| Thread for Newkie 15:41 - Jun 3 with 1003 views | bluelagos |
Seeing as how his life has hit a low point (a petrol head - and he bought a people carrier) - think we should share how a low point in the car world isn't the end of the world.
I'll start - I once owned a VW Derby - it was truly the cr*ppest car ever - passenger door window used to fall into the door and it would take tweezers to pull it out.
The lowpoint was on the A45 (A14 now) when I was sat in the middle of slow traffic - 3 lanes - and it broke down. Lady behind beeped her horn - I got out to politely explain that my car was a bit temperamental - slammed the door shut and said window fell into the door. So now I am cold, wet and broken down with no window, and the traffic cleared too - really handy when you're stuck in the middle lane.
Still, at least it wasn't a people carrier.
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| Thread for Newkie on 15:48 - Jun 3 with 932 views | homer_123 |
Didn't someone on here buy a Saab, low point being that it was a General Motors car by then?  |  |
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| Thread for Newkie on 15:52 - Jun 3 with 908 views | Zx1988 |
Not a car of mine, but still an experience...
In the mid-1990s, my dad and stepmother decided that they rather liked the idea of a Citroen 2CV. So the Vauxhall Corsa and Volvo 740 were duly dispensed with, and replaced with two of France's finest.
The lowpoint is similarly A14-related... One of the many quirks of the tin snails was the fact that the engines needed extra care and coddling in the cooler months, usually in the form of an additional radiator grille/muff.
One journey at the start of winter, before said muff had been installed, saw the temperature drop below the 2CVs comfort range, and we found ourselves stopped for a few hours, in the rain, at the old Go Whippet garage somewhere near Kettering, waiting to be rescued by a car with heating.
An honourable mention goes to a rain-soaked journey through Thetford forest, during which the wipers had decided to catch on the side of the windscreen, leaving my father to drive along with one hand out of the window, nudging the wipers back into action each time the upward sweep stuck on the window frame. |  |
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| Thread for Newkie on 15:52 - Jun 3 with 904 views | bluelagos |
| Thread for Newkie on 15:48 - Jun 3 by homer_123 |
Didn't someone on here buy a Saab, low point being that it was a General Motors car by then? |
Was that you Homer?
Tbf - even Saab didn't go as low as making people carriers though, did they? | |
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| Thread for Newkie on 15:54 - Jun 3 with 888 views | Zx1988 |
| Thread for Newkie on 15:48 - Jun 3 by homer_123 |
Didn't someone on here buy a Saab, low point being that it was a General Motors car by then? |
I've always thought that the 'Vectra in Drag' epithet (see also 'Mondeo in Drag' for the 2000s X-Type Jags) was borne more out of jealousy, than anything else. Even the late-model 9-3s and 9-5s were things of beauty. | |
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| Thread for Newkie on 15:57 - Jun 3 with 842 views | SitfcB |
| Thread for Newkie on 15:48 - Jun 3 by homer_123 |
Didn't someone on here buy a Saab, low point being that it was a General Motors car by then? |
Whoever it was hit a big pothole in Bury St Eds. |  |
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| Thread for Newkie on 15:58 - Jun 3 with 835 views | bluelagos |
| Thread for Newkie on 15:54 - Jun 3 by Zx1988 |
I've always thought that the 'Vectra in Drag' epithet (see also 'Mondeo in Drag' for the 2000s X-Type Jags) was borne more out of jealousy, than anything else. Even the late-model 9-3s and 9-5s were things of beauty. |
I'd have defo had a Saab had I been able to afford one.
Bit like an Alpine A110 now. If only. | |
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| Thread for Newkie on 16:02 - Jun 3 with 812 views | homer_123 |
| Thread for Newkie on 15:58 - Jun 3 by bluelagos |
I'd have defo had a Saab had I been able to afford one.
Bit like an Alpine A110 now. If only. |
Always wanted a Lancia. | |
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| Thread for Newkie on 16:09 - Jun 3 with 757 views | homer_123 |
| Thread for Newkie on 15:52 - Jun 3 by bluelagos |
Was that you Homer?
Tbf - even Saab didn't go as low as making people carriers though, did they? |
Nah, I'd own up if it was. | |
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| Thread for Newkie on 16:09 - Jun 3 with 757 views | Basuco |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:02 - Jun 3 by homer_123 |
Always wanted a Lancia. |
I always wanted an Alfasud, thankfully I found out they were an unreliable rust bucket before I was able to afford one. |  | | |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:20 - Jun 3 with 709 views | vilanovablue |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:09 - Jun 3 by Basuco |
I always wanted an Alfasud, thankfully I found out they were an unreliable rust bucket before I was able to afford one. |
Mate had a few of them before they dissolved. Mechanical issues aside such a fantastic little motor. |  | | |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:20 - Jun 3 with 707 views | Steve_M |
| Thread for Newkie on 15:57 - Jun 3 by SitfcB |
Whoever it was hit a big pothole in Bury St Eds. |
Presumably the local council dealt with that incident then? |  |
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| Thread for Newkie on 16:27 - Jun 3 with 684 views | homer_123 |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:09 - Jun 3 by Basuco |
I always wanted an Alfasud, thankfully I found out they were an unreliable rust bucket before I was able to afford one. |
Hasn't it got the reputation for the thinnest panels ever used on a car? [Post edited 3 Jun 16:27]
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| Thread for Newkie on 16:38 - Jun 3 with 644 views | Basuco |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:27 - Jun 3 by homer_123 |
Hasn't it got the reputation for the thinnest panels ever used on a car? [Post edited 3 Jun 16:27]
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They were built with no rust protection what-so-ever, I think. | | | |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:39 - Jun 3 with 632 views | Basuco |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:20 - Jun 3 by vilanovablue |
Mate had a few of them before they dissolved. Mechanical issues aside such a fantastic little motor. |
and if it didn't fart you were not driving it correctly. | | | |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:45 - Jun 3 with 603 views | Churchman |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:02 - Jun 3 by homer_123 |
Always wanted a Lancia. |
I always wanted a Lancia Delta Integrale. Ok the steering wheel is on the wrong side, but what a car. That or a Lancia HPE Coupe. Looked the dogs wotsits. Shame they were made of paper and dissolved before the paint was dry.
I was idiotic enough to buy a Rover 214. How mad was that? An utter pile of rubbish. And that’s up against some still opposition on the garbage car front. |  | | |
| Thread for Newkie on 17:14 - Jun 3 with 533 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:45 - Jun 3 by Churchman |
I always wanted a Lancia Delta Integrale. Ok the steering wheel is on the wrong side, but what a car. That or a Lancia HPE Coupe. Looked the dogs wotsits. Shame they were made of paper and dissolved before the paint was dry.
I was idiotic enough to buy a Rover 214. How mad was that? An utter pile of rubbish. And that’s up against some still opposition on the garbage car front. |
I had a Rover 216. It was a good little car for me. It would have been my first ‘modern’ car and was a lot better all round than the Mk2 Escort it replaced. It even had a pop up sunroof!  |  |
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| Thread for Newkie on 22:58 - Jun 3 with 380 views | ronnyd |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:02 - Jun 3 by homer_123 |
Always wanted a Lancia. |
They rusted away before your very eyes. | | | |
| Thread for Newkie on 06:52 - Jun 4 with 291 views | ITFC_Forever |
I had a Rover 216 in the late 90s and decided the first away I’d drive to would be Bristol Rovers in the FA Cup - the infamous one where the hail came in sideways during the match, goalkicks were going out for corners and Venus broke his toe and didn’t realise until he was halfway home.
When it was wasn’t hailing, it was chucking it down, so plenty of spray etc on the A12 and motorways.
Not a problem for most cars, but mine had a leak somewhere on the underneath of the car, and water started coming in, soaking the carpets and pools of water forming on in the footwells.
My passengers had to use a sponge to soak up water and squeeze the water out of the window.
It was a day for cars breaking down, our friend’s car’s alternator went in the traffic after the match in Bristol and they didn’t get home until the middle of the night. |  |
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| Thread for Newkie on 07:42 - Jun 4 with 220 views | WeWereZombies |
| Thread for Newkie on 16:45 - Jun 3 by Churchman |
I always wanted a Lancia Delta Integrale. Ok the steering wheel is on the wrong side, but what a car. That or a Lancia HPE Coupe. Looked the dogs wotsits. Shame they were made of paper and dissolved before the paint was dry.
I was idiotic enough to buy a Rover 214. How mad was that? An utter pile of rubbish. And that’s up against some still opposition on the garbage car front. |
OK, I'll admit to being a former Rover 214 owner as well but as a company car so I didn't have to burden the cost of any factory faults. And to be honest I don't recall any but I did get rear ended on the North Circular and the replacement boot lid arrived the same colour as the rest of the car but faded to something different within a year.
I think it was a late model of the Mini Metro that I had that got stuck in second gear around Kettering and I drove all the way back home near Cambridge never going above forty miles an hour, nice end of rush hour in the autumn darkness. That was also the car that in a heavy snowfall we pulled of the M6 and into the services only to find our tyre tracks were narrower than everyone elses and we immediately got stuck. |  |
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