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lynx
Can I do past cars?
First car - 1969 MG Midget, tartan red, still taxed according to online check!
1972 Hillman Avenger GT - green with racing stripes, spectacular MOT 3-sheets-of-fail meant I sold it and it was exported to Ireland
1978 Datsun Cherry - bought for fifty quid, run for a year, sold for a fiver
1980 Corolla - this was a wicked car, owned for two years and never had any problems
1980 Mercedes W123 - after having a go in a mate's mint 280 I decided it would be a great, reliable, everyday classic for driving to work... so I bought a shagged 200D(iesel), which did 0-60 in literally 20 seconds. It broke down more times than I can remember, sounded like a freight train, but I loved it.
2003 MGZT - bought for £300 as a marginally-more reliable vehicle when my W123 was waiting for parts. Horrible car, but I ended up selling it for a grand!
1996 Ford Falcon - whilst working in NZ for a few years, 4l engine, incredible cruiser... 4 years owned, 350,000kms on the clock when I sold it, and not a single thing went wrong, not even a bulb.
And currently a 2002 Ford Focus 1.6 Ghia - it's a future classic, right? Needs a bit of rust prevention before the winter, I think, because I spotted a scab on the inside of the rear arch lip. Which I'm only too happy to do, because despite being the archetypal sensible cheap car, it's actually really nice. And I can get two mountain bikes in the back only needing to remove the front wheels.