What's your old toy?

[skeeterm5]

My daily driver is a 1993 Lotus Carlton and this is my summer/weekend toy...

[steely dan]

My old toy that was with me for 34 years until two years ago ........


My new toy which is coming near to completion of a two year ground up restoration ....

[Daston]

My 'old' toy

[LewG]

Crappy Skoda for daily duties, these as toys:










Can a man ever have too many?

[tjk123]

Number 5 said:

I love this car!

Points to you. Rude Merc.

[ewand]

1968 Spider Veloce. Picked it up just towards the end of summer so it won't see much action over the winter, with all the salt around.
Handling a bit floppy, very easy to chirp/spin the wheels when taking off at lights. Cabin comfort is largely non existent, fan/heater is a joke, sounds a bit less glorious than I thought it should.

But just look at it.

[mygoldfishbowl]

skeeterm5 said:

My daily driver is a 1993 Lotus Carlton and this is my summer/weekend toy...

Extremely nice. One of my favourites.

I can't remember the exact story but the photo is of something like the millionth MK2 being airlifted from Dagenham to it's new owner in Belgium.





Edited. Maybe it was the millionth Cortina? anyway a media frenzy for some number of Cortinas manufactured.

Edited by mygoldfishbowl on Wednesday 17th December 22:07

[MBZ 6]

olly22n said:

Leins said:

MBZ 6 said:

My toy

Quite possibly my favourite car belonging to any PH-er

It had me at spoiler mounted diff cooler.

Thank you Its good to know people like my car

I found it by accident 14 years ago when I wasn't even looking for a car

[Alfachick]

cianha said:

Possibly the slowest old toy here:

Yay another one! Although I am guessing by the age of yours that its the original two stroke? The one I have a half share in is the 1.1L so at least can do 60mph which is terrifying...

[stain]

Alfachick said:

cianha said:

Possibly the slowest old toy here:

Yay another one! Although I am guessing by the age of yours that its the original two stroke? The one I have a half share in is the 1.1L so at least can do 60mph which is terrifying...

[slevin911]

[Blayney]

joesnow said:

Blayney said:

Oh my, that is rather lovely. Details?

Thanks. Its a 1968 Alfa GT 1300 Junior, but with a 1750cc engine from the later 1750 GTV.
The car was in good form when I got it, but I've been through upgrading worn parts with Alfaholics goodies, including a stainless manifold and exhaust, an lsd, and some work to the induction. The engine is currently putting out 100hp at the wheels which allows brisk progress, not fast but fun. You can pop a later twinspark engine straight into these if you are chasing speed. At the moment its more about the journey than the time it takes.

Here's a write up: http://motoringconbrio.com/2012/03/30/guest-contri...

That made for a good read, cheers

[Bill]

Lots of good stuff Is it bad that I now really want a tank?

[Marc p]

LewG said:

Crappy Skoda for daily duties, these as toys:










Can a man ever have too many?

Why does everyone appear to be skipping over this guy's post, he owns a fking tank! You sir have won the internet for today

[aww999]

LewG said:

Crappy Skoda for daily duties, these as toys:










Can a man ever have too many?

The tank is nice, but the immaculate Celica Supra? In chocolate brown? That . . . is . . . wonderful! Did you restore it yourself?

[rob.e]

Jonty355 said:

Here's my old banger I bought last year.

I love these more now than when they were new. Such super lines.. looks great in silver too.

[rob.e]

My old toy.

Before:

May 2013 by lotus-gt, on Flickr

Usable, but not finished yet:

clean by lotus-gt, on Flickr

It might not be fast, but it'll sleep 4 and it always has beer in the fridge.

[Marc p]

Jonty355 said:

Here's my old banger I bought last year.

Wanted one ever since I first saw National Lampoons Vacation.

[Alfachick]

stain said:

Alfachick said:

cianha said:

Possibly the slowest old toy here:

Yay another one! Although I am guessing by the age of yours that its the original two stroke? The one I have a half share in is the 1.1L so at least can do 60mph which is terrifying...

Here is mine in a random petrol station in Germany...



We managed to drive it all the way from Scotland to Tuscany and back over the Alps twice (none of this tunnel cheating here)! Although we did cheat and take the Autozug from Dusseldof to Innsbruck on the way out. It was an awesome trip

[stain]

Wow - I feel sick from the fumes after about 5 mins!