This seems a bit quiet in here? so Thought I'd start this.
What type of car do you drive and any problems.
I've got an old LDV Camper :o and a Seat van :D
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This seems a bit quiet in here? so Thought I'd start this.
What type of car do you drive and any problems.
I've got an old LDV Camper :o and a Seat van :D
.. loved my Austin Metros .. then Rover Metro ... now got a bus pass Scotland wide - no parking problems!!!
I just got a little citreon c1 and so far it is gonna save me lots of money :D
Lamborghini
edited: - Sorry I was thinking it was Sunday. Monday is my Porsche driving day ;)
My sports car days, went a few years ago :(
When I needed to get an estate car to carry a wheelchair in the back. So....i've had Volvo estates etc.etc., but at the moment, it's a Focus estate.
I don't really need it now (the person concerned can't transfer from chair to car anymore), but it's a real workhorse :D & can carry anything!
But, a Motorhome AND a Smart car are on my wish list :D
Yvonne x
I have an M reg Fiesta that i pretend is a Golf.
i have a bmw 318is p reg 1997 just in the process of getting lpg kits fitted so cheap gas woohoo half the price of petrol 62p a litre.
http://stus-bargain-store.ebid.net/
http://uk.ebid.net/perl/normal.cgi?r...=register-main
cheers.
Bus pass & Shank's
I have five old Fords that I drive. The oldest is the 1964 Ford Capri in the photo. The only one that is problematic to keep going is the Sierra because of all the electronics on it.
Take a guess.... there's a clue not far away - although mine is white!!
silver mercedes - no idea what kind, but the year is 2005
Here is my old camper
http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/u...P1010007-2.jpg
Nothing wrong with having an old camper(apart from it being an ldv of course!):D
Did you convert it yourself?Looks a nice job.http://meetup.ebid.net/images/icons/icon14.gif
I was going to buy a Transit to do, but realised I'd need to buy a welder aswell ;)
Van has only done 40,000 miles and yes I carried out the work myself. Still ain't finished yet.
Is that your Bedford. I used to have one of them and put a Transit engine in it.
And this is my "seat van" fishing vehicle:) http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/u...vanpics017.jpg
No,that's a copy from a brochure that I "doctored".This one's mine. :D
What happened to your old one,is it still around?
A 1999 Dodge Caravan extensively modified for my mom's wheelchair, and a 2003 Dodge 3500 dually 4x4. The van is plagued with electrical problems from all the rewiring for the handicapped modifications. The flatbed has the Cummins diesel 5.9 litre high output engine but the fuel economy is dismal. Tried new air & fuel filters but no joy. At 119,000 miles it's just getting run in! Wish the mileage were better but it's been dependable in every other way and I love driving it. :)
Diesel prices here were always lower than gas until I bought my first diesel pickup :eek: What with wear & tear on 6 tires and the cost of diesel it's more economical to drive the van, but if all things were equal I'd take the truck every time.
We've camped in the van, it's only got a drivers seat and a rear bench seat so there's room for either 2 humans who have a close relationship, or me and Pearlygirl there in my avatar. We travel quite a bit to events that require overnight stays, dragging a trailer full of rocks wherever we go, so I'm thinking an aluminum 2-3 horse trailer with modest living quarters would be just the ticket. The truck will pull anything I'd be inclined to put behind it and I think I'd rather go for that setup than a bulky box van. Although a modified Dodge Sprinter diesel could probably be made to work too, and with better fuel economy.
I was looking at a early Capri at Thorseby Hall classic car show on bank holiday Monday. It was absolutely mint. The owner was telling me that there were only 19,000 of them made, and 109,000 of the Ford Classic's.
I went touring France, Switzerland and Italy in a Ford Classic in 1966 exactly the time of the world cup final, we had to listen to it on the radio in Italian. I made a cardboard cut-out of the world cup and stuck it in the back window of the car. You'd be suprised how many German drivers were acting about and trying to run us off the road....Great days!!!
http://uk.ebid.net/stores/Stainless-for-classics
I've got an old Mk1 transit motorhome and before that I converted an old Mercedes 307D.I trundle aboutin a retied black cab,which has proved a brilliant load carrier/estate.The greens would be horrified by my love of old inefficient cars and trucks.
Another good reason for having them.
Interesting stories behind your much-loved old vehicles. You do good work, O crazy one! That Fluid Film is great stuff --- I've got 5 gallons of it in the very next room. Didn't know you had it over there.
No-one could hazard a guess then - oh dear!!:D:D
Okay, not meaning to offend you at all, and bearing in mind that I'm an American who's never seen a Citroen but.....it's a Citroen, right? :o
I read an article in Car & Driver magazine about some Citroen collectors here in the states, and some of the goofy things they got up to when too many of them got together in one place. Like a race where your team took a Citroen apart, carried the pieces up a hill and drove down to the finish. And a parade where they dressed the cars up in costumes. The article made the car and the fanciers seem like a bunch of loveable oddballs. :eek:
Few things I like better than a loveable oddball, don'tcha know :D
Yes I rate fluid film highly.I live right next to the sea on the most easterly point of the British isles so the salt air has a good go at any unprotected metal it can find.Over the years I've tried all sorts of rust treatmens and the fluid film is the best in my opinion.
Years ago there were competitions to remove the engine from a Hillman Imp (rear engined British car,about as rare as rocking horse poo these days) and to stick it in the back of another one and drive away.The record was something pretty ludicrous like five minutes.Progress now means it takes about as long for one of those Chinese factories to turn out a whole car.
I've never heared of this fluid film is it expensive.
Driving my poor husband round the bend is all I drive! :D Wish I could drive though. It's something I've always wanted to do but never got round to it.
Hyundia Gertz..5 year warranty which i never had to use..had it for 6 and a half years now and only 23,000 miles on the clock..if i was buying new..id go for another hyundia
I have two Saturn SL1s. One is a 93 and the other a 96. The 93 has 192k and the 96 has 143k. I've had the 93 for eight years and the 96 for six... I think. I might trade in the 93 when it turns over 200k.
Hi Paul.
I was running and restoring Triumph 2000s for about 27 years up until about 5 years ago.Then I decided to start up my business making and selling S/S parts & accessories for Triumphs, MGBs, Mini's.
I now have a Volvo 940 Wentworth turbo estate in beautiful condition, it's a fantastic motor, so practical. I will certainly stick with Volvo's from now on, so reliable! Bit heavy on juice though, and at £1.22 per litre it's getting to be a very costly game for everyone in the UK.
Cheers (another Paul)
http://uk.ebid.net/stores/Stainless-for-classics
Oddball as charged - but luckily for the car there are still a lot of us about!!:D:D
That little car has been the means of our family visiting places and having adventures we would not have been able to afford otherwise and has made us friends with people from all over the world. We have been to World Meetings (every 2 years) in Holland, Austria, Italy and Scotland. Next year the World Meeting will be in France and it will be HUGE (and there will be American visitors! Plus Australians, Swedes, Finns, Norwegians, Portuguese, Czechs, Slovenians, Spanish, Italians, etc etc etc. There is always one Japanese visitor too!)
This shows two of the family cars at the highest point of the Route Napoleon (yes - they did make it to the top!!:D) on our way to the Italy World Meeting 2003 in the mountain village of Vinadio. Here we added 7,000 visitors to their usual population of 700 - and the petrol tanker was calling daily rather than once a month!
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"Ceci n'est pas une voiture - c'est un art de vivre" (this isn't a car - it's a way of life!!)
I'd drive a Porche,but cant drive
Bright Gold/Yellow hatchback (but on the rego it says sedan).
A Mercedes E320CDi for chauffeur work and wedding hire. "Her Majesty" - my 1984 Daimler Sovereign is sitting in the garage waiting for me to get the cash together to get some bodywork restoration done. Plus my trusty bike is a 1983 Yamaha XJ750 Maxim.