Car History –

[Blaque]

1984 Navy Alfa Romeo Alfasud 1.3 Super Sprint. Cost £1025 and £1050 third party to insure for the year and when you went out in the morning there was always something new lying on the ground.
1985 Chrisler Alpine 1.8 GLX (Red with Black Vinyl roof and electric windows) Bought from Mum
1986 Red Ford Fiesta 950 S 10 years old and immaculate. Bought from the old lady at the top of our road.
1989 Suzuki jeep. Bought while working in Sydney, counted as a goods vehcal so could park in loading bays
1990 Champane Renult Fuego GLX
1994 White Fiat Uno 1.1
1996 Grey Renault 21 TX saloon 2.0i
1997 Blue Renault 5 TX
2001 White Puegot 306 Turbo D (still got this)
2006 53 plate Lotus Elise S

[The_Rossatron]

Small list for me

1998 Mini Cooper (still own this today)
2001(ish) Peugeot 106 graduate
2002 Ford Escort 1.4 (Cost me a pint of lager and lasted 2 weeks)
2004 Lotus Elise S2

[alicrozier]

1982 Golf GTi (well it was my brother's really but I had it when he was offshore)
1985 Ford XR2 (utter sh*t)
1989 Toyota MR2 (sublime and utterly reliable)
1993 VW Golf VR6 (smooth and torquey)
2001 Ford Puma 1.7 VCT Lux (running it in for the wife, superb, still have it but sold and goes in Feb)
2001 SAAB 93 Aero (Swedish import, comfy cruiser, fast and with all the toys, sh*t on the twisties)
2002 Lotus Elise S2 111S (fantastic, everyday car and trackday hero, Scottish Road Car Sprint Champion 2005)
2005 Lotus Exige (for sale,see below)

...next...fully automatic Toyota Avensis in deepest darkest Africa (aye, by full auto I mean there's a bloke up front who drives it).

[kenny]

Lets see..

1994 1.4 Vauxhall Astra
1995 1.6 Diahatsu Sportrak
1999 1.4 Peugueot 106
2000 1.6 VW Golf
2003 Civic Type R
2006 Lotus Exige.

[max1966]

1. '83 Triumph Toledo (learned to drive in this, shared with siblings)
2. '85 Talbot Avenger (learned to wobble around in this, shared with siblings)
3. Uni got in the way so '88 Escort RS2000 Mk 2 (learned what its like to come back to an empty parking bay)
4. '89 as 3 (learned to roll in this, fixed it, flogged it, sold it)
5. bought a flat carless till '92 205 GTi 1.6 (didn't stop at an 'unmarked yer honour' T junction, timing is everything, write off on 3rd party insurance)
6. '93 co.car Citreon ZX TD (learned to appreciate going past petrol stations)
7. '95 co.car Rover 416 Si (first new car, discovered HGF, was still a good car though)
8. '02 co.car Mk 4 Golf Gti (150 turbo) (nothing interesting to say about this one, not even remotely interesting)
9. '03 co.car Boxster 2.7 (fantastic, used it everyday, good blend of handling, performance and comfort)
10. '05 135R and Fabia vRS (kind of the same as 9. but in two different cars)
11. ????????????????????

[ironside]

Beat ya - 1.895

[Tom]

nice idea!

1992 (cant remember) Austin Allegro 1.4 Estate (shared with tom - rats ate it)
1995 (ditto) Yugo something or other special edition (shared with tom - rats ate it again - doh)
2000 (G reg) Mk2 Golf 1.4 (sold)
2003 (N reg) Mk3 Golf 2.0 Gti 8v (sold)
2004 (52 plate) Mk4 Golf pd150 anni (sold)
2005 (02 plate) Elise Sports Tourer (111s ish spec -traded in)
2005 (55 plate) Exige

1990 Austin Allegro 1.3 Estate - crappy mustard yellow - painted it gloss black(correct dates ed )
1995 Yugo 45E Special Edition (as above)
2001 (K Reg) Rover 214Si - with walnut
1992 Nissan Vanette - In New Zealand
2003 (S Reg) VW Polo 1.4L
2006 (S Reg) Lotus Elise

once i'd tried rover power i had to go back

[GregR]

...next...fully automatic Toyota Avensis in deepest darkest Africa (aye, by full auto I mean there's a bloke up front who drives it).

I thought you meant there was a guy up front carrying one

[ironside]

Alfa Romeo Alfasud, Chrysler Alpine, Talbot Avenger, Triumph Toledo.

Cars I had to look up on Wikipedia to see what they looked like!

The Allegro Estate sounds awesome - did you paint it with a brush? Nearly as good as my Capri that had a load of emulsion dumped over it (some specs remaining) as a result of the previous owner's extra marital activities.

[Tom]

Alfa Romeo Alfasud, Chrysler Alpine, Talbot Avenger, Triumph Toledo.

Cars I had to look up on Wikipedia to see what they looked like!

The Allegro Estate sounds awesome - did you paint it with a brush? Nearly as good as my Capri that had a load of emulsion dumped over it (some specs remaining) as a result of the previous owner's extra marital activities.

yep went down to ironmongers. bought muckle great tin of gloss black and three inch paintbrush. slopped it on. fairly neat with a few runs here and there.


nice wheels!!

[ed]

It was a beast!

[RDH]

1984 Navy Alfa Romeo Alfasud 1.3 Super Sprint. Cost £1025 and £1050 third party to insure for the year

A mate of mine has just bought a 1980 Alfasud - he loves it - I just think it looks like a cross between an austin allegro a renault 14 and a talbot horizon! Terrible looking thing! (no offence intended)
I think the rust is holding it together!

[max1966]

Now I won't have anything said against Talbot Horizons, my old man had a diesel one which managed to shift the engine oil into the air filter, how did that happen, clever though

He also had a 1.4 Maestro in old english white, manky cream, yuch

Vauxhall Victor, Austin Princess and the other one that looked the same, Singer Chamois (a Hillman Imp), serial Avengers, various other tat before settling on a C5.

Now go look up those on wikipedia and if you can find out the names of the Princess fascimiles please keep it to yourself.

[mac]

1. A-plate Citroen LNA shared with sister
2. B-plate Citroen Visa
3. 1977 Triumph Spitfire
4. C-plate Ford Fiesta
5. F-Plate Toyota Corolla
6. K-Plate Renault 19 TDi
7. P-Plate Renault Laguna
8. 51-Plate Lotus Elise
9. R-Plate Caterham RoadsportA


There has been other cars since the elise but they have really been Mandy's as she does much more commutting than me.



Mac

[mrbennybennett]

1995 - K reg Fiesta XR2i 1.8 16V
2000 - G reg 205 Gti 1.9
2001 - H reg 205 Gti Mi 16 conversion
2002 - 51 reg 106 Gti
2004 - S reg Lotus Elise
2005 - 05 reg Honda Civic Type R
2006 - 06 reg Lotus Elise 111R