Last car you owned before moving here

[Tywais]

Looked through a few pages but didn't see a matching topic. Starting this one as I came across some old photos I had just before moving here. 1992 Ford Probe with 3.0L V6 Vulcan engine and 5 speed MT. Joint venture between Mazda and Ford. It was a smooth engine and quick enough. The one annoying thing is it had motorized automatic seat belts.

Yes, I had a fondness for Phuket back then. They disallowed my use of Phuket 1 for my vanity plates. Reason, profanity not allowed, who would have thunk you could pronounce it differently.

[Tywais]

One other annoying feature was it had a very significant torque steer. Got caught by surprise a few times when the wheel virtually jumped out of my hands. I'm not sure but perhaps FWD (front wheel drive) was not common in the US at the time and the engineers didn't have a handle on correcting this.

[Crossy]

The Probe was introduced by Jeremy Clarkson with the words "this car can snap knicker elastic at 200 yards".

My last car was an E34 Beamer 320i in white with the M50 straight six. Small engine but went well enough

EDIT Added photo, in the snow in Tervuren, Belgium with Wifey

[laolover88]

Mercedes 190 Fabulous Car. Still have

[jay1980]

Mark 1 Audi TT

[overherebc]

Marcos 3.5 litre. Weight about the same as a sparrow and not sure how many horses.

[lemonjelly]

Peugeot 305 van with a 1.9 litre 5 speed diesel that I'd taken out of a 305 estate, love Peugeot Diesel engines

[BSJ]

Mitsubishi Verada....an Australian/Japanese version of an American Buick!

Same colour as the one in the pix.

[djinn]

Everyday car:Chrysler Stratus Cabrio

Week end cars :ferrari 328 GTS and Mustang Mach1 1969

Sold everything in 2003 and now a Teana in Thailand.

[overherebc]

Did the 328 windscreen wipers work in the rain and internal door trims stay in place all the time ?

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[fasteddie]

525i SE Beemer, loved it, old one with 4 spots vgc in red (nightmare to keep red, kept going pink), really comfy car and drifting delight.

[djinn]

  On 4/20/2016 at 3:12 PM, overherebc said:

Did the 328 windscreen wipers work in the rain and internal door trims stay in place all the time ?

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Yes everything was perfect,Had to replace one of the 2 airco command module .The Ferrari price was crazy and some Lancia had the same one...so bought this one

Steering became very light over 210 km/h.Even dangereous.(and I was rcing driver in my 20 s and 30 s)

[Jim walker]

Jaguar xk150 1958 with a 3.8 and a Morris traveler 1972 still have both

[DILLIGAD]

328i coupe, Boston Met Green.

[JaseTheBass]

[rodcourt49]

Ford Mustang 1969 Mach I...move over 'transam' ..shift that blue thing and make room for 'djinn' and me...feeling hemmied in?

[rodcourt49]

  On 4/21/2016 at 2:41 AM, transam said:

  On 4/21/2016 at 2:20 AM, rodcourt49 said:

Ford Mustang 1969 Mach I...move over 'transam' ..shift that blue thing and make room for 'djinn' and me...feeling hemmied in?

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...there seems to be more interest in the 'Landies'... ..nice photos..you sure did a lot of work on her!

[hansiver]

Citroen C5. A wonderfull car

[Tywais]

  On 4/21/2016 at 3:33 AM, transam said:

except the crank which was a 1969 piece..

You had one of these on it?

[rodcourt49]

  On 4/21/2016 at 3:57 AM, Tywais said:

  On 4/21/2016 at 3:33 AM, transam said:

except the crank which was a 1969 piece..

You had one of these on it?

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..I think he means the 'crank' in the driver's seat...

[Daffy D]

  On 4/21/2016 at 3:57 AM, Tywais said:

  On 4/21/2016 at 3:33 AM, transam said:

except the crank which was a 1969 piece..

You had one of these on it?

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One of my very first cars ever had one of those

[Daffy D]

A real blokes motor:-

[SantiSuk]

Jaguar XKR convertible. Sold a couple of years ago with only 60k km on the clock, having owned it from new for 10 years. Goes like $hit off a hot shovel !!

Would like to say it was a babe trap. It had its moments, but it mostly attracted the attention of pre-pubescent youths and old men.

[richard_smith237]

957cc Ford Fiesta MK1 - every CC counted... couldn't pull the skin off a custard. The fastest it ever went was freewheeling down a hill !...

I was 17 and sold it when I was 18 for money for Uni. Shortly after Uni I came out to Thailand.

(This is not my actual car - but the photo is very close)..

[james.d]

Owned.. was a Triumph Dolemite - green with vinyl roof.

[Kwasaki]

Last car I owned was a auto Volvo 244DL had it for 23 years.

Last vehicle I used to have before coming here was a company Vito van, a shazy little dashboard mounted gearshift and a very good turbo diesel engine.

[C5VETTE]

C5 Corvette that I sold in 2003

[Fookhaht]

Ford Taurus sedan.

Anybody impressed?

[dominique355]

My last, every-day car before moving to Thailand was an AUDI RS6 Avant, with ABT Tuning (530 HP).

I toyed with the idea of bringing it to Thailand, but left-hand driving and import tax convinced me not to.

Then I got an AUDI A6 3.0 TDi here and had tears in my eyes...

[lemonjelly]

  On 4/21/2016 at 9:51 AM, james.d said:

Owned.. was a Triumph Dolemite - green with vinyl roof.

The vinyl roof period, late 70s, remember it well. The Dolomites were solid cars, remember the local ER room nurses pulling flakes of Dolomite cream paint out of my mangled leg many years ago