Rare cars you dont see anymore,

[Toms306]

My dad had a MK3 cavalier SRi a few years back it was an awesome car

I think everyones Dad had a Cavalier or Mondeo when I was at school lol. Not usually the nice ones though!!

My Dad had a D reg comfort spec Cav, even had a car phone in it lol...it was terrible tbf, kept breaking down all the time, several times when we were on holiday and we basically killed it on that trip. It was replaced with a Mondeo of course.

[1616six]

With my dad being a sales rep he used to get a brand new company car every 8-12 months so we had some corkers over the years.

All brand new witth <100 miles on the clock

MG Maestro in white
Escort van in red
Various Sierras, they were the main car of my childhood! Mum had a Mk1 Sierra ghia with the flat rectangle headlights in pale blue with the pepperpot alloys.. B2**XAV.. can't remember the whole reg. Loved that car! It sat on the drive for 3+yrs with a siezed gearbox.
Rover 216.. my grandad was a director at Rover, he had the last ever produced rover 216 SE on G214 FPW, and because he had his position and the last one made, he said he wanted it to be unique and have an X on the model, so until ~2002 when he died, he drove a Rover 216 SEX around.. in bright blue, that would have been an awesome boxy retro saloon to have today. Dad used it for a year or so then it started playing up, so he purchased an £800 L reg mondeo & sold the rover for £10, yes £10, to a local chav, it had 26k on the clock! Police came round the next day saying this lad had driven it round for 20 miles or so then dumped it in a field when it ran out of fuel, pikeys had been & crow barred the boot open and it was then crushed. such a shame!
Cavalier in white
Ford Orion, numerous times..
405 DT in white
Brand new white ph1 306 dturbo on a P plate, which I've still got a photo somewhere of it, it was on ebay ~4yrs ago half smashed in!
Brand new Ph1 306 dturbo in sigma blue
Various 406 DT's, white, green, blue were colours I remember
Black Escort ghia X
Omega V6 auto
Mondeo Ghia X.. again a few of them

After that it hit the 2000's so it became Mondeo, Astra mk4's, Vecta 'life', fiesta ghia x, Kia Cerato, mk5 astra, golf mk4/5/6, then he went self employed so had the 3 series compact & now the astra twintop..mid life crisis come late!

[bigcheez2k3]

Where I live everyone wants something on finance so anyone young is a Corsa wanker or has a 1 series. Hardly see anything older tbh.

[Piggy]

Dont mean to negative but a lot of these are off the roads for good reason!

[DavidA]

I think everyones Dad had a Cavalier or Mondeo when I was at school lol. Not usually the nice ones though!!

Mine had 5 Cavaliers - two Mk2s, 3 Mk3s and then a Vectra estate. Always lusted after a GSi Mk3 or the SRi Mk2 myself.

[Jimmy306uk]

Don't see many mk3 fiestas about nowadays :/ there's a guy near me who has 2 mk1 astras in his driveway, seen one go past and it must've been a redtop as it sounded awesome

[Orta]

Old cars FTW. New stuff sucks. They just aren't exciting. I've got a Toyota diesel. It's the 180bhp one and yes it's fast and yes it's reliable. But god is it boring.

[procta]

Dont mean to negative but a lot of these are off the roads for good reason!

Old cars FTW. New stuff sucks. They just aren't exciting. I've got a Toyota diesel. It's the 180bhp one and yes it's fast and yes it's reliable. But god is it boring.

listen to the man piggy

[Piggy]

Theres also a lot of crap cars mentioned on this page...laguna for exp

[Toms306]

Old cars FTW. New stuff sucks. They just aren't exciting. I've got a Toyota diesel. It's the 180bhp one and yes it's fast and yes it's reliable. But god is it boring.

Fast, reliable and boring? That sounds ideal for me!! Shame it's solid red though.

[r3k1355]

Used to see a Lad out near me with a Nova, proper 1995 Max Power style - it even had VENOMS!!!!!

He was committed as well, he even wore the shell suit tracksuit and his best 'moron face' while out driving it.
Pretty sure I saw him with a burberry cap as well at one point.

Car was even on L plates too, f*cking mint man!!

[Dum-Dum]

^^^ And on the above point its ages since I've seen a corsa with a dubious calibra engine conversion thats "still registered as a 1.2 innit" because "the insurance will never check"

[Piggy]

Havent seen a proper max power anything in a loooooong time.

But thats a good thing imo


Been a while since I seen an Enzo...

[Orta]

^^^ And on the above point its ages since I've seen a corsa with a dubious calibra engine conversion thats "still registered as a 1.2 innit" because "the insurance will never check"

I miss our chavvy max power brethren. I remember back when I first joined .net in 2006 it was full of em!

[Piggy]

Its nice to see the chavmaxpower car/driver every now again....just keeps your chin up to remember you arent the bottom of the pile

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....dont see many of these anymore...





Colt C5 1.6 GTi. 16vs, 120bhp or the 1.8 145bhp version. Very light, very quick, very fun.


or these...



both I owned. Sadly missed. SOOO much fun, so basic. SO mad.

[DavidA]

^^^ And on the above point its ages since I've seen a corsa with a dubious calibra engine conversion thats "still registered as a 1.2 innit" because "the insurance will never check"

My brother's first Nova was a gold 5 door 1.3 which he stuffed through a 5 bar gate. Luckily the engine survived and went into a blue 3 door which was dropped 60mm and ran on Astra 4 spoke alloys, big splitter, Peco Big Bore 4 exhaust and a Weber twin choke carb.

Loved it.

[HDIkyle]

I'm driving my bx estate atm and I don't think I have ever seen one on the road ever. It's just a standard white estate but a lot of people look at it. Was in traffic once and we heard a couple saying "its one them old Citroëns with the funky suspension"

[jack_o]

I don't understand how there are still so many morris minors on the road, they seem really popular in the south west. Guy at work has one as his daily, so rusty. Engines are easy to rebuild i guess.

[Piggy]

I'm driving my bx estate atm and I don't think I have ever seen one on the road ever. It's just a standard white estate but a lot of people look at it. Was in traffic once and we heard a couple saying "its one them old Citroëns with the funky suspension"

When I was a tech, the foreman ran a green estate for yrs. Just never went wrong. Ace car.
Seen a couple BX GTis since, think they even rarer mind

[Matt]

Currently a cavalier sir say on my drive

Also haven't seen any Renault Clio mk1s, Renault 5s, Vaud novas or any mk3 ford escort/fiestas any more

[procta]

one of the lads dad, has just bought a mossy minor, it needs a new clutch. his family likes old school and classic cars, His brother had one of the last 3 door Vaux novas.
Do people still drop big engines in corsas now? or is that gone with the 90s.
I saw a fiesta RS turbo a couple of years ago in a scrappy, it was forsale, in fact I think it was sold.
my mum had a colt turbo years back in the 80s, That was a powerful car she said.
I have seen one BX on the road last year, in fact I think posted about it, as it was the last one in sunderland.
tell you what I haven't seen for a long time, that's a mk1 golf and the polos.

[DavidA]

Not sure I've seen a BX since I drove a colleague's back in '95, and that was a white estate too.

[Matt-Rallye]

405's
ax's
mk1 clio's
ph1 saxo's
S1 106's
nova's
mk2+3 fiesta's
cavalier's
Series landrovers
LDV sherpa vans
Metro's
Rover 200's

All rarities on the road except in herefordshire

[daddyfixit]

i've still got an l reg'd 94 fiesta mk 3---1800 diesel parked up her mums path, been there 4 years since I bought the 306. I still go up there to start it and move it back/forth. still meaning to get it to my mates garage ( seen him yesterday) as he said I can leave it there and we can potter about with car at our leisure to restore it. needs nsr wheel arch, both valances and an o/s wing..........
theres no room in his garage as he COLLECTS citroen bx's....has about 4 and 1 in his garage at home, he just loves the xud cars, but he also drove to cornwall to get a 16v 4x4 gti---apparently only about a dozen of them on the road ???

[r3k1355]

405's
ax's
mk1 clio's
ph1 saxo's
S1 106's
nova's
mk2+3 fiesta's
cavalier's
Series landrovers
LDV sherpa vans
Metro's
Rover 200's

How many of those are actually genuinly worth saving though??

Apart from any special/hot models they were always built to be generic shitters/beaters and as such used until they were worn out and thrown away.

Who's going to go to the bother of keeping a peasent spec 15 year old 1.0 litre ax on the road???

[Matt-Rallye]

405's
ax's
mk1 clio's
ph1 saxo's
S1 106's
nova's
mk2+3 fiesta's
cavalier's
Series landrovers
LDV sherpa vans
Metro's
Rover 200's

How many of those are actually genuinly worth saving though??

Apart from any special/hot models they were always built to be generic shitters/beaters and as such used until they were worn out and thrown away.

Who's going to go to the bother of keeping a peasent spec 15 year old 1.0 litre ax on the road???

Hence why you dont see them.

I work in a scrap yard and its mainly mid nineties shitters that come i daily but ore recently its been 51+ plates

[Poodle]

Surprised nobody's mentioned the montego, classic old bus if ever there was one. See some of pretty much all the rest on my way to work every day, including a maestro turbo lol, but no montego...

[1616six]

Surprised nobody's mentioned the montego, classic old bus if ever there was one. See some of pretty much all the rest on my way to work every day, including a maestro turbo lol, but no montego...

Awesome cars.

As I said previously, my old man had a white MG Maestro, 90% sure it was a turbo.

I occasionally see a BRG diesel Montego estate around here, and a chap on my dads road has a BRG MG maestro, and a daily which is a pale blue Rover Maestro 1.3, almost rotted away now but somehow he still uses it daily!

[Matt-Rallye]

Surprised nobody's mentioned the montego, classic old bus if ever there was one. See some of pretty much all the rest on my way to work every day, including a maestro turbo lol, but no montego...

Awesome cars.

As I said previously, my old man had a white MG Maestro, 90% sure it was a turbo.

I occasionally see a BRG diesel Montego estate around here, and a chap on my dads road has a BRG MG maestro, and a daily which is a pale blue Rover Maestro 1.3, almost rotted away now but somehow he still uses it daily!

It was meant to be on my list! MG Maestro Turbo or a montego saloon turbo

[Toms306]

Used to get an occasional lift to school with a mates Mum in a Montego about 15 years ago.....even then the bodywork was covered in taped-over rust holes to pass MOT!