Parhaps they dont wish to attract the attention of the I R S by looking jolly loooooool

To the scrap yards , i m guessing !

Hahahaha I laugh because I'd do the same 😀 Ferrari is nice...... Buttt. An aunt owned an early Uno in a solid Kermit green colour.

Hub nut loves his wipers!

Still snobbery here. The winners of the various categories are nearly always immaculate sports cars. Bit boring really.

The US has the excellent Concours D'Lemons which celebrates the underdogs of the motoring world.

Craig Z List Radwood too for 80’s and 90’s goodness.

We have Festival of the Unexceptional.

@@HubNut Honestly Ian, with your professional credentials of working as an editor for car magazines, you should be asked to be one of the judges. Only then can these orphan cars get a fair shake and representation at these car shows. Who seconds my motion?

Buy a Renault 18 - great headlight wipers and washers on those!

Feeling distraught . Have owned two Saab 900's didn't have a headlight wiper between them .

Still miss my pagent blue Dolomite 1500 O/D NNO 840V. Now drive a 1 series which I think is its spiritual successor what with its stillborn R30 connection.

We used to own a classic Mini. Had great fun winding up the tourists. Few could stick with me through the bends!

$150,000 worth of Gull-Wing SL. 0-60 in 3.4 I'd not complain to find it in my stables. Ian's self admitted terrible pre-war knowledge don't help me none. I think what he called 'minimalist motoring' was an MG Midget M-Type with a Double-Twelve Brooklands racing body. I could use that kinda MINIMALIST dosh in my bank account.

The car I grew up with was an '88 Mitsubishi L300. 6-seater van, basic spec. That means: vinyl floors, plastic headliner, plain pressboard door cards on the sliding doors and rear hatch (and by plain I mean totally untreated, they'll immediately get dark water marks if you ever open a door in the rain), no sound deadening whatsoever. Simplified dashboard (no clock, no rev counter, no glowplug indicator etc, no variable speed wipers, no automatic rear-door locks) and quite a few other details (among the least notable of them the lack of make-up mirrors on the passenger-side sun visor). Oh and no power steering! I learned to drive in that car and parking always made sure you had strong arms! Once you were moving the large wheel made driving fairly easy but turning the tyres of the standing car required serious force. Top speed with the 69 BHP 2.5l straight Diesel was around 130 km/h according to the speedo, probably somewhere around 120 in reality but going past 120 on the speedo was strongly discouraged by the fact that you felt as if you had a hole in the tank. I adored that car, although I do admit that the 96 9-seater GLX my parents drive now does have its merits. At the end of its lifespan (2012 at 245k km) the '88 was completely rusted through in spots, needed a new cylinder head, new brakes, new rear leaf springs, the electrics were iffy but it still ran just fine! The last time I drove it for more than a quick round around the block one of the rear number plate lights was out (wire had fallen off thanks to corrosion), none of the three bulbs in the dash was working anymore (so at night you had to guess your speed based on the rev counter between your ears) and the MOT was two months overdue (in Austria you're sort-of allowed to run a car for four months with an overdue MOT but if the police consider the car unsafe they can shut it down immediately). Interesting trip I can say! But the van was loaded up with furniture up to the roof and two people and it was a lovely ride!

Not really it's still a sports car all be it with a crap engine. Hubnut is more crap cars with crap engines. Re owning one if performance and equipment is your thing your money would be better spent on a new car. It would make an ideal classic.

Capri a sports car? It was based on the Cortina, with a live rear axle on leaf springs.

@@mehrzahl2219 yes champ a sports car. I didn't say it was a particularly good one but it has a sports body so that would make it by definition a sports car. And what's wrong with cortinas? I suppose the lotus cortina is crap? And modern corvettes have leaf springs. I suppose they aren't sports cars either? I suppose you could call it a sports coupe but it is a car so.. btw they weren't "based" on a tina, they just used some of the mechanics. Based on means they used most of. Some old fiestas used escort parts but that doesn't mean they were based on them..

Colin Johnston I do like the Capri. I just don’t get why Ford put such lame engines in it. So keeping a 1.3 base version on the road requires a special kind of character.

No, don't remember seeing one.

She is, but she's leaking oil pretty badly at the moment. She might be about to become a winter project...

That comment caught my ear as well... we own one. A US-spec Escape vs. a Kuga, and we like it very much, thank you. That said, it's my wife's car. ;-)

Hideous modern is a term I apply to pretty much anything built after 2010...

They didn't seem at all fussed. Some Vauxhall Vectras took offence some years ago and moved elsewhere!

As a youth, I preferred the 17; now, I much prefer the 15 even though it had a small (Renault 12?) engine.

Yeah, my father regularly used me as a starter motor on his A60 before he went off to work in the morning. He was too skint to renew the battery, and it being an automatic, we couldn't bump start it. Try to get kids do that nowadays??????

Yes indeed,those were the days. Also the starting handle was used to lower the spare wheel by fitting into hole in boot floor

A friend is selling one. Over £4000 though! They have shot up in value.

I've no idea. Interesting question.

Indeed. I have been to the big power meet in Vasteras. I was in a Citroen H van, surrounded by American metal!

That show pretty much sums it up ;) Bet you had the coolest car around...

the closest thing to the 1000 Classics show here is the Tjolöholm Classic in May, with bigger variation an lot's of cars, both posh and more Hub Nut-esque. Not nearly as big, but still nice. Sadly it use to be very few french cars but this year that error seems to be corrected. Can't wait!