If Only I Could Have It Back.

[Khandro]

Watching "The Great Train Robbery" last night I nearly cried to see Jim Broadbent's (DCS Tommy Butler's) car, It was exactly the car I had in the mid-sixties; a black 2.4 Mark 1 Jaguar, there were lots of shots inside too and it was a dead-ringer, all red leather and walnut with that gorgeous fascia for instruments, in fact I began to wonder if it wasn't mine. I couldn't quite see the steering wheel, mine had a feature unheard of today; 'overdrive', a short stalk under the steering wheel which when you flicked it as you were bowling along in top, it gave you an extra higher gear. If only I had it now.
Does anyone feel similarly nostalgic for a car they once owned?

[RATTER15]

My best car that I would love to have Again would be my V8 3.9 Range Rover Vogue, what a dream car!

[shoota]

What an engine that Jag 4.0 litre straight six is, wickedly quick but does about 2 gallons to the mile.....

[horseshoes]

I was only 5 but I can remember partial reg was JAD. My friend and I used to slide down the mudguards (if that's what they're called on a car)!

[tonyav]

Yes they were mudguards on a Pilot, horseshoes. Did you stand on the running boards.

[tonyav]

Used to have a Rover SD1 V8 great engine, rubbish body. Fast but not in the same way as a 3 litre Capri.

[CokeTulip]

there used to be a place in the North East called Rent a Wreck. dont know if still going but you could hire cars like mentioned. But more for local driving!

[tonyav]

LOL, bet you wouldn't want to trust a rent a wreck to go very far, Coke Tulip.

[horseshoes]

We used to slide down the mudguards and land on the running board and then fall off sideways. Wow, such long ago memories!

[SpikeyBush]

I loved my Vauxhall Viva. OK it needed a service every 4,500 miles but it was a service I could do myself in the front garden with a socket set and some feeler gauges. No need to plug it into a computer at great expense when a light comes on. Diagnostics done by an experienced ear. I had that Viva purring like a delighted kitten.

[tonyav]

Well you could slide down the banister if it was raining, horseshoes.

[tonyav]

Yes spikey, the good old days when you fix almost anything yourself on a car.

[shoota]

....and see the road when you looked into the engine bay.

[tonyav]

Yes shoota, and sometimes when you looked at the floor as well !.

[CokeTulip]

Tony..
http://www.memorablecars.co.uk/ford-capri-hire.html

I'm sure there are other places too but heh..your next birthday!!
£135 for a day.

[237SJ]

Several years ago I read about a website that told you what happened to your previous cars. The article featured a guy who tracked down a Mini that he had owned years before. I have never heard anything about it since. Is the site still going?

[tonyav]

Thanks Coke Tulip, not that far from me either.

[baza]

It would be interesting to find out if all the old cars I owned went to the great scrap heap in the sky or, if some are still roaring round.

[tonyav]

Same here, baza. Although I know that some of mine ended up in the great scrap yard in the sky c'us it was me that put them there.

[baza]

same here tony, but not all, Ford Prefect sold on, Hillman Minx scrapped, Ford Consul scrapped, as to the rest is anyone's guess.