A car that no one here has owned or driven?

[Split_Pin]

11 minutes ago, mk2_craig said:

Those of us who have been here a while will remember legendary tat-botherers RatDat and Nigel Bickle who between them must have a high percentage of even the more obscure suggestions ticked off. 

Anybody manage to own/drive/look at a Seat Ronda back in the day? 

Yes back in the late 2000s some of the stuff that is now almost extinct could easily be had with MOT for about £500. Unfortunately my living arrangements back then did not allow me to have more than one car so I missed out on that era. At least I got to spectate though!

I'm fairly sure someone had a Seat Ronda. Something tells me it was again Mr_Bollox. I think he had also an Isuzu Florian which I seem to remember someone else having an example of too. I can also distantly recall he was having trouble finding a windscreen for it (unsurprisingly).

What about a Citroen Bijou?

[eddyramrod]

11 minutes ago, mk2_craig said:

Those of us who have been here a while will remember legendary tat-botherers RatDat and Nigel Bickle who between them must have a high percentage of even the more obscure suggestions ticked off. 

Anybody manage to own/drive/look at a Seat Ronda back in the day? 

I would imagine Mr Bickle could write this entire thread on his own!

My first encounter with a Seat was when I rear-ended a Malaga in 1986, in a 1.8 Marina.

[mk2_craig]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Isuzu Roflian

Our old friend Michiel in Dutchland?

 

[LightBulbFun]

1 hour ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

SMZ ?

 

23 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

If anybody had it'd be @Sam Glover

well someone in the UK has one, as the one that was for sale on Car and Classic for about 413 years was flogged via bright wells at some point recently https://classiccars.brightwells.com/viewdetails.php?id=10415 (its an invalidka of course I am going to know about it LOL)

 

 

but I could rattle off an entire list of "affordable shite" invalid vehicles that no one here has owned or driven, but that would probably get me shouted at...

[Split_Pin]

1 minute ago, mk2_craig said:

Our old friend Michiel in Dutchland?

 

Good grief you have an excellent memory! Thats the car I remember.

[RayMK]

17 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Yes back in the late 2000s some of the stuff that is now almost extinct could easily be had with MOT for about £500. Unfortunately my living arrangements back then did not allow me to have more than one car so I missed out on that era. At least I got to spectate though!

I'm fairly sure someone had a Seat Ronda. Something tells me it was again Mr_Bollox. I think he had also an Isuzu Florian which I seem to remember someone else having an example of too. I can also distantly recall he was having trouble finding a windscreen for it (unsurprisingly).

What about a Citroen Bijou?

Nigel Bickle also had a rare Isuzu - a Bellel, amongst his considerable collection of every day type cars which have become extremely rare.  A Sao Penza was another one of his wonderfully obscure vehicles.

[Dick Longbridge]

Not current, but my boss from garage days in the early 1990s loved an obscure motor. He had a Fiat Argenta as his personal motor for a fair time and often sourced oddities for the forecourt. Some examples which stuck with me were a 240k Skyline coupe- the first and last I've ever seen in the metal:

A chap who worked there owned a ropey Stellar in that 80s metallic blue. Again, never seen one in the metal since I don't think. 

The biggest surprise was his Renault 18 turbo I drove when he asked me to collect a few bits from the motor factors. I was halfway past a car in a 30 limit when the turbo eventually spooled. As an 18 year old who'd only owned and mainly driven a 1100 mk1 Golf and then a 1100 Morris Minor, I damn near shat myself. 

 

 

[vulgalour]

Surely someone on here has/had one of these.  They must be pretty close to extinct in the UK now, you see a StreetKa more often than a mk1 Tigra now.

[mitsisigma01]

2 hours ago, Cheggers said:

Mr Bollox had a 132

So did I , a T reg , looked great , drove great , rusted out at 8 years old

[RoverFolkUs]

21 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Surely someone on here has/had one of these.  They must be pretty close to extinct in the UK now, you see a StreetKa more often than a mk1 Tigra now.

I was offered one for £500 a good few years ago, I probably should have bitten as it was likely the last opportunity to get one in running order as cheap as that. But I didn't really want it. Hey ho! 🤷

[RoverFolkUs]

I'll be impressed if someone tells me they've owned or driven one of these:

A Proton Persona, if you can't tell!

[cms206]

2 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I'll be impressed if someone tells me they've owned or driven one of these:

A Proton Persona, if you can't tell!

I've got a diesel Persona...

[DVee8]

How about a Gilbern Invader, does anyone have one or had one?

 

[New POD]

I've always wanted a 3 door mk2 cavalier 

Eh what you say... 

Somewhere in South America they sold the mk2 cavalier as a cheverolet monza and did a 3 door version.  It ran on ethanol too. 

[Rocket88]

Anyone else had one of these? Party trick was to park it nose first into the kerb, vault out, and with a certain insouciance, pick up the back end, and park it next to the kerb

[sdkrc]

2 hours ago, cms206 said:

I've got a diesel Persona...

I'm sorry to hear that @cms206, I hope your luck turns around soon

[RichardK]

9 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

My cunning plan sort of worked to get people to post up pictures of my favourite cars, or at least to let me know some of you own them

Mr_Bollox had an Argenta.

What about a VW Type 3 Karmann Ghia?

A Leyland EA?

A Commer Walk-Thru

A Renault 15.

My mum had a Type 3 Razoredge and I've been on at my dad to did the pictures out because I used to use a shot of the front of it for zone exposures in the darkroom

[ProgRocker]

UAZ Hunter? 

 

[RichardK]

2 hours ago, DVee8 said:

How about a Gilbern Invader, does anyone have one or had one?

 

Had, no, borrowed to consider buying, yes - but the estate model.

Wasn't really affordable shite even in 1999, like, £5-6K ish – seller also had a Nash Metropolitan.

[catsinthewelder]

7 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Surely someone on here has/had one of these.  They must be pretty close to extinct in the UK now, you see a StreetKa more often than a mk1 Tigra now.

I think it was John K, he won a Cannock meet by buying it at the auction.

[meggersdog]

7 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

So did I , a T reg , looked great , drove great , rusted out at 8 years old

Me too, mine was ten years old. I gave it to my dad when he lost his company car. Long story short, the car ended up in a car pound somewhere near Portsmouth as he was caught drink driving there. 

[Dan_ZTT]

7 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Surely someone on here has/had one of these.  They must be pretty close to extinct in the UK now, you see a StreetKa more often than a mk1 Tigra now.

I remember being a passenger, mum driving, when we hit the back of one of these and wrote off our Corsa. The Tigra actually didn’t look too badly damaged. Would have been 2005 I think.

(there were extenuating circumstances that caused the incident, and nobody was hurt)

[davehedgehog31]

Invacar?

[CreepingJesus]

Transit County?

[TataBobu]

10 hours ago, Bren said:

 

Anybody owned a viceroy?

Only those, and for less than a day each: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_(cigarette)

But I'm sure those don't count. And to cut them off the list, I'm proud to announce that I have driven not one but two Dacia Sport, and a Wartburg 311 Limousine.

[95 quid Peugeot]

3 hours ago, DVee8 said:

How about a Gilbern Invader, does anyone have one or had one?

 

I've had 7

[Matty]

3 hours ago, DVee8 said:

How about a Gilbern Invader, does anyone have one or had one?

 

Not me personally but family have had 3. 2 invader mk2s when I was little then a mk3 when I was in my teens. Mk2 in teal blue was our second car after a mk2 vitesse.

[95 quid Peugeot]

4 minutes ago, Matty said:

Not me personally but family have had 3. 2 invader mk2s when I was little then a mk3 when I was in my teens. Mk2 in teal blue was our second car after a mk2 vitesse.

Last one 

[Dick Longbridge]

I don't think I've ever heard claim on here of anyone owning a Frogeye? My father owned one in the late 60s. This is a random young chap from a place synonymous with comedy legend* Stan Boardman. 

[SiC]

@anonymous userhas owned a Frogeye