H reg hillman minx 1500cc of sheer hell, seized & been standing 18 months at the back of my uncles .Bought it off him for £50 unseized it ,got it through an mot 17 years old... downhill....off the clock......blew it up.......end of.
1967 Singer Vogue bought from a chef at the Albany hotel Glasgow I only met the guy the once but remember his name was Keith Luck (Kluck to his mates!)
Bought it in 1980 while also being the owner of a CB250T both were considered outmoded...both were quicker than the unitiated may think
The Frying Scotsman
brown austin allegro 1750 HL with a full length windey vinyl sunroof :lol it used more oil than petrol. it rotted so badly underneath that the drivers seat went through the floor one day when i sat in it. my uncle managed to bodge it with some steel plate from work. when i eventually scrapped it for £20 i bought a brown datsun 120Y. a little belter it was too!
Rielly Kestrel 1300--all rosewood veneer on the inside and boy could it shift.
1984 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 as a back up to my then commuting tool of a Honda CB250 Super(wet)dream
1991 1.6 metallic blue Ford Escort, was a Ghia so had leccy windows and a large dent covered in primer on the front wing. Got it free when my old man got a new car, insurance was over a grand but still worked out cheaper than buying and insuring a 1 litre Clio/Punto/106 like my mates had. Had to scrap it when I went to uni cos I couldn't afford to run or insure it and the repairs would have cost more than I'd have got selling.
thou shalt not kick
Maroon MkII Cortina 1300; this was in 1974 eeek then I jacked it up 'til the headlights only lit up the floor under the bumper... what a pile of shit. HTM991F where are you now? Probably recycled as a coke can and all the better for it........................................
And on their best day, the Gods at Yamaha Struck the block of rough ore and the Fazer Thousand was formed; and they looked down and smiled, for it was brilliant in its purity; and, low, we all new that anything else is an 'also-ran'...
K reg blue mini clubman estate, the one with the 4 inch wide wooden strips down the side!
A white Austin Allegro........with the square steering wheel!! :o
I'm sure one day it even reached 80 mph (downhill with the wind behind it)
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XR3i 8)
Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
An Orange 1978 Opel Kadett 1.2
Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light.
Is it just me or have most of us had shitty cars in crap colours?
(02-10-11, 02:37 PM)slappy link Wrote: Is it just me or have most of us had shitty cars in crap colours?
Let me put it this way.
It's not just you! :lol :lol :lol
Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light.
1965 Austin Minivan DEX 174C with wide wheels,big-bore exhaust, twin spot & fog lamps in grille, all held together with lashings of rust under the blue paintwork and black roof. This was the dry sprung model not hydrolastic and drove like a go kart. Paid my mate Steve £100 @ £10 a month. Steve passed his bike test before me in 1966 and had a Villiers powered Norman 197cc two-stroke single. I was riding a Lambretta TV175 with polished ports , Ancilloti exhaust, and I could usually beat him from a standing start although eventually he could pip me on top speed. Although slow by modern standards I seem to remember we overtook a lot of cagers. Cars began to get better(quicker) with the crossflow engine Fords. Steves brother had a Janspeed conversion Morris Minor convertible with twin SU carbed 1275 tuned engine. Looked shabby but it shifted! Petrol was 6 bob a gallon in 1965 (30p in modern jargon) Happy days!
1983 Y Reg Volvo 340 GL 3 dr in Baby Blue. My folks couldn't see past Volvo's at the time & were mega safety conscious.
It's was immaculate to be fair. At least when I got hold of it
It died an undignified death heading thru a hedge backwards, before smashing into a tree.
I did buy a scrap 340 & kinda rebuilt it, but it was never the same.
Sold it & bought an XR2. That was truly awful!
(02-10-11, 10:28 AM)Aegis Bearing Mel link Wrote: Fuel filler had a huge crack running down it so couldn't have the tank more than half full or fue pished out every time I went rounf right handers.
Front shock spring cracked, rear panels more rust and filler than anything else, cut out every now and then due to a dodg fuel feed...
Man, I LOVED that car.

Sounds a bit like your last bike :rollin
Davie.........yes I am that man.
1980 Mini 1275GT, in black and rust, bought for £750 and sold for £750 a couple of years later. Great little fun car, replaced with a 1984 Jaguar XJS 5.3 V12.......