Cars!

[matt]

I have to admit, I'm a bit of a car nut, particularly for old British and German makes an models. I passed my test in 2009 and after driving my dads rather bland Fiat Grande Punto 1.2 I got my own car, a 21 year old Volkswagen Polo 1.3 and I love it. I'm quite proud to be able to say that my first car was/is a VW. This particular car is the "Ranger" model, only 2, 000 Ranger models were made and they were for the UK market only - There is approximately 163 left on the road with a further 68 marked as SORN (Statutory Off Road Notification), in other words not on the road but not scrapped.




What car(s) do you own? Owned anything special before?

[Randy]

I'm a truck person. I have a Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo and a 1 ton Dodge pickup.

[daveh]

Matt, I see you have the number plates "set up" so when those nasty speed cameras get you they aren't able to record your number. (Yes, I know you've just blanked them out for the photos.)

Dave.

[matt]

Nov 5, 2011 19:27:16 GMT -5 Randy said:

I'm a truck person. I have a Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo and a 1 ton Dodge pickup.

You hardly ever ever see those Jeeps here in the UK, pretty rare cars over here. I saw a Willys Jeep more recently than I saw a new one like that.

Nov 6, 2011 8:20:56 GMT -5 daveh said:

Matt, I see you have the number plates "set up" so when those nasty speed cameras get you they aren't able to record your number. (Yes, I know you've just blanked them out for the photos.)

Dave.

Haha, I don't speed so I don't have anything to worry about! That and there is hardly any speed cameras here.

[photax]

Hi Matt !

Welcome to the forum ! Your Polo is in good shape, great colour :-). I am also currently driving a red VW, mine is a Bora TDI.



My first car was a Citroen 2CV and the second one a modified VW Beetle from 1973. Here is my third car, a Suzuki LJ80 from 1979:



My grandfather drove something special in the early 1930`s, an Austro Daimler:



MIK

[Doug T.]

Hi Matt!
Welcome to the forum! I haven't had much time to get on here lately, but that's soon to change
That's a nice looking little Polo you've got there. I don't think they were ever sold here in the States. Didn't they make a GTI model?
My first car was a 1960 Oldsmobile 98. It was a big old boat ;D
There may be a photo of it somewhere, I think my brother has one.
Now we have a Buick. I've heard that the average age of a Buick LeSabre owner is "recently deceased"

Doug

[matt]

Nov 7, 2011 12:46:57 GMT -5 photax said:

Your Polo is in good shape, great colour :-). I am also currently driving a red VW, mine is a Bora TDI.

My first car was a Citroen 2CV and the second one a modified VW Beetle from 1973. Here is my third car, a Suzuki LJ80 from 1979:

My grandfather drove something special in the early 1930`s, an Austro Daimler:


MIK

Thanks but it's not a minter but it's in fairly good shape with only 22, 000 miles in 21 years, the paint is faded to buggery though but that never seems to show in pictures. Still got a few bits of rust to cover up for the winter but it's getting awfully cold now so it's not really pleasant to do now. Unfortunately I had a small accident in my car today involving my left-front wheel and a brick.



That's a hell of a first car, haven't seen one for a while actually although I'll probably end up buying one for a laugh one day. I do plan on buying a Beetle, probably earlier than '73 though. I feel that the later the Beetle the uglier, particularly from the back.

Nov 7, 2011 13:36:12 GMT -5 Doug T. said:

That's a nice looking little Polo you've got there. I don't think they were ever sold here in the States. Didn't they make a GTI model?
My first car was a 1960 Oldsmobile 98. It was a big old boat ;D
There may be a photo of it somewhere, I think my brother has one.
Now we have a Buick. I've heard that the average age of a Buick LeSabre owner is "recently deceased"

Doug

That's a Golf/Rabbit GTi your thinking of, the Polo has never been sold in the US still to this day I believe. The average age of the car I have must be similar, there is loads of VERY low mileage ones coming up for sale. I've seen two this year that had less than 8, 000 miles on them.

[Doug T.]

Hi again Matt!
You're right, the GTI was a Golf. The Polo I was thinking of is the Polo Mk2 GT.

With a turbo, very tasty ;D

Doug

[matt]

Nov 7, 2011 16:51:34 GMT -5 Doug T. said:

Hi again Matt!
You're right, the GTI was a Golf. The Polo I was thinking of is the Polo Mk2 GT.

With a turbo, very tasty ;D

Doug

Check out the MK2F (Or Mk3) G40, they had a supercharger!