Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) So what other non Morgan classics have you owned ?

I bought my wife a new White MG Metro in 1988. I can only remember it had red seatbelts and used oil from new!

Spitfire, tuned Mini, GT6, Stag, Le Clat ( fibreglass bodies special Aquaplane tuned ford engine). Elise, Westfield, F430, F type, F360.

Kept the Stag for more than 30 years - it was more of a rolling garage project, much of which was down to my seire to take thigs to bits and potter with them. For example an auto box rebuild because I wanted to see inside an auto box. Of that lot the best sports car was the Lotus. The Worts, and a heap of dangeros junk, was the Westfield that a friend left me in his will. He was dying when he gave me it and I am damn sure he wanted to make sure that his son didnt get anywhere near it. I sold it on for the same reason.

I've owned cars that are now viewed as classics, but when I bought them were just cars....VW Golf GTI mk I (1600) Peugeot 205 GTi, TVR S2, but back when I was a student I was into minis, the first one being a clubman (not a classic), but then two Morris Cooper 998 MkIIs on which I did loads of work, really cutting my teeth on them when it came to car mechanics. My Haynes manual had oily fingerprints all over it. I'd have loved a Cooper S, but couldn't afford to either buy or insure one.

I still have a real soft spot for the mk II Cooper, and would have another one like a shot if I could get it past

Ford Pop 100E, Mk1 Escort, Mk3 Spitfire, Mini Clubman, Hillman Imp, XR4i, Celica Supra, Couple of S2A Landies, and a S3.

Mini 850
Morris Cooper 998
Midget square arch
Vitesse Mk2 Conv
1975 +8
Daimler Dart
Capri 2lt
2 x Mini Estates
2 x Escorts (Fords 👀)
2 x Astra GTEs
2 x LR 110 CSWs
Caterham 7 R400+

What I learnt.
The laws of physics always prevail, just cause it says "Cooper" on the back, it won't go always round corners!
The Vitesse was faster than it looked.
The +8 with it's baffles drilled out, would blow flames out on overrun.
I love Landies.
Caterham's love to eat supercars, but not on a motorway.
I did miss that look along the Mog's bonnet.

I would LOVE a sorted GT6

Top Trumps...I win!
Two Austin Maxis, 1750 HL of course! Also a Metro for when she went onto District Nursing.
Bonesie , same here. A mate I worked with years ago had one.

Plenty of Jags
E Types
XK120
XK150
Mk1 and 2's
TR6's
TR4
TVR's
MGB's
Jensen CV8
loads more .....

Currently looking at a Marcos - anyone owned one on here ?

1969 - MGB Roadster
1965 - Triumph TR4A (on throttle bodies)
1978 - Ford RS2000
1969 - Triumph TR6
1972 - Triumph TR6
1987 - Mercedes 300SL
2004 - BMW M3 Converible
1971 - Triumph TR6

I have owned/had in my possession over 50 cars & LCV (a quick count up - including company cars).

One I had that I wish I had now - that was however, a company car - a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth...boy they felt fast in the day!

2 MG Midgets ('60's era)
1968 MGB GT
Triumph Stag (in my Hong Kong batchelor days - not the most ideal place to own one given the traffic and the heat, but a head-turner there as one of only three I knew of in HK at the time - sold after the gear box seized rather dramatically!)