Are you proud of your motoring history

[ProgRocker]

1 hour ago, Quintus said:

2012 Honda Jazz 1.4 ES (my current car, owned since July 2017)

I rather like the styling of that era of Jazz. Prefer it over the older model and it's replacement. 

[Quintus]

3 hours ago, ProgRocker said:

I rather like the styling of that era of Jazz. Prefer it over the older model and it's replacement. 

Me too. Thus far it's never let me down and returns 45+mpg. Only things it's needed outside of annual servicing were a new driver's side wing mirror glass (old one wasn't demisting) and new condenser for the air con (corrosion and subsequent leak).

[anonymous user]

I wouldn't say I'm proud of my car history, but they were all things I wanted for some reason at the time. Far too many to list.

Many were impulse buys, sometimes regretted before I'd even picked them up.

Some I could never afford to buy again as the prices have rocketed, but I have never looked at cars as an investment which is just as well , as I usually spend too much on them and then lose money when I sell.

I tend to repeat myself so the things I've had most of seem to be 1950s Austins, Land Rovers, Volvo 240 estates and Morgans. Mostly out of my price range now.

I did put a thread up on here ages ago with some of the highlights, I should dig it out to update it sometime.

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Mostly proud.

 

1953 Daimler 2.5 V8

1974 Jag XJ6 -  never got on the road due to various minor   but costly mot issues but it was only £350

1990  Mitsubishi galant GLS

1985 Mazda Rx7 - bought cheaply* from a  friend, then cost almost as much to push thru its mot. Vandalized while parked at the back of my garage and sadly let go of for not much. Bitterly regret this one

1999 Volvo  S70 - to replace the above when its rad popped and it cooked itself on the M25. Wanted a diesel manual estate so obviously came back with a  petrol auto saloon.

2003 Astra coupe - bought new by my girlfriend so not technically mine... tho she extended  the mortgage to pay  for it and I paid half the mortgage (which I didn't find out till after it was sold 😒)

1998 Audi A6 - a bit dull to drive but comfortable and reliable tho not cheap motoring

2003 X- type estate - an experience in endless niggles like tracking and a misdiagnosed noise being a wheel bearing not the front diff.

2015 VW tiguan - reliable but ish bland motoring, I do miss it tho.

71 XJ6 - cosmetically challenged when bought but mechanically sorted and up to snuff. Thrown twice what i paid for it to make it look like it goes... ongoing love affair.

2018 Mazda  CX5 - modern daily, not as much a bond with it as the VW

1972 Rover 3500 -  V8 burbled.... endless "my dad had one of those "   comments 

1973 Rover 3500S  - bought as a project  and held up by lockdown..sold on  (really cheaply) due to moving house and was as rotten as a pear it turns out..tho that didn't stop the guy who bought it off me selling it for twice that he paid me....

 

 

 

[carlo]

On 1/31/2021 at 7:11 PM, Inspiral_Mondays said:

“Nothing British or German!”

Well, apart from the Wartburg obviously.

Don't count East German!