What was the first car you owned?
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
Lancia Beta HPE 2000[^] Great fun to drive, reliable, easy to get spares, easy to work on, economical to run, cheap to insure. It was one of these. :laugh: [edit]Add "Corrosion resistant" to that list.[/edit]
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
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Lancia Beta HPE 2000[^] Great fun to drive, reliable, easy to get spares, easy to work on, economical to run, cheap to insure. It was one of these. :laugh: [edit]Add "Corrosion resistant" to that list.[/edit]
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
Land Rover series 2A (LWB) - it could go absolutely everywhere except past a petrol station Coast me £300 to buy - and about £700 to get through its first subsequent MOT :doh:
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Land Rover series 2A (LWB) - it could go absolutely everywhere except past a petrol station Coast me £300 to buy - and about £700 to get through its first subsequent MOT :doh:
LWB not used for off road then?...
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I'm guessing fun to drive (?) nearly all Lancia's were made from rust, a pig to work on & frank fuel from what I remember of them :(
Indeed it was: the paint held them together (for a while). You had to dismantle the cooling system to change one of the spark plugs...and it had twin, staged, down-draft Dell'Orto carbs, both with accelerator pumps. But...it was worth it! :laugh:
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
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LWB not used for off road then?...
It was yes - the rear load space was big enough for a bed hence it was used for really lazy camping/hill climbing.
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Land Rover series 2A (LWB) - it could go absolutely everywhere except past a petrol station Coast me £300 to buy - and about £700 to get through its first subsequent MOT :doh:
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
it could go absolutely everywhere except past a petrol station
...until the half shafts packed it in... :laugh:
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
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It was yes - the rear load space was big enough for a bed hence it was used for really lazy camping/hill climbing.
A friend of mine did (probably still does, haven't spoken to him in a while) off road/terrain trials always reckoned the LWB would get stuck in area's where his SWB would get out of...
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A friend of mine did (probably still does, haven't spoken to him in a while) off road/terrain trials always reckoned the LWB would get stuck in area's where his SWB would get out of...
Totally agree - the LWB can get beached...however the lack of power steering, the leaf springs and the solid unsprung bench seat means your internal organs will have been liquidised long before that happens.
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
1984 Toyota Corrolla[^]. /ravi
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
'89 Mazda RX-7 bought it in '97 for $1000 lasted for a few years without A/C until I bought a 2000 VW Jetta, which was a great car when it wasn't falling apart.
Curvature of the Mind now with 3D
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
A '76 Chevy Monte Carlo[^], yellow and black and rust, aka. the Bumble Bee Mobile. Paid $200 USD, lasted about a year. The door panels would flap over 40mph, had a pretty decent stereo though.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
I drove 7 cars over the last 20 years, but owned no car - never. The first 3 was of my father, and the other are belonged to the company I work for...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
1981 Honda Prelude, drove it until the transmission locked up. Loved that little car. First cars I drove were a 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (4 doors, vinyl top, and AM only radio) and a 1972 Ford Pickup truck (with the gas tank inside the passenger compartment)
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
1941 Chrysler Highlander. Dave
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
Mine was a Wolsley 16/60[^] in blue. Paid £20 from memory - from a guy who split up with his wife - I think it was his wife's car. Did me well for a few miles, but cracked a cylinder & would have cost more than I had to fix it. I tried leaving it in the local car park with the window open and the keys in the ignition - but I jsut got a note from the council telling me it would be towed & I would be fined, if I didn't move it. Eventually I paid someone a case of beer to remove it :(
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Mine was a Wolsley 16/60[^] in blue. Paid £20 from memory - from a guy who split up with his wife - I think it was his wife's car. Did me well for a few miles, but cracked a cylinder & would have cost more than I had to fix it. I tried leaving it in the local car park with the window open and the keys in the ignition - but I jsut got a note from the council telling me it would be towed & I would be fined, if I didn't move it. Eventually I paid someone a case of beer to remove it :(
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I had a 1958 Standard Ensign that I bought for £41. It was a tank! Weighed over a ton and had non-servo, non-disc brakes. Stopping it was an adventure. With its 1296cc engine, starting it moving was fun too. No power steering, cross ply tyres. Bench seats. Column gear change. Accelerator had a cable drive that left the throttle wide open if it broke, ask me how I know that. I loved that car. Says a lot about me perhaps.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Mine was a Vauxhall Viva HA [^] Paid £50 (about $120 in the late 20th century). Lasted for a few months until it caught fire. :)
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