Big Old RWD Barges

P5B Coupe is where it's at... *want*

Had one, BBU 88T. (also had a 2.8i Capri, who needs suspension)

Mine was a brown one, JUE 183N I think the reg was.

Always wanted one. My dad had the 2500 for about a year, and a 3.3Li for a while.

A998 WKW was my first E28. 528iSE in silver..

I miss my old SD1 Vitesse, my Granada Coupé, and the Cortina Mk4 'S' we transplanted a 2.8i Capri engine and box into - that was brilliant.

I had a mk2 Escort

Oops, missed off HEF946V (IIR), a 1980 model and 'this was 1989' ;)

Good choice of cars my man.

I've recently considered a Monza, but unfortunately couldn't go and pick it up early enough so it was sold to someone else.

Both me and the missus what an E28 too, prefarbly in white.

At some point in the nearish future I'll either have a Vitesse or SE for sale.... ;)

Don't do this to me,Carl.

Play your cards right and one of these lovely Rovers could be yours....

I like that one lots - it looks well cool :-)

I had a HA Viva, ex BT van for carting mobile disco equipment around in on L plates with my kid brother sitting in with me, in the 80's. Then when I finally got round to passing my test in 2001 I had an Estelle 120L

Then just recently I had the ultimate large barge, the Lexus/Toyota Celsior.

you was learning in the 80's and didn't pass till 2001? WTF? surely you didn't take all that time to pass? i got my licence a year before you in

My 2 year younger brother passed at 17 and it was before you needed to have a license 3 years. The van was his first car. He moved on but we still did the disco stuff, so I took it over on L plates, had no lessons, but was fully insured.

Later, couldn't afford to drive, so cycled everywhere. Later I went to Uni in Luton so the college was walking distance, then I went to work in London, so it meant cycle/train/tube. No need for a car.

Wasn't until I moved back up north and had to face crap trains that I needed to learn properly. I've always loved cars but never had the money or need for one until I moved into the grim north. Passed with 3 months of lessons, first time with 4 minors aged 31.

ah i see! my dad didn't learn to drive till he was in his early 20's because he lived in london and din't really need to. only learnt because he wanted to venture out of london.

My wife's cousin is similar; he learned when he was 17 and got a car, then moved to London. The car just sat outside the house and was only used when he came back home for Christmas so he flogged it to save paying the tax/insurance on something he wasn't using.

Pah! Thems nowt, thems aint!

Now *that's* a proper RWD barge!

It was followed by a 1989 Vauxhall Senator 2.5 upon returning to this dismal isle. I quite liked that car, but that money thing happened when uni started.

Monza 3.0E 1375 kg, 178bhp

Ford Capri 2.8i, 1230Kg, 160bhp

Zakspeed Turbo 2.8 Capri, 1257kg, 188bhp

There's a reason it was cheap, the 3.0 CSi coupe was drop dead gorgeous and had adaquate performance. Anyone that considers Family saloons as objects of desire is very sick.

You seem to have selected a right bag of LOSERS. FTW 2+2 tubo coupe 1190Kg, 170bhp

Has anyone ever dropped the Carlton GSI 24v lump in a Monza? I guess they probably have - would be a cool conversion. Or, thinking about it, and a metric fuckload better - the Lotus Carlton engine. That would be mental. There must be a smashed up LC somewhere as a good donor.

Gee thanks for that Pete. I never said that my list of previous old motors where all of the cars that everyone should ever buy - just what I had owned myself.

Incidentally - why is a standard 1973 BMW with 200bhp a bad thing whilst a modified Ford with 188bhp is supposedly a good thing ?

Err, not quite. I had mine on a weighbridge and it was 1160kg.