What classics have you owned??

1969 Austin 1100
1971 Mini 1000
1972 Hillman Imp
1975 Mk III Cortina 1600
197? Allegro (brown of course)
1976 Avenger
1977 Avenger
1977 Avenger GT

After that lot i owned several cars that are considered classics, but not by me. So i wont mention them. After that a long line of boring cars i bought that were four or five years old for pottering about in, right the way up to my reliable daily runabout Fiesta Ghia. But i could never forget the Rover P6 that i had always hankered after as a youngster. So when i saw one near me on ebay i bought it. It was not as good as described, but then they rarely are. But hey then id have nothing to work on except my reliable Fiesta would I ? :)
 
I've always had a soft spot for avengers although I've never had one but my mate bought a cracking Tiger a few years back, he bought it blind over the phone & we travelled down to just near Oxford one night to get it. It was a Sundance Yellow twin headlight car with those lovely Dunlop alloys it was in nice condition but it broke down on the way back with overheating problems which later turned out to be a cracked head . He kept it about 4 years & sold it on for buttons :roll:

Another car of mine has just sprung to mind a T Reg Vauxhall Royale Saloon in silver with a gorgeous deep red velour interior, I bought it with a knackered 2.8 engine & subsequently fitted it with another knackered 2.8 :oops: so then I bought a 3.0 litre injection motor out of a later Senator & dropped that in & plumbed it all up & by jingo could it move but it developed a missfire which was caused by a faulty injector which ruined the rings & bore on one pot :x so it got scrapped :(
 
Don't laugh too loud, but I've always had a thing for Harris Mann designs:
Series 1 Austin Allegro 1300 (yes the one with the square steering wheel)
Mk.1 Vauxhall Cavalier
Series 2 TR7 FHC
Series 2.5 TR7 FHC (These are better than people make out, not an out and out sports car, but a good fun cruiser on the motorway. And once modified they handle pretty well!)
Series 2A LWB Land Rover Safari (rough as hell but fun if you didn't need to get anywhere quickly)
Singer Chamois (Posh Hillman Imp, still better than a Mini in my book)
Marina/Ital Van

Not the most exotic list out there, but fun!

PS: Not forgetting my Series 1 2000TC now
 
sdibbers said:
Series 1 Austin Allegro 1300 (yes the one with the square steering wheel)
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It's not square, IIRC it was "Quartic" Who would ever make a car with a square steering wheel!!!!!! :? :)
 
Suppose I'd better list a few.

Victor FB
Escort Mk1 estate
Escort M1 van
Escort Mk2 1600GT van
Escort Mk1 4dr saloon
Cortina Mk4 1600 (Kent engine)
Early Civic auto
Jag 3.8S
Jag 420 m/od
Cortina Mk2 1600E
Buick Skylark coupe
Plymouth Volare estate
P5B saloon (And about half a dozen I dismantled for spares)
Various Dodge and Ford (USA) trucks
More P6's (mostly P6B's) than you could shake a very large stick at!
 
chrisyork- what about the gearbox for the slant 4?
in my opinion i loved the 4 speed overdrive out of the early vx4/90
if you took the inebiter off you had yourself an 8 speed gearbox great fun!!!!!!!!!
i put one into my vivagt and my firenza what fun lol
 
harveyp6 said:
sdibbers said:
Series 1 Austin Allegro 1300 (yes the one with the square steering wheel)
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It's not square, IIRC it was "Quartic" Who would ever make a car with a square steering wheel!!!!!! :? :)
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Picky! :)

Okay, slightly off topic. What does IIRC stand for (I assume its a acronym?)
 
Whether any of these are classics is a matter of personal opinion......

1970 Morris 1100 (mums old car reliable but rusty)
1973 1300 Escort Estate (ok but rusty)
1972 MGBgt (looked nice but very unreliable)
1978 Citroen Dyane ( great daily hack with more performance than you would suspect)
1969 Rover P5 Coupe ( hobby car 1 sold a couple years later for nearly double i paid for it)
1959 Nobel 200 ( Hobby car 2 Resored from a couple wreck to concours winner and sold in 1986 never to be seen again)
1976 Scimitar GTE (great chuckable car reliable daily runner once sorted)
1960 Berkeley T60 ( Hobby car 3 reassembly job great fun for a year dimantled for restoration and then sold when..)
1960 Berkeley T60 ( bargain buy all hard work done. Won driving test at 1991 Bath microcar rally in it! Car now in Japan)

End 1991 all cars & motorbike sold to fund property purchase and conversion, Transport then Various load carrying eco hacks, 2nd Dyane, Astra estate, Fiat Punto (worst car ever and put me off moderns)..
Currently nice 1980 Dyane owned for 8 years - just taken off road for some welding and my 1966 Rover 2000 which i have had for 2+ years and after some initial sorting has done 8000 trouble free smiles
 
Hey Bungi
Have you ever tried one with a 5speed ZF? what a cracking combination I've had a couple my 1st one was in my Firenza & that thing would out accelerate concorde :shock: but was screaming it's knackers off at anything over a ton the other one was in my Magnum Coupe which either had higher gearing or a higher diff because it would just pull & pull & go off the clock :twisted:

I've never tried the 4speed with overdrive but can imagine that it's a nice box to use cos I found the normal 4speed very pleasant

Col
 
yes iv had a zf in my firenza track car dont know about the screaming though mine did at least 130 before it hit the sreaming bit are you sure you didnt have a getrag coz the are direct top like the 4 speed
 
Yeah it was definitely a ZF but like yours the other one would be off the clock before it was screaming or maybe the speedo on the first one was just that far out it was going a lot quicker than it said it was but I think I would have felt it. Maybe it was a CF van one I know it certainly wasn't a Droopsnoot one as it didn't have the funny clutch linkage. But who cares it was fantastic fun until I nearly killed myself with it :shock:
 
1964 series 2 landrover
1973 Mini Van
1973 MG Midget (wrote off when i rolled it)
1973 Rover P6 2000SC
1959 Healey sprite (Frogeye)
1969 Triumph Spitfire mk 111
1975 MG Midget 1500
1973 MG BGT
1959 MG MGA
1968 Porsche 911
1967 Austin A40 (rally car!!)
1967 MG Midget (rally car- crashed and destroyed)
1962 MG Midget Race Car (sold but still still racing)
1962 Landrover Series 2
1959 Austin Healey 3000 (still have it)

I have also been the keeper but not the owner of a 1973 TVR1600M and a 1971 Volvo 131 saloon both since sold

and i don't actually own a P6 at the moment but my dad has a wedgewood blue 1965 car (dunlop brakes etc etc) which he has lent me for the past three weeks for goodwood and because I blew the healey up on a trackday at Silverstone!!
 
Got some great lists here... Keep 'em coming. Reading through, I've spotted Bungi's list..
bungi said:
ho god were do i start
1st austin 1300 1970
2nd hillman avenger 1972
3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th 9th
10th,11th,12th,all imps,13th,ginetta g15?? i think?it used imp running gear,14th,15th,16th all imps one kind or another

and before you say anything yes i liked imps & vivas lol
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You sound just like my cousin Chris. He currently owns no less than 26 Hillman Imps, :shock: several of each model made, including some of those wearing a Singer badge. Only 1 or 2 of them have seen the road recently, he used to have them all parked up in rows in his garden (big house) but now most of them are stashed away in various barns all over Gloucestershire.. He reckons the Imps are pretty tuneable... The one he's driving at the mo I think is an Imp Californian, and he's done I don't know what to the engine, and it goes like stink. He gets funny looks when overtaking modern cars.. 8)
 
yes the imp is very tuneble my last imp was a singer chamios coupe it had a full race 998cc engine with twin 40s race exhaust jack night 5 speed gearbox front radiator spaxs adjusterbles forest arces and 7" compamotive cx wheels fast as fu*k had it on a rolling road to set the carbs up and i got 118 bhp at 9500rpm!!!!!
what a lot of people dont realise is the engine was based on the coventry climax f1 engine of the 50s&60s
i loved it and miss the imp alot
 
round corners the front wheel use to lift off the road my mate use to try and race me round the contry lanes in his xr4x4 but never did catch me he said it was the best sight he had see in ages
 
Here's a couple of pictures of one of my Diesels it's a 1969 BMC 900FG it's now in new ownership & is currently undergoing a colour change to blue & red
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