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Post by baggpuss on Mar 17, 2012 10:30:02 GMT
1970 Mini Clubman when I was 18.
Out of all the cars I had I loved that one most and none has ever given me as mush pleasure.
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Post by El Ghamidget on Mar 17, 2012 10:36:47 GMT
Rover 100, same shape as a metro but NOT a metro.
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Post by solihull_throstle on Mar 17, 2012 10:43:12 GMT
Metallic green Fiat Uno.
My Italian stallion.
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Post by Maresca on Mar 17, 2012 10:52:15 GMT
Rover 100, same shape as a metro but NOT a metro. They've re-badged it you fool. |
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Post by Dubyabeeay on Mar 17, 2012 10:59:38 GMT
YLF 712G Mk 2 Ford Cortina 1600E in very rare light blue. Cost £400.
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Post by BaggieBoi on Mar 17, 2012 11:06:02 GMT
1956 Morris Minor, 803cc sidevalve engine, split windscreen. Floor had more holes then actual floor. Reg was SOX 78.
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Post by devonbaggie on Mar 17, 2012 11:08:25 GMT
324 HLR Fiat 2300 Estate.
Rusty as hell, 20mpg (but petrol was 50p a GALLON ... aprox 11p per litre).
Column gear change.
Bought for 80 pounds, sold two years later for 65.
Loved it.
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Post by Astlebridge on Mar 17, 2012 11:10:18 GMT
Vauxhall Astra. Did the job.
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Post by frankfurillo on Mar 17, 2012 11:19:16 GMT
Renault 10 - rear-engined, successor to the Dauphine. The gear lever was as long as a trekking pole, but it served me well and I didn't lose much on it when I sold it.
The best was an Alfasud Ti - the 1350cc version before they bloated them up with fat tyres and unnecessary weight. I took it up to the 8,500 rpm redline on more than one occasion; the rust killed it in the end.
Edit: If I switch from romanticism to objectivity, the 'best' was probably a Toyota Corolla: irredeemably dull but absolutely bulletproof and built to a quality standard I've never seen in any other I've owned, not even the four Golfs.
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Post by rommel on Mar 17, 2012 11:46:33 GMT
1932 Morris 8 .... Innertubed tyres, Rear Luggage rack . No heater. No independent suspension.rear window blind .... the start of a long romance  |
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Post by Kiskos on Mar 17, 2012 11:48:23 GMT
Austin A30, a total rust bucket, purchased from my brother's mate Rob Gilding ( now a doctor I believe) for the extortionate price of £10.
Registration POK 441.
A brilliant engine and gearbox mounted in a chassis and bodywork with less staying power that a strip of bacofoil.
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Post by jezstatham on Mar 17, 2012 12:06:41 GMT
1932 Morris 8 .... Innertubed tyres, Rear Luggage rack . No heater. No independent suspension.rear window blind .... the start of a long romance a blind on the rear window!!!! ;D |
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Post by Hutchinson on Mar 17, 2012 12:16:15 GMT
1932 Morris 8 .... Innertubed tyres, Rear Luggage rack . No heater. No independent suspension.rear window blind .... the start of a long romance who would have thought, did she have puffy tyre valves? |
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Post by wbeea on Mar 17, 2012 12:37:36 GMT
Golf GTI Mk1 Campaign model. A35 PCJ.
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Post by bert on Mar 17, 2012 12:45:31 GMT
B reg Metro, in a shit orange colour, £200 lasted me 2 years, then sold to a traveller who knocked me door 1 Saturday afternoon, went out on the piss with the £50.
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Post by Hutchinson on Mar 17, 2012 12:49:44 GMT
mine was a blue fiesta popular E reg I think
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Post by Paulie Walnuts on Mar 17, 2012 13:45:06 GMT
B reg Escort, Silver 5 door opened up the world of away games without coaches
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Post by El Ghamidget on Mar 17, 2012 13:49:50 GMT
Rover 100, same shape as a metro but NOT a metro. They've re-badged it you fool. I know, you didn't have to shatter my illusions of grandeur! |
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Post by Arti on Mar 17, 2012 15:14:11 GMT
'69 Morris Minor 1000, bought in 1989 and kept it for 12 years. Fab car.
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Post by hawkingshalfpipe on Mar 17, 2012 15:33:07 GMT
Learnt to drive in a family hand-me-down '88 VW Polo. Very plastic and German but bulletproof.
First car I actually bought was a '98 Honda Integra Type R. I've owned more powerful, more expensive and more luxurious motors but this remains the car of which I have the fondest memories and probably always will.
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Post by coxy134 on Mar 17, 2012 15:43:42 GMT
Chrysler horizon
quickly changed for a Mk1 astra
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Post by bert on Mar 17, 2012 15:52:06 GMT
Learnt to drive in a family hand-me-down '88 VW Polo. Very plastic and German but bulletproof. First car I actually bought was a '98 Honda Integra Type R. I've owned more powerful, more expensive and more luxurious motors but this remains the car of which I have the fondest memories and probably always will. Wit wow get you. MCW if ever there was 1. |
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Post by baggieinexile on Mar 17, 2012 15:53:33 GMT
Ford Anglia RTW924D - did the usual-big wheels and tyres (165's big in those days) and stuck a 1.6 Cortina engine in it.
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Post by votebaggie on Mar 17, 2012 16:01:39 GMT
orange morris marina LLN 808K, which i had resprayed to impress a beautiful solihull girl i was going out with at the time, even painted tyres black, new number plates, two thin go-faster stripes. Turned up outside her house, proud as punch, her sister came to the door and said "she doesn't want to go out with you anymore"
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Post by paula_m on Mar 18, 2012 2:24:23 GMT
Light blue Metro, can't remember the reg though
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Post by secondtimer on Mar 18, 2012 2:44:55 GMT
A Dinky
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Post by devonbaggie on Mar 18, 2012 11:06:26 GMT
Turned up outside her house, proud as punch, her sister came to the door and said "she doesn't want to go out with you anymore"
Did you ask her sister out?
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Post by wbeea on Mar 18, 2012 11:23:02 GMT
orange morris marina LLN 808K, which i had resprayed to impress a beautiful solihull girl i was going out with at the time, even painted tyres black, new number plates, two thin go-faster stripes. Turned up outside her house, proud as punch, her sister came to the door and said "she doesn't want to go out with you anymore" Hope you never spent money on a sun visor with her name on it  |
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Post by Mine's half full on Mar 18, 2012 11:28:47 GMT
Hillman Imp, 1966 model, bought it in 1976.
Young people today have no idea how totally shite cars were back in the 60s and 70s. Mini, Volkswagen Beetle, Morris 1000, Triumph Herald, Austin A40, Austin 1100 - all of those "entry level" cars were atrocious things to drive or travel in. Makes the ubiquitous smal French thing that youngsters drive today feel like a limo.
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Post by frankfurillo on Mar 18, 2012 11:33:00 GMT
Hillman Imp, 1966 model, bought it in 1976. Young people today have no idea how totally shite cars were back in the 60s and 70s. Mini, Volkswagen Beetle, Morris 1000, Triumph Herald, Austin A40, Austin 1100 - all of those "entry level" cars were atrocious things to drive or travel in. Makes the ubiquitous smal French thing that youngsters drive today feel like a limo. You sound like the kind of chap who has purchased a new set of plugs from Bulldog Spares and then skinned his knuckles fitting them. Or crawled under the car with one of those Gun Gum exhaust bandages to eke out a few more months. Mind, at least you could fit a new bulb in those days without needing to dismantle half of the car. |
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