Practically Classics Forum

Oof! OK, so I was about to say that any sane person would have no option but to choose the Volvo thing from that lot, but then you surpassed yourself and found the RWD Mazda 323! Not only a RWD Mazda 323, but a RWD Mazda 323 Estate.

I need to take a lie down, preferably in a bath full of semolina.

mazda 323 frogeye.. i thought i was the only one... ive had the bug since i had one in the 80s, it had been a driving instructors car with new front & rear panels, slighty rotten in the middle & i loved it... my brother needed a new car so father sold/gave it to him

That was what the 1978 ad said (quoting from a Car Mag story), so how come the streets aren't full with the things even now? Cheap, Russian steel, that's how. So you see, not only would a good, early 323 show a Chevette up in every way, the Mazda could state, quite legitimately, that it had a lot in common with the Alfasud! Yes, I love these. I love these even more than I love K10 Micras. I'd even swap my rust-free AE92, with its 1587cc of free-spinning yet unburstable twin cam grunt, for a 1st generation 323.

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i keep trying to get wifey to let me have it but she said no

Rich, there comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice between the love of a good woman - complete with a marvellous crop of bairns if the bloke is blessed as you are - and a car.

OK, so the car in these cases is usually red, Italian and driven by Americans with dodgy moustaches but the principle stands. I find that afterwards is the best time to ask permission for car-related spending, but then I am currently single again so maybe what you need is someone else's advice?


But you know you need that 323, so maybe some organs could be sacrificed to the cause?

talking of selling organs im sure she would quite happily cut them off & sell them to the nearest dog pound.. as large as they are its not enough to buy that lovely mazda

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please come & buy the 406 id like my shed back

Postman pat must have retired to France!
Why is the 406 still in your shed? I'd have pushed it in to a canal by now

ive been waiting for my mate to make his mind up...

Mmm, tyres for a broken Peugeot! Nice try!

Do I detect a general Mazda fetish there mate? I have to admit that the 626 floats my boat, the Bongo less so as there are stacks of Bongos on eBay at any given time and those examples usually have kitchens and bunk beds. Mind you, they also tend to have rotten rear arches, sills and floors so the tipper idea solves that problem. I can visualise a traveller's wagon attached to the back of that tipper, now that would be a cool camper.

This sort of thing, and the Mazda's tipper would save having to use a vacuum cleaner as you'd simply open the door, nail the furniture down and tip the dirt out:


Hell yeah!