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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

.. would you want it back again?

No
Yes, but only if it was roadworthy
Yes, regardless of condition

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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1952 Location: East Yorkshire

No...not really. It was a green Morris Minor 2 door....948cc....only had it a month or so..bought for 20 quid....I drove it back to my Mum's...she decided it needed a wash...I stood on the front bumper to reach the middle of the bonnet....the front bumper snapped off completely.

That incident alone was a forewarning of things to come.....like the rear brakes seizing off...so they [and the handbrake] didn't work....and the gearbox failing all within a couple of months....as I was at sea at the time, when my leave ended, the car got 'dumped'.... Morris Minors still aren't my favourite car, although today, I wouldn't say 'no' to an offer...

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

My situation is very similar to Alastair's. If you discount my Isetta then my first car was a Morris Minor but a worse than his in as much as it had a clapped 803cc engine.

Rick already knows my views on these cars so I won't offend him when I say it was the worst car I ever had and I certainly would not contemplate buying it again if in the unlikely event that it still exists.

Noisy, uncomfortable, gutless horrible thing.

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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

Ellis · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:35 pm Post subject:

A Wolseley 18/85 Mark 2, JFF 900H.

No, I don't think so even today. It was spacious, easy to drive but hardly a car for a 22 year old in 1976.

THE Vanden Plas version of which only one was produced, then yes.
Had that been available with the 2200cc six cylinder engine.................

I'm with Peter with the Morris Minor and as for one with the side valve engine?
Even with the rarity and status of these with Minor owners, the answer is still no.

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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK

Technically the first car I owned was a Mk3 Spitfire, initially as a non-runner. I did hear from its current owner a few years ago. I wouldn't rule out buying it back, but I don't hanker after it. The first car I ever ran on the road - and passed my test in - was the A40, which is sitting quietly in my garage.

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Rootes75 · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:44 pm Post subject:

My first car was a Mk1 Vauxhall Astra, we ended up selling it for scrap as the floors and bulkhead completely rotted through.

It was a nice car and I enjoyed driving it, it would have been nice to have kept it.
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alastairq · Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1952 Location: East Yorkshire

The second car I owned was a Minor Traveller, again with a 948cc engine...converted the back seat to fold the other way, to make a long double bed, then went off with a favoured girlfriend [didn't know any ladies at that age] for a month's touring holiday in Devon & Cornwall, camping in the Traveller. At the end of the holiday, flogged it and went back to sea...

For my next bit of leave, I got myself a Renault Dauphin....it was blue, big mistake....introduced me to a whole new world of rust [under paint]...Engine stopped, wouldn't go, so abandoned in a field gateway on the Guildford bypass...went off back to sea....

Thus, my first 3 cars, I would not want to own again......

BigJohn · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire

My first car was a 1200 Anglia Super, the drivers seat was prevented from disappearing backwards through the floor by a piece of pine floorboarding, it had that much filler in the front if it had been in a collision all in the vicinity would run the risk of developing asbestosis, the handbrake never worked properly and it was on Xplys, but, it had a blue printed engine, taught me how to drive sideways and gave me freedom to roam. Would I have it back? Not a chance, its successor, a Bedford Beagle, I would have instantly.

petelang · Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 444 Location: Nottingham

I too had a Ford Anglia, into which was grafted a 1500 Cortina engine, all the usual goodies, corsair struts, wider tyres, and for a touch of refinement, a scrapped Jag MK2 dashboard with all the dials and switches, rewired completely with a superb 8 track sound system. It went very well but was gradually returning to mother earth as iron oxide.
Despite quite a bit of grp intervention, nothing was going to stop the advance of corrosion and so it ended life in the crusher. If I had it offered back now, I guess it would come as a bag of brown dust..
But the second car, a 1961 Ford Consul Mk2 I would gladly have back. I bought it for just £25, ran around everywhere in it, only needed to replace a fan belt, it never let me down and was built of much sturdier stuff than the Anglia. I loved the column change and the big bench front seat and it just floated along like a big boat. Eventually sold for £50.
Nowadays it would be worth a small fortune and a much sought after classic.
I also miss the Triumph 2000 (68 auto) and the Grenada (73 V6) that followed and likewise, regret I didn't just keep them somewhere but hey ho, who knew?
Peter

52classic · Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 493 Location: Cardiff.

That'd be my white Berkeley T60 then. Yes, I'd have it back as a curiosity. In fact I would buy back any of my early cars but thinking of their structural condition when they left me it would be a miracle if any have survived.

Still, if you see White 105e YLA 434, Blue Herald 948GTX, Herald convertible FTG632C or T2000 733OBP let me know! There's a deal to be done.

47Jag · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:50 pm Post subject:

My first car was a 1933 MG K1 which set me back £7/10/-. This car was one of 128 made and it was structurally very good. It’s downfall was the drive mechanism for the overhead camshaft. This was done by taking the drive up through a vertically mounted dynamo. On my car the upper pinion gear bearing had collapsed so setting the valve timing was impossible. Spares were seemingly unobtainable in the late 50s. Yes I would have it back now that I’m so much older and wiser Rolling Eyes

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Clactonguy · Joined: 20 Mar 2018 Posts: 104 Location: clacton on sea

Morris 100. did us very well no complaints and no would not want it back as was starting to rust in usual places. drove well. ride was superb and handling was good. large interior etc.
second car was better being a mk 1 escort Mexico with battery put back under bonnet! cost me £1300 new..sold it a year later for £1000. now thats a car I would want back.
had many since. not all good!

roverdriver · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:13 am Post subject:

Discounting the Ford TT that I never got on the road, my first was a 1930 OHC Morris Minor. I would love to have it back provided it was in no worse condition than when I parted with it in 1964.

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kenpix · Joined: 25 Mar 2014 Posts: 13 Location: Harrogate

First car - 1946 Morris 10 series M, great fun until the rear spring hangers rusted through. Second was an A50 Cambridge - nice comfortable motor with big leather seats and a decent column change. However, totally knackered shocks made for an interesting drive at 80mph along the Southend Arterial Road. Thanks, but remembering the fun and games keeping these old girls going I'll stick to the reliability of modern motors.