Family snaps with your old cars in the background.

[strangeangel]

The Land Rover that cured me of Land Rovers:

 

 

Look carefully to the right, and you'll see a cameo by Dad's much nicer CX2400.

 

[strangeangel]

My R4F6 van was terminally rotten, so I bought a pre-bent Skoda Favorit from a scrappers in Bradford. Obviously...

 

 

The late FATHA_SA oversaw this idiocy and ensured that I ended up with a running, non-dangerous hack. Other shite here comprises my then girlfriend's Sunny, (sadly) the only picture of the aforementioned F6 van I know of, and my utterly rotten R16TX.

 

The Skoda ran for another five years after being condemned to becoming IKEA cutlery, then was shoved in a barn when we went to NZ for a year. We came home, penniless, put a battery on it and continued using it until (2 head gaskets later) the arse fell out of it completely two years later. Not a bad innings really.

 

[strangeangel]

My second R5, a Le Car 2. Bought for £325 weeks after the PO paid £3K for it, insured it 3rd party and parked it on its roof. The windscreen aperture was jacked out  and a new screen fitted, plus mucho wob deployed on the roof. Throw in a few 2nd hand panels and off we go!

 

 

Displayed here on the drive outside my unusually luxurious student digs, during my second period of ownership... there was a pit lurking under that driveway! This was in the days when it was unusual for students to own cars, and those that did were usually driving old shitters. From being wrecked and sent for scrap in 1987, it passed through the hands of several friends, family members plus associated girl/boyfriends etc. doing them all a good turn along the way, before finally going to the big Renault dealership in the sky in 1998.

 

[strangeangel]

My R4, shown here after being sprayed Daihatsu Harbour Blue and before my then girlfriend took it to Germany and lent it to her idiot friend who fucked it up by crashing into a parked car, trying to pick up a tape she'd dropped on the floor...

 

 

[strangeangel]

The good days, like this one on the way to Bala, were far, far outweighed by the bad ones. This Land Rover was a truly terrible car and an absolute fucking disaster on all levels; effortlessly surpassing anything I have ever bought - before or since.

 

 

[Richard_FM]

10 hours ago, strangeangel said:

My second R5, a Le Car 2. Bought for £325 weeks after the PO paid £3K for it, insured it 3rd party and parked it on its roof. The windscreen aperture was jacked out  and a new screen fitted, plus mucho wob deployed on the roof. Throw in a few 2nd hand panels and off we go!

 

 

Displayed here on the drive outside my unusually luxurious student digs, during my second period of ownership... there was a pit lurking under that driveway! This was in the days when it was unusual for students to own cars, and those that did were usually driving old shitters. From being wrecked and sent for scrap in 1987, it passed through the hands of several friends, family members plus associated girl/boyfriends etc. doing them all a good turn along the way, before finally going to the big Renault dealership in the sky in 1998.

 

My Mum's old Metro was A156MBA which was registered in February 1984, though we didn't buy it until about April - May.  I remember it was just before my sister was born in June.

[Austat]

More old photos from my Mum's trip to Japan in 1990/1991:

JDM OVLOV!

[Austat]

A few of my dad's friends in front of his mate's Escort MK1 (GT I believe). This was taken near Corfe Castle in Dorset during a roadtrip they did in 1980:

[TheIsleofShite]

On 11/19/2020 at 8:22 PM, Asimo said:

 

The yellow oval-window had been a bit squashed by a tree falling at that point. A few years earlier it had burned** after which it was hand painted yellow. It had hydraulic brakes, and was a bit posh compared to the LHD '49 split rear window it replaced, with it's cable brakes. That was hand painted red with "Jel-Gloss"

** The day after the fire.

Snooty neighbours were a bit dissapointed when Dad fixed it within a few days and then painted it in the street.

Always remember to replace the petrol pipe after maintenance!

Would love to hear any more VW tales you have and pictures. What happened to the ‘49? A split Beetle in the UK was a very rare thing.

[FakeConcern]

I'd forgotten what a great thread this is!

Younger veiwers probably have photos of all their cars on a phone or computer, but I have only found the ones in albums, lots of cars my family owned existing in photographic form  only inside Boots envelopes in the loft.

Anyway here's a few more of mine...

Mrs Concern's dad with his (I think) 1st car a Prefect called Willy...

My sister with Hamish the scotty (Jamie the westy out of shot) and my dads 2nd Mk1 Cortina bought in 1970. I learned to drive and took my test in it...

Here it is on holiday with a roof rack fitted...

Sometime during 1976 the Cortina was smashed up, but amazingly repaired on the insurance. We had a rental Marina to go on holiday to Wales where my dad let me have a drive...

My Mini 1000 hiding in the lean to garage of a French holiday Gite...

and here in Cornwall with me and Mrs Concern's Uncle* and Aunt...

When my dad retired he bought a new MG Metro...

After about 2 years he traded it for a Pug 205 GTI (can't find a pic) as it was rusting right through in various places (!) I had less taste and bought an XR3i, here in front of Mrs Concern's parents house in Steyning...

Mrs Concern was lucky enough to have a Pug 205 as a company car...

and later a Renault 5 GTS (very posh!)

 

 

 

*nothing to do with cars, Mrs Concern's Uncle Stan, who looked just like Lesley Phillips had played drums in a band and for a while Vera Lynn was the singer. According to Stan "Everyone wanted to jump on it..."

[wesacosa]

Me with my Grandad's 1974 Mk1 Passat , probably around 1983 or 1984. Turned out to be the same place we scattered his ashes almost 40 years later. 

He used to leave the car unlocked with keys in the ignition outside his house, even though this was 1980s in a council estate on the outskirts of Hull, and not 1950s in Heartbeat ! Nobody ever took it though by some miracle

[wesacosa]

my sister, grandad and Grandma on the same day, looking at the age of my sister, probably dates in more like 1981/82

[Asimo]

On 16/02/2021 at 09:48, TheIsleofShite said:

Would love to hear any more VW tales you have and pictures. What happened to the ‘49? A split Beetle in the UK was a very rare thing.

Sadly I can’t find any pictures of Dad’s split-rear window car. I think it was black before the red Jel Gloss. It must have been sold because I don’t recall it rotting away in the field like most of his post-use cars. It had cable brakes, and therefore the handbrake acted on all four wheels, which gave one MOT tester a fright when he yanked on the handbrake. 
 This picture, which I just found on flickr, is not of anyone in my family but is a scene straight out of my ‘60s childhood, uncannily like my dad and his mate spinning tales about their LHD split-rear-windows.

After the ‘49 there was a newish white beetle to sell on for profit - presumably a failed experiment in business as it was not repeated, the oval that got burned and painted yellow, a black then a blue one that were both very rotten but were RHD!  Later this green 1200

that got fitted with the Oval’s yellow wings and this lovely orange left-hooker that cost a tenner (yes that is oil smoke - around a pint needed for every 100 miles I seem to remember)

and lasted for years and years until I had it for a year or so. There was another black 1200 in a terrible state that Dad and my sister did Lands End to John o Groats with, getting home just before the MOT expired and it was scrapped.

This 1500

was the last one, and the first with12V electrics, which I bought from a friend,

brazed-up the rust holes, ran for a few years and sold to Dad. His last car as it turned out.

Damn thing dropped an exhaust valve round about the time he got cancer.

Found a 1300 engine for it and Mum used it for a few years before selling it for parts. Amazingly DVLA are showing it as taxed!

There were others I can’t really remember, vans and a splittie Camper. Many engine changes, much bodgery, at least one more fire...

 

 

[FakeConcern]

After the Mk3 XR3i I had an MG Metro (can't find a pic) then another XR3i, the only car I've owned that has been named and actually called Erol by everyone...

Here's my eldest daughter washing it with a bit of help from me and some interesting cars in the background...

The Triumph 2000 (or 2.5?) belonged to my neighbour Jamie who called it his "Roller" as t was so plush. He also wouldn't drive at over 40mph in case the cam belt should break!

The Princess belonged to a genuine Native American Indian Chief (he organised and opened the totum pole in the grounds of Horniman Gardens)

Here on holiday in the Lake District, mates Jetta in background not sure who owned the Wedge...

Another mate had some nice company cars, his wife took over the Scirroco when he got the RS2000 (Erol has just sneaked into the pic as well)...

He replaced the RS with a Golf GTI & I bought it from him at two years...

I'll need to look through the photos not in albums to find some more car pics, don't know when though...

[warch]

My uncle found a picture of my Uncle Bill and Grandma (and sheepdog) on holiday in Dorset in the mid-70s, several years before I was born. That's my Land-Rover (then belonging to my Dad) towing the caravan. The Landy is finally about to get a body off restoration this year after 57 years, mainly because I bent the rear crossmember towing my Dad's Land Rover to a garage.

Edit, I was struck with how far down in the world it has come since its glory days towing luxury* wheeled accommodation around the highways (and byways) of Britain. Here it is last month towing my digger.

 

[Bear]

1970s - my mum (and me) - parents had bike licences so this and a Reliant Supervan III are the first cars I encountered - a Berkeley T60, seen here at Clumber Park and being parked in Workshop where my mum used the 'pop the nose in and lift the back wheel' trick.

The Berkeley was written off in a car park when something reversed into a space and didn't see it, pushing it across the spaces apparently!

It was replaced - as they'd got licences sorted - with a Type 3 Karmann Ghia - which I am trying to find pictures of (I used to use a picture of the KG's headlights to practice printing in the darkroom).

[bunglebus]

We need some back story!

[Bear]

A pic of the Razoredge that they used in one of the mags - Photo Technique I think. I'm told it was rotten and had to be got rid of, but it looks shiny enough there... loving the L-plate.

And the Berkeley in colour, photographed for insurance. Apparently it was an absolute pain and needed the points regapping after any decent drive - I suspect it maybe just needed more mechanically-savvy owners.

[Jamie]

Another throwback to me at 17 with one of my 323fs... Loved that car! 

[junkyarddog]

A young JYD with my Aunt and uncle's old VW Camper.

I say old,I think it was 12 years old at the time,think I was about 10,taken in Fishguard around 1982ish.

[mitsisigma01]

On 11/22/2020 at 2:02 PM, mitsisigma01 said:

My nearly Sister in law admiring my 2000e recently customised  back in 1987 by MFOOT (massive fk off oak tree) ☹️😭😭😭

 

After my phone fkd up I thought I'd lost this pic... one of many that I trashed and bashed in my younger days 🤬😪

[bunglebus]

On 29/03/2021 at 09:47, RichardK said:

A pic of the Razoredge that they used in one of the mags - Photo Technique I think. I'm told it was rotten and had to be got rid of, but it looks shiny enough there... loving the L-plate.

They're lovely cars, but notorious for rust, and virtually no replacement panels available. 

[D.E]

Me behind the steering wheel of my dad's Kadett Club Oranje, this picture was taken in the summer of 1993 I believe. The Club Oranje was basically a Club with some extra striping, celebrating winning the Eurocup in 1988. No Club Oranjes are known to survive. My dad traded his one in for a Swift in 1999, after which it had various owners and was scrapped around 2003/04. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 3/25/2021 at 8:49 PM, FakeConcern said:

...The Princess belonged to a genuine Native American Indian Chief (he organised and opened the totem pole in the grounds of Horniman Gardens)

...

There can't be many Native American chiefs living in Britain and driving a Wedge! I wonder if the oul fella's still around?

[Barry Cade]

Me, mum and dad at the beach in our Viva HB. Seafield pit in the background.. long gone..

 

[junkyarddog]

My aunt and uncle's split screen vw camper.

Think this was taken in Wales sometime in the early 70s.

[Rusty Pelican]

On 4/8/2020 at 4:35 PM, Split_Pin said:

 

 

Going further back and this is my mum in about 1972 in her father-in-laws Singer Chamois.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American spec front bumpers , mega rare , if it was gold or silver it would be a spring special , only ever seen on E reg though 

[Pieman]

On 3/26/2020 at 7:12 PM, strangeangel said:

 

 

 

Found this pic on page one - is the little bubble car a Biscuter?

[Austat]

Just found this today, this photo was taken by my Dad in c.1979/80. My Grandad, Gran, and their dog Angus sitting in the back of their Austin Maxi, the car that my dad would later learn to drive in. I'm glad I found this, as my Gran passed away last month aged 93. I'll make sure to touch this photo up on Photoshop so I can share a higher quality version with family members in her memory.

[Remspoor]

My Nan and Grandad standing by  (according to the notes on the rear) a friend of theirs car in North Yorkshire. Year 1973. The car looks to be a Peugeot 504.