Cars you wish you'd kept.
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Corrado VR6 black N919 BRJ - Out of all my cars it was the one I bonded the closest with. Not ashamed to say I used to kiss the steering wheel after the odd drive and talk to him. 
Escort MK1 1300E gold with black vinyl roof OCG 337L - My parents first car together and my first car. A lot of firsts with that car plus it was a very fine car. Leather steering wheel, great gearbox, spots, sports wheels, side stripes, wood dash, rev counter the lot.
Escort MK1 1300E gold with black vinyl roof OCG 337L - My parents first car together and my first car. A lot of firsts with that car plus it was a very fine car. Leather steering wheel, great gearbox, spots, sports wheels, side stripes, wood dash, rev counter the lot.
If I'd have seen that I'd have been tempted!!
big_boz said:
There was a "barn find" Turbo on e-bay a few months ago it looked pretty good but didn't run, I know of a white LX that lives in abthorpe, never see them anymore, mine rotted away years ago.
23 left according to howmanyleft......
23 left according to howmanyleft......
when i was 16 i was given a 1990 Vauxhall Nova Merit in white, 33000 miles on the clock - lovely condition. It had a manual choke and all sorts lol hated it at the time, every car after ive always said i wish i still had the nova - gave it away for peanuts, IIRC they're quite expesive now? besides it was a great little car
My Renault 5 GT Turbo.
I adored and still do adore them. The upside down skip look, the amazing noise from the side exit. The stupidly comfy bolstered seats. The weird indicator stalk position. The best looking standard steering wheel ever, the nothing nothing nothing BOOOOST old skool turbo motor characteristics.
Wow, I'm still smitten. One day I'll have another.
You could have buried me in mine. Genuinely, and I appreciate this makes me very sad, I'd crane my neck more looking at one that I saw out in the wild more than say, an McLaren MP4....
I adored and still do adore them. The upside down skip look, the amazing noise from the side exit. The stupidly comfy bolstered seats. The weird indicator stalk position. The best looking standard steering wheel ever, the nothing nothing nothing BOOOOST old skool turbo motor characteristics.
Wow, I'm still smitten. One day I'll have another.
You could have buried me in mine. Genuinely, and I appreciate this makes me very sad, I'd crane my neck more looking at one that I saw out in the wild more than say, an McLaren MP4....
1989 Vauxhall Nova 1.2 3dr (first car, I long for that car still, but some chavs burnt it out 
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mk2 Golf 3dr - incredible, fun, indestructable machine.
1994 BMW 530iA Touring (e34) - it was totally the wrong spec, 3.0v8 Auto Estate. But the way that machine felt and the feeling I got whenever I glanced at it...irrational as it is, was totally priceless. I bonded with that car instantly. I'd consider it my first 'proper' car (something someone who wasn't really into cars would NEVER buy) and have contacted the chap who bought it off me many times to buy it back.
Thinking about it, its my old golf that I'd do anything to get back if I found it again. Just for nostalgias sake. Too many good memories.
)mk2 Golf 3dr - incredible, fun, indestructable machine.
1994 BMW 530iA Touring (e34) - it was totally the wrong spec, 3.0v8 Auto Estate. But the way that machine felt and the feeling I got whenever I glanced at it...irrational as it is, was totally priceless. I bonded with that car instantly. I'd consider it my first 'proper' car (something someone who wasn't really into cars would NEVER buy) and have contacted the chap who bought it off me many times to buy it back.
Thinking about it, its my old golf that I'd do anything to get back if I found it again. Just for nostalgias sake. Too many good memories.
My 1990 Porsche 944 Turbo was the one I should never have let go.
Spent a fortune getting that car back to factory fresh, awesome performance, can't believe it was only 250bhp it pulled like a freight train, once the turbo was ready to join in. Great colour combo of Baltic Blue metallic and cream leather, 17inch carrera cup alloys.
Sold it to make way for a 928, I enjoyed the big V8 but it never compared to the 944.
Then there was the my 1997 Lotus Elise and all thoughts of my long lost 944 were forgotten.
Azure Blue, Black Leather, Full Piper exhaust system. Loved that car and track day'ed the life out of it. Only sold it as a move meant I had nowhere safe to park it.
But several years and several cars on and with 20:20 hindsight, change of tastes, possibly influenced by owning a frankly bloody awful VX220 and the Lotus isn't the car I miss the most anymore.
Still love the way it looked but that 944 that was the one
Spent a fortune getting that car back to factory fresh, awesome performance, can't believe it was only 250bhp it pulled like a freight train, once the turbo was ready to join in. Great colour combo of Baltic Blue metallic and cream leather, 17inch carrera cup alloys.
Sold it to make way for a 928, I enjoyed the big V8 but it never compared to the 944.
Then there was the my 1997 Lotus Elise and all thoughts of my long lost 944 were forgotten.
Azure Blue, Black Leather, Full Piper exhaust system. Loved that car and track day'ed the life out of it. Only sold it as a move meant I had nowhere safe to park it.
But several years and several cars on and with 20:20 hindsight, change of tastes, possibly influenced by owning a frankly bloody awful VX220 and the Lotus isn't the car I miss the most anymore.
Still love the way it looked but that 944 that was the one
I sold it, I do not know!! 
2 Mk1 Escorts, a Sunbeam Ti, a GT6, a Frogeye.....
which reminds me, I've had on an number of occasions a dream when I suddenly remember that I put one of the Escorts and the Ti in lock up garages in the 80s and they are still there. I then wake up believing it's true and worrying about it and it takes a while before I get it clear in my head that I didn't put them in lock ups and sold them to finance buying the next car.
which reminds me, I've had on an number of occasions a dream when I suddenly remember that I put one of the Escorts and the Ti in lock up garages in the 80s and they are still there. I then wake up believing it's true and worrying about it and it takes a while before I get it clear in my head that I didn't put them in lock ups and sold them to finance buying the next car.
Edited by john2443 on Tuesday 13th November 22:21
Wish I'd never sold this:
Bought it from a mate (the passenger above, seen in mid-soil...) who'd cherished it for years. I'd always wanted a Corrado; that I ended-up with a mechanically pristine VR6 with Schrick VGI inlet-manifold, Schrick cams, AMD throttle-body, AMD Stage II chip, uprated brakes, and rebushed all-round with new Koni suspension was a bonus. It drove like new, went like stink and sounded fabulous. The Schrick VGI inlet tracts made it sound subtly different to 'normal' VR6.
Kept it 3 years then let it go when I bought the Chimaera, as I figured running a Corrado VR6 and a V8 TVR was potential financial suicide. More than 3 years later the 'new' owner still hasn't had any significant mechanical snags with it! Aaaarghhhh! Still think about having another, but reckon a standard VR6 just wouldn't cut it compared to my old car.
Bought it from a mate (the passenger above, seen in mid-soil...) who'd cherished it for years. I'd always wanted a Corrado; that I ended-up with a mechanically pristine VR6 with Schrick VGI inlet-manifold, Schrick cams, AMD throttle-body, AMD Stage II chip, uprated brakes, and rebushed all-round with new Koni suspension was a bonus. It drove like new, went like stink and sounded fabulous. The Schrick VGI inlet tracts made it sound subtly different to 'normal' VR6.
Kept it 3 years then let it go when I bought the Chimaera, as I figured running a Corrado VR6 and a V8 TVR was potential financial suicide. More than 3 years later the 'new' owner still hasn't had any significant mechanical snags with it! Aaaarghhhh! Still think about having another, but reckon a standard VR6 just wouldn't cut it compared to my old car.
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