pics of your old cars (not just carltons)

[blippi]

started off as a bog standard astra 1'4i merit loved the car shame it was so slow 

any1 else got pics of there's??

[Matt]

Wish I had pics of my older ones, which include:

1981 Terracotta red-ish/brown Chevette 1256cc - My first car and the love of my life! It was such fun!
1956 Bright blue Austin A40 Somerset - 4-speed column shift & umbrella handbrake! Great car, but blew it up twice cos of dodgy parts in the engine rebuild...
1990 White mk2 Astra merit estate 1.4 2 door - Very quick car for what it was - A workhorse, but very tidy for it's age.

I do have pics however of my old Carlton:

1994 Silver Carlton 2.0 CDX Auto - Fantastic car, Id've kept it, but I wanted a GSI....




And me doing almost top-whack in it:


After buying my GSI, I bought a Senator for spares, which looked like this:

(The red diplomat was my mate's car.)

But then the senny looked like this when I'd finished with it:

[colonelk]

nice idea for a thread chap!

Nice reply matt! Like your old motor 


Ok heres mine......

My old Cav 1.6l...... first car.... loved my baby..... She wasnt much, but she was mine!




Then I bought a project trackday motor for the princely sum of £50! 



Bought an SRi as donor engine for the Firenza, and for running gear bits for the Cav.... only have this pic left really.....

(thats the parents 4x4)

Kurashu! 

Didnt look too bad but EVERYTHING was bent 

After that, had a little bit of cash in savings and thought Id treat meself.... so bought this!!


Minty Omega 3.0 Elite Manual Non-Po po!

But I didnt gel with it..... I did however love RWD..... so the natural progression was this....

My rusty but trusty POS! 

[blippi]

just found an old interior pic of my astra

[sideways action]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm .... glad it was an old pic .. kinda looks a bit star trek ... beem me up scotty ..........

[chrismec]

Mmmmmm nice Astra matey!!!

[carltonman]

just found an old interior pic of my astra

Fook me, that option is as rare as rocking horse sh1t. Was it a special Expresion model that Tom Conti promoted on under ground adverts???

[Matt]

was the badge there to remind you what you were driving, in case you forgot?

[blippi]

was the badge there to remind you what you were driving, in case you forgot?

yea was 2 remind me it was front wheel drive shite lol tbh i had the display there which 1ce i had replaced the stereo was only a clock an looked pants so that was the only thing i had 2 replace it with

an i know its not 2 every1's taste but its to my taste lol u'll be glad the interior in my carlton wont be as in ur face when finished

[ian]

lol i like marks carlton,i remmeber going out in that when he first got it,2 years ago?

[GSI24VBONES]

Sold this Astra for my Carlton was a 1.6 Si   had her  8 yrs   95' - 03'
had a 1.6 cavalier GL F'reg with a  GSI kit before that         93' - 95'
1.3 Astra C'reg                                                              92' - 93'
1.1 T'reg Golf GTI look a like                                           91' - 92'

Also wife's cars have been (were mine realy as i paid for them )
Nova 1.0/ Astra 1.3 / Cavalier 1.6/ Almera 1.4 16v

[king nero]

fantastic car, gave it lots of abuse (but the car was always taken care off, taking my time to warm it up before giving it serious stick) and it never missed a beat.
1.4 8v carbed engine, they're more than bulletproof engines. and nippy in its own way... felt right at home in city driving (although managed 110+ mph in it )

[Scatmancraig]

Well if i posted pics of them all i'd bere here all day so here goes with a few of the "highlights"....

My 1st car, & a RWD Vauxhall too!!!!


Don't laugh, i was a student when i owned this & it was such a laugh to drive!!!!


Another RWD Vauxhall........


Amazing what you can do with a pot of paint!!!


Wish i could claim to having owned the car in the background!!!!


Yet another RWD Vauxhall (& my 3rd Viva!!!). Dig the groovy 70's colour!!!


You guessed it, think i got the bug well & truly!!!!


More cheap RWD fun.......


My 1st Beemer, E23 735i SE with all the toys......


My last Beemer, & when was the last time you saw one??  (would still have this if it wasn't for a Transit trying to park in the drivers door!!!)


& finally my "other" car, not a Carlton i know but not far off........

[Mezzy]

A LADA !. Now, can you slap me with a wet fish.....but they are not that bad for Russian technology.
Drove the Riva 1300, quite nippy and rwd too. 86 model i remember. Good side, it did'nt belong to me..........THANK GOD!!!

[king nero]

just found this:




Too bad this happened, fantastic car...
but on the other hand, if I was still driving this one, I wouldn't have bought the carlton...

[carltonman]

Last pic not there for me.

[Mezzy]

Its not there, Dude.

[mrogers]

First one i still have, but also 2 of my former cars

[king nero]

Last pic not there for me.

You're referring to my pic? it works for me...

here's two links, hosted on different servers, both should work normally:

[Mezzy]

Thats pretty well, er, re-styled !

[HMK]

Hey Craig!

Nothing wrong with those motors!

I had a Reliant Regal..............no problem round bends or in the snow with those with the right weights in the boot (mine was a saloon).

I had a Lada like that one............got it to tide me over when I broke a spring on the old 3 litre Capri, sold it for a good profit too!!

I've had dozens of different cars over the years............I'll have to do a list & scan a few pix sometime.

[Tetleysmooth]

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My daily drive before I saw the light and bought my Dippy. The new owner's well pleased with it, like a dog with two dicks.

[Johnny A]

only one worth showing, SEF:

[carltonman]

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My daily drive before I saw the light and bought my Dippy. The new owner's well pleased with it, like a dog with two dicks.

That a nice motor, Shark Nose 5 series, what was the spec  (high up by the llooks)

[bstardchild]

Monza GSE B580 UPR
1987 5 - Speed manual with ABS

Part 1..........................

Brief history and a few photos - well more than a few actually!!!

The day I collected it – yep I drove nearly 400 mile round trip to collect a free dead Monza – one point to note is that at this point I had already jet washed the car down on the trailer removing several years of green mould…….


Current Mileage - In excess of 200,000 miles - Original Engine, Gearbox and Diff (on it's second clutch)

Okay just a bit of history about the car

I am the second owner - "purchased" the car November 2000 (more about that later). The Previous Owner - David Saunders - bought it in Germany while serving in the forces. This is why the windows are etched with BPU 57B (this is the forces plate allocated to the car) - he brought the car back to the UK when he left the force and had it registered here. He used it for a couple of years comuting 120 miles a day but then he got a job in the far east so put her into storage. The bill for putting her back on the road when he retuned 4 years later was £2714.65. The storage conditions apparently hadn't been ideal! He then used her again every day for a year putting about 30K on her clock making a total of 180K before he was allocated a company car. His intention was to use her as a weekend car but due to lack of time as a result of work commitments and a rapidly expanding family she lay dormant outside his garage generally getting in the way and growing copius quantites of mould inside and out.  David contacted me to ask if I knew anyone interested in the car - it had to go and go soon as he knew if it wasn't worked on it would never be recoverable and after some long conversations about condition and I was hooked - I borrowed an EX AA Transporter and made the long journey from Norfolk to Southampton to collect the car - no cash exchanged hands the purchase price of the car was the cost of Diesel to collect £87.67 to be precise.

So what was it like when I got it home - All four brakes seized as well as the handbrake - winching the car onto the transporter left long black lines from the driveway to the cab. The engine hadn't been run for over a year. It was covered in green mould due to the shaded nature of its parked position. The interior didn't look much better and absolutely nothing electrical worked even with a brand new battery. There were other faults found during the course of getting her back on the road but bottom line was it took me a whole month to get the engine running and over a year before she passed an MOT. The intention was to use her as an additional summer car and maybe finish of a few of the odd jobs that needed doing like the mechanical odometer on the digital instrumentation pack didn't work. (well it racked up a mile or so in a months worth of use and thats it)

So she was finally on the road and expenditure amounted to just over £1000 -  battery, radiator, water pump, tyres, brake pads, discs, handbrake shoes, header tank, hoses, headlights, indicators, body parts, serviced items and a not unreasonable ammount of welding.

The same week she passed the MOT a mate locally had a major problem with the engine on his Carlton GSi and due to a financial commitment elsewhere he could not afford to repair the engine so I loaned him the GSE - FOR 6 MONTHS - I saw it everyday tho..... He commuted 60 miles a day 5 days a week which would have put 7000 miles on the odometer if it worked!!!! I got it back and continued to put miles on the car for 2 years without more than 50 being recorded on the dash (i'd bought another intrumentation unit but that had the same fault!!! Then amazingly enough the odometer started working and seems to be happily racking up the miles now.

I use her for everyday commuting - track days - car shows and occasionally because the hatch back arrangement is so handy when the seats are folded flat carrying awkward or large items.

Below are the last shots I have of it before I had the stainless exhaust fitted this year – the alloys are gone so it’s back to std till I get the replacement ones finished

















The Monza doing what it does best Trax2004 (albeit briefly)





Damm I love this car :-D

This is my Desktop when in Monza GSE Mode

I think it's a cracking shot