Oldest car in your street..

[Guest]

Where I am the oldest vehicle is a K plate Sherpa van. The oldest car is a M plate Fiesta. Lot of foreigners live around me so we have newish taxis and Toyotas / vw's here

[STUNO]

I thought I had the oldest, but sadly spotted a 60ish VW beetle behind a house.

[Silvia Nut]

A 1982 Honda Accord is the oldest in our street i think, and the newest would probably be the 2009 Honda Accord up the road, and then the Ford Ranger Wildtrack, then our 2008 Ford Fiesta WQ.

[whitevanman]

As I dont live in a street....The oldest cars in the village next to me are as follows 1931 Lanchester, then a 1932 Lanchester, then a 1936 Chrysler, My 1971 Cortina, My 1973 Cortina, My 1975 Cortina, 1977 Sherpa coupe, My 1978 Cortina etc, etc

[Louise2cv]

About 15 houses, there's a 1930's/40's Austin thing that comes to a garage over summer but lives away in winter I think; my 1975 Allegro and an A-reg "quantum" fiesta based kit car thing, built by the man who owns it. The rest are all fairly new.

UPDATE.

 

Apparently my desicion to ditch the 2cv for the allegro inspired my neighbour to have a change. The Austin "thing" is in fact an 8. He called round last night to invite us to see something; in the garage was a 1963 Morris Minor (unusually it was my boyf who got most excited as he looked after a friends Minor back in his uni days). It was a straight swap for the Austin; as the Minor has been restored and is usable, whereas he was finding more and more that needed doing on the Austin. The guy with the Minor was after a new project, so everyone's happy.

 

We were then invited in to look at photo albums...

 

His first car was an Austin 8: photo with then girlfriend-now wife- check.

Then an A35, an A35(?) van, a Daimler of some sort (morse-jag-a-like style): photos of restoration and shows- check.

 

But best of all, and I think his favourite, was the album dedicated to his Austin Atlantic...

 

I'm probably wasting my time here, but heres a pic, I'd certainly never seen one before!

 

 

 

Lovely! His was a 1951 car, originally black but white/cream when he had it. It looked in good nick even before the resto, apparently because the original owner ran over his dog in it, so parked it in the garage and never drove it again. Even after he passed away his widow would not allow it to be sold, so I think their son had to distract her while our neighbour collected it. I think he'd like to have kept it, and I'd love to see one in the metal!

 

His dream car at the mo is a Bristol 402.

[Formula Autos]

The oldest car in my street is a H reg Mazda 121 (the saloon version that is so rotund it looks like it's an inflatable), still in amazingly good condition as the owner garages it every night. It's in a particularly unappealingly shade of dark blue (now faded and flat). Neo-autoshite, surely?

 

Other than that, the next oldest is an L reg Frontera, with peeling lacquer on the alloys, rust throughout, and an interior covered in dog hairs. Yet every day it starts without complaint, and the owner loves it far more than his other car - a 56 plate Focus ST, which he describes as 'quite fast, but boring'.

 

There's also a T-reg ex-police white Volvo T5 estate squirelled away by a loving owner, though that doesn't come out much.

 

I'm letting the side down a bit - my oldest is a W reg. Though in fairness it is crap - a Ford Cougar V6 with a torn drivers seat and one tyre that needs inflating weekly as the alloy is porous.

[dollywobbler]

Lovely. Austin Atlantics are great. A complete disaster.

 

Bristols are nice (ahem...) too.

[Guest]

the oldest car in my street is my dads 1976 toyota celica ra28 lol ;P

[Silvia Nut]

The '82 Accords gone now, meaning that my new car, a 1987 Mitsubishi Colt Sedan is now the oldest in my street!

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Where I am the oldest vehicle is a K plate Sherpa van. The oldest car is a M plate Fiesta. Lot of foreigners live around me so we have newish taxis and Toyotas / vw's here

Are you incapable of making a post without going on about blummin' furreners?

[warren t claim]

About 15 houses, there's a 1930's/40's Austin thing that comes to a garage over summer but lives away in winter I think; my 1975 Allegro and an A-reg "quantum" fiesta based kit car thing, built by the man who owns it. The rest are all fairly new.

UPDATE.

 

Apparently my desicion to ditch the 2cv for the allegro inspired my neighbour to have a change. The Austin "thing" is in fact an 8. He called round last night to invite us to see something; in the garage was a 1963 Morris Minor (unusually it was my boyf who got most excited as he looked after a friends Minor back in his uni days). It was a straight swap for the Austin; as the Minor has been restored and is usable, whereas he was finding more and more that needed doing on the Austin. The guy with the Minor was after a new project, so everyone's happy.

 

We were then invited in to look at photo albums...

 

His first car was an Austin 8: photo with then girlfriend-now wife- check.

Then an A35, an A35(?) van, a Daimler of some sort (morse-jag-a-like style): photos of restoration and shows- check.

 

But best of all, and I think his favourite, was the album dedicated to his Austin Atlantic...

 

I'm probably wasting my time here, but heres a pic, I'd certainly never seen one before!

 

 

 

Lovely! His was a 1951 car, originally black but white/cream when he had it. It looked in good nick even before the resto, apparently because the original owner ran over his dog in it, so parked it in the garage and never drove it again. Even after he passed away his widow would not allow it to be sold, so I think their son had to distract her while our neighbour collected it. I think he'd like to have kept it, and I'd love to see one in the metal!

 

His dream car at the mo is a Bristol 402.

I'm sure that Austin Atlantic that ran over a dog was featured in a classic car magazine about 17 years ago. I remember the story and thinking it was a bit sad.

[meggersdog]

The R18 was driven away yesterday.I am no longer winning the oldest car my the street award.The E.reg Maestro has just been pipped by my nextdoor neighbours new purchase.He sold his G.reg pre K-sealies Rover and replaced it with 50 quids worth of taxed and tested D.reg Mitsubishi Colt.

The schoolboy's restoration project mini is a H.reg on 12inch Cosmics.

So my street consists of...D.reg Colt,E.reg Maestro,H.reg Discovery,H.reg Mini,L.reg AX,N.reg Mondeo and N.reg Astra.All the rest have five letters and two numbers in the registration.Not bad for a street with 30 houses in it.

[hennabm]

The chap at the end of my road has now acquired a Triumph Snag making his the oldest on the street.

[Formula Autos]

I've finally managed to get a piccie of the oldest car in my street when the owner pulled it out of the garage and parked it up for some reason.

 

It may not be that old, but the styling alone makes it shite:

[Rusty Pelican]

A60 Atlantics are rare , they had a wind down rear window operated from the front via cables and the like , not an idea that others copied

[Alexg]

Since I moved I think it's looks like I have the oldest and second oldest...

[eddyramrod]

Pretty sure my A40 is the oldest car in the whole village, not just my road; though some of the Land-Rovers might put up a fight. My Capri will be next (if we're discounting the numerous Landies), then the Mk4 Cortina round the corner, then the 1980-ish Mazda 323 that's sat in a field since well before we arrived last year. I'd love to drag that out and restore it just to be able to say I had the number plate "LL 4." There's no number-plate trading here, what you get is what you get, but that one is particularly attractive for some reason...

 

There's a bike of some sort in the field with the Mazda, but I can't tell what it is or how old. Bikes are more easily hidden than cars, it's possible the village is rife with them but I haven't found them yet!

[gearoil]

There was an Alfa 164 but I've not seen it for a while. I picked up Ms Gearoils Mum earlier and saw a B plate 240 estate, S plate Safrane & Singer Gazelle on axle stands in a garden all in the same street.

[catsinthewelder]

My 74 VW is probably the oldest on our estate of 70 houses. I saw a Moggie convertable parked up a few weeks back but I don't think it lives here.

 

The estate isn't very shite friendly as we've got one of only about 5 drives on the estate, everyone else is stuck with parking bays and theres no space to convert front gardens.

 

I saw a mk2 Golf GTI parked up which would presumably beat my J reg BX into 3rd, with 4th and 5th taken by L reg 106 and 306. Theres a fair few others not much younger including a rough m plate E36 and a crusty mk1 Mondeo estate owned by a window cleaner. Next door have an Escort van on three spoke alloys FTW

 

Best is on the other side of the main road though.., An early sixties Cadillac Eldorado in white over pink

[scoobypete]

Theres a D plate nova lives opposite me and my neighbour but two has an E reg panda but my T25 is the oldest at the moment on its Y reg