New members, introduce yourself here.

[BritChod]

Long time lurker who's finally got around to signing up. Big fan of old shite, especially British. Current fleet includes an SD1, Series 2a Land Rover, Series 3 XJ6, etc. You get the picture. It's a disease. 

[stuboy]

7 hours ago, BritChod said:

Long time lurker who's finally got around to signing up. Big fan of old shite, especially British. Current fleet includes an SD1, Series 2a Land Rover, Series 3 XJ6, etc. You get the picture. It's a disease. 

theres no cure..........

 

 

where u from?

[BritChod]

North Yorkshire. 

[FlyingDustbin]

Afternoon all, 

Long time lurker, first-time caller er poster. 

Projects this year include recommissioning my partners currently SORN 1987 Citroen 2cv if the chassis will last another MOT.   Also paintwork and an alloy on my bland daily driver (MK 6 Golf). 

I'm completely mechanically inept, and my only claim to fame is servicing a 1300 Morris Marina, with a lot of help. So 2cv fixing is always fun!   

[brownnova]

4 hours ago, FlyingDustbin said:

Afternoon all, 

Long time lurker, first-time caller er poster. 

Projects this year include recommissioning my partners currently SORN 1987 Citroen 2cv if the chassis will last another MOT.   Also paintwork and an alloy on my bland daily driver (MK 6 Golf). 

I'm completely mechanically inept, and my only claim to fame is servicing a 1300 Morris Marina, with a lot of help. So 2cv fixing is always fun!   

Oooh you’ll find plenty of 2CV lickers round these parts!! 8 or 9 different a-series Citroens I think!

Welcome along! Look forward to seeing your progress with the 2CV! Where abouts are you located? 

[FlyingDustbin]

County Durham. on a very steep driveway. Ideally It'd be nice to get Donna the 2cv somewhere flat so we can drain all the fluids and try and get her running again. Then the only problem would be if the chassis and passenger side inner wing would get though an MOT. 

[beansbeansbeans]

'Ello, sappnin.

Port Toilet/Swansea local

I own three cars for some reason; A Peugeot 106 1.1 that I owned since I passed my test in 2013, this is what I cut my teeth modifying and learning how to generally fix (and break). *I just want to note it will be for sale shortly.

A mk6 Fiesta Zetec S as my daily motor for all the long trips, when I don't want to worry too much about breaking down and, when I don't want every chav or ex-joyrider asking me 'ow is that for sale or wha, mush?!' which then leads me onto the third car. A Mk2 Fiesta 1.4 that has a rather dodgy, yet shiny paintjob - this gave me a rather terrifying drive of my life in the pouring rain not because it's a 'monster' of a car. Nah, just rock hard tires, shot brakes and wipers that didn't clear my screen.

Grown up mainly around bikes (dad always took me to bike shows as a nippa) and really got into my cars from the classic Gran Turismo games on PS1 and PS2.

Ta'ra for now.
 

[brownnova]

10 hours ago, beansbeansbeans said:

'Ello, sappnin.

Port Toilet/Swansea local.
 

Croeso fellow Welsh shiter! Be good to see some pics of the Mk2! If you stick around here expect to ditch the mk6 Fester for a 20 year old Volvo or something within the next year... 

[warch]

Hi everybody!

This looks like my kind of forum. I am serial enthusiast for anything a bit shit and unloved.

My current fleet includes a 1960s Series IIa Land Rover that has been in my family since the early 1970s, my dad having subsequently upgraded (to a Series III).

I also own Western Europe's shonkiest looking CBR 600, it has done 75,000 miles and was due for replacement about five years ago but resolutely refuses to fail an MoT so is still in service.

My daily driver is my wife's old Qashqai which is an interesting example of modern shite. It is effectively French, is ludicrously easy to take to bits, a combination of high ground clearance and a huge engine compartment with a tiny engine and gearbox making access easy, like a four cylinder Capri. 

I also own an early mini digger, the rarely encountered Powerfab 180c, a tracked machine with a 350cc Honda single, designed and built in Wales!

 

[New POD]

What part of the world are you from? I assume the Cashcow is petrol. 

I have a mate with a diesel one that is going to use it for private hire work.   Makes a change from the mk5 astra estates that hes rented for the last year.

[warch]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

What part of the world are you from? I assume the Cashcow is petrol. 

I have a mate with a diesel one that is going to use it for private hire work.   Makes a change from the mk5 astra estates that hes rented for the last year.

I'm from West Shropshire, where the line between Welsh and English is inextricably blurred. The 'Cow' is indeed petrol, and 2wd which hasn't stopped me going off road in it. 

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

Welcome warch

I would love to see a few pics of the Welsh made Honda engined digger. 

[warch]

3 minutes ago, Sir Chocolate Teapot said:

Welcome warch

I would love to see a few pics of the Welsh made Honda engined digger. 

I'll err dig it out and take a few pictures of it. Might even deserve it's own thread unless you have a plantshite thread on here.

[LeahStornes]

Hello all

Long time shitter, first from necessity but now from choice. First car in 1991 at age of 21 was a mitsubishi colt (NI reg that I can't remember) -  slow and shitty but got after graduation. 

 

Moved on to 1982 red Sierra (CRS971Y I think) which lasted me a few years, then a green Passat diesel estate (FGG107X) which took an hour to get up to 60mph but carted kids, tents, equipment etc round Europe for about 10 years each summer.

 

(Sad to say, I then bought an almost new Mondeo estate diesel for 4 years...)

 

Then back to shite... K reg escort 1.8 diesel for a while, then R reg petrol escort, X reg Golf, 54 Reg petrol Focus...l

 

I'm back to an X-Reg (1982) Escort which cost too much (should have kept one of the early cars) but it's fun.

 

Anyway, that's my car history, less a few I just can't remember anymore... 

 

Hope to contribute somehow here.

 

Leah X

[Uncle Jimmy]

2 hours ago, LeahStornes said:

Hello all

Long time shitter, first from necessity but now from choice. First car in 1991 at age of 21 was a mitsubishi colt (NI reg that I can't remember) -  slow and shitty but got after graduation. 

 

Moved on to 1982 red Sierra (CRS971Y I think) which lasted me a few years, then a green Passat diesel estate (FGG107X) which took an hour to get up to 60mph but carted kids, tents, equipment etc round Europe for about 10 years each summer.

 

(Sad to say, I then bought an almost new Mondeo estate diesel for 4 years...)

 

Then back to shite... K reg escort 1.8 diesel for a while, then R reg petrol escort, X reg Golf, 54 Reg petrol Focus...

 

Hubby drives X-Pace but it's not for me... Comfortable but a bit of a poser's car... 

 

I'm back to an X-Reg (1982) Escort which cost too much (should have kept one of the early cars) but it's fun.

 

Anyway, that's my car history, less a few I just can't remember anymore... 

 

Hope to contribute somehow here.

 

Leah X

Welcome to the asylum; the Sierra gets eleventy thousand shite points....

[DialATune]

Hi there, I'll introduce myself. Fifty year old fool living in Ipswich. I've always had a preference for older cars. I like the relative simplicity, and the fact that your car is a bit different to the others you are stuck in that queue with. Past favourites have been my minis (10 inch rims and a 1 litre engine or it doesn't count ? ) but I did stick to mainly boring sensible cars while I was responsible for getting the kids places and the like. However, the realisation that those days are behind me means that I can own something a bit more interesting, and I have recently become the proud owner of a J reg Saab 900. And I love it!

[brownnova]

Welcome along, a few Saab lickers here, myself included!

[Saabnut]

Don't like Saabs myself.

if you need parts get in touch I have a few*

[Uncle Jimmy]

Welcome fellow Saab perv.

[dogvan]

Hello 'slightly sweary forum' (yes, I got that from Hubnut) - finally you have made a mistake and admitted me - please don't kick me again just yet ;0

I look forward to discovering much about the quality automotive scene you represent - esp other people fortunate enough to live in the North East of good old England!

[stuboy]

28 minutes ago, dogvan said:

Hello 'slightly sweary forum' (yes, I got that from Hubnut) - finally you have made a mistake and admitted me - please don't kick me again just yet ;0

I look forward to discovering much about the quality automotive scene you represent - esp other people fortunate enough to live in the North East of good old England!

welcome to shitehouse of auto..

[Mrsbrownnova]

Hi all,

I already know some of you from our discussions about the (ahem) ‘quality’ vehicles witnessed at Cannock auctions (especially the one that was burning oil faster than Mr Motivator burns calories and the one that the auction driver crashed into the door frame - fond memories), but I thought I’d better introduce myself to the rest. 

I’m brownnova’s Mrs, who’d have thunk it(?) and I have had enough shite cars to know my way around the important bits. I won’t tell you about each of my cars, just the ones with any consequence. 

I had a mk3 fiesta as my first car. It had terrible bumpers and a passion for eating alternators. Then onto a rover 214i. Brownnova always looks at these with fondness...me not so much after the cam belt snapped on mine and mangled the engine. Onto a corsa. I used to scrape ice off the inside of the windscreen and it once completely cut out doing 75 on a bridge. Won my award for ‘car most likely to kill me’. I’ve told Brownnova if he ever buys one of these he’s effectively just announced himself celibate. Next, a 307 that met a rather ashy end due to some arsehole...sorry, autocorrected there. Should be a-r-s-o-n-i-s-t.

Anyways, onto my 206, a lovely little car which had the decency to make brownnova’s proposal of marriage extra special by losing its exhaust on the way home. It sounded better without a backbox anyway. That lovely little thing gained me many points with Brownnova after I proved that I was something with boobs that could change brake pads.?

So, apart from my love for general old shite, I can generally be found anywhere where there’s tea and food. If I’m not lurking by food, I’ll be jollying about in the Saab 9000, 2CV or the Camper van. 

Happy shite-ing,

mrsbrownnova. 

[stuboy]

21 hours ago, Mrsbrownnova said:

That lovely little thing gained me many points with Brownnova after I proved that I was something with boobs that could change brake pads.?

can we count moobs into that statement?

[Mrsbrownnova]

3 hours ago, stuboy said:

can we count moobs into that statement?

I think any kind of boobage/moobage counts ?

[chaseracer]

Just as well, round this here electronic parish!

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 6/7/2019 at 8:45 PM, Saabnut said:

Don't like Saabs myself.

if you need parts get in touch I have a few*

no he likes discoverys much, much more! ?

[Luke1975]

Hi just join this forum after watching hubnut on you tube currently driving a 02 Citroen picasso been driving cheap cars since 1993 , good luck too everyone keeping these old cars going .

Luke1975

[DialATune]

Welcome. I'm very new myself, but they seem a friendly bunch!

[loserone]

On 5/22/2019 at 4:58 PM, FlyingDustbin said:

County Durham. on a very steep driveway. Ideally It'd be nice to get Donna the 2cv somewhere flat so we can drain all the fluids and try and get her running again. Then the only problem would be if the chassis and passenger side inner wing would get though an MOT. 

Donna's welcome to freshen up at mine (Dh7 9) as long as she doesn't mind being groped by a stranger.   I get the feeling a 2CV will massively appeal to me and have never really had the chance to look up close.

 

I also have a welder on the shopping list currently since Mrs L1 bought a beige/brown 305 estate..

[New POD]

1 hour ago, DialATune said:

Welcome. I'm very new myself, but they seem a friendly bunch!

Can I say fuck off ? 

Who are you calling friendly??? 

Coming over here, telling us we are nice. You'll never fit in, you sycophatic twat.

Not nearly grumpy enough. Welcome my arse. 

 

(Please take with pinch of salt and visualise tongue firmly in check)