Cars you wish you had never sold....
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agw_01 said:
Thanks for the nice compliment
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spoonz said:o man, dont get me started
Honda Civic Type-R
went to a
2003 Impreza WRX
went to a
1999 Lotus Elise
The best????? The civic by miles
You aren't keen on the Lotus Elise? What are they like for running costs/service/reliability? Good drive? Considering getting one at the moment!
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i saw a black series one for sale last year but i can't remember how much it eventually went for.Cryfreeman said:nah he used the spare with the original tire on
never mind.
thing is with selling cars is that "was a good idea at the time" affair
My Jeep CJ-5. I REALLY miss that thing. It was loud, uncomfortable after the first 100 yards, so ugly the fugly tree shrunk away from it, and it drank petrol like beer at a footy game. But OMG was that thing FUN!!!!
I also regret selling my Neon. Fantastic car, and I REALLY missed it on that commute to Crookston (90 miles every day).
I also regret selling my Neon. Fantastic car, and I REALLY missed it on that commute to Crookston (90 miles every day).
No pics of it on the PC, but I had a Carlton GSi 3000 24v many moons ago.
It's engine went *bang* after its timing chain snapped and I sold it for spares.
It was a big auld barge, but incredible fun to drive. I embarrassed quite a few kids in so called "hot hatches" with it during my ownership of it.
About a month after the timing chain went, I was talking to a mate who is a Vauxhall nut and he said he could have rebuilt and fitted the engine for a few cases of beer.
Wish I hadn't sold it to be broken up for parts. You can buy 'em for peanuts now, but they still have that RWD LSD grin factor that few other old saloons had back then. I'm considering buying one for a laugh and a bit of nostalgia, but the missus isn't keen, for a change.......
It's engine went *bang* after its timing chain snapped and I sold it for spares.
It was a big auld barge, but incredible fun to drive. I embarrassed quite a few kids in so called "hot hatches" with it during my ownership of it.
About a month after the timing chain went, I was talking to a mate who is a Vauxhall nut and he said he could have rebuilt and fitted the engine for a few cases of beer.
Wish I hadn't sold it to be broken up for parts. You can buy 'em for peanuts now, but they still have that RWD LSD grin factor that few other old saloons had back then. I'm considering buying one for a laugh and a bit of nostalgia, but the missus isn't keen, for a change.......
Lord-Jaffa said:
hmmmm, id consider the impracticality of it as it gets very tiresome even though it was my scond car.
not very quick either coming from a turbo but handling excellent
far and above others but can/will catch you out (S1 anyway) as NO understeer at all EVER, FULL STOP Just need to hope when it does catch you out nothing hard is in the way and you live to fight on.The scooby was idiot proof but great fun, you can pitch into a corner at silly speeds and just drift, excellent manners. any fool can drive a scooby fast! I would go out at midnight onto motorway roundabouts and drift round for fun
especially when wet!Servicing costs are ASTRONIOMICAL and thats no over estimation on the elise.. C service cost me £800.
Having said all that, I took me and the missus up to Scotland in it over the summer and it was in its element, truly a match made in heaven. summer sun, twisty b roads, roof off. t'was a grand time!
But the civic type-r mmmmmmmmmmm
the big thing for me when buying a car is the smiles per mile. forget the evo stars and what boring "paid up" journos say drive what feels right.
The civic is like a naughty school boy, begs to be revved and that gearbox, jeeez. Everytime I opened the garage it was like looking at a puppt wagging its tail ready for a run. It screams at you "im going fast look at me" like an attention seeking whore, just pressed all the right buttons for me and I miss it like mad. I made the mistake of thinking the WRX would be better and in fact, to sum up in once sentence its "im going fast, so what? its not hard and I bet you cant crash me, go on try" Ultimately, uninvolving compared to the civic, just not the all in packaged experience.
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Can't blame him in a way. I'd never sell it if I had one (well, unless I REALLY, and I mean really needed the money!)great advice said:My Escort Cosworth, i had it 8 or 9 years from new and sold it to go Japanese, id give my left nacker for it back
I'd love an S1 that clean. One of them with about 200 or so bhp would do me.Cryfreeman said:always regret selling my mint S1
http://www.evocarl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/sleft.JPG
http://www.evocarl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/sright.JPG
http://www.evocarl.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/sboot.JPG
no rust anywhere and I mean none.
Yep sold it for 3.5k
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Draeger said:
the 24v Carlton was described by more than one motoring magazine as a "poor man's M5"Draeger said:
VERY competant saloon IMHO.
I used to work for Philips Research in the 90's. They sold loads of car radios as OEM stuff to Vauxhall, etc etc.
As a result we used to get invites up to Millbrook and got to drive all sorts of Vauxhalls around the test tracks up there. Fronteras off road, cavlier 2000 2wd gsi sort of thing. But by far the best was the Lotus Carlton absolutely amazing !
I hankered after one of those for ages.....
As a result we used to get invites up to Millbrook and got to drive all sorts of Vauxhalls around the test tracks up there. Fronteras off road, cavlier 2000 2wd gsi sort of thing. But by far the best was the Lotus Carlton absolutely amazing !
I hankered after one of those for ages.....
well 2 really my first would be a certain granada scorpio 4x4 2.9 twin turbo, on the g plate. had the pleasure of it for 3 years. still dont know why i sold it, (waited ages to get it ) business was slow at the time ,so for the greater good etc.
and the second one which didnt hurt too much at the time but now really haunts me was my mk1 k reg 1972 triumph stag. which i restored for 9 years from a basket case.(kept rimmers in business....) replaced every panel available even 2 new rear wings. cost an absolute fortune, and sold it because i wanted to fund a new extention at home.
oh to be young again.........
and the second one which didnt hurt too much at the time but now really haunts me was my mk1 k reg 1972 triumph stag. which i restored for 9 years from a basket case.(kept rimmers in business....) replaced every panel available even 2 new rear wings. cost an absolute fortune, and sold it because i wanted to fund a new extention at home.
oh to be young again.........
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sniper007 said:
Respray? They never made the Mk1 in Oak Green.
Draeger said:
i'm rebuilding the engine in my one at the moment, it's done 140k miles so i decided that it'd be better to replace the chains and stuff before it goes bang
problem is, while i'm having the engine apart, i'm tempted to get the topend ported and re-cut, and a larger throttle body than standard.. and i've got a possible lead on getting the bottom end redone also (rebore to 3.1L, new bearimgs etc) which could mean that a £150 set of timing chains ends up costing the thick end of £2000
great advice said:My Escort Cosworth, i had it 8 or 9 years from new and sold it to go Japanese, id give my left nacker for it back
Brooklyn Ford in Evesham Worcestershire have what looks to be a beauty of an N reg Escort Cosworth in the showroom.
here. £13999 , 62K miles.
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