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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013
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Location: The Somerset Levels
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I can't stand it when number plates are sold off, my 47 Minx had the plate sold off many years back. I checked a couple of weeks back and found that the original number is now on a Mitsubishi!
Such a shame.
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Rick
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| Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 9:28 am Post subject: |
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| Rootes75 wrote: | I can't stand it when number plates are sold off, my 47 Minx had the plate sold off many years back. I checked a couple of weeks back and found that the original number is now on a Mitsubishi!
Such a shame. |
Agreed, CJM 357 now resides on a 2018 Merc diesel 
RJ
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Various 1920s-1960s - Austin, Morris, Commer, Dodge etc. |
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Rick
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Long-term forum-ers may remember my A40 Devon, bought in 2005 and owned for 5/6 years. At least its registration appears to still be on the car, probably due to X not being a particularly popular initial with the private plate brigade. Great old car it was too.
RJ
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Rootes75
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Lovely car, always had a soft spot for the Devon.
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Rick
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I re-discovered a few photos of my XJ12 S1 the other day, these were taken in the mid-1990s at a park in Cheadle, Cheshire. The red Series 3 was dad's XJ12 HE. It was sold 1997ish, the funds went into the deposit for our first house.
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
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Location: Le Mans
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| Gone but not forgotten; of all the cars I have had in my life (and they are numerous) the one I would love to own again is the VW Jetta GLi I bought in 1982 in Inari Green (peppermint really). A Golf GTi with a cavernous boot, 1600 cc fuel injected engine, about 110 bhp from memory, it was the perfect family car. Four doors, lively (for the day) and in its way a perfect Q-car. I looked on the "How Many Left" site and see that only two exist. Sad. |
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014
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Location: Derby
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| lowdrag wrote: | | Gone but not forgotten; of all the cars I have had in my life (and they are numerous) the one I would love to own again is the VW Jetta GLi I bought in 1982 in Inari Green (peppermint really). A Golf GTi with a cavernous boot, 1600 cc fuel injected engine, about 110 bhp from memory, it was the perfect family car. Four doors, lively (for the day) and in its way a perfect Q-car. I looked on the "How Many Left" site and see that only two exist. Sad. |
The only thing I can remember about the Jetta was their propensity for being written off. More than any other car the Jetta was really accident prone. I don't think there were any inherent faults or even that the drivers fell into a particularly risky category...just a statistical quirk of fate.
Perhaps that is why so few remain?
My Brother in Law had one - and he loved it.
...and yes he pranged it!!! |
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peter scott
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Perhaps having a bigger bottom it was more tail happy.
Peter
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emmerson
Joined: 30 Sep 2008
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| Ray White wrote: | | lowdrag wrote: | | Gone but not forgotten; of all the cars I have had in my life (and they are numerous) the one I would love to own again is the VW Jetta GLi I bought in 1982 in Inari Green (peppermint really). A Golf GTi with a cavernous boot, 1600 cc fuel injected engine, about 110 bhp from memory, it was the perfect family car. Four doors, lively (for the day) and in its way a perfect Q-car. I looked on the "How Many Left" site and see that only two exist. Sad. |
The only thing I can remember about the Jetta was their propensity for being written off. More than any other car the Jetta was really accident prone. I don't think there were any inherent faults or even that the drivers fell into a particularly risky category...just a statistical quirk of fate.
Perhaps that is why so few remain?
My Brother in Law had one - and he loved it.
...and yes he pranged it!!! |
I loved mine too. Bought in 1992 for £100. Sold it two years later for £250!
Had it been boot-less, it would have been three times the money. |
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