Have you owned any of these?

[Reggie-rock]

This is my previous car ownership history since 1977.
I wondered if anyone would like to share memories you have of any of these cars I have owned?

 

[merc85]

Ive owed a w124, it was 1988 f reg 260e, great car never let me down, put 20k miles on it and sold it for than id paid for it.

Great cars

 

[daveenty]

Had a few of those.

100E Ford Pop
Capri (mine was a Mk 1 1/2 3.0 GT)
Mk 3 Cortina 1600 with obligatory knackered cam. Had lots of Mk 1's (never a Mk 2 for some reason?)
Minx (not the super though, Series VI)
Jeep (Still got a Grand Cherokee)
W208 CLK320

 

[Giantvanman]

I have fond memories of the Capri (1.6L, 2nd car) but it was written off when a no good low life jumped a red light and turned across my path. I have fonder memories still of the Beetle (1100, 3rd car). That just went on and on, figuratively and mechanically. When the A2 was closed due to snow (in 1986 I think), the Beetle just went through like a snowmobile, the front wheels acting like skis or rudders whilst the weight in the back kept the traction going.
We bailed out of it once, surrounding by billowing, acrid black smoke. My mate in the back compressed the seat springs so that they shorted the battery. We let the smoke clear and a handy bit of cardboard from an abandoned box 'fixed' that issue.
I used to use a late S111 LR Station Wagon (109) for off-roading. It was a great laugh, filling it with mates & colleagues and driving off a cliff………..I had previously surveyed the site and tested the drop but they didn't know that. Screamed like little girls they did.

 

[Scott_F]

I owned a Mark 2 VW Polo (the same "breadvan" shape as you).

I was given the car for nothing by a friend who wanted it off his driveway and it cost about £100 to get through an MOT including the cost of the test. I then did more work (rear brake cylinders, CV joint gaiter, alternator and various other things) and covered 20,000 miles in the next 12 months before selling it with another 12 months MOT.

The only time it let me down was when, a month before I sold it, the scrapyard alternator that I had fitted at the start of the year gave up one cold November night. The story of the AA's response is too long to recount but suffice to say that I will never again do business with the "Fourth Emergency Service" and the various sub-contracted cowboys that their adverts don't tell you about.

I believe that prices of these "breadvans" are now on the rise and they are developing a following of enthusiasts. I can see why as mine was a terrific little car.

 

[boxbrownie]

Looks like I have had seven of those........probably not the exact same model eg, Mini Cooper S, BMW 323 etc etc.

Great cars at the time and if only I had kept most of them I could afford a brand new S Class today!

 

[Minz]

2, a Cortina MK111 1600XL and a Datsun 100a Cherry although an earlier shape than yours as it was an N reg.

 

[Wizeng]

I had a 3.0 Capri, great fun, but the brakes failed coming into a roundabout and I had a few dicey moments!

 

[markjay]

I passed my driving test in a VW Beetle.

Interestingly, I had both a blue Escort Estate and a white Sierra Estate as company cars in the early nineties....

 

[jamesfuller]

I had a 1956 100E. A constant battle to get up enough speed to get into 3rd while still see where your going in heavy rain hahaha.

My mum always had V6 capris, since 1980something up until 2008 when she stopped driving. Very gruff and growly. I had a couple of Mk1's myself.

Leaf sprung Land Rovers, I must have had 10 or so, the pain! If I ever have another I really want a 109 station wagon, or an early slidey window 110 or a 101. Mmm, looks like maybe I'm not done with Lr's yet then!

 

[smurgewurfler]

Beetle - when I was a barrack brat in Germany I had a '54 Beetle with a 3 speed crash gearbox. Every now and then all the lights would go out - I was once arrested for driving home the last mile after this happened one night in a place called Bielefeld. Used to rain a lot there. Known as "Herr Gott's ein pisspot".
Polo 1.4 Formel E - bought one new for the SWMBO and sold it 23 years later. It was eventually written off when someone drove into the back of it. Brilliant little car.
Saab 900 - Madam's successor to the Polo - she hated it and said it was an 'old man's car'. I said that if she insisted on driving up and down the A14 to work she was going to drive something akin to a brick built dunney. I won. Great car but used to eat water pumps.
W124 280TE - still got it 9 years and 130,000 miles later. For sale if anyone wants it!

 

[Reggie-rock]

Had a few of those.

100E Ford Pop
Capri (mine was a Mk 1 1/2 3.0 GT)
Mk 3 Cortina 1600 with obligatory knackered cam. Had lots of Mk 1's (never a Mk 2 for some reason?)
Minx (not the super though, Series VI)
Jeep (Still got a Grand Cherokee)
W208 CLK320

Yes cam problems with one Capri and the Cortina with that Tin-Tin-Tin-Tin sound driving me mad.
The Roots car was a 1967 Humber Sceptre not a Minx which I had as a classic car briefly in 1990. I overhauled the engine as I bought it running on 3 cylinders.
The Grand Cherokee I had was a 4 litre petrol, it managed 13.1 mpg on average and had it for a year, but was spending a £100 a week on petrol on local journeys so decided to sell it on. The first person to look at the car was very impressed with it so I took him for a drive, I noticed the engine was getting very hot, so stopped and for some reason lost a large amount of water out the cooling system. We both walked the 2 miles back to my house for water, refilled the rad and the car was fine with no leaks!!!
I had the car checked by a local garage and found nothing wrong with the cooling system, so the chap who I gave the nightmare test drive to offered me the asking price which I accepted.
I think the only reason it sold is because I always keep my cars in immaculate condition and the shine on the paint sold the car.

 

[Reggie-rock]

That 1977 Land Rover 109 I payed £550 for it from a small garage in 1992, but the family hated it and made my daughter sick every outing in it.
So I gave it a good clean and sold it for £1350, and never understood to this day why the garage I got it from let me have it so cheap.

 

[daveenty]

I remember the cam on the Ford 1600 OHC engines came out through the back of the head, meaning that you had to take the head off and change the head gasket, which created unnecessary work to my mind.

I just cut a hole in the bulkhead lining up with the cam and, after removing the ashtray, it could be drawn out through the car. Seal the hole up afterwards (or there's ash everywhere, don't ask how I know) and good to go.

Bodge? Oh yes.

Incidentally, my Jeep is also a 4 litre and atrocious on fuel.

 

[finisterre]

the Saab, lots of those, and I have the old five series touring parked outside.

I have also had a havana. (As your avatar infers you have too.)

 

[paulshep69]

Just the 2 for me, I had a T reg Mk 3 Capri 1.6L and a Y reg Mk 3 Capri 2.8i, they were quite fun with their wayward back end in the wet.

I also had a G reg Ford Sierra, mine was a 1.8D, I think it was a basic 'L' model, can't remember it being anything special, I thought it had 86,000 miles on the clock when I bought it, I gave it away with 113,000 miles on it, the guy who was gifted it found some paperwork behind the glovebox saying it had covered 146,000 miles when it had a new radiator, so I was 100,000 miles out. I believe it was on 250,000+ miles, without engine work, when it was sold on.

 

[John Jones Jr]

Yes, a few of those. BMW E21 & E34, Golf, Mini & W124. Liked them all too.

 

[Reggie-rock]

What a lovely pussy you have finisterre. We have an Oriental Havana, two Burmese's and a Siamese all of which are fabulous cats and far to precious to let out the house.
I think the Havana is the rarest out the lot though, but also the naughtiest.

 

[finisterre]

Arrgh. I used infer when I should have used imply.

please judge me harshly.

I deserve it.

 

[Reggie-rock]

Just for you finisterre, our cat family.