London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

Just following on from the Car Appreciation Thread, what cars have people actually owned? It seems from reading the thread that a lot of people have either owned or driven some very nice cars.

My list looks like this (not always in chronological order and not that impressive really, but it's only fair I go first:)

Volkswagen Polo MKII (Country)

Volkswagen Polo MKII (Fox)

Volkswagen Polo 1.1 (MKIII)

Volkswagen Golf VR6 4-Motion (MKIV)

BMW M3 (E36)

Subaru Impreza RB5 (With full pro-drive kit + other toys)

Renault Clio 172 (Great Car!!)

Fiat Seicento Sporting

Vauxhall Astra VXR

Those have come and gone but i've always owned one of these in addition and kept them for longer:

1973 Volkswagen Camper

1967 Volkswagen Camper ('Built' 2.4ltr Type 4 engine (Porsche cooling etc), Porche 944 disc-brake conversion, balljoint beam, independent rear suspension, 'built' gearbox, lowered)

1964 Volkswagen Type 3 saloon.

Now, I have been carless for over six months and i think it may stay that way, for a good while at least!

So, what have you all had?

you have had a shit ton of cars. good lord. I have had one. toyota corolla. was amazing until some twat in a brand new mercedes sent me across 7 lanes of traffic and landed me in on coming traffic. Thank god america demands that everyone pays out great lumps of money.

It was summer 1985, We were very much in love but her addiction to lead and constant straying from the line just proved to much for me. i see myself as an understanding type, i never asked for much..
I was there for the frolics in the sea spray, the slipping on ice and long days baking under the sun on those mazy routes down to the coast..

But she refused to tow the line, after time she got dirtier and insisted on rough handling, from there she got lose around the seals and started smoking heavily. I just couldn’t see us moving on! Deflated and taxed she left me for a younger driver and his group of friends.

Life throws some tough decisions in its path and I made mine, in hindsight well oiled firm handling tight reared older model is right up my alley. Sadly I left her down hers.

lotta VWs Jonny. got to respect that!
I still miss my Mars Red MK1 Golf fully turbo charged. what a drive! had 5 in total.

any pics of the type 3

sniff........none........sniff.

ha, and proud not too :)

'04 Mini One D - 60mpg but unfortunately due to a fault with the cooling, blew a hole in the engine block whilst driving down the motorway :( Sadly no longer with us...

'97 Mini Spi Works Cooper S - Japanese import


'57 Porsche 356A GS/GT - Not technically mine (Dad's) but worth a mention, currently undergoing restoration... word of advice, be careful buying one, parts are extortionately expensive!!

@i am russel - it's on the car porn thread, last page.

Just the one - 2000 reg Mini Cooper Sport in British Racing Green (wish I had a picture, it's gorgeous). Had it from new and we've been through many things together. Now sitting in my parents garage until my dad sorts it out to sell for me (if you want it, it doesn't have an MOT at the moment, has a few spots of rust around the sills and headlights, and will cost you £5k - they don't make them anymore, hence the price).

I've had an Austin Metro and a Vauxhall Cavalier. I can't even drive. :D

+1 me too..

I want Bellezza to post her father's car history... that Carrera GT she showed us was fucking sweet!!!

+1

Planning to have one of these in 2 years time (just so I can beat everyone else in "what was your first car" top trumps =P)

Fiat uno fire 1000. Sick car. Well designed little car but did not like damp mornings.

Fiat van, bit bigger than a uno. Diesel 1.7. Wicked sports / work van. Cold sleep two in the back in relative comfort.

Renault 19 Prima 1.9 D. Work horse. So many miles, carried so much stuff, toe many a varied load. 54 mpg.

Peugeot 306 1.9 D. Much more comfortable! but similar to the Renault in work horse type duties. 55 mpg

What more could you want form a car? Good mpg, cheap to insure, can carry bikes and plenty of other stuff, add a draw bar and .roof rack for more adaptability.
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Never drove/owned a car.

But who cares really?

nice notch
heres my dads oval


and my bro's standard 57 big window

Fiat 126, 652cc's of blazing straight twin muscle. 0-60 took around 45 seconds.
Advantage was that when the fuses blew (daily, often hourly- finally replaced the fuses with one pence coins) you could signal left by sticking your hand out of the left hand window.

Also it could park nose-on to the curb.

Now I have a Volvo, the bonnet of which is bigger than the whole of the Fiat.
I can fit bikes in this one however.

First was a yellow ex-BT Metro van with a carpet in the back (2 seater sports car).

Then when I was 20 I thought I could afford anything so bought a MkI Renault 5 Turbo. Insurance was £120 a MONTH.

The head gasket blew and warped the head two years later so I picked up a low mileage white 1987 1.3 Metro, which I had for 9 years until someone nicked it.

I then bought a limited edition RSP Mini Cooper, produced in 1990 with only 1650 cars for the UK market. To this day I still have it, although the missus keeps wanting me to get rid of it (family).



And finally 2 1/2 years ago I bought a black Golf Plus 1.9 TDi. I love it. The missus hates it.

those things are ridicolously expensive to insure and not reliable. you might have to get a 106 peugot or somin as a back up car

1964 Morris Minor
1982 Mini Mayfair
Vauxhall Corsa SXI
Ford Focus DTI
Ford Focus 1.6
1972 Ford Mustang with 378 Clevland made to look like a MAch 1 in red (similar to Tommy Saxondales)
Renault RX4
Mk4 Golf GT TDI
Nissan 100NX
Landrover Defender 110
Vauxhall Corsa SXI

All the dull ones in the middle were company cars....

£550 fully comp if you're a member of the owners club, you can put whichever engine you like in them (tend to be xflow, zetecs, fiat/lancia/alfa twin cams) which are easy to maintain and fiddle around with, what's the point in having a kit-car if you're not planning on getting your hands dirty?!

Used to have one of these:
Ginetta G32



Mid engined so was a lot of fun around corners.
Even took it hillclimbing once.
Not technically a kit-car as they were factory-made, but they needed to be maintained like one.
Also used to have quite a few minis.
I'm married now...

Love Ginettas, the G4 will always have a special place in my heart, they're kinda like Caterhams in that they kind of are kit cars, but factory made (you can get them in kits if you wish). Fantastic cars, and good to see they're still in buisness.

i had a few Hot Wheels, then a Tonka truck. thats it really.

i did get to drive vic's cooper while it was on the road.

Yeah the original G4s are beautiful.

G12s too.

And for those who aren't into the whole lightweight/low power cars, there's the G50.


Makes it a little easier to forget TVR.

(Just a little, TVR shall never be replaced.)

so it's two car threads now is it?

You're making this place banal with your banging on about cars.

go to a car forum and get it out of your system there, it's so tedious to see there are now two active car threads. Absolutely no need to have started another thread.

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&f=174

Look at the amount of bike threads on that car forum. If we are to make this solely a forum where we can talk about FGSS bikes, it's gonna be pretty boring as the majority of topics have been covered already, there will be the occasional post about a ride coming up, or someone asking for help where the response will be "use the search function" and as a result people will stop coming on here and it will no longer be of much use.

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Bringing a "bike threads in a car forum" argument into it is mostly counterproductive to yourself as it might suggest cars weren't doing it for people even on their own forums.But I don't care about car forums really. Fixed bikes are still doing it for me really well on here thanks very much. Cars are cars are cars. Get over it if you're on this forum. One thread is really all you need to paste massive photos of lovely examples and even get nostalgic about the cars you've owned.

Really, it's lame and crap.

I'd love a golf cart, always wanted to have a golf cart street race...with them wicked neons innit.

yeah, but this was a "cars you've owned" thread, but it's turning into another "car porn" thread...

FWIW i've owned three boring cars: a 1987 Corolla, a 2000 Mitsubishi Lancer, and a 1997 Subaru Liberty wagon (Legacy estate).

I love the subaru though, it's fricking awesome.

Don't quite follow the first bit, but if it makes you feel any better i'll keep my image posting to the other car thread.

Please accept my apologies. I must have posted in the wrong forum.

I have checked, and yes, you're right:

Sorry. You must think I'm some sort of fucking prick.

Who really is interested to know about the cars you owned? Apart from boasting about the cool cars (and that should be in the appreciation thread), then what?: "I had a metallic grey ford fiesta in 1991". WOW!

a actually did have a 1991 metallic grey fiesta.
bought it for £100.

i do agree about the two thread business.

Rofl

well, you looked..........and responded.........

1976 VW Bettle 1200 L (with wickerwork parcel shelf)
1973 VW Beetle 1303
1989 VW Polo 1300
1991 VW Polo 1000
1986 VW Polo Formel E
1999 Mercedes C Class (which was rubbish)
2004 Toyota RAV4 (I am the devil)

Fantastic, rep'd.

I guess the point is that anyone can start a thread on any topic as long as it doesn't duplicate another thread: so if this one is just a list of cars that people have owned, fine. But for general discussion of cars the other thread should be used.
I'm just jealous though because I thought I'd cornered the market in starting car threads.

Don't worry, your thread is still the most popular ;)

yeah, a silver fiesta and a trio of polo's are not going to attract as much attention as the thread.

i just didn't want the sexy cars thread polluted............

first and last:

http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:...Mk2_Maroon.jpg

You'd be surprised, some of us don't see the attraction in stupidly expensive cars.

<Harry Hill> There's only one way to find out...FIIIIIGHT </Harry Hill>

Well of course I have to look before I can produce an opinion. I was surprised to see another car discussion.

I am pleased that you are now carless.

Oh and I added the ford fiesta because that was the last car that my dad owned.

1967 VW Beetle
1955 Chevy
Holden Berlina V6
Audi A4
Holden HSV Coupe
BMW 740i
Audi RS4

The Chevy was only used at the strip on weekends & the BMW was actually dads hand me down

Oh fuck off.

Rover Metro 1.3L Clubman, white

Nissan Primera 1.6LX, black

Peugeot 205 GTi 1.6, miami blue, last 1.6 registered in the UK

you had a '67 bug as your first car? *jealous* what year did you buy it?