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Me Austin A40.Lada niva x 3 Lada zhigulie x 3 Ford, Alfa Romeo x 3 ,VW Fox, Alfa romeo, Nissan Juke to date, Ladas bought in the USSR.
 
Two of my old cars, too many to list, but these are the only pictures I have. (mid 80's)
 

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1st car was a '72 mini
Talbot Sunbeam
Chevrolet Camaro (yes, I was single at the time)
Another Talbot Sunbeam
Astra GTE
Cavaliar (yup, women!)
Vectra (2.5V6 :) still parked on the drive rusting :-( )
Mini Cooper
Audi A4
Pegeot 407 estate (still on the drive - free if anyone wants it)
Volvo V40

There's been a Fiesta but can't remember at what point.

Works:-

Toyota Dyna
Transit LWB flatbed
Transit SWB
Vivaro LWB
Transit Custom x 3
 
2001 1.0 Corsa C
2002 Vauxhall Astra SRI Turbo
2004 BMW 318CI
1999 BMW 328CI
2008 Alfa Romeo 159 1.9D
2012 MK Indy R R1 (Kitcar)
2001 Honda S2000
2016 Ford Transit Custom
2018 Ford Transit Custom

And currently 2017 Ford Mustang GT

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Mk1 fiesta, y reg. 16 valve.... 5 in the tyres, 11 in the radio.
b reg Vauxhall nova
D reg Vauxhall nova with 5 gears! All forward....
Jump to a J Peugeot 309. Married by then and needed a family size car.
Add in the wife’s 205.... crushed front end by deer.
V reg Vauxhall vectra. I remember had that around 2005 as I was at Heathrow T5 and it did the run back home every fortnight.
Numerous other hatchbacks.... another Vauxhall, Astra this time...
onto 2007 and got company cars...
Peugeot 307 SW x 2
Ford kuga
Volvo C30? The little sporty one, that I had to bend in the wrong places to get into...
Citroen c4 spacetourer
Citroen berlingo van
Another berlingo van
VW transporter van
Ssangyong rexton, for caravan towing.

Nothing too fancy, nothing too big/ fast/ powerful.... just sensible vehicles for what we could afford at specific times.
 
1976 Mini 1000 (imported from Belgium and converted to rhd, 850 auto originally converted to 1000 manual before I bought it) wrote it off.
1976 Vauxhall Chevette 1256
1986 Mini Mayfair 1000, tuned to Cooper spec, then fitted rally tuned 1275, sportpack arches, wide wheels. Faster than the Cooper 1.3i.
Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0 16v Auto.
Vauxhall Zafira 2.2 Auto
Vauxhall Vivaro 2.0 CDTi
Vauxhall Astra 2.0 CDTi Auto 165 (rear ended on M25 by some kind gent???, left him waiting for the tow truck and drove home ??. He waited 3 hours!)
Ford Edge 2.0D 230bhp Powershift.

Work:
Escort 1.3 Mk3 van 1983
Escort 1.6d Mk4 van 1986
Transit D, F reg
Metro vans, 3 in 3 months
Astra van, 1.3 petrol
Astramax, 1.4 petrol
Various Mercedes 3 series box vans, delivery vehicles
2 x Transit smiley face
Astra 1.6d
Vito 112d
Transporter 2.5d 130
Transporter 2.0d 140
Transporter 2.0d 150 auto.
 
From passing Test
Motorcycles:
Kawasaki KH125 (CBT till full test)
Suzuki GT250EN X7 (the one that could in theory do a ton)
nothing from 2004 till last year
Kawasaki GPZ900R

Cars
1990 Peugeot 205 1.4 XR (that could shift for a 1.4)
1992 Mazda Capella (Jap import while in NZ, utter nail)
1999 Ford Escort 1.6 (dissolved over the course of a winter)
1996 Corolla 1.3 (bought during scrappage so overpaid for it but lasted 2 odd years)
2004 Vectra Estate 2.0 DTI (slow but actually quite reliable once I replaced the gearbox and clutch)
2005 Saab 9-3 Sportwagon 1.9 150 diesel (fun car but always something wrong with the thing... wife lost confidence in it so sold it and bought the following mistake on finance.....)
2019 Dacia Sandero 0.9 TCE (its reliable but extremely cheap and nasty, noisy as heck inside and tyres made of the hardest compound known to man, it also does 30-40mpg driving like a granny unlike the Saab that would do 38 driving it like it was stolen...)

Other stuff I've driven
1979 Chevy K10 1/2 ton pickup 5.7 V8 and that thing could shift, wife's dad wrote it off sliding downhill into a snowplow that was sliding UPHILL
1993 Jeep Cherokee XJ 4.0 good vehicle to drive

Project that was never completed (for some reason thought it was a bright idea to move back to UK from Canada....why I thought that I'll never know)
1996 Jeep Wrangler YJ with a 5.7 Chevy in it and the drive train from the 1/2 ton pickup
 
Austin A40 Farina
Ford Anglia 950
Cortina Mexico
Land rover 2 liter in Cyprus
MOVITCH IN THE USSR EX POLICE MODEL
about 12 different Ladas when working in MOSCOW
Ford Focus
ALFA ROMEO 1;6, 1;.8 All petrol heads need to have owned a ALFA Romeo
Vauxhall Viva
Nissan Juke to date
Don't ask me for date memory is shot
Motor bikes
James Captain 125
Triumph Bonnevile 650
Triumph 21 650
Homemade trike allsorts
 

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