Longest and shortest time you've owned a car

[thrashermax]

Longest for me Ford Escort XR3i convertible. It was my second car, money was tight and I couldn't afford a replacement soon enough... I liked it initially but then it started annoying me!



Shortest time, Merc A Class bought for my wife, it smelt of petrol, squeaked and rattled and build quality was poor... It lasted 2 weeks.

[tofufi]

Longest:



13 1/2 years and counting - looked rather different when I bought it though!

Shortest:



Nothing ostensibly wrong with it, I just bought it to use as a donor for cruise control. Owned it a few weeks and sold it on (minus the cruise control) for roughly what I paid for it

[hohocc]

No photo handy but my longest is my 72 Hillman Hunter. Mum bought it new when I was 4 months old as my pram didn't fit in the Morrie.
Not currently roadworthy but the 10th of next month will be 46 years of ownership.

[Paul Y]

30 years.

Shortest

2 weeks



Picture stolen from internet - will upload my one tonight.

Really miss one. Couldn't carless about the other. Will let you guess which statement applies to which picture...

P.

[outrage]

Shortest: A Simca Rallye 1 which I bought at the age of nineteen. It was taken out after two weeks by a girl that didn't give way (sorry no photo). I stored some of the parts in a friend's mouldy basement.

Longest: A Simca 1000. I drove it for eight years. When I bought it, the engine was knackered, so I remembered the engine which I stored in the mouldy basement 5 years ago. We pulled it out and threw it in the Simca and went for a road trip to Italy the next day. Needless to say that the car didn't give us any trouble.

Eight years later I put it away in a shed of a friend to restore it one day, where it was stolen and never appeared again.

[avg]

Just completed a 6 year rebuild of this but owned it 19 years now.


This one was on the road for 15 minutes before a drunk decided to run me off the road

[igor]

When I was 19 I bought a '51 Standard Vanguard sedan. I recently turned 52 and I still have it although I haven't driven it since the 80's.
In '95 my then wife and I bought an Isuzu Gemini. I think it lasted about three months. I was a truly horrible car. The best thing she ever did was to get it into a spin and slam it backwards into something large and immovable, crushing the boot up to the back seat.

[ChasR]

Longest was this. I had it for almost 10 years. In that time I learned to drive in it and then began the time-breaking task of converting the car from a Rubber Bumper to a Sebring Replica. In hindsight it was alot to take on for a first project but hey, go big or go home eh?



Shortest was this one:



I bought this off Tepper as a part-ex against the 205 GTI. I was very tempted to keep it and it is probably one reason why I bought my W124 250D.

It was not a bad car at all, but for me at the time, it did have more issues than I wanted for it to be a keeper, especially since the Stag was giving me its share of issues. As a result I sold it onto a friend within a day for pretty much what I paid for it. The above picture is now how the car looks.

[SamJ]

I've owned this just over 8 years now...



and shortest was 48 hours, no pictures, but a mid-2000s ford focus estate which my OH put into a kerb in the snow the day after I bought it destroying the front right suspension and cracking the side of the gearbox...

[Phil H]

Does it count if you legally own (exchanged cash and docs) cars but never actually receive them before selling them on so you never actually have them, hence new owner collects it from the previous seller (or temporary storage on a mates lawn)? Done that a few times..

Other than that, bought a spares/repairs Sierra Estate once. Picked it up, removed the bits I wanted en route to the scrappies having never got it off the back of the towcar..

Longest is one of the Scimitar fleet that I bought about 22 years ago. It's been hiding in various garages since before I ever owned a digital camera, hence no pic available

[darrenh]

10 years and counting



lasted 1 MOT

[tristanh]

Mk1 Golf, 15 years or so and counting.
Mk3 Capri, one week

[Deleted]

Hmmmmmm.

Longest: a green Austin Metro with a tuned 1380 engine in it and, I think, twin SUs (I didn't care for such details back then, I just knew it was a race tuned engine by a retired Morris engineer). I had that for about five years give or take until it rusted into nothing.

Shortest: An Alfa Romeo 156 which I accepted as a replacement for a bad 147 that died. I had that for a handful of days. At a guess I'd say less than a week.

[Imperial]

I owned an idectical escort to this for 20 mins, the owners dad came round and gave me a refund.it seems his son 'forgot' to mention the chassis damage

This is up to 12 years and counting, i don't see it going anywhere in the near future

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[Darkspeed]

Probably getting on towards the longest now. Must be 9 years



And a similar one was the shortest - Probably 9 days



A good friend found out I had picked it up and then shouted at me until I agreed to sell it him! he didnt have to shout too long - then as now I had too many.

[Dorset_Clive]

Longest (I think)...bought just after our son was born (cliched parents? Surely not!!). It was 4 yrs old and with about 80k on the clock and cost £10k. Sold it nine years later at 160k but only for £1000.

(generic internet pic)



Shortest were a series of totally unsuitable cars bought to do a rally. Generally owned for only a few weeks...long enough to do the rally prep, compete, strip and flog on again!

Amongst the victims, were...

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(far to shiny for me!)

[Dorset_Clive]

Oh and I ought to give my wife an honourable mention...she bought her Renault Clio about 20 years ago...and we've still got it in the garage...MOT'ed but not taxed at the moment. Took her to our wedding two years ago!

[stefan1971]

Had this PT cruiser for 12 years don’t know why I got rid of it as it never let me down once.



And had a Peugeot 306 cab for 6 weeks. No picture of it though.

[Waxoyling Lyrical]

Glad you mentioned a 306 Cab; I bought one a few years ago, going cheap because it had been sat. Sorted the brakes and various issues to get it MOTd and of course, just as summer came along, the cambelt snapped while cruising very sedately at about 10 mph as I was approaching home, nevertheless causing umpteen bent valves. I had the local garage fix it at rather more than they (or I) expected, then sold it PDQ, to an ex-pat guy who said it reminded him of Malaga.

Today, I just waved goodbye to a 1992 Mitsubishi GTO that my brother bought for £400 then gave to me as a gift a few weeks ago. The car looked good and I had some fun with it, alas, it had a slipping automatic gearbox so I put it on E-bay for spares/repair and sold it for £431, so we got our money back at least. It's currently on its way up to Blackburn, so hopefully the buyer will be able to fix it fairly easily...

Longest I've owned a car is the 1970 Morris Minor Traveller I got given back in 1989 for my 18th birthday. I keep it mainly because its simple and fairly reliable and still very useable/practical, and dirt cheap/free MOT, insurance and road tax.

[davidpallister]

Longest on-the-road: 205GTi, owned 7 yrs, only sold it due to unplanned arrival of mini-me

Longest off-the-road: VW T3 Transporter camper, owned 11 yrs, (3 yrs on road, 8 yrs and counting off the road, currently little more than a rolling shell)

Shortest: Mk1 mondeo, 1 week, bought to run round in whilst replacing head gasket on the above 205GTi, timing belt snapped after 6 days!!!!