Are you still a car enthusiast?

[AMCrebel]

That Porker interior reminds me - Clarkson and other dim witted cunts used to moan on about when Jags and Astons used Ford switches. The cunts never said a word about that light switch being out of a Beetle (and my T2 panel van) - twats.

[SiC]

The interior light on my Boxster is a Peugeot 205 part. Even has the Citroen/Peugeot logo on the back of it.

[paulplom]

I LOVE CARS!
I think it's instilled at N early age. My mother reckons when I was a toddler I could identify what it was before I saw it. No chance of that now with the characterless piles of shite on the roads today. My son has taken to them too. He takes a decent interest in them which is pleasing as he has fuck all interest in anything else other than football and ps5.
I love working and tinkering with them. My last house had a three car drive and I was always outside fucking on. The neighbours thought I was nuts. There's fuck all space where I live now to work on them. I'm after a decent sized unit as a base to run the plumbing busoness from and room for a car or two. I don't need electric or fuck all really. Everything decent seems to get snapped up really quicky.
This winter seems to be fucking dragging over and I feel trapped in the house. We discussed moving so I had at least a drive or even a fucking garden but we couldn't agree. I've been scouring the estate agents for somewhere so me and the kids can fuck off and leave her to it.
It really is that bad. I'm proper out doorsy and need some space for my sanity. I was watching Mathewson's the other day and Derek said every bloke needs a man cave or somewhere to fuck off to for some peace. He's 100% right. At my last house I had a 8x8 shed I got from b&q and a builed owed me some money so I got him to build me a 3m×3m breeze block one too. It was most excellent. A large garden to fuck about with too. I had chickens and some tumblers hanted too.
My ex is a fucking cunt.

[Nibblet]

To be honest I've lost interest the last couple of years!

[xtriple]

To add to my earlier reply: I think nowadays I'm more of a motoring paranoid (along with dog paranoid...) as I spend my time worrying about the two I've got and contemplating how much they are about to cost me!

[panhard65]

I have always been a car enthusiast but it has always been for the weird and wonderful. Modern cars have zero interest for me other than as a means of earning a living. They may be good at the job but just being too good leaves them with no soul. My "moderns" are both over 10 years old and were both cheap bought to do certain jobs. The C1 is just a cheap little run about that is cheap to run and I never worry about it. The 4007 I only have as my dad can get in and out of it easily which as I have to look after him makes sense to me. It can also tow and has 4x4 so will come in handy if need be. Where I spend the silly money is the "classics" I have been using the 25 way more than I should as it is not exactly economical and left hand drive makes it a bit harder to drive in the UK. However I do find I take it out just for fun and have put a shed load of miles on it just driving like a twat all over Exmoor. The hearse is tucked away for the winter and I really need to start using the Lancia a bit as it is pretty much all sorted now. I am sure eventually I will get rid of the moderns and just use all my older cars as they are a lot more fun to drive with the added suspense of when will they break down.

[Nibblet]

The above is what they're for. I'm bored of the show queens being fussed over by paranoid octogenarians. That and the cost of it all, it was supposed to be a fun pastime, not more bloody work!

[bub2006]

I can't say if I am a car enthusiast or not. I grew up on a council estate in skegby with very little money. My dad tended to smoke round in cars that were literally hanging out there arse yet wouldn't have been much old than 12 to 15 years old. Cars that today are classed as "proper" classics and command a hefty price for a decent one.
Some of the cars I had when I was driving illegally in the early 2000s have either disappeared or are damn expensive for a decent one. Things like fiat Panda 750,pug 205,MK3 cavalier and a a late 80s accord 2.2. the Peugeot 205 and 405 I didn't really gel with even when they were 10 to 15 years old and much preferred the 206 and 406 I had in the past few years and even then the 206 was shit. The accord was a decent car though. G plate auto in gold with brown velour interior.
Since I've passed my test the oldest car I had was a F plate 340 CVT and a J plate 440 auto. Did have a metro vanden plas auto just before my test but sold it due to issues. I can't afford what folk call a true classic and as I've said before on the beige,when that site started folk were smoking around in Sierras,MK2 or 3 cavs etc yet my astra and my focus is older than what they would have been back then.
On that subject though,take my focus. It's a low mileage clean car in a decent spec. Some say it's just an old car but can anyone here honestly say they would have thought a 25 year old MK2 escort back in 2000 would today be worth 5+ grand minimum?
Cars today and for the past few years have become a throwaway item. There isn't many dads teaching their teenage sons how to maintain a car on a Saturday morning anymore. A dying art.