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[Vamps]

ford anglia 105E  :-? geesh im showing my age again  

What was wrong with that, quite advanced for it's day, not withstanding front wheel drive taking off.

[Andy B]

... ... 4s 11d a gallon  .....

Ah! If only petrol was 4/11 a litre!  :-?     (Almost 25p for the sprogs amongst us)

[FRE07962128]

As above. Mine would have to be a Ford Orion 1.6 GL Diesel, all the performance of a rocking chair, but it did around 70 mpg even when i thrashed it & i did, all the time  

A Ford 1.6 L Mondeo, when the company I worked for decided to move away from Vauxhall Carlton's, usually 2.0 CD's auto's.  When I left the company I personally bought a 3.0 Senator CD auto (Lovely!), then a 3.0 Omega Elite auto (absolutely great @ 150mph on M40).  This re-established my sanity!   Lizzie Zoom

Indeed, my first car, an Austin 1960 Farrina bodied A40, bought for £15 in 1971, had far more charisma and appeal than the Mondeo of 1993! Lizzie Zoom  

[Andy B]

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Indeed, my first car, an Austin 1960 Farrina bodied A40, bought for £15 in 1971, had far more charisma and appeal than the Mondeo of 1993! Lizzie Zoom  

Your Mundane was as good as that?

[HGV mechanic]

Ford Sierra. Couldn't keep it on the road.

ditto, had 2x 2.0, both  [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] in a ditch,

to light on the steering i think  

[dippydave]

well my first was a '78 Renault 12. for £250 back in '93. was quirkily different to look at but i hated it as it broke down on the only day i could've driven it to school, i got my only speeding points in it- for gawds sake its top speed was 84 mph! an i got done doing 82 in the bottom of a northumberland valley trying to get up speed to go up the other side!

it also moved like a tank with a 1.3 that didn't accelerate at all and when i needed it to brake, decided not to bother often. when it went completely tits up I wrote it off and the clit i hit and the escort that that it as well! all at a stunning 30mph hmm.  :-/

only thing i remember enjoying about it was the sprung rear seat - fun for bouncing on in a carpark. but then I hurt my head on the roof:(

[Big Fra]

Here's a first for this post.

Fiat!

A 1993 Fiat Tempra 1.6 to be precise. £3000 it cost!

Electrics - Gubbed
Gearbox - Gubbed
Tyres - Gubbed

All within 1 month of purchase from Arnold Shark. 1 owner, FSH and 50k my arse!

I drove it like a muppet, it lasted 2 months if that.

I drove a 1987 £150 VW Polo 1.3 Coupe S (dontcha know) for about 8 months at full throttle every day and it took it all day long.

It was even better than my 1995 Rover 111i (atchoo, metro)

But not by much!  

[zippo]

1.2 CORSA MERIT 8 VALVE the worsted car ever made ,i hated that car .It almost put me off Vauxhall for life,

[FRE07962128]

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Indeed, my first car, an Austin 1960 Farrina bodied A40, bought for £15 in 1971, had far more charisma and appeal than the Mondeo of 1993! Lizzie Zoom  

Your Mundane was as good as that?

Yes, and the Mundane did not even have the huge areas of rust eaten body which included the chasis floor separating from the main body!  The A40 was still far more exciting!   Lizzie Zoom

[richardirv]

My First Car was a [size=12]1978 Opel Kadett 1.2s Coupe[/size]

It wasn't a rubbish car! it was just old! but out of the cars I have had it is the worst!

Rich

[dad1uk]

Hi all,
showing off here, but, I once owned a 1973 Moskvich 412 Saloon. A Russian piece of cheap crap.
It was the colour of diarrhoea & turned sharp right every time I hit the brakes. (Saved a bloke's life once!)  He just stepped out in front of me, I stood on the brakes & finished on the pavement.
Worst car in the world.


I used to work for a gardening company, and the boss was a bit of a motor wheeler and dealer, and we had a Moskvich as a company run about for a while. I must say it never let us down, though it was very basic...lol
The windows were the winder with a coil of wire round it which went over a pulley at the top of the door and onto the bottom of the window. The weight of the window sent it down and the wire pulled it up. Oh how this name Moskvich brings back memories

If I remember right they were smokey because they were designed to run on anything going in Russia. ie petrol oil mixture or paraffin or diesel.

Suddenly I feel very old cos this was going back to the early Eighties.

[gofwb]

I have had some crackers as i went through a stage in the 80's where i would never pay more than £100 for a car.

A 1969 Hillman imp was the worst, it used to break the accelerator cable once a month until i fitted a rally!!!! version, gear stick broke off in my hand when changing into second gear joining the motorway had to drive it for 20 miles in second, took me 7hrs to change the clutch as the bolts that held the rear panel on where seized and rounded off, in the end it blew the head gasket.

Austin Ambassador front wheel fell off on roundabout, hydrolastic suspension collapsed, took it into garage and they fixed the wrong side, as they could not tell which side was Broken it was that bad, also had to wedge three of the windows closed with wooden blocks.

Volvo 144, i bought this after it had been standing in a field for 4 months, steering wandered all over the place and you needed to be Popeye to turn the wheel, I left the grass growing out of the vinyl roof, took it for mot and the body had detached itself from the chassis, but what do you want for £25 and it was taxed.

Mini 850 van with windows in it and a homemade back seat, took me 11 hours from London to Manchester as I had to leave the M1 at Watford and use the A roads as it would not go faster that 50mph which meant I was stuck with the trucks and in torrential rain it misted up, the windscreen leaked and the wipers could not clear the rain away, I broke down on this journey but luckily it was only a wire that had come off the coil.

Another Mini (1964 version) in Australia, this was so good that I left it in the short term car park when I flew home, the most useful thing about it was the door pockets would hold ice and a six pack off beer, I also set the rear seat on fire with a discarded cigarette, but that was not the cars fault.

Happy days.

[cem_devecioglu]

Here's a first for this post.

Fiat!

A 1993 Fiat Tempra 1.6 to be precise. £3000 it cost!

Electrics - Gubbed
Gearbox - Gubbed
Tyres - Gubbed

All within 1 month of purchase from Arnold Shark. 1 owner, FSH and 50k my arse!

I drove it like a muppet, it lasted 2 months if that.

I drove a 1987 £150 VW Polo 1.3 Coupe S (dontcha know) for about 8 months at full throttle every day and it took it all day long.

It was even better than my 1995 Rover 111i (atchoo, metro)

But not by much!  

I drove a tempra for long time, never had problems like that..

Only had problems with an old model fiat station..

In every bump the car was jumping to the other lane

forgot to say tempra was an old carburator type and was very good with LPG..still miss it..

[bertiecbx550]

an e-reg 1.3 escort estate it was a knacker i quickly sold it to my brother who ran it into the ground and bought meself a citroen bx1.9td best car i`ve ever owned till the miggy    

[AllyM]

Strangely enough the worst car and the car i loved most were the same ....... a Vauxhal Cavalier turbo 4x4 , hated it for needing something or another fixed/replaced almost every week and whatever it was , it cost a bleedin fortune !! . Loved it because when it worked , it worked well !! 8-) 8-) 8-)