Shite my mates had in my yoof

[Rusty Pelican]

Back in my early teens , around 79 to 82 it was common for us lot to bomb about in different mates cars going nowhere slowly , I had an Imp so i my car wasnt used much as 5 yoofs couldnt fit in it , so during the Summer , hours was spent driving in circles in various crap rusty motors trying to impress the wenches and failing miserablyMainly used was Colins Renault 12 estate , got up to 7 smelly slobs in it , he was a carpenter and so made a glovebox , door cappings and a centre concole out of slabs of pine , he was the first to be able to afford a Audioline radio cassette and graffic equaliser so was prime target , we even fitted a webasco sunroof in it , it gradually rotted away and was sanded down lovingly by all of us , filled with isopons finest and brush painted , rot came back in days , took 3 days to change the clutch in it , such was our mechanical prowessLees MK1 Escrot 2 door was a cracking piece of shite , Various shades of red he was the dirtiest blove ever , the thing was filled with fish and chip wrappers fag packets and coke tins , leaked oil every where , so much so he used to come up my parents house and scroung old engine oil of my dad that he kept to paint on his lawn mower blades to stop rust and mix in with creasote for the shed , interior light gave up so he screwed a reversing light on the dash which took your retina out whenever you got in .Dave had a Simca 1000 in yellow with a black stripe brush painted over the middle , broke down almost daily and was never the same after taking off on a humped back bridge and spewing its battery all over the roadDarren had a Viva HB that only ran with the choke on and had no exhaust to speak off , no licence or insurance either

[Mr Lobster]

Great idea for a thread!So, let me quickly dredge the back of my memory. Back in about 1992/3 I had a Mk1 R5 Le Car 2. Mates had (in no particular order) Maestro van with about 200k on it and utterly shagged, Mk1 Astra in Gold, fitted with spotlights and all the other tat you throw at a base model 1.2 Astra to make it look sporty - poundland wheeltrims, 'racing' seat covers, 'Oakley' sticker in rear screen, A reg 1.0 Polo with serious bottom end and rust issues, A reg Mk 3 Escorts with lots of XR bits thrown at it, Mk2 Fiesta Ghia, another with a Mk2 Fiesta - might have been a XR2 although would have been relatively new at that point, Nova with rear arches made almost entirely of Isopon, B reg Sierra -possibly a diesel but I can't remember. Struggling to remember much else tbh.

[VWPowered]

Cavalier SRI Mk2's, GSI Mk3's, Calibra's featured heavily where i come from, i had a Cavalier Mk1 2dr saloon, besty mate had a Carlton 2.2 Mk1, at the time was working for ATS and got to roll in Merc 307's Pick-Up's, the CF2's they replaced were shagged

[Father Ted]

John had a Viva HC which wasnt bad, but was replaced with an Orion Ghia which was a heap of shite, broke frequently and more rusty than a very rusty thing. It did have a Moss alarm though which was pretty state of the art.Chris started off with an ex securicor Escort Van (which got nicked and used in the Nat West bank robbery in Preston in 1988) He moved onto a Subaru pick up after that. GR8 for hanging out the back of and showing your arse to passing pedestrians.Dave had a Mk5 Cortina, as did Andy for a bit, before buying a Capri Mk2 that landed one of us dead and three of us in hospital for a while (and me with bollocks the size of buster gonad for a week).Prize shite award went to Ste and his Fiat campervan. Cant remember the model but it was a small one a bit like a Bedford Rascal - he regularly stopped overnight in the college car park and it was a regular haunt during wet lunch breaks for a brew up and game of cards.I had an Austin 1300 then a Marina, then a mini, then another Marina then a Metro..... All in the space of 2 years.

[Slaighty]

Most of my mates had mopeds / motorbikes but Emmsy had cars too.Hillman Hunter with Holbay? engine and no passenger seat for some reason.Sunbeam StilletoEsky Mk1Commer camper van

[pogweasel]

Some memorable ones, charting friends succesions from crap to proper cars...Peugeot 104 > Ford Orion Mk1 > Vauxhall Frontera(EIGHT grand!!!)Ford Fiesta MkII (crashed) > Vauxhall Astra 1.3 merit Mk2 (awesome car, took us everywhere) > Polo breadvan (crashed) > new fiesta (V-reg, he's still got it)Chevette > Cavalier Mk2 (crashed) > Honda Accord coupeNova 4-door > Cavalier Mk2 > Cavalier Mk3 diesel > Cav Mk3 SRi 8v Of course there were lots of other folk who went staight to the 'good stuff', Nova SR's being the weapon of choice for most. Girls usually got good stuff, due to insurance, so getting ferried about by lassies in 1600cc golfs, escorts and maestros was not uncommon, luxury travel compared to some thrashing 1000cc lad-mobile.

[Mr H Sceptre]

Good thread.My mate Ian had a MK V Cortina, Joe had a lovely Viva E, but the best of the bunch was Dave's brown Maxi 1750. Great car.When I moved away to Uni, the only one of us to have a car was my mate Mark who had a 1978 Toyota Starlet.

[simmo]

At last a chance for me to show some autoshite credabilityMy mates mum worked in insurance and got us some fantastic deals so while most lads my age that started driving in the late 70s were aspiring to 1600E Cortinas and Modded Escorts we were a little more shitecentric. I have some photos somewhere of our various line ups Me posing on a P5b and my mates with Mk4 Zodiac, PC Cresta and a 2.5 Granada (Consul). I also had various A60s and 3-Litre Capri We were all under twenty and looked like kids in huge cars we were always getting attention off of plod just to check we were legal.Another mate who was a bit off message had a Lancia thing that I imagine is utra-rare now but as it had Ferrari stamped on some of the parts he was made up.

[Station]

Chevettes mainly. Couple of mates had mk1 and mk2 Escorts.They then sold out and bought new stuff.

[meggersdog]

In my youth I had a Mini 1275 gt,Mick had a MkII Capri the a couple of MkIII's,Vinnie R had a Toledo progressing to a MkIII Cortina 2000GT,Jim had an Esort estate MkI (seven of us in it going to a party in Cleethorpes) at 18 he bought Scirocco MkI GTi,Richard had a MkV Cortina (daddy gave it to him) and the best by far was Paul's Colt Celeste fitted with a CB and PA system.Hours were spent driving around the Asain area of town taking turns on the PA going "but,but,but,but" until Paul stalled the car at the traffic lights with all these angry Asian youths chasing after us.Aaaah great days.

[retro80sboy]

as a teenager (early to mid 90's) my mate Phil had a few decent rides that we used to roll in.He had a V reg Escort MK 2 rs2000 replica in yellow. big cibbies on the front too. Great fun, until it broke down one night on the way back from Hereford!.He then had a MK 4 Escort van and a maroon E Reg Sierra.My mate Mark had a Nova that he smashed up on the way from his Girlfriends one night and could only afford a crappy old 5 door Metro 1.1 as a replacement.In college we used to regulary scab lifts off my mate Ian who had a nice two tone Talbot Horizon! another mate had an E reg Mini which we crammed in as many people as we could into.Then I got my first car which was an MG Metro, that sadly had seen better days so I bought a Nova off my cousin for 500 quid that literally rotted away around me!.

[r.welfare]

Not many of us had cars at school - in fact, I can only remember Danny's Mini Mayfair. His brother had a garage in Manchester, where he'd recently moved down from, and the car had received a lot of welding and a respray. Quite smart. He chopped that in for an M-plate Rover 220GSi at 19 - a fairly hot car for the age.There was another guy whose parents bought him a brand-new Citroen AX on his 18th birthday - I recall another fella puking up in the back of it on Day 1 :lol:I didn't get my first car 'till I was 19. After I bought my Volvo 340, my best mate Fat Bob went out and splurged 4 grand on a year-old Cinquecento SX, complete with crazy sidestripes, from the garage that was recently subject to Station's Trading Standards enquiry on that "sold as seen" Alfa. IIRC this lasted him at least 8 years, pretty impressive. In fact, 13 years after buying the Cinq, he's only owned 3 cars, and still has 2 of them.Dave went out and bought a C-reg Metro 1.0L, £500, then chucked a grand at the sound system. Silly boy. He then "graduated" to an XR2i, and sold that to buy a TVR Griffith. I would call him a jammy sod, but he still lives with his parents at the age of 32, so all things being equal...Meanwhile my mate Tim progressed from a Mk1 Fiesta 957 through a Mk3 Scrote 1.6GL to a Renault 19 16V at the age of 19, and then onto a Nissan Pulsar GTI-R at 20. I passengered him once and it scared the hell out of me - it had been breathed on in some fashion. I always wondered how he afforded to insure it, but then after he got a job and was required to start paying his Student Loans back, he pleaded poverty and sold it, buying my old '78 Fiesta 1.1L for £75 for transport when I went to work in Guernsey.Some lad left our school half-way through sixth form (failed his mocks) and got a job at Vodafone - he then turned up at the pub in a 3-year-old Montego which, amazingly, got him some respect. Times were simpler then.

[Parky]

I started with a Mk 1 Renault 5, reg EMT 113V. Got it in or around March 1990. I remember it leaked every single fluid and had no business possessing an MOT.My friend Dave had a better part time job and was able to get a Mk2 Cavalier, reg was A880 KUW. Various shades of red, it taught me how to chamge camshafts and brake pads as Dave was notoriously hard on his equipment. A total legend, Dave managed to write off two of his familes cars by ploughing into the back of his Dad at a set of traffic lights.Dom had access to vans for his job but generally used his Chevette (NUF 546W which I bought off him when my Renault died) and occasionally a Henley blue Rover 213 owned by his Mum. At one stage he also had a Datsun 180SSS (I think) but cant remember why he had this. Everybody elses parents worked for Fords in Warley and they all started with an all white Fiesta Swan. The school car park resembled a Ford dealers!

[VWPowered]

i remember seeing afew of these when i was younger.. plus afew of other motors that used to be in the car dealer's window's..

 

1600E & 2000E

 

 

and could forget the cavalier calibre

 

 

as well as the convertable

 

 

and the commander who's wheel adorned every polce astra etc at one time

 

 

MG Metro Turbo

 

 

Astra GTE 16v

 

[saabhappy]

Anglias, Viva HA, Mk 1 Cortina, Fiat 850, VW Beetle.

[VWPowered]

i remember another chap over the road who had one of these for years, at the time was a stunning shape was constantly drooling all over it

 

Vauxhall Magnum 2300

 

[retro80sboy]

i remember another chap over the road who had one of these for years, at the time was a stunning shape was constantly drooling all over it

 

Vauxhall Magnum 2300

 

must admit im a big fan of those.

[Pete-M]

Most of my friends were Ford freaks like me, between us we all had a succession of Mk2 Escorts, Capris, Cortinas etc. Often with a spattering of Minis here and there.After a couple of years the cars started to get slightly better, my mate Jeff had a newish Montego HLS (in beige..), another lad had a newish Orion 1.6i Ghia and there was the typical 'spoilt brat' who had a 2 year old Fiesta XR2. I stayed with older stuff, bought a Mk2 RS2000 for £850 when I was 18, had that for a while and waited for everyone else to see sense. There was also Lee, who despite not having a driving licence had a succession of Renaults from the 5 to the 25. It was Lee who had the Renault 4 we fitted the Gordini Turbo engine to.Oh, there was also Paddy, who had a hilariously abysmal Marina 1.8. Handpainted in Denim blue, Fiat 127 Sport front seats, jacked up, rear axle painted red with a foglight pointing at it, dayglo pink grille and numerous other tacky additions. He replaced it with a Maestro 1.3 which he made into an MG replica... he wouldn't listen to sense. It must have cost more to make than it would have cost him to buy the real thing. He's got a diesel Rover 75 now, which he wants to chip and fit a K&N to. I'll have to see if he's got any pics of the Marina. You lot would love it.

[Rusty Pelican]

I'll have to see if he's got any pics of the Marina. You lot would love it.

Too right , just trying to picture it now

[Owain-328i]

Well i passed my test in 1999 at 17 as did the rest of my mates. So at that time the 'whips' of choice were of course mid eighties fords and vauxhalls. I started with a D reg Mk2 Fiesta 1.1 Ghia, then moved on to a E reg Fiesta 1.1 Festival 2, then i had a E reg Fiesta 1.4 S (yes with the groovy white wheel trims and 1.4 CVH) these seem mega rare now!!, then i had a string of 3 mk2 Fiesta XR2'sMy mate had a H reg Escort Eclipse, then a F reg XR3i, the a Rover 200 ViMy other mate had a F reg Fiesta 1.1 L mk2, then bought a G reg 90 spec XR3i (very nice in 2000)Another mate had a G reg Nissan Sunny 1.4 LS (incredibly reliable)And one of the other boys had the legendary Nova 1.3 SR aswell, which if i recall was either a C reg or a D reg

[FredTransit]

None of my mates had cars, and I didn't pass me test till me 20s, then always had transits, got me first car at 45. A Mk2 Granada.....

 

This was me first van

 

[Inspector Morose]

Just to be a bit different, one of my mates bought this not long after passing his test:

As I passed my car test only months before passing my bus test, my first car became this for a short time:

Well it looked more like this when I bought it:

 

Many happy gallons of fuel were wasted blatting around various parts of the West Midlands - his was faster though.

I remember a gang of us piling my machine in to go to the pub in Wolverhampton. Knowing our drinking capabilities we parked it in the corner of the local bus depot (original depot) and then proceeded to drink ourself senseless.

The next afternoon (It was a good night!) we went to collect the bus only to find it being washed ready for service! After a brief word with the roster clerk ('sorry chap, never looked but I thought it had a low number) we escaped. Not before finding out it had been fuelled with 45 gallons of West Midland Travels finest diesel! Win!

Turned out one of the comedian engineers on the night shift put it down for fit for service on the rota....

[ashmicro]

Memories indeed! Mk 1 and 2 Festers, Shuvits, Escrots of varying vintages, mk 1 and 2 Chavaliers - all very much part of teh scene in the late 80's and early 90's.A few memorable ones were the aptly-names Jamesie McLaren's Mk2 Escort 4 door with a Rover V8 on a big Holley carb, followed by a 2 door one with an injected 4.2 Jag straight six. This thing had 10 inch wide banded steelies on the back!A large chap known only as Jay had the mother of all Mini clubmans. We never found out what was under the bonnet, but I saw him out-drag a 928 S2 one evening.And Dickie's infamous Skoda Rapide fitted with a Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 drivetrain. Scary.

[Father Ted]

This was me first van

 

Did it have a mattress in the back? I always wanted an Escort van for that very reason....

[bigstraight6]

During those heady years of being a mid to late teen in the mid to late 1980's my friends had some great shite motors at the time. 'Dave' had a tan coloured Mini 1275 GT with those small rostyle type wheels, a lack of any syncromesh in the gearbox and alarming appetite for engine oil, he did improve it considerably by fitting a very small 'racing' steering wheel, your knuckles almost came together when you drove the hopeless pile of cack 'Stal' had a liking for Vauxhalls, in particular Victors, the first one he acquired from his older brother in 1983 was an 1800 'FE' that was really well past its best, and his 'enthusiastic' driving style finished it off. This was replaced by another 'FE', this time a 2300 stormer, we gave it a touch ot individuality by drilling a hole in the centre front of the bonnet and attaching a large brass eagle type bird, wings outstretched, which I took of the top of an old biscuit barrel I had found This was followed by an 'FD' Victor 2000 SL, which was fairly short lived due to a failing auto 'box, Viva's including Magnum and Firenza variants followed.'Fordy' had an early Fiat 128 that was heavily modified, and rather quick!'Mal' had a MK1 Lotus Cortina, brush painted blue with an orange stripe There were numerous others with warmed over Minis and Escorts, my first car bought in May '85 was a lovely midnight blue MK3 Ford Zodiac, which got me pulled over by plod many times as we cruised around Plymouth '6 up'. Great days

[FredTransit]

 

This was me first van

 

Did it have a mattress in the back? I always wanted an Escort van for that very reason....

A full sized double thank you very much! The back was fully lined with pine floor boards, none of yer plywood rubbish.

[gearoil]

I had a rotten Mini gathering more rust in the garden and no job after college, my mate went straight into a YTS at a local foundry (remember those?) which furnished him with a brick orangey red, with brown interior, Mk1 Astra 1200 that did actually fly five or six feet in the air after a 'navigational error' down a local back road The Mk1 gave way to a 5dr Mk2 1300 with one of the rear door rub strips poking out at 90 degrees like a dog cocking its leg. All sorts of amusing bodges / maintainence on this - cracked front discs, one melted cylinder head, numerous dodgey branded re-moulds and the Metallica Black album on tape played non stop.Mk2 Cavalier 1800 hatch - rod threw itself out without warning. Off the AA truck and into Juniors scrappy.Fiat Panda Fire.Mini Mayfair, rotten front end and boot, replaced in the street and partial respray with aerosols.Sierra 1.8 LX - spun this in front of plod in the town centre... gave sterling service.Mini Equinox - bought with 22k on the clock, went to Holland, Germany and Austria in it - only 4 gears and a single box exhaust!!! Had the works chucked at it, great car.Citroen Xantia 1.9 - big floaty scruffy barge.Alfa 155 2.0 - all good, sold during a period of financial crisis.Kawasaki ZX400Fiat Stilo 1.2 Alfa 155 1.8 - for sale.Audi A6 V6 - 54k, scrappage /webuyanycack.com save.

[rocco1504]

i remember another chap over the road who had one of these for years, at the time was a stunning shape was constantly drooling all over it

 

Vauxhall Magnum 2300

 

must admit im a big fan of those.

God what i'd Give for a sensible Dosh right now, check this out.

WANT, WANT, WANT, WANT

 

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/cla ... arno/76900

 

Even More WANT

 

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/cla ... arno/79622

[Burnside]

I turned 17 in 2000 and didn't pass my test till 2003. My brother beat me 12 mths before with 89 G reg white fiat panda 750L was really good fun he owend it twice! Had a L reg panda 1.0 ie in met green in between but was a nail. Then he owned a MK1 N reg fiat punto 75 ELX 5dr in met red but got wrote off. Shared a mk3 Nreg ford fiesta 1.3 festival in met green with his ex for a year then had a punto mk 1 P reg 60TD 5DR in blue then a N reg punto mk1 1.6 sporting in met blue. Then sold it to buy my j reg renault 19 1.4 5dr in met grey cus he was unemployed and skint. Sadly sold it last week and bought a 99v punto mk gt in yellow. My first car was a 86 talbot samba 1.0 style in silver then a mk1 89 G fiat uno 45s 3dr in black miss both these two a lot. Then had in no order mk4 H reg escort 1.4L in white. k reg escort mk5 1.4 LX in red. 89G reg fiat tipo 1.4 DGT in silver should never had sold it. 91 J RENAULT 19 1.9 GTD in met blue.91H Pug 205 1.8 td in met blue unbelievebly crap. Broke down nearly every day. Hatefull car. 92 K reg Renault extra van 1.6 D in white and rust. 93K Vauxhall corsa 1.2 LS in red. Slowest car ive ever had and dullest. Uno mk1 89 G 45 5dr in black should never have sold that etheir. Then the renault 19 1.4. Now my 93L vauxhall cavalier 1.8 LS hatch in met green. Oh and another uno mk1. A 87 E 60s 5dr in met green not gunna make the same mistake again! My m8 jim has the got the best randoms though. 88E Lada riva 1.3 E estate passed hs test on a friday wrote it off sunday. Replaced it with a mk2 Golf 88E reg 1.6 CL. Vairious Mk 2 Golf GTI'S inc 89 G big bump 8V 3dr in black & 88 E reg red 3dr 16V . MK3 astra N reg 1.6 GLS 5dr. Has owned x3 Lada niva's . 89 G range rover V8 Vouge. X2 cavalier turbo's in met black L + M reg and a 93L white calibra turbo. Own's x3 Astra mk3 2.0 3dr sports at the moment. But has owned x2 Astra sport 2.0 in the past.And there a few of his ive probbley missed i can't keep up.

[muff1380]

Back when I passed my test in '97 me and my mates had a selection of machines - Neil had a 950 Fiesta Mk2 Popular with Capri Ghia alloys (with Capri sized 175x60 tyres, used to srape 5 up until we "rolled" the arches with a hammer), it also had the traditional home stereo speakers in the boot and underseal halfway up the sill. Chris had a gold Metro City with brown velour trim, one of the headlamps used to be a bit erratic - a swift clout to the wing would sort it, until half the front wing dropped off because it was made of filler and newspaper. Guy had an accident repaired Mk3 XR3i with the 1.6 removed and replaced with a rather smokey, rattley 1.3 - it was that sort of orangy red colour they used to come in, matched his bright orange "pulling" shirt quite well. I had my beige '89 Mini City (which I still own) bog stock back then apart from the removal of the wheel trims for that sporty look.College car park had very few student cars back then - the notable examples would have been the purple Beetle with a "cal look" badge, Tom from my physics class' 1302 Beetle with some kind of tuned 1776cc lump, a bright red Nissan Bluebird with Avez A wheels and a bloody massive spoiler on the back that the owner apparently reckoned made it a Ferrari F40 lookalike ( I wish I had pics ) and a few K10 Micras, Mk3 Escorts and Mk2 fiestas that didn't get a second glance back then.