Your favourite car or bike that you owned.

In 2016 I sold my house and with the extra money that gave me I treated myself to a brand new Jaguar F-Type Coupe - 3.0 litre Supercharged V6, 335bhp. Wow, what a beauty she was.

On one of my first outings I found myself doing 105mph and, now I know this will sound stupid, I hadn’t even realised it. She was that smooth, that quick to reach that speed that I just didn’t realise I had reached that speed! I’d never driven anything like her in my life. Quickly learned the power of the beast there and then. I immediately slowed down, I hasten to add.

As amazing as she was, I lived the dream for only ten months before I sold her. Super car, absolute stunner, but just not practical. Even getting in and out of her wasn’t easy. Piece of cake I expect for younger legs.

With that in mind, I then moved on to my next, ahem, “practical” car - BMW 435i M Sport. Another beauty, another very quick beast and she was with me just under seven years.

I have now gone back to where I belong: actual practical - a Skoda Karoq.

Do I regret the F-Type? Financially? Yeah, “bit” reckless. The thrill, experience and sheer absolute bloody joy of it? NAHHHHH!

Best car I ever had though? No, that was my Datsun Violet, what a girl!

Here is my Jaaaag. Frustratingly these are the only piccies I can find. I had a Blackberry at the time and can’t get it to work anymore to retrieve any other photos I took.





My lovely Violet in the snow:

 

Yes the Sprint was 2L, an impressive car when launched in the 1970s. It roared like a lion and pushed BMW 2002's aside, but by the late 1980s there were many cars around with better acceleration. And now, one of our sons has a Tesla that does 0-60 in less than 3s.

Yep, most of the popular British brands dissolved into a rusty mush very quickly (including my Sprint). That's why I'm so amazed to see any still being driven (rare, admittedly).

It would have been nice if mine looked like this...


...but sadly, this was it...

 

I think if housing it was no problem and I liked driving that much (which I don't really), I would find myself a nice TR-6 in racing green and do the old summer outings thing. Nice dream......never happen! My biology teacher at school used to drive a Spitfire, we were always having to push start her at the end of school......funny memory.

Oh the Triumph Stag......what a beautiful looking car..........but that V8 engine............overheating, sandy engine blocks and even alleged sabotage on the construction floor at Leyland.

 

Thanks for the memories gents (and photos), glad to know I'm not the only ol' petrol head on here

 

That's a nice car Steve. Mine was a T registration (1979), but had the single square headlamp. I loved unbolting the two front grills and repainting them different colours......red looked good against the white body......then white on white..........only took a few minutes to do. Great memories.

 

I always thought that Triumph cars were unique, at secondary school, 1968-72 our Woodwork teacher had Three of them, two blue TR4s and a maroon TR6. Us boys loved 'em, especially when he came up the drive making quite a bit of noise, probably for our benefit
By 1982 I had my first Triumph, a dark blue 1300TC Superb little car ! I still have one of the Number Plates, a 'H' reg.
By 1985 I had a pale blue 1500TC got a photograph of it Somewhere ? Then moved-on to Ford Cortina's..... Great Days

 

My dad’s 1971 Cortina Mk III, 1600L. He had two Mk I Cortinas in the 1960s, both maroon, but not sure if I have any photos of those.

 

The first car I remember my Dad owing was the Mk I in dark blue. I recall holidaying in Devon and Cornwall in the early 1970s with all five of us in the car along with the camping equipment and the tent in a small trailer. I also remember Dad hitting a cow in the lanes around Truro on the journey home one time and the car still managed to get us back to London.................and no, we didn't put the cow in the boot!!

 

I loved All the different marques of Cortina's but the MK3 was just that little bit better-looking I thought, 2 or 4 door style. A mate had one, yes, a Blue one ! Always seemed to be a lot of blue cars around here in those days

 

My 10 year old Triumph 1500TC ! It was a Brilliant car, and at that time Very Fast

 

Two door ours, as you can see, not very practical for a family of five, but those long doors do look good. My brother had a Mk II, grey, and he’s trying to pull out photos for me. I suppose the Mk I is the most iconic of them all, it just has a certain je ne sais quoi I must say.

This is a Mk I that my brother photographed at his secondary school back in the 1960s, presumably a teacher’s.

 

Somerset was our go to for holidays, but I have very fond memories of regular weekend trips down the A2 to Herne Bay in the Mk I Cortina. My uncle would come too in his own Mk I, either light yellow or a very pale green, so a mini convoy.

 

A 1964 registration. I always liked those rear lights, but Dad wasn't too-keen on them at all, he was a Foreman at Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxon.

 

My Blue MK 5 Cortina at the entrance to Wickenby airfield 12 Squadron Lincolnshire 1990.

 

I had a red Mk 5 in 1986, 1.6 GL.

We had a Mk 2 Cortina estate when I was a kid. On our holidays, me and my sister would fall asleep in the back, and wake up at our holiday destination....Happy days

 

Yeah, that one of mine was a 1.6 GL. I also had a 2.0 GL and a Granada 2.8 GL All Brilliant cars

 

My 2.0 GL Cortina at the then derelict Control Tower of the 94th BG Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 1987.
Now a Superb Museum !

 

This one really should go onto the other thread, but as your Dad worked for them, just for you here’s my dad’s Morris 10 or 12, circa 1938 (the car, not dad, he’d only have been 7). I’ve a feeling your father didn’t work on this one .

Apparently he had a thing for buying these until mum told him he had to get a newer car for his young family.

 

Yeah, Dad loved those Morris 10s and 12s, I do too ! He started at MM in 1947 a couple of years after getting demobbed became a Senior Foreman and took voluntary redundancy in 1978. A Brand New Morris Marina 1.3, 4 door was part of his package. Harvest Gold in colour.

 

My 1998 SAAB 95se with a 2.3L engine. I got this in June 2014 and it lasted till 2022 without costing me much at all, except the RIP-OFF Road Tax.
Replaced immediately with another SAAB 95 T with a 2.0L engine. A 2008 Model. Wonderful Cars !