What do you drive?

I drive a 2001 Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet. 2.0L



5 Speed Manual

What do you drive?

In the UK, it's called a Mk4 Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet
In America it's called a Mk3.5 Volkswagen Cabrio?
In Germany (where it was built) it's called a Erdbeerkörbchen..

My car is UK spec', first registered new in the UK/GB.
3 previous registered keepers before myself, making me the 4th..
In the UK we don't have a deed of ownership, but this car is mine; I kept the sales receipt of the used car place I bought it from and everything; Just registration!
We also insure the driver, not the vehicle, so 'only people insured to drive my car' are ever allowed to... So you'd have to get temp' car insurance (as well as my permission) if you want to run down to the grocery store in it, in England.

 

It beats an Oyster Card.

 

I had never seen your thread where you posted that pic before until just now.
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/50647-from-my-motor-pool-1967-alvis-stalwart-fv622/

Looks great fun.

 

Damn! My secret is out.

Works well when we have flooding around here.

 

I would feel happier if this thread title was "What DID you drive"

To explain.......

I first learnt to drive in December 1942, in the Army and some 73 years ago, and when I was demobbed in 1947 I simply swapped my Army licence for a civvie one and therefore never passed a UK driving test.

A few weeks ago, following a stupid error of judgement on my part I trashed my Toyota Yaris and decided this was a message from the gods that enough was enough and my driving days were over.

I miss the car for local trips but as a senior citizen I have a free travel pass and shall manage OK.

Ron
73 driving years is not bad

 

Either my Red Chevrolet Silverado 4WD 1500 Pickup or my big green army (go to the woods) truck. When we go places we normally take the wife's civilized vehicle.

Three years or so ago I was going to buy a bobbed deuce. I even posted about it here:

http://www.ww2f.com/topic/51270-infantry-transport/

I had been putting money back and looking at prospective vehicles. One of my friends asked my wife what she thought about it, she was like whatever he wants to do. Now she's been married to me long enough to know I don't always make the wisest long term decisions, (and occasionally short term). Anyway she finally saw a picture of one. Once, she figured out what it was she didn't want me to get one.



Bobbed Deuce with 53" tires.

She asked you really don't want one of those do you? Want one, I'm gettin' one. She knows I can be stubborn and the surest way to get me to do something is tell me I can't. So I come home one day and she says, "I bought you an Army truck". I said, what? Where's it at, I started looking around for my bobbed deuce. She said, get in the car and we'll go get it. Yes! Man I'm glad I married you. You're the best wife. Then we get to the guys house and it's not a bobbed deuce but an M-1009 CUCV. I said, that's not a bobbed deuce, don't buy it. She said, I already have. Just drive it home and you can sell it and get the other truck. OK, seems reasonable. She said, you know it's got a 6.2 liter (379 cubic inch) Diesel in it. Really? Yep. It's a 3/4 ton truck and has the heaviest duty running gear GM made that year. Really? OK, I'll drive it home. We get home, how'd you like it? Not, bad, pretty big truck. She: "You know you could take the money you've put back and put a lift and 35's on it. It would look really good". It had 14,000 original miles and was an Indiana or Illinois National Guard truck (the Tac markings are in it but I don't remember which). I ended up keeping it. I really like the truck. Actually, drive it a lot. Get 18 miles to the gallon. Have people try to buy it off me all the time. Guys at work, people at the supermarket, people at the hardware store, guys in the woods. Never did get my bobbed deuce, probably never will, and to tell the truth I am probably better off that I didn't.



One plus about her choice is that parts a relatively easy to source when I break it. I even found a new tie rod when I bent mine up on Aetna Mountain. It's a great replacement for my previous "woods truck" a built 1977 CJ-7 Jeep. Broke that bad boy more times than I'd like to remember but she always got me down off the mountain.

Aetna Mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfSaQTXPTUo&nohtml5=False

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffxxKgqBS4&nohtml5=False

Edited 04/08/16 to fix missing picture

 

That's me smiling during my Sunday morning commute:


Caught up in rush hour traffic:


The source of my user name, gives an extra boost!


Hey George, wanna run for pink slips?

 

Funnily enough, from The Horse Back Street Choppers, March '16...



In typical Phylo fashion it's already very different since then! Lower at the back, higher at the front, different saddle etc....

 

Well I was going to post a picture of a JS 111, that one shot dead on that looks like a cross between Jabba the Hut and a really mean looking vehicle but cannot find it.

I may drive the most boring car here, a 2004 Honda Element but at least it is a manual with all wheel drive . I started driving at 12, in rural Alabama in a war surplus Jeep and all these years later, at 76, I have never had as automatic transmission car or truck. Just like shifting gears. I hope it will last me on out but if I buy another it will be a Ford Escape with a normally aspirated engine and manual , of course..

I was thinking about a Ferrari 212 Barchetta Corsa but the local dealer said he has not had one since 1952....Dang.. used ones run $800,000 to 3.5 million so if you guys want to start a crowd funding drive I would appreciate it.

Gaines

 

a bicycle mostly

 

I ran into this tonight after work...





I ran into that gold plated Ferrari today... Was cool.

 

Never had a licence...or car.

 

Ben, So the UK has a 1% too ! ......In 1980 I received a sabbatical from my school to study the work of Lutyens, MacKintosh and Voysey for 12 weeks. I reserved a true Mini at Gatwick but when I arrived they were out and offered me a Datsun Sunny , if I recall correctly. . They told me to check back and in 3 days. I traded the Datsun for the Mini and put 6200 miles on it ! I was alone, the Mini perfect, the best summer of my life. It was a Ferrari to me ! In a perfect world they would have mistakenly given me a John Cooper Works model ! But a Mini in Cornwall was perfect

Gaines

 

200B is a classic...

 

my uncle was like that.....very interesting

 

01 Town and Country - LTD - Nice car in great shape---and I have kids

99 Grand Caravan - 300 K MILES....rust and some other color. Favorite to drive. Embarrasses the kiddos. I've pretty much given up on spending money on it. It will die of rust before the drive train. Different colored parts on some of it. My wife had a thing for moving stationary objects for awhile. Great car for teens to learn to drive especially since 2 of them are really bad drivers. On recently hit a mailbox.

92 Civic - Almost an antique and in great shape. The Japanese made great cars then.

I get my full money out of the. 600K Miles and 56 total years. Would drive any of them across the country. All original drive train.