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[Ben_O]

If will be my mini soon

WHAT!!!!!!??????

[sherly]

205 GTI with twin 40's, lots of fun on the road

 

 

 

 

Those wheels!     

 

I've got a 1.9gti tucked away for rainy day - have always loved the dimma splits.....

[Cooperman]

 

I wish I still had my 1976 Granada 3.0 Ghia Coupe which I bought in Jan 1977.

I also wish I still had my 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RST. When I sold it I thought I had a great deal, but one recently sold for £200k. Awesome car which I owned for 16 years as a 'fun' car.

It might be fun to still have my 1966 Cortina GT Mk.1 which I bought new. I remember going out in it the day England won the World Cup. It was great as the roads were deserted and I could really enjoy it!

Maybe I would like to have my first car which was a 1949 Ford V8 Pilot 3.6 litre (Google it!). It was truly horrible by modern standards with drum brakes (hydraulic front, rod actuated rear, would do almost 90 mph on its cross-ply tyres, but it sure made one aware of other traffic and to look way ahead all the time.

did you change the points on the pilot with a mirror

 

 

It was in 1962 when I had mine and I bought my first Mini in 1963, but I do recall the points were difficult to do. When I got rid of the V8 Pilot and got my 850 Mini it seemed wonderful to drive a car with good brakes (single leading shoe drums!) and radial ply tyres, 145/80 x 10 Michelin 'X'. The following year I bought a new 998 Cooper with disc brakes and that seemed wonderful.

Having poor brakes & tyres did make one a better driver as it improved awareness of other vehicles and unlike today, you absolutely had to look well ahead, especially when 'making good progress' on the then non-speed-limited roads. Just think, no maximum NSL. My 998 Cooper, which I got new in 1964 was legal at 90 mph even on single carriageway roads.

[Steely]

If will be my mini soon

WHAT!!!!!!??????

Yea, circumstances have changed suddenly and I doubt I'll be able to fund it anymore . So when I pluck up the strength it will be for sale. (But I will not be accepting less than what I want) I'll keep it bad fight through if people offer me stupid amounts!

[rids]

a friend owned a triumph spitfire 20 odd years ago and i done all the mechanical work on it but he eventually sold it when the floor fell out, the bloke that bought it then spent about 4k on the bodywork (new floor, quarters, everything it needed at a garage (which 3 friends bought a few years later) the bloke then died before completing. the widow contacted us as being the last owners to know of anyone wanting to buy it,  I'd just sold an immaculate gsx1000 katana and was looking for a new project and snapped it up. it basically just needed putting back together, however i wanted something a bit different, so i sold the engine and gearbox and fitted a 2.0 zetec engine out of a sporty focus mated to a 5 speed sierra gearbox. It went like stink and drove beautifully.  My kids then got up to A level age and i promised them a car each if they got good grades. the spitty was sold to fund these.  one of them got a corsa and the other wanted a mini, I bought the green mini i have on here more or less in standard form, but i had a year to play with it before he sat his exams. I got a bit carried away and ended up spending more money on it than i got for my spitty.... and modified it to the point where i had to buy another mini for him so i could keep the green one....  should have kept the spitty!  still look for it now and again on  e bay

     

Edited by rids, 10 July 2014 - 08:23 PM.

[surfblue63]

One of only a few cars I have had which I would buy back. I loved the sound of the flat four.

 

 

Another one I wish I still had, only because it's now worth about 20 times what I sold it for.

 

 

One other would be my black '83 Golf Mk1 GTi. No pics of that one.

Edited by surfblue63, 10 July 2014 - 09:53 PM.

[joakwin]

this was my 1st build and 1st vehicle I got after I could drive

 

2link rear suspension and 10gallons of air, two vair 325 compressors and a York 210 engine driven compressor, layed out on 22's, full custom system in it

the truck was hit and was done, the only thing I have left from it is the custom lca I built and 2in drop spindles

 

my next truck

 

layed frame on 24's

kp 6link with custom built watts link, 15gallons of air, 210 York engine driven compressor, custom built 18 inch subwoofers, 4k watts rms, 500amps of alt power, 5 red tops,

djm lca, custom spindles/steering ends, z06 6piston calipers up front on 14inch rotors, 5.3 ls v8 with intake/headers and custom tune, 24x10 rims, bendix air dryer, smoothed and painted dash

I sold the truck when I was moving to the uk

and the guy that got the truck totaled it within 3 months of buying it

 

 

 

this is my next project, I will never sell this one

it belonged to my grandpa, its been in the family since the late 40's

its getting a 5.3ls v8, and a new frame and z06 6piston calipers

 

I still have the engine hand crack and pullie to turn the OG engine over by hand

Edited by joakwin, 12 July 2014 - 12:24 PM.

[Turbo Nick]

both of these, miss them lots

 

 

 

 

 

[megamini_jb]

Loving the Civic. I was so close to buying a mint one similar locally, but bought a mk1 fiesta instead which I only had for like a month then wished I went for the Civic.

Anymore pictures?

Edit: just had a nosy in your Photobucket. It looks well cool

Edited by megamini_jb, 12 July 2014 - 07:55 PM.

[CMXCVIII]

I've been thinking about this and there have been cars I regretted selling for as long as a year or two after they went but none for ever and not nearly as much as the cars I regret never acquiring that I would have enjoyed!

 

Equally times and driving conditions change. Back in the day, I was not a great Mini fan - noisy, uncomfortable, crude, unsafe, unreliable rusting trash that made for a cheap road-rally car but weren't what I aspired to every day! Now with speed cameras everywhere and now that I drive much more slowly and now that everybody else has fat, stupid bloated cars with hopeless electric steering, my 998 Mini is just perfect for what I want!

 

Another one I wish I still had, only because it's now worth about 20 times what I sold it for.

 

`Pah! 20 times! By that token I wish my father had kept the 38/250 Benz he had when i was a kid! I can't find the photos of me reaching up to the 5 foot high radiator, but here's a picture of it from an auction catalogue, duly tarted up, a few years after he sold it. Its price went up 200 times in those seventeen years!  Then in the next dozen years it went up another 30 fold from that! Its multi million value has been fairly stable since then!

 

 

I suppose what's annoying is that the other car he chose to keep in the family only went up about 170 fold, not 6,000 in the same time!  

 

 

 

[mininuts]

Wish I'd still got my first car, you've all seen it, my 1275 GT




Then there was my Mk1 MG Metro 1300 complete with Hella spotlight grille, loved that car!



Then my Mini Flame, bought brand new in 1990, even had a day off work to collect it. That was when all new cars were released on Aug 1st once a year, not this twice a year malarkey



Also had an Impreza WRX Wagon, I know folk slate Imprezas but, what an awesome car that was. Felt so safe and went like the wind.

Finally, so, so, wish I'd kept this, my Tornado pedal car. That's me in the drivers seat circa 1969/70

[Ripple]

Wish I kept my bus... Looked nasty but went like stink and was absolutely immaculate inside.

BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE RATTLE CAN


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Edited by Ripple, 14 July 2014 - 11:45 PM.

[Nick Warwick]

Miss my old civic coupe VTI

 

[MrBounce]

My 1275GT. It was noisy, bad-tempered and badly lowered (cut down cones  ), had horrid Huntmaster bucket seats (ripped) and a torn headlining but if I knew a little bit more about things I would've kept it. It had a 1330 with a 286 cam and MG head. Sounded lovely, went like hell and with a bit of TLC would have been a cracking motor. Only sold it due to bad advice in 1997. Nuts.

 

[Bubblebobble]

My Dad had one of these but got rid of it as the sills were starting to show signs of rust-

 

 

 

 

Wish I knew then what I know now!!

1300e seemed to rust like crazy , much more than any other mk1.