The car thread

[JoyDivision]

mine spent 2K in 1968.

My parents paid £16k in 1980, worth around £200k now.

 

[estwig]

mine spent 2K in 1968.

A fine year, vintage even.

 

[David Griffiths]

mine spent 2K in 1968.

I can remember my parents buying their first place in 1961 at about £3,000 on a fixed rate mortgage of 4%.

I moved in 1978 and paid £22500. They paid £30 a quarter, and in 1985 I paid £65 a week!

 

I see you have been wasting huge volumes of your time on here as per usual Earl. What a full and rich life you must lead.
Still quite annoyed that my taxes go towards internet provision in old peoples homes.

Have you tried the duck water page.?:|

Earl

 

[Mpg]

mine spent 2K in 1968.

Just shy of £2500 in 1972 pr8 postcode

 

[Mpg]

Hang on this aint a house thread its about cars.

Come on back on topic

 

[David Griffiths]

Hang on this aint a house thread its about cars.

Come on back on topic

But the house that I bought had a garage. Is that close enough?

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

Hang on this aint a house thread its about cars.

Come on back on topic

Can you believe that the thread to stop hijacking has been hijacked?

 

[Mpg]

Can you believe that the thread to stop hijacking has been hijacked?

Actually YES. Especially with all the childish nonsence thats been going on lately.

Who said business wasn't childsplay

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

Actually YES. Especially with all the childish nonsence thats been going on lately.

Who said business wasn't childsplay

I can only apologise - I am a deeply childish individual.

 

[mike.davis]

I have a mental barrier with buying/leasing an expensive car, I'm more interested in gadgets than cars. I've had a figure in my head with the amount of profit I want to be making before I get a nice car.

TTP do you drive a megane?

(I'm your new potentially ill-informed stalker)

 

[Mpg]

street view is your new tool

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

I have a mental barrier with buying/leasing an expensive car, I'm more interested in gadgets than cars. I've had a figure in my head with the amount of profit I want to be making before I get a nice car.

TTP do you drive a megane?

(I'm your new potentially ill-informed stalker)

A megane? That will always be the dream.

 

[Mpg]

Although talking about houses I'm thinking about binning the Aston idea off and putting a deposit on this house.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-13208268.html

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

Although talking about houses I'm thinking about binning the Aston idea off and putting a deposit on this house.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-13208268.html

I didn't even know Poodles was moving.

 

[Mpg]

Stamp duty of nearly £3 million

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

Stamp duty of nearly £3 million

Yeah but it turns out plenty of people on here are in the £10m group so shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Gaskell]

I've got an old Mercedes, done 186,000 miles and still drives better than most newer cars I've drove over the last few years.

My Vito van drives like a dog though, the gear selector is a nightmare!

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

I've got an old Mercedes, done 186,000 miles and still drives better than most newer cars I've drove over the last few years.

My Vito van drives like a dog though, the gear selector is a nightmare!

Which one?

We use Sprinters, clunky gear change but comfortable and reliable.

 

[Mpg]

My Skoda's done about the same mileage. Its had a Clutch, 2 Sets of brakes, Fan belt, A few sets of tires and a couple of bulbs. And many oil changes. In just over 200k miles. Still drives like the day I got it.

 

[Newcott]

My other half just got a Alfa Mito with Cloverleaf tuning (plus some just under 185bhp on the rollers) very nice - packed with tons of toys and just wants to go.

Thinking of getting the GT now

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

My other half just got a Alfa Mito with Cloverleaf tuning (plus some just under 185bhp on the rollers) very nice - packed with tons of toys and just wants to go.

Thinking of getting the GT now

I love Alfas, I mentioned on another thread if I was after a supermini I'd get a Mito.

 

[Newcott]

Very very impressed with its build quality inside - only had a dealership test drive but she's bringing it down this weekend so I get to play.

Uprated brakes, conti 3's on 18's with 185bhp on a small frame should be more then fun

 

Spreading around the middle. 50th birthday almost coming into sight.

For the first time ever when discussing my car I use words like reliable, economical, comfortable.. (its a diesel Mondeo)

Can't wait to get back into an M3...

 

[Esk247]

well..i managed to drive a Corvette on a race track once....so...yeah! hardcore, better than all of you

apart from that, i've only driven boring cars like a Fiesta, Megane (shocker), Vectra and Primera (chavtastic version).

sigh.:redface:

 

[carolinebrown]

The car thread
get complete knowledge!!!!!!!!

 

[fefster]

I have a Toyota Avensis which is about 14 years old with 150k miles on the clock.

All my money goes into my business, but I too will have a Porsche Caymen one day <dream>

 

[AdamJ]

I took my car to Webuyanycar.com in Gloucester at the weekend - a 5 year old Vauxhall Signum with 130,000 miles on the clock, a clutch on its last desperate breath and an angry monkey banging stuff with a big hammer for an engine if the noise was anything to go by. Not saying I had no faith in the car, but my missus followed in her car with a tow rope and we avoided the M5 just in case.

Got £1800 for it Most chuffed.

Only one problem, forgot one important bit - the bit about buying a new car. Am car-less at the moment.

 

[Gaskell]

It's a Vito 108D, the non-turbo model. pre 2003 shape.

It was a bit tired because it wasn't looked after prior to my ownership. I've fixed a few things, gave it a full service and got the paintwork back from milky pink to bright red.

I was considering a Sprinter, but I dont need a van that size. Vito size is ideal for my purpose

Which one?

We use Sprinters, clunky gear change but comfortable and reliable.

 

[Cornish Steve]

Moved to Time Out.

Mods please do not move to time out, I have posted in General so that it doesn't disappear.

Come on, now. You know better than this! Threads of this type belong in Time Out, not in the General Business area.

 

[mike.davis]

I didn't even know there was a time out forum :|

 

[Cornish Steve]

Then a whole new world has just opened up! All the fun threads are here.

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

Moved to Time Out.


Come on, now. You know better than this! Threads of this type belong in Time Out, not in the General Business area.

As I'm sure you can read, I put it in general and asked that it wasn't moved as time out threads fall off the bottom of page three and disappear reasonably quickly, whereas car talk hijacking threads is an ongoing occurrence.

Oh well.

 

[Esk247]

As I'm sure you can read, I put it in general and asked that it wasn't moved as time out threads fall off the bottom of page three and disappear reasonably quickly, whereas car talk hijacking threads is an ongoing occurrence.

Oh well.

should have turned it towards business. Anyone want to talk about transit vans?...no?..nobody?...fine.

 

[Mpg]

I want my business to buy me an Aston Martin Vantage V8.

There we go back onto business.

Can it be moved back now.

 

[Mpg]

I didn't even know there was a time out forum :|

Its where threads go to die

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

should have turned it towards business. Anyone want to talk about transit vans?...no?..nobody?...fine.

We use Sprinters here.

 

[Esk247]

We use Sprinters here.

I don't have any vans.






that was a quick conversation..next.

 

[Lee Jones Jnr]

I don't have any vans.






that was a quick conversation..next.

Neither do we, I have an athletics team to do all my deliveries.

 

[Esk247]

Neither do we, I have an athletics team to do all my deliveries.

well..that certainly works as a USP i s'pose.

oh wait..i see what you did there...

We use Sprinters here.