Your favourite car, boys and girls!

midget · Post by **midget** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:11 pm

Jude- you seem unfairly knowledgable

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:19 pm

I forgot the Fiat garage I can see from the office window.

alos went down a back road today and there was a Ford franchise (used to be Rover. RIP)

icomefromalanddownunder · Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:13 am

I dislike using the air con in my car, but when it's 44C outside...........

My dream car is a Porsche - preferably an old one that you start with a screwdriver. I'm also fond of MGBs, despite having part-owned two and having pushed them further that I remember driving them.

First car: a Citroen Dyane. My Dad (who was not the World's most confident driver) once accompanied me and hauled on the handbrake so hard that we couldn't release it. Four guys came to my assistance: they couldn't release the brake, but picked up the car and moved it from the intersection we were blocking. Then there was the time I tried to push my b-i-l's MG forward (I was behind him at some lights and felt that he had stopped too far back). He simply put the B into reverse and shoved us backwards, despite my handbrake being on, and me standing on the footbrake.

Currently driving a Ford Laser (not sure what they are called in the UK, but they are the next best thing to an Escort). I bought it to replace my Commodore wagon which went to the wreckers. Deliberately didn't get another wagon so that I wouldn't be expected to cart horse gear around. First thing my daughter did was fit two bales of hay in the back. It's an amazing little car - more like a Tardis really. Have had myself, four large teenagers and a goat in there, and regularly fit myself, a greyhound, two bales of hay, sack of carrots and a sack of chaff in. Oh, and then there was the time I picked up 44 gallon drums (to be used as jumps). With a bit of rearrangement I managed to get three at a time in.

However, the favourite car I have owned was a Holden FC c1958. We lived in NZ (lots of rain), and there was a hole in the floor just behind the accelerator pedal. Everytime I drove through a puddle I got a shot of cold water up the back of my right thigh ..........

Caroline Payne (nee Barrett)
Hertford 6.20 1965-70

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:21 am

I think that last comment is one of the best on here.

I think a Laser is called a Focus in the rest of the world, or if one size up from an Escort it is a Mondeo.

Those Aussies don'tlike top follow the rest of the world do they?

I was behind an Aussie Ford pickup the other day, an enormous thing.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:43 am

Was driven to Dorking last night (to catch the train to Reigate) from the Bax in an immaculate white Mark 1 Golf convertible (G reg) - I felt like I was in 1988!

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:45 am

Great Plum wrote:Was driven to Dorking last night (to catch the train to Reigate) from the Bax in an immaculate white Mark 1 Golf convertible (G reg) - I felt like I was in 1988!

Not by a fellow poster, perchance ?

We were ensconced in our local club by this time !

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:48 am

J.R. wrote:
Great Plum wrote:Was driven to Dorking last night (to catch the train to Reigate) from the Bax in an immaculate white Mark 1 Golf convertible (G reg) - I felt like I was in 1988!
Not by a fellow poster, perchance ?

We were ensconced in our local club by this time !

No, it was a girl called Megan who lives in deepest Devon somwhere... it' her Mum's car...

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:50 am

Great Plum wrote:
J.R. wrote:
Great Plum wrote:Was driven to Dorking last night (to catch the train to Reigate) from the Bax in an immaculate white Mark 1 Golf convertible (G reg) - I felt like I was in 1988!
Not by a fellow poster, perchance ?

We were ensconced in our local club by this time !
No, it was a girl called Megan who lives in deepest Devon somwhere... it' her Mum's car...

Arr ! Not who I thought then ! If it was that old, did it make it as far as Devon ?

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:37 am

I don't know - it was only going as far as Walton on Thames that night...

icomefromalanddownunder · Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:37 am

englishangel wrote:Those Aussies don'tlike top follow the rest of the world do they?

I was behind an Aussie Ford pickup the other day, an enormous thing.

You are absolutely correct, except that we have utes (utility vehicles) in Oz, not pickups. My daughter drives a Holden ute - goodness only knows how many litres the engine is, but it has 4 exhaust pipes. When I saw it for the first time I sarcastically asked why it needed an exhaust pipe for each cylinder, and was given a sympathetic look, pat on the head, and an explanation that it has 8 cylinders. 'Oh, gosh. Really?????'

She did, under sufferance, pick up a load of hay with it last week. 'It's a show vehicle, Mum, I don't want it full of bits of hay.'

'Well, yes, dear daughter, but the hay is for your horses, and I drive a mere Laser.'

I should never have commented that my Laser is the original SUV. I'm going out to lunch today with my Supervisor, and will have to explain, once again, that it's best if we go in her car, unless she wants to return with chaff and hay all over her cashmere jacket.

Off to cram in a smidgen of work before morning tea, which will spill into lunch.

Caroline
6.20 1965-70
(haven't worked out signatures yet, either)

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:13 am

When you want to quote you just click the button in the top right hand corner of the post you want to quote from. You can then delete, highlight etc. the appropriate bits.

For signature you go to your profile and write one, then tick the box below the box you write in when you post.

icomefromalanddownunder · Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:23 am

englishangel wrote:When you want to quote you just click the button in the top right hand corner of the post you want to quote from. You can then delete, highlight etc. the appropriate bits.

For signature you go to your profile and write one, then tick the box below the box you write in when you post.

Thank you

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Caroline

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:42 am

I had a wonderful Auatralian car about 10 years ago when Jane and I took our three under5's on a 30,000km drive around the coast of Australia in a Ford Fairlane 500 which had an enormous v8 engine and huge bench seats which the children could sleep on. It was an experience I will never forget. The oddest thing was that every tiny village even in the outback had a state of the art playground - we used every single one we came across.

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:55 pm

The only "mega" car I can claim to have driven (other than 4x4's) was in the USA - there EVERYTHING was BIG - we had 3 seats in the front and 3 - 4 in the back - gas was so cheap you really didn't think much about it - like disney dollars it was just htwice as cheap (ok half as cheap?) as in the UK and more so! it probably only did about 20 to the gallon (now that would of course be a USA gallon) but the air cons on those did make the needle go down rapidly - but it was fun setting up autocruise (not available unless you were mega rich over here) and almost setting it on auto pilot!

very comfy - but bad for the environment!

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:29 pm

I just got a car for Â£4000 - 13 yrs old over 108K on clock etc - but it has power everything AND cruise control - used that gadget for the 1st time on a trip to Shropshire for the weekend and don't think I will be getting any more speeding tickets from those cameras - I just set the gadget to the speed limit and put my feet up!