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Feb 24, 2011 21:54:46 GMT
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Because i can? Oh you want a better answer than that Well a lot of it is down to the fact i prefer less complicated cars....no A.B.S. or other nanny state electronics......prefer cars with a personality......i know mine is a female car...even though its called Frankie.....allways having mood swings and letting me know when its pi**ed off Mostly though id say its down to money...or lack of it.....iv had skoda's for a while...this is my 4th Felicia.....liked the look of the Combi....tah dahhhhhh rest is history
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sumpcracker
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Feb 24, 2011 23:19:23 GMT
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I wish I wasnt into old cars at all, but I cant get away from it, they have taken over my life and are a part of everyday living, ruined my education and some relationships. Ive had bans for speeding and injurys form working on them. I eat sleep breeth cars. All my family were into cars since I was born, dad had a highly tuned 2.5pi with nearly 200hp in the early 80s as well as a 3.0E capri with broadspeed bits, uncles has sprints on webbers and hot escorts...mum had an sd1 vitesse...but over the years they modernised with modern fast cars and I didnt, I still wanted the old ones. I was involved with mechanics since I was about 9 and was helping with restos on TRs ect. When I was 12 I was given a mini 1000 to play with, at 16 I bought/built a dolly sprint At 17 I passed my test, drove a polo breadvan for a couple of months and then managed to insure a renault 11 turbo, I spent the idiot years thrashing this about and various GTE 16v's They were the days when traffic police harrased young drivers but stopping for them was more of an "option". Ive now had over 200 cars and I'm still always on ebay/p heads looking for the one.. I'm a slag, every time I buy a car, "this is the one I'm keepeing".... old bmws usually. I have no affection for modern cars at all, they bore the curse word out of me, even Evos and things. The just have no charictor at all, so safe and refined...and plastic. Heres me- Heres my 11 turbo. I could have bought a later car with cheaper insurance ect but I wanted somthing old and very fast. I found the attention and respect that came with retro too. The simplicty of repairs and classic insurance are a big bonus too.
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Feb 24, 2011 23:19:59 GMT
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The first word that popped into my head when I read the question was ''Birth''. What came next on the way home from the hospital was my dads hot Wolseley 16/60. It all stemmed from there...
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Feb 24, 2011 23:31:24 GMT
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BLEUGH! Seriously unimaginitive soul-less uninspired ballpats... Plus I like how simple the older cars are... engineering is a sadly lost art I fear, with electronic engineering taking over just a little too much! Gimme a car that was designed in a week and wasn't confined to design by health and safety executives wearing glasses! !!!!!!
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Last Edit: Feb 24, 2011 23:33:45 GMT by Diabolu
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sumpcracker
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Feb 24, 2011 23:54:40 GMT
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Seiously unimaginitive soul-less uninspired ballpats... Gimme a car that was designed in a week and wasn't confined to design by health and safety executives wearing glasses! !!!!!! Exactly, and this emissions curse word too. Ive noticed all cars are the same car now, just with different shape lights, so they don't have to design much now anyway. Its a soul thing, seeing somthing like on old jag in a scrap yard makes me feel sad and i have to give it a moments respect, but i could watch a million new cars die without a flinch.
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B-8-D
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I quickly discovered that only RWD will do. And with a want for good direct feel driver feedback. uncomplicated and with no over assisted driver aids. Older cars just seam right to me somehow. And l don't like The idea of throwing thousands down the drain each year in a hope that a new car might be more reliable. I drive older cars.. On average I don't lose money on old cars. In fact if I don't break even after I've finished with them I make. So other than insurance. I can drive my cars and have my hobby for free. Can't lose... So I've basically always been into retro.. sure ive had a few moderns and driven loads.. but its not for me... Si
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Last Edit: Feb 25, 2011 7:46:02 GMT by B-8-D
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ChasR
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What made you go retro?ChasR
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You chaps are aware that the older generation will be saying most of the cars on this forum are unimaginative? Anyway, the sight, sounds and smells and the willingness to get my Hands dirty are what got me into retros. First two or 4 cars I owned were retros in one form or another. That and back then they were cheapish to run too! Now working on cars has become a bit of a pain for me and with me clocking up insane mileage retros are now just to get me away from cars. I drive day in and day out. Christ I'd say there is probably really only one or two moderns in my fleet of cars now.
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You chaps are aware that the older generation will be saying most of the cars on this forum are unimaginative? Good point there. As someone else said in a thread the other day; Everything was modern once.
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MK2VR6
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I know several members on the forum drive modernish cars as dailies and have a retro as a toy, such as myself. For me I like the fact that my car was very popular when it was new but is now a fairly rare sight on the roads. If I didn't buy mine when I did, I don't think I would have found another locally that would ever have fitted the bill. I like having too many cars on the drive, a clutch pedal which croaks like a frog when you press it down and even get a kick out of some others reactions who 'just don't get the old car thing'! If in doubt, buy one
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Last Edit: Feb 25, 2011 9:32:31 GMT by MK2VR6
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I really don't like this thing of slagging off modern cars - it is possible to like different things, you know. I love retro cars and modern cars. (Well, I just love cars, full stop.)
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;D PMSL! Very nice! ;D
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Nathan
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What made you go retro?Nathan
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Feb 25, 2011 10:03:32 GMT
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Being 13 and watching an old Cine Film of my Dad in his MG Midget set the seed.
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Feb 25, 2011 13:23:54 GMT
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My dad bought a Beetle cabriolet when I was tiny. He bought it off of a 'fella who thought it was a regular Karman cab, but it turned out to be one of these: That bargain of a Hebmuller meant everything to him but even more to me. Eventually he sold it to buy his dream car, a pre-tea-tray spoiler 911 and I loved that too. That got sold to buy the house I grew up in and a Saab 900 took the 911's spot outside. Basically I had no hope, what with my dad's bargain hunting and obsession with old German tin. Thank god for that.
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older is better. Less complicated, less sodding electrics to go wrong, better styling (cars used to be individual, now most of them look the same, or ARE the same car with different manufacturer's badges stuck on) older cars have character and quirks which make you love them, they're easier to work on, fix and maintain yourself. New cars can cost £300 to change a damn lightbulb and it involves taking the entire front end off the car. That's the stealerships leeching off your wallet.
Older cars say you're not a sheep, you're not following the boring old norm like everyone else, you love something different and you care about our motoring and engineering heritage, you're preserving a piece of history, and being kind to the environment whilst doing so as it is FAR more environmentally friendly to keep an older car on the road than it is to mine out and refine all the raw materials, and fabricate them into a new vehicle in new factories. The longer something lasts for, the more efficient it's production was.
Kirsty
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I have determined that my sole purpose in life is to serve as a bad example...
CURRENT vehicles - '84 Saab 900 turbo classic, '93 Nissan 200SX S13, 2021 Volvo V90 Inscription.
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I grew up with my dad constantly having a supply of oldish cars, the first of which i rememeber was a bright yellow mini clubman estate on wellers, then moving on to a brown mini. then he took to giant leap up to a nissan bluebird then a triumph acclaim (loved this). All the while he had a london taxi which we used to go on holiday in! Then sadly my dad had his first heart attack and had to stop driving a taxi so he went out and got himself a job as an it consultant and got a golf vr6 company car, which was a bit too modern at the time for my liking. However he also had a volvo 850 t5 estate, volvo 740 which was epicly specced, but plauged with blowing headgaskets. After this he had another heart attack and decided that he needed something a bit bigger. He then moved into his current stream of mk1 mitsubishi shogun's and a delica broken only by a mk2 cavalier he got in 2008. When i passed my driving test shortly after he got the mk2 cav i was looking at getting myself a volvo 850 t5 as i loved that car! However, my dad said that i should take the mk2 cav out for a spin and see if i liked it. I LOVED it. Although it seemed like just a bonky old cavalier to me and i planned on buying something new at some point. That was until i saw this. and i saw the potential that a bonky old vauxhall has. Not long after i learned to drive i found out i was being posted to germany so i would need a car to get there and back so my dad gave me the mk2 cav! to say i was overjoyed would be the biggest understatement ever. Fast forward a couple of years and ive now got 2 mk2 cavaliers and a vauxhall insignia as a daily. This is the mk2 cav i got given by my dad, not with a calibra engine. So in short, what made me go retro? my dad. Rosco
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go retro? I was born retro lol
take a look at the current market - its all bland boring tasteless expensive tat - where did the engineering go, what thappened to mechanics its all computerised nonsense
older cars look better have more charecter, arent filled with computer chips and miles of wiring, thertes nothing complicated about them wich makes working on them easy and saves your wallet by not having to be ripped off having a garage fix it, break it then fix it again, fit some dodgy parts that will last a month so he can fix it again........ when i were a lad we messed with the following
ford xr2i (white with pepperpot alloys) vauxhall astra gte ford escort cabriolet ford escort xr3i ford sierra cosworth vauxhall nova above they were cool back then and they're still cool today
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Always have been Same here. I've never had a car newer than 1967 Ditto on both counts ;D
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With me it started from an early age. Being a child of the 80s I grew up knowing cars like my dads mk5 cortina, and our neighbours nova and mini (the mini had terminal rust but still managed mots every year ;D) when it came to having my own car I bought a 1991 Lada Riva before I even had a provisional licence, but the rear window broke of its own accord when it was in the garage, and the mould set in Once I had passed my test in 2002, my dad offered to buy my first car, but it had to be under £500, so the only thing I could get was something small and retro. Well along came a 1992 Nissan Micra 1.0 automatic (K10). I wasnt sure about having an automatic as a first car, but it was in minty condition so a price of £450 was paid two weeks later the police stopped me though and took my tax away, as the 'full tax' was disabled In september of 2002 I was at a car boot sale, and had a sign on the table saying 'automatic car wanted' as my mam was looking for something different (she had a Citreon bx). Along came a little old lady called Eleanor who commented on how she was looking for an automatic car too, and had one to sell - a dark blue Fiat Panda Selecta (yep the same one I have now). So a quick look over it and a price of £300 was agreed, thankfully my mam said it was too small for her to use, so I decided to try selling it on I had alot of fun in that little Micra, but in the winter of 2002 when I offered to pick my sister up from work, the Micra had an arguement with a flat bed scaffold lorry and lost 3 foot on the passenger side and was so twisted that the tailgate wouldnt open This meant I only had one car, the panda, and I have been using it ever since Along the way i have bought and sold cars so i get a chance to try out different makes, and try to make some money, but usually only made a couple of quid once the repairs were done (at least kept more retros on the road ). But all of the cars i bought to sell on WERE retros (mainly 80s), so i never really got a chance of anything modern (thankfully). As such when i am in something modern (post airbag era) i find them to be soo boring to drive, and have no feel (either through the pedals or steering). So retros are what i know, and retros are where i will stay, but it be nice if they were just a little bit safer ;D
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1993 Fiat Panda Selecta 2003 Vauxhall Combo 1.7DI van 2006 Mercedes Kompressor Evolution-S AMG SportCoupé
"You think you hate it now, wait til you drive it"
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My dad left a 2002 in my mums garage after they divorced. Remember poking around in it when i was very young, although not being allowed into the garage made it all the more exciting. That and every winter we would find hedgehogs bundled up in hay underneath it... it did get scrapped in the end Beautiful car, Black with red trim, will forever be etched into my memory of growing up Along with a beige cortina that was forever breaking down, remember watching my mum pushing it into a layby. (got sold to be destroyed in banger racing) Also the house which i grew up in was previously owned by bloke called roger, he liked taking cars apart and storing bits everywhere... one of the cellars was full of engines and cylinder heads, and my brother and i once dug up a motorbike from the bottom of the garden I think all of these factor in to the excitement i get from Retro motors, but for me no specific factor is to blame...
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If weldings like tattoo'ing Then my car has some really sh*t ones
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Back in the 70's my old man couldn't afford a motor, but my grandad went through various Vauxhalls, his final one being a Chevette. I was a car fiend (and trucks from an early age) and my bedroom wall was covered in posters, I passed my test and was allocated a Bedford Chevanne Special ooooohhh ;D The special meant it had rostyles, high back seats and a radio cassette, it had 57bhp and I thought it flew . . until I was given a mk1 1600 Astravan the following year ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Went through a rake of cars between 86 and a company car in 1998, including about 8 cortina's, bluebirds, Fiat 131's, Cavalier Sri's, Astra's, Chevannes, Volvo's, Rovers, Audi's etc and had owned more than 30 cars by the time I hit 20! revisited Chevette's four years ago and have since owned about 15, restored 4, built a discreet HSR Replica, and now own a Chevanne and a Carlton Diplomat as well as a Transporter and the work hack . . and am chasing a couple of others!
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