- Morris 1000 Traveller (1961, Rose Taupe)
- Bought second hand from local ford dealer, who had got it in PX from my uncle's brother.
Wikipedia article
- Ford Escort GT Mk I (1969, Blue)
- Came from a dealer, it was their chief mechanic's car. Was nice to drive and cheap to look after. Fitted a heated rear window myself.
Motor-Car. net article
- Mini Clubman (1972 Black Tulip)
- with mustard- yellow seats- an unbeatable colour combination- yuck!
Wheels Alive article
- Alfasud (1975 Rosso)
- turned into a colander with all the rust . Nice to drive. The camshaft drive belts and tensioners were exposed, corroded, one side of the flat four seized up. Valves hit pistons on 2 cylinders. Surprisingly I changed the bent valves and the camshaft tensioners and belts and all was well again. Then the heating packed up and even the garage was flummoxed. I could only get rid of it in PX for another Sud
ARonline
- Alfasud 5-dr Super (1982 Black)
- didn't bloody learn, first car I ever
bought new. Many of the original faults had been corrected. Hatchback.
ARonline
- Moskvitch Estate (Beige)
- sold a family car and the
buyer
wanted me to take this in PX, sold it a month later for a profit to
somebody who liked
them! Sailed agriculturally round corners.
Motor-Car.net article
- Ford Escort XR3i (1984 Silver)
- the one with the tea tray
on the
back. Fast, cheap to run, dead-ish steering, not half the fun of the
Alfasods (sic).
Classics World on YouTube
- BMW 318i(1986, Baltic Blue)
- nice car once I had it fixed
properly, didn't need any parts after that apart from spark plugs.