Practically Classics Forum

Rhythm Thief wrote:

rich. wrote:by the way i quite fancy an early micra.

They're great. My other half had one when I first met her. You can really fling them round corners and drive them flat out everywhere without seriously endangering your licence. And you hardly ever see them around nowadays ...

I have a secret longing for a really nice K10 with the CVT option. It would have to be a red one, 'cos the one that features in my recurring Micra-related dream is that colour, it would definitely need to have the smell of Werther's Originals in the glove hole and it absolutely, positively must have a slipping reverse clutch and dodgy kickdown switch for that full-on, 1990s K10 experience.

admin wrote:Who cares what a classic is? It's just a name...

JPB, over on the previous page, wrote:Cars..//...I guess the motoring press needs a label for those once they've become a less common sight on the roads; "Practical Classics" is much more catchy than "Practical older motors that we like but cannot explain why."

Not for me- horrible things!! Years ago when I started in the civil service (1988 ) our official office car was a yellow mini- great fun and a pleasure to use! It got replaced with a Micra- the thing was terribly unreliable, you'd go through a right palava to sign it out, and then it wouldn't start....grrrrrrr. Being a crown car it was exempt from road tax and insurance but proper traffic wardens and coppers knew what the exempting sticker in the window was, but this was the parking privatisation period when parking control became the domain of the underpaid and ignorant - the thing constantly got clamped for having 'no tax', it was always a nightmare getting it released...I was glad to see it go in favour of own-car user mileage allowance!!!

Back on topic, does the car on the cover have an effect on sales? Do more modern chromeless less classicy-looking cars pull sales down? I'm curious!

What constitutes a classic?

Its what I drive

End of

I would like to see a Kia Pride in the mag,especially with the white band tyres

But I am a bit odd.

i would like to see a datsun 180b & a micra on the front cover.

Mrotwoman wrote:I would like to see a Kia Pride in the mag,especially with the white band tyres

But I am a bit odd.

After overcoming the mildly euphoric episode caused by the words "Kia Pride", I went a Googlin' and found:


Ooh, check that rubber.

rich. wrote:i would like to see a datsun 180b & a micra on the front cover.

Now you're talking, but perhaps that idea could be stretched into a special supplement about the entire 1970s and '80s Datsun range?

JPB wrote:

rich. wrote:i would like to see a datsun 180b & a micra on the front cover.

Now you're talking, but perhaps that idea could be stretched into a special supplement about the entire 1970s and '80s Datsun range?

Definitely. I bet that'll take loads of readers back down memory lane. I remember when I had an E Reg Nissan Sunny. 1.6 it was, with electric windows and everything, it was dead posh.

Must count as a classic by now, no?

Amy wrote:

JPB wrote:

rich. wrote:i would like to see a datsun 180b & a micra on the front cover.

Now you're talking, but perhaps that idea could be stretched into a special supplement about the entire 1970s and '80s Datsun range?

Definitely. I bet that'll take loads of readers back down memory lane. I remember when I had an E Reg Nissan Sunny. 1.6 it was, with electric windows and everything, it was dead posh.

Must count as a classic by now, no?

gets my vote, i love sunnys!! my mate had one when you could pick up a runner with tax & mot for £50, it was 15 yrs old not been serviced in years. one winter it froze solid, i turned up with some anti freeze & jump leads she fired up first time... it ran for ages until he swapped it for a cavalier sri which was a pain in the bum

I could read about that sort of stuff all day. Far more interesting than pages of pictures of shiny E types (£50 000+ ... for a car??) or whatever. Not that E types aren't classics, but how many memories do they hold for none of us? Speaking personally, none whatever, and I think the nostalgia thing has to be at least a part of what constitutes a classic car. I enjoyed the Maestro in Russia thing in the last PC partly because my family had a Maestro when I learned to drive. But mostly because it was such a bonkers thing to do.

JPB wrote:

Mrotwoman wrote:I would like to see a Kia Pride in the mag,especially with the white band tyres

But I am a bit odd.

After overcoming the mildly euphoric episode caused by the words "Kia Pride", I went a Googlin' and found:


Ooh, check that rubber.

Good god that's nice !

Brings back memories of young girlies (without a clue) buying their first brand new car on finance and pikey schools of motoring

I had an F reg Sunny, 1.3 GS ,first motor I've ever had with electric windows and central locking,I abused the hell out of that thing,never serviced it and it never,ever let me down. A quite possibly blind chap in a Marina crashed into the side and it still kept soldiering on.
Nothing to write home about,but a bit of respect for the old beast