Ed
Part of things
Posts: 600
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 18:07:07 GMT
|
I'm running one at the moment and I must say its rather enjoyable  many conversations are struck up with people chatting about my whip, and the looks I get from other car owners are priceless sometimes  the only problem I have is running a car that is on a silly low suspension setting that is fine for 'weekend cruising',....i struck the ground 41 times with the front beam on a stretch of bumpy B-road that was a mile long to my favourite public house  its noisy, juicy on fuel, smelly, bouncy but its ace. |
| |
Last Edit: Mar 13, 2009 20:23:39 GMT by Ed
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 18:16:47 GMT
|
|
MIne aint classic, But it aint new either, and is very slow by modern standards as in i have to thrash it to stay ahead of even Daewoo matiz'. It's noisy, and people look down their nose at me. Infact i bet most people couldnt drive it never mind wouldnt drive it! lol
But i don't care!
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 18:19:23 GMT
|
|
my old cars are less trouble and usually easier to fix than a lot of my mates much newer cars, they do use more juice though.
|
| |
Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 18:45:22 GMT
|
I got better economy from my Ford Pop than I did from her daily when I used to commute. Used the Pop for about 2 years doing 30 miles a day. Used to love it |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 19:01:32 GMT
|
|
I enjoy using my allegro for work, its no less practical than a modern. I worry about road salt and rust though!
|
| |
1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES.  |
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 19:19:33 GMT
|
|
Ive always used a retro as a daily.... Id recommend it 100%
|
| |
Your car is not 'epic', this thread is not 'epic'....the OCEAN is epic, the UNIVERSE is epic.... please stop misusing this word!! It would appear Hotrods are the new VWs - aint fashion funny! '69 BUICK LESABRE 350 |
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 19:19:45 GMT
|
|
it's mint ;D ;D
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 19:22:58 GMT
|
|
As long as you leave them as intended they're just as good as modern cars, after all that is what they were designed for!
However start fiddling, slamming to within an inch of the suspension mounts, fitting hoooooge carbs and lumpy cams and they can become rather tiresome!
|
| |
1997 TVR Chimaera
2009 Westfield Megabusa
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 19:27:26 GMT
|
|
A little tinkering is often needed to keep a classic healthy (or perhaps it's just my lot!) but I'd rather suffer that than the dreaded Main Dealer Servicing of a new motor. So, you've got a five year warranty on your new car - still means hassle when things go wrong!
I love parking up something different in the car park. I ADORE the looks I get as a drive along. Making people smile is ace.
I think people forgot that back in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, classic cars were just cars!
|
| |
1986 Citroen 2CV Dolly Other things. Check out my Blog for the latest! www.hubnut.org |
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 19:27:34 GMT
|
|
:)I have nothing but old Skodas, so it's one of those or walk!
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 19:36:02 GMT
|
:)I have nothing but old Skodas, so it's one of those or walk! Ah well, keeps you fit!  ;D |
| |
1986 Citroen 2CV Dolly Other things. Check out my Blog for the latest! www.hubnut.org |
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 19:45:59 GMT
|
I think the key is to find something with good spares availabilty, as long as you can get parts ASAP, and you're prepared to fix stuff occasionally, it's the way forwards. So far, My car has cost me about £350, including insuring it, sure, it's certainly not the most reliable car I've had (it caught fire last night, for example) but a lot of that is down to the previous owner and his 'interesting' solutions, and pee poor bad luck. If you offered me a new car as a swap, I'd honest to god turn it down, it'd cost more than I've spent on the entire buying/repairing/insuring mine just to do a service on a brand new motor. I'm sold on old cars as daily rides, it's hard at times, but worth the effort, who wants to roll a soul less samey car which costs a fortune when you can be far cooler and understand how it works with an old car?  |
| |
Last Edit: Mar 13, 2009 19:47:24 GMT by shedspeed
"Chasin' the gash, with a four-out-the-dash"
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 20:00:40 GMT
|
|
I tend to make mods to my old cars that make them easier to live with rather than stretching super low profile tyres on and slamming them to the ground with niosy exhausts and yellow lights, i like comfy seats and modern or more powerfull engines, better brakes and better suspension with old car looks and character, retro cars are what you make em, a lot of the mods done on here would make a modern car a pain to live everyday with let alone an old one.
|
| |
Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 20:03:56 GMT
|
I tend to make mods to my old cars that make them easier to live with rather than stretching super low profile tyres on and slamming them to the ground with niosy exhausts and yellow lights, I like comfy seats and modern or more powerfull engines, better brakes and better suspension with old car looks and character, retro cars are what you make em, a lot of the mods done on here would make a modern car a pain to live everyday with let alone an old one. You're quite right, but by having an old car, which has cost you peanuts, you're more inclined to do as you wish with it, be it practical, impractical, or whatever, I don't think I'd be so keen to scrape a brand spanker down the tarmac like I do my old heap, but you've hit the nail on the head, having an old car and going against the grain by doing so is about being individual and doing as *you* want to, if it pleases you, do it! |
| |
"Chasin' the gash, with a four-out-the-dash"
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 20:07:23 GMT
|
|
Very true. And the idea of upgrading classics - fitting disc brakes to Minors, 5 speed gearboxes to MG T-types, power steering to Triumph TRs - is getting a wider acceptance now. There will always be those who crave originality, which is fine, but if more classics are used as daily drivers with some sensible upgrades, then it's fine by me.
And if some want to slam their rides, get creative with the bodywork and lob in silly engines, then that's obviously fine too!
|
| |
1986 Citroen 2CV Dolly Other things. Check out my Blog for the latest! www.hubnut.org |
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 20:09:50 GMT
|
|
old cars are a thumbs up in my book, my current car is a comprimise, it has fuel injection/turbo/rwd & was a foooker when i could get it to start in the cold but i love it, i need to put new sills on it when the weather is warmer but other than that shes a honey!
my other cars have been a triumph 2500s & lots of minis from mild to wild!
all my old cars i stil own
the moderns i've had which all got sold within a year of ownership:
toyota glanza turbo with big bhp
mazda mx5 with LSD which is a semi retro, top car loved it & i should have sold it! get one if you want a cheap soft-top sports, there reputation as a drivers car is well deserved
metro with a 1.8 k-series, which a chap ran in the back off, ace car!
toyota starlet 1997, boring
toyota avensis boring
learn the basics of keeping an old motor on the road then fit electronic ignition & have a tune up on a rolling road, don't mod it too much aspreviously said & enjoy!
other ppl think they're better than you but are they??? paying for cars they don't own, that loose value FAST look curse word! drving is boring!
i much prfer my 26-32mpg oldschool j-tin
|
| |
Mini 998cc grp bonnet & boot, lightend shell, 6-point cage, soon to have a turbo on the 998 engine (t2 frm a r5gt) rs turbo intercooler, hoping to get 120ish bhp?
father is building a Mini Van 1330, 45 weber, 100bhp@wheels
'RIP' 1.8 Metro GTi, 15.23 1/4mile
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 20:14:24 GMT
|
funny really cos the Benz is perfectly capable of being a useable car with no mods at all, its big, comfy, handles ok, has a 180bhp efi twin cam straight 6, power steering, discs all round etc etc and yet i still cant leave it alone even though it is probably one of the few cars i've owned that actually has the potential to become a proper classic one day.  someones gonna find it in another 20 years and start moaning about the guy who "molested" it. |
| |
Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 20:17:00 GMT
|
|
Odd thing is, I think of my Subaru as modern - yet it's 14 years old and nothing at all like a modern car to drive. It has visibility for a start...
|
| |
1986 Citroen 2CV Dolly Other things. Check out my Blog for the latest! www.hubnut.org |
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 20:24:15 GMT
|
|
My Golf's a year newer than my 2CV, but it's an appauling car, and tommorow it's being weighed in, the 2CV will keep going, because it has character, and I can fix it, I wouldn't know where to start with the Golf! (more my failings that its complexity, i realise) It was ok as a stop-gap, but it's modern in my eyes, and i find it impossibly dull. Oddly, the 190E I had before was a cracking car, despite being a modern, and I'd have another benz tommorow if I had space.
|
| |
"Chasin' the gash, with a four-out-the-dash"
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13, 2009 20:36:17 GMT
|
|
I have to agree with folk suggesting finding a retro daily driver with a good source of parts available.
I ran a 1.8 manta to work and back for a few days. 25 mile round trip to be precise not including buggering about after work. It was reliable, but had to be tinkered with every other day to keep it running. I got rid of it before winter as the heaters never work in mantas and wanted something that would run faultless through winter. Couldnt afford to be missing days off work and getting up at 5am to find the damn thing wouldnt start hahaha.
|
| |
1987 Opel manta GT 2.0 16v
1976 Opel manta s project
1985 Opel Rekord E 2.2i
1992 Vauxhall Carlton 2.3TD
1989 Mercury Grand Marquis
2005 Landrover discovery 3
|
|
|
|
;D
