maypolebaz
master brummie
I had a second-hand Singer Vogue estate in the early 70s, it was a lovely looking motor but it had terminal body rot around the headlamps and the engine sounded like a bag of spanners !
I had a second-hand Singer Vogue estate in the early 70s, it was a lovely looking motor but it had terminal body rot around the headlamps and the engine sounded like a bag of spanners !
Hi maypolebaz, if you had that Vogue Estate now it would fetch big money they are few and far between. My Vogue as only done 32.000 miles it belonged to a doctor who never took it out of Cornwall.
Regarding the brand new Hillman Imp (post#31) I bought in 1964 for £634, an inflation price calculator says this would apparently be equivalent to £11,590 today ...Just looking through the list of "worst cars" on this thread - - it's surprising the prices some of these cars now fetch! Hillman Imps are now now very expensive.
Old post I know, the Victor comment priceless.The Austin A40 was the worst car I ever had - a rot-box of ever there was one. The tail-gate fell off one night when we'd just got back from hols. Sound engine, rubbish body.
A friend of mine had an Alfa-Sud which I swear rusted away before your very eyes...
But the worst of the lot was the first Vauxhall Victor, circa 1957. What a disaster! My dad was polishing his one day when he just stuck his hand straight through the wing...
Big Gee
nothing wrong with them.my dad had from 1966.up untill 1998.i rebuilt the engine in a regal. like dels.the gearbox was a robin box. the thing was quick. it did a wheelie if you give it too much. i had 85mph the front was off the road.What about a 3 wheel Reliant, (i could write a book )some times it was even fun when i wasn't repairing it .
well done ray i love nissans. i have a old micra.the parts reasonable too.i had a ex telecom ha van that done millions of miles before giving up the ghost. The worst was the allegro, while driving along one day the rear subframe come offThe worst car I’ve had was a new Vauxhall Viva HC I owned for 10 month which most of the time it spent in the Vauxhall dealers in Walsall.
Fault was slack pistons I had 3 new engines 2 new clutches 1 new gear box the dealer forgot to put any oil gear box after an engine change.
The window screen wipers didn’t work when I picked up new the heater stop working on the way home.
Got rid of it and bought a Dagenham dustbin Cortina mark 3 this was when the Ford went on a 10 week strike this car went in for 3 days of modifications at Meteor Motors Wake Green Rd. after strike
My fist journey was up to West Burton Power Station near Gainsborough, on my way a hear clanging sound got out to investigate the nuts hold my wheels on hadn‘t been tightenEd
I‘ve had 26 six cars in my life time the best little car I had was Vauxhall Viva HBI new every nut and bolt on that car you could do all your my own repairs with help from Haynes manual even change jets in carb. them was the days.
How cars have advance I‘ve just bought the new Nissan Duke what a super car this is, I exchange it from a Nissan Qashqai with me and the wife in it like driving a half empty bus.