Your favourite car, boys and girls!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:59 am

I also own a Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec!

UserRequestedRemoval · Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:27 am

They can't half go when the mood takes them! I had to try the spped once just to say I had done it. I got to 125mph (admittedly down a slight slope) on the M65 and then I lost my bottle. I had always been told they couldnt go that fast.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:32 am

It has a bit more speed then my last car- a K reg Ford Fiesta!

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:44 am

Fastest I went was 115 in a 1974 Mercury Cougar which started to leave the road - you could feel the thing taking off so in terror I slowed

I only took the Merc to about 110 so far (havent had it long) but always manage to get caught speeding down coutry lanes where there's a 30mph limit and I seem good at getting done for doing 34 or 35

Apparently theres a good straight on the A1 and my brother in law got his BMW to about 130 there

I think I'm starting to get to the age where it's not really necessary to do the top speed of the car

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:52 am

I`ve been driven at 110+ in a small car - pretty frightening in a way - as a passenger you need to have confidence in the driver!

UserRequestedRemoval · Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:59 am

The first speeding ticket I got was in Thame on oxon, I thought the limit was 40 but it was 30 as I found out when I drove passed the camera. Thing is, my daughter and I were waving at the camera when it went off. Why me?

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:05 am

matthew wrote:
Ruthie-Baby wrote:What I meant was you are older than me but not 12 years older. Your age thingy says you're 39, which is 12 years older than me...
You're looking at 'Total posts'. I expect I'm now 42. I've never entered a birthday in my profile.

Oops, and I used to be good at numbers. Shame I'm not so good at reading. You're getting older very quickly!!

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:11 am

Mrs C. wrote:I`ve been driven at 110+ in a small car - pretty frightening in a way - as a passenger you need to have confidence in the driver!

My ex had a red C-reg Ford Escort which was very uncared for (and old). We once got it to 99mph downhill on a motorway, but the whole thing was rattling and shaking and I thought it was going to fall apart...

He then wrote it off (crashed into a packed car while racing another vehicle away from traffic lights) while I was away on work experience. Turns out there'd been this girl in the passenger seat... hence he's my ex.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:42 am

Ruthie-Baby wrote:
Mrs C. wrote:I`ve been driven at 110+ in a small car - pretty frightening in a way - as a passenger you need to have confidence in the driver!
My ex had a red C-reg Ford Escort which was very uncared for (and old). We once got it to 99mph downhill on a motorway, but the whole thing was rattling and shaking and I thought it was going to fall apart...

He then wrote it off (crashed into a packed car while racing another vehicle away from traffic lights) while I was away on work experience. Turns out there'd been this girl in the passenger seat... hence he's my ex.

I had a 1 litre Micra which before it blew up would wobble in a scary way above 60 mph!

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:25 pm

Great Plum wrote: I had a 1 litre Micra which before it blew up would wobble in a scary way above 60 mph!

What were you doing in a 1 litre Micra? Serves you right

UserRequestedRemoval · Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:36 pm

I thought micras were for help the aged

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:27 pm

I once managed to get an old Fiesta up to 100 on that bit of the M25 between the Reigate and Gatwick turns.

when we were living in the US husband came back to UK for a meeting and borrowed a go-fatser Scorpio, picked up brother in Solihull and pulled onto M42 at 110, closely followed by Plod. who pulled hom over.

His excuse, sorry officer, I have been driving in America at 55 and got carried away. Plod asked him if he was aware of the speed limit and he relied yes he was and his brother was a magistrate, (said brother sitting in passenger seat trying not to look like a brother, difficult as they are identical twins.)

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:28 pm

I had a 1960s Honda 50 - the one with the plastic leg guards and used to hurtle down Pashley Road in Eastbourne as fast as it nd I could go. The road is a steep hill ad I would have the speedo needle hard up against the little pin just beyond the top speed of 50

Once I forgot to slow down at the end of the road and tried an emergency stop but the bike had worn hub brakes which didn't work well so I decided to save my life by stepping down to first gear which the bike really didn't like

It was the last ride the bike ever made - the chain was sort of welded around the rear sprocket

I did, however, manage to stop before the main road at the bottom of the hill

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:56 pm

Ruthie-Baby wrote:
Great Plum wrote: I had a 1 litre Micra which before it blew up would wobble in a scary way above 60 mph!
What were you doing in a 1 litre Micra? Serves you right

I was given it when I needed a car...

Jeeves · Post by **Jeeves** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:03 pm

Mrs C. wrote:I`ve been driven at 110+ in a small car - pretty frightening in a way - as a passenger you need to have confidence in the driver!

I'm keeping quiet this time.