Do you own the oldest car in your works car park?

[warren t claim]

Following on from the recent thread about having the oldest car in your street I thought I would start a thread about whether your shite is the official office embarassment? Do even the East European migrant workers in your factory bring over better and newer cars?

 

I once had to return back to where I was working to move my Micra 'cos they were having publicity brochures made and the didn't want it spoiling the image of the company for the next few years whenever they sent an information pack out to prospective clients!

[VWPowered]

yes mines the only one there self employed fun

[Father Ted]

Up until yesterday I would have said yes, then someone turned up in a J plate Morris 1000.

Otherwise its all 53 plate onward stuff.

[whitevanman]

Aye..... and that includes the public car park on a Monday

[ProgRocker]

Where I currently work (as a temp) mine is beaten by a very clean L reg Pug 306 (XL spec I think) and an early K reg Mundano.

[Tayne]

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[Albert Ross]

Mines December 1970. Until January joined by a fabled Morris Wedge from 1975 (owner retired)

One guy has a 1981 X plate Land Rover too..... but it's on a coil chassis and therefore not entirely as old as it should be.

There's also a D plate 90, and a J plate VM Rangie.

The rest are all modern resin rep rockets.

[Volksy]

I've gone from the oldest to the newest, but only temporarily, back to the oldest in September

[Alexg]

Well I work for a new car dealer (Citroen Pug Fiat) as a salesman and have to use a company demo. I'm tempted to drive the 1982 Mg Metro in but I'm guaranteed the day I do one of the other guys will say "mate, can I have your keys I gotta test drive on your demo today" Er, ok...

[Polystratus]

 

I once had to return back to where I was working to move my Micra 'cos they were having publicity brochures made and the didn't want it spoiling the image of the company for the next few years whenever they sent an information pack out to prospective clients!

Reminds of a place I worked at, very briefly (thank goodness), someone came in a very nice Mk 2 Cortina one day, and was told to take it off the site because it would 'upset' visiting clients, he stormed off never to return.

[Angrydicky]

Well I work in a supermarket, so the carpark is the customer carpark, still I have the oldest car there by about 30 years 99% of the time (1957)

 

There is a 1976 Wedge Princess in brown that makes an appearance sometimes, and the occasional Herald, Minor, Cortina etc. Don't know any of my colleagues with anything remotely interesting though.

[Guest]

Currently driving the E-reg 626 to work, so easily, yes.

 

Another question - Does anyone else drive an old car to work wearing a full suit and tie in an effort to pretend they're a successful businessman from the old days instead of a complete loser from nowadays? I can name one person who does.

[Father Ted]

Aye..... and that includes the public car park on a Monday

Funny you should say that - it was over on the visits car park.

[seth]

Works car park many moons ago.

 

 

Said factory has now been flattened. There was a guy there who daily drove a pre war Austin at some stage.

[Lord Sterling]

Yes, my slowly dying Rover Sterling has always been the oldest in the carpark wherever I've worked. Though in this (Now former as of today) latest job, the bastard company wont let me park in the carpark, I have to park outside on the road, because I'm a "temp"

 

Fuckers.

[scaryoldcortina]

Well, autofive and I have an arms race going at the moment.... I have the oldest at the moment (1954) then him (1967) me again (1968) then him (1970) then me (1972) and it goes on up to the early 90's. Asda have banished us to shiter's corner (where the petrol station used to be)

[greengartside]

My K-reg Fiesta did hold the title for a short while but has been beaten by a J-reg Sierra GLX. The majority have 51-plate onwards cars.

There sas also an ancient B-reg Golf 1.3 (non-scened!) that belonged to my mate - has I think just dissolved really, he drives a 52-plate Golf TDi now.

[HillmanImp]

Another question - Does anyone else drive an old car to work wearing a full suit and tie in an effort to pretend they're a successful businessman from the old days instead of a complete loser from nowadays? I can name one person who does.

LOLZ. I am a successful businessman but on my days off I drive around in my Rocco with no top on, smoking Lamberts, listening to happy hardcore so that I can pretend that I am a complete loser from about 4 years ago. wink:

 

All of my cars are easily a fair bit older than most other stuff in the car park, even my Megane. The chairman did complain about the Rocco once thinking someone from another office had parked in one of our spaces, but i soon put him right.

[Guest]

Well, autofive and I have an arms race going at the moment.... I have the oldest at the moment (1954) then him (1967) me again (1968) then him (1970) then me (1972) and it goes on up to the early 90's. Asda have banished us to shiter's corner (where the petrol station used to be)

So they didn't bar you then?

[GJR 11L]

No, my '72 Dolomite was the oldest car in the staff car park until the LEA thought it would be more "inclusive" (bloody lentil munching, sandal wearing arses that the suits are... ) to desegregate the student and staff parking areas, so now, I regularly park beside a totally spotless, 1964 Morris Oxford as its owner is a final year mechanical & production engineering student who nearly always needs a jump start on account of he hasn't studied anything about why generators are shite, especially when he drives in with as many high-drain gadgets running as he can switch on at once, in slow-moving traffic that sees his battery discharging as he drives.

It worries me that the future of British engineering lies in the hands of people who don't know what their starting handle is for......

 

 

But from now until the start of the 2010/2011 year, I'll often be the oldest car there, sometimes the only one as I fully intend to avail myself of the region's finest automotive workshops once the little darlings have all buggered off home for the summer break.

[pogweasel]

I am self-employed and rent an office in a 'serviced' block. Generally I go there in my Kangoo. I think the oldest 'regular' in the car park is an R-reg (97) range rover

 

Another question - Does anyone else drive an old car to work wearing a full suit and tie in an effort to pretend they're a successful businessman from the old days instead of a complete loser from nowadays? I can name one person who does.

I do actually go to certain client meetings in my ancient BMW, ones where pitching up in a tidy old bavaria mobile is more credible than arriving in a down-at-heel 5-year-old van with missing wheel-trims and parking dings.

But I never wear a suit & tie. Never.

[Formula Autos]

Depressingly, even though it's relatively young (on a W plate), when I take my Ford Cougar to work it's the oldest thing in the car park. The next oldest is a Y plate Kia Carens, which seems to have stopped turning up lately. If the Kia isn't there my Mondeo dizzler ('04 plate) is about the second or third oldest.

 

There was a guy at work with an R reg Escort estate, but it was written off when he parked it between two 4x4s and some numbnut swung into the space at speed, having not seen the 'scort. The scene afterwards looked like Numbnut's modded 306 was trying to hump the 'scort, as it ended up on its bonnet. Surreally, Numbnut left the stereo on, so when I (and others) surveyed the scene it was to a loud dance music soundtrack.

 

My employers are the local council, so the car park is full of management cars (new/newish and quite flash, generally), or the cars of those who go out visiting the public, like meself (who generally go for something fairly newish and trouble free). Nothing there on 'old style' numberplates at all if I don't take the Cougar.

 

As an aside, when I was using it daily the Cougar didn't half upset the spods at the Council, as it apparently affected the CO2 reporting figures. They kept sending e-mails encouraging me to buy a fuel efficient car, to which I told them to get stuffed. They even went as far as getting brochures delivered for Citroen C1s and the like, presenting them to me as if they were a map to El Dorado. I told them that I couldn't see the financial sense in spending thousands (of probably borrowed money, at an extortionate rate) to buy a car that saves me a few hundred a year. They countered that I could chop the Cougar in under scrappage (which I couldn't at the time, it was too young) and get 2K for it. Using Spock-logic, I countered that, as the point of this was to improve their CO2 figures, it's actually better to keep the Cougar (low miles, fully serviced, years more life in it) and use a bit more fuel, than to get Citroen to make me a new car - using loads of CO2 in the process. Their answer was that the programme didn't even allow the age of the car to be considered, just its CO2 banding, so could I get rid of my 2.5 litre polluter pronto please and buy a C1? The discussion ended with a two fingered response. I used the Cougar for another 12 months out of spite.

[Guest]

Hey Formula Autos, that sounds mental! Who was bothering you about it? In your position, I think I would have sold it and bought a Lincoln Continental Mark V with the optional 7.5L "big block", doubtful of their ability to do anything about it. I'd love to see some of these Emails.

 

I work for a council and they haven't asked me to do anything with regards to my cars. I've even gone out to bother local businessmen in them, nothing like pulling up outside in a 28-year-old beige Galant to convey some style and class. At work, there's a list of cars and registrations for the staff car park by surname, quite funny when it gets to mine because the neat selection of new registration Clios/Puntos is abruptly broken up by a load of suffix plates and COLT, DATSUN, etc.

 

There's some kind of tiresome "let's suddenly save the environment" campaign going on at the moment which involves people putting up glossy posters and the likes (sod the trees, then?). I returned to my TFT monitor on Friday to find a little sticker in the corner reminding me to "Switch it off", even though they turn themselves off with the computer. I expect at some point they'll give their attention to the age of cars and attempt to whinge at me for ruining the environment, to which I will respond by taxing the tatty Stanza and turning up in that - I'll even come early so I can park it right outside the entrance. On my lunch I'll just sit inside it idling with the mixture turned right up, so I can listen to the radio without it draining the battery.

 

In conclusion, if someone asks you to do something you don't like the sound of, just do something completely absurd instead. Might seem daft at first, but they're unlikely to ask again.

[r.welfare]

Some bloke at my office (never seen him, but it must be a bloke) has a very tidy, F-plate Honda Legend coupe which I reckon is the oldest car in the car park. I'm not including a 70/J XJ6 2.8 (!) as it only appears sporadically.

 

Although I recently changed from an L-reg (405) to a V-reg (Accord), mine's still one of the oldest.

[Negative Creep]

I'm not important enough to get a parking space

[pompei]

When I worked for the County Council long ago in a previous life, most of the Survey and Education staff who occupied our building used to get new cars every two years. Some even had designated spaces. I was a trainee and v poor and used to roll up in all sorts of scruffy old tat. One feller asked me to park somewhere else as it was right outside his window. Needless to say I made a point of parking it there whenever I could.

[barrett]

Even if I had a car, I would probably walk to work as it's only 15 minutes up the road, but there is actually a surprising amount of tat up there. BMW E30 Baur cab, Golf ragtop (I think it's a MK2 era one, with placcy bumpers etc), pre-facelift Renner 19 hatch, minty MK2 Golf 5dr, Carina II.... someone also has a shitty rover, which always makes me laugh when I see it.

[pandamonium]

.... Nope

[messerschmitt owner]

Regularly have the oldest thing in the car park - at various jobs that has included a 1959 PA, a 1963 CA, a 1969 LR Dormie, a 1959 Messerschmitt, a 1961 Berkeley, a 1962 ISetta or a 1963 Trabbie.

 

Currently, I am looking out onto an M plate pug 205, my M plate XM, a T Merc 230CE and a T Astra and a Y Landie 90 and Y Fiat COupe 20V

 

Once my pal's SM is up and running again after a year lay up it will be the oldest in the car park by about 20 years.

[scooters]

I enjoy parking the 44 next to the MD's brand new Aston Martin - especially as she pisses 300 mls of oil everytime I park!