Classic Cars

[Colapop]

My first car was a Austin A30. I sanded it back to bare metal and undercoated it, wet and dry sanded it, undercoated again, wet and dry sanded it.... and came home from school to find Dad had painted it Granny Smith Green! Went pretty good though - I always wondered how it would have gone with a rotary in it?

[Ixion]

I'm like Mr Motu, I sort of hanker after one of the cars that I envied people having when I was a kid . Humber Super Snipe would be nice, or one of the big Wolseleys, or an MG Magnette. Or an Armstrong Siddeley or one of those huge Austins that looked like an Armstrong - that would be nice. And yeah, the E93A Ford (Prefect Anglia or Popular) you could roll it real easy (only had one spring front and one rear - they went SIDEWAYS , ACROSS the car (I'm not kidding), but you just heaved them upright and carried on.

[Coyote]

Give my Laser another 8 years and it should be a classic. Still got another several hundred thousand kilometers left in it yet

[Jackrat]

I had a couple of 105's the last of which is still over the side of the Paparoa
bridge, an thus in the Paparoa part of the Kaipara harbour.A bit farther down stream from were I parked it at the time but then it was 25years ago.
It had a good stereo in it if anybodys interested.

[wildcat_lgf]

Yeah my first car was a 1978 Fiat X1/9 bought from a family friend...did it up, sold it and bought a 1976 Alfa Romeo Spider...did that up complete with Weber carb conversion from SPICA FI...sold it bought a 1967 Austin Healey 3000 BJ8, started doing that but found we couldn't afford it so sold it on...bought another Fiat X1/9 which I'm now in the process of restoring/modifying. Currently running a Uno Turbo, and when I re-fit the engine it should roar like a tiger Cam upgrade, head flowed, port/polish, blah blah blah...

If you notice...my only mistake was buying a British car! What was I thinking? Beautiful to look at but nothing compared with Italian character Same goes for bikes...just bought a Cagiva

[ducatilover]

i got a "mate" who just got himself a nice old alfa 1600 sprint. the oldish late 60's early 70's style, i think its dead sexy and im now in love with it

[Colapop]

Hmpff!! Your 'Mate' coulda bought the Jihad!!

[scumdog]

In a previous life I had first a 100E, then a 107E. Chalk and cheese. The only problem the 107E didn't solve was the vacuum-operated windscreen wipers. Apparently you can fit the Anglia electric wipers if you are very determined...

Google '105speed' and then look at 'links' to the 100E site. (bit Irish I know but hey, it works)

[scumdog]

I don't really get into ''classic'' classic cars,y'know,they ones they all rave about,like Healey 3000s,SP250 Daimlers,the American cars etc - I have a soft spot for the British daily drivers,like MikeL's 107E.Most likely because the early part of my like was full of them,as a kid they were our family cars,as an adult (or as adult as I can get) I spent many years working on them....although the work was hard filthy and slow I got a lot more enjoyment out of it than modern cars.I like old trucks too,I've spent years working on them too - nothing like driving a big British COE like a Leylend,AEC,Albion or Atkinson....the big old slow reving 6 cyl diesel and the gearlever coming out of the cab behind you,you had to reach back to work it....or on the Atkinson it was beside your left leg,but you could only use the clutch for 1st and reverse,all the rest of the gears you had to move your left leg out of the way.I'd like a Phase 1 Vanguard,EIP Velox or A70 Herodshire - but time and space are not available

I know what you mean - always a soft spot for "Vokkers" - my first car was a 1970 Victor 3.3 - 16,000 miles on it, 15 months old and it went like stink! A pretty flash car for a boy in the early '70s.

[ducatilover]

Hmpff!! Your 'Mate' coulda bought the Jihad!!

umm is that expensive? cos hes broke now hahaha. he just came over this morning in that all shiny red alfa and took me for a ride down some back roads, he even let me drive and fuck it has nicely weighted steering, really comunicative and direct.

[raster]

I know what you mean - always a soft spot for "Vokkers" - my first car was a 1970 Victor 3.3 - 16,000 miles on it, 15 months old and it went like stink! A pretty flash car for a boy in the early '70s.

Those Victors went like stink.
I had a Viva 1200, ended up putting a Honda dash and a Toyota 1600 engine in it, then it went like stink, used to light up beautifully, then it would run out of legs cause the diff was so high.
At that time I wanted a 2L Magnum.