bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
I think a lot of roomy reliable, uncomplicated estates ended up heading to Africa and living long and productive lives in the sun
Cars You Never See Anymore
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Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
And lo, yesterday a 505 estate was spotted when we were driving back from the car wash. It had loads of writing on it and some kind of roof rack with a row of about 8-10 spikes across the middle. My best guess is that it’s from one of the local surf schools and the rack was for holding boards. No photo as I didn’t have my phone ready. I have a few others with pictures to share...
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
That's cool as fuck
Anju
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Saw this a few days ago. Hopefully lots of similar conversion kits will become available.
Eluminator is Ford's electric crate motor
Ford is out to ensure that you'll be able to keep your classics on the road in a world of EVs.
Love some of the conversions and restoration / modifications I've seen online.
This is gorgeous but £500,000.
Check Out This Gorgeous EV from Totem Automobili
The Italian company is only planning 20 examples.
This is my favourite. Road legal vintage electric Datsun drag car.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Jensen Healey. I haven't seen one of those for a while.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
It’ll be considerably rarer over here, according to Wikipedia only 334 were sold to continental Europe, and this place is only a small slice of that. UnfortunateLy I don’t think there’s a Portuguese equivalent of ‘how many left’ to find out.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Yes, yes it is.
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
Sweet ride
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
It's nice to see them alive.
When I look at the prices now of some of the cars I owned in my yoof, it makes me want to cry. I wish I'd kept every one of them, but they'd likely be rotten piles of shite if I had.
I owned pretty much every Mk1 and Mk2 Escort... 18 Escorts in total, including a Mk1 lotus twincam. A Lotus Cortina, a HSR Chevette, a Lotus Sunbeam, a couple of Mk1 Golf GTIs, one of which was the first 16v Mk1 ever. Four AE86 Corollas, one of which I fitted a turbo to (I still have the head in the garage), a Renault 5 turbo, a Fiat 131, a Lancia Delta Integrable, a Lotus Esprit turbo, a Mazda 323 4x4 turbo, an Audi quattro turbo... Etc.
Then I met a woman, who showed me the error of my ways
Ode to youth.
mx wcfc
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I went on honeymoon to Kenya in 1996. I had a 1600E MkII Cortina at the time.
I couldn't believe the number of MkII Cortinas I saw out there, though mainly a very basic model. There was also a taxi rank in Nairobi, with only old Capris lined up, which I remember getting very excited about.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I remember getting excited about an RS 3.1 Crapi, so much so that I bought it, and sold it a week later when I realised it handled like a new born giraffe.
mx wcfc
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I only ever had one Capri. I was skint and needed a car quickly to get to work. I bought it for £90 with three months MOT on it. It got me to work till the insurance money on a previous car that got stolen came through..
A week before the MOT ran out, a neighbour did an unofficial MOT on it, and came up with three sides of A4 of fails.
It was a death trap. I scrapped it.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Mad isn't it. The first Mk2 Escort I bought was 7 years old, and it was rotten as a pear. A 7 year old car is like brand new now.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
my C-reg fiesta 'rustbucket' had to be put out of its misery when it was about 11 years old, and i'd probably had more welding done to it than most people would have bothered with...
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I’m seeing an increasing number of older ones that have been done up nicely, there was an amazing teal two-door vintage Citroen I saw last week and I’ve seen several other oddities from the 60s era (not up to speed on recognising vintage continental brands!). But many are just of that one-owner-from-new style, kept in a garage out of the sun and with no road salt to eat the metal. Stuff from 15 years ago basically looks new, 25 or 30 year old everyday cars just faded but loads still running.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Yet some of the older cars from the 50s or 60s were better - the Morris minor my dad had must have been 25 years or more old and had far less rust than the ten year old Cortina Mk3. I think they used shitter or thinner steel in the 70s/80s?
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
It's not shitter steels. Since the 80s literally hundreds of new steel alloys have been produced for cars, so cars are lasting much longer. The cars of the 70s may have been made of slightly heavier metal but it was still shit metal.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Is it not also that all the anti-corrosion treatments/paints are better on modern cars too?
Dad’s cortina was a fucking joke though, rotten as fuck. Someone once walked along a row of cars in the village snapping all the aerials, when they did ours it pulled about a quarter of the wing off. Lumpy repairs with mesh and fibreglass/resin, finished with a spray paint that didn’t quite match the original browny bronze finish. I can still remember the smell. The last few years we had it, he painted the underside with a special anti-corrosion paint made for ships (he worked in the labs at Berger paints and got it from there) - in a nice shade of bright orange. At least when I was waiting for a lift I could see it coming a mile off.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
That's a lot of cars ! I've owned 4 in 24 yearsIt's nice to see them alive.
When I look at the prices now of some of the cars I owned in my yoof, it makes me want to cry. I wish I'd kept every one of them, but they'd likely be rotten piles of shite if I had.
I owned pretty much every Mk1 and Mk2 Escort... 18 Escorts in total, including a Mk1 lotus twincam. A Lotus Cortina, a HSR Chevette, a Lotus Sunbeam, a couple of Mk1 Golf GTIs, one of which was the first 16v Mk1 ever. Four AE86 Corollas, one of which I fitted a turbo to (I still have the head in the garage), a Renault 5 turbo, a Fiat 131, a Lancia Delta Integrable, a Lotus Esprit turbo, a Mazda 323 4x4 turbo, an Audi quattro turbo... Etc.
Then I met a woman, who showed me the error of my ways
Ode to youth.
Leafster
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Nine in 42 years for meThat's a lot of cars ! I've owned 4 in 24 years
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I reckon I've had over 320 cars but I've only ever made money on 5 of them: Countach, Countach part out, Murcielago, Pantera and R32 GTR.
The ones I really wish I had kept were the E36 M3 GT, E34 M5, Evo 6.5 TME and Renault Clio Williams.
The ones I really wish I had kept were the E36 M3 GT, E34 M5, Evo 6.5 TME and Renault Clio Williams.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I used to be a proper petrol head but I never had a pot to piss in. All of my money went on cars, either buying them or tuning them. I probably owned 100 or so cars before giving up and moving to bikes, but I did enjoy the cars.
My first car was a Mazda 929 coupe that I bought while I was still at school, then I went legal when I left school, and bought my first Mk1 Escort. It was a 2 door 1.3L, that ended up a few weeks later as a 1.6 with twin 45s, a dog box and a Quaife LSD, a remote servo and adjustable Konis. That was the start of my Escort phase, and i owned another 17 or 18 of them before I gave up on cars. I don't think i ever made a profit on any of the cars I owned, I just traded up, and kept going until I accidentally took a Mk1 Golf GTI in PX. I loved it and I fitted a 16v Mk2 engine into it from a 1987 car. I loved the FWD handling but RWD was a lot more fun, so I bought an AE86 Corolla, and after owning it for a few months I decided it needed a turbo, so I lowered the compression to 8.3:1, fabricated a manifold, fitted a Garrett T3, made a Map sensor and piggy-backed a home made fuelling computer onto it. It made 180bhp on its first dyno run, the same run it blew the diff to pieces on, so it was back to the drawing board. I fitted a Cosworth back axle into it and got it close to 250bhp, which got it into a few magazines, and I was invited down to TRD to show them what I'd done. That was where my real love of cars and tuning began, when I realised that the big boys couldn't believe I'd done for a couple of grand what they were spending hundreds of thousands to achieve... And everything was downhill from there. I just kept buying and building faster and more stupid cars, and what ended it for me was an Esprit turbo. I was already familiar with the engine from the HSR Chevette and the Lotus Sunbeam, and it was a piece of shit. It was a glorified Bedford HA van engine... and it lasted just over a week before I blew it up, and that was when I fell out with cars and got into bikes, because I couldnt afford to buy any car that would keep with a decent bike.
A lot of cars came and went during those years. Most of them were shite, but it was probably the most fun I ever had.
Anyway... Back to drinking!
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Leafster
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As I mentioned, I haven't owned that many cars but I've driven a few interesting ones. At least, they're interesting to me even if they're not exotic.
I've driven some Victorian and Veteran cars including driving an early Peugeot in the London to Brighton.
I've had the chance to drive some Edwardian cars including Darracq, Sunbeam and a brass-radiator Model T. The Model T was challenging with the throttle being on the steering wheel, a reverse pedal on the floor and the way the two-speed gearbox works in conjunction with the "hand-brake" and a pedal on the floor. I regret passing on the chance to drive a Silver Ghost around France though.
Some vintage stuff including an Austin Seven and a Lea Francis.
Dad owned a garage through the 1970s into the early 1990s so I got to drive a lot of cars from the 1960s onwards but most of those were very run of the mill.
I've driven some Victorian and Veteran cars including driving an early Peugeot in the London to Brighton.
I've had the chance to drive some Edwardian cars including Darracq, Sunbeam and a brass-radiator Model T. The Model T was challenging with the throttle being on the steering wheel, a reverse pedal on the floor and the way the two-speed gearbox works in conjunction with the "hand-brake" and a pedal on the floor. I regret passing on the chance to drive a Silver Ghost around France though.
Some vintage stuff including an Austin Seven and a Lea Francis.
Dad owned a garage through the 1970s into the early 1990s so I got to drive a lot of cars from the 1960s onwards but most of those were very run of the mill.
