Finding my old car, where to start?

Finding my old car, where to start?

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6,356 posts

169 months

Sunday 30th December 2018
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Never give up hope!
I have been looking for my Late Dad's 67 Oro Gold Maserati Ghibli 4.7 since before 1985. He died far too young in Sept 75 and in 76, the car went back to the States.
Well, about a month ago, very late one Sunday eve, I was scrolling down through the Ghiblis currently for sale and OMG there it was!!!
I spent the Monday in a total daze, deeply upsetting memories were mentally torturing me, but I'm just so thrilled that it has survived.

neutral 3

6,356 posts

169 months

Sunday 30th December 2018
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We also found his 70 Hemi 426 Challenger in 2013, after 38 years of searching !
Still looking for his first E - Type though !
Found his second E Type @ Brighton E Type day in 1986.
Still looking for his last E - Type though !

Nick198282

1 posts

60 months

Sunday 10th March 2019
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Looking for my old car Reg is KV55 XDS anyone find out if scrapped or not. Not had mot last 12 month. Really want to buy it back. Black 2005 vectra SRI

aaron_2000

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5,407 posts

82 months

Sunday 10th March 2019
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Nick198282 said:
Looking for my old car Reg is KV55 XDS anyone find out if scrapped or not. Not had mot last 12 month. Really want to buy it back. Black 2005 vectra SRI
Last V5 change was April 2017, as of April 2018 it's got no Tax/MOT and it's uninsured. It's 99% been scrapped.

Filmguy

7 posts

55 months

Tuesday 13th August 2019
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Looking for my folks old VW T25- H721 ODC tried various Facebook forums. It was sorned but checked again and it’s been taxed and MOTd. So it’s still on the road. Any tips for finding it? Cheers

Simon Harper

1 posts

88 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Looking for my old Fiesta XR2 F920 LGW if anyone has seen it

Dave.

7,324 posts

252 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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danlightbulb said:
Hi all.

Im wanting to track down my old girlfriend.

I didnt want her at the at time so let her go, but for some stupid reason I think I can turn back the clock and get her back as the one I upgraded to is clearly not a patch on the old one.

Rather than just get any new girlfriend thats similar to the old one I instead want that specific old girlfriend back who probably already has a happy life somewhere else.
Have a belated rofl

aaron_2000

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5,407 posts

82 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Simon Harper said:
Looking for my old Fiesta XR2 F920 LGW if anyone has seen it
Never had an online MOT, currently on a SORN. Last sold in 2012, sat in a garage somewhere or long since broken for parts.

aaron_2000

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5,407 posts

82 months

Friday 29th November 2019
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Filmguy said:
Looking for my folks old VW T25- H721 ODC tried various Facebook forums. It was sorned but checked again and it’s been taxed and MOTd. So it’s still on the road. Any tips for finding it? Cheers
It was sold on Just Kampers in 2013, still with that owner.

Abhishek56

1 posts

81 months

Saturday 28th December 2019
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aaron_2000 said:
Well, I got my Leon back in summer at least.
How did you manage to get it back? smile

aaron_2000

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5,407 posts

82 months

Saturday 28th December 2019
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Abhishek56 said:
aaron_2000 said:
Well, I got my Leon back in summer at least.
How did you manage to get it back? smile
Found it for sale on FB Marketplace. I still regret selling it badly, it's on a SORN with no MOT so I'm guessing it's gone. I'd have it back in a heartbeat

SteveR1979

599 posts

140 months

Saturday 28th December 2019
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aaron_2000 said:
Found it for sale on FB Marketplace. I still regret selling it badly, it's on a SORN with no MOT so I'm guessing it's gone. I'd have it back in a heartbeat
So you didn't get it back then?

aaron_2000

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5,407 posts

82 months

Saturday 28th December 2019
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SteveR1979 said:
aaron_2000 said:
Found it for sale on FB Marketplace. I still regret selling it badly, it's on a SORN with no MOT so I'm guessing it's gone. I'd have it back in a heartbeat
So you didn't get it back then?
As I said, I got it back and ended up selling it

Filmguy

7 posts

55 months

Monday 1st June 2020
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aaron_2000 said:
Filmguy said:
Looking for my folks old VW T25- H721 ODC tried various Facebook forums. It was sorned but checked again and it’s been taxed and MOTd. So it’s still on the road. Any tips for finding it? Cheers
It was sold on Just Kampers in 2013, still with that owner.
Do you know of anyway to contact the current owner or do you know who they are? Cheers

The Mad Monk

10,474 posts

116 months

Monday 1st June 2020
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Find someone who works at DVLA.

Bung them a few quid to get the you current keeper's address.

Job done!

Filmguy

7 posts

55 months

Sunday 7th June 2020
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The Mad Monk said:
Find someone who works at DVLA.

Bung them a few quid to get the you current keeper's address.

Job done!
Alas, easier said than done wink

Filmguy

7 posts

55 months

Sunday 7th June 2020
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The Mad Monk said:
Find someone who works at DVLA.

Bung them a few quid to get the you current keeper's address.

Job done!
Alas, easier said than done wink

SweetBabyCheeses

62 posts

128 months

Saturday 11th July 2020
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Apologies if I'm treading a fine line with the rules here but it is in response to people asking the question and unlikely to give me any tangible physical gain other than a small increase in self-esteem and it's a labour of love more than anything. During the lockdown period and having being furloughed for... I think three months when it hit me, I had an idea to provide a platform to aid with this very thing. I charged up an old phone and found pics of my old Cooper S on there (VX54UCB) if anyone knows it. I think it died as of 18 months ago, but I'd like to find out what happened to it before then.

Here it is anyway. www.whodoyouthinkyoucar.com (I know, even the name is annoying - I even had other options in my head, but kept coming back to this).

It's completely free, not for profit (unless it has so much traffic that I can pay my hosting costs for the year, but I doubt it), and is possibly the only idea I've ever had. It's probably going to die, and I should warn you it looks rubbish (I've never had a domain before even though I sort of tangentially work in IT and really should have used my time better to acquire some knowledge over the years).

It know it's a dot com, but it is literally me in my kitchen using work's laptop having tipped a few quid for a domain name and a clunky Wordpress platform.

I had a 2006 BMW 330d saloon when it was about 18 months old and I only had it for a few months (traded down to the aforementioned Cooper S as I unexpectedly bought a house and needed to free up some cash, and the 330d was a stop gap to see if I could cope with the relative poverty from my 535d before it - looking back I led something of a charmed automotive life back then). However I subsequenrly saw that someone had really gone to town on it, replacing the front end with the grille, bonnet and headlights from a Coupe, put the front wings from an M3 with the gills in them, put quad pipes one back and replaced all the aluminium inserts with a carbon fibre sort of effect, and some mock M3 Competition wheels.

Even though every fibre of my being says that I should hate it, it was executed quite well. Who knows what it must have cost on a car that had declined in value quite a lot by then, and when you started it up it would still sound like a E90 330d. But hell's bells... it was like when Renee Zellweger re-emerged.

But if you want to upload something and maybe someone bites it might help you, and it would definitely help me! I'll be uploading the rest of my cars this week when I get a charger for a 13 year old Sony phone in the post this week (fingers crossed!).



Cheers for any help and I hope it can help you and do as I intended it too, but it's not going to do it without a visit or two. There's nothing snide with it whatsoever and no ulterior motive.

Edited by SweetBabyCheeses on Saturday 11th July 20:18

Sc0tchland

434 posts

80 months

Saturday 11th July 2020
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SweetBabyCheeses said:
Apologies if I'm treading a fine line with the rules here but it is in response to people asking the question and unlikely to give me any tangible physical gain other than a small increase in self-esteem and it's a labour of love more than anything. During the lockdown period and having being furloughed for... I think three months when it hit me, I had an idea to provide a platform to aid with this very thing. I charged up an old phone and found pics of my old Cooper S on there (VX54UCB) if anyone knows it. I think it died as of 18 months ago, but I'd like to find out what happened to it before then.

Here it is anyway. www.whodoyouthinkyoucar.com (I know, even the name is annoying - I even had other options in my head, but kept coming back to this).

It's completely free, not for profit (unless it has so much traffic that I can pay my hosting costs for the year, but I doubt it), and is possibly the only idea I've ever had. It's probably going to die, and I should warn you it looks rubbish (I've never had a domain before even though I sort of tangentially work in IT and really should have used my time better to acquire some knowledge over the years).

It know it's a dot com, but it is literally me in my kitchen using work's laptop having tipped a few quid for a domain name and a clunky Wordpress platform.

I had a 2006 BMW 330d saloon when it was about 18 months old and I only had it for a few months (traded down to the aforementioned Cooper S as I unexpectedly bought a house and needed to free up some cash, and the 330d was a stop gap to see if I could cope with the relative poverty from my 535d before it - looking back I led something of a charmed automotive life back then). However I subsequenrly saw that someone had really gone to town on it, replacing the front end with the grille, bonnet and headlights from a Coupe, put the front wings from an M3 with the gills in them, put quad pipes one back and replaced all the aluminium inserts with a carbon fibre sort of effect, and some mock M3 Competition wheels.

Even though every fibre of my being says that I should hate it, it was executed quite well. Who knows what it must have cost on a car that had declined in value quite a lot by then, and when you started it up it would still sound like a E90 330d. But hell's bells... it was like when Renee Zellweger re-emerged.

But if you want to upload something and maybe someone bites it might help you, and it would definitely help me! I'll be uploading the rest of my cars this week when I get a charger for a 13 year old Sony phone in the post this week (fingers crossed!).



Cheers for any help and I hope it can help you and do as I intended it too, but it's not going to do it without a visit or two. There's nothing snide with it whatsoever and no ulterior motive.

Edited by SweetBabyCheeses on Saturday 11th July 20:18
The scale of the forum on your website is absolutely tiny, you might want to have a play around with that

SweetBabyCheeses

62 posts

128 months

Monday 13th July 2020
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Cheers for that. Not really sorted it but it's better. Just found out it's had something wrong with it's since Saturday that's naused it right up and stopped people registering even in the highly unlikely event they wanted to. Thanks for having a butcher's!