The cars we used to drive..

by **yorkie64red** Mon 21 Mar - 6:19:26

Takes me back to when cars had character, unlike the shite of today..good old British Leyland... Laughing

by **yorkie64red** Mon 21 Mar - 6:33:07

Anyone remember the Lada Riva..they used to import these to Bridlington where they were improved for the home market...never actually went in one although i nearly once bought its successor...glad i thought better of it... Laughing

by NorthRed Mon 21 Mar - 7:33:15

Its all just a tad before my time!! I remember my first car though, it was a blue 1.6 Ford Orion ghia..... dropping to bits lol............... it was great!!

by pkt_drfc Mon 21 Mar - 7:36:33

NorthRed wrote:Its all just a tad before my time!! I remember my first car though, it was a blue 1.6 Ford Orion ghia..... dropping to bits lol............... it was great!!

Snap the same car i had but myne was a 1.4 J reg only had 1 accident in it

by **yorkie64red** Mon 21 Mar - 7:57:02

Cars used to have character, today they are so boring , my first car was a Triumph acclaim and loved it followed by a maestro and a montego, i used to love austins much underated cars...it was a sad sad day when Rover went bust, all we have now is crap from korea france or japan...

by **yorkie64red** Mon 21 Mar - 7:58:20

NorthRed wrote:Its all just a tad before my time!! I remember my first car though, it was a blue 1.6 Ford Orion ghia..... dropping to bits lol............... it was great!!

A cracking car it was as well, hired one once, didn't want to give it back..

by Dagenham Rover Mon 21 Mar - 8:15:10

yorkie64red wrote:Cars used to have character, today they are so boring , my first car was a Triumph acclaim and loved it followed by a maestro and a montego, i used to love austins much underated cars...it was a sad sad day when Rover went bust, all we have now is crap from korea france or japan...

One of my earlier cars was a bright yellow Austin Maxi, I taught my ex wife to drive in it and at the end of the test the examiner turned round to her and said " if you can drive one of these round town without missing too many gear changes you can drive anything" needless to say she passed.
I put it down to my teaching skills and nothing to do with the examiner feeling sorry for her being taught in one of those old beasts

by **yorkie64red** Mon 21 Mar - 8:21:18

In the eighties we had the XR3i , XR2i...GTE's etc cosworths...cars today are all the same..no character..

by Dagenham Rover Mon 21 Mar - 8:33:12

yorkie64red wrote:In the eighties we had the XR3i , XR2i...GTE's etc cosworths...cars today are all the same..no character..

Live in Essex in them days then did you Laughing

by **yorkie64red** Mon 21 Mar - 8:39:08

Dagenham Rover wrote:

Live in Essex in them days then did you

No we had em in yorkshire as well... Laughing

by thefullback Mon 21 Mar - 23:25:11

Reliant Regal
Mini with 1100 motor
Triumph Herald
Datsun Sunny
NSU Prinz
Cortina MK2
Vauxhall Victor Estate
Peugot 305 Estate 1.9D
Mitsubishi Lancer Estate
Suzuki Baleno new in 98
Suzuki Ignis GA seriously fun car to drive
Toyota Yaris 1.4 D4D present car

Remember the LADA. 90% of the taxis in Hull were Ladas. Russian seamen would take spare parts home.

by **yorkie64red** Mon 21 Mar - 23:39:28

thefullback wrote:Reliant Regal
Mini with 1100 motor
Triumph Herald
Datsun Sunny
NSU Prinz
Cortina MK2
Vauxhall Victor Estate
Peugot 305 Estate 1.9D
Mitsubishi Lancer Estate
Suzuki Baleno new in 98
Suzuki Ignis GA seriously fun car to drive
Toyota Yaris 1.4 D4D present car

Remember the LADA. 90% of the taxis in Hull were Ladas. Russian seamen would take spare parts home.

jesus...you've driven some shite in your time... lol!

by SWFC 66 Thu 24 Mar - 1:52:46

yorkie64red wrote:

No we had em in yorkshire as well...

we stole them all from essex though..... Suspect

by Dagenham Rover Thu 24 Mar - 5:17:49

SWFC 66 wrote:

we stole them all from essex though.....

by **hoolahoop** Thu 24 Mar - 7:02:08

yorkie64red wrote:Cars used to have character, today they are so boring , my first car was a Triumph acclaim and loved it followed by a maestro and a montego, i used to love austins much underated cars...it was a sad sad day when Rover went bust, all we have now is crap from korea france or japan...

I hope you're not being serious...........are you ?

Shocked

Whilst I agree that the market as a whole has become tediously boring with very few companies even trying the minimum of variations to their competitors in any market segment. Generally imo Rover's were crap, unreliable, poorly built dangerous rust buckets, hence their demise.
However if you go back to the 40/50/60's they were generally of good quality for that time.
Seemsd the real problem began when all the marques you have mentioned were brought under the British Leyland umbrella. As seperate companies i.e Austin, Rover etc., they produced far better and more interesting cars.

by **yorkie64red** Thu 24 Mar - 7:19:59

hoolahoop wrote:

I hope you're not being serious...........are you ?

Whilst I agree that the market as a whole has become tediously boring with very few companies even trying the minimum of variations to their competitors in any market segment. Generally imo Rover's were crap, unreliable, poorly built dangerous rust buckets, hence their demise.
However if you go back to the 40/50/60's they were generally of good quality for that time.
Seemsd the real problem began when all the marques you have mentioned were brought under the British Leyland umbrella. As seperate companies i.e Austin, Rover etc., they produced far better and more interesting cars.

Not at all, i had a Montego and it was one of the best cars i ever had, never let me down once, they were bad in the seventies when we had cars like the allegro and marina but then so were alot of car manufacturers vehicles at that time, its just a shame they went bust, the cars they were producing towards the end were cracking cars, its just a shame they sold all the naming rights to china, it would have been great to see the likes of MG , Rover Healey and Triumph once again on the roads of Britain...look at the Metro millions of em sold and a British success story, my Brother had two and they were brilliant to drive and they had what is missing today Character..

by Dagenham Rover Thu 24 Mar - 7:33:02

yorkie64red wrote:

Not at all, i had a Montego and it was one of the best cars i ever had, never let me down once, they were bad in the seventies when we had cars like the allegro and marina but then so were alot of car manufacturers vehicles at that time, its just a shame they went bust, the cars they were producing towards the end were cracking cars, its just a shame they sold all the naming rights to china, it would have been great to see the likes of MG , Rover Healey and Triumph once again on the roads of Britain...look at the Metro millions of em sold and a British success story, my Brother had two and they were brilliant to drive and they had what is missing today Character..

Is it a surprise Laughing

by **yorkie64red** Thu 24 Mar - 12:04:06

Dagenham Rover wrote:

Is it a surprise

Who asked you.... Razz

by Dagenham Rover Thu 24 Mar - 17:34:24

yorkie64red wrote:

Who asked you....

Just having me tuppence worth whether you wanted it or not Laughing

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