Cars you really miss.

Miss my monster!!

This one with no shadow of a doubt god only knows why I sold her!

My 1990 Renault 5 GT Turbo. Kept in dry storage for 4 years after getting a Clio 1.8 Valver. Then moved in with the missus, then needed a deposit for our first mortgage! It was completely original except for a plastic bosche dump valve (silent!) from an Escort Cosworth and a GT Tuning exhaust. It even had the standard radio/cassette player! The only rot was the lower central windscreen frame where they usually go which I got repaired prior to selling. Sadly no decent pics except for these scanned ones when it was filthy:

I miss these 2, my Golf gti 16v and my old Frontera Sport (Seriously, I really miss it )
I suppose time glosses over the rusty bits and intermittent low oil pressure warning buzzer in the Golf and the boat like, unpredictable handling of the Frontera.
I saw a Fronty the same colour as mine the other day and I felt all nostalgic for a minute

This 1984 Lancia Gamma Berlina 2.5 injection flat 4, lovely sounding engine and it drove lovely, was my first completed restoration was proper wrotten when l bought it for 125 quid, lower screen sills rear in wheel arch bottom of all 4 doors! Was also my first respray whic didn't turn out to bad, with it being so rare when you went to classic italian event they would want one off each car for photo shoot usualy outside some stately pile and l would be there with the farraris and lambo's.
Regretted selling it as soon as l passed over the doc's but had noware to keep it .
Sad ending for it as l was offered it back a couple of year later unfortuenaly the block had had a affair and his wife had decided to take her revenge on the only thing he cherished and she had attacked it with a hammer and cut the seats, it was the bloody cars fault !!!!!!!!

every now and again one comes up for sale and l think..........

I'm still missing two of my previous cars. First there is this Mini. A 2000 model, so called last edition. This one was refined. Fully adjustable suspension, lots of goodies and a maximum speed of 105 mph. But there was a good reason to give it away.




Because I wanted this one so badly and needed the money. A 1968 Porsche 912, straight from California. Almost rust free and technically in a good condition. Though it looked pretty worn out. God, I miss the sound of the flat four, the unique smell when you sit inside and everything related to that car. Sold it, because I thought it would be clever to be adult. Quite a stupid story and I'd rather sleep in an empty appartement but have a Porsche outside.

Quite a few.
Volvo 240GL I converted to LPG stands out the most.
1.6LS Capri.
Volvo P1800 (Jensen version)
Sunbeam Rapier MKIV.
Beetle 1200.
BWM Isetta.

Paul h

I miss all of my old cars!
I miss my Mk2 Golf GTD (after recently seeing one on ebay!)


Miss my G40



Miss my Polo 16v