volvo 850, the rad leaks into the heater matrix which now delivers clouds of horrid steam into the cabin, the off side rear shock is on its last legs and the tax n’ mot run out next month, anyone want it?

I’ve been knocking about in one of these this week while waiting for my fabia to arrive

my particular one is a 53plate with 35k on the clock, and stands me at £200.

I really like the Jimny, great little car, and perfect for the narrow potholed lanes around N. Wilts I drive a lot. If I have to replace the Octy that’s what I’d get. That Polonez, on the other hand, deary me. I had the misfortune to have to drive a Yugo as a company car many years ago. Now that was a crap car, but I’m not sure that the Polly doesn’t beat it.

when my saab blew up (no really) i was given a 3 door N reg nissan terrano which seems to be articulated in the middle. nothing on it seemed to work normally or indeed properly. several weeks later i got £200 from a scrap yard which paid based on weight – bonus

2001 Fiat Punto Sporting

Its off the road every other week as stuff keeps breaking on it.

Currently suffering from a random clunk and scraping sound from the back end every time you go over a speed bump

+1

A friend of ours had a punto of a similar age that also sounded like it was about to fall in half over speed bumps.. FWIW ours also sounds like it’s about to snap under any braking or accelerating too..
which is nice..

1998 535i for me, the oldest car I’ve had, with the exception of a 1970 Triumph 2.5TC I had in the late 80’s.

Sorry Pinches but
“my particular one is a 53plate with 35k on the clock, and stands me at £200”. starts to be cool again.

At the mo the Polo with a boot heads it for me, old Polos are becoing cool but with a boot! 🙁

Jimny hardtop OK, convertible = uncool same with the SJs but take doors off, top off a SJ and paint it olive drab and its cool!?! The Polonez, not sure are they becoming uban uber cool like Travants?….

see, if your polo with a boot was -80mm with some ATS classics, then it’d be the coolest thing (to some people)

i’ve still got an n reg saab 9000 cse! runs great tho and still in good nic everything actually works!

That Polonez (1987, 1.5 GL in beige) was my first car to drive in 2004. Got it from my uncle to learn how to drive, proper slow, loud and You could fix it with a hammer. FSO Polonez was a perfect first car, slow, huge and reasonably safe, can carry 5 in comfort and my particular example always had a full tank 🙂 I was quite popular with my friends 😉 Drove it for almost a year, than my uncle sold it and I had to drive all sorts of cars from a VW LT28/35 1992/1993, 1998 Kangoo 1.4 and sometimes my mums 1.8T Passat.

Polonez is a REAL drivers car as it is RWD, just needed a grassy field and it was like a drift racing car but in slow motion 😉

This is ether totally OT or Off T (how do you know if someone is talking about OT or OT, I know the convention…)

The plus is both bikes are mine too *smug*

Uplift Sled by flamejob, on Flickr

Reading this thread and suddenly my V-reg Ford Mondeo estate isn’t sounding quite so bad!

Mine is the 1.8TD except that the T part of it doesn’t work so it’s spectacularly underpowered. It’ll sit on a motorway at 80 but getting it to that speed requires a weeks written notice.
It’s going in for service and MOT later this week though.

My first car was a 1973 (older than me) 1.3 litre Morris Marina in beige.

The guy who had it before me kept it in near showroom condition but that was it’s single plus point. Large “sofa” rear seat came in handy for those girls not put off by the horrible machine.

No power, still span it’s rear remoulded tyres out of every junction, randomly dived in different directions under braking and broke down all the time – had a second (Morris Ital) engine fitted when the first one blew up, sold it to my cousin for £100, he wrote it off a week later.

Never got pics of it though…

My mum drives a kia rio with a “chill” badge on the back.

what a cool thread, better than all the willy waving ones 😉

ive had sh*T cars all my life, this doesnt count but my second car was an old F reg rover 216 in GOLD!!!

i was 18 FFS, what was i thinking!!!!

like this one….

i only bought it because it had electric mirrors and sunroof!!

it was like sitting in an old peoples home!!

Some of you folk might like Autoshite.

a 1992 nissan primera in grey, thing is i quite like the car.

I’m driving a W plate Honda CRV which is in no way cool but not crap I’m afraid.

I especially like the blue check cloth interior and blue “sport” dials.

a 1992 nissan primera in grey, thing is i quite like the car.

So it doesn’t qualify for this thread. I had 150k trouble-free miles out of a 1990 Primera, which makes it pretty damn cool to me, and not at all crap.

Uncool and crap would be having to find out the hard way that my £30K+ Thrungemobile 535i didn’t make my willy any bigger.

My first car was a C reg Renault 5 that was given to me by the father of some friend of my sister. I went out to Reading to pick it up and found that the guy was a bit of a tinkerer and as things on the car had broken he’d fixed them himself. The headlights were operated by an old fashioned lightswitch like this:

which he’d glued in after the original dial one broke.

The passenger door wouldn’t close from the inside, it needed literally kicking shut so was pretty much unusable. He pointed all this stuff out to me, I started it up and drove it home. Except he’d obviosuly warmed it up beforehand cos next time I went to drive it it wouldn’t start. Used to take about 5 mins of me sitting there turning it over to start it each time! It also had a nasty habit of overheating spectcularly, giving off clouds of steam.

God it was shit. However it was pretty good off-road cos of the narrow tyres and relatively high body. Found that out when we got back to the car after a night ride at Swinley and found we were locked in to the car park – had to do some creative off road driving to get out! 🙂

My Ginger Multipla + Caravan, niice

Currently, as I have been for the last 8 years, driving a very scruffy Vectra 1.6

Piece of crap – always has been!

i bought a 1.9D (not TD) peugeot partner …. shit slides down velcro faster than my car …. but it takes a load – handles ace in the snow and is cheap to run …..

friends call it the pope mobile though

I used to tool around in a £100 Volvo 340. It was rotten as hell, but it’s disposable nature was handy.

I used to have one of these:

Toyota Tercel. It had a lovely beige interior.

My first car was a red Morris Ital 1983 – red just like this http://www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?ado28storyf.htm

The Ital/Marina wasn’t cutting edge when it was first release in 1968! Rusted to hell, leaf springs and an engine first released in the 1950’s.

I loved it!

She’s called Viagra.
Small blue and no man should really admit to owning one. 🙂
But at £20 a year tax and £38 for a full tank its a minter!

Paulosoxo – is that a Bailey Ranger?! 🙂

My car is not crap but it is apparently the least cool car ever:

EDIT: Actually the previous model is much less cool:

Two of my ex-quality motors…

Desperate for a cheap runabout I went to the local auctions, had a few bids but everything went over my puny budget till the end of the night when this beauty rolled through. An hour later I was on my way up the A1 in it.. 8months mot and only 50k miles with fsh for a smidge over 100quid , ran it for a year and sold it f0r 32quid profit.

Again desperate for a cheap runabout a mate offered me this as he was moving and needed it of his drive asap. I paid 75quid and got 3 and a half cylinder 1400 cvh orion with 8 months T&T. Ran it till the tax ran out and sold it to some local pikeys for 30quid.

@Hairychested

Peugeot 406 1.9dt estate.

I’ll see your Pug estate, and raise you the folding family seats in the boot, side indicator that pops out of the bodywork from time to time and broken aircon! 🙂

Does this count?

P3250049 by sastrugi1977, on Flickr

molgrips – Member
Paulosoxo – is that a Bailey Ranger?!

It is indeed. Complete with Isabella awning 🙂

The thread has the wrong premise. Is a cool car exemplified by status compensation through conspicuous consumption? Old cars that go or no cars at all are really cool.

My Focus diesel estate isn’t crap but it’s very uncool, the driving equivalent of a pipe and slippers. I like it though, it does the job it’s supposed to do exactly as well as it’s supposed to do it.

One of my uncle’s cars – Opel Record Octavia (just like this one but sky blue):

Another uncle’s car – Moskvich 2140 (the worst item claiming to be a car ever):

And two cars my family managed to avoid – Trabant and Syrena (both 2-strokes):

Crappest (drive): ’69 P1800 (previously had a ’89 Polo, you learn to corner in slow cars!)

Most uncool: ’89 Eunos.

A 2002 blue Mazda Premacy diesel, like this:

I’m the only person under the age of 65 that I’ve ever seen driving one.

Ultra reliable and you can fit a world of stuff in the back of it. House moves, trips to the dump, bikes, dog cages, you name it.

Pinches – is that a City Rover? If so, why the hell is anyone else bothering to post!

My car was FREE!!

This thread has made me feel much better about my car considering the list of “what expencive car should i buy” threads.

It is a 1996 Corsa B SRI 1.4si petrol engine, cheep to run so far and it has been doing 75 miles a day. Inherited it a few months ago with 85,000 on the clock and i really like the thing. Has a rusty door and needs chassis welding for the next mot but all the spares for it are so cheep.

I have put a nice sterio in it and new speakers but i think given how many miles i do in it that is understandable.

Old, clapped out, practical or plain does not mean uncool.

The city rover is definitely uncool though, maybe more so than my Prius.