My only ever new car !

[macabethiel]

Found what is probably the only photo I have of my Astra 1600 SR !
Here it is at Skeggy on the Robin Hood Site where we stayed in our younger days circa 1984/5. The Wifes hairstyle gives away the decade.lol

I often wonder if it is in a scrap yard somewhere in Wales which is where the last owner I know of moved to from Belper.

 

[Banshee]

Found what is probably the only photo I have of my Astra 1600 SR !
Here it is at Skeggy on the Robin Hood Site where we stayed in our younger days circa 1984/5. The Wifes hairstyle gives away the decade.lol

I often wonder if it is in a scrap yard somewhere in Wales which is where the last owner I know of moved to from Belper.

Lovely matey!!!! :thumb2 I would have been -5 then :lol

 

[Blocky10]

The road tax was due on the 28th July 1998!
Would be nice to think it's sitting in a barn ready to be discovered. ...

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[jims-terrano]

Brilliant car mate, ashtrays as we nick named them were ace. I bought a mk2 1.4 merit back in 1991, once saw it for sale at side of the road severals years after selling it but couldn't afford to buy it at the time.

Funny how you think about your old cars isn't it. Keep thinking about Flo my 05 plate that I px'd this year. Rose tinted glasses and all that.

 

[macabethiel]

The road tax was due on the 28th July 1998!
Would be nice to think it's sitting in a barn ready to be discovered. ...

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That is a nice thought - it had a good start in life as I hand undersealed all of the underbody with a spirit based tick black underseal and then sprayed it on top and in the cavaties with Waxoyl. I drove it home from Smiths of Ilkeston and it was in my Garage unused for a week as I did the underneath.

Kept it for about 5 years and parted with her (crank mains were rumbling) for a used Mk2 FWD Cavalier CDi that was only two years newer.

Last saw her around 1993/4 and there was no visible rust on the front wings where they used to rot. I guess the Crank finally gave out. I hid the defect by retarding the ignition a couple of degrees when I traded her in.

 

[rustic]

It's probably been recycled twice since then, first bean tins, and now into a Land Rover, not a nice resting place I agree, but soon, very soon, it'll be recycled again.
:lol:lol

 

[AlexD333]

It's probably been recycled twice since then, first bean tins, and now into a Land Rover, not a nice resting place I agree, but soon, very soon, it'll be recycled again.
:lol:lol

Haha such an accurate comment, I love it

 

[Daemo]

They were great, I had a manta gte on a d plate temporarily and loved it but I've always been a golf gti man at heart. Trying to find an Astra of that era now is nearly impossible and the gte rarer. Funny becouse I did an eBay search for the Astra mk1 this week... I occasionally search cars I loved from my youth, they were great days...

 

[macabethiel]

Manta GT/E

They were great, I had a manta gte on a d plate temporarily and loved it but I've always been a golf gti man at heart. Trying to find an Astra of that era now is nearly impossible and the gte rarer. Funny becouse I did an eBay search for the Astra mk1 this week... I occasionally search cars I loved from my youth, they were great days...

We had a Gold Manta GT/E it was an A plate but I always longed for the run out model on a D plate think it was called the Exclusive with twin headlights instead of the rectangular ones.

Was within £35.00 of buying an Exclusive on a private sale but guy would not leave the Radio in it - all they lacked was PAS - it was heavy on those wide alloys!

Never could afford the Golf GT and the Manta was cheaper than the Capri at that time and so much better mechanically than a Ford.

 

[jims-terrano]

Now ya talking, Manta GTe far nicer than transit coupe's lol.

 

[don simon]

This takes me back to my teenage years. There was a split between the Manta boys and Escort boys. I had a 1760cc semi race prepped Escort badged up as a 1600 Sport on an 1100cc log book. That's how I bought it.... _Honest... :naughty
It would eat XR3s off the lights, great fun.

 

[Banshee]

This takes me back to my teenage years. There was a split between the Manta boys and Escort boys. I had a 1760cc semi race prepped Escort badged up as a 1600 Sport on an 1100cc log book. That's how I bought it.... _Honest... :naughty
It would eat XR3s off the lights, great fun.

Now you're talking!!

 

[rustic]

One of the best new cars we ever bought was the Ford Maverick, 2.7 Td GLX..
Ohhh.. just remembered ...we've still got it lol....:doh:doh

:lol:lol

 

[don simon]

One of the best new cars we ever bought was the Ford Maverick, 2.7 Td GLX..
Ohhh.. just remembered ...we've still got it lol....:doh:doh

:lol:lol

That must have been a good few years ago...

 

[macabethiel]

Long Car ownership

One of the best new cars we ever bought was the Ford Maverick, 2.7 Td GLX..
Ohhh.. just remembered ...we've still got it lol....:doh:doh

:lol:lol

My record for longevity was a 1967 Austin Mini Cooper LOV 378 F fully conerted to "S" specification over a number of years including right hand fuel tank, 120 mph speedometer etc etc. It was first my car then my wifes owned for 10 years and bought her back in a bit if a state a couple of years later (photo shows her before second restoration bottom half was originally dark blue and midrift was bright yellow) and kept her for another 2/3 years. Sold her each time for way over what she cost me.

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[elty001]

Them bricked up houses in the photo look like colliery row in Alfreton:nenau

 

[macabethiel]

That is spot on it is Colliery Row Alfreton!

It sure is I took the photograph in 1986 when I was stationed at the old Alfreton Divisional Police Headquarters. I was stunned that the Terrace Row was partially inhabited at that time so it was a photo of the state of the housing with the Mini as a decoy.

The date on the photograph is when I scanned some old pictures for storage on my P.C. Back-up Hard Drive.

 

[elty001]

Yeah the rowe family or rowies lived in the whole row of houses.
If you where stationed at Alfreton I'm sure you will have heard that name.

 

[macabethiel]

A surprising Rowe family member turned good.

Yeah the rowe family or rowies lived in the whole row of houses.
If you where stationed at Alfreton I'm sure you will have heard that name.

Yes I have and it is interesting that one of the Rowes daughters a young lady whose first name I forget went on to initially become a Prison Officer and then joined the Derbyshire Police sometime around 2000/2001. I have to say she was an excellent P.C. who managed to drag herself out of the "Family Script" and become a credit to herself with no help from her parents and siblings.

 

[elty001]

Yeah, Michelle certainly has done well for herself.
To be fair most of the family has upped their game nowadays.