My old motors thread - probably done before, but who cares!

[inaglasshouse]

RS6. Not exactly an original choice for someone who needs more space than an RS4.

I'm boring myself now....
Need to find a pic of the boy racer Scirocco, circa 1989. Or the CX - now that was a proper car...

[hot66]

I’ll try and dig out what digi photos I can find ... I’ll start with some of my old Porsche’s

[hot66]

A few others

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[Ralph]

I think that I've posted this before but this was my Suzuki LJ80V that was my second car in 1985. It packed an 800cc motor and cost me £1800 which was a lot of cash back then to an 18 year old. I fitted the KC Daylighters with the smiley faces. check out the Kevin Keegan mullet and my Dad's Marina Coupe too!



And a few more:









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[70sThrowback]

Started off with a Metro 1.3L for my 18th, I used to rag that thing. Was off cars for a few years, uni then travelling before I got a '93 Clio 1.4RT, I thought it was sporty at the time After that got a '96 Prelude which was a 2.2 VTEC and looked like KIT inside with all the LCD displays.

Following the Predule this 3.2S was my first Porsche

Had this as a toy at the same time as the Boxster


Needed more room so sold the Boxster / Capri and got this 993


2 children meant more room. Had a new VW Scirroco in between times but it got stolen so returned to Porsche


Still have this old boy though he doesn't get much use

[hot66]

nice Golfs Ralph Have you still got any of them ?

.. My parents made me buy a 'proper' car when i got my first job straight out of uni as an engineer in the subsea oil industry as they didnt' think a scruffy beetle that had been lowered to the point the front beam scrapped the road all the time was suitable . Anyway I bought an immaculate 1991 Mk2 golf 1.6 Driver ( gti look a like but with no power ) from the main dealer in York . Loved that car and did some great european driving in it with my now wife . Think I had it about 1.5 years and sold it for onlu about £300 less than Id paid . Would like another MK2 sometime but preferably a gti small bumper

[Lightweight_911]

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Although my first car was a Beetle - a '55 Oval bought for £30 - it wasn't because I was a VW fan, merely the fact that it was a bit different to my mate's cars (typically A 35's, Morris Minors, Standard 8's/10's, etc) - & I've never owned one since (apart from a donor 1300 bought to build a GP Spyder in the early '80's).

I've owned lots of 'Classics' (over 100 I think ! ) but the vast majority were in pre-digital days & I don't tend to take pictures of my cars anyway ...

However here are a few random pictures :

Firstly me in a silly pose with my TVR Grantura Mk IIa - my everyday car for 6 years in the early '70's:



My first Alfa - a '67 LHD Giulia Sprint GTV - bought in the late '70's:



Possibly the worst car I've ever owned - a Matra Simca Bagheera S (sometime in the early '80's I think):



A Jaguar D-Type replica I built in the late '80's/early '90's:






After I sold that, I bought a 924 Carrera GT (one of only 75 RHD cars built):




Which I swapped 12-18 months later for this Dino-engined Stratos replica:






I can't remember exactly when I owned these - sometime in the mid '90's I think !!

A '65 Renault R8 Gordini which I totally restored (& fitted with a set of rare set of bi-metallic wheels) :



-& a car many said didn't exist/wasn't built - a very early RHD 'solid buttress' Beta Montecarlo:




- more later ...

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[rhd racer]

Love a Monte Carlo. In fact that and the Stratos are on my bucket list...

[Dougieboy1]

my parents had one of these in the late 70's.... Beta HPE



Fantastic looking car but quite unreliable. It was repurchased by Lancia after about 2-3 years i think as it was one of the infamous rusting Lancias from which the engines fell out whilst you were driving.

[hot66]

the Matra ... that was the 3 seats car wasn't it ?

[jonno1]

Bought this in 2015 for £18k. A fairly ropey 964 C2 manual cab. Sold it back to dealer two months later for £18k. Free motoring for summer. It was scabby, leaked a lot of oil, had a manky creamish interior and was many shades of blue. Pretty much what I would like now to rag around in. If I could go out. Which I cant

DSC05077 by CARMANWAITINGINTHESKY, on Flickr

[Lightweight_911]

the Matra ... that was the 3 seats car wasn't it ?

Yes James - 3-abreast seating.

I don't have any pictures of the interior of my car but it was trimmed in a light brown tweed type material ...

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[Lightweight_911]

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I've been looking through some more old (pre-digital) photos & found some more old cars I owned:

This is a GP Spyder I built in '84 - in a single rented garage ~ a mile from home so no power tools other than an early cordless drill.

I think I must have been the only person in the UK to build a LHD Spyder from a RHD donor Beetle (the correct '66 model in order to get the 'ventilated' 5-stud wheels, 'fluted' brake drums, etc):



- & these were part of a comparison (with a professionally-built highly modified 356 Speedster replica) article in the French version of a magazine entitled 'Top Marques':






This 2.0 litre-engined Guilia Super was used as my everyday car in the late '90's &, funnily enough, was bought by a DDK member in the early 2000's.
It then got uprated/converted to a twin-spark engine, etc & painted white.






*Bonus marks to the first person to correctly identify the wheels ...


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[Nine One One]

Alfa GTV or Spyder wheels made by Melber by chance?