How many cars have you owned

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In your driving life how many cars have you owned?

I'm on my 7th which I think is pretty low compared to many on here. I do tend to keep hold of them for quite a while.
 
Not many. I could probably name most of them in order....
Ford Anglia
Ford Anglia
Lotus Elan (current)
Austin Mini
Ford Classic
J2 Van
Ford Transit
Ford Mk1 Cortina
Ford Sierra
Vauxhall Astra
Austin Ambassador
Vauxhall Royale
Ford Mk1 Fiesta (only car bought new)
Range Rover
Robin Hood (current)
Chevrolet Blazer (current)
VW Fox (current)
Ford based motorhome (current)
Plus 7 RS Sierra Cosworths that I bought and stripped (one still to be stripped).
 
Well im older so a few more than most. I also usually have 3 cars. Workhorse, Posing Sports car & something stupid. Ive owned 51 cars to date & the Mrs is on here 8th.
 
Oh let's see, in order of appearance -
1976 Morris Marina 1.3
1980 Honda Accord EX 1.6
1983 Honda Prelude EX 1.8
1986 Lancia Thema V6 2.8
1988 Citroen AX GT 1.4
1986 Ford Escort Ghia 1.6
1988 Nissan Silvia S12 1.8Turbo
1986 Austin Metro L 1.3
1995 VW Golf GL 1.8
2006 VW Golf GT Tdi170 (current)
1989 Porsche 944 SE Turbo
1995 Nissan Skyline R33 GTR VSpec

Looking back through that list I can see the ups and downs of my life, career and relationships. Never thought of it like that o_O
 
So 1986 must have been a real low point for you Andy o_O
Ah actually the dates are the year the car was made not years I owned it in. The list is in order of ownership so my 1st car was a 1976 Marina, my 2ND car was a Accord etc.
So the Prelude was when I went into frontline retail sales and was doing well. The Lancia was when I went into management, that was when I was about 22 years old I reckon. The Citroen was because the Lancia nearly financially broke me so had to go small.
Escort was because I was engaged by then I needed money to set up home so bought a cheap £200 quid runabout Ford.
Silvia was because I was stupid I wanted a sports car. Metro was new wife's car and Silvia had to go to pay for new furniture and baby stuff.
1st Golf was because we wanted bigger safer car and 2nd and current Golf we bought brand new in 2006 as we made good money selling our house moving from the big town to the country.
The Porsche and Skyline were my toys in the last few years when I was doing well in business but my priorities have changed and family is put first now so do much much less hours at work.
My life story in a car list, I feel so cleansed
 
Yeah It was just, it suddenly dawned on me when I wrote that list how it triggered memories of what was happening in my life and how it kind of reflected in my car choice at the point in time. It was quite deep n spiritual man :cool: (I'm going to get some food now as I haven't had any today yet and I think I'm losing it a bit ?-/)
 
Wouldn't it be nice if we could get a list from the DVLA of all owned vehicles..... :(

From what I can remember:
Started driving in 1996...
1986 black Metro
1988 beige Nova S
1988 red Golf C
1979 white Golf GTI
1986 black Golf GTI
1988 black Golf GTI
1989 green Golf C
19xx silver Vectra
19xx white Volvo Turbo something
1988 black Golf GTI
1994 Impreza WRX STI
1998 Impreza WRX STI (current one)
2007 Hyundai I20 (the wifelet's car)
 
Thats a nice collection, You got some pretty quick cars quite early on. I might copy this to a new thread as it will be interesting to hear from others....
 
Yeah, I loved those GTIs, but they all had problems (mostly age related) and never really lasted beyond a year of me thrashing them. The GTIs were in my street racing days.... (yeah yeah, I know, young and dumb etc ;))
 
I haven't any new cars but we picked up a lovely top of the range 2007 Clio with only 32000 miles on the clock and we know the previous 2 owners. Looking at my earlier post my 1st car was a very basic 100 quid Marina and Chloe now gets aircon, abs, remote HiFi, central locking etc etc... How times have changed :rolleyes:
 

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