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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK

Do (or did) any of your work colleagues, now or in the distant past, own an interesting old motor-car?

Thinking back, I used to work with someone that had a desire to accumulate multiple examples of Citroen CX, plus a 2.5 GT6 which of course I could fully understand.

RJ
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kevin2306 · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:39 pm Post subject:

In the early 80s the joiner I was serving my apprenticeship under used a e type as his daily, it was a red H reg.
He swapped it for a green dolly sprint which made way for an Alfa gtv6.
About the same time, my college lecturer had a couple of mexicos, each one didn't last long as they were stolen!
During these early days, my best mate was running a lime green rs2000.

All lovely cars.

Kev

ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: South Cheshire

Ellis · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:49 pm Post subject:

I can't take part in this thread because I have always been self employed except for a few years after university and nobody I worked with then owned classic cars.

Sad

PS. Rick, how about a topic about other classic cars in members' neighborhood or area?
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47Jag · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:51 pm Post subject:

A colleague of mine joined another computer company that had a fantastic car plan. His first car was a BMW 520 that I bought when his lease was finished. Not very spectacular I know but I loved it. He replaced that with a MG Montego Turbo. OMG was that rapid Shocked

but fragile. I think it spent a lot of time at the dealer.

Art

ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: South Cheshire

Ellis · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:58 pm Post subject:

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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK

mikeC · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:52 am Post subject:

I can't really add anything to this topic; in the fifty year's of my working life in various companies ranging from twenty employees to several hundreds, I can't recall a single colleague with even a passing enthusiasm for motor cars... Crying or Very sad

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7214 Location: Edinburgh

I can recall a few high performance modern cars, Nissan Skyline, AC Cobra replica, E Type Jaguar, etc but nothing old and interesting except a late 40s Morgan.

I remember my boss having a really stupidly high performance Fiat saloon with the gearbox in the rear. It had dreadful handling.

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MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2704 Location: South Cheshire

When I started work I was introduced to a chap who worked there part-time, it was whispered "he's got a Porsche", and while it was a good-looking car it was a 912 with a turbo bodykit, massive BBS wheels but not much of an engine, when it was running at all. I remember helping to push start it during bad weather, and one spell where he came to work in a Morris 1300 instead. Despite its failings it still didn't deserve to be written off as it was, chap driving had a few broken bones but was basically OK and moved on to a '78-ish 911SC, which he kept for many years until exporting it.

Other than that I couldn't say there was anything other than one guy who had a couple of XR3is until he got a company car, and another who bought a new Mk2 Astra GTE, but a four-door one.

Rootes75 · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 12:27 pm Post subject:

The first factory I working in upon leaving University was about 15 years ago. I worked in the drawing office and one chap who was in his late 50's drove a black Ford 100E to work everyday. For family circumstances he had to move to Kent a couple years later and found no-one interested in buying the car. In the end a local garage bought the car for a very knock down price.
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Phil - Nottingham · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham

As with MikeC but I have only 41 years - no one else had or has any interest other than polite passing - I was and remain the only one and visiting clients regularly comment on our old classics

In the late 1970's a young staff member had a 6 year old wreck of an MGB in orange.

An eccentric solicitor next door had a black P4 cyclops which he came in sometimes
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