec extras, like cruise and 4 electric windows?

[stuboy]

3 hours ago, Lonestar said:

Hi, I've been a lurker on this forum for a  couple of months, but thought it was time I posted something.

I currently own a 2012 Vauxhall Astra SRi Sports Tourer and a 1988 Vauxhall Carlton CD (won from Retroshite).

I'm mainly into Vauxhalls (pre-PSA/Stellantis) and Rovers (used to own a 1994 220 Coupe Turbo many years ago).

welcome along..  im vauxhall fan from 1982 ish to 2000 ish

 

love the carlton

[AltheJazzman]

13 hours ago, stuboy said:

welcome along..  im vauxhall fan from 1982 ish to 2000 ish

 

love the carlton

That's my era too. Surprising amount of Vauxhall fans here, considering they were never that well built. I'm talking from experience. I'm still a fan despite this!

[AnnoyingPentium]

On 04/05/2025 at 17:11, Lonestar said:

Hi, I've been a lurker on this forum for a  couple of months, but thought it was time I posted something.

I currently own a 2012 Vauxhall Astra SRi Sports Tourer and a 1988 Vauxhall Carlton CD (won from Retroshite).

I'm mainly into Vauxhalls (pre-PSA/Stellantis) and Rovers (used to own a 1994 220 Coupe Turbo many years ago).

Welcome to the site. That's a lovely Carlton. There's a good bunch of us here with "proper" Vauxhalls...

[paulscavalier]

Hi, 

Been here before but following a separation and cull of my car collection. I have had to start again. I did manage to hang on to the 405, 

But have now added a Vectra B and a Nissan Primera to the mix