My motors over 32 years

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 6:39 pm

Smartbear wrote:
TitanTim wrote:
Smartbear wrote:Good varied selection Tim, I noticed the house opposite lost its car port over the years & your neighbour cut down the nice silver birch tree.
Your driveway has become neater over time as well
Rob
Thanks Rob, the bungalow opposite, that will be when the elderly couple who owned it passed away and it was renovated and has been rented out ever since.

Actually looking at the pics its like something out the Time Machine except with cars

Tim.
Nooo, not the bungalow-you can see it in the mr2 pic with a white car under the car port
You must remember your nan every time you go home, how nice of her to look after you like that Tim
Rob

lol, the carport belonged to the bungalow, the white car which is a Rover actually belongs to the house next door, the elderly couple used to let the neighbour use it even though he has a garage

He still lives there now.

I remember at the time in 1982 I was looking to get a flat as I just started in a full time job that year, then my gran passed away and left me the house, I was gobsmacked as I was only 17 at the time.

Tim.

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 6:41 pm

NickDE wrote:If you have a nice bungalow, why did you live at the Co-op for two years ?

I own my local Co-op as well

Think I was just checking up on the staff those times

Tim.

Sky-drive · Post by **Sky-drive** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 6:56 pm

Interesting post & prompted me to look back at my 26 years of car malarkey ...

light blue Nissan Sunny 1.3 estate (written off after spinning into small ditch and wall!)
white Nissan Sunny 1.3 estate (sold to my Mum)
burgundy Ford Sierra 1.8 diesel estate (written off after rear end shunt)
burgundy Vauxhall Carlton 2 litre automatic estate (company car)
burgundy Volvo 940 Wentworth 2.3 turbo estate (company car)
dark grey Volvo V90 3.0 litre estate (company car)
dark green Ford Granada Scorpio 2.8 V6 (awful car ... and sold on to a distant family member!)
black VW Golf GTI MK2 8V (great car, sold it on to a mate who then slowly killed it)

black BMW 318TDS saloon (dog slow, chipped it, still dog slow ... part-exchanged in)

red Volvo V70 2.5T estate (part exchanged in)
black Mercedes Benz E280CDI saloon (part exchanged in)
silver Mercedes Benz E320CDI estate (part exchanged in)
silver Mercedes Benz E250CDI estate (current car)
light blue z4 2.5 (weekend car)

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:00 pm

Sky-drive wrote:Interesting post & prompted me to look back at my 26 years of car malarkey ...

light blue Nissan Sunny 1.3 estate (written off after spinning into small ditch and wall!)
white Nissan Sunny 1.3 estate (sold to my Mum)
burgundy Ford Sierra 1.8 diesel estate (written off after rear end shunt)
burgundy Vauxhall Carlton 2 litre automatic estate (company car)
burgundy Volvo 940 Wentworth 2.3 turbo estate (company car)
dark grey Volvo V90 3.0 litre estate (company car)
dark green Ford Granada Scorpio 2.8 V6 (awful car ... and sold on to a distant family member!)
black VW Golf GTI MK2 8V (great car, sold it on to a mate who then slowly killed it)
black BMW 318TDS saloon (dog slow, chipped it, still dog slow ... part-exchanged in)
red Volvo V70 2.5T estate (part exchanged in)
black Mercedes Benz E280CDI saloon (part exchanged in)
silver Mercedes Benz E320CDI estate (part exchanged in)
silver Mercedes Benz E250CDI estate (current car)
light blue z4 2.5 (weekend car)

I feel better now that I've owned so few cars

Tim.

Sky-drive · Post by **Sky-drive** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:09 pm

definitely an interesting exercise and now I know where most of my hard earned ended up ... don't get me started on my motorcycle ownership, the thought of that & how much dosh I shelled out on those is something I have no wish to contemplate!!

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:13 pm

Sky-drive wrote: definitely an interesting exercise and now I know where most of my hard earned ended up ... don't get me started on my motorcycle ownership, the thought of that & how much dosh I shelled out on those is something I have no wish to contemplate!!

What I've found interesting with past cars is running the reg no's through the DVLA and seeing what they failed the MOTs on, also gives you an idea when the car was taken off the road or scrapped.

Tim.

Smartbear · Post by **Smartbear** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:16 pm

Sky-drive wrote: definitely an interesting exercise and now I know where most of my hard earned ended up ... don't get me started on my motorcycle ownership, the thought of that & how much dosh I shelled out on those is something I have no wish to contemplate!!

I must of owned around 50 motorbikes over the last 35 years, the rest of my money I just wasted

Rob

philip27 · Post by **philip27** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:32 pm

Some nice cars in particular the MK1 MR2. Brings back some fun memories of when I had MR2's. Always regret letting my MK1 go they are fantastic cars and pretty rare now.

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 9:21 pm

philip27 wrote:Some nice cars in particular the MK1 MR2. Brings back some fun memories of when I had MR2's. Always regret letting my MK1 go they are fantastic cars and pretty rare now.

Certainly a great motor, never had a any probs over the 4 years I had mine, I was always letting people out of junctions just to flash the lights

Just a shame most have rusted away

Tim.

ronk · Post by **ronk** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 9:36 pm

I wish I'd had the forethought to take photos of my cars and from more or less the same locations !

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 9:43 pm

ronk wrote:I wish I'd had the forethought to take photos of my cars and from more or less the same locations !

To be honest Ron it wasn't intentional, just a coincidence over all that time as I've been at the same house and just happen to take a pic of the car on the drive at the time, I should need to subsitute the 118d M Sport and Z4 pics as they're the odd ones out

I've actually forgotten one car

1985 Mazda 323 1.3 which I inherited from my dad in 1990 and sold it in 2005.

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The photo was taken when the car was 20 years old with 68,000 on the clock.

Wind up windows, no power steering, manual choke and a push button radio

Tim.

Nictrix · Post by **Nictrix** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 10:14 pm

Wish I had pics of all my old vehicles, some of the earlier ones I never bothered.
Since I was 16 I havnt actually owned that many bikes or cars.
Honda MBX50 1984
Honda CB125 1983
Yamaha DT125LC 1985
Yamaha RD200
Yamaha DTR125 1990
Honda CB250RS
Kawasaki GPZ600R 1986
Kawasaki GPZ900R 1985
Yamaha FZR1000 Exup 1989
Yamaha TDM850 1996
Yamaha XT660X 2007
Yamaha YZF1000 R1 2006
In amongst all that have only been a handful of cars I have actually owned
Honda Accord 2.0i 1994
Peugeot 307 1.6hdi 2007
Mini Cooper 1.6 2007
BMW X6 2010

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 10:25 pm

Nictrix wrote:Wish I had pics of all my old vehicles, some of the earlier ones I never bothered.
Since I was 16 I havnt actually owned that many bikes or cars.
Honda MBX50 1984
Honda CB125 1983
Yamaha DT125LC 1985
Yamaha RD200
Yamaha DTR125 1990
Honda CB250RS
Kawasaki GPZ600R 1986
Kawasaki GPZ900R 1985
Yamaha FZR1000 Exup 1989
Yamaha TDM850 1996
Yamaha XT660X 2007
Yamaha YZF1000 R1 2006
In amongst all that have only been a handful of cars I have actually owned
Honda Accord 2.0i 1994
Peugeot 307 1.6hdi 2007
Mini Cooper 1.6 2007
BMW X6 2010

I see a Yamaha theme going on there

I was never allowed a bike

the only Yamaha I owned was a guitar

Tim.

Nictrix · Post by **Nictrix** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 10:30 pm

TitanTim wrote:
Nictrix wrote:Wish I had pics of all my old vehicles, some of the earlier ones I never bothered.
Since I was 16 I havnt actually owned that many bikes or cars.
Honda MBX50 1984
Honda CB125 1983
Yamaha DT125LC 1985
Yamaha RD200
Yamaha DTR125 1990
Honda CB250RS
Kawasaki GPZ600R 1986
Kawasaki GPZ900R 1985
Yamaha FZR1000 Exup 1989
Yamaha TDM850 1996
Yamaha XT660X 2007
Yamaha YZF1000 R1 2006
In amongst all that have only been a handful of cars I have actually owned
Honda Accord 2.0i 1994
Peugeot 307 1.6hdi 2007
Mini Cooper 1.6 2007
BMW X6 2010
I see a Yamaha theme going on there

I was never allowed a bike the only Yamaha I owned was a guitar

Tim.

Yep, bit of a Yamaha fan, got 2 in the family now and had at least 1 for the last 18 years.
Turning out to be a BMW fan now too with 2 in the family as well.

Paulwirral · Post by **Paulwirral** » Tue Dec 27, 2016 10:49 pm

I'm having problems with the concept of living in the same house for as long as you have

I've probably moved house more times than you've changed cars , maybe that's why I have very little furniture

The driveway shots over time are just amazing to me as they've evolved

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