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ChrisT
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 1,667
Club RR Member Number: 225
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Jan 12, 2020 10:06:08 GMT
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Fairly simple for me, had these 10 years ago.... And still have them.
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Jan 12, 2020 10:27:08 GMT
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10 years ago, I started out with this. I still have it, just, severely broken mind you. And this, the best car I have ever owned. Inbetween, there has been a 205 diesel, non turbo, a terrible Kia for 2 months and a fairly ropey SLK 230K.
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ferny
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 986
Club RR Member Number: 13
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Jan 12, 2020 19:37:54 GMT
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Ten years ago I was using the herald and acclaim most days and had just put my 2000 into storage. Nothing has changed. 🙂
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Jan 12, 2020 21:19:58 GMT
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So basically, precisely what I said on the post earlier 😀 Yeah I guess so! But as I got older (i'm now 65) I realized that I know what I like! So that's what I tend to stick with!
Now if you were to go from 1971 to 1981 that would be a different story altogether! In '71 I had an MGB powered MG ZA Magnette, a Vauxhall Victor FB and my daily was a 65 Cortina woody Estate with a 1650GT PCF motor on twin Webers. In 1981 I had a Zodiac MkII Farnham Automatic Estate with a Mays head on triple SUs as my daily plus a Zodiac II Saloon, Australian Ford Fairmont XY Station wagon, and a Triumph Herald 12/50. I've ALWAYS had old and interesting cars (between 71 and 81 I also owned an E type and an Alpine Tiger amongst others) As I've got older, my tastes have changed, but also solidified. Also the cars I was fortunate enough to have bought and owned in the 70s are mostly out of range of my budget now! I find I tend to keep buying the kinds of cars I like best! Boring but it works and at least I don't have to keep spares for 6 different brands/models!
If you ever watch "Uncle Tony's Garage" on YouTube, he has much the same idea, in fact I think we may be brothers from a different mother! Just his passion is Mopar!
Steve
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Jan 12, 2020 22:01:11 GMT
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So basically, precisely what I said on the post earlier 😀 Yeah I guess so! But as I got older (i'm now 65) I realized that I know what I like! So that's what I tend to stick with!
Now if you were to go from 1971 to 1981 that would be a different story altogether! In '71 I had an MGB powered MG ZA Magnette, a Vauxhall Victor FB and my daily was a 65 Cortina woody Estate with a 1650GT PCF motor on twin Webers. In 1981 I had a Zodiac MkII Farnham Automatic Estate with a Mays head on triple SUs as my daily plus a Zodiac II Saloon, Australian Ford Fairmont XY Station wagon, and a Triumph Herald 12/50. I've ALWAYS had old and interesting cars (between 71 and 81 I also owned an E type and an Alpine Tiger amongst others) As I've got older, my tastes have changed, but also solidified. Also the cars I was fortunate enough to have bought and owned in the 70s are mostly out of range of my budget now! I find I tend to keep buying the kinds of cars I like best! Boring but it works and at least I don't have to keep spares for 6 different brands/models!
If you ever watch "Uncle Tony's Garage" on YouTube, he has much the same idea, in fact I think we may be brothers from a different mother! Just his passion is Mopar!
Steve
Oh I’m with you there, I’m only 9 yrs behind you, last classic I bought was 2007
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ivangt6
Part of things
Posts: 776
Club RR Member Number: 132
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Jan 12, 2020 22:10:52 GMT
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In 2010 I was driving these two And had this in bits Now I have this as my daily The Gt6 looks like this And the mini is no better Hmmm
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1979 Mini 1000 1972 Triumph GT6 2007 VW Golf GTi 1979 VW T25 Leisuredrive 1988 Range Rover Vogue SE
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Jan 12, 2020 23:05:26 GMT
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Wow! that GT6 looked lovely in the first pic
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stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,926
Club RR Member Number: 174
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Jan 12, 2020 23:24:28 GMT
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After a fair amount of googling build threads I had this in 2010, along with a GSi and a Mk3 Polo. And now I drive this shitbag Saxo like a absolute bellend everywhere And this Delica family/tow car And a Honda S2000 that I haven't got any photos of as its a stock Honda S2000.
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Let, me think. Not many, but 10 years ago, we were living in Kuala Lumpur. Not long after arrival, and realising that if I didn't do something quick, taxi drivers were going to die, I was offered one of these by the Landlord of the Green Man on Changkat Bukit Bintang, my local... Ridiculously cheap, as he was moving it on for an ex-customer who had to return to Australia to get his cirrhosis looked at. The Green Man could have that effect. Despite serious lacquer fade, it was very tidy. I did all the mechanical bits and a couple of months later was made an offer I couldn't refuse by a guy from the Swedish embassy, so off it went. As there wasn't anything available that lit my candle, and I'd got to know a guy who did jungle day-trips for an orphanage (great days out!), I bought this new... Not quite an obligatory fill-up shot, but taken in Thailand on the way to Bangkok, just after putting real fuel in it instead of the nutty slack sold as diesel in Malaysia. God it felt like a different motor. Actually remarkably competent off road even on stock tyres. Limited a bit by cart springs at the back, but never got stuck including two very deep (over the bonnet) river crossings during a monsoon. They had risen from lovely little babbling brooks to absolute torrents in a matter of moments. We just had to get the kids out of there. I was puckering up a bit for those I can tell you! Then we moved to Manila about 7 years ago and the rest is, as they say, history...
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Last Edit: Jan 13, 2020 1:49:43 GMT by georgeb
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tofufi
South West
Posts: 1,458
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April 2009: Cheating a bit as a few months later (before 2010) it was completely stripped in bits. 2020: (actually taken in 2019, at the Gathering - its first car show after 10 years of restoration) I still own both cars I owned in 2010, and a few more have joined the fleet
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Last Edit: Jan 13, 2020 8:06:17 GMT by tofufi
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Jan 13, 2020 23:51:16 GMT
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2010 I had these 2. 2020 I have owned the blue falcon for 18 years this year. In storage at the moment as i don't currently live in Aus.
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Jan 14, 2020 10:14:21 GMT
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10 years ago I had just finished my old 1965 Porsche, Now 10 years later I have moved on to Japanese 2 door coupe's instead of German
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Last Edit: Jan 14, 2020 10:15:20 GMT by atomman
Play'in round with an old Datsun & a Ford COE
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EmDee
Club Retro Rides Member
Committer of Autrocities.
Posts: 5,932
Club RR Member Number: 108
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I've been through loads of cars in 10 years, but unbelievably I have kept the polo the whole time. bought in Jan 2010, here it is then vs now
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10 years ago I was bombing about in this. I used it as a daily for a year or so after my father passed away. I loved that car to bits but I couldn't keep it any longer because it just didnt feel like it was mine, as far as I'm concerned it will always be dads. After that went I had a couple of k11 micras, a 2001 1.0 3dr in black, and a 2002 1.4 SE+ 3dr in green. Awesome cars but because I found myself wanting a bit more space in the back for the random stuff I pick up I decided to get a normal, smallish estate car. So I now have this. Smallish:check, Estate:check, Normal:fail.
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ChasR
RR Helper
motivation
Posts: 10,256
Club RR Member Number: 170
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An interesting variety of cars on the list in addition to:
-Seeing cars change over the ownership -Seeing some cars which you really don't see anymore ; cars really are semi-disposable, or at least they were for a period of time.
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Feb 17, 2020 10:36:16 GMT
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These 3 left. What is this delightful little thing?
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Its a Bertone Racer.
Basically a Fiat 850 Spider with a fixed roof.
The Euro version of that was a Fiat Abarth.
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Feb 22, 2020 23:01:27 GMT
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10 years ago I had just finished my old 1965 Porsche, Castellmarie car park in Mumbles?
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