Classic cars you really dont like...

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Whitewash

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So i was watching a tv program last night (american program called 'chasing classic cars' - it wasn't very good) and they had a Morgan on there and it got me thinking, there are very few classic cars which I hate everything about, morgans look stupid in my view (every single one, even the modern aero8 looks like the facial expression of a hammer head shark), using wood structurally in a car is daft! any way im rambling!


are there any classic cars that anyone else hates with a passion?
 
I have been to a few classic car shows recently and have seen a few cars that I don't actually hate but I do wonder why they are there.

Triumph Acclaim - this signalled to me one of the last death throws of our car industry in the UK when we sold out to Honda. I don't like seeing them there.

Someone turned up at the Doncaster show with an 04 plate Fiat something or other. Not really a classic car, in my opinion that is :)

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PS - Love Morgans. I used to drive a three wheeled one around in my youth (My Grandad's with a V-twin JAP engine)
 
I'm afraid I don't really like the MG TD, for me it looks too much like a kit car trying to be a classic car..
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Don't really like the Hillman Hunter or the Morris Marina either, I'm afraid, or the Austin 1100. They just don't do it for me at all..
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Then there's anything by Simca...
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Probably alienated a whole raft of classic car buffs now.. :roll: :oops:
 
I'm far too easy to please, I like almost all those cars, love morgans, like the old MG's, love the landcrabs (spent most of my childhood in an austin 2200)

Not an allegro fan.

If anything, it's MGB's I don't like, especially fixed roof ones. They're just too common, and a bit lame, I've worked on a few and have never been impressed. But I still wouldn't say I hate them.

Not a fan of very modern cars at classic car shows, I think anything less than 20 years old is a bit new, especially as they still look new to me :LOL:

I guess I just love cars, period, especially interesting ones, with features you just don't see any more, or styling features that you can't have any more because of safety. Computer tech in cars doesn't excite me, I see too much of it everyday, so mechanical engineering tech is much more interesting to me.

Recently I've been seriously considering getting rid of my 75 and going back to using my early 820 as a daily, I just prefer it. I almost had an accident in the 75 a couple of weeks back because at a roundabout an entire 3 series BMW disappeared in the blind spot created by the A post !
 
Although I dont like all classic cars, I really like the individuality that goes with the choices that people make to use them rather than a modern. Any classic no matter how odd or ugly says more than a modern!

Rich
 
I appreciate the purity of the first MGB's, but by the time they had put them on stilts and added melted tyres fore and aft, they had well and truly lost the plot, when all said and done, it is only a Cambridge in a party frock. I also cannot understand the Midget, an A35 someone took a chainsaw to.
I think this prejudice might have come from the day I was driving in the opposite direction to an MGB road event, I was in a Standard 10, I had seen various classics that day, pre and post war, everyone waved and flashed their lights. Over 30 MG's? not a response. But in defence of MG owners must be hard to have peripheral vision with your head up your.......
 
I've been pleasantly surprised by some odd cars in my day (Fiat 128, Hillman Hunter even first generation Honda Civic and Nissan Micra) so wouldn't dismiss any out of hand.
But if the question was which cars are we most likely to walk past at shows without a second glance, it'd be Ford Escorts, anything young enough to have plastic bumpers and Beetles.The Beetle and the Allegro are the only cars I wouldn't want to own under any circumstance, but that's based on experience rather than just blind prejudice.
 
John said:
Over 30 MG's? not a response.......
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We have a rubber bumper MGBGT, which isn't a bad car, although since we've just got a Dolomite Sprint, the MG will have to go...

However, what you say is absolutely true. We always noticed this ignorance before we got ours, but when you're driving an MGB, the other MGB drivers still don't acknowledge you! :roll: It's almost as if an MGB is bought because it is seen as the only classic car to the uninformed & perhaps uninterested, rather than buying a classic car for the interest in classic cars per se.
 
And I thought it was only me that MG drivers didn't acknowledge. Seems to be a common occurance. Having said that I parked up next to an MG at the unofficial Metrocentre car meet thing they have and the MG driver chatted to me for ages! But then he really WAS into classics, he had a P6 at home he was restoring :D

MG's do seem to be the choice for the uninformed potential classic owner. A mate of mine harped on about buying a classic for ages, I tried to steer him in the direction of Triumph :oops: but he went out and bought an MG instead. Anyway, classics I don't like. Austin Allegros again for me, also for some reason I'm not keen on MK2 Escorts.

Will.
 
I wonder if a lot of MG owners never actually do any work on them themselves ? That would explain a lot.

We had an MGA (one of my fave's) at our show a few years back, turned up an hour early, demanded to be allowed on site, then wanted to know where the tap was so he could fill his bucket to wash the car :LOL:

I gave up giving people advice about which car to buy (or more importantly what not to buy), they either ignore you completely, or blame you everytime a bulb blows or something.
 
webmaster said:
Not a fan of very modern cars at classic car shows, I think anything less than 20 years old is a bit new, especially as they still look new to me :LOL:
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Me neither.. There's a guy in our village with a "W" reg (2000) PT cruiser, in metallic red with an ever increasing amount of chromey stick on tat, like flames down the side, & stickers everywhere. He's very proud of it, and goes to loads of shows, parking up in amongst the old MG's and Jag E-types etc. :LOL:

Each to his own I suppose, but it's only 11 years old, and still looks new to me.. :roll:

On the subject of ignorant drivers, there are quite a lot of quite high end classics around where I live, Jag E-types, XK150's, Austin Healey 3000's that sort of thing, and most of them don't flash or wave, or acknowledge you when you do. I was out in the P6 today though, and passed a guy in a Triumph GT6 coming the other way, and he flashed & waved; & I did likewise back. Its quite nice, and doesn't cost anything!
 
MGB's seem to attract owners who sit on their folding chairs at car shows and don't look at any other cars
Maybe they are scared of seeing just how much better the other cars are ?
Most old cars interest me , ones that went through banger status in the 70's and 80's and now look better than new
 
Interesting, I wonder if a "classic car" is related to the age of the person looking at it. I am 50 yrs old and certainly wouldnt think a car which is under 25 years old is a classic car worth the title. Is that because I was well into my 20's when they were probably common on the road. Maybe the younger generation see the cars of the late 80's as the cars they remember when they were young.
 
Really interesting . As i was reading through i was thinking why don't the mgb brigade wave . Me and the old man have both noticed it over the years . I have met a few people at shows with them that are nice people ,although they have had other classics as well . I wonder if it's a way of fitting in at the golf club without having to spend thousands on a top end merk/bmw !
I wave and flash ( stop sniggering ! ) at anything pre 1985 ish
stina
 
If its French or a VW,give me a box of matches! :twisted:
Skoda,Lada,Moskvitch,Fiat,NSU,Daf,, :?
Some post 1990's car going to classic car shows,can be classed as modern classics,,if desireable and rarish,but post 2000 cars should not be allowed in whatever they are and banished to the carpark.
 
I am just over 50 and will wave and flash at anything over 25yrs old! :LOL:
Even when I am in my truck! :roll:
 
V8P6B said:
I'm afraid I don't really like the MG TD, for me it looks too much like a kit car trying to be a classic car..

Don't really like the Hillman Hunter or the Morris Marina either, I'm afraid, or the Austin 1100. They just don't do it for me at all.
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I'm with you there. The Hunter's a cup-price Cortina, and ADO16's are nightmares, we should know. I've a slightly softer spot for Marinas.

The one Classic I really dislike more than anything else - VW Beetle. I know it's basically a pre-war design, but I'm sorry, but they are horrible.

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The Holbay engined Hunter GT and GLS was a nice handy bit of sleeper kit. Looked like a grandad car, went suprisingly quickly for its time with well matched ratios. The later badged Humber Sceptre had very little point though.


John
 
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