what have you driven

[chimaera]

Having been a biker for a few years I have had a variety of vehicles. Currently I have a Fazer 600, a boom family trike and a Hyundai 4 wheel drive. Before I got married again I had a TVR but I my wife, step daughter and me couldn't all get in at the same time. I did consider a TVR Cerbera but had to ask myself "do I need a 190mph sports car to carry a 6 year old in " A few years ago I built a replica of a 1948 Ferrari 166 which although totally impractical was great fun
Readers must have had some weird and wonderful machines so what have you had

[dracken1]

i still have my 69 450bhp pontiac grandprix. i always have to phone up petrol stations along my intended route to ensure they will be open.

i'm looking for a decent wolsley 16/60. god only knows why i fancy one of those. i suspect the male menopause has something to do with it. :o

[mr.chaz]

You can always find your way home in a TVR - follow the bits that have dropped off it!

[BlackPig]

Um,well lets start at the begining,my brain isn't switched on yet.

1978 Chrysler Sumbeam (with Triumph 2000 power)
1974 Chevy Vega (with V8 Rover power)
1973 Pontiac Firebird (400 ci)
1979 Chevy Camero (Glassfibre shell,440 ci)
2x 1978 Trans-ams (both 400 ci)
Ford Gran Torino (4 door,440 ci)

But me fav? was a Bedford CF twin wheeled tipper,with a slant six opel motor in it,you should have seen the "boy racer' brigade when that left them at the lights,hehehehehe !! :D :D

[mr.chaz]

Mainly been a Yank man , had loads of them!
This was my last toy , which I got rid of about 4 years ago.
Was a copy of the truck out of " Driver".

Stepside 1974 Chevy , 400ci smallblock , lowered. I miss it a lot! sniffle,sniffle

http://img59.exs.cx/img59/8499/truck9gf.jpg

[Doro]

mk 2 escort coupe (learned to drive in)
deseamed 1969 sports mini
mini metro (very nippy)
newish astra hatchback(nasty nasty car)
1972 MGB GT with sebring wings(was my everyday car for 2 years and I took her round Croft racetrack and won a night rally in her and went on many many local rallies, always wanted to take her on LeJog)
1973 triumph dolomite (beautiful mover, never had any probs with her)
citroen xantia TD (brilliant engine, suspension system was crap)
now - nissan almera - best car so far, still fun to drive, just hasn't got any wow factor. we also have another MGB from 1971 BRG which we're trying to sell (cos it never gets used)



would like to have

any TVR
any Maserati
any Lambourghini (not the low wedge ones tho)
any Lotus (as above)
any sports Jag


but no. 1 wish is the ariel atom as featured in my thread

thanks for asking - I enjoyed that :D

[BlackPig]

Nice,I like pick-ups. :cool:

The only reason I had so many Yanks is that they were sooooooo cheap.Nobody could afford to run them at the time,and I was making shedloads at sea. :o
S'not like that anymorebut it was fun at the time . ;)

[BlackPig]

mini metro (very nippy)


You cannot be serrious !!!!
Metro and nippy in the same post would've been bad enough !!!! :eek:

[dracken1]

The only reason I had so many Yanks is that they were sooooooo cheap.Nobody could afford to run them at the time,and I was making shedloads

yea same here.
plus i owned a yank car workshop in north wales. but as costs rose people could'nt afford to run them so we got out of it.

dam shame, great cars to work on plenty of room.

just try changing the timing belt on a diesel renault clio.

[chimaera]

most fun is the family trike, first time I took it out with my daughter on the back she was singing "heads, shoulders, knees and toes in bloody welsh"

[BlackPig]

just try changing the timing belt on a diesel renault clio.



Just the thought of that ..................urgggggghhhhh !! :eek:

[Doro]

yeah sorry bout that, it was one of the 1st metros and the cheapest 'good' car I could get to fit 3 kids into, and I lived in the sticks, it really surprised me how well it handled


I got stopped for speeding one day and the copper was giving me a telling off (as they do) when he commented on the fact that the kids weren't even wearing seatbelts - so I pointed out that they were actually wearing 5 point harnesses which I'd had specially fitted (kids were too small for lap belts FFS) so he became ashamed of himself and let me off with a warning - which suited me. (was doing 40 coming down the hill 50 yds from my house gawd)

[Dougie]

In the army:
Ford Escort estate,Land Rovers of various sizes including an ambulance,dreadful top heavy monster,Bedford TK trucks,Bedford MK and RL 4x4 trucks,a Leyland 10 ton 6x6 truck known to us as a "Knocker",crash box and a cab big enough to hold a dance in if not for the huge engine cover,and a few fork lifts.
Drove a guy's Ford Taunus V6,fast as feck!
Back home,drove various British Leyland cars & vans when working for a car dealer,Ford D series flatbed truck and a Ford Cargo 28 ton artic with a timber company,Transit vans,hire cars and a Mercedes Sprinter camper van round New Zealand.

[Freak]

1974 V8 Ford Pantella

Did Banger racing for 9 years so there aint a type of car I haven't driven.......and wrecked, from Robins to Jag's including, I'm afraid to say the odd 16/60.

[Spike]

Reliant Rialto, blew it up racing XR2, (i won !!)

Reliant Kitten, with alloy wheels, roof spoiler, full zebra stripe seat covers, huge rear view mirror, bullet racing mirrors. The chavs/boy racers just dont know what to make of me !!

Its now in primer grey, before going matt black :cool:

[Gypsy]

yeah sorry bout that, it was one of the 1st metros and the cheapest 'good' car I could get to fit 3 kids into, and I lived in the sticks, it really surprised me how well it handled


I got stopped for speeding one day and the copper was giving me a telling off (as they do) when he commented on the fact that the kids weren't even wearing seatbelts - so I pointed out that they were actually wearing 5 point harnesses which I'd had specially fitted (kids were too small for lap belts FFS) so he became ashamed of himself and let me off with a warning - which suited me. (was doing 40 coming down the hill 50 yds from my house gawd)

was you being towed ??? :D

[gsxrdel]

had quite a few different cars,mainly jags,daimlers,beemers,v8 rovers and v6 fords :D the best one was a 3.0s capri(240 bhp and live axle)that was fun,fun,fun :D
i've got this granny limo at the moment(gotta sort the bodywork out) :cool:

[mr.chaz]

I fancy a hearse.
Nice old one.
There was a Humber Snipe hearse on E Bay last year , that had been stored in a barn. That was nice , but in Kent somewhere . Would have cost more to get it transported back than they actual final sales price.
hohum

[Sir Ewok]

Start with Two wheels:-
Lambretta Li 150 x 2 (yeah! I know, started as a Mod and saw the light)
Ariel Huntmaster 650cc and Sidecar x 2 (Impoverished apprentice)
Ariel VB 600cc SV and sidecar (The one that snapped my leg)
BSA M21 600cc SV and sidecar
Honda C50 (still an apprentice, married and kid on the way)
Suzuki 80 (used to use 3-in-1 oil for lube as I was so skint)
Triumph Tiger 90 and sidecar (Noise and motion used to send son to sleep)
Triumph Tiger 110 and sidecar(That I built (and fell throughthe floor) in the living room
CZ 125 (nearly new and the one I went over the top of a car on)
Triumph Tiger Cub
Honda CD 175
Suzuki 250
BSA C11 x 2
Kawasaki AR 125 x 2
Suzuki VFR 400 R (Ended up going down the road on my face at 55mph, fecking diesel)
Yamaha Virago 535 (Only new bike I ever owned)
Ducati 900 Monster (Last but not least, my favourite bike of all time)

3 wheels:-
Reliant Regal saloon x 3 (Used to race cars as well, Until front suspension collapsed as I pulled onto drive. Also drove one whilst drunk and parked in the front porch. Got into house by pouring myself over the front bonnet).
Reliant Regal Van x 2 (Took 9 peeps to Camber sands from Northampton in one. Highest speed on the flat aprox 25mph, but we did it)
CX 500 Trike (should have known when rear brake line blew off on way home from buying it. Was cheap, had lots of fun and still have the remains for future project.
Pheonix 1600cc 3 seater VW trike (needs fixing for this years season)
CX 500 Trike (bought as unfinished project for Babs and found out why)

4 wheels:-
VW Beetle 1600 (No heater and re-enacted the retreat from Moscow every winter)
Austin 1100 (OK till sub-frame collapsed, left drag marks from Carlsberg Brewery to my house. Feck recovery costs)
Mk 2 Cortina
Hillman Rapier (Imp, but posher Ha! Ha!)
Mk 2 Escort
Mk 1 Capri 1300 (which did 115mph as registered at Castle Coombe racetrack. Used to race VW Gt's etc. Well funny. Also became President of Northampton Branch Of Capri Club International)
Mk 2.5 Capri 1600 (Multi coloured andthe second Road Rat winner)
Mk 3 Capri 2.8 (Brilliant condition till some woman took the whole side out of it after only 2 weeks, death knell on the hairpin at Castle Coombe. A jinxed car)
Mk 1 Capri (re-built wreck as 'A' frame was fecked)
BMW 2002 (Looks like a Lada in the dark and frightened the life out of budding chavs)
Austin Allegro Sport (with the 1750 Marina engine as standard)
Audi 80 Sport (Beautiful and comfortable motor, used to cruise up to Scotland at over a ton)
Opel Kadett (Astra shape)
Fiat (Can't remember what type as it caught fire within a couple of weeks)
Citroen Visa Diesel
Rover (again such a piece of shoite I cant remember what model)
Kit car of a Morgan 8
Ford Escort Van
Ford Fiesta 1.4 (M8 got it and it pissed oil so he gave it to me. £5 for new oil pressure switch, sorted! Passed onto son to learn in. When it blew up, he sold it for £45.00. Son of Ewok)
Renault Laguna 1.9 Turbo Diesel (My current ride)

More than 4 wheels:-
Bedford CF van converted as a sleeper (Used when contracting)
Transit Long wheelbase, double axle
Ford Cargo 7.5 tonne

That's it as far as I can remember, though I have probably left some out...... :confused:

[Kingo]

After 42 years driving in the army and civvy street to bloody many to count :rolleyes:

[Blue]

Seeing as I change my main car about once every four weeks, far too many to list, but some of the ones that bring back fond and not so fond memories are:

Lotus Elan (several, including a Sprint)
Fiat X1/9
Ford Capri 2.8i (still got it, love it, but it's got to go.. :()
Ford Cardinal Hearse (still fully fitted and capable of 95mph - people tend to get out of your way too!)
Austin A40
GTM kit car
Ford Anglia Super
Various jeeps
Pontiac Firebird
Jag XJS
Custom show winning Morris Minor pick up

And yes Spike - a Reliant Kitten! Blinding little car, incredibly frugal on fuel but still quite quick, and bombproof. :)

[Spike]

And yes Spike - a Reliant Kitten! Blinding little car, incredibly frugal on fuel but still quite quick, and bombproof. :)

Yay !! :D

[BigBod]

All kinds of bikes for the last 23 years, too many to list here....




But, 3 months ago I bought my first car, couldn't face another winter on the bike. (I know, I'm turning into a right wuss, but if that fire engine hadn't run over me leg.....)


Anyway, I'm probably going to regret telling you lot this but my first car is a.
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SMART CAR! :D :D And it's loads of fun, honest.... :cool: :cool:

[Mrs Reject]

You in a smart car...........how the feck do you fit in it :eek: :eek: :) Must be like wearing an overcoat!

Bikes aside I've always driven rusty metros that never cost more than £300 to buy and driven 'em till the doors fell off! Well they're only cars aren't they?

[BigBod]

You in a smart car...........how the feck do you fit in it :eek: :eek: :) Must be like wearing an overcoat!

Bikes aside I've always driven rusty metros that never cost more than £300 to buy and driven 'em till the doors fell off! Well they're only cars aren't they?

Tis a snug fit :rolleyes:

[TaxiDave]

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SMART CAR! :D :D And it's loads of fun, honest.... :cool: :cool:


David Coulthard drives a Smart Car on the road, while Michael Schumacher rides a V-Rod. Nuff said.

Me, I've had loads over the years but at the minute apart from the bikes I've got a TX1 Black Cab, a 1950 1600 sidevalve Land Rover and a 1986 Land Rover with a 5.7 Chevy in it mated to a 3 speed auto box. We've also got a Renault Clio but we don't talk about that.

[Doro]

Michael Schumacher rides a V-Rod.


over xmas time I read summat about Ralph Shoe maker not being a very good driver on the road, had to get his wife to park, or didn't have a road licence cos he hadn't passed his test - summat like that


ok will go and google it.....

[Dougie]

SMART CAR!
It looks like yer driving a trainer!! :eek: :eek:

[Zeek]

This was the last real car I had......sold it about 3 years back

[mr.chaz]

Is that a Javelin?

that's nice

[Zeek]

74 Maverick (with f/glass bumpers, bonnet & bootlid) frontend tubed & a feckin expensive worked 302/ with manual shift auto........too much to list on here......... but was fun to drive round the streets :D :D

[Rogue Monkey]

From the top A BSA BANTAM, A 350 triumph (cant remember wot model) A suzuki 125 (ditto) A honda cm 125. A Yamaha Virago 1100, A harley 1340 shovel custom, A yam Dragstar classic 650 (heavily customised) Cars.....A ford escort (the old ones) A vauxhual VX 4 90, A white conv, TR7, A blue conv TR7, A green conv TR7 another Blue TR7, A red Spitfire with a GT4 Bonnet! A White Merc. A black Merc. A red Toyota Celica (Feckin Rocket on weels that got nicked day after insurance ran out! :( ) A Toyota MR2 , 4.2 Automatic JAGUAR (lazy mans car) A red mitsibishi (cant remember wot model) A little peugot (cant remember) and my present one Green Vauxhaul frontera (with a petrol leak :( ) NO FECKIN BIKE ANYMORE DUE TO BEING SKINT! :(

[dagon22]

just an sr 125

[mr.chaz]

74 Maverick (with f/glass bumpers, bonnet & bootlid) frontend tubed & a feckin expensive worked 302/ with manual shift auto........too much to list on here......... but was fun to drive round the streets :D :D


Nice , nice , nice.
Me n me buddy had the 500 Cobrajet "blown n chopped" Mustang - Street Lethal. Sold it to Rob Moore , who used to run with Smax. Cos it had to be road registered an all , when we first got it , we went down the road to the chippy in it just for a laff. We thought it was funny , but the pigs were waiting for us by the time we got back to the garage. Fuggall they could do about it! :D

[Zeek]

Aaaahhhhhh happy daze...........yep, remember that muzzy....used to crew with Dave mingay, S/G Monza....Kev & Rob (I.C.E. Automotive) Slingshot dragster & have been fortunate enuff to race in the States in a 9 sec Galaxie.............. which I gotta admit "got my attention" lolol..........been around the scene since early 70's..........just got too expensive for me.....but had a lot of fun in various cars & bikes at the strip........ :D

[Zeek]

oh & me m8 owns the Black "Jumping black flash" Mustang (8 secs I think)

[mr.chaz]

Yep - could never afford to race the things - watching Rob get the Mustang back upto modern competition spec just made my arse twitch.
Raced boats offshore for a few years , and that taught me you gotta be really committed to race ( or need committing) - unfortunately I am too tight for that and cry a lot when I have to spend even a fiver!

[Zeek]

Did John Webster do the chassis for that 1 ? before he joined forces with Geoff Hauser.......

[mr.chaz]

I b'lieve so. Although Rob had some probs with the rear and spent a fortune on it. We got it from Roddy Rebuild in Keighly , by which time it was still one hell of a car , but required a sh*tload of money spending on it , if it was ever to be competitive again. I don't know what it's doing now - think Rob quit racing under the " Bad Attitude" Road Rage banner , after a load of politics within the series.

[Zeek]

Oh sh1t.....think we hijacked the thread.........sorry bout that...... good going back with ya Mr C........

[DANNY]

http://img116.exs.cx/img116/8938/chazbug3ht.jpg
MR Chazez first car

[mr.chaz]

Jesus , that's a blast from the past.
Wish I still had it ,then I could trike it!

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 :eek:

[mr.chaz]

Okay then , I'll add this one ,just to be different.
It's my last raceboat - 20ft " B class" offshore Frode. Running a blueprinted 90 Tohatsu , with low water pickups / bullet gearcase. Held the world speed record at Windemere for B class . Bought it off that crazy Texan Charles Burnette the 3rd ( the nutter you see racing boats on telly) when it was his Los Locos boat. Prepared it and gave it to the lovely Sarah Donahue ( the Bond stuntgirl) to race for us - bringing a second place in the championships.

The "water pigs" banned me off Windemere in this boat. Good number eh? :)

http://img18.exs.cx/img18/6987/b697ch.jpg

[dracken1]

heh zeek did i see that amc years ago at avon park raceway in the 80's?
the paint scheme looks familar.

i used to race a 69 camaro 427. but did'nt want to risk an original engine so built a very hot 400, which needed an 8" tci convertor just so i could get it on cam on the start line.
best time was i think was a 10.97.
but it's a dam expensive hobby

[Zeek]

No Dracken, twas only painted in 90' & its a Ford Maverick 1974 (Uprated Pinto if ya like with a Factory 302).....................250hp but with no weight !!! & it had a 10inch 3500 stall to work it.............twas a handfull :D

[Crofty]

B reg VW polo and.........
K reg VW polo!!! The new ones a coupe model, slanty back looks sporty(?) and it does 0-60 in about a week
I drove my dad's (the polo's were/is both his, but I was insured on them) Mercedes 190E to my nan's. first time in an auto, wierd, but the car's gorgeous

[Friar Tuck]

Best job I had was working for Cosworth Engineering on the engine development side.

It's funny but the while I was there I drove the best car and worst car in my life there.

The worst one first! Cosworth were developing a series of 2.5, 3.and 3.5 litre engines for Deawoo of all people! They sent ove a "mule" car so that the engines could be run and tested. Basically this mule car was a cut and shut, and I had to drive it for two hours around Northampton as part of a 24 hour non-stop running test. The power output of the engine far exceeded the capabilities of the mule! It was truly frightening above 60! The guy that took over from me actually stacked the car on a straight bit of road!

The best car was an Aston Martin Volante which was being used as a mule for the engine of the Vanquish! Truly excilerating!

Oh, did you know that Volvo actually developed a V10 but shelved the project?

[Sir Ewok]

Something elde we have in common Friar. I worked for Cosworth for 3.5 years. Worked on road engins for the Sierra, Mercedes and Granada Executive.
My 1300 Mk1 Capri was tuned by me and my m8 there. We worked on deburring the cylinder heads after CNC milling. With all the gear to hand, we polished and ported the heads, rebuilt the bottom end with a nitrided crank, 1100 pistons to up the compression ratio, hotter camshaft, double valve springs following re-cut seats and new valves/guides and new small ends. It also had a carb from a racing Anglia with K & N filter. went like shoite of a shovel and topped out around 115mph. With the Escort Mexico rear end as standard it was like a rocket ship on rails and could out accelerate and out turn a VW Golf GTi. Oh! The fun we had. Took it out onto Castle Coombe racetrack and was overtaking peeps on the grass verge (didn't work with the 2.8i, which I stacked head on into the tyre wall at 90+mph). Loved working for Cosworth, hated the management as the were total wankers. Having worked for myself for over 15 years, I resented being told what to do by a tosspot who wouldn't have lasted five minutes in the cut-throat business of contract engineering. Took voluntry redundancy and got £3,500 cash and 2 weeks in liue.

[chimaera]

Isn't it wonderful how you can get these wank stains in management who can tell you the molecular structure of a can of beans but can't open them

[Crofty]

[QUOTE=Sir Ewok]I worked for Cosworth for 3.5 years. Worked on road engins for the Sierra, Mercedes and Granada Executive.
QUOTE]
How do you and tuck get jobs like that? I want one, it sounds cool, apart from the twathead boss. I'm doing an engineering degree and all i hear about is bridge manufacture and bending beams. Is there a place to look at on the net for engine/car/bike based jobs? Please help or i fear I'll be stuck behind a desk doing sums for ever. I want to actually design and make something good! I don't want to be a beany wankstain(?)
Thanks.

[Doro]

I once applied for a job as a designer for the electrical systems for the ferrari F1 racing team





didn't get it though cos it involved too much travel for a single mother with 3 kids :(

[Blackjack]

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would like to have

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any Maserati
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Shame I didn't know that a couple of weeks ago. You could have had my '87 BiTurbo Coupe.

[Friar Tuck]

[QUOTE=Sir Ewok]I worked for Cosworth for 3.5 years. Worked on road engins for the Sierra, Mercedes and Granada Executive.
QUOTE]
How do you and tuck get jobs like that? I want one, it sounds cool, apart from the twathead boss. I'm doing an engineering degree and all i hear about is bridge manufacture and bending beams. Is there a place to look at on the net for engine/car/bike based jobs? Please help or i fear I'll be stuck behind a desk doing sums for ever. I want to actually design and make something good! I don't want to be a beany wankstain(?)
Thanks.
Do you want the true answer or silly one?

[Freak]

ok so I haven't driven either of them but in the last couple of weeks I've sat in a 5.3 litre, straight 8, 1927 (but don't quote me on that) only surviving one of two built BROUGH. Yes, as in Brough motorcycles. :D Then just to top that off the Colin Chapman Lotus F1 car driven by James Garner from the original Grand Prix film. JG even left his signature on the dashboard. Didn't sit in that though because it's very small and I'm not. The Brough is still driven and the F1 car is still raced.....how cool is that? :D :D :D

[Rogue Monkey]

Ooooo! I forgot to mention A Cheiftan MB Tank, A Scorpian APC, Various diggers and had a go in a Lynxx Helicopter (Only for a few seconds though) And loads o Land rovers long and short weelbase, and a bedford four tonner with double de clutch! :o

[krammer]

Ooooo! I forgot to mention A Cheiftan MB Tank, A Scorpian APC, Various diggers and had a go in a Lynxx Helicopter (Only for a few seconds though) And loads o Land rovers long and short weelbase, and a bedford four tonner with double de clutch! :o well i knew pigs can fly but a monkey in a helicopter?

[Rogue Monkey]

well i knew pigs can fly but a monkey in a helicopter?
Oooooooo! just wait till this monkey gets a scanner! :D

[krammer]

Oooooooo! just wait till this monkey gets a scanner! :D so what does monkey plan to do with a scanner? or is it secret stuff. what with the revolution an all. ;)

[Rogue Monkey]

I`ll do a pic of Monkey drivin a CHOPPER! heheheh! Oooooooo! I add short hair then though! :o

[Miss Demeanour]

I have never owned a car.

[Sir Ewok]

[QUOTE=Sir Ewok]I worked for Cosworth for 3.5 years. Worked on road engins for the Sierra, Mercedes and Granada Executive.
QUOTE]
How do you and tuck get jobs like that? I want one, it sounds cool, apart from the twathead boss. I'm doing an engineering degree and all i hear about is bridge manufacture and bending beams. Is there a place to look at on the net for engine/car/bike based jobs? Please help or i fear I'll be stuck behind a desk doing sums for ever. I want to actually design and make something good! I don't want to be a beany wankstain(?)
Thanks.
Applied for the job from addy in the local Rag. Look up Cosworths address in Northampton and write to them, if your qualifications suit their needs and there is a vacancy you may well get a job there.......

[Dougie]

Ooooo! I forgot to mention A Cheiftan MB Tank, A Scorpian APC, Various diggers and had a go in a Lynxx Helicopter (Only for a few seconds though) And loads o Land rovers long and short weelbase, and a bedford four tonner with double de clutch! :oCan't fit in a Scorpion driving compartment,can't get my knees past the vision block! :eek: :eek:

[Crofty]

Ooh, yeh, just remembered. A 70-Ton 40 litre bulldozer (pushing 90 ton of coal) My dad's mate let me have a go in it when I went to see him at the coal plant at the power station. (how the fuck I forget that?)