Old favourites

[Garlick]

What is it about cars that used to be commonplace (and not worthy of a second glance) becoming appealing a few years down the line?

I love seeing standard older cars, they just have so much appeal. I don't particularly want to buy them, but I do find them fascinating. Some examples:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2331277.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2323705.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2280370.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2330607.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2065933.htm

[.Mark]

I must confess to loving the old Fords, not surprising as Dad used to own a Ford dealership. I used to love 'posing' around in his 2.0 Sierra, can't remember the model though, was a sporty one, but not the 4x4.

We always had a 'company hack' and it was always a Capri 2.8i, the icing on the cake though was the 2.8i Tickford Turbo

[CampDavid]

.Mark said:

I must confess to loving the old Fords, not surprising as Dad used to own a Ford dealership. I used to love 'posing' around in his 2.0 Sierra, can't remember the model though, was a sporty one, but not the 4x4.

We always had a 'company hack' and it was always a Capri 2.8i, the icing on the cake though was the 2.8i Tickford Turbo

GLS

[CampDavid]

OOOOH - http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2338018.htm

[Gruber]

"German cars age better than British cars"... discuss!

That Golf MkII, my W124 Merc run-about and, for example, an e30 BMW all look (to my eyes at least) much less dated than the Sierra and the Cavalier from roughly the same period.

I quite like the Cortina estate - there's something very well-resolved about the design - but I couldn't justify £5k for it.

[excel monkey]

Garlick said:

What is it about cars that used to be commonplace (and not worthy of a second glance) becoming appealing a few years down the line?

I love seeing standard older cars, they just have so much appeal. I don't particularly want to buy them, but I do find them fascinating. Some examples:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2331277.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2323705.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2280370.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2330607.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2065933.htm

Nostalgia for simpler, lighter, more compact vehicles explains a lot of the popularity, I guess.

Personally, I'd miss PAS, aircon and ABS too much!

The Golf seems like good value for its age/mileage/originality. Not sure about the £3k 1994 Cavalier - is that really a classic car yet?

The Nova looks nice and tidy, too. The ad makes reference to "not needing much work to get to concours standard" - I can't imagine taking a 1.2 Nova to Pebble Beach!

[vit4]

You'll love mine then.

Clicky

Edited by vit4 on Friday 17th December 15:55

[CampDavid]

vit4 said:

You'll love mine then.

Clicky

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=904378&h

Click here for a version without every second word highlighted

[zakelwe]

Garlick said:

What is it about cars that used to be commonplace (and not worthy of a second glance) becoming appealing a few years down the line?

I love seeing standard older cars, they just have so much appeal. I don't particularly want to buy them, but I do find them fascinating. Some examples:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2331277.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2323705.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2280370.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2330607.htm

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2065933.htm

I have always liked this one

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/largepic.asp?i=22...

and then of course the original Tigra

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/largepic.asp?i=14...

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/largepic.asp?i=14...

still looks good after all these years due to simple wheels, wind formed styling and smoked rear tail lights not shouting out which decade it came from. It looks a lot more sporty than it drives.


Andy

Edited by zakelwe on Friday 17th December 15:49

[Rawwr]

For some dreadfully awful reason, I still think this looks good

[vit4]

CampDavid said:

vit4 said:

You'll love mine then.

Clicky

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=904378&h

Click here for a version without every second word highlighted

Link amended.

[.Mark]

CampDavid said:

.Mark said:

I must confess to loving the old Fords, not surprising as Dad used to own a Ford dealership. I used to love 'posing' around in his 2.0 Sierra, can't remember the model though, was a sporty one, but not the 4x4.

We always had a 'company hack' and it was always a Capri 2.8i, the icing on the cake though was the 2.8i Tickford Turbo

GLS

That's it. Came to me about 30 seconds after I posted. I blame cold weather and old age

[zakelwe]

Rawwr said:

For some dreadfully awful reason, I still think this looks good

Ford used to have some great wheel designs. Just think back to the old Capri, XR2,XR3 RS models and now they seem to have gone all chav and no thought.

Andy

[W00DY]

I totally don't want this. Not even slightly.




http://carandclassic.com/car/C199962/

Ok, I lied. I need an in dash cassette holder in my life.

[Rawwr]

zakelwe said:

Ford used to have some great wheel designs. Just think back to the old Capri, XR2,XR3 RS models and now they seem to have gone all chav and no thought.

I seem to recall with that particular design that all the wheels were the same, so the Escort looked somewhat different on the offside to the nearside.

[zakelwe]

Rawwr said:

zakelwe said:

Ford used to have some great wheel designs. Just think back to the old Capri, XR2,XR3 RS models and now they seem to have gone all chav and no thought.

I seem to recall with that particular design that all the wheels were the same, so the Escort looked somewhat different on the offside to the nearside.

Could well be

Loved these when they came out



Golden age of Ford, then the Sierra Cosworth of course.

Andy

[petrolsniffer]

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/2219722.htm



Joy riders old fave or tinworm

[Crimp a Length!]

I used to love the XR & RS fords having owned a few in the late 80's & 90's great era for the hot hatch.
But if you see Mark 3 XR3i nowadays as i did at the recent classic car show its amazing how small and uninspiring they look the wheels are obviously are like polo mints and the whole thing just doesn't look right, same with the sierra cossie albeit i'd still have one of these to compliment my 930.

[stevenr]

I love old Fords.The red one was mine up until last month,i'm hoping to replace it with a 16i next year sometime though.

[Crimp a Length!]

petrolsniffer said:

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/2219722.htm



Joy riders old fave or tinworm

Had an 85 Cav SRI when i was 19 went quite well in its day 115bhp I think with Recaro seats
These were the Reps favourite of the 80's motorways were full of them with the standard coathanger and suit in the back, been replaced nowadays by Audi's and BM's