Cars you forgot you owned.

[paulplom]

I fancy one of them next.

[JimH]

When No1 son was on the way I got some sort of disease which made me think that buying a dismal car was a good idea. About 30 seconds after buying it I was reminded why I loathe cars that run on gas oil. However, being a lazy twat I persisted with it for over a year and in that time the clutch shat itself and the fuel pump gave up at nearly midnight on the M74. Neither of those two failures were anything to do with it being a Rover 75 or a diesel but they did serve to rub salt into the wounds already caused by smelly hands and a nasty, clattery engine.

On the upside that was about fifteen years ago and I've haven't made the same mistake again.

[paulplom]

Bmw engine iirc.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

A had a brown Yugo Zastava 311, the dreadful hatchback Fiat 128.

Took it in p/x for an Alfasud in 1993, allowed £40 on it, took it straight to Big Mikes in Darlington and got £75 for it. Fucking rubbish, even 30 years ago.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I remember a coupe version rotting in a field in Bucklebury 40 years ago.

That'll soon be ready for the 'bay.

It ended up at Gordon Passey's mid eighties. It had no front wheels but still had the engine.

[DVee8]

Took it in p/x for an Alfasud in 1993, allowed £40 on it, took it straight to Big Mikes in Darlington and got £75 for it. Fucking rubbish, even 30 years ago.

Big Mikes, now that brings back memories, we use to go to the Hartlepool/Stockton branch as it was just down the A19. A mate paid something like £79 for a Renault Fuego.

[DodgeRover]

I honestly can't see any appeal in owning a Rover 75 or MGZT, a V6 Omega is a much nicer place to be. In fact if you could build one that didn't munch it's autobox regularly or suffer miscellaneous writing faults and dead crank sensors I would have another (on LPG obviously)

[Scruffy Bodger]

Bmw engine iirc.

With a chocolate crankshaft too according to my mate who likes blown dervs. He only found that out after he's bought one of the bloody things tho. The BMW version will do about 7k rpm as it's over square and holds together.

[AutoshiteBoy]

Big Mikes in Darlington

There's a blast from the past!

[Warren t claim]

I bought a Metro from the local banger auction for a tenner plus fees because it had four nearly new metric tyres that I needed for the tidy Metro I was planning to sell on. On my way back I remembered that I needed shopping so park it in the nearby multi-story car park. Shopping done I return to the car park to see that there's at least thirty Metro's parked in there and I can't remember which one is mine. I can't even remember what colour it is!

By process of elimination, I look for a tatty one with new tyres and no tax disc.