BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat

Subject: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: The PA
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 04:59 AM

Is it me, or are there lots of old cars around. Over the last couple of weeks I've seen cars with registration plates from the 70's and 80's, Morgans, MG's, Triumphs, all in quite good condition. Am I noticing them because I also drive an oldie (1974 Range Rover). So, what do you drive and how old is it - who has the oldest car on the Mudcat? Any takers?

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 05:18 AM

Interesting subject..especially since the government are considering banning all cars over ten years old from our roads......(UK that is)
I love going to classic car shows and admiring the work of those really dedicated people who fully restore clapped out old vehicles into almost new condition.....the Government are in for a slating if they try to bring this in.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Shaneo
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 05:29 AM

Not that old , but mine is rare in Ireland at least, a 1995, S280 Merc. I have been told there is only 11 in the country .
In Ireland they buy number plates ,not cars , they want to be seen driving a new car.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: GUEST,Rog Peek at work
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 06:05 AM

Classic Cars is my other main interest.

I have a Reliant Scimitar GTE 1972 owned for 26 years, used regularly and coming up for some tidying up shortly including a respray .

Also have a 1970 Morris Minor restored and converted from a saloon to a convertable (tourer as they were called)by me about 15 years ago.
In a former life this car was a Bristol police car (Panda car as they were called in those days).

Also have a 1968 Reliant Scimitar GT (Coupe)3litre version (only 600 made) totally dismantled for restoration.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: The PA
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 06:12 AM

Guest - that is impressive, particularly the Moggie Minor.

My Rangie had a private plate when I bought it, I sold the plate to pay for some repairs and was surprised to find I could have it registered with its original plate. It's in perfect nick except for the tail gate which is being replaced soon. It tows my horses trailer all over the place and never lets me down.

Oh, how about motor bikes any really old ones out there?

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 06:13 AM

We have a 1930 Ford model "A".

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Pilgrim
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 06:40 AM

Kendall,

Beat me by 24 years. Part owner of a 1954 TR2 myself. Is the Model A stock?

Pilgrim

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: GUEST,Sir jOhn
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 07:57 AM

2005 Bentley Arnage Turbo.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: The PA
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 08:10 AM

Thats not an old car - unless you have a new one every week. Stop showing off !!! (Jealous,jealous,jealous!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 08:39 AM

68 AMX ( needs valve work). 77 Mercury comet with 46K miles, 79 Jeep Cherokee Chief.


I want a 62 Williams!!!

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Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 09:06 AM

1999 Honda Civic.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: mack/misophist
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 10:12 AM

Never had a car. My '96 Honda Magna is in very good shape, though, and getting old enough that people take pictures of her. There don't seem to be many older bikes on the street.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: mandotim
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 10:15 AM

For my daughter; 1989 Citroen 2CV, but the design is pretty much unchanged from 1938!
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Ythanside
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 11:00 AM

Ours is a Land Rover so old that the plate number's in latin. Reliable, comfortable, runs superbly, and treats snow, mud and rocky hillsides with disdain. Wouldn't swap it for anything, except perhaps SirJohn's Bentley.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 11:04 AM

2000 Ford Winstar. Hopefully it will last forever.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 02:53 PM

1987 Dodge Ram conversion van with a flush toilet and refrigerator.
Over 200,000 miles. 3rd engine and third transmission. It has the big V-8, a 4 barrel carburaetor, and a 36 gallon gas tank. It gets only 9 MPG when the ac is running and it runs on only super premium gas. The other side of the coin; no car payments except to the mechanic. A new one with a toilet would cost me $70,000 which I do not have.
                                                    SOL

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 05:24 PM

'63 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia... Runs and look great... Radio and heater...

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Phot
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 06:20 PM

1989 Landrover Discovery, 3.5 V8, 422 off the production line, so built on a Range Rover chassis, runs as sweet as the day she rolled out of Lode Lane! Just wait until next year when I fit the tubular Janspeed headers and exhaust, who needs a stereo when you can listen to a V8?!

Is it me, or do most folkies have a thing for Landrovers?

Wassail!! Chris.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: DannyC
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 06:26 PM

1962 TR4
Scandalous Red

Odd little offset hump in the hood.

The essence of motoring - but keep adequate taxi fare in store for any substantial sojourn "just in case".

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Rowan
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 06:38 PM

I used to have a thing for Landrovers; when I was running a school camp I had the camp's 1964 LWB ute and my own Forward Control from the same period, colloquially known as the Flying Wombat. But neither was useful in town nor in the extreme north of Oz. In town and on the highway between Steiglitz and the various capitals where I sang and played the '68 Corolla was the go. In the Territory you could wait for weeks for Landrover spare parts while Landcruisers were like buttocks; everyone had two. I still have the '78 FJ40 from Oenpelli, but it only gets used for heavy haulage; the '88 Subaru wagon is the main transport and has been for 450,000 km.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Darowyn
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 06:39 PM

My oldest vehicle is a 1936 Francis Barnett 250. Rigid frame, girder forks and a hand gearchange.

My mother's cousin bought it new.

Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: open mike
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 07:02 PM

as far as old vehicles go..i have a 1940 Ford Tractor..
it mowed the field and spread gravel recently...
a good work horse!

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: The PA
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 03:13 AM

It's happened again on the journey home from work last night a 'D' registration (1960'ish) Austin 1800, that old faded blue colour. Then again this morning on the journey to work some kind of sports car quite old, the age of the black and chrome numberplate. Couldnt see what it was I was going round an island at the time. Can cars have ghosts, am I the only person seeing them. ?????

Oh yes, and my husband has a 1970's Zetor Tractor.

Lets include everything and find the oldest vehicle on the Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 07:52 AM

Pilgrim, yes it is totally original. To take a fine old vintage car and drop a 426 blown hemi into it is a crime.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: GUEST,Phot, at sea again!
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 08:33 AM

Kendall, didn't the model A have the option of a flathead V8? Dropping a blown Hemi into one might be a crime, but it sounds like a lot of fun! One of my mates has hot rodded a 1948 series 1 land rover.

Wassail!! Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 12:36 PM

1979 Toyota Corolla - we call it The Raisin, it's so dented, and brown. Best used car EVER!

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 01:18 PM

Ahhhhh, Phot... If I'm not mistaken the first Ford flathead V-8 came out in '32, which I believe was after the A models...

As fir the Capt'n's A model, I'm sure he would know that it was completely original seein' as he bought it new off the showroom floor... Awwww, jus funnin' wid ya, Capt'n... We all know you ain't a day over 39...

Danged!!! I forgot that I also have a '63 Chev ramp truck (car carrier)... It ain't running right now and may never run again with me as an owner seein' as I got a 454 cu.in. outta a old motor home and put it in the ramp truck and ran into a little problem with the clutch shaft and the 454 exhaust manifold both wanting to occupy the same space and, well, haven't had much time to get back to it, especially now that I know I'm gonna have to go with a set of headers (yuck) so the slutch shaft will have it's own space... And I hate headers...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Mickey191
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 06:51 PM

May I just talk about a car long gone! In "67 I bought (surprise for hubby) a '48 Studebaker Bullet nose sedan. Paid $250.00 and had only 28,000 miles. It sure was an attention getter & he loved it! A city bus slid on ice a year later & demolished it. Broke his heart. Thanks. Nice memory.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 07:57 PM

Right. The v/8 came out in 1932 in the model "B". If I recall right, the model B would give you an 8 or a 4.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: open mike
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 08:16 PM

Oh yes, i USED to have a '67 Dodge Dart, slant 6, push button transmission. Or was it a Plymouth Valiant,,,yes, and it's name was
Prince Valiant. Everything made sense when you lifted the hood you
could tell what everything was. You could get to the oil filter with out scraping your knuckles, and it was so dependable. the Lug nuts tightened in opposite directions, depending on which side (driver, passenger) of the car they were on...i guess it was engineered that way
so that the wheels would always be tightening as they drove, i bet a lot of folks (or foolks) learned that the hard way by trying to loosen the nuts by turning the wrong way til they snapped....but what a machine!

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: pdq
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 09:37 PM

Chrysler Corp. stopped producing the pushbutton automatics is 1964, but you are right on everything else. Well, maybe the distributor placement on the "slant 6" could cause a few scraped knuckles, but it was a fine engine.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: coldjam
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 01:55 PM

'89 Conversion van-Ford Econoline. We don't see a lot of older cars on the road here. I think they are systematically doing away with them. They are crushing older cars so parts are getting impossible to find...you CAN work on older vehicles...I don't think "they" like that...newer ones you're pretty much at the mercy of a mechanic, or you have to be a contortionist & have special equipment to get AT the parts. Soon all us poorer folks will be walking...good for writing folk songs though! (walkin' down that long lonesome road don't cha know)

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 07:45 PM

Kendall asked me to put these pictures up.

You can see them here.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: coldjam
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 08:43 PM

Cool car! I also like the moose and the shawl btw.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: EBarnacle
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 10:26 AM

Lady Hillary is the original owner of a 1981 Toyota Celica Hatchback in running condition. The car was the top of the line at the time she purchased it [sunroof, etc.] and the car is currently looking for a new owner. All inquiries gratefully appreciated. It could be readily restored or modified.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 07:19 AM

So the oldest existing car on mudcat is?

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 07:28 AM

My 1930 Ford.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Scoville
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 04:50 PM

We just sold a 1974 standard VW Beetle daily driver (we considered this to be a late-model Beetle). There's a 1977 MG-B rotting away in the back yard that would love to be fixed up if anyone is so inclined (it starts and recently had a carbuerator rebuild, but the interior and rag-top are present in spirit rather than in fact). Will sell it cheaply.

I also know where you can get a 1937 LaSalle in need of some TLC if the MG isn't a big enough challenge.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Neighmond
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 01:39 AM

Well, there is a 1927 Packard in the barn here. Orange and brown-smokes and sucks oil but I can drive it if I have to. I actually drove it during the blizzard earlier this year because the higher wheels made it easier to get into town.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 04:19 AM

I drive an 81 Charade - my mum had it for years - it did several Brisbane - Aledaide trips, one with a return via Victoria and The Great Eastern Road (12 Apostles, etc) - 50 mpg ... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 07:27 AM

Neighmond, where do you live? I'd love to see this Packard.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 08:45 AM

Chrysler Corp. stopped producing the pushbutton automatics is 1964

The "1965" XM410E1 8x8 transport truck that I ran prototype evaluation tests on for the army, at Yuma Proving Grounds from 1965 - 1968 had the notorious "push button automatic" transmission. My memoirs show that we broke more than 40 sets of buttons in the process of demonstrating that the Chrysler proposal was "less than optimum" for adoption by the Army.

Although I did manage to break an axle off mine, my testing was less severe than the Marine Corps crew at San Diego, who sank theirs in ~60 feet of water in San Diego harbor, while swimming it around. The crew at Ft. Knox reportedly lost more than a couple of weeks when theirs was mired in the mud and eventually required an M88 to get it out.

Not exactly a happy experiment for Chrysler, although it was a real fun sportster for cruising around the desert.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Scoville
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 10:27 AM

Neighmond, where do you live? I'd love to see this Packard.

No kidding--that's got to be a contender for the oldest daily, or at least utility, driver as anything out there.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 11:25 AM

My Ford is registered and driven frequently.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Scoville
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 11:28 AM

Which body type is it? My uncle has a 1929 Model A coupe in the process of being re-restored. Restored in the early 1970's; the paint/interior/etc. are pretty rough right now but it runs well.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 07:17 PM

(I dont have it anymore, but my first car was my dads beatup 72 cortina station wagon). It was also easy enough to work on my own.
But handy, I remember going to a lumberyard and putting in a couple of sheets of 4x8 plywood. Just as I was going to put it in the guy at the lumber yard chuckled and said.. theres no way that youll fit those in..
After I easily put them in, he said thats a handy little car.

In Czechoslovakia, our first car was a used little fiat 600..
(it took years of saving to get a car).. We did a lot of touring when I was a kid, and sometimes stopped by a lake or pond and used the water to
wash the car.. This proved to be a bad idea in Yugoslavia, when we stopped by the ocean (for the first time) and decided to wash the car.
after that my dad had a hard time opening the doors..
He ended up giving it away to the family that we stayed with in Rijeka.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 08:05 PM

Ours is a two door sedan. A real "plain Jane".

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 08:25 PM

Cool A model, Capt'n, but I kind like the ol' Packard better...

Nice shawl, J...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 09:47 PM

I agree. The Ford rides like a buckboard, but the Packard I had rode like a cloud.

Subject: RE: BS: Oldest Car on the Mudcat
From: Neighmond
Date: 14 Jun 07 - 02:43 AM

I am in Iowa,
and My old Packard floats like a yacht. It needs some real engine work(valves and rings), but when it's running right it'll rival the best of them. good thing is if it won't start I can crank it, and I usually got a 50/50 chance of it NOT taking my arm off.