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What older cars do you notice on the road

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  • Joe_Horner wrote: »
    I see a '93 / '94 L reg BMW 525TD every day when I get in it to go to work. Does that count? :D

    Yes, but I think the 73 Alfa beats that.
  • There's an immaculate D reg Austin Maestro round by me. God only knows how he stopped it from rusting away :D.

    I also quite often see an original shape Rover 400 (R8).

    Suppose I only notice them as they were the cars I worked on when I first started work.
  • There's an immaculate D reg Austin Maestro round by me. God only knows how he stopped it from rusting away :D.

    I also quite often see an original shape Rover 400 (R8).

    Suppose I only notice them as they were the cars I worked on when I first started work.

    I remember driving the Rover diesel, the skin remained on the rice pudding. But by the end of the maestro run it was ok.
  • tim9966
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    The one old model I did notice quite a bit is a VW Polo from late 80's to early 90's. I still see quite a few of these around. E/F Reg's.


    If you see an old Ford it's almost always a RS model. If you spot a Sierra nowdays it will be a RS Cosworth.
  • Joe_Horner
    Joe_Horner Posts: 4,895 Forumite
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    ratrace wrote: »
    Ive got a bmw e34 520i auto that is a weekend driver 98k on the clock

    Mine's an e34 TD auto that's just gone past 78k, one owner until 2 1/2 years ago :)
  • tim9966 wrote: »
    The one old model I did notice quite a bit is a VW Polo from late 80's to early 90's. I still see quite a few of these around. E/F Reg's.


    If you see an old Ford it's almost always a RS model. If you spot a Sierra nowdays it will be a RS Cosworth.

    Still plenty of non RS ones knocking about.
  • There's a 1983 Mini three doors down, great condition and gets used at the weekend. Until 2014 our old neighbour used to drive a pre WW2 Buick and Austin 7 around, with a comparatively recent 1978 Austin Maxi as his daily. Lovely old retired military guy, just liked cars and messing about with them. Saw the Maxi a month or so ago.

    On the morning commute I regularly go past a 90's Clio, a couple of Saxos and a guy driving what must be one of the last Lada Niva's still going.
  • facade
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    I quite often see a white Ford Consul MKII, or it could be a Zephyr MKII on the way to work, and there is a 100E running around in grey primer I see occasionally on the way home.
    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • tim9966
    tim9966 Posts: 496 Forumite
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    edited 30 November 2016 at 10:14PM
    https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/

    This is a good site to see what cars still exist. Plenty of models where every one has been scrapped.

    More than twice as many Bugatti's on the road than Lada Rivas.
  • walwyn1978 wrote: »

    On the morning commute I regularly go past a 90's Clio, a couple of Saxos and a guy driving what must be one of the last Lada Niva's still going.

    Its funny, how you get to know your fellow commuter cars. There's this blue S reg Micra, and a 57 plate Mondeo ... I swear I see them everyday in traffic.

    Then there's the impatient guy in a big black 10 year old Volvo turbo brick I encounter on most home journeys.
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