What were you doing 10 years ago?

johnM · Post by **johnM** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:52 am

I have been up in the loft and ended up looking through old photos, the ones before digital cameras and came across these.

These brought back some great memories, it was my second Caterham a 1.6 Superlight, my first was a 1.6 roadsport.

What were you guys up to?

smallspeed · Post by **smallspeed** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:16 am

I had just moved to Leicester; came up here 12th Jan 2001 to work for CAT after a near unbearable december living at my parents place in oxford, having returned from working in yokohama jp.

I would have been at work about a week 10yrs ago today, and already had a crush on 3 girls in the office

will try and post a few photos of my work in japan; i had a digital camera the size of a brick that took 3.5" floppy disks back then; the problem is not laying my hands on the disks, its finding a computer with a fdd!!

alfacat · Post by **alfacat** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:37 am

Hi John
strangely enough I was driving around in my second Caterham, a Superlight R (an ex factory development car, with some engine mods), my first was a 1700 Supersprint. The Superlight redefined my idea of fast and on Avon ACB 10s in the wet my idea of twitchy!
It must have have been a "blast" driving your Caterhams around the Lakes. I love driving my 911 but sometimes miss the pure rush of adrenaline that came with the 7.

All the best
Ian

911ts3 · Post by **911ts3** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:40 am

I'd just sold my MGA Coupe, bought two years previously and I completely rebuilt it from the chassis up.
I used the money to buy my first 911, a beautifully original signal orange, ex South Africa 1971 2.2 911T Sporto.
The previous owner had spent £10k in the last 10 years of ownership keeping on top of it and having replaced all new rubber seals, plated engine bay parts, heat exchangers etc. It drove superbly and the week after I bought it, I was having offers to sell it.
I eventually sold it later in 2001 as someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse.
In 2007 I bought it back from the guy I'd sold it to and only kept it about 6 months, sold it to a nice DDKer, to raise money to build my current RS Rep.
It was and still is a great car, and gave me a love for Sporto's.
I would buy it back again in a shot.
Steve
911ts3

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911ts3 · Post by **911ts3** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:51 am

Pics of the two cars referred to above

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Cortina · Post by **Cortina** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:15 am

My goodness .............. someone else who was / is a CAT employee ... and likes Porsches ........ small world

(Ex Brazil , India , and UK factories)

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:16 am

Ten years ago I had a Caterham as well

craggle · Post by **craggle** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:25 am

I wasn't driving yet!

drummerboytom · Post by **drummerboytom** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:46 am

Exactly ten years ago i would have been driving this

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but in a couple of months time:

My first 914 !
Hadn't realised it was ten years til this thread got me thinking

Workwise , same company but now the employer rather than an employee. That'll be ten years too in a few more months

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:00 pm

Hey Tom, if you don't mind can you send me those photos or your green 914 as it's what my friend Jonathan now owns but it's silver.

10 years ago I sold this

To buy this

Post by **Bootsy** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:08 pm

I'd been married about 5 months and had just started a new job working primarily in London with an office in Essex.

I was living 2-3 days a week in hotels in the West End and working with the majority of the national newspaper titles on promotional mechanics. I was to keep at it for a further 2 years.

No children

Had this 912 in the garage being used infrequently.

Oh how things have changed!

Had a daughter, got divorced, got engaged, had a son and bought and sold a good few cars in that time!

drummerboytom · Post by **drummerboytom** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:08 pm

Nige wrote:Hey Tom, if you don't mind can you send me those photos or your green 914 as it's what my friend Jonathan now owns but it's silver.

Can do . PM me your email address .

drummerboytom · Post by **drummerboytom** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:20 pm

Nige wrote:
To buy this

Love that to bits ! Even with the wrong bumpers

johnM · Post by **johnM** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:23 pm

Surprising that a few of us have had Caterhams, but I suppose they are new versions of old ideas. Great cars and I think we will have another at some point. My wife who loved the Caterhams had just become pregnant with our first child when we took delivery of the superlight. We then embarked on a tour of the Scottish Highlands

Nice looking back, lots of cool cars, some I am sure we wish we still had.

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:28 pm

drummerboytom wrote:

Love that to bits ! Even with the wrong bumpers

Still in DDK circles Tom, but over in Ireland, if JB still has it.