Cars I Have Owned,Wanted,Loved And Hated

[RJRB]

Intended to be a memory jogger for petrol heads and average joes.

Most of my working life I have gone through the gamut of Company cars ,mainly Fords and Vauxhall’s.Later Saab’s,BMWs .

Never went for a Merc,or even an Audi Quattro when I had the opportunity,although that was a car I would have loved when younger.

Anyway my first car was an Austin A40 countryman  costing £150 that gave me a freedom beyond my wildest dreams and took me to Devon,Wales,Scotland and many a run into Derbyshire.

Many a bump start from upper Walkley down the hill and messing about with plugs ,points and distributors.

I was never mechanical minded but my brother in law was always on hand.

Finally parted with it  to a mate with a spare gear box in the boot because I could not get first and reverse which made me very careful about where I parked.

He actually gave me £40 a couple of months later having replaced the gear box and sold it on.

 

[Rockers rule]

33 minutes ago, RJRB said:

Intended to be a memory jogger for petrol heads and average joes.

Most of my working life I have gone through the gamut of Company cars ,mainly Fords and Vauxhall’s.Later Saab’s,BMWs .

Never went for a Merc,or even an Audi Quattro when I had the opportunity,although that was a car I would have loved when younger.

Anyway my first car was an Austin A40 countryman  costing £150 that gave me a freedom beyond my wildest dreams and took me to Devon,Wales,Scotland and many a run into Derbyshire.

Many a bump start from upper Walkley down the hill and messing about with plugs ,points and distributors.

I was never mechanical minded but my brother in law was always on hand.

Finally parted with it  to a mate with a spare gear box in the boot because I could not get first and reverse which made me very careful about where I parked.

He actually gave me £40 a couple of months later having replaced the gear box and sold it on.

 

Nice one RJRB.

Nothing wrong with the A40.

Anything with the A series engine gets my vote (got one from an Ital under my work bench now )

Controversial I preferred the Marina / Ital to Ford's Escort (even better if the 1800 B series were in it. )

Merc's love the things. BMW's certainly got better but hated them with a passion until recently.

Cars I've owned, where to start? Easy Reliant Regals bought and sold them still have a few .

Favourite driving car I've owned, Vauxhall Senator, favourite classic I've owned LHD MK111 Zephyr (in Pink ) 

Favourite modern Classic, Chrysler  PT Cruiser (built in Rock 'N' Roll )

Driven: now that's a different kettle of fish. 

Returned so many customers cars after having been repaired I invented a game called "Driven one of them" annoys the Hell out of the kids 🙃.

Big saloon cars are my thing 

Two I have driven stand out, Audi S6 Auto estates luv em, and one I'd have tomorrow a 4ltr Australian Fairlane Hearse that was great sideways around roundabouts .

 

 

 

Tell me that's not 'Gorgeous'. 

Can smell the Formaldehyde from here 😀.

 

[bassett one]

i had 5 minis all great,loved my allegro but omg what a problem = agro allegro ,had a few datsuns and sunnys even had a nissan sport ,had  many cars ,loved my DS3 and now got a vauxhall ,see loads of classics at our festival,good days

[hackey lad]

I always wanted one of the big American muscle cars. Dodge Charger  or anything like it .

[crookesey]

I well recall Sunday mornings in the 60/70’s, practically every car bonnet open with everyone fishing about in the engine compartment of their car. No such activity required these days, something that has changed for the better. 🤙

[Delbow]

1976 Ford Gary

[Al Bundy]

Bought a lovely yellow Triumph Dolomite about 20 years ago when I lived in London. Everyone loved it, but it would never start on a cold morning making me late for work on numerous occasions.

 

I had it around 12 months, then it let me down at traffic lights at Clapham Common, caused a proper traffic jam. 

 

Sold it the weekend after and bought a Vespa scooter, best decision I've ever made!!

Edited January 22 by Al Bundy

[Rockers rule]

20 minutes ago, crookesey said:

I well recall Sunday mornings in the 60/70’s, practically every car bonnet open with everyone fishing about in the engine compartment of their car. No such activity required these days, something that has changed for the better. 🤙

 

A broken wire on my starter motor required the fuse box to be removed from atop the battery, the battery removed and the battery tray removed before getting anywhere near.

 

"I'll have a look at your points - gi'us a packet of Woodbines"

has now been replaced with "it'll have to go on't machine, that 'll be £50 sir" 

[carosio]

3 hours ago, RJRB said:

Intended to be a memory jogger for petrol heads and average joes.

Most of my working life I have gone through the gamut of Company cars ,mainly Fords and Vauxhall’s.Later Saab’s,BMWs .

Never went for a Merc,or even an Audi Quattro when I had the opportunity,although that was a car I would have loved when younger.

Anyway my first car was an Austin A40 countryman  costing £150 that gave me a freedom beyond my wildest dreams and took me to Devon,Wales,Scotland and many a run into Derbyshire.

Many a bump start from upper Walkley down the hill and messing about with plugs ,points and distributors.

 

 

A friends brother is currently racing an E reg A 40 Farina in classic car races, I've seen it on his trailer.

 

Most memorable car was Ford Cortina 2L GXL K reg., with vinyl roof, best motorway car I've had. Bought it from a chap near top of Whitehouse Lane in 1981/2.

Edited January 22 by carosio

[Prettytom]

My worst car was an MG Midget. Steered like the Titanic. Let’s say that the starting was intermittent. I finally lost patience with it when I had a total brake failure going down Long Lane in Loxley. 
 

My favourite car was an Audi A3 Quattro. Superglued to the road it was.