What was your first car

terrywit · #16 (**permalink**) 28-01-08, 18:24

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Woolsey Hornet

reworked mini along with riley elf?

Col.Kurtz · #17 (**permalink**) 28-01-08, 18:39

Hornet and elf's (elves!?!) were mini derivitives - mini with a useful sized boot. The variations on the Hillman Imp were the Sunbeam Stiletto and the Singer Chamois IIRC - all nice little cars and would have been real competition for the mini if they'd built the Imp properly in the first place - I believed it suffered from poor build quality on the early models and the never lost the bad rep.

*Anorak mode off lol.

I looked at an Imp before I got the Anglia, but it needed too much work doing on it.

chaser · #18 (**permalink**) 28-01-08, 20:18

A Blue F reg escort - loved that car!

terrywit · #19 (**permalink**) 29-01-08, 06:37

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before I got the Anglia,

don't happen to have a zetec under the bonnet?

Col.Kurtz · #20 (**permalink**) 29-01-08, 09:29

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don't happen to have a zetec under the bonnet?

I wish! or a Cossy, sr20det, V8....

No, the Anglia is long gone, although it's still around somewhere according to the reg check.

jaysay · #21 (**permalink**) 29-01-08, 10:39

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I wish! or a Cossy, sr20det, V8....

No, the Anglia is long gone, although it's still around somewhere according to the reg check.

What year was the Anglia CK .Wouldn't surprise me if the reg was now for chopped Fiat Punta or something similar

Col.Kurtz · #22 (**permalink**) 29-01-08, 10:51

1966, the reg is still with the car - currently SORN'ed. It will probably outlast any Punto lol.

jaysay · #23 (**permalink**) 29-01-08, 17:18

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1966, the reg is still with the car - currently SORN'ed. It will probably outlast any Punto lol.

Hells bells CK its older than you that and its still going, like the old staying goes they don't make um like that any more and I think your dead right about the Punto

Col.Kurtz · #24 (**permalink**) 30-01-08, 10:18

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Hells bells CK its older than you that and its still going

What you saying like? lol

Cars today are built with a shorter lifespan in mind I reacon - which is all wrong IMO. Even if they are more recyclable, it still takes loads of energy to make new cars.

I once read that it takes more energy to build a new car than all the energy it will use over the course of it's life. Don't know how true that is but I've always remembered it.

jaysay · #25 (**permalink**) 30-01-08, 11:07

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What you saying like? lol

Cars today are built with a shorter lifespan in mind I reacon - which is all wrong IMO. Even if they are more recyclable, it still takes loads of energy to make new cars.

I once read that it takes more energy to build a new car than all the energy it will use over the course of it's life. Don't know how true that is but I've always remembered it.

Well CK if they were built to last how would car companies make a living, Think of all those company directors crying in thier Champers

Col.Kurtz · #26 (**permalink**) 30-01-08, 11:23

Exactly, they call it "progress", but I sometimes think we're going backwards. Cars are getting bigger and heavier as we go on, I thought it was supposed to be the other way around?

terrywit · #27 (**permalink**) 30-01-08, 16:47

YouTube - ST170 Anglia

looks like fun?

jaysay · #28 (**permalink**) 30-01-08, 17:29

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Exactly, they call it "progress", but I sometimes think we're going backwards. Cars are getting bigger and heavier as we go on, I thought it was supposed to be the other way around?

Spot on CK but I dont think I know we are, everything is geared up to making big buisness more money at the expence of the consumer