a 1976 Hillman Avenger on the R (here to be sold, just needs a battery)

Actually a better can than many gave it credit for. The major problem for most people was actually very minor. Within the oil fillled carburretor which I can't remember the name of, there was a very fine filter and the base of the jet. Put any sort of even slightly dodgy fuel in this and it would block. Not a big job to put right, 10 minutes and a stubby screwdriver.

ford escort mk 1, with painted on vinyl roof, and the compulsory, names of me and her stuck to the stick on sun stripe on front windscreen, on a G plate, (thats the first time round G plate)..................

A 1989 Ford Fiesta 1.4 Ghia, rosso red!

It was owned by a polish guy who lived in middlesborg, only went to get his pension in it every week then put it back in the garage. It was in showroom condition with only 19000 miles on the clock (his post office must have been a few miles from his house!).

I bought it with the aid of a Yorkshire Bank loan in about 1997 from Acklam Cars in the Borg. Smashing motor with velour trim!

1960 Austin A40 Farina - the same as the picture below.

G345 UJR, a red Fiesta Pop Plus 1.1 with dodgy valve seats that meant it only ran on leaded fuel even though it was meant to be on unleaded.

The engine got more and more clagged until I was having to take the plugs out and wire brush them every 100 miles max.

I traded it in for a red Fiesta 1.6S (like shite off a shovel) when they stopped selling leaded fuel- it wasn't my fault that the garage just assumed that it ran on unleaded.

I had that problem on a TR7, the rings were on their way out so it was burning oil with the petrol. I had to decoke the plugs every 200 miles.

Reliant Robin.. "DPT 930B"

Sold it to a thicko from Peterlee who as he took it away turned to me and said. It has no rust on it for its age son... you have looked after it well....TAXI..

Why did he call a taxi straight after he bought your car?

Did it have a special compartment for a hammer anywhere in the interior?

Plenty of secret spaces.

would that be a stromberg carb

That or an SU (Skinner Union?).
My first car was a Triumph Dolomite 1850 on an R plate, which had two SU carbs on a manifold that was attached to the engine block by rubber mounts that would crack and flex!
Result was that sometimes a couple of cylinders would get a much richer mix than the other two, so it ran rough!

do we have to do this again???!!


Skoda

wouldn't go up hills!!

thats the name I was trying to think of.

but be honest was it not one of the most comfortable cars you ever owned with them armchair seats and when the carb mounts were fixed they went like shit of a stick (for an old mans car like)

I ended up dropping the engine from a 1850 Dolomite into the TR7 - same block just a slightly smaller bore.

The first car I ever bought is still the car I've got now.

A Toyota Yaris. Am saving up to buy a new one. Quite fancy the new Volvo C30? I think that's what it is!

Agreed, top speed wasn't brilliant, but gearing was something else.
It would do almost 60 in first!
I currently have an old rover 600, which is very much like the dolly.
Big comfortable seats, old man car looks, but press the loud pedal and it really goes.
Wish it was the Ti, that's a Q car if ever there was one.

Ford capri ghia loved that car with a passion lost my viginity on the front seat wont mention the young lady in question might be some ones mam.

A 1.3 Nissan Micra, 1998 S Reg. I bought it new from the newly shut down Bradleys in Peterlee

Your first car came from a dealership?!

You posh get!

Rich posh get!

Still living at home but having a full time job helped like

Mine was a mini 850.

ahem listen up
a 1955 vauxhall velox
and no it was not brand new but a super smooth car leather trip and a radio that equalled any of your modern day mp3s

Mine was a 'P' Reg Vauxhall Viva Firenza which i bought off our old fella for £100 in 1986

I pushed it more than i drove it
(The same as below)

Not got one yet.
Nearly there though.
1997 Vauxhall Astra for me :)

Austin Princess..1976...2.2 litre...a f*****g beast. Went like shit, top of the range model, pure luxury inside and drank petrol like it was going out of fashion.... that's why I got it cheap. But I reckoned the money I saved on buying it compensated handsomely for the extra fuel costs.
Drove it down to London once and stopped at Grantham sevices on the A1... Absolutely freezing Friday night in January and as I pulled out a gull was sat in front of the car... it wouldn't move, so our lass told me to get out of the car and shift it. It was dead as a dodo, frozen solid and stuck to the road, so I had no alternative but to drive over it. It was like driving over a brick, so I looked back and it was still intact...weird...and bloody cold

My Stepdad has the Magnum, which has a bigger 2.3 litre engine and was fast as fook

My first car was a red Mini 1000, a right heap, MonkeyHarris could well testify!

Looked good though, alloys and all that, some bastid pinched them, my plug leads, distributor cap, ash tray, and gear knob

My father-in-law had a Princess with dodgy hydrogas suspension.
If you had to brake hard, when you came to a stop the car would rock about so much it was like being on a small boat in the English channel

One of these bought from the HUFC Shop/Victoria Lounge ... they saw me coming!



Actually that was the first one I owned, but the first one I HAD was a Morris Marina.
They don't make cars like those any more.

(Thankfully.)


P.S. can you believe they called that colour Harvest Gold?

notice that the infamous CLOCK GARAGE was responsible for flogging a few dodgy motors to bunkerites 2@s

Didnt they used to nickname them 'The Headcold' Because once you had one you could never get rid of it

i loved my ambassador 1.7hl bloody luxury travel and smoothas foooook
it was that reliable i had changing the headgasket down to 1 hour 30 mins start to finish cos i could rely on it going every 6 months.
XVN 19 Y bought from minories in stockton in 1987 for far too much but it did a lot of miles following pools all over the country

mine was an e reg vauxhall nova.which i still had in 2001(not fom new)
funny as tho,cos it was twocked from outside my house near the hospital and found in raby gardens area with most stuff missing from it apart from hangus the monkey

Mine was a Talbot Horizon in 1989. What a dream machine, I loved it.

Must have driven about 15,000 miles in the 6 months I had it, watching pools around the country including a same day round trip to Carlisle (about 650 miles).

Drove to Stockport on a friday night taking me about 6 hrs. Got there at half time when we were already 3 nil down and eventually lost 6 nil.

One saturday on a trip to Donny, the engine caught fire whilst I was on the M25. The car was written off but what really hacked me off was the RAC gave me a choice, take me to my destination or take me home and I shamefully chose to go back home

Got £1,800 insurance money though and spent it following England at the World Cup in Italy

still hanker after one and if things pan out right this year then it's



and then a

theres a lad up fens crescent has a capri 2.8 brooklands think he might be selling this year

does he know a good divorce lawyer

no thats why he might be selling

Ford Anglia, the one with the weird slopy rear window,
went like hot snot when we put an 1.8 engine in it.

A friend of mine had the original Ford Capri.

For some reason I can't think of we called it the batmobile.
For some reason I can't think of Ford called it a 4-seater.

Morris 1000, bought for 75 quid, in 1973. Built like a tank, I was learning to drive at the time, went out one night with a car full, and as I tried to park it in the pub car park, hit and badly damaged another car, not a mark on mine, we decided to go to another pub instead. One of the lads played for a local football team, the following weekend one of the other players was going on about how some bastad((c)adg) had smashed up his car, while he was having a quite pint in his local.

I've still got mine.

1997 mark 3 Golf 1.4, which I've had for 8 years now. I'll be gutted when it dies. I've spent relatively feck all on repairs and it's done 110000 miles. It passed four out of 7 MOTs with absolutely nothing wrong. The dearest MOT bill was last year, brake pipes at £200.

There's no electric windows to break.

There's no immobiliser to go wrong.

It's an easy to work on under the bonnet.

I hired a brand new Honda Civic to go to Northampton in for work the other day, and it was nowhere near as economical.

I don't ever want to replace it. I don't like modern cars, they just don't feel solid and well put together like my trusty pal the Golf. I know there will come a day when it'll have to be scrapped, and I will be very sad. It's been all over the place - following Pools, weekends away, visiting family etc.

And for the first couple of years me and our lass were together she lived in Coventry. So we sometimes used to meet up in Leicester on a night and enjoy a bit of jiggery pokery on the back seat, which makes me even more attached to it.

yes but you are used to sitting on planks i like comfort

I've still got my first car. Had it for seven years. It's got about 96000 miles on the clock and has never failed an MOT yet.

Well said Mr PIN.

You can't beat the Nazis for well built top quality reliable motors.

Especially late 1990s examples.





So if anybody wants to buy a 1998 Audi A4...