Post you previous cars

[coullstar 0]

Im bored at work just now and searched for a similar topic but couldnt find one so please post ONE picture of your previous cars in chronological order. Would like to see how diverse a response we can get.

 

Ill start.

Missed out one or two like my 8v and G60 Corrado's. Ive had as many bikes as well TBH.

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and more

[mort1414 0]

my car history from start to finish.

[colinstubbs 0]

Not got any pics of my only other car, 1989 silver Renault 19 1.4 Energy.

 

 

 

Edit: I knew mine would be the crapest post, :lol: :lol:

[CorradoVR6-Turbo 0]

from the beging i have had three MK1 golf,jags and loads of bikes when i was living in Cape Town.

 

Over here ive had lots,including bikes,,,lots of bikes! cant find pics of my othere three roccos.

 

also had many run about cars...lots and lots.

 

So here i go.

 

My first rocco....lasted a year.

 

 

My GSXR 88 modle,fitted lots of later parts,1100 motor,fireblade brakes,later three spokes etc.

 

 

Then mooved to Leeds for a year and had a Reno 5 Turbo,painted,modded and one hell of a quick car!!

 

 

Second Raddo,stripped this to shell and rebuilt and painted...loved this car.

 

 

After selling rocco it made way for my first raddo VR6...with n.o.s hence my user name!

 

 

Had a stupid moment and swaped it for a scoobie..... :ignore:

 

 

Sold that and bought my firts MK2 golf which i fitted an full ABF motor into that...great car!

 

 

Also had my Fireblade at the time.

 

 

Sold the golf as i got another raddo VR for dirt cheap and could not refuse.

Supercharged this then delved into my firts turbo conversion....never looked back!

 

 

Had to sell the raddo for house deposit...stupid mistake,so i had to get back into a seat if a raddo and bought a current red VR.

And Turbod that to :tongue: and love it !

 

[Sonicriot13 0]

CorradoVR6-n.o.s I wish my red paint was as red as yours! :D

 

Haven't got pictures of all my cars but here are some in chronological order:

 

Mk2, bought off a hospital notice board for 50 quid. Fixed it enough to get an MOT on it then flogged it at 250% profit.

 

 

Mk3 valver. Loved it. Sold that for more than I bought it for too.

 

 

Sold the valver to buy this, my first Rado! :clap:

 

 

At the same time I got this back on the road:

 

 

Then during the dark winter of 2007 I was broke and had to sell all my cars. But May this year I acquired this:

 

 

And I will be half way through my last tin of beans before I even contemplate selling it.

[Adz The Rat 0]

Havent got pic of some of my cars but here are the pics I do have

 

Nova 1.4 SRI

 

106 GTI

 

Astra GSI

 

Seat Ibiza Cupra

[Jim Bowen 1]

not had many cars in 9yrs of driving, corrado is my 3rd

 

[pete_griff 0]

i'm afraid i've only got a pic of my car prior to the rado; but i'll tell you about my others anyway -

 

i had a saxo vtr for my first car at 18 which i decided to park upside down after about 6 months of ownership! :oops:

 

next was an ax gt which was fettled a little when i bought it

ran this around for ages but it went rusty and a friend of mine randomly had another ax gt shell which he was doing nothing with.

i reshelled the car and rebuilt the engine at the same time. it was running approx 110-120 bhp and went like poo off a stick for a little car.

 

sold that and bought a 205 gti - massive massive advocate of these cars - absolutely love 'em and i swear i will have another one for the weekends some day.

 

sold that and bought a 306 s16 (basically like a 306 gti6 but with 5 gears) which i will strongly advocate as well - a bit like a grown up version of the 205 - big fan of this car.

 

after that i got the car i was after since even before i could drive - saved up for ages and got a loan off the old man for the rest. i bought a 2004 impreza wrx sti wr1

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(will edit the post with a pic of the actual car later as i haven't got one to hand - but here's one exactly the same)

left it standard and eventually had to sell it due to running costs and the fact that the costs made it totally impractical as a daily - would rape you on fuel etc even when being driven sensibly.

 

then i finally began my rado ownership after the impreza and haven't looked back since :)

see my build thread for pics of the rado - i'm ashamed to say that since i've owned it, i've never had the chance to take a decent picture of it all polished up and looking nice as i've always been doing stuff to it or never had the chance for whatever reason when it has been clean and working. :oops:

 

 

edit - have always contemplated a motorbike for the faster, quicker, better approach; but i've also contemplated horrific death due to speed addiction too, which has stopped me to this day... :nuts:

i may well end up getting one someday - maybe after another 6 month trip in hotter climes...

[BILLCOR 1]

Not got pics of them all, but here are some

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[mkveedub 0]

Haven't got pics of em al my cars but have a had a few, 1st car 1.4 escort followed by 1.4 205, then came my 1st golf, a grey mk2 1.8gl 5 door. Next was my 1st gti, a Black Mk1 gti, loved this car until i had a new engine fitted by some cowboy vw 'specialist', it was back n forth to them so much got so fecked off with them went out and brought this :

 

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Loved that car just never had the money to fix it once i broke it, still have most of it in bits at a mates house, Was one of the best handling fwd cars i've driven.

After that had a couple of mk2golfs, 2 1.6's and a gti thought 2 of them were brought cheap fixed up and sold, then i was skint and brought a few £200 run arounds incl nissan primera 2L 16v, a 1.1 polo and a 309 diesel, but last year got another VW :

 

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Brought it for £400 and ran it for 6 months until i moved out to germany 18 months ago, wasn't a minty by far but provided me with many smiles, especially that engine note, loved it, which is why when i get back from germay in april i'm after another vr6 but this time a rado as i've always loved em

 

I've also got this :

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It's me and my old man's, he drives i passenger, although i'm gonna start driving it next year which i can't wait for. It's a formula 1 sidecar running a yamaha R1 on flat slides, its a feckin rocket ship gives me such a buzz racing it and has kept me sane while i haven't had a car for the last 18months, although only being able to fly home once a month to race sucks but ya can't have everything i spose

 

Mart :D

[PROVR6 0]

My cars Ive owned/still got

1) Ford Escort (my first car, took all my money and was a lemon)

2) Vauxhal Cavalier GL - Boring but not a thing went wrong

3)Ford Mondeo LX - Liked it

4)Renault Laguna - shit

5)Escort XR3i - great fun but had to get rid of due to stick from me mates.

6)Vauxhall Cavalier Sri 130. Not quick,not slow comfortable.

7)Ford Mondeo ST24. Very smoth and comfortable. Thought it would have been quicker though.

8)Ford Scorpio 2.9 Ultima. Every gadget you could want, great workhorse (not bad for £500)

9)2007 Ford Focus 1.8TDi. Good Car

10)Mazda MX5 (missus car in the background of my C pic)

11)Finally my Corrado VR6. The best of the lot(so far) despite the niggles.

 

Wish Id taken pics of all my cars. But here are a few including the most important one.

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[Jaques_G60 0]

unfortunately not always been a dubber, had a bad couple of years between my mini and seeing the vw way

1st. mini - best backroad car!

2nd. fiesta si - dont ask!

3rd. honda crx vtec - frustrated many bmw drivers

4th. toyota celica gt4 - again, dont ask

5th. corrado g60 - the best but the 1 that has been oof the road the longest

6th. polo gt breadvan - daily runabout

 

sorry for poor picture quality

[Pete 0]

Heres mine in order from 2001 and left out the 1.2 Fiesta, 1.2 Polo and 1.6 Civic for obvious reasons...

 

Rover BRM

 

Civic Type-R (don't laugh its the only pic I have of it)

 

Corrado VR6 :luvlove: :clap:

 

E36 M3 Evo

 

Boxster S

 

E46 M3

 

Focus ST-3

 

TechArt engined Boxster S

 

Jaguar S-Type R :notworthy:

 

Makes me realise how out of date my signature is!!!!!!!!

[flusted 0]

Prepare to laugh

 

 

Then the many changes to the rado

 

 

Also had another camper,a jetta, a metro turbo and a beetle on hydraulics but sadly no pics

[Pete 0]

Haha!

 

Its like that barryboys site!

 

Only kiddin some of them I quite like (not a big fan of tiger stripes though I must admit).

[coullstar 0]

Haha!

 

Its like that barryboys site!

 

Only kiddin some of them I quite like (not a big fan of tiger stripes though I must admit).

 

Was thinking the same. How did you get on with your Boxter? Never really thought about them but here mega cheap just now and Ive always wanted a Porsche.

[pete_griff 0]

flusted was clearly misled in his youth! :lol:

 

sorry buddy - there are some nice cars there - just taste leaves a little to be desired!

 

 

Pete - that's an awesome list of previous cars there matey - definitely one to be envious of! great to see you are coming back to corrado ownership after owning cars of that calibre!

i prefer the corrado to my impreza wr1 any day - will be nearly as fast soon too hopefully :D

[Pete 0]

Know what you mean, early 2.5 cars are under 8k. Never driven a 2.5 or 2.7 car though so don't know what they are like. Mine were both 3.2S cars with the 6 speed box and 996 brakes etc.

 

The 1st, the green one, was superb. It wasn't the fastest car and after the M3 evo it was a fair bit slower, but the handling and feel is simply amazing.

 

The 2nd one had a 5k engine conversion and it was much more serious. It had well over 300bhp and seriously went like stink, but it had several niggly issues which Porsche could never really sort out properly for me.

 

To be honest after the 1st S I said I wanted a 911, but after the 2nd I'm less bothered. The Boxster is definitely the more agile car and the 911 cabrio just looks wrong to me.

 

I'd buy another one, but not one which has been modded, and I'd buy a cheap one too because the rate that they lose money is frightening...

[Pete 0]

Pete - that's an awesome list of previous cars there matey - definitely one to be envious of! great to see you are coming back to corrado ownership after owning cars of that calibre!

i prefer the corrado to my impreza wr1 any day - will be nearly as fast soon too hopefully :D

 

Thanks!!! 8)

 

Of all the cars I've had none has put a smile on my face like my old VR6 did, it was that feeling of "cheap speed" and value, not to mention that its drives superbly and its timelessly pretty.

 

Happy to keep my Jag for the daily drive and get a VR for weekends and shows etc... :D

[Andy665 0]

Far too many previous cars to mention but here is a small selection of some recent ones (from the last five years or so):

[LisaK 0]

I've only owned 3 cars before the Corrado. The first Golf I nearly killed myself in and the other two were successfully sold on :)

[coullstar 0]

Know what you mean, early 2.5 cars are under 8k. Never driven a 2.5 or 2.7 car though so don't know what they are like. Mine were both 3.2S cars with the 6 speed box and 996 brakes etc.

 

My mate just picked up decent a 3.2S for less thas 8k. Only thing that put me off is the soft top. Never been a soft top fan.

[Pete 0]

Know what you mean, early 2.5 cars are under 8k. Never driven a 2.5 or 2.7 car though so don't know what they are like. Mine were both 3.2S cars with the 6 speed box and 996 brakes etc.

 

My mate just picked up decent a 3.2S for less thas 8k. Only thing that put me off is the soft top. Never been a soft top fan.

 

Thats not much of a problem with the S, its got a triple skin roof. Double skin on the others.

 

Both cars were snug and quiet on the motorway and never leaked.

 

Had a hardtop on the blacdk one but rarely used it to be honest.

[flusted 0]

Can i just point out the van and escort i built when i was 17 which was 12 years ago :ignore: