Whats the best car you've ever owned?

Definitely this one. Aside from two stone chips, exactly as it rolled out of the factory in 1978. Fantastic.

My Estelle. Bertha the bouncing Czech. Cost me £90. I reckon I probably spent about £400 in welding, buggered up the already buggered up paint further by brush painting with a very odd shade of coach enamel, lowered the front, fitted a Weber, electric fuel pump and K&N plus sports exhaust and gaz shocks all round. Cheap goodmans "pod" speakers went into the back shelf. Probably all in, with getting the brakes serviced, then replacing the starter motor, then paying the scrappy for some Celica front seats and the Mountney steering wheel and the interior alloy dressup bits, it was still a slowish car, but handled like a peach but was as rotten as a pear underneath. I know it was beyond me to paying to get it welded and I never learnt to weld or had ramps or a pit to get under it.

Shame really because while I had put so much effort into it, and the guy who bought it came up from Oxford for it, I never heard about it again, and maybe it had been scrapped. Which is a Shame. If G67BLV is round your neck of the woods and is a beige Skoda 120L let me know through the forum. Cheers.

A manky old shed but I loved her. Especially when I had to change a drivers door on New Years day because we had to go to Alison's Mums for lunch, all dressed up, and as I opened it, the hinge decided to snap in half. I had one anyway but that isn't the point. Got me some grief that did.


Crappy photo, but the blinding matching job I did of the interior.
Matching shiney pedals and gearknob, Celica seats and Mountney wheel and Richbrook tax disc.

For me its got to be the escort i think. It wasnt a looker but it just drove so well in comparison to my fwd cars. Relly miss RWD.

I was very fond of my white mk5 Cortina 1.6L estate and also of my present 2.0 Ghia salloon.



Should be great when it hits the road again with it's 2.9 cosworth lump.


I don't like my Escort as it's the wrong car and there are so many great cars I need to start owning that I feel it's holding me back.



Time to finish and flog!

Would love some of the cars already mentioned.

One of these.................



85 bhp and sod all weight would keep up with a 205 1.6 GTi whenever it was asked to.

bought it at 6 months old and did 40K in it in 2 years

I never looked anything other than mint I reckon I spent as much on cleaning equipment and polish as I did on petrol.

The "ex" took it with her as part of my divorce settlement and I cried when it left my care. I wasn't that fussed about her leaving

She kept it another two years and it looked like a total shed by then!!!!

I think it's been scrapped now

My favourite usable car was my BMW M3. It was a 1997 Evo model. It was fast, powerful, looked great and was comfy but I had to sell it when the DVLA invited me to take a break from driving (for speeding, ironically in a customers Jaguar. The customer knew though, he was in the passenger seat, clenching!)
But if I could have any one of the many cars I have owned back it would be my green Mini. It was a 1989 Mayfair. It was my second car and I had to take a loan out to buy it. Once I had blown the head gasket and snapped the tie bar bolt into the head I replaced the engine with a 2nd hand 1293 MED engine which was great! Had a 310 duration cam which was great for chucking fire out the exhaust! But (as is often the case) I blew it up too! So it sat at my parents, rusting away for 3 years. My then girlfriend offered me the cash to rebuild it or buy one of the last real Minis (The Cooper with silver roof and big arches) So I rebuilt it with a snorting big 1380, vicious cam and big ol' carb! Every week for a year I would add to it. Spax suspension, 4.1 diff, quick rack steering rack, red leather interior were the more notable extras.
However, I took it back off the road to fix the bodywork and respray it. Whilst it was in bits I received silly offers for the engine and the girlfriend wanted to learn to drive (in something less vicious) so I broke it up. I still cringe typing that!
I have built other Minis and go faster projects since but none are as enjoyable as that Mini! I never actually drove it, I drove with it! Ha ha!
V8mike! I know what you mean about the Mazda. Thats an amazingly smooth engine!

Definitely my Sud, best car I've owned as far as the driving experience goes, even through the curse word it's put me through at various stages in my ownership. Nothing like thrashing the pants off some modern or exotic stuff through the twisties in it as well! Still get a silly grin on my mug whenever I go for a good thrash in the ol' girl.

Had a couple. An 80 Tercel. Ran almost forever, really easy to work on, took me everywhere
81 Corolla Liftback. One of the most comfortable cars I've ever owned.Took off like a scalded cat. Hit downhill hairpin turns at 130k and never left its own lane. Ooodles of fun ;D

How's the touring car moggy going at the moment? Is all well with it?