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Re: best cars
really difficult this…
over the years I’ve enjoyed
1) frog eye sprite (1959)
2) Triumph Gt6 (1966)
3) Several MGB GT’s (1968’s)
4) Bmw 3.0 SI (1972)Now I run an Audi S6 which although a cracking car the “list” in their day were just as much fun…
Kevin
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Mine is a peogueot partner combi escapade 2003 model, it was good because it acted as a van when I was vanless.
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I also had a 1974 MGBGT and that would have to count as giving the greatest fun factor. It was what I used in 1998 when I first started doing appliance repairs. If I needed to move appliances I used a big trailer, which I was never very good at reversing. Once I had to reverse the trailer about a mile down a single track road, when I met a tractor with a huge trailer coming the other way. Happy days…. 😉
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I always say the car I have got now, no matter what it is.
Lost count over the years regards cars, must be in excess of 40 let alone motorbikes before that. The longest I kept a car was the one I’ve just got rid of, a 6 speed Golf estate on a V plate registered in 2000. I had that one for 5 years. Never cost me a penny except servicing, but lost shed loads on trade in. My fault for being too lazy to dispose of it outside the trade. Plus the fact the price of it new came down by about £6k within weeks of me buying it.
Shortest I kept a car that I bothered to register was 6 weeks. Triumph 1300 1967 registration. it was a heap, certainly a B.L. disaster. There was one or two I moved on without registering in my name as they were just passing through.
Alex
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I’ve had Alfa’s, great fun cars and I have a soft spot for them still.
I loved my Passat estate, some GTi think or other, quick and efficient like most German cars, but very clinical in execution.
The Renaults were okay, but that’s about all I can say for them, they did the job.
Fords, hmm, let’s not go there.
Most fun I ever had was in a Vauxhall diesel Astra van. The law never bothered me, even doing from Padstow to Glasgow in 8 hours, or from Campbeltown to Stewarton in just under 2 hours, my brother still won’t get in a car with me to this day. Suspension ever so slightly altered and all the restriction removed. It’s handy knowing a rally mechanic. 😉
The current Honda is a very nice, fast and capable car and, strangley enough, for a Jap car it has a bit of character about it. Oh and yes Kevin, I do drive that just as quick (if not quicker) than the Megane. 😉
K.7
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kwatt wrote:Oh and yes Kevin, I do drive that just as quick (if not quicker) than the Megane. 😉
I can vouch for that :eeek:
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I used to do the motorbike thing as well Alex but gave it up due to reasons of liking living more than liking bikes.
See, an old mentor of mine from Dounray, came out the army after the war and decided he wanted to be a physicist (no accounting for taste really) with not one qualification used to tell me that bikers knew two throttle positions. Fully open and fuilly closed, anything else was a pain in the a**. Sadly, my view is that he was correct, the only problem being that such antics often lead to a shortening of life.
My favourite party trick was rattling my cafe racer up a nice bendy back road and watching the lightshow from the sparks off the pedals as the journey unfolded. Pillion passengers it turns out were not just so amused.
However, my days on a bike were marked due to two events, the first being that the local “nutter biker” known for his daft speeds faollowed me one day and branded me a total loon on a bike. The other being that I was getting too damned cold.
Sadly someone gave me an old Bedford HA van after that and I did have that driving on only two wheels and none.
Then I got the Astra and took the sump out on that twice. One poor bloke in a Volvo got an awful fright as I came over the hillock with my front wheels level with his windscreen, another in a Sierra 2.7 4×4 thingy probably still doesn’t believe that and Astra van beat it. Racing various GTi’s etc of the day was just sport on a back road, they’re all brave until you present them with a corner.
I was always most annoyed that I couldn’t overtake the Imprezza on one of the roads I use in the Alfa, kept up with the bugger and was right on him on the bends, but it was just too quick on the straights to get past.
That’s what happens when you grow up with fast A and B roads with nothing else to do but go for a drive
As you may have guessed I do like to drive a bit. The car is secondary, the state of mind when you get into it is far more important IMO and if you’re tired or distracted then driving at speed is not recommended at all.
I have mellowed though, honest. 😉
K.
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I think you all know about the Wolseley………
My biking days ended shortly after I got a line totally wrong on a bend down a back road outside Musselborough – there was a bike coming the other way and we managed to pass each other on the wrong side……….
Happy days 😯 .
Chris.
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I like my current van 😉 , a Volvo V70 SE Auto, now on my sixth Volvo. As I work entirely from home and never uplift machines, I have always used an estate car. The last three have been auto’s but I must admit I did enjoy the third one, a 940 factory chipped turbo, acceleration to match a Golf Gti at the time, fantastic in a straight line, but round corners, OMG 😯 . THe big Volvo is now a very good drive as well as being as solid and as safe as a rock.
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