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Feb 21, 2006 16:00:35 GMT
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My collection consists of - Vauxhall GSI3000 Carlton Out of the lot the Carlton means the most to me simply because of the amount of good memories it has for me (including one conception on the rear seat - friend and one night stand, not me). Friend? Abusing your seats? ;D
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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Feb 21, 2006 16:07:09 GMT
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Abusing them in public no less, outside the Corporation nightclub in Sheffield, when it was on Bank Street.
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Feb 21, 2006 16:15:38 GMT
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Dirty dawg. Thats that Metal club isn't it? justified his love i suppose!
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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slater
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 6,390
Club RR Member Number: 78
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Feb 21, 2006 17:09:25 GMT
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I don't have to but i can! The way i see it you NEED to have 3 cars to get the most out of motoring You need your daily driver, it cant be 'too good' cous it will get covered in salt and most likely some old grannny will crash into the back of it anyway! it needs a few luxuarys (like heaters and widscreen wipers ) and of course it needs to be fuel efficiant so that means it cant have a good engine with twin 48s hanging of the side! not much good for thrashing around the country side. Theres no reason for it not to look fugging cool tho! You need a car for driving fast! you don't want to drive fast in your daily as its probably not got a full cage/harnesses and buckets so when you stuff it in a ditch you will die! also as mentioned above you wont be able to have a leary engine in it which spoils the fun. You will want to strip all the ballest out (back seats etc.) and that might upset the otherhalf when she wants to go pick up her mother! Last off you need your showcar, you want to keep it in the garage when its raining and you cirtanly don't want to stuff it in a ditch so the other 2 would be useless hence you need another one! geddit? easy to justify it...................... to myself atleast
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Feb 21, 2006 18:17:21 GMT
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I'm young and at college so cant afford much ...i refuse to drive a corsa
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once again rocking with 1117cc and 4 gears!
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Feb 21, 2006 18:21:41 GMT
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My wife is very cool about the amount of cars I have, time I spend on them and money we spend on them. We have a sort of understanding that at the bare minimum we have one car each for using for going to work, normally just fairly cheap fairly economical vehicle as we both do 300 mile plus per week as a minimum. A vehicle for towing with (normally a 4x4) and one decent car for going out in at the weekend which is also normally the wifes work car. I then have my MK1 escort which was my autotest car and once its restored I am not sure what I will do with it possibly rallying possibly road use depends what I can afford.I have had it for nine years now and will never get rid of it. I also found out that it was made the same month I was born so we share the same birthday ;D My monza for autotesting/drifting/trackdays. My part built locust kitcar which I am planning on using for autotesting (when I get round to it). Cars like my Silvia I buy because I always liked them and just want to see what they are like. Piazza and AE82 as they were very cheap/free and I would prefer to get them sorted MOT`d and back on the road rather than scrapped. I buy a few modernish cars cheaply that need work doing to them repair them then either sell them on or use them for awhile as a daily driver for a few month. And this pretty much pays for the rest of them. Only problem is I spend so much time on the none retro cars I don't seem to get any further forward on the ones I want to.
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Feb 21, 2006 18:35:30 GMT
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your dog has got away. ;D this needs to be a tad lower, imo.
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Feb 21, 2006 18:42:49 GMT
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i can think of a few justifications for everyones on here:
1. Because i can 2. Because its my money, i worked to earn it and deserve to spend it how i choose.
my collection is pretty easy to justify. the golfs a cheapish car to run and is practical my buggy is for posing and sheer fun
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Feb 21, 2006 18:57:31 GMT
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work horse, daily hack, comfy cruiser and show car all bundled into one big, low, green, teutonic pimpin' machine. ;D i think it justifies itself.
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Feb 21, 2006 19:07:59 GMT
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Some very good 'justifications' or reasons there. Our money we do what we want, fantastic. after hearing about 5+ insurance policys, most of us need a couple more. That autotesting thing sounds like fun.... Expains that impressive avatar Pheonix C, Mrs sound well chilled out too.
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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Feb 21, 2006 19:44:50 GMT
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Mine's a medical condition - I just can't have one car. I buy cars on the spur of the moment, usually because they're stupid-cheap. Usually I get into a situation where all of my cars are off the road / don't work properly, which people find most amusing.
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slater
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 6,390
Club RR Member Number: 78
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Feb 21, 2006 19:55:43 GMT
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is its cheap a good one? Me and a mate brought a mk1 mexico shell last night complete with 2 good mexico wings and a set of new fibreglass bubble arch wings and arches. £675 the lot! got home and looked on ebay... found a mk1 mexico logbook that sold for £550 odd, mexico wings for £500 a pair, and glass wings and arches £200 a set.
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sniper
Part of things
Posts: 158
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Feb 21, 2006 20:10:01 GMT
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'Cos I can and I want to seems to be the simplest reason.
The one thing I can't explain, is why some of us pick a make or even model and stick with it, forsaking all others and all that.
There is nothing I can think of that makes me like Humbers more than anything else, but I seem to find them irresistible. 2 'in stock', one on the way and I went after another at the weekend! unfortunately it was rotten as, and has gone to my mates Humber scrapyard to die so that others may live again.
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1955 Ford Fairlane 1960 Humber Super Snipe 1988 Volvo 240 Estate GLT!
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Feb 21, 2006 20:12:51 GMT
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my collection kinda sprung from nowhere. sold everything to buy the minor, and that was it for a while. but I hankered to build my own hotrod, so I bought a sit-up-and-beg prefect. while I was building that, I started to look for a cheap 2.0s capri to modify, molest and thrash. my 3.1 was offered at stupid cheap money (£250) and couldn't resist. suddenly I have 3 cars sold the prefect, (didn't become what I wanted). stuck to 2 cars for a time, then bought the bmw and this is where I'm up to, with no storage space other than my driveway, which I build my cars on too. there is no justification, I'm just a weak person and a glutton for punishment (automotive masichist?)
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SteB
Posted a lot
Posts: 1,408
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Feb 21, 2006 20:22:55 GMT
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your dog has got away. ;D this needs to be a tad lower, imo. Already on it boss... when its done the wishbones are gonna be saying their prayers ps. on the the other rims you can touch the floor when you open the door without leaning over! (and I'm not some neanderthal type whos knuckles drag when i walk! ;D )
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Feb 21, 2006 21:23:15 GMT
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i just like looking at my capri, so maybe I'm a weirdo as well. :confused:
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Mr Vincent
Part of things
Hiding In The Shed ......
Posts: 605
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Feb 22, 2006 11:16:15 GMT
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Iam just ill!!
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Rusty`s Motorcycles
OLD SKOOL RETRO CAR CLUB
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Feb 22, 2006 11:58:28 GMT
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Mondeo - because the wife refuses to drive 'retro' cars unless she has to - it's cheap, comfy and reliable. gets the whole family on holiday. more importantly the dog goes in the boot happily - i will NOT have that dog in my scirocco! Scirocco - can't justify it really, tends to only get driven now when it's raining or i need to get home from work faster than my bike can take me. started to appreciate it more now though, enjoy driving it more when i do use it. but will probably get sold when the fastback gets mobile... Fastback - totally unjustifyable. hasn't moved in two years. full of junk. when it is finished, which will probably take another thousand pounds and blood/sweat/tears, it'll be pretty much for shows and weekends only. out of the three, it's by far my favourite
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,945
Club RR Member Number: 71
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Feb 22, 2006 13:35:02 GMT
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I can't and to be honest I won't (I might try a bit tho)
The Monza - My first love plain and simple read a road test years and years ago Monza 3.0S v Granada Coupe Dad had always owned Fords but the Monza lit my fire took me a fair while for one that wasn't rotten to find me. Had a couple of them before I finally got the current one - see history post in members rides and also if you are bored the 24V conversion thread in same section
It has always got driven in preferance to all the others but I get the feeling it will be a high days and holiday car soon either that or I'll be wearing ear plugs all the time
So we can call this the track day car
The Lotus Carlton
£50K new WTF..... but I took one look at it at the Motor Show where it was launched and said to the misses at the time - I'm gonna have one of those one day - the price was twice the value of my mortgage at the time - she laughed - I divorced her and 10 years later it wasn't so expensive and I bought one - awsome performance in a straight line (not that handy in the corners) can still get 30 mpg out of it on a European touring holiday. New she doesn't like it but puts up with it to get where she wants to go on holiday.... She'd prefer to go in......
I think we can call this the cherished car
The Senator
The only car she (the new one) actually likes (I've had a few of them and she's loved them all - only car she can fall asleep in when I'm driving and I did bend one a long while back with her in the car and it wasn't written off - the brand new Mondeo that hit us was - I think women like to feel safe in cars or houses) It's been a two year project totally Fubar'd recently by the changes in plans for the Monza - left this one as an auto and come spring she will be finished - she winged bad enough when I stopped working on it to start the Monza project so it will have to be on the road for the spring
It will become the Daily Driver car
The Carlton GLi 2.0
Cheap really cheap 88K 2 owners and I knew both - absolutely perfect doors - waxoiled yearly from new inside doors and sills
LC will definately need new doors in a couple of years what better way to store them ;D
Would be my daily driver but a mate screwed his gearbox on his GSi Carlton and his Auto Senator in the same week - so it's out on loan with the strict condition he washes it weekly, doesn't treat it like a skip and if he bends it he'd better have fathered as many kids as he wanted before that point
The why buy expensive new parts when you can buy a whole car - bit long - try the autojumble car
The Polo her car - unfortunately she can't drive unaccompanied yet so it saves me loads of cash on petrol over the winter so I can blow it all on Optimax for the other cars in the summer
I actually like it for a modern car it's comfortable quiet handles like a go kart and does 40 plus mpg (with the cats removed) and it's slightly modded in a semi Euro fashion just cos I don't like std cars much
Hers - doesn't count car
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,945
Club RR Member Number: 71
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Feb 22, 2006 13:37:23 GMT
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I don't have to but i can! The way i see it you NEED to have 3 cars to get the most out of motoring You need your daily driver, it cant be 'too good' cous it will get covered in salt and most likely some old grannny will crash into the back of it anyway! it needs a few luxuarys (like heaters and widscreen wipers ) and of course it needs to be fuel efficiant so that means it cant have a good engine with twin 48s hanging of the side! not much good for thrashing around the country side. Theres no reason for it not to look fugging cool tho! You need a car for driving fast! you don't want to drive fast in your daily as its probably not got a full cage/harnesses and buckets so when you stuff it in a ditch you will die! also as mentioned above you wont be able to have a leary engine in it which spoils the fun. You will want to strip all the ballest out (back seats etc.) and that might upset the otherhalf when she wants to go pick up her mother! Last off you need your showcar, you want to keep it in the garage when its raining and you cirtanly don't want to stuff it in a ditch so the other 2 would be useless hence you need another one! geddit? easy to justify it...................... to myself atleast Follow your logic totally add on her car and it's perfect ;D
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