Driving History

[Nobby Diesel]

Picked this thread up on 911uk.com, so I don't take any credit for it.
What's your vehicle history? Mine (I think), is this:-

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FizzieMk1 escort - daytona yellow, rostyles, tennis racket head rests!
Mk2 escort - light blue; I looked like local CID in it.
Mini Van
KX125 scrambler
Range Rover - handed down from my dad. a fortune spent on it, double sun roofs, spots, stereo, wheels etc and I put it in a ditch!
Mk3 Escort conv - I thought I was the nuts in that car. Looking back, I was a complete tool.
Dutton Phaeton
Orion - nasty company car
Nissan Bluebird - nastier company car
Beetle - resto job; lowered, EMPI's twin Webbers etc.
Audi 80 Quattro - bargain auction car, paid £4.9K at 3 years old. Did 135K in it and then someone smashed into it and wrote it off - paid out £3.1K. Cheapest motoring ever for me.
VW Split Screen camper - resto job again. Corking when it was finished.
Harley - '69 beauty
320is Beemer
Karmann Ghia Conv - resto job. No floor etc when I started.
Audi 80 Estate - getting sensible now !!
TVR Griffith - pre cat engine; the proper sounding one!
Kawasaki Streetfighter - home built from bitsa this and bitsa that
E300 Merc
Audi A6 Estate - still driving it
Triumph Speed Triple
Ford Ranger Pick Up
996 C4 - still driving it

I think that's it, maybe a few non descript efforts that could be added, but can't recall them. This amounts to 23 years of driving.

God, I've wasted some money on vehicles!!!

Come on, what have you owned? Remember, the embarrasing ones too (see Bluebird and Orion above).

[SIMONR]

Mini 1000cc (nasty brown colour with a white roof)
Vauxhall Nova 1.2 'Swing!'
Tiger Super Six. Pinto then Zetec powered. Made one trip to Le Mans in this.
Renault Clio 1.4RT
Subaru Impreza WRX Ra. Kept this for 7 years - I don't even want to know how much petrol went in this!
Tiger R6. 200bhp Zetec in this one. This did one LeMans trip too.
Tiger Z100. A nice quick one! This is making it's 3rd LeMans trip this year
Seat Leon FR TDi. Smelly diesel thing that doesn't cost the earth to run!

37% of this lot have been down to LeMans!

[Andy Zarse]

37% of this lot have been down to LeMans!

Call me Mr Pedantic, but thats only 2.96 cars. Is it the rounding?

[SIMONR]

37.5% then  

[Andy Zarse]

That's better.

My driving history includes an Austin Maestro City and the Commer. Enough said.

[Nordic]

Escort Mk1 1300.
Escort Mk2 RS2000 Pale blue, v reg, single box Janspeed system. great car for a 20 year old.
Toyota MR2 Mk1. sold in 94, not owned a car since.

But have had the pleasure of various company cars including, 2 x rover 216's, 2 x Seat Toledos, BMW 3, 3 Ford Escorts & a Renault Traffic van.

[Robbo SPS]

Mini 1000 in Burgundy red - Written Off by my sister
Ford Fiesta 1100 in metallic  green, written off by me 18 days after test
Volvo 340DL in white - Thirsty Beast
Ford Fiesta Festival in red, travelled the UK in it.
Rover 214sei - Travelled Europe in it. Best car yet, 100% reliable
Westfield 2.0i 16V VX AStra GS2000 Ecotec 3 lumo, in yellow - Sold after 1000 miles
Yamaha Xj400s, blew engine after 6 weeks of ownership
Kwak ZZR600 E - In purple. Awesome motor, Very fast, bad with corners
Honda CBR600 FX -  Still got it. Awesome bike, Done Europe already
MG ZS TDi - Ace carm but named The Tractor as its loud.
Mini City 1000e with 1.3 Turbo lump ( still in resto pieces )

And today...

Suzuki AP50 in need of a little TLC.
 

[Steve Pyro]

Ford Escort mk 2 - passed my test in it!
Ford Cortina mk 3 - 1300 cc's of growling death
Vauxhall Cavalier mk 1 - with go faster stripes on the side
Triumph Spitfire 1500 - great topless fun car - now gently decaying in the back of my garage - a LONG term project
Vauxhall Cavalier mk2 1800 SRi - used to think it went like stink until.....
Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (1976 model) - kicked serious bottom (car rusted to nothing but engine and transmission lives on in the cobra)
Cadillac Coupe DeVille (1962 model) - fins and HUGE thirst - but could comfortably seat 7 on bench seats plus a family of refugees in the trunk
Kawasaki GT550 - threw me down the road on more than one occasion
Kawasaki EN500 - posy custom tourer
Pontiac Fiero (1984 model) - mid-engined plastic / fibreglass 2 seater
Chevrolet Camaro (1998 model) - modern 'F-Body' 2+2 with glass removable T-top roof .
Dax Tojeiro (cobra replica) with aforementioned Pontiac power - 5 long years of hard graft in the garage and saving money! - STILL GOT IT   - Appears annually in Houx Annexe.

plus various company hacks - Ford Escorts, Ford Focus, Vauxhall Vectra (old type), Vauxhall Vectra (2004 model) 2.0 petrol turbo - satisfies my need for speed when not in the cobra.

.......and a ride on lawn mower........with a 12 HP engine  

[Rob]

Austin Metro 1.0 City - which i sold to my sister
Peugeot 306 1.6 lx - which i wrote off
Rover 100 'Ascot' - a new metro

[Nobby Diesel]

A couple of others that have come to mind -  

V-Max - Loon machine, de-restricted, quick shifter, NO2. How could I forget it. Toured to Spain on it; interesting with a 100 mile range in the tank! Took on the Mulsanne on it,!!!
Oldsmobile Toronado - not my car, but my dads. i used to drive it once I was old enough. 28 foot 6 inches long, 15 seats, 4 doors down each side. The whole rugby team used to go to the game in 1 car.
Yam XS250 - in complete desrt rat livery. Full camo, shovel, jerry can and mock machine gun. £400 of laughs.

I'm sure there are more.....

[Bobblehat]

First car I dove
Hillman Minx - In a lovely grey with red plastic seats, very hot in summer!
Learnt to drive in
Alfa Sud 1.3 - Green and rusty but fantastic
MG Metro - more rust
Renult 19 Turbo - What!!!
Failed test Got bike
MZ125 - (OK not realy a motorbike isit!), used to ride from Buckingham to Ipswich, I was young a foolish, skint, didnt know about motorbikes! Crashed it into a Micra, did a lot of damage to Micra
1st Car
Brown Mini Clubman - well the missus car realy
Polo GT - quite good fun
Morris Marina - My god I had one of those! Started to smoke so I abandond it.......I dont realy care were it is
MGBGT - Red and drove it alround Scotland
Mini Cooper - Well it looked like one, total c*ap
Volvo 360 GLS - Was the old mans gave it to me after it spat him of a roundabout then Spat me of a roundabout. The worst thing I ever drove
Ford Serria 2.3D - The M40 stormer
Morris Minor 1000 - 2 door in blue, I wish I never got rid of it will have another
Peugot 306 GLD - Carried a lot of wine
Ford Mondeo Estate - carried more wine - brock the back suspension too much wine!!!
Reliant Scimitar GTE SE6 - still have it, converting to a sprint and hillclimb car, yippee
LDV Cub - slow ugly but carries a lot of wine,
Omega - big blue barge, pleanty of room for kids luggage, and gets to Italy in comfort. But very dull

My I have driven some rubbish havent I  

[Rob]

Austin Metro 1.0 City - which i sold to my sister
Peugeot 306 1.6 lx - which i wrote off
Rover 100 'Ascot' - a new metro

i forgot to mention the company astravan, plus the countless hire cars

my 'crash' list is far more impressive tho -

metro #1 survived 2 crashes,
my pug survived 2 crashes and i killed it at the 3rd attempt,
my astravan survived 1 crash, but the cambelt went so technically i did kill it aswell,
and i also crashed a ford fusion hire car the day i got it, it only had 500 miles on the clock

[Ron Jeremy]

Honda XL 125 S Trailed the whole of Yorkshire/peak district
DT 175 MX - Shite
GPZ 500 – f**k*ng BRILL
Mini Metro – my mums smashed it up twice for her
MK 1 Escort
MK 2 Escort 1600 sports with FF1600 head on, brilliant to 60 mph then that was it
Austin Allegro – sh*t brown colour best seats ever
Fiesta 950
Fiesta 1100
Rover Maestro Blue – company car which I blew up so the bastards got me a red one
Have had the last laugh they were bought by an American firm and the pension scheme is f**ked
Astra 1.3 – company car smashed that twice
Ford escort 1.3 popular plus – Company car smashed up along the fronts of four houses – bastards made me redundant
Ford Escort Popular Plus as a replacement whilst serving redundancy notice
Transit pick ups various
7.5 tonne Lorries various
Nissan Primera estate in white still to this day I don’t know why
406 diesel very good really did what it said on the tin
Renault Laguna 2.2 dci sh*t dealer service but done 70000 in less then two years so not bad

[Snoring Rhino]

Mk1 Cortina, Metallic blue, Purple fish scale flashes down the side and silver lace work on the bonnet - had a final meeting with a goat that ran out of a church - both died and my destiny is probably in hell.
Anglia 1200 - no floor.
850 Mini - reputably had Keith Moons 10" steering wheel on it ??
Triumph Vittesse 2ltr Mk2 - like the Forth Bridge started rebuilding at the front by the time I got to the back the front was knackered again! but sounded great with a Peco exhaust on it.
Beetle 1500 (got married)
Vauxhall Viva 1800 (Bradley arrived on the scene)
VW golf 1500
1275 mini
Sierra 1600 (first Co Car)
Cavalier
Cavalier SRI
Rover 414 (demotion)
Mondeo 2ltr SI
Audi A4 Avant
Honda Accord (last Co car)
Audi A4
VW Passat TDI (50mpg !!!)
MG Trophy (for sale)
TVR Chimera 4.5 Met Green, absolutly gorgeous - apart from the rust in the chassis, mine for 45 minutes

[Chris24]

1978 ? VW Golf 1500 GLS - Metallic Burgundy , paid £580, crashed 3 times and then sold for £350,

1988  Ford Escort 1.3 Popular , Burgundy - Bag of shite .

1990 Peugeot 405 Mi16, white 4 years old paid £4000 for it, great car, handled well in dry but crap in the wet. Good for 135mph on the way to Donington with a full boot and 4 people on board. Had to go when i spent £1200 in 6 months on it. took it to Le Mans in 1997 on my own. Made the 285 mile trip back from the ferry in 4 hours and passed Tom Walkinshaw in his TWR Jag on the M40 at over 100mph.

1992 Rover 420 SLI, White, not bad car really.

Rover 414i - Lease car via work for 2 years, trouble free motoring at £214 a month. But still had to run around for 3 months with the speedo and clock disconnected to keep the mileage under the agreed limit.

1990 Audi Coupe 2.3 20V, white. Lovely car and owned it for 4 years. Very well built and solid, fast but drank petrol, so it had to go in favour of a diesel.

1997 Audi A4 TDi Quattro. Owned since July 04. White, sports suspension and seat and trim etc, air con. Bought from round the corner on the next street. paid £5600 for it.

Had it three weeks, when a silly woman driver pulled out in front of me at a junction without looking and i t boned her in the door and wrote off her Pug 205. Although I hit her at only 15 mph, it did damage that cost approx £4000 to repair and took 6 weeks.  But the car i got back was better than the one I had bought 3 weeks before the accident, all new parts and the air con now worked ! Bonus.

Thats my history, 1990 to 2005.