Cars you miss
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My first car was a 20ish year oldTriumph Spitfire[^]. I didn't do any archery though. I bought it cheap, it leaned one side but I wasn't worried. They often do this as the weight of the driver unevenly wears the transeverse leaf string that bolts onto the diff and the rear uprights. Problem was I didn't really know what I was doing. I replaced the spring, better but not right. I took it to get the brakes sorted (the one thing I wouldn't do myself),they put it on a jack. I immediately saw the problem: the chassis had rotted round a drainage hole and had be re-welded end to end, not strong enough in itself, and the weld was rotting. I ended up spending two months of weekends dismantling the car and putting it back together. Thats said, it was a mad laugh to drive. Very low to the ground, so it felt fast even if it wasn't, geared low so it would leave modern saloons standing at the lights though it got asmatic at speed (especially without the overdrive). I heard a rumour somewhere that someone got it to 98mph, top down. In the dry it handled like a peach, in the wet it was dangerously skittish. I used to keep a toolkit in the back in winter to put some weight over the rear axle. The second year I owned it the classic car insurers would cover me and fully comp was way lower than third party for my dad, who had & has a full NCB & clean history. I used to enjoy working on it (good job really) and it is surprising how many days of good topless fun you can have in the UK. One of the saddest days of my life when I realised I couldn't affort to keep it (I went back to Uni and graduted in 2001 - just as the jobs market collapsed) and sold it. It was very much my car as I'd pretty much rebuilt it. I bought another one when I got a proper job, but it wasn't the same, I miss that car.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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It's funny how a particular car you've owned is often associated with a period of your life. I had one of these[^] - a 1980 Holden VC Commodore wagon. I had it when I met my partner and we have a lot of fond memories of road trips around Australia, camping, moving house and some parking in it. It was also a really useful, practical car. The back seat was pretty much always folded down which left a surprisingly big, flat, space in the boot and given it was so old and worthless we didn't really care what got thrown in there. I bought it in 2005 for $1500 and sold it for the same in 2008 to a man who had 'love' and 'hate' tattooed on his knuckles. It never once broke down while I owned it, in fact I didnt do anything other than have it serviced a few times. Now we have a much more modern car with a five star safety rating, three child seats across the back, a blanket in the boot in case we need to bring some fertiliser home for the garden and a collection of Thomas the Tank Engine stories in the cd stacker. I miss that car.
My first car was an MG Metro[^], it was a really fun car and was extremely reliable. That got replaced by a Porsche 924[^] which I had until I moved to Hungary. As a carefree bachelor I got the only sensible car, a Trabant 601 Combi[^]. This was my favourite car that I no longer have. It was almost impossible to drive it without laughing :laugh: After we got married we had a Suzuki Swift X| , then an Opel Astra and now we have an elephant awful, engine eating Zafira. I also have an NG TA[^] and that is the best car.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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It's funny how a particular car you've owned is often associated with a period of your life. I had one of these[^] - a 1980 Holden VC Commodore wagon. I had it when I met my partner and we have a lot of fond memories of road trips around Australia, camping, moving house and some parking in it. It was also a really useful, practical car. The back seat was pretty much always folded down which left a surprisingly big, flat, space in the boot and given it was so old and worthless we didn't really care what got thrown in there. I bought it in 2005 for $1500 and sold it for the same in 2008 to a man who had 'love' and 'hate' tattooed on his knuckles. It never once broke down while I owned it, in fact I didnt do anything other than have it serviced a few times. Now we have a much more modern car with a five star safety rating, three child seats across the back, a blanket in the boot in case we need to bring some fertiliser home for the garden and a collection of Thomas the Tank Engine stories in the cd stacker. I miss that car.
In '91 I bought a 1979 (late bay) VW Camper - drove it all over the country and loved it but sold it a year later and went to live in a tent in Holland whilst doing odd jobs on farms and in local businesses over there. Last year my wife and I bought a 1976 VW Camper, we have restored it and we are having a great time going to VW shows, camps with other late bay owners etc.
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It's funny how a particular car you've owned is often associated with a period of your life. I had one of these[^] - a 1980 Holden VC Commodore wagon. I had it when I met my partner and we have a lot of fond memories of road trips around Australia, camping, moving house and some parking in it. It was also a really useful, practical car. The back seat was pretty much always folded down which left a surprisingly big, flat, space in the boot and given it was so old and worthless we didn't really care what got thrown in there. I bought it in 2005 for $1500 and sold it for the same in 2008 to a man who had 'love' and 'hate' tattooed on his knuckles. It never once broke down while I owned it, in fact I didnt do anything other than have it serviced a few times. Now we have a much more modern car with a five star safety rating, three child seats across the back, a blanket in the boot in case we need to bring some fertiliser home for the garden and a collection of Thomas the Tank Engine stories in the cd stacker. I miss that car.
My first car was a Datsun Cherry called 'The Babe', myself and my best mate paid a hundred quid each for it, another mate chipped in 50 quid and the three of us with one other embarked on an epic two weeks around Devon and Cornwall with that and a two man tent, telling each campsite the other tent had been stolen from the roof rack so that they would let two of us sleep in the car. We were all 17. We liberated loads of bits it was missing from local scrapyards, for example a wing mirror I bolted straight onto the wing and that folded in flat if you went above 60 - I claimed this was to reduce wind resistance at higher speeds. We had a Playboy sticker on the back, a turbo sticker on the gas pedal, and a Blaupunkt tape player gaffer taped to the parcel shelf. On the way down a bolt fell out of the rear window and one of the lads had to sit with his finger in the hole keeping it in place until we found a scrap yard. After a couple of days the battery packed up and we were given another that didn't fit the car so we had to either park on slopes or jump the car from this spare battery. We ran out of money well before we went home, and went to extreme measures to save fuel for the journey home, including pushing it rather than using reverse on service station car parks. Ran out of petrol as I drove down my street having dropped all my mates off. Kept it for about another 6 months until the insurance ran out and my mate's dad scrapped it. I think that may be me at the rear[^] Me in the driver's seat[^] Me in the stripey top[^] Me on the left of the car[^]
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It's funny how a particular car you've owned is often associated with a period of your life. I had one of these[^] - a 1980 Holden VC Commodore wagon. I had it when I met my partner and we have a lot of fond memories of road trips around Australia, camping, moving house and some parking in it. It was also a really useful, practical car. The back seat was pretty much always folded down which left a surprisingly big, flat, space in the boot and given it was so old and worthless we didn't really care what got thrown in there. I bought it in 2005 for $1500 and sold it for the same in 2008 to a man who had 'love' and 'hate' tattooed on his knuckles. It never once broke down while I owned it, in fact I didnt do anything other than have it serviced a few times. Now we have a much more modern car with a five star safety rating, three child seats across the back, a blanket in the boot in case we need to bring some fertiliser home for the garden and a collection of Thomas the Tank Engine stories in the cd stacker. I miss that car.
And years from now you will have just as many fond memories of this one.
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My first car was a 20ish year oldTriumph Spitfire[^]. I didn't do any archery though. I bought it cheap, it leaned one side but I wasn't worried. They often do this as the weight of the driver unevenly wears the transeverse leaf string that bolts onto the diff and the rear uprights. Problem was I didn't really know what I was doing. I replaced the spring, better but not right. I took it to get the brakes sorted (the one thing I wouldn't do myself),they put it on a jack. I immediately saw the problem: the chassis had rotted round a drainage hole and had be re-welded end to end, not strong enough in itself, and the weld was rotting. I ended up spending two months of weekends dismantling the car and putting it back together. Thats said, it was a mad laugh to drive. Very low to the ground, so it felt fast even if it wasn't, geared low so it would leave modern saloons standing at the lights though it got asmatic at speed (especially without the overdrive). I heard a rumour somewhere that someone got it to 98mph, top down. In the dry it handled like a peach, in the wet it was dangerously skittish. I used to keep a toolkit in the back in winter to put some weight over the rear axle. The second year I owned it the classic car insurers would cover me and fully comp was way lower than third party for my dad, who had & has a full NCB & clean history. I used to enjoy working on it (good job really) and it is surprising how many days of good topless fun you can have in the UK. One of the saddest days of my life when I realised I couldn't affort to keep it (I went back to Uni and graduted in 2001 - just as the jobs market collapsed) and sold it. It was very much my car as I'd pretty much rebuilt it. I bought another one when I got a proper job, but it wasn't the same, I miss that car.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]My favourite car that I miss is also a spitfire. http://sweavo.no-ip.org/~sweavo/Spitfire/img_web/028_25_spit_in_habitat_3.JPG[^] brum brum. The whole car only came up to the door handles on a small SUV http://sweavo.no-ip.org/~sweavo/Spitfire/img_web/DSC00785%20spit%20home%20quarter.JPG[^] It was good and reliable as long as you fixed it twice a week. Drove it to France and Holland with only several parts falling off en route. On the france trip the speedo broke so we had to print off a table of gear ratios and figure out what revs in what gear were legal on what types of road in what country.
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My first car was an MG Metro[^], it was a really fun car and was extremely reliable. That got replaced by a Porsche 924[^] which I had until I moved to Hungary. As a carefree bachelor I got the only sensible car, a Trabant 601 Combi[^]. This was my favourite car that I no longer have. It was almost impossible to drive it without laughing :laugh: After we got married we had a Suzuki Swift X| , then an Opel Astra and now we have an elephant awful, engine eating Zafira. I also have an NG TA[^] and that is the best car.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
It was almost impossible to drive it without laughing :laugh:
Well, if you cry you can't see where you drive. But I agree, it's a really funny car. Having the design philosophy that if something doesn't exist it can't break. Needless to say, they failed. But atleast it was one of the easiest cars to mend, if you had access to a smithy and some paper glue.
Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions
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It's funny how a particular car you've owned is often associated with a period of your life. I had one of these[^] - a 1980 Holden VC Commodore wagon. I had it when I met my partner and we have a lot of fond memories of road trips around Australia, camping, moving house and some parking in it. It was also a really useful, practical car. The back seat was pretty much always folded down which left a surprisingly big, flat, space in the boot and given it was so old and worthless we didn't really care what got thrown in there. I bought it in 2005 for $1500 and sold it for the same in 2008 to a man who had 'love' and 'hate' tattooed on his knuckles. It never once broke down while I owned it, in fact I didnt do anything other than have it serviced a few times. Now we have a much more modern car with a five star safety rating, three child seats across the back, a blanket in the boot in case we need to bring some fertiliser home for the garden and a collection of Thomas the Tank Engine stories in the cd stacker. I miss that car.
My first car was a Ford Capri[^] '73. It was a really fun car to own, and a surprisingly good winter car. But it was going all over the road, and after one year I found out why and had to get rid of it as every possible part in the front suspension was broken. My next car was my favourite, it was a Ford Granada Mark1 '77[^] that was very comfortable and just kept going for many years until the engine was simply worn out.
Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions
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It's funny how a particular car you've owned is often associated with a period of your life. I had one of these[^] - a 1980 Holden VC Commodore wagon. I had it when I met my partner and we have a lot of fond memories of road trips around Australia, camping, moving house and some parking in it. It was also a really useful, practical car. The back seat was pretty much always folded down which left a surprisingly big, flat, space in the boot and given it was so old and worthless we didn't really care what got thrown in there. I bought it in 2005 for $1500 and sold it for the same in 2008 to a man who had 'love' and 'hate' tattooed on his knuckles. It never once broke down while I owned it, in fact I didnt do anything other than have it serviced a few times. Now we have a much more modern car with a five star safety rating, three child seats across the back, a blanket in the boot in case we need to bring some fertiliser home for the garden and a collection of Thomas the Tank Engine stories in the cd stacker. I miss that car.
I had one of these for a few years: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C4BcwP8UmZA/Td8A_tyImvI/AAAAAAAAAa4/L7BdDjyWB5o/s400/1994%2BChevrolet%2BBlazer.jpg[^] minues the ugly red stripe, plus fiberglass grill + flat black brush guard. I had it in high school, sold it in college, still miss the thing. I even have a top end Cherokee and miss the old Blazer with its clothe seats and primitive digital dashboard.
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old XT Falcon
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