Hillman Imp van - Only one at college that had a car so free drinks all night at the SU as long as I took everyone home.

Alfasud Green Cloverleaf - ate up and spat out XR3s till I ran it up the arse of a Merc

Triumph Spitfire- bought for £200 went to Prague and back and sold it for £270

TR7 convertible - crap car but it took my then girlfriend and myself to Monaco for the Grand Prix, (Senna won)

Honda Fireblade - I know it's not a car but it scared me shitless everytime I rode it. I miss it!!

Current model, coupe version. Very comfortable, great performance, great grip, it puts a big smile on my face every time I get into it. Just a pity I bought it for Mrs. F...

Mini Clubman 1100 - brilliant and loved it to bits, although to be honest I did'nt keep it for too long... often wondered what happened to it.. probably on the scrap in the sky.

BTW have you seen the old style prices Minis are fetching..eyewatering !

but here goes anyway. I like a bit of 1960s over-engineering. These are the three that were so good I've managed to keep...

Mercedes-Benz 280SE 3.5 Coupe 1970 - bloody marvellous car and built to last. South of France is no trouble and you arrive in style.

A 1963 Triumph TR4 rally car - we've done 90k miles all over Europe in that. Over the Alps on a sunny day you can't beat it.

Volvo 122 from 1966 rusty as hell but still drives down to the shops beautifully and nobody would ever nick it...

Don't know anything about modern cars.

In order

1. 2CV. Loved it.
2. Audi TT. Original model - when it was still cool.
3. Fiat Barchetta. Yellow. Very yellow.
4. Austin Metro. Crap but my first car.
5. RX8. The George Best of motors - agile, tenacious, good looking but drank like a fish.

As I am slightly younger than the average member of the Word massive, I have only owned 4 cars
(Oh, and car prices in Norway are waaay higher than UK prices)

1. 1978 Mitsubishi Lancer 1400 (RWD, live rear axle, leaf springs - Fun, fun, fun)
2. Ford Puma 1,7 (But then we got a dog)
3. Alfa Romeo 156 SW (Current car)
4. Fiat Tipo 1.6

you are that other bloke (forgot his name, it's an age thaang) that bombarded us with topics for a while, so I claim my £5 Boots record token from you. :D

Lobby Lud never existed

In chronological order:

1. Renault 12 Estate
2. Triumph 2.5 PI (formerly owned by Anti-Nowhere League singer)
3. A series of naff company cars (Escort Laser, Renault 5 Gordini, hand-me-down Mazda RX-8)
4. Rover 825i
5. VW Passat 2.0CL Estate
6. Renault Laguna Estate
7. BMW 523i SE
8. Peugeot 307
9. BMW 320CD
10. Renault Megane Scenic 'Rush' 1.4
11. Porsche 911 Carrera 4
12. Ford Fiesta 1.25 'Climate'

Guess when the mid-life crisis hit. The German's have been the best, predictably.

during the 80s. Financially disastrous but lots of fun :-)

3 Lancia integrales - including an ex-works rally car collected from the works in Turin
Lancia 037 - roadgoing homologation version
Lancia Stratos replica
MG Metro 6R4 - picked up for a song when BL closed the Abingdon Competition department
Mk 1 Escort Mexico - restored from the ground up
ex-Russell Brookes Opel Manta 400 - so knackered it never actually ran

Three series II/IIa Land-Rovers, including an air-droppable Lightweight (40 years old and still happily chugging around Monmouthshire)

Vespa Douglas 125. Same size wheels as a Sportique but ultra rare. Especially in 1987.

Everything else has been pratical as is the way with 4 wheels.

Fiat 127 Comfort wine about 700cc
Ford Fiesta xr2 red 1.6
Vauxhall Astra GTi silver 1.8 fuel injected
Citroen AX Gti white 1.4 bunch of arse
Ford xr2i white 1.6 fuel injected
Dadmobile - Rover 200i sparkly blue 1.4 fuel injected (I knew this car was wrong for me from day #1, I kept it for 10 years)
Vauxhall Corsa black 900cc fuel injectedish brand new and I love it!

wanna see some hood up pics....?

Sod cars. You can't beat a Vincent.
Top 4 Bikes I've had
1954 Vincent Black Prince
1951 Vincent Black Shadow C series
1968 Triumph Tiger Daytona
2008 Triumph Bonneville T 100
All long gone to good homes except the Bonneville. What i wouldn't give to have the Shadow back

Twice. Wrote the first one off (don't ask). Sold the second one last year in a fit of eco-pique... well actually I realised I could save myself £200 a month... and bought a rare import MR2 Mk. 2 with an auto box and very nice Sebring split-rim wheels. The MR2 is my current transport, and I have to say it's great fun, and by far the best looking car Toyota have ever produced.

A 1972 Vespa Primavera. I rode it for a while without being qualified to do so - then sold it after I was caught and got six points on my provisional license. I didn't want to get barred from driving before I'd actually learnt to do so.

-Mini Clubman. My first car. Grew its own moss and went through clutches faster than children go through pant-knees.

-Ford Escort 1300 GT with twin Weber carbs. Fire-engine red. My Springsteen phase. I even drove all night in it once, just to buy her some shoes. Finally rusted away to dust, but, Christ, what a gearbox.

-VW Golf GTi convertible, metallic apple green (customised by its previous Irish owner). Great car, but it nearly killed me once on the M6 when all the electrics packed up - engine, brakes, lights, the works. I had to change lanes freewheeling around trucks to make it to the hard shoulder. I can still remember the sickening "I may well die here" sound of engineless trundling at 130 mph.

(Since I've been in Spain I've only had rather boring sensible cars that aren't worth mentioning.)

Before such avenues of pleasure were closed to me - I belonged briefly to a car club type thing which hired out classic cars. The economics of it didn't really make much sense even in those un-wifed, kid-less, mortgage-free days - but who cared about the inordinate fee when one got to drive - in short order:

a '75 Mercede 350SL convertible
a 74 Porsche 911 targa

and best of all

a '69 E-type - silver/red leather.

Tootling down the King's Road in that one July evening will be an abiding memory.

I should really have worn a cravat as I said "ding dong" to Scandinavian air-hostesses while stopped at lights. Matt Monro on the radio, tickets for the Orient Express in the glove box

2-door pillarless. It was an 8 litre dream/nightmare ( depending on your views on the environment ). I also had, until recently, a lovely Jeep Wrangler.

I now drive a boring Mondeo.

Rebuilt from scratch - wire wheels - re-sprayed in Jaguar green. I still miss it every day the sun comes out.

It was the third of the MGs that I've owned. First was a Midget, second an MGBGT.

Of course I have to have one,for home visits, but I am the awkward sod immune to the charms as presented by the hairgelled suit boys who sell, who can't understand why I am in a BMW dealership when all I am interested in is the CD player and whether I can plug in the i-pod. Answer: kids and Mrs Path didn't like or approve of my green reps car Astra, a financial necessity in my wilderness years. I wanted to replace it with one of those chrysler hearse thingys, but I was over ruled. The BMW series 1? On my 2nd one, now. Hate it.

just started driving, and inherited Mrs M's Nissan Micra. I love it because it's the only place that I can listen to whatever I want without being told to either turn it off, or down!

straight six model, or the supercharged four?

Mk 4,which was the same as a Mk3 MG Midget.1275cc,twin SUs,but only turned out a bit less than 70BHP.Not exactly fast then but a previous owner had replaced the lever-arm rear dampers with a Spax telescopic,gas filled set-up.This endowed it with the kind of handling that meant you hardly needed to slow at all for corners!Tremendous fun.
At the other end of the scale,a Rover 3500 V8,a P6 mind not the dreadfully built and horribly unreliable SD1.Like the one 'Askins got driven around in on The Sweeney.Lovely.

My dad - who is a splendid fellow - always bought rubbish cars on the basis that when they broke down you just bought another one. We enjoyed the following:

- Humber Hawk (required regular nipple greasing, I am told)
- Chrysler 180 (ouch)
- Ford Cortina Estate
- Austin Maxi
- Vauxhall Astra Mk I Estate
- Nissan Sunny Mk I
- Another (slightly better) Nissan Sunny
- Vauxhall Carlton (not bad but a dreadful colour)
- Ford Fiesta (Mk III, very, very rusty)
- Nissan Micra (0.9 litre engine, auto gearbox, got stolen)
- Nissan Bluebird
- Another Nissan Bluebird
- Skoda Felicia
- Mitsubishi 'Carisma' (his current chariot, mad clutch)

Ah, happy days.

Rover 2000. On the way to a gig (this was '84-ish) the throttle cable broke, so we rigged up a length of string that came from under the bonnet, over the windscreen and in through the sunroof, necessitating a Casey Jones-style operation of the accelerator - pulling down to rev.

Happy days...

is always the best. Mine was a Fiat 127 900cc: utterly, utterly terrible. I loved it beyond reason.

In later years a 500SEC and CX GTi Turbo2 would count as pukka classics I reckon.

I had a 1970 Cortina MkII 1600E. A lovely car. White (and immaculate when I got it in 1975). This lasted me for about 10 years. Before that was my first car, a MkI Cortina (light blue with white stripe). After the 1600E I got a white T reg Granada (automatic – bought in a hurry after a short gap with no car at all). Several years with company cars followed, the most notable one being a Vauxhall Cavalier Diplomat in 1993 – which was a real executive car with leather seats, heated front seats & other luxuries. Unfortunately it caught fire and was destroyed. Generally it’s been Fords – currently a Focus Estate. I’ve no interest in jeep-style vehicles but I could really fancy a 4x4 double cab pickup (eg a Mazda BT-50) but my wife & daughter think it unnecessary in suburban London.

Never seen the point of cars and don't believe they'll ever catch on.

The best truck - I mean an artic, not a loser 4x4 blinged pick-up - I've driven is a 480hp (610hp is just for showoffs) Volvo FH Globetrotter with an I-Shift automated (NOT automatic, look it up) gearshift.

The all time best truck was of course the Bedford TK - an entire generation of hgv holders earned their spurs on these back in the '70s before hours regulations, satellite tracking and other killjoy innovations spoiled things.

A motorbike is the annoying thing stuck under the wheels of the trailer when I turn left...

Most are great but in my experience you overtake a foreign driver at your peril

Noisy. Italian. Gorgeous. From the right angle it resembles a reclining nude (the girlie kind).