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taxi paul Rank: Citroen Ami

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That's a lot nicer than the new ST line diesel one I have at the moment as a hire car. Seems a decent price to get into classic car ownership. Wish I had a garage. 

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5 minutes ago, taxi paul said:

That's a lot nicer than the new ST line diesel one I have at the moment as a hire car. Seems a decent price to get into classic car ownership. Wish I had a garage. 

That's the problem, needs preserving that one - probably too good to daily it year round.

skattrd Rank: Lancia Gamma

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OSF tax hasn't hit those yet by the looks of it, so £1500 doesn't seem too bad to me anyway

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5 minutes ago, skattrd said:

OSF tax hasn't hit those yet by the looks of it, so £1500 doesn't seem too bad to me anyway

Yep, and even at that price I'd want to know if it's had a clutch in its life or Cambelt kit/Waterpump change in the last 5 years or so - otherwise it starts looking expensive. Especially as the air con may also be broken...

spartacus Rank: Renault 16

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I remember those early Mondeo's as being a huge step forward after Sierras and their ilk, how do they stack up now?

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46 minutes ago, spartacus said:

I remember those early Mondeo's as being a huge step forward after Sierras and their ilk, how do they stack up now?

I've had both and agree the Mondeo was quite a big step forward. Very usable if you keep on top of the maintenance where Ford took their usual design/quality shortcuts.

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New POD Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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7 hours ago, spartacus said:

I remember those early Mondeo's as being a huge step forward after Sierras and their ilk, how do they stack up now?

I remember my dad being upset when he had to hand back his company Sierra and take a Mondeo.

 

willswitchengage Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

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9 hours ago, egg said:

I've had both and agree the Mondeo was quite a big step forward. Very usable if you keep on top of the maintenance where Ford took their usual design/quality shortcuts.

If you think about the design iterations the Mondeo has had since, then it was probably Ford's Europe's biggest step forward... ever? Broadly speaking all the Mondeo has had since are increasingly silly styling changes and more interior toys. That generation introduced genuine aerodynamic design, front wheel drive, affordable multivalve engine, a proper driver's 'cockpit' and (I think) multilink rear suspension. The first gen Focus attracted a lot of attention but really all that was was just some radical styling, a better thought out body shape and a new suspension setup.

Skizzer Rank: Isuzu Florian

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Another breadvan Polo - this one in C Formel E spec, which means 3+E gearbox and a stop-start system.

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https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F303235820984

Personally I’d be putting the original wheels straight back on and getting £££cashback by flogging those split rims and enjoying some usable steering.

“New wiring loom back to front”

I don’t think you mean that the way it sounds. I hope not, anyway.

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4 hours ago, New POD said:

I remember my dad being upset when he had to hand back his company Sierra and take a Mondeo.

 

If I remember a 2.0 ghia estate in white to a 1.8 glx hatch in white. 

It might be that he just missed the estate. 

But to be honest he was upset when they stopped making the cortina. 

He's on his third focus estate since he retired. 

egg Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Oh, just noticed heated front screen on that GLX too...

MarvinsMom Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

MarvinsMom

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/wartburg-1-3/193005112309?_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D57478%26meid%3Df1d6bdc771964b37a137acca5f73f217%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D323868320384%26itm%3D193005112309%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

another wartburg, and this one is in the colour of a winner, been beige.

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incorrectly engined, using a polo one instead of the 2 stroke, and decadently trimmed in velour.

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this is not a car for the proles, but one for a good party apparatchik.

 

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Snipes Rank: Lancia Gamma

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4 hours ago, willswitchengage said:

If you think about the design iterations the Mondeo has had since, then it was probably Ford's Europe's biggest step forward... ever? Broadly speaking all the Mondeo has had since are increasingly silly styling changes and more interior toys. That generation introduced genuine aerodynamic design, front wheel drive, affordable multivalve engine, a proper driver's 'cockpit' and (I think) multilink rear suspension. The first gen Focus attracted a lot of attention but really all that was was just some radical styling, a better thought out body shape and a new suspension setup.

I think the Fiesta was their first fwd platform, and the fwd escorts which also had independent rear suspension, but I also think the MK1 Mondeo was their first properly competent design after a few years in the doldrums. 

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MarvinsMom Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trabant-601-1979/123843594723?hash=item1cd5a749e3:g:OHUAAOSwCjFdM1zN

some more shite from behind the iron curtain, an unmolested, and therefore quiet grim looking trabant.

correctly engined so a cloud of blue clag will follow you as you make (very) slow progress along the road....

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the car is in Clacton, so i can imagine that been as grim a place as anywhere in the socialist utopia that was the  German Democratic Republic.....

MarvinsMom Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

MarvinsMom

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1984-VOLGA-GAZ-24-SOVIET-UNION-LHD-Retro-classic-car/143333107835?hash=item215f51a87b:g:e3gAAOSwnkNdMcjm

or you could try this, if you ever fancied been a member of the KGB, Starzi, Securitatii or other secret police outfit from behind the wall then thi could be the car for you.

would really need to be black though, for that proper menacing look.

 coming home to fine one of these outside your brutalist block of damp flats would mean you were in trouble.......

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michael t Rank: Citroen Ami

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Fantastic little Fiesta Festival...  https://www.gumtree.com/p/ford/1988-ford-fiesta-1.1-festival-one-owner-from-new-beautiful-car-inside-out.-hants-dorset-border/1347092053

 

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/z/ZuwAAOSwBQNdNZbx/$_86.JPG

 

Battle scarred Disastra, looks exactly the way they all did in about 2002.... https://www.gumtree.com/p/vauxhall/1988-vauxhall-astra-l-1.6-auto/1347059220

 

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/z/L3QAAOSwTj9dNNyE/$_86.JPG

 

I love an early Micra https://www.gumtree.com/p/nissan/nissan-micra-1988-m10-gsx-mk2-vintage-classic-/1346501931

 

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTc2WDEwMjQ=/z/b3oAAOSwLbJdLeh8/$_86.JPG

 

spartacus Rank: Renault 16

spartacus

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2 hours ago, michael t said:

Two and 3/4 miles in length Audi in Wiltshire...  https://www.gumtree.com/p/audi/classic-1989-audi-100-c3-2.2e-manual-silver-mot-nov-2019/1347219513

 

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjAwWDgwMA==/z/vB4AAOSwEuZdNyzL/$_86.JPG

 

Volvo's version with a strange partial eclipse taking place in the top corner of each photo...  https://www.gumtree.com/p/volvo/volvo-740-saloon-1989/1347051253

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAyNFg3Njg=/z/xsgAAOSwc81dNMWu/$_86.JPG

 

My dad had an Audi 100 new in '84, it was too long for the garage, which was big, we had to chop out some of the block at the far end of the garage and push the fibreglass sectional door out to get it shut each night. He rated it so much it was replaced with another in '87.

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