Classic cars/Bikes you owned

[Dan]

Ok following on from the toy thread here's the chance to list all those old cars and Bikes you owned that wish you hadn't sold.

 

I'll start!

 

BSA Bantam D3 (£6 in about 1974)

Francis Barnett 200

DMW (Dudley motor works!)250 (villiers 2T)

Norton Jubilee

AJS 500 single

Honda CR125 elsinore

Suzuki GT250 (Ram air)

Honda 400/4

Fiat 500

Datson Cherry Turbo (Boy did that fly!)

More recently a MK1 Ford Consul with overdrive

 

And a load of other stuff I'd rather not mention!

 

Currently have a 600 Bandit and a Fiat punto (well someone has to!) but am looking for something interesting with 4 wheels... Stag perhaps?

 

Dan

[Sportsman]

1950s Douglas Dragonfly 350 Horizontally Opposed Twin bought in the 60s for 15 quid. They were rare then! For those of you who have never heard of them

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Direct...nfly%201955.htm

 

First Bike

BSA C11 250

 

Austin 7 Saloon when I was 13. Bought for 5 quid with a mate. We hacksawed the body off and drove it around the fields.

 

Pre Farina MG Magnette. Bought at auction for 30 quid, sold later for 20

 

Triumph speed twin 500

 

BSA Gold Star 650

 

I'm getting depressed now, I'm off for a lay down

 

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[jimpy0]

Royal Enfield 250

Triumph Triton full racing spec [ran like a bag of spanners below 30mph and would only start on gold paladium plugs]

[Steve Walker]

I can list the old cars I've owned that I wish I hadn't.

 

Metro, Maestro, Ital, a 309 GTi which self-combusted the minute I got it home...

[n4lly]

Not old enough to go vintage, best i can do

is

1980 Yamaha RD250LC

 

1979 BMW 323i

 

:cool:

[Dan]

Nothing wrong with the 250 LC, I'd have liked to have owned one, think I'm off to ebay!

 

Sportsman thats some nice kit, I had an A7 engine which was about as close as I got to a gold star!

 

dan

[Alan Stubbs]

My Dad had a 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - which he duly had to get rid of when I came along. The upside of that is that he accepted my taste in music quite readily, on the basis that any singer that does a song about the aforementioned two wheeled legend can't be entirely bad. Even in his mid-70's Dad liked RIchard Thompson and any band he played with.

 

My brother restored a Jaguar XK120 and when it's owner defaulted on payment, he became the proud owner - it paid for his house.

[n4lly]

Dan i loved it, only went because the damn 125

law came in and being a youngster could'nt be

arsed to take a test

 

Here she is on the M4 on the way from Felixstowe

to Brixham

 

 

 

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[poledark]

James 98cc Villiers two stroke.............James 197 Two stroke..................Norton 350 single.................Bsa Gold star500cc(?) +Watsonian sidecar ...............BSA Super Rocket 650cc +Monza sidecar.

 

 

Also raced on grass as passenger in sidecar, and scrambled as passenger.

 

Gave up when we "flipped" at Lydden,

 

Den

[Dan]

I thought only the insane volunterered to race as a passenger on a sidecar! I used to love watching Badger Goss race when I was a kid, he was our local hero. Never owned a Maico tho

 

 

Dan

 

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