Show us your snotter..............

Show us your snotter..............

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dockertrigger

206 posts

199 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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I wish i could afford some of your snotters, a 6 year old Clio and a 6 year old S2000 really aren't what normal people call snotters.

This is my current one, I've just bought it to replace my 1988 Escort.


My 1984 Ford Escort 1.3 L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

Lordbenny

8,575 posts

218 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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AX GT 53,000 miles, £250, 24 years old, runs like a dreams and is A LOT of fun! drivingsmile


Astra Dan

1,670 posts

183 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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dockertrigger said:
I wish i could afford some of your snotters, a 6 year old Clio and a 6 year old S2000 really aren't what normal people call snotters.
What he said. My newest car is 11 years old.
I suppose the 'snotter' of the fleet has to be the Mk2 1.3. It's the only car I'll put the engine hoist in, or use for tip runs, that sort of thing. Paid £925 11 years ago with 104k miles. Now has 207k and worth, more to us as a family member than anything in monetary terms. The wife had it as her wedding car.




redtwin

7,518 posts

181 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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Paid £750, ran it for a year then sold it for £400. Wish I could have another as it totally spoiled me, but I refuse to pay the premiums I have been quoted recently.


ChiChoAndy

73,668 posts

254 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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Look at it... It's proper snotty! hehe


uuf361

3,154 posts

221 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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The Mighty Polo, incl optional £900 (when new) BBS alloys!!!!


Deluded

4,968 posts

190 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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My current snotter. A Rover 214i. Must admit, I love it. Fantastic little car. Roomy and comfy inside, nice and quiet inside. Handles superb, really tight and goes where you want it to. Feels really solid to drive. the 1.4 8v is a great little engine. A lot quicker than you would expect with a low ratio box. Fantastic on fuel and insurance too!

Cost me £350 with MOT and TAX. Interior is mint, exterior is good. Bit of rust on the rear arches but they all have that now.

Only had to replace the battery (was sat a few months before I bought it and the battery had died) and just today stripped, cleaned and resealed the rocker cover as it had a minor oil leak.

Like it that much that I'm tempted to buy a late facelift 25 as a proper car in a few months.

As said by a few people though, I wish I could afford some of the cars people are calling "snotters". If it cost more than £1000 then it isn't a snotter.

exgtt

2,067 posts

211 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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Lordbenny said:
AX GT 53,000 miles, £250, 24 years old, runs like a dreams and is A LOT of fun! drivingsmile

LOVE IT!!!

Does it go well? Best colour!

johnpeat

5,326 posts

264 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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Lordbenny said:
AX GT 53,000 miles, £250, 24 years old, runs like a dreams and is A LOT of fun! drivingsmile

I admire the car, looks fantastic - I also admire the nuts it takes to drive one given that they're made of paper and fold-up in even a minor shunt...

I once saw one being removed from a straight-up motorway bumper-to-bumper shunt - everyone else is standing around swapping insurers but the AX driver is on way to hospital because his driver's seat is now part of the dash...

seagrey

385 posts

164 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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dockertrigger said:
That looks very clean,more collectable than snotter.
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exgtt

2,067 posts

211 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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It's what makes ax's and other tinfoil hot hatches so much fun, small lightweight fragile - fantastic!

dockertrigger

206 posts

199 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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seagrey said:
That looks very clean,more collectable than snotter.
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It's mint, only done 43000 miles, It is collectable really but it was snotter money! It's more the wife's runabout then mine as well!

OzzyR1

5,701 posts

231 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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dockertrigger said:
I wish i could afford some of your snotters, a 6 year old Clio and a 6 year old S2000 really aren't what normal people call snotters.

This is my current one, I've just bought it to replace my 1988 Escort.


My 1984 Ford Escort 1.3 L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr
I do like that, looks in cracking condition - retro cool

johnpeat

5,326 posts

264 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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Astra Dan said:
At first I thought 'trackday in a 1.3?' - then I remember a 1.6 of that vintage I'd been given as a hirecar once - IMMENSE fun.

Engine pulled harder than it had any right to - chassis could be driven over, under and around - was sad to see it go, really...

My drive in a late model Astra VXR reminded me of it quite a bit - same willingness to go (obv. quite a bit faster) and same ability to terrify you if you overdid it smile

M5 Russ

2,243 posts

191 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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My 2.5 Pajero lwb boot fair car. Ubber reliable and never fails to start even when left for 3 months.It currently does not seem to want to change into top gear but since the boot fairs are only local I dont really care. Just about the slowest, loudest car I have owned and never fails to turns heads (usually for the wrong reason smile)

ChiChoAndy

73,668 posts

254 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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M5 Russ said:
My 2.5 Pajero lwb boot fair car. Ubber reliable and never fails to start even when left for 3 months.It currently does not seem to want to change into top gear but since the boot fairs are only local I dont really care. Just about the slowest, loudest car I have owned and never fails to turns heads (usually for the wrong reason smile)
very cool!

johnpeat

5,326 posts

264 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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The current dogvan...



1.9 Turbo Diesel 'Executive' no less smile

16 years old past April - and in a rare moment of "lining up for once" it's miles are...



Props to Pug for the seats which look better than some cars' do after 1/3rd of the miles



Needs a few things sorted tho - back doors are jammed shut (not been used in years it seems), one front strut is rattling and the cooling fan - isn't smile Otherwise it starts, goes (quite well for it's age) and stops again (as well as any Pug of that era which is 'sometimes not as well as you'd like perhaps') smile

schmalex

13,616 posts

205 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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Here's mine. 27 years young. Bought it 18 months ago for £1,000 & nothing has gone wrong on it (although, to be fair, there isn't a lot on it to go wrong).



It is, however, complete with PH sitcker thumbup

Kiltox

14,615 posts

157 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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£750, 105k miles, dubious history.

Absolutely disgustingly dirty inside and out which I'm starting to get on top of. Slight oil leak from the sump which I'm going to deal with by topping up until it gets bad enough to warrant fixing.

Edited by Kiltox on Saturday 4th June 20:31

Zwoelf

25,867 posts

205 months

Saturday 4th June 2011
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The cheapest "snotter" I ever bought - for £300.

It didn't look quite so lovely at that point in time. A fresh MoT, a weekend's cleaning and fettling later and...






A few months, 4,000-odd miles later I took £800 for it. biggrin

Oh, and one Shed of the Week that has since passed through two PH car-wreckers extraordinaire and is doubtless in the hands of another by now hehe

http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=162&i=201...



One car that to this day I regret parting with. I'm a bit fond of E32s boxedin