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Post by JohnP on Jan 16, 2013 18:35:54 GMT 1
whoops, missed a few more mundane cars off the first list:
1987 Ford Fiesta popular
1989 Ford Fiesta 1.1L
1993 Peugeot 106XRD
1996 Vauxhall Corsa 1.5TDS
1993 Ford Granada Ghia 2.0i Estate
And in France:
2001 Renault Laguna II 1.9Dci Break
1990 Renault Super 5
2003 Renault Twingo 1.2
1996 Citroen ZX 1.9TD break
My Favourite car, Difficult but probably my beautiful 1965 Austin A110 Westminster. Full beige leather upholstery, walnut dash, door cappings and drop down trays for rear seat passengers. 2912cc straight six engine, quiet, smooth and very torquey. Written off when a drunk launched his Renault 12 into the drivers door while I was stationery at a junction. I later had a Vanden Plas Princess 4 litre R but despite it's Rolls Royce engine, I never liked it as much as my Westminster.
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Post by newport on Jan 17, 2013 15:51:27 GMT 1
JohnP qoute
My Favourite car, Difficult but probably my beautiful 1965 Austin A110 Westminster. Full beige leather upholstery, walnut dash, door cappings and drop down trays for rear seat passengers. 2912cc straight six engine, quiet, smooth and very torquey. Written off when a drunk launched his Renault 12 into the drivers door while I was stationery at a junction. I later had a Vanden Plas Princess 4 litre R but despite it's Rolls Royce engine, I never liked it as much as my Westminster. Now your talking quality JohnP i also owned both cars oh I wish I could have kept the first one
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Post by BartyB on Jan 17, 2013 21:30:14 GMT 1
pre test assorted minis and anglias for "field use only" then bikes till I was bribed with a crappy Viva HB then worked for a garage and could have what ever was on the S/H lot then Mk111 Zodiac... lowered, side pipes, seriously dodgey paint, snake skin and murals as a mate of mine was a trainee custom painter then a series of Mk2 Escorts that had an assortment of engines then I didn't care 'cos my boss was a car nut and part of my "job" was looking after his cars, the quid pro quo was I could use them red italian things, german VW derivatives etc... the most scarey moment of my driving life was picking up a brand new £250k Bentley from JB's in the rush hour (if the tank's not full they suffer fuel starvation if you hang the back out on a roundabout) back to the mundane...... More Mk2 escorts had a garage full of bits to use Saab 9000 that I drove down to the Gambia and abandonded Triumph vitesse based special that I saved from a skip and still have 4 Renault espaces (mostly green) which brings us to Pug 406 and Ford Ranger with 1 1/2body (suicide back doors) which is fab and a suzi jeep in the hanger which is unmatched by anything with wheels in the snow
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Post by JohnP on Jul 18, 2013 7:10:58 GMT 1
Just found these photos of 3 cars I had in the 70's Austin Westminster, Vanden Plas Princess 4 litre R and Rover 3500S V8..........Happy days
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Post by mirabelle on Jul 18, 2013 7:57:22 GMT 1
Well I had an ancient Mini pick-up when I first started driving eons ago. I did'nt drive for a number of years after which we bought a Cortina Estate.
My new husband (then, cos he's Old Husband now haha!) loves cars so we had a rapid succession over the years of 3l Rovers, interspersed with strange ones like the Opel Kadette and a very bizarre Citroen Passat with a weird gerbox thingy that did'nt need a clutch.
We then moved on into BIG cars. All sorts of pick-ups like his Rumble Bee american truck, a Mustang Pony, then Japanese trucks which he still has and a Subaru Forester 3l that he loves that does about 1 metre to a litre. I have my beautiful 3l Jaguar, Kitty.
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Post by JohnP on Jul 18, 2013 11:57:38 GMT 1
I love big cars but I couldn't think about running something like that these days. When I started driving, petrol was about 6/- (30p) a GALLON. you could almost fill up a small car for the price of a litre today.
From memory my Westminster used to do about 20mpg, the Rover about 16-18 and the Princess which was automatic did about 9. You had to switch it off when filling it or the petrol pump couldn't keep up, and the Jaguar XJ6 I had used to hold 22 gallons in it's twin tanks. I shudder to think what it would cost to fill that up nowadays. Happy days
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Post by smurfy on Jul 20, 2013 21:27:40 GMT 1
My first car was a bogging GS Citroen club, followed within weeks by an old Spitfire which I loved till a wheel fell off. Im a car nut and have had so many from almost every Alfas model with a V6 badge on it. Just now there are a few cars in the garden, but that's elfs fault. I have a nice x type Jag that I use, but most of the time im in my van, the rest are for sale.
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Post by smurfy on Jul 20, 2013 21:29:58 GMT 1
I love big cars but I couldn't think about running something like that these days. When I started driving, petrol was about 6/- (30p) a GALLON. you could almost fill up a small car for the price of a litre today. From memory my Westminster used to do about 20mpg, the Rover about 16-18 and the Princess which was automatic did about 9. You had to switch it off when filling it or the petrol pump couldn't keep up, and the Jaguar XJ6 I had used to hold 22 gallons in it's twin tanks. I shudder to think what it would cost to fill that up nowadays. Happy days The new Jags are eco friendly and not bad on fuel. I had an old jag once that used almost as much oil as fuel.
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Post by JohnP on Jul 21, 2013 6:45:11 GMT 1
Yes been there, worn valve guides was a common problem on earlier 4.2 Jag engines along with head gaskets and cracked blocks and rusting bodywork. In fact in my experience the Mk1 XJ6 was an unreliable money pit.
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Post by Starbrite on Jul 21, 2013 12:15:44 GMT 1
Only Smurfy can qualify as a petrol head, Can't be one unless you have owned an Alfa
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