Did you ever own a car that you wish you still had?

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1958 Jaguar XK150 Roadster, sold it a few years ago as it was going to need a lot of work, which at the time I didn't have spare. Oh and it was left hand drive.

Then I retired and moved to Spain - Doh!

Cheers,

Neil
 
Not quite so long ago, used to have an Audi A3 2.0TDi. 55mpg, and went like a rocket. Traded it in for a Land Rover. Been poorer and slower ever since, but the Audi was getting wrecked with my muddy boots.
 
Nissan 300ZX, when we had the days of reasonable fuel prices :thinking:

Couldn't afford to use it nowadays. Shame :'(
 
In the good ol' days I had a BMW Z1. Loved it to bits but sold it as I got a very good price for it.

More recently I've had a Mercedes G300. Sold it after it cost me £80 to fill up the tank. That was back when petrol was well under a litre, hate to think what it would cost now to fill it up.
 
neilmac said:
Yes -

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1958 Jaguar XK150 Roadster, sold it a few years ago as it was going to need a lot of work, which at the time I didn't have spare. Oh and it was left hand drive.

Then I retired and moved to Spain - Doh!

Cheers,

Neil
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It would appear the car is no more, as the plate is for sale here
 
My Bastos-liveried Rover SD1 was a hoot, but it attracted a bit too much attention from Strathclyde's finest :lol:

This isn't it, but it was similar....

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Sort of. I had one of the early Subaru Impreza Turbos - flippin loved that car (and believe it or not with a small spoiler, silver car and silver rims it was relatively subtle). Cost me an arm and a leg in running costs, insurance and servicing, so from that point of view don't miss it at all - but from a driving point of view it was sodding fantastic.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
This isn't it, but it was similar....

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Similar to a little red x:thinking:........nope not seen one like that before:lol:

Back in the days before you had to be friendly with you bank manager to fill you car up I had an XJ6, an XJS 5.3HE and a Ford Fairmont 351.........at one point all at the same time:eek:

I'd have any one of them again......as long as the tanker could keep up:lol:
 
markp said:
Not quite so long ago, used to have an Audi A3 2.0TDi. 55mpg, and went like a rocket. Traded it in for a Land Rover. Been poorer and slower ever since, but the Audi was getting wrecked with my muddy boots.
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Hmmm... I had a VW Bora TDi Sport 130bhp, which may have have the same engine :thinking: best company car I ever had - went like stuff off a shovel!!

JDholic said:
I used to have a kp61 Toyota Starlet.

I really miss it.
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Don't know much about those - but it doesn't look very standard in the photo, personalisation (or is it customisation) goes a long way towards sentiment in car ownership.

SteveJB said:
Nissan 300ZX, when we had the days of reasonable fuel prices

Couldn't afford to use it nowadays. Shame
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Nice car! I don't remember fuel prices being reasonable since the 1970s ;).

Any photos?

madferrit said:
In the good ol' days I had a BMW Z1. Loved it to bits but sold it as I got a very good price for it.

More recently I've had a Mercedes G300. Sold it after it cost me £80 to fill up the tank. That was back when petrol was well under a litre, hate to think what it would cost now to fill it up.
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Is the Z1 the one with the slide down doors? Unusual design in its day but pretty cool nonetheless. I should think £80 a fill up is common these days :(

Flash In The Pan said:
It would appear the car is no more, as the plate is for sale here
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IIRC the guy I sold it to, about 7 years ago, came from South Africa and was going to take it back with him when he finished working in London.

I had the car registered HSJ 899 as I got it with a USA plate. I thought age related plates were non-transferable - seems not :thinking:

minky_monkey said:
Love the Jag, such a beautiful car.
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Cheers - it was a beautiful motor although well worn around the edges!

Flash In The Pan said:
My Bastos-liveried Rover SD1 was a hoot, but it attracted a bit too much attention from Strathclyde's finest :lol:

This isn't it, but it was similar....

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Sleeping policemen will soon sort that spoiler out - oops they already have :lol:

Eric Mc said:
Back in the days before you had to be friendly with you bank manager to fill you car up I had an XJ6, an XJS 5.3HE and a Ford Fairmont 351.........at one point all at the same time:eek:

I'd have any one of them again......as long as the tanker could keep up:lol:
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Great cars, all of them... wow you'd need a good credit card with a big limit to run those now:eek:

Neil
 
neilmac said:
Is the Z1 the one with the slide down doors? Unusual design in its day but pretty cool nonetheless. I should think £80 a fill up is common these days :(
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Thats the one. Was awesome to drive.. doors up or down and I actually sold it for more than I bought it for which was a bonus!
 
I wondered about the HSJ plate, as originally that was a Scottish plate, but later on a lot of old unissued numbers from up here were used as age-related ones. I didn't think they were transferable either, wish I'd known, when I took the plate of my old moggy minor it ended up with EDS 31A. I'm sure someone would have bought that...
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I wondered about the HSJ plate, as originally that was a Scottish plate, but later on a lot of old unissued numbers from up here were used as age-related ones. I didn't think they were transferable either, wish I'd known, when I took the plate of my old moggy minor it ended up with EDS 31A. I'm sure someone would have bought that...
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As you say they used a lot of Scottish registrations that were 'spare' as they did with the 'A' suffix plates - when they were first issued in 1963? they were only around for about 6 months until the 'B' came out, so loads were also spare.

The local Licensing Office tried to give my XK aa 'A' plate but as it was originally registered prior to 1963 it was entitled to a pre-suffix plate which they eventually agreed to:rules:.

Neil
 
I never did take any pictures of my Fairmont:'( But this one is exactly the same.....apart from the pinned bonnet. If I could afford the running costs I'd have another one like a shot......it wasn't that quick...handled some what like a shopping trolly...but the noise more than made up for it's short comings:love:

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I still can't work out what possessed me to sell my S Type last year - that ran on LPG :thinking:

I used to have a 1971 Triumph 2.5 PI. Fastest production saloon of its day (0-60) so I was told. And it would do 105 in third overdrive. Lovely motah.

The electronic overdrive on third and fourth wasn't working when I bought it. I soon fixed it. The spare part needed, a short wire with a fancy clip at one end, cost 24p :lol:
 
neilmac said:
As you say they used a lot of Scottish registrations that were 'spare' as they did with the 'A' suffix plates - when they were first issued in 1963? they were only around for about 6 months until the 'B' came out, so loads were also spare.

The local Licensing Office tried to give my XK aa 'A' plate but as it was originally registered prior to 1963 it was entitled to a pre-suffix plate which they eventually agreed to:rules:.

Neil
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The Minor was allegedly a 1963, but someone that came out to view it said he felt it may have been a 67 or 68, due to the colour/spec, so there was a good chance that it was a ringer that had been running around for 25 years un-noticed :lol:
 
2blue4u said:
I used to have a 1971 Triumph 2.5 PI. Fastest production saloon of its day (0-60) so I was told. And it would do 105 in third overdrive. Lovely motah.

The electronic overdrive on third and fourth wasn't working when I bought it. I soon fixed it. The spare part needed, a short wire with a fancy clip at one end, cost 24p :lol:
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Now that was a classy car in its day, my mate had a white one, trouble was, everyone he drove behind slowed down to 30 as it looked like a police car :lol:

Flash In The Pan said:
The Minor was allegedly a 1963, but someone that came out to view it said he felt it may have been a 67 or 68, due to the colour/spec, so there was a good chance that it was a ringer that had been running around for 25 years un-noticed :lol:
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Wasn't a blue one was it? Oh never mind :coat:
 
neilmac said:
Hmmm... I had a VW Bora TDi Sport 130bhp, which may have have the same engine :thinking: best company car I ever had - went like stuff off a shovel!!
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The 2.0tdi is a slight improvement over the old 1.9 they got 130 out of. The 2.0 can now do 170bhp as well, but as standard does 140 - which was fine for me! Just bought the missus a Golf with the 1.9 engine, but only 110bhp, but just shy of 60mpg is quite reasonable!

I expect I'll hand the land rover back once the finance is up, probably have the Golf for myself and get something else for Sarah, and then a Defender to tinker about with!
 
Of recent times, the only one i was sorry to see go was my Mugen fronted CTR

I think i was having a period of "back to the old days" then and i never once got out of that car without a smile on my face :D
 
I bought a new Ford Cortina Estate 1.6 XL in 1975 it was a beauty in "purple velvet metalic" it would be a real head turner if I still had it now. Cost? £1995 plus no plates...........I supplied my own:)
I loved that car.
 
Neil Mac said:
Did you ever own a car that you wish you still had?
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Yup - my Xantia estate. 2 litre SX petrol, 150bhp. Most comfortable ride this side of a Rolls Royce (who licensed Citroens suspension technology anyway!). Did Inverness to Birmingham on a tank of petrol. Acres of space inside - slept comfortably in it in the Pen Y Pass car park when I wandered up Snowdon.

Rear hydraulic piston seal blew just as was on my way over the Lecht road with a full load of people and bikes. Limped to Braemar, went hillwalking for the weekend, came back, cleared the local garage out of LHM, made it back to Aberdeen in one arse-dragging-on-the-ground piece. Got another piston, but it never stopped weeping fluid... Scrapola-time!
 
Galaxy66 said:
I bought a new Ford Cortina Estate 1.6 XL in 1975 it was a beauty in "purple velvet metalic" it would be a real head turner if I still had it now. Cost? £1995 plus no plates...........I supplied my own:)
I loved that car.
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Is that a MK3, cos I had a 1600XL with black vinyl roof..:love:
It was so so then for street cred, but sub zero cool retro shaggadoodah now.

I want it back....and the black Opal Manta GTE

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aaand the V8 hi-lux, the V6 lightweight s3.......anything but this damn eurobox I have now:(
 
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Vauxhal Cavalier.. I still scan ebay now and then.. If ever I see a low milage diesel come up I am gonna grab it..
 
joxby said:
Is that a MK3, cos I had a 1600XL with black vinyl roof..:love:
It was so so then for street cred, but sub zero cool retro shaggadoodah now.

I want it back....and the black Opal Manta GTE

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I had one of them.. same colour.. absoloute shed it was.... stopped too quick at a junction and one of the headlights poped out :) used to keep a matchstick handy to hold the choke in under the bonnet.
 
KIPAX said:
I had one of them.. same colour.. absoloute shed it was.... stopped too quick at a junction and one of the headlights poped out :) used to keep a matchstick handy to hold the choke in under the bonnet.
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Lol @ choke

It was auto choke on mine, got fed up of it silly idle revs so I swapped the carb for a webber manual choke.....I used an elastic band:lol:
Somebody wrapped it around a statue of Queen Victoria.....I still have a little weep....when no ones watching:suspect:
 
joxby said:
Is that a MK3, cos I had a 1600XL with black vinyl roof..:love:
It was so so then for street cred, but sub zero cool retro shaggadoodah now.

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Must have been, the MKIV didn't come out until '77 and Purple Velvet was the colour that the 1300E Escort was most commonly seen in...gawd, I'm such an anorak :lol:

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Because I am only young I've not had that many cars before like some of you but I really wish I hadn't sold my Mercedes S500 (W140 338bhp) in Arogonite Blue (rarest S-class colour ever) that car was awesome simply the best motorway cruiser ever, perfect when I was going out to Germany near enough every other weekend. Would even get 27mpg if I sat at 85mph....
 
I've currently had 42 cars in my lifetime, and I can say the one I miss the most is my old Land Rover.... or my Chevette rally car - pure sideways action!! I'll dig a piccie up...

And yes, 42 cars in 19 years of driving (that makes me feel OLD) - although I did have 9 at once at one point :)
 
I had one of these about 25 years ago......

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Same colour, only mine had 1/4 bumpers, vinyl sun roof and spotlights. Man, I wish I still had it now.

Steve
 
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