Old Cars

[Hallix73]

Which is helpful because they always need a bit of tinkering with Stag’s !.
Does it still have the original engine or has been converted to the Buick V8 unit used in the Rover 3500’s and Range Rover etc.
Great engine them !.

Haha.....Yes mine is all original Triumph Engine V8, even the radio still original.

 

[Lovemyev]

My 1st car was a 1963 classic tartan red ( white roof ) Mini, fitted with an engine transplanted from an Austin 1100.
I had not even passed my driving test at this point.
It was one of the nine classic Mini's I once owned over the years.

 

[kin]

Are we now in competition on who’s the oldest and has more seniority??

 

[Lovemyev]

Haha.....Yes mine is all original Triumph Engine V8, even the radio still original.

A "Radiomobile" head unit I would hazard a guess @Hallix73 ?.
Take's me back a bit, fitted a few of them in my time.
The top of the range Radiomobile models at the time was a 106SR or 108SR unit.
A radio with a built in 8 track player included.
Had one in my Cooper S - Quality unit !.

 

[Archev]

A "Radiomobile" head unit I would hazard a guess @Hallix73 ?.
Take's me back a bit, fitted a few of them in my time.
The top of the range Radiomobile models at the time was a 106SR or 108SR unit.
A radio with a built in 8 track player included.
Had one in my Cooper S - Quality unit !.

That’s the very reason I towed that large trailer around - to carry my collection of eight track tapes around - BOTH of them ??

 

[Archev]

Electric motoring



At last we drive a motor car

That makes the senses stir

Push that pedal, hit that button

All set to go, with scarce a whirr

Not a sound, nor yet vibration

Announces our departure now

Contented, smooth acceleration

Not yon poisoned, noisy row

No engine revs or slipping clutch

No gears upset that linear notion

And thank the gods of amps and such

Free from smelly motion lotion

Those old cars, in their day, were fine

But those nostalgic words we said

Have seen us chopped, chastised and punished

And banished to this outcast thread
?


Sorry Alb - I really meant to post this here but I think I sent it to the forbidden zone. ?

 

[Alb]

Nothing wrong with the discussion when it's in the right place
How's this for a blast from the past?

 

[jackois]

Young man, mine was a Ford Anglia 105E.

as was mine...

 

[Archev]

as was mine...

I’ve never owned any Ford myself but I welded the floor and chassis rails in my Father in Law’s Anglia and re- sprayed most of the car.

 

[Ron61]

I had a Morris 1100 and the accelerator cable broke and I had to drive it home 8 miles using the choke as the accelerator. Max speed 30 mph.

Also had an Austin 1300 GT (Worst car I've ever owned) and the fan belt broke 40 miles from home. And yes tights do work as a replacement . I even got stopped by the police for speeding at midnight and I explained my problem showing them the tights and they let me go . Wonderful memories.

 

[Lespresso]

Young man, mine was a Ford Anglia 105E.

Me too, I had a 105E estate in spruce green.

 

[m4rmite]

First car was a mini (circa 73), then a land rover Series 3(72), then back to a 79 mini .
Now that's some difference in driving style to get used to

 

[Vipar]

Mine was a Morris minor 1000 van

 

[Ian Key]

My brother had a 1500 Triumph Spitfire and got stopped for speeding. The police officer then proceeded to say "These aren't very fast sir are they"

 

[emmrecs]

The first car I owned (rather than simply driving my dad's car): an Opel Kadett, in 1975.

Anyone remember them?

 

[Archev]

The first car I owned (rather than simply driving my dad's car): an Opel Kadett, in 1975.

Anyone remember them?

Yes indeed, never had one but they seemed quite popular in their day.

 

[chowbenter]

I passed my driving test in a Austin A40 Farina mk1.

 

[Fokmg]

A Renault 4 van was my 1st vehicle great little thing very cheap to run impossible to get caught for speeding and it did 50mpg when 50mpg was considered almost impossible.
Shame I don`t still have it they fetch fortune these days RRP947M if I recall. Happy days.

 

[Deleted member 7316]

Back in the 70's I rode motorbikes and didn't bother with the car test. I also used to work as a volunteer working with handicapped kids. Croydon council said we could borrow one of the small school buses as we mostly went out at the weekend so I took my test. I then found out you had to be driving for 3 years and over 25.

So my 1st "car" was a 12 seater Austin 250JU minibus. As I wasn't being paid to drive them about the insurance was an extra £6.

I "progressed" to a Sunbeam Imp Sport with L2 cam and 12v truck battery in the front to get some steering

 

[Archev]

Back in the 70's I rode motorbikes and didn't bother with the car test. I also used to work as a volunteer working with handicapped kids. Croydon council said we could borrow one of the small school buses as we mostly went out at the weekend so I took my test. I then found out you had to be driving for 3 years and over 25.

So my 1st "car" was a 12 seater Austin 250JU minibus. As I wasn't being paid to drive them about the insurance was an extra £6.

I "progressed" to a Sunbeam Imp Sport with L2 cam and 12v truck battery in the front to get some steering

Ahh the good old Sunbeam imp sport. Happy memories. I bought this one at a few weeks old and started a new job days later with a car supplied- they wanted to provide a new Vauxhall Viva but I talked them into buying the Sunbeam from me - happy days. Then about a month later on the drive home from the other side of Scotland, I wrote it off big time - hit another car, tumbled over many times down a bank and was pulled out through the back window hatch and woke up in hospital an hour or two later with a wee cut on my knee. You can imagine I got a couple of the crappiest, oldest, smelliest Vivas in the company after that to tour around supervising farm building work ?. Then after I proved I could behave (and drive ?) again I got a new Vauxhall Chevette hatchback. Happy days.