I thought it would be hassle to find pictures, but it was actually quite good fun, so joining RK's lead, here we go!
The cunning fleet:
1989 Volvo 340 1.4 Petrol My first car!
The car itself was solid and well built, however, the engine was total crap as it was a Renault engine from the factory (which made me hate French cars from the age of 17!). I guess Volvo did not have any 1.4 units, they also made a 1.7 version which did have a Volvo made engine in it. I am sure that was far better. Best thing about the car, it was Rear Wheel Drive and all my college buddies had Corsas
Sold for spares on the 10000000th breakdown.
This is not my exact one, but very close:
1993 Fiat Panda 1L PetrolBought to sell.
My sister's car that needed a little sorting out, so she just left it in her front garden, so I asked if I could have it. Did a few cheap bits, sold for £550.
Again, not my exact one, but the same:
1994 VW Polo 1.3 PetrolThe Volvo was broken every other day, so I had to try and get something a bit more reliable - or so I thought. Trusted someone by their 'word' and went all the way up to somewhere around Leeds to collect the car, it was fine on the way down, but then spent more time broken than the Volvo.
It was cheap though at £150 I think, sold for spares, some weird guys came to pick it up, paid me £100 and attempted to drive it back to somewhere like Birmingham, even though I had been brutally honest about the car, stating that it was for spares and needed to be trailered away
No idea how far they got.
Not the exact one, close enough:
1993 Vauxhall Carlton Estate 2.0 Petrol ******* terrible car. My Pop bought it as a tempoary car, then got a company car, so he kindly let me use it to get to uni. Used it for a while but hated it.
My Pop sold it as a part-ex for a Chrysler Grand Voyager, but the guy who took it as a part ex admitted he was just going to put the engine in a Fronteria and scrap the rest, it wasn't even worth trying to sell it on!
Sorry, not the exact one again, but very close, minus the alloys:
1989 VW Transporter T3 'Wedge' Panel Van 1.6 / 1.9 DieselMy first bus. It started as an orange panel van with a 1.6 Diesel engine in it which was so slow. I spent quite a lot of money and did a lot of work on it. I resprayed it, lowered, wheels / tyres (see the American influence), rock sliders, converted the interior, stereo, PS1 in the back etc.
I took the fairly reliable, but so slow 1.6 out and converted a 1.9 Diesel from a 1995 VW Caddy Van to go in.
Enjoyed it for a while, then it dropped a valve. Sold for repair. It would have been nice to keep it and put another engine in, but it was so much work, I just wasn't sure I wanted to do it all again with the same van.
1988 Ford Escort 1.3 PetrolBought for £200, it needed a new alternator and the idle raising on the carb to artificially prevent it from stalling, but this was a dam reliable car if I am honest! I used it whilst I was working on the Wedge and I went to Uni for years in it, all the way to Cornwall etc.
MOT ran out, unfortunately, it would have cost more than the car was worth to weld it (not that much, like £120) and get it through, so I sold it to banger racers.
1999 Ford Mondeo 1.8 PetrolNot terrible, but put me off Fords if I am honest.
Bought for £960, did 80k miles in it (163k-ish total on the clock) and towed my Bay around, so I'm grateful, but I did have to do a fair bit to it when I really think about it. Snapped coil spring, locking not working, door handles sticking, starter motor, bearings, bushes, occasionally hunting, battery etc.
Sold to the Norfolk banger racers.
1968 VW Transporter T2 (Bay)Current main project. You guys all know this one, so I won't bore you further.
1968 Morris Minor 1.3 PetrolThis was FREE from Plymouth, the only thing we had to do was go and get it. It was all seized and difficult to get on the trailer, but it was surprisingly solid, I doubt it would have taken much to get on the road. I joint-owned it with my housemate at the time and it was difficult dividing everything up equally, so we both put the same money in and did the same amount of work to it. It just didn't work, so we sold it to get back what we had put into it. I should have just bought him out and kept it.
1999 Jeep Cherokee XJ 2.5TD Orvis EditionCurrent daily which I also have an interest in, so to me it is not just a daily hack to get around, I think of it as a modern-classic.
