Cars you forgot you owned.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

There are a lot I wish I could forget, number 1 spot was the Chrysler Le Baron. I hated that car even more than this Jensen GT I have now.

I’m trying to think of something worse than a Jensen Healey.

I’ll get back to you on that one.

[Hooli]

If I had a car I've forgotten then I don't remember it.

I can't remember quite a few of mine to be fair!

Well one a month means you've had hundreds so far.

[Hooli]

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[cros]

When it's crankshaft snapped in flight I replaced my 30 quid Ford Anglia (sidevalve type) with a 50 pounder Ford Taurus 17m Turnier.
Ford must have decided that it wasn't enough to be selling two different cars of exactly the same size in 1962 (Classic and Cortina) so they offered the 17m in RHD form to the UK.
I knew none of this at the time, it was just the cheapest thing I could find locally that had tax, MOT and the ability to get under way without delving under the bonnet.
I have no photos of it, but it was grey and white and rusty. It was like this with holes-

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On presenting it for it's MOT I was informed that the headlamps would not be acceptable due to too much water and not enough silver. They were obtainable, being shared with a truck (likely Swedish) but way too expensive for me. I therefore tinsnipped some old galvanised sheet steel to accept a proper 7" prefocus unit, self-tapped them into the gormless looking apertures, and it lived to fight another year.
The car had two doors and a drop-down tailgate. Before opening it you had to wind down the rear window which could disappear completely inside- often when you didn't want it to.
I understand now that the engine, an inline 4, was related to our Consul lump. There was a 3 speed gearbox and though not fast, the car could ascend Rockingham Hill 4 up in top.
After a further year it was clear that money needed to be spent; there was a scrapyard half a mile from my house and the proprieter grudgingly gave me a fiver for the sorry remains.

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Cunt.

[Hooli]

It's praise like that which makes this place worth it.

[mercrocker]

Rare old thing here that Taunus, Cros....They never sold well here despite the Taunus line being offered at various times, often handled by the Lincoln-Mercury UK concession. I understood that the engines (although sometimes co-inciding in displacement) were seperately engineered in Germany but I may be wrong on that.

Tauni were quite common in my childhood owing to nearby Army establishments and the girl next door who garnered squaddie boyfriends, usually equipped with a 15M or 17M on those BFG plates that the uninitiated assumed were British "B" registrations....

A fella in the village owned one of the later Taunus coupes - a lovely looking car but obviously fraught with problems as he had a hand-written sign in the back window advising followers "DO NOT BUY ONE OF THESE CARS"

[bub2006]

If I had a car I've forgotten then I don't remember it.

I can't remember quite a few of mine to be fair!

Well one a month means you've had hundreds so far.

Don't fucking start

[SiC]

You haven't killed the Astra already have you?

[bub2006]

No. And I'm pissed with the snarky comments from everyone. It's getting a bit tiresome now.