A solution to urban blight - a car to match your house?

[Spottedlaurel]

Hmmm. The original bit of ours dates from the early 1800s so it looks like I need a horse and cart.

Clutching at straws, the combined age of the various cars I have takes me back to that age, there or thereabouts.

The rubbish 1970s flat roof extension at the back is probably about the same age as the Datsun 1200.

[motorpunk]

4 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

The rubbish 1970s flat roof extension at the back is probably about the same age as the Datsun 1200.

Thats good. Can you kindly remodel your house to make the flat roof the focal point? Perhaps move the front door there and park the Datsun outside. This stuff is important. 😎

[Richard_FM]

I live in a converted Salvation Army Hall, so it's a mixture of 1890's and 2000s architecture.

[Six-cylinder]

Our home was built in 1833 so no cars.

But I can still play in this game as in 2001 we bought new flat in London with a parking space in its own underground car park.

Before we bought the flat I had a 7 year old Mercdes 300CE, after a 14 year old Volvo 740 saloon bought for £250!

So in 2001 if I bought new, a Mercedes CLK could have been the order of the day, hold on that is what I drive now!

[motorpunk]

32 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

I live in a converted Salvation Army Hall, so it's a mixture of 1890's and 2000s architecture.

I am struggling to visualise that in automotive terms. Can you kindly live somewhere else or be homeless or something as it ruins an otherwise perfect thread. 

Oh, hang on - Horse and Cart with 2000's DONK wheels on it?

[PhilA]

1974, so an OPEC missile crisis barge of some description.

 

Suitable for rural suburbia.

 

Phil

[DSdriver]

Our house is early 18th century so this sort of coach was probably the autoshite of the time

Photo courtesy of Tring Museum because the Maidstone Carriage Museum website (about 8 miles from us) is strangely bereft of carriage pictures.

[Fabergé Greggs]

Can someone tell me where I can get the house to go with this? 

[Six-cylinder]

12 minutes ago, Fabergé Greggs said:

Can someone tell me where I can get the house to go with this? 

Addams Family home!

[bunglebus]

More like

[Crackers]

My house is, I'm guessing, early 60s. 

 

You can probably already see where this is going.

 

[Jerzy Woking]

Mine was built in 1986. The year the Spanish government sold state owned Seat to VAG.

So a Seat Malaga it will have to be.

Plenty of room to park a few shite cars, but see so few around here, except for in the half dozen or so fairly local scrap yards.

[Skut]

On 10/7/2020 at 5:09 PM, HMC said:

Mine about 1815 soooo

 

Not so fast. You could have had Trevithicks 1802 roadgoing 'puffer'.

Positively a used motor by 1815 and verging on shitedom. 

[richardmorris]

1894 barn, 1994 car.

[motorpunk]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

1894 barn, 1994 car.

That Snail looks perfect anywhere, anytime.

[Inspiral_Mondays]

18 hours ago, richardmorris said:

1894 barn, 1994 car.

I had a 1994 E320C in that exact same colour. Sadly had to sell it for cash flow reasons.

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, Inspiral_Mondays said:

I had a 1994 E320C in that exact same colour. Sadly had to sell it for cash flow reasons.

My cash does seem to flow into it.

[Custard]

This is a great idea but I live in a caravan.

[New POD]

1848 

No room for stables. 

[ProgRocker]

I rent a flat from the council built in 1969. I guess that the first tenants - these that did own cars - would have had motorcycles with sidecars, Ford Anglias, Morris Minors and Austin A30s and Minis. 

The car park behind my flat only accommodates 7 or 8 cars. My 53 reg is the oldest. The newest is a 68 reg Corsa with a 65 reg BMW 1 & 17 reg Audi A1 being the poshest (in the loosest sense). 

[loserone]

Tricky for me, here's our house in 1870, with the ivy on.

Here it is again about 1910, in the foreground on the left.

Spot the difference?

Anyway, here it is from the front around the same time.

Hardly suits having a car outside at all, does it?

Perhaps one of these

Definitely not these

 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

41 minutes ago, loserone said:

Tricky for me, here's our house in 1870, with the ivy on.

Here it is again about 1910, in the foreground on the left.

Spot the difference?

Anyway, here it is from the front around the same time.

Hardly suits having a car outside at all, does it?

Perhaps one of these

Definitely not these

 

Is your shop a local shop for local people? 

[loserone]

I've just driven two miles to the shop

 

[bunglebus]

2 hours ago, Custard said:

This is a great idea but I live in a caravan.

[Macscrooge]

My house was built c1990. Given the issues we’ve had with plumbing perhaps a Citroen BX?  But preferably a Merc 124 wagon. The closest I’ve come to matching the house year was a ‘91 Volvo 940GLE wagon. Same size and shape too.....

[DVee8]

2 hours ago, loserone said:

I've just driven two miles to the shop

 

I was parked outside there this morning, drove past your place aswell..

[loserone]

4 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

drove past your place

How did you know?

[DVee8]

Ummm cos it looked like this but in daylight

Don't think the white 205 was there.

 

[They_all_do_that_sir]

We have a 1970s bungalow with off road parking for one car with space to spare.

I'd like to say Citroen CX. The previous owners extended in 1989 so at that point I'd be upgrading to an XM, assuming the builders had stayed on budget.....

Our previous house wasn't in a great area (we never had any bother mind, neighbours were golden. The place just has a bit of a reputation that's IME ill deserved) - few driveways combined with some neighbours who had shall we say slightly more dubious means of income meant we had a glut of massive X5s and their ilk cluttering the place.

These were housing association semis built in the 1950s, with narrow streets. Our neighbour owned from new, and told me he used to have a BSA motorcycle as his only form of transport so I'm going to go for a D1 Bantam. At one stage the side garden was replaced by a driveway, I believe 1960s so at that point I'll trade the BSA in on a mini which wouldn't look out of place.


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[brownnova]

Out house is of an undetermined age, we think the oldest part is 1800s, but it’s a hotch potch of additions and extensions.  However, the deeds said it was 70 years old when we bought it last year (I don’t think anyone really knows) so in 1949 I’ll take a Jowett Javelin please.