Your Car History...

1968? (first F reg) Austin Mini 850 brought with brother in 1982.
1973 VW Beetle - all my own in late '82.
1979 Mini 1000 in '84
Brought first flat so no car for a year or so....
1983 Escort 1600 (metallic GOLD!!) in '87.
1984 BMW 316 a dream of a car in 1989.
1991 first company car Escort 1.6 (it was shite!) 1991
1989 blue Mazda MX5 in 1993
Kids started to roll in.....
1995 Renault 5 1995.
1995 VW Passat Estate 1996.
2001 Volvo Estate T4 2004.
Maybe my enthusiasm for motoring could be rejuvenated with one of these:-

@ kipsy... there are some lovely examples of 7's on the car thread

Bump

Fiat Panda - 1985
Fiat Uno - 1992
Toyota Celica -1978
Seat Marbella - 1994
VW Citi - 1985
VW Beetle - 1979
Citroen Berlingo - 2000
Land Rover Discovery - 1991

and now 9 years without a car.

'88 Peugeot 205
'87 Peugeot 205
'97 Vauxhall Corsa (hated it, sold it after 2 months)
'99 Peugeot 306

Am actually quite looking forward to leaving London next year so I can buy a new (to me) car!

Just missed out on a flat with a parking space, would have been hard to resist getting another 205 GTi

'81 Land Rover series 3 SWB - she was an amazing machine and a hilarious first car!
'01 Renault Clio - as land rover and motorways not good combo
'95 BMW 316i
and currently a '09 Panda 100hp which I am almost certain I will never sell, owned since new and love deeply.

All pictures exactly like the cars I've owned but not the exact cars.

1. Pug 106. 1.5 diesel N/A. Cracking engine and sooo economical. Surprising amount of room on the back seat for sex. Chavs broke into it and wrecked it. It got scrapped. Shame.
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2. Open Manta GTE 2.0 Exclusive. Completely standard, Dolphin grey, Irmscher kit. Rear wheel drive. The most amazing driving position of any car, ever! Back seat pretty small and cramped. Sex on the passenger seat OK. Why oh why did I sell this. Sad Face.
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3. VW Polo 1.4TDI Sport. Current car that I will be selling soon. Good car. Safe. Pretty Dull. Again backseat pretty small and cramped, really only reserved for foreplay. Sex on the passenger seat Ok.
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Mk II Cortina 1500 Deluxe
Mk I Cortina 1500 GT
Mk II Cortina 1600E
Hillman Minx
Rover 3500 P6
Triumph Stag
Granada 3000 GXL (Sweeney Car)
Talbot Alpine 1500 (The Minicabbing years)
Around 100 various new and used company cars including the complete range of Fords from the mid to late 80's from the Fiesta right up to the Cosworth then various Volvos and Nissans. (Car salesman years)
Miscellaneous Sierras, Escorts and Fiestas and a Ford Capri for wife during ^ period.
3 years of a company Montego (best forgotten about)
Rover 820 Saloon
Rover 820 Vitesse hatch
Vauxhall Calibra
BMW 528
BMW 330 Ci
Various White Vans

I may have missed a few.....

Sadly, I can also remember most of the numbers.
PYX595E
BOV580G
PJG10G
.
LUL424K
DON5K
SBL394S
.

Men love lists.

1993 - 1994: My Mum's old Vauxhall Nova (maroon with beige seats)

1994 - 1996: My Uncle's even older Mk2 Fiesta (white with rust colouration)

1995 - Present: Bicycles.

You're welcome.

1989 - 91 - 1984 Citroen Visa GT (silver)

1991 - 92 - 1980 Lance Beta HPE (black)

haven't owned a car in 20 years now, though they were fun at the time.

1998-2000 - Mini Metro (mother-in-law hand-me-down)
2000-2005 - Nissan Sunny hatchback (bought off another elderly relative for pennies)

I bought them both, never learnt to drive... Ex-wife did the driving, I navigated...

So you've got bikes you never ride and cars you never drove. The irony.

Good call, I'm off to play in traffic...

Escort Mk 1 van 1100
Escort Mk 1 4 door 1300
Escort Mk 1 Mexico
Escort Mk 1 (with ridiculous 1600 engine, twin 40 carbs, stage 3 head etc - dropped into a bog standard body with drum brakes all round...)
Opel Ascona
Reliant Scimitar
Talbot Horizon
Range Rover
Honda Accord
Volvo 850 T5
Lexus Soarer

nothing for the last few years

Looking at it, it's been a strange mixture!

'91 Ford Fiesta 1.1
'99 Ford Fiesta 1.25
'89 Ford Escort XR3i Cabriolet (with full RS Turbo body kit, bonnet & lovely Recaro interior. Shame it was a dog mechanically)
'00 Ford Fiesta 1.6 Zetec-S

Cars that have had my name on V5?

mk1 VW Scirocco GT 1.6 x 2
mk 2 VW Scirocco GT 1.8 x 2
mk IV Golf TDi 1.9PD x 2 (lease cars)
VW Passat Estate V5 (lease car)
VW Touran 2.0 TDi (lease car)
VW Phaeton 5.0 V10 (lease car)
Ran side by side with above ^ '79 Type 2 late Bay 2.0 w/Devon conversion
1988 BMW 320i (back to reality!)
mk 3 VW Golf VR6 2.8 (current)
VW Transporter T4 1.9TD conversion (current)

You do love a German car don't you?

I do!

Fiat 126 (650c)
Skoda Favorit -owned by my dad, driven by me daily
Opel Corsa A (Nova)
Opel Corsa B - owned by my dad
Citroen AX - the shittiest, more unreliable car I've ever owned
VW Golf GTI Mk II
Ford Scorpio Granada estate V6 2.9l K reg - killed the engine; most comfortable and best equipped car I've ever owne - like driving your living room.
Vauxhall Vectra B GLS 2.0 16v T reg
BMW Z3 1.9i 1996 - my second car, only sold it few months ago after all those years; never ever broke down, but vandalised by man dem
BMW 323 e46 T reg
Renault Grand Scenic '54 - electronic nightmare
Audi A3 Sportback 2.0 tdi 170bph '57 - no complains
BMW X5 4.4i V8

Yes, I'm almost as bad as a white van man.

-1998 Mini Cooper 1.3 in gorgeous baby blue with matching interior. Put it up on 2 wheels on a country lane and fucked the rear end when it came back down again.
-1997 Proton Persona Compact 1.2 - written off in embarrasing style.
-1962 VW camper 1.6(ish) - all kinds of win but spends too much time in storage :(

• 2007 VW Polo 1.2 - Me and Liz's runaround. Lovely car.
  

• various work trucks, only 1 of which I managed to write off.
  

Oh, Mercedes Sprinter...

1981 Cadillac Eldorado
1971 Plymouth Fury
1990 Cadillac Eldorado
1963 Plymouth Fury

A curious symmetry.