Once common cars that you don't see anymore

[svensktoppen]

That looks a bit special!

 

[vtec1]

 

[MustangAlly]

My dad had a mk1 focus 1.6 zetec and I drove it a few times and it handled fantastically and felt pretty nippy. I bought a mk2 1.6 and it was very disappointing by comparison.

I near killed myself in a Mk1 focus! It rolled across the road and then down a 20ft drop! Needed a crane to get the car. All wheels and bumpers gone! When it arrived at a rest there was a fence post through the windscreen and right beside my head. That experience wasn't fun.

 

[K55]

 

[Boydie]

@KeithRobinson's old one still going?

 

[DreamTheater]

 

[DreamTheater]

 

[Lyons]

 

[Gambit]

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looks like a wee 205 XSD - always thought that dark metallic green was a nice colour in them back then

 

[Coog]

@dh1079 ?

 

[Rigger]

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I know that road very well - what brought you up to the Granite City or beyond? Aye, being nosey lol

Plenty of nice new cars in Aberdeen now that the oil price has picked up again, not so many oldie goldies nowadays.

 

[Lyons]

1 of my projects in work is outside Aberdeen.

 

[Rigger]

1 of my projects in work is outside Aberdeen.

Nice, I grew up in that area north of Aberdeen.

At least you've got the BrewDog brewery at Ellon, if that's your thing.

 

[Lyons]

Going to work, then getting home as quick as possible is my thing .

 

[svensktoppen]

Some spectacular roads and scenery round Aberdeen too, to the west and south.

 

[dh1079]

@dh1079 ?

Nope lol I was in omagh in the van at 7a.m

 

[mikey]

S Class on an N Reg. Engine didn’t sound the healthiest

 

[svensktoppen]

It's probably been to the moon and back several times as a private limo service... Won't be cheap to keep going.

 

[Kyle88]

 

[Lyons]

 

[BLS]

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Joyriders wet dream

 

[Paul.]

Joyriders wet dream

Without trying to be funny, is there a reason for this? The Cavalier was actually Northern Ireland's most stolen car at a time and I've always wondered why.

 

[salster]

in my younger days while working in a major Vauxhall dealership i used to fit alarms and sunroofs in nearly all Cavaliers whilst doing a PDI on them. The alarms fitted to them were pretty much useless.

 

[Rigger]

Some spectacular roads and scenery round Aberdeen too, to the west and south.

Well there's not much east to see

 

[FM155]

We had one of these as family car between 98-01. 2.0i 8V in Maroon with a cream interior, lethal handling thing at any speed except pedestrian. Comfy on long schleps though which we were doing a lot of at that time. The Mrs tried her best to kill it a couple of times, caught it on a high dividing kerb between driveways with our neighbour ripping the sill from the b-pillar to the rear arch and bursting a tyre, bending a wheel and the rear beam. That took a weekend of frantic bodywork / mechanical work to sort. The second time she rear ended a couple of farmers on the way to a protest at Stormont, they were happy about it... It was on the day I'd handed my notice in at Shorts in 2000 and there was no way I had the spare cash for a replacement car at that particular time and it was written off by the insurance so I got it back and rebuilt the whole front end, new front panel and slam panels welded in, new bonnet, facelift bumper and a whole car respray over the next couple of weeks. Actually was good craic, diverted me from all the other things going on at the time.