bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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Monza is summer use and no longer used for to and from work duty even in the summer
Commodore will be daily all year round driver "when" I get it done
non retros choice of two get all the daily wibblepoo
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slater
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 6,390
Club RR Member Number: 78
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There relly is no reason not to have a Retro as your daily. Other than bing a pussy thats is! ;D
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Marc
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I use my e28 BMW M535i daily. Over 200,000 miles and its still racking up 3-400 a week. Its a great car really. I'm very much of the opinion that cars are to be used, regardless of weather or whatever.
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All my cars have been daily's unless i need to use my big van. The Pro Street Minor was a bit of a handful for daily transport though. Old cars are no fun unless you drive them.
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'82 944 Lhasa green
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Seth
South East
MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Newest car in the Seth household was built in '72  |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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Newest car in the Seth household was built in '72 Thats the way it should be! ;D |
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'82 944 Lhasa green
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madmart
Part of things
love is: valvebounce in top gear
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<<< my daily, has been for a few years and has had some stick too
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Club RR Member Number: 34
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having just sold my newest most reiable comfyest modernest car (91 sapph) i'm stuck with these 2. Daily 1:  90-summat vintage MTB girvin flexstem!!  not sseen one of those in yeeeeeeeeears. is retro mountain biking gunna be the next big thig? ;D |
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Sounds funny; As much as i want to enjoy my retro all the time, i don't like taking it for granted and it being a general hack  they usually are or end up being my daily though. |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts  |
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Dez there is an virtual world for bikes, street put me onto retrobike.co.uk Those guys are pretty fanatical! just go on ebay and search for a Klein or Pace... £ £ Problem is, i now fancy another old skool MTB |
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,790
Club RR Member Number: 34
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i know some people will buy some of the old parts. i got £120 for a set of the old original middleburn dogbone cranks with most of the anodisinging worn off and no chainrings when i put them on ebay!!!
i just wish i hadnt broken so much of the stuff i had back then. i was hard on bikes, jumping and drops and stuff before seriously strong hardtails existed. loads of snapped x-lite bars , snapped XT and XTR cranks, mavic d121s folded in half, etc. bent multiple pair of forks or blew the seals on em. snapped one of the old team marin frames, the ones that had the frame tubes satin grey and the tube joints sprayed a hidieous neon colour, green i think it was.
went really well with the purple anodised canti- brakes ;D
as cool as it all was back then they really were wibblepoo compared to what ive got now!! i could drop my current bike off a cliff and itll be in the same condition when it lands!
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tigran
Club Retro Rides Member
In rust we trust. Amen.
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Club RR Member Number: 142
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a spotting which made me thinktigran
@tigran
Club Retro Rides Member 142
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The (stripped out, heaterless tappety mofo) capri was my daily for a good three months between October and December. Racked up over 4000 miles over those months. Loved it tbh. Which is probably what killed the engine, ho hum - it'll be resurected soon.  |
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1964 Rover P5 i6
1987 BMW 525e - The Rusty Streak
1992 Micra K10
2001 BMW E46 316i
2002 BMW E46 330Ci
2013 BMW F31 320d
2018 BMW G31 530d
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Yep, use mine daily. I've used all of the classic/retro cars I've ever owned as daily's at some point for a few months.  |
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dugong
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One Of Us Will Live To Rue The Day We Met Each Other (Wire : 2008)
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Hmm, When my Amazon last drove (which was a while back now - before christmas) I'd use it for various trips but never as my daily. Under my ownership it did 3,000 miles in 4 months, which is more than what it did in 5 years previously. This may have been what killed it for a while  From my Sale base (i.e. the street where I used to keep it) I went to: Levenshulme (many a time) Sheffield (on the Snake in the dry, the rain and the snow, the last without windscreen wipers.... 3rd gear everywhere!) Lancaster (hate the fugging place for various complicated reasons, but I had to go and deliver something to a mate) And back and forth to Crewe many times. IF i get through the MOT I'd like to go on a big trip to Taunton and then (don't laugh) the Nurburgring. |
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they usually are or end up being my daily though.
