What was/is the best car you ever had?

[Reiverlad]

You dont have to get a mot for cars over 40 years old, a few more years and my old skodas will be over that, all my bikes are now.

I totally understand that an MOT is not required for a car of that age but I reckon that for my peace of mind and everyone's safety it's best to get one.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

IF you are confident enough to take the car on the road then you should be confident enough to have it MOTd.

 

[Mobilvetta]

One of my favourite cars back in its day (1993) was the Mitsubishi brand, I was lucky enough to have two, a shogun LWB for family use, very versatile, used it for towing, absolute rubbish steering lock, bloody thirsty as I found out when I traded it in for a Land Rover Discovery and expensive to service.

But I also had a 1993 3.00GT, now that was a game changer back in it's day, I was young and stupid, any other car I would probably have killed myself in, it was way ahead of it's time, it had active aerodynamics that auto adjusted itself, 4 wheel drive, 4 wheels steer, twin turbo, it was a proper flying machine, it went round bends like a train on tracks, unbelievable handling.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I had a J reg Shogun SWB, loved it then GF managed to kill it.

 

[Pauljenny]

1991 Toyota Corolla.
It's probably still purring along today.
So pretty and attractive, it got nicked.
Never traced.

 

[tonybvi]

Bought a new 3 litre Pajero Combi in Norway - loved it but very very thirsty. Combi means only 2 front seats with Perspex screen behind to class it as a goods vehicle and avoid heavy tax. Remove screen, replace rear seats and it’s a good’un!

 

[nabsim]

IF you are confident enough to take the car on the road then you should be confident enough to have it MOTd.

That’s a novel idea. You obviously haven’t driven/ridden a lot of the stuff I have over the years lol

I don’t necessarily mean rotboxes with stuff falling off just things that would not comply with an mot

 

[Pudsey Bear]

When I was a wayward youth I bought cars from the scrapyard for as much a skindiver.

 

[nabsim]

When I was a wayward youth I bought cars from the scrapyard for as much a skindiver.

I was the person in the Isetta being towed through the middle of Buxton on a busy sunny Saturday in the 70’s. It was a barn find and I was helping a mate out (of course your honour) and of course the manky string we were towing it with snapped in front of a huge audience. It did have steering but no brakes working, we worked out that didn’t matter as the tow car would become the stop block. I can’t tell you how happy I was it happened at the end of Spring Gardens on the flat rather than half way up Fairfield Road which isn’t flat at all.
In my defence I would have avoided anyone and everything except brick walls and crashed it to stop it. The fact we had even considered using the tow car as a stop block shows an amazing amount of health and safety interest for 1970. While it didn’t have an MOT it didn’t have tax either but then again I didn’t have a license either

I won’t tell you about some of the dodgy stuff we used to get up to, there could be folks here who weren’t about before H&S became a thing

 

[Pudsey Bear]

Your secret is safe with me Neil, been there and done that many times.

 

[RichardHelen262]

I think the car we have now has to be one of the best we have had it was bought new 8 years ago, and in all that time it hasn’t had a single thing go wrong with it and never had an advisory on the mot
Mercedes c class coupe.
I don’t normally take photos of cars that I have owned, but I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, this is the first and last time I have seen the wife wash a car.
Even though this is her car I always seem to get the job of washing it, otherwise it would never get washed

 

[Pudsey Bear]

You should see Liz car, it's like a bloody skip half the time, I used to clean it but if she wants to fill it up she can empty it.

 

[RichardHelen262]

The wife’s car is just the same, absolutely no room for passengers,