On my introduction post this was brought up by me, cars that we have owned in the past. Some of us have owned cars that would be worth thousands now, might be good to name a few. Mine....Cortina MK2 with column change auto and bench seat, Capri 2.0 s, VW Beetle 1300,VW Camper. Also had a couple of VW gti's but were they as good at the time as I thought they were, I don't think so. About 2 years ago we had a Vauxhall Corsa with a 1.2 twinport engine, this thing had a couple of mild mods done to it and I reckon that this was as quick as those gti's of the late 80's, flat out speed according to sat nav 110mph (on private land of course). Maybe its all down to technology changing or memory loss on my part ......Opinions ?

My last car was a restored mk1 golf gti rivage and before that I had a mk4 golf gti. Owned a few Fiat puntos and an astra coupe back Iin my early days of driving.

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I had one exactly like this but with gold spokes , best car i ever owned boy do i wish i had never sold her

I had one of the first 400 Impreza Turbos in the country they had an aluminium bonnet (and all around ventilated discs iirc) unlike the ones that came in 95 and on. It was quick, but understeered horribly if you were going nuts, or it was a little damp. The next one I bought was 100% better in almost every way Might have been worth a few bob if I'd kept it. They were only about £17.5K new and I got nearly £5K off!!!!

I have owned as following

1989 nova 1.3sr on twin 40s

1991 fiesta rs turbo stage 1 175bhp

2003 mg zr 160 throttle bodies cams etc 192bhp

1991 r5 gt turbo 236bhp still 1.4 8v 12.1 1/4 mile

2001 peugeot 206 gti

And had a 1997 escort van for 4 years.

Crappy little Peugeot 206 1.4 automatic. Glad I got rid of that.

 

 

I had one exactly like this but with gold spokes , best car i ever owned boy do i wish i had never sold her

Isn't that a Vauxhall/Opel Firenza ?

My second car - bought in 1962 and owned for just 6 months - was a rare 1953 RHD Mercedes 220 saloon. I was told at the time that the car had first been registered to Jack Barclay and that there were only 6 examples made. The car is still registered.

No its an Opel Manta B Berlinetta , used to be a rare site on uk roads in the 70s then they brought out the Manta C which is the one used in rallying and the one most people associate with the Manta name .

No its an Opel Manta B Berlinetta , used to be a rare site on uk roads in the 70s then they brought out the Manta C which is the one used in rallying and the one most people associate with the Manta name .

The shape looks similar to this

The shape looks similar to this

 

Yes it does , but the Manta didnt share any parts with Vauxhall at that time to my knowledge , it  had a totally different suspension setup  and a hugely heavy  but torquey  1.9 cam in head engine    , the Firenzas were either 1256 , 1800 or 2.3 ltr

 

 

I had one exactly like this but with gold spokes , best car i ever owned boy do i wish i had never sold her

Didn't there used to be a Kadet with a similar body shape too?

I had a few Novas

First been a 1.2 luxe plus model with electric windows

Then moved to a 1.3 sr

1.6 gte

1.6gsi

2.0 turbo

Then broke it :-/

Then 2.0 gls green vectra b

2.0 Sri White vectra b which became my show car and loved that had it for 11 years :( now sold and broken for bits

1.6 Astra sxi red daily drive

Now the vrs

Didn't there used to be a Kadet with a similar body shape too?

 

Yes and quite a nice looking car it was

1989 Vauxhall Astra 1.3 3dr Merit

1995 Vauxhall Astra 1.6 16v Arctic (with AC :sun: )

2001 Ford Focus 1.9TD Zetec

2004 Renault Clio 1.5 dCi (100hp) Dynamique

2007 Skoda Octavia VRS TFSI

2010 Honda Accord Touring 2.2 DTEC ES-GT

 

1993 Kawasaki ZXR400L

 

Nothing massively exciting tbh.

I think they're all still on the road except for the Vauxhalls.

IIRC...

 

1991 Single Carb Mini Cooper, in BRG. Rally spec head, engine upped to 1380cc, full rollcage and bucket seats/harnesses. It was a UK RHD car imported to Italy when it was 2 months old and then imported back here 6 months before I passed my test - it was totally rot free and mint. If I could buy one car back, it would be this one. Bought for £3k, spent loads on it, sold it for £5k. Probably be worth close to 10 now based on current prices...

Then a Pug 205 GTi - got replaced with a 309 Goodwood. I still think the Goody is the better car of the two.

Sold the Goody and got a 1999 Mk1 Hyundai Coupe F1 Evo, which is another stand out car. Loved that thing - hugely underrated. There's only 100 left on the road now but most have the dreaded rust in abundance. Mine was broken on eBay a year or so ago, looked like it had been horribly abused after my ownership. If there was any money in them at all I'd buy one again and do a full resto on it but as it stands it'd just be a money pit.

The Coupe went in favour of an '89 Mk1 MX-5 1.6. Spent a while playing with it - splitter, strut braced, split rims, lowered etc. Loved it, but started doing regular 100 mile + trips and I needed more boot space.

It left in favour of an Alfa 156 2.0, which in turn got swapped for a Ford Puma, which in turn got swapped for an Alfa 156 GTA, and then an Alfa 147. Somewhere in the middle there I had a Punto HGT for a few months as well when the Puma threw it's MOT.

And then the Octy...

Sorry chaps, I thought I'd deleted this - I'm trying to get it in spreadsheet form!

 

I'll try again tomorrow.

I think the only thing I'v owned that may go up in value was a Fiat Coupe. Like this-

 

 

Its amazing how much smaller our old cars were in comparison to newer cars , this was brought home to me just now in a traffic queue , an original Mini was stopped next to a Fiat 500 , the Fiat was roughly a 1/3rd wider again than the Mini yet we consider the Fiat small .

1983 Mk2 Fiesta 1.1l

1986 mk2 Fiesta 1.1l

1989 mk3 Fiesta 1.1 ghia ( brown interior i still don;t know why)

1995 mk3.5 Fiesta 1.6 Si ( had for 3 years

1996 Punto GT Turbo ( loved this loads when dump valves were cool)

2002 Punto mk2 Sporting ( silly idea to slow myself down lasted three months)

2001 Punto mk2 1.8 HGT 9 great under rated car only went when i got a company car

1992 Nova 2.0 XE carbs

1999 Focus 1.8 Tdci for 6 months

2003 Golf tdi 130 

2004 Ibiza 1.8 T FR ( spent way too much on this

2005 Ibiza 1.9 Tdi FR ( again spent way too much on this)

2002 mini Cooper S ( rediculous money pit but was eventually 280Bhp before it went bang)

2008 Mini JCW ( sad day when i had to sell to fund a house but i made money on it)

1999 206 Gti - Track car but sold to pay for house

2002 mini cooper S Track car, again made money on it as i stripped it and sold standard

2006 Seat Ibiza Cupra Tdi bought from main dealer with 220bhp it blew up so i got a refund

2002 Civic Type R first one sold on for new project

2002 Civic Type R Champ white

2004 BMW 120d - lovely car but got bored of diesel

2009 Mini cooper S - ****e car lasted 5 days when i found out it was an ex pool car and Mini refunded

2005 BMW 130i - great car had to sell due to job issues

2003 Civic Type R bought cheap whilst no money ran for a year

2006 BMW 130i - after wanting an FN2 type R and newr car saw this and had to have it

2003 Civic Type R - bought once i saw my brothers one and wanted for track use

2004 Civic Type R - bought whilst i had the other one as looked a cracking deal 

2013 Fabia VRS hatch, drove brothers wanted one

2004 civic Type R - bought to run alongside my current fabia and keep as track car, this one will not be sold ever

20013 Fabia VRS Estate - too good a deal to not take up and swapped the hatch for pick up friday.  

 

think i have them all, plan is nothing new for next 3 years at least

Previous:

MK3 Ford Fiesta - drove on L plates

Vauxhall Corsa B  - wrote off 6 months after passing my test

VW Polo 6n2 - Gearbox blew up for the second time)

Peugeot 107 - Too Slow, wanted something a little quicker

 

 

 

Current:

 

Skoda Fabia II VRS

 

 

Not had many

MKI Vauxhall Astra 1200

Vauxhall Nova 1200 Merit :

Then a gap of many years...

VW Lupo Sport 2004 - 2005

VW Lupo GTi 2005 - 2009 (it was one of the last - first registered 2005)

Skoda Fabia vRS 2009 - 2011

MKII Skoda Fabia vRS 2011 to date

I had one exactly like this but with gold spokes , best car i ever owned boy do i wish i had never sold her

Loved those - can remember someone in the neighbouring street having one (I was only primary school age) - a cool car.

I will have to delve into the memory banks to recall everything, there will probably be some that the younger peeps will not know but here goes, might not be in the absolute correct order........Vespa ss180, Suzuki B100 ,Suzuki A100, Suzuki GT250, Honda CB750, Reliant Regal, Ford Corsair 1600, Commer Van, Datsun 180 Bluebird, Ford Cortina mk2, Ford Capri 2.0S, Ford Granada 2.8 Ghia, Ford Cortina Mk5 1600L, Honda CB 250, Ford Sierra 2.0 Ghia, VW Golf GTI 8 valve in Grey, VW Golf GTI 8Valve in Red, Mitsubishi Pajero 2.8 Super Exceed, Vauxhall Zafira 1.8 Elegance, Vauhall Corsa 1.2 Semi Auto, Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 Twinport, Nissan Micra 1.4 SX, Skoda Octavia 1.9 Elegance. ....This is only the second diesel that I have owned and there have been some real rust buckets here that struggled on MOT time

Edited 10 August, 201510 yr by Bazzer1955

I was compiling this for hopeful inclusion in the £100k dream garage on PH. All were bought used. I love the art of 'Bangernomics'  (I've never purchased a new car, never will). It makes me happy/sad to see some of these now going crazy in the 'classics' market.  Of them all the AVO RS2000 was the one I regret selling most along with the Alpina B11. The Lambo was financial suicide. It was cheap...I quickly found out why     Ho hum....

 

(Pre 'official' driving days as a yoof)

72 DT250 Yamaha motocrosser

73 RM 125 Suzuki motorcrosser

 

Started driving in 1981 and the list is more or less in order from then (and at times several were in my ownership at the same time).

 

72 Escort MK1 1100L (first car – rostyles, CB, lettered windscreen, roof twig…),

75 MK3 Cortina GXL,

76 Hillman Avenger,

72 MK1 Escort 1300 estate,

77 Kawasaki KH400

72 Suzuki GT380

73 Mexico AVO,

74 RS2000 AVO (miss it so badly…GNO425N),

88 Colt Cordia Turbo (rapid but 80’s glam),

79 RS2000 Droopsnoot (C’mon Doyle!),

86 Astra GTE (yuk but seats were fab),

82 BMW E21 323i (Alpina mods – the ‘widow maker’),

79 Mini Pickup (A hoot…),

77 Lamborghini Urraco (biggest ever financial mistake in my life – a nine week ownership nightmare),

88 BMW Alpina 7 Series B11 (Stunning car),

93 Saab 900 T16,

95 Saab 900 16v,

94 Saab 9000,

89 Citroen AX GT,

92 Renault 5 van (ex Toulouse Blagnac airport 'follow me' wagon...)

93 Nissan Primera P10 Egt (BTCC replica - still have it...best FWD chassis this side of an Accord typeR)

99 Suzuki DT125 4 stroke 

95 Caterham 1.4 supersport,

92/94 Legacy Quad Cam Turbo Estate x2 (stunningly capable high performance estates with 200bhp and awe),

90 Porsche 944 S2 (fantastic touring car),

88 E28 BMW 525E,

92 Nissan Sunny Gti,

93 x300 Jaguar xjr (sublime straight 6 supercharged)

93 W124 Merc E280 estate,

94 W124 Merc E200 estate,

02 Renault Vel Satis 3.5 (Nissan 350Z engine - best used buy cruise barge ever).

 

Current:

3.6 superb estate

Caterham 1700 Supersprint

Nissan Primera P10 Egt (as mentioned above)

Aprilia Moto 6.5 Starck