My sheds (current and future) - Puma, Nippa
Discussion
I've been spurred into posting this shonk by the increase in "SOTW" maximum value to £2000. An amount which would buy either of these "fine" vehicles 10 times over. Puma is the daily, Nippa was bought as a stopgap while the Puma had a bit of work done. I've now got too many cars but no real desire to sell either.
I buy dross fairly frequently on eBay - I'll post any future sheds to this post to avoid clogging up the forum.
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I buy dross fairly frequently on eBay - I'll post any future sheds to this post to avoid clogging up the forum.
Welcome to PH Tony 
Love Pumas. My brother bought one from a long gone Ford dealers start the Botley interchange on the A34.
As he isn’t into cars I spent a month or so finding a car for him.
First choice was a VR6 Golf. To fat, to cruiser. Then the VW dealer got us to take out a 16v. This was another MK3. We had had two mk2 Golfs in the family but we thought the magic long gone.
We then looked at 306 GTI’s and that was our choice.
We saw adverts for the Puma ( think Steve McQueen ) and we went to find one. These were really rare and we had to drive around a few dealers at the time.
We took out their demonstrator and bought it, wait was to long for a brand new one.
Utterly brilliant little car, he loved the styling and the drive was just awesome. Totally blew the other candidates away.
He kept it a year then sold it for a house deposit. R36 EFC where are you?
Love Pumas. My brother bought one from a long gone Ford dealers start the Botley interchange on the A34.
As he isn’t into cars I spent a month or so finding a car for him.
First choice was a VR6 Golf. To fat, to cruiser. Then the VW dealer got us to take out a 16v. This was another MK3. We had had two mk2 Golfs in the family but we thought the magic long gone.
We then looked at 306 GTI’s and that was our choice.
We saw adverts for the Puma ( think Steve McQueen ) and we went to find one. These were really rare and we had to drive around a few dealers at the time.
We took out their demonstrator and bought it, wait was to long for a brand new one.
Utterly brilliant little car, he loved the styling and the drive was just awesome. Totally blew the other candidates away.
He kept it a year then sold it for a house deposit. R36 EFC where are you?
I agree totally about Pumas. That they can still be found for shed money (mine is cosmetically awful and the slave cylinder in the clutch has been on the way out since I bought it, but it's solid and mechanically there or thereabouts. It cost £200...) is insane.
This one is my third and since Mk2 Golf GTIs and Capris left shed territory they're the best driver's car £500 will buy. Saying that I've oddly never driven a Focus of any kind. Over 100 cars over 22 years of driving and never driven a Focus.
This one is my third and since Mk2 Golf GTIs and Capris left shed territory they're the best driver's car £500 will buy. Saying that I've oddly never driven a Focus of any kind. Over 100 cars over 22 years of driving and never driven a Focus.
TonyMac said:
I agree totally about Pumas. That they can still be found for shed money (mine is cosmetically awful and the slave cylinder in the clutch has been on the way out since I bought it, but it's solid and mechanically there or thereabouts. It cost £200...) is insane.
This one is my third and since Mk2 Golf GTIs and Capris left shed territory they're the best driver's car £500 will buy. Saying that I've oddly never driven a Focus of any kind. Over 100 cars over 22 years of driving and never driven a Focus.
Ford made some great handling small cars from this era.This one is my third and since Mk2 Golf GTIs and Capris left shed territory they're the best driver's car £500 will buy. Saying that I've oddly never driven a Focus of any kind. Over 100 cars over 22 years of driving and never driven a Focus.
Fiesta, Puma, Ka, Mk1 Focus. You won’t be disappointed with any of them.
Welcome to PH!
Puma looks great, I think I missed the boat with them as did consider one years back.
In the early 2000's my mate had a perodua as a courtesy car..I kid you not we were laughed at by random strangers at a pedestrian crossing..still the car got ragged silly and was good fun
I run a MK1 focus 1.8 manual...it's 16 yrs old but still a hoot to drive even if it only has 113 bhp, the handling puts a lot of modern overweight cars to shame. Id highly recommend you get yourself a MK1 focus if a good one comes along, cheap as chips to run, fun and reliable. Happy shedding!
Puma looks great, I think I missed the boat with them as did consider one years back.
In the early 2000's my mate had a perodua as a courtesy car..I kid you not we were laughed at by random strangers at a pedestrian crossing..still the car got ragged silly and was good fun
I run a MK1 focus 1.8 manual...it's 16 yrs old but still a hoot to drive even if it only has 113 bhp, the handling puts a lot of modern overweight cars to shame. Id highly recommend you get yourself a MK1 focus if a good one comes along, cheap as chips to run, fun and reliable. Happy shedding!
VR99 said:
In the early 2000's my mate had a perodua as a courtesy car..I kid you not we were laughed at by random strangers at a pedestrian crossing..still the car got ragged silly and was good fun
A Perodua as a courtesy car? Not very courteous. The "being laughed at by randoms basically everywhere" thing still happens. I've had mine about 3 weeks and put about 900 miles on it and that's the effect it seems to have on 90% of people.
I drive it flat out everywhere, keeping it on the road through strong arms and testicular fortitude. Exactly as a small, rubbish car should be.
t, I want one. 
The Puma is now dead by way of an MOT fail, replaced by 
Absolute unit, in no way as racy as a Perodua, trust me I'd know. Big old D5 engine and autobox make for a relaxed bit of waftage though. Any mechanical failure at all and I'll weigh it in, it weighs about as much as a small country so I won't lose much on it.
Absolute unit, in no way as racy as a Perodua, trust me I'd know. Big old D5 engine and autobox make for a relaxed bit of waftage though. Any mechanical failure at all and I'll weigh it in, it weighs about as much as a small country so I won't lose much on it.
Edited by TonyMac on Saturday 31st July 20:01
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