My Cars

[John1.4]

hi all, I thought i'd write up a project post for my new car, but also show you all what came before...

Part 1-

my first car - Citroen AX, bog standard apart from a spoiler later on, and the (rare?) 106 3-stud alloys, here seen entering my first car show - FCS 2006 at the proving grounds



after moving to uni in Croydon, I moved on through a few different models of ax, first a gt500,

she never ran, or saw the road, with a blown head, cracked block and no interior or electrics, she ended up scrapped when I bought this...


a 1992 Gti, which I tooled around in for about 2 years, and having gone to castle combe for a few shows, and my first track session, was 'unhappy' with how little I could do to it - it was too good with nothing to sort or fix... igh:

next came a stream of ax's, a couple of zx's and a xantia

the xantia was my 12th car, and my 3rd diesel, for the 1st 2 months I had to drive it essentially as a NAD, as it kept popping boost hoses, when I fitted a boost guage I found out why..lol it'd been messed with, it had a modified 9? bosch pump, larger front mount, and only 28psi of boost it didn't even smoke...





alas, my wife then passed her test, and I needed something that we could both drive - in comes the ax again...lol can anyone see a recurring theme?



with a custom leather interior - made by yours truly


which brings me to my most recent (and car number 16...lol)

[C2K]

Lol at the AX steering wheel, I remember you could introduce about 4 inches of play at the top of the wheel if you pulled it haha.

Interesting place to photograph your 306!

[7057sam]

just noticed the middle of the road photoshoot

nice to see you have kept up the love for french crap

[1616six]

Lol at the AX steering wheel, I remember you could introduce about 4 inches of play at the top of the wheel if you pulled it haha.

Interesting place to photograph your 306!

AX steering wheel = drug dealer storage area, behind where the airbag would be is like a tardiss! I used to keep maccy d's ketchup pots in mine!

[Matt-Rallye]

Yay! an AX friend

My old GT before i parked my landrover on top of it...

[John1.4]

lol massive thread dredge! i'd forgotten i'd written this one.. badly lol

photos of the 306 were from the seller who owned the yard behind the houses (where the mini is)

i think i'll update this with better / more complete pics of my cars, it's not nearly exhaustive.. lol

[John1.4]

1 - Luceille, 954cc AX, taken 2 months before she sold,

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2 - Cassie, 1360cc Gt500, scrapped as pileofshitanddidn'trunetc

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3 - Muffy, Ax GTi - AWESOME FUN, trackdays and general hooning done and enjoyed

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4 - Betty, Mk1 Ax GT, problems galore, bit of a pig to drive, destroyed the Gbox at santa pod :/

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5 - Rachel - Ax GTi, again, great trackdays, but didn't get attached and sold on for rent after 3 months or so

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6 - Beth - ZX 1.9 NAD, POS but reliable, just needed new brakes - VT 247mm did fine

had to go to facebook for this pic as they no longer exist...lol
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first half done..ish

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7 - what came next? ah yes, Penelope - the testbed for mods

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welded arches, 4 stud suspension, planned ITB's and stripped interior but never happened,

8 - lewis - needed something to drive whilst penelope was fixed, so bought yet another AX , 954cc petrol

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9 - volcane time

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1.9Td, ended up with cracked block and oil / water everywhere, shame really as i loved it

10 - Xantia 1.9Td, 28psi, pump fiddled with, volcane alloys (cos they had good tyres)

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11 - Punto, 1.2 petrol - was free, was POS

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hopefully it got crashed / scrapped / crushed, properly hateful little shitbox

[John1.4]

12 - Corsa sport 1.6 16v, was going to keep for cheap giggles, but no-one would insure it... despite me being 25, 8 yrs no claims, never crashed, safe area etc

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13 - another ax - helen passed her test so for cheap insurance - Valerie

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14 - ford Zephyr 6 deluxe, 2500cc, essex v6, 19k miles, rusty as shit

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15 - Seat Alhambra 2.0l petrol, proper barge, bought as a project to make some moneyz

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16 - Peugeot 306 Td Estate - bought from the auctions as a bit of a project as well, sold after 3 days for a profit = win

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17 - Renault clio 1.2 16v, didn't actually get any pics of this, as it was a project but drove it as a daily for a couple of months, lowered 40mm, fixed, then sold

18 - peugeot 306 1.4

up to date, blimey that was harder than i thought, most of the photos i had are scattered around or don't exist, next thing to do is to go through the 3k+ photos of cars / shows and archive them properly