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Cars , you either get it or it's A-B  transport

My mum didn't drive  and my dad was strictly A-B he made 2  volvo estates and a subaru forester last 1978-2011

I get it , I've had more cars than that in 3 months,  mrs wack rang me from asda once because she couldn't remember what she'd driven there in

when I look back at the money I've spent on cars it's amazing I'm still married and 27 years in 

Even now if I wasn't skint I'd be looking at something else, apart from my ducato pickup everything else I own today came from AS 

Without a doubt the E280 is the best £3500 I've ever spent , maintenance costs 7 months in = 2 wiper blades 

I started in 1979 with a mk3 cortina 1.6 gxl 

Some of the cars I've owned ( highlights)

Jelly mould granada 2.8i

205 gti 1.6

X19

2.0 celica loved it , girlfriend couldn't drive it but big (.)(.) So I sacrificed it 

A8 4.2Q loved it but 8-10mpg 

Impreza wrx , my favourite drivers car ever 

200bhp mx5 a right laugh , had 4 MX5s , still got a mk2 1.8

Maserati 4200 terrifying is that a £500 noise or a 5k noise 

Mustang 5.0 covid victim 

E280  Comfy 

Probably a dozen motorbikes vfr800 bandit 1200 , always wanted a XJR 1300 in Kenny Roberts yellow 

So your motoring history , is it something you're proud of 

@Sri05 need not reply. The Internet isn't big enough to list all the cars he's owned :D

 

 

 

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i think 'Proud' would be a stretch....  i would say im comfortable with it lol

might miss a few, but rough history

Rover 214SLi 1992

mini mayfair 1989

mini clubman 1275GT

mini cooper 1989

Vauxhall astra mk2

sierra 1600

BMW E30 320 cabrio

Alfa GTV

Alfa 145 1600

alfa 145 cloverleaf

citroen xsara picasso estate

vectra mk2 diesel estate

renault espace mk4

nissan terrano 2

VW passat estate

skoda octavia mk2

relaint rialto

rickman ranger cabrio

rickman ranger saloon

rickman rancher

peugeot 306 diesel

ford fiesta mk4

MGF

kawasaki gpz500

honda revere 600

yamaha R6

benelli TNT125

Aprilia Mille

Honda NTV

 

some of the above were shit, some were shite, but i dont think i ever regretted any of them.

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I'd say half and half. I am content with many of the cars I've purchased. But there have been many over the years that have gotten away (MG ZS 180 @19,  MR2 turbo @21, Camaro z28 @22 to name a few)

Mostly looks of disapproval from ex burds or parents curtailing my dreams and telling me to be sensible.

Without defaulting to tired clichès like YOLO or some shite, I now buy what I like. 

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I'm happy with what I've owned other than all the money I've spent. There are a few regrets of cars I could have bought and didn't and cars I wished I'd kept but on the whole not too bad.

There's been so many cars but highlights are my first e28 BMW, which blew my mind, Audi A8 v8, getting a super charged v8 in the XJR, taking the Panda to knockhill,  having a Renault Avantime and getting my first new car.

I'm glad I'm through that frantic stage of changing my car every month it's just too much hassle, exhausting and a huge cash drain. I think I've almost got it under some kind of control (I only bought 2 cars in 2020).

It only took 25 years.

There's nothing I can think of within my price range I really want just now (other than a BMW 320si).

 

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What do you recon out of all the cars you've owned or could have that would have made you the most money if you'd kept ahold of them given you had a barn and an oxygen free bubble?

Of the top of my head:

A spotless 2 dr escort mk2 I was offered for £300

A really nice 3 door xr4i I sold for £1200

An e21 323i Alpina replica with original recaros etc I sold for £400

A 2.8 Celica Supra manual I sold for £700

 

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I remember trying to write this list for a thread somewhere when I was first introducing myself a few years ago.

I'll try my best to remember...

Learned to drive in a K-reg with a grill Rover R8 in slate grey, 214SLi. I later wrote this car off due to my own stupidity.

Then, and I can't remember exactly what order, Orange Vauxhall Belmont, F reg I think it there abouts.

Seat Málaga in black, J reg. I didn't like it at the time, but really wish it was still around. There are zero left in the UK.

VW Polo 'Twist'- dealer special I think. Doom Blue/purple. F reg.

White R8 Rover 214SLi three door. I didn't crash it, but it got crashed.

Also I drove my parent's 216GSi auto. Didn't crash.

Escort Mk5 1.6 in BRGreen. A very good A to B car.

Didn't drive for a while after a ban for speeding, then voluntarily took a break for being a traveling musician.

Then met a girl with a V reg 206 1.9n/a diesel. Enjoyed driving it very much. Car eventually fell away from the engine, which was still in its first flush of youth.

58 Polo mk4a, bluemotion. An cheap car. Lasted us ages and did us well. Now married to girl, see above.

Then I bought my own run around, '53reg Mitsubishi Carisma. Excellent family car but the Renault F9Q 1.9 diesel had gremlins. Dark grey.

Xreg Saab 9-3 OG 2.0 Turbo. Hilariously fast and fun. My fastest straight line car. Black.

Porsche 924 2.0na light blue, fun, read my thread here.

BMW E46 estate, 325i, 04 reg. Silver. Fun and useful, would have again. Perhaps. It did get a bit needy though.

Mondeo mk3. Black, 2.0 ok, didn't ever intend to buy one but hey it works ok so I've kept it.

Volvo 740 2.0. blue. Saloon.

Lovely...

Proud? Don't know, but it's been fun, mostly.

 

 

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Funny enough I was thinking about this topic the other day, while having a PM discussion.

My last decade or so has been well documented here, indeed most of my cars have come from various Shiters, but there are three decades before I joined that I have only really hinted at, going all the way back to 1977.   I suspect this means I'll have to create a whole new thread, because there's a lot to say.  For the moment, I can say that yes, it's a history I can generally be proud of.

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I wouldn't say 'proud' but more just glad to have had some 70s Fords in the late 80s and into the 90s before all the scene tax thing took over and the bling appearance of 'revived' old Fords took over - fake RS alloys and stretched low profile tyres, silver (or gold!) Superlite wheels, lowered too much, shit cording on the seats, leather seats, white gauges, gloss black quarter bumpers, mega front spotlights, chequerplate floormats, big chrome tailpipes, whole car silicone-glossed, blah, zzzz.

They were just ordinary everyday cars.  Had Capri 3-litres (several, some very good some not so good, great fun, cheap as chips, no fucks given, every one thrashed, all had haunted petrol gauges - "feed me"), 1977 Cortina Mk4 2000S, 1974 Escort 1300E (warmed up 1700GT with lumpy cam uneven tickover and lightened flywheel but looked totally std, my mum used to borrow it), early 4-speed Capri 2.8i, Granada Mk2 2.8 5-speed with tightened up suspension. 

Mates had RS2000s Mk2 and Mk1, Mexicos, Mk1 Fiesta Supersports, many Capri 3.0s in various states of tune, Granada Mk2 2.8injection, 3-litre Escort Sport Mk2, several Sierra XR4i, a Turbo Technics XR4X4 2.9 (fucking rocketship owned by a wealthy fisherman), one genuine Mk1 RS3100 which is still around somewhere as an ornament now and passes between internet sellers (currently around £40k, was bought for £1750 in 1986, the bloke's dad aged about 75 used to drive it home at 100mph after doing the shopping and used to flick his cigarette ash onto the carpet).  My boss had a black E-reg Sierra Cosworth 2-dr which was never ever washed and often towed a trailer / horsebox.

The Ford scene tax is a mystery to me but I really appreciate the fantastic restos which take the car back to (better than) standard such as TripleRich's Granada Coupe and Dan's 74 Capri.

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I'm quite pleased with my car history, the problem is I wish I'd kept them all, except the Seat Alhambra

1987 Citroen AX 11RE - Had this for years, fitted GT interior, loads of extra interior bits from the upper models, loved it.

1993 Rover 218 SLD turbo - Had this for a few years too, brilliant bit of kit. I really wanted a Xantia (they were quite new then!) but this one came from a well known lover of cars, it even went out to the states and back again with the owner who had it from new. It never gave any trouble and frankly was excellent.

1995 Xantia 1.9 Turbo D - What I always wanted. Had it for years and years until it developed an LHM leak on a return pipe. I was convinced I needed something more modern by the, (this was 2009) so bought a C5. In fact I ended up replacing the pipe and sold it to a friend who had it a few more years. Shouldn't have sold that one.

2001 Citroen C5 - Fine car, quiet, comfortable, but niggly problems I hadn't experienced in other cars. On one of the times it was broken I borrowed my Dad's Xantia and much preferred it to C5 so I went out and a bought a

2001 Citroen Xantia 2.0 HDi - Had this for years and did about 100,000 miles in it changing only oil and spheres. In hindsight best car I've owned. At that time I was regularly having 26 trumpets, 8 tubas plus laptop my work etc. It just wasn't quite big enough so I bought a 

Citroen C8 2.0 Hdi - Despite negative reviews it was excellent and much better than the Seat Alhambra that I can't remember where it fits in.

Eventually sold C8 (needed more mpg) and wife's Mini 1275 to buy VW T25 which we've had 8 years and now in need of work when I've finished the house...!

So I bought another Xantia.

Then another for spares and ended using the spares one as it was an Exclusive and had lots of toys.

Sadly the exclusive went from sailing through every MOT to disintegrating underneath so was sold. And a 

Saab93 convertible turbo was bought cheaply as a stop gap. Fixed the roof, had it remapped and kept it way longer than planned. child number 3 meant it had to go, so I bought another Xantia, an estate this time. Fab

Wife has had succession of 306 and Xsara Picasso alongside the above which have all providing excellent service. I enjoyed the 2.0 HDi 306 , great fun!

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I wish had not bought a Spitfire in 1985. Hateful piece of..... shit

I wish i'd kept my RD350LC (375 after I blew it up)

I wish I'd bought the yellow 1100 mini clubman and not the bodged 1000 mini for less money. One being solid, and the other being cheap.

I wish I'd invested in welding rather than paint. 

I wish I had tried to fix the SC100 flying zit. 

I wish I'd kept the Metro Turdo. 

I'm glad I sold the mk2 1.1 fiesta car derived van with rear side windows.

I wish I'd kept the mk2 cavalier 1.6 GL

I wish I'd never bought the 14.D AX

I wish I'd never bought a B reg polo.Breadvan. peice of shit.

I wish I'd never sold the 3 other Mk2 cavaliers I owned, including a CalibrE.

I wish my wife had kept the mk3 cavalier.

I wish I'd not written off 3 yes 3 mk3 Astras.  

I'm really happy to own my misfiring omega.  

We don't talk about the Juke. An car an ugly perfectly fine car. 

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Nothing British or German!

1975 Wartburg Knight (first car, loved its character and comfort)

1976 Renault 12TL (also a lovely old thing, the Peugeot 405 of its day)

1980 Lancia Beta 2.0 (frightened me to death, too thirsty and complex)

1978 Fiat 128 3p (most fun car ever)

1978 Citroen GS Pallas (seats far too soft, fitted a Fiat 128 seat into it)

Then 14 years worth of company car Peugeots

1985 Toyota Celica 2.0GT Auto (went like the clappers, girlfriend in labour didn't appreciate it)

1989 Toyota Camry V6 saloon (soporific)

1991 Toyota Corolla Executive (even more so)

1995 Peugeot 405 2.0 auto (x about 5)

1998 Peugeot 406 2.0 auto (just for a couple of years then went back to the 405s

Currently enjoring a 2.0 automatic Xsara Picasso which could be the future chariot of choice when I mothball the latest 405 soon no doubt.

 

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2 hours ago, cort16 said:

What do you recon out of all the cars you've owned or could have that would have made you the most money if you'd kept ahold of them given you had a barn and an oxygen free bubble?

Of the top of my head:

A spotless 2 dr escort mk2 I was offered for £300

A really nice 3 door xr4i I sold for £1200

An e21 323i Alpina replica with original recaros etc I sold for £400

A 2.8 Celica Supra manual I sold for £700

 

But when they were being scrapped for minor MOT fails who'd have thought any of them would be worth the money they are today

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30 odd years of cars,

The bluebird turbo was great, so were the primera eGT and the GT's the primers .  2.0d with 75 horses was a little very slow. it got us from Sunderland to London on a tenner once when diesel was a lot cheaper.

The 3 Nissan X-trail i have owned were/are great just doing what i need them to do.

The Jaguar S type R was so so fast but so so fragile very easy to get into single figure mpgs, not so easy keeping in the 20's.

My Daimler 250V8 that I have owned for 13 years is hopefully going to get a little loving this year.

306 1.4 merridian and the Astra 1.6 sport hatch bland but competent

BMW 320d GT hard to put my finger on it,  fast good on mpg's, I think it looked good but a little meh. just to german.

Vectra 2.2 sri hard seats  fast, Mrs V8 couldn't stand the ride always felt sea sick.

Renault Laguna 2.0 RXE like sitting with your feet in a paddling pool the front footwells were always full of water and it never had any heating, We bought this when the kids were very young as we had little money, but  the boot was huge swallowing prams and stuff. sold for the vectra ^.

Cavalier 1.6 expression k reg

Renault  clio172 shit, like driving a fuckin fast roller skate just cheap shite ,  Ford Sierra 2.0Is shit,

The MINI 1.5 auto that is Mrs V8's latest car, is great to drive, so much fun

Fiat 500 1.2 that belongs to No1 son that i have been using  that loves to rev and rev to use all of the 69bhp .

All the ones that i have forgot about.    EDIT Capri 3.0 ghia , MK2 Cortina 1.6GT, 3x Cortina mk4/5, Mini clubmam, mini mayfair, pug 205,vw sirrocco,escort mk2 van.

Oh a Renault Megane floppytop that MrsV8 bought when i first met her, at the time the only convertible i hade been in, and the only one i have had a blowjob in, on the A1 with the roof down overtaking a artic.

 

 

 

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I'm pretty happy with my car history, although sometimes when I remember the colossal amount of money I've squandered on old rammel it makes me wince a bit 😆

A few of the memorable ones:

BMW 840ci - always wanted one, it looked ace but was totally unremarkable to drive and it constantly went wrong

Porsche 928 S2 - 600 quid off a bloke at work - needed a new rad and a gearbox flush - it was a right weapon - it really did feel special.

Mitsubishi Tredia - an autoshite holy grail :D

Datsun B110 1200 estate - a proper cool little estate

Numerous minis - loved them all

Capri 1.6LS - minty mint, put a warm 2.0 in it, nice wheels etc, i loved the look but they drive like an old sack barrow - see below for:

Sierra XR4i - proper minty 3 door, it was lovely, I'd wanted one since I was 12. Absolute disappointment to drive - sounded nice but what a wallowy underpowered, underbraked piece of shit. My old dears 1.6 colt was faster and far better to drive. Old fords look cool but i'm not a fan of how they drive. I'd still love a mk2 escort 2 door though :)

Camaro Z28 Iroc Z - mullet-tastic lovely sounding t top wheezer.

 

I've broken loads of stuff up and sold stuff off cheap that would be worth a fortune now - ah well!

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2 hours ago, cort16 said:

What do you recon out of all the cars you've owned or could have that would have made you the most money if you'd kept ahold of them given you had a barn and an oxygen free bubble?

 

In terms of making money the only 2 candidates I've owned are my Minis, a '62 followed by a '94 model.

In terms of Autoshite interest level I'd include my '91 base spec Rover 214, '94 Renault 19 saloon and '97 Seat Toledo 16v

Extending it to cars my family have owned over my lifetime my Dad's BMW 2002tii and Grandads Citroens  (ID,DS and Big 6) would be the money spinners and I'd throw in the Renault 14 which was the first car I travelled in when born for sentimental value and autoshite bonus points. Other worthy candidates would be '89 Saab 9000 CD Turbo and '84 BMW 320i (3dr on steels).

Nowhere near as interesting as most on here though and I do feel I've missed out by going for head over heart on many occasions.

 

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Not sure "proud" is the word.  For one thing I calculated a few years back that I'd be over £20K better off if I hadn't had a serious shite habit for the last 22 years.  Also I have scrapped a few rarities over the years - I weighed in a Volvo 460 Turbo when I was trying to move house and had nowhere to put it, I weighed in a Mk1 Rover 825D when the eBay "buyer" pissed me off, and I once had an NSU 1000 towed away by the council when I was on holiday in Mexico and forgot to tax it.

I've had some fun though...

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2 hours ago, sierraman said:

..Some have been better than others but even the really shit ones I’ve bought for a hundred quid or whatever have been ok and done what was necessary. 

.. Pretty sure if you looked up the definition of "proud" in a dictionary that's more or less what you'd find😄

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