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Mar 11, 2017 17:31:02 GMT
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Some good prices here.....   But it's from classics magazine Dec 1973! |
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Mar 11, 2017 17:33:58 GMT
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Pretty cruel Mr Danny.
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Mar 11, 2017 17:45:32 GMT
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A quick search tells me £1000 in 1973 is £8455.61 today so there not all that cheap.
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@forddan68
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Mar 11, 2017 17:47:14 GMT
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A quick search tells me £1000 in 1973 is £8455.61 today so there not all that cheap. Yep I suppose so...but if you had a time machine.....! |
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Mar 11, 2017 18:11:54 GMT
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I have  But don't believe what you read, I've had it ten yrs & cant get the time machine bit to work  |
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Mar 12, 2017 17:42:03 GMT
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Used to do mechanical work for this guy, back then. Desperately wanted that Camaro, but couldn't afford it!! |
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Mar 12, 2017 17:46:03 GMT
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I have But don't believe what you read, I've had it ten yrs & cant get the time machine bit to work If it has the stock speedo, then it doesnt work vecause the speedo reads way low  you aint had it up to 88mph yet LOL |
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Mar 12, 2017 17:48:21 GMT
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... I just had an amusing thought... getting it to 88mph on the M1, going back to various events you wanna see as a holiday and then coming back to an unpaid speeding fine and a court summons LOL
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Mar 12, 2017 21:54:08 GMT
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I have But don't believe what you read, I've had it ten yrs & cant get the time machine bit to work If it has the stock speedo, then it doesnt work vecause the speedo reads way low you aint had it up to 88mph yet LOL No, the speedo only goes to 85mph & unlike most European cars that are marked 10,20,30 etc, Deloreans are 15,25,35 & so on, with 55 in red to mark the speed limit in the US at the time. Then when they made the Back to the Future film & had decided on the 88mph plums, they then had to make a custom speedo that went to 95mph especially for the film, just for the scene at the start where he goes back. Bit of useless sh1t for you there |
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Mar 12, 2017 21:59:18 GMT
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There you go  Standard  BTTF Apologies for the thread hijack |
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Last Edit: Mar 12, 2017 22:00:18 GMT by rattlecan
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Well there you go then. Under-reading speedo and it doesn't go high enough! No wonder it doesnt work!
(Lovely little factoid there, that's a pub quiz question!)
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Mar 13, 2017 10:10:33 GMT
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Well there you go then. Under-reading speedo and it doesn't go high enough! No wonder it doesnt work! (Lovely little factoid there, that's a pub quiz question!) You must attend rather highbrow pub quizzes compared to me :/ *n |
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Mar 13, 2017 10:14:44 GMT
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Well there you go then. Under-reading speedo and it doesn't go high enough! No wonder it doesnt work! (Lovely little factoid there, that's a pub quiz question!) You must attend rather highbrow pub quizzes compared to me :/ *n My pub quizzes start and end with 'Isn't it your round?' |
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Mar 13, 2017 10:27:22 GMT
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Well there you go then. Under-reading speedo and it doesn't go high enough! No wonder it doesnt work! (Lovely little factoid there, that's a pub quiz question!) You must attend rather highbrow pub quizzes compared to me :/ *n I used to write pub quizes when I worked on the ships. I used to stay the F away from football and the usual curse word you get in them. I preferred more interesting stuff, current events, factoids, the sports rounds were often things like "Look at this F1 Helmet. What year was it?" with closest answer getting the points if no correct answers. Used to have all sorts of rounds, with some real gross questions too. You can make "What is the volume of a standard Olympic swimming pool?" quite interesting when you word it "Assuming an average load of 5mm per wad, how many blokes whacking off three times a day would it take to fill an Olympic pool in 30 days?" or "assuming X calories per wad, how many pints would a lady have to drink to get her recommended 2500 calories per day?" - gets some discussions going I can tell you! LOL Used to have "Spot the nonce" rounds too, usually a load of pictures of Disney characters (when you think about the age of the Princesses in the stories, and when the "Prince" swept her off her feet...). There wasn't much high-brow about mine! LOL The question up there though would have been a nice movie / car geek question. Hijacked much? LOL |
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Mar 13, 2017 15:42:56 GMT
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I have But don't believe what you read, I've had it ten yrs & cant get the time machine bit to work That will be the poverty spec' basic trim then - You will see a double asterix by that option in the owners handbook. Time travel option pack ** ** Special option Doc Brown TM |
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Mar 13, 2017 16:18:30 GMT
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You must attend rather highbrow pub quizzes compared to me :/ *n I used to write pub quizes when I worked on the ships. I used to stay the F away from football and the usual curse word you get in them. I preferred more interesting stuff, current events, factoids, the sports rounds were often things like "Look at this F1 Helmet. What year was it?" with closest answer getting the points if no correct answers. Used to have all sorts of rounds, with some real gross questions too. You can make "What is the volume of a standard Olympic swimming pool?" quite interesting when you word it "Assuming an average load of 5mm per wad, how many blokes whacking off three times a day would it take to fill an Olympic pool in 30 days?" or "assuming X calories per wad, how many pints would a lady have to drink to get her recommended 2500 calories per day?" - gets some discussions going I can tell you! LOL Used to have "Spot the nonce" rounds too, usually a load of pictures of Disney characters (when you think about the age of the Princesses in the stories, and when the "Prince" swept her off her feet...). There wasn't much high-brow about mine! LOL The question up there though would have been a nice movie / car geek question. Hijacked much? LOL Definitely highbrow. Our only rule was no Maddie jokes, and that was after someone complained to the brewery and nearly got us shut down. *n |
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Mar 13, 2017 19:10:55 GMT
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Yea...back on topic, it's great looking at prices in old mags
But I do find ford mags amusing 5 years ago a mk5 cortina was roughly £2000 in good nick..now?? Nearer 5k , escorts well they just aren't worth the money owned a good few and I'd rather spend my money on a luxury barge from merc or jaguar
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Mar 13, 2017 19:46:42 GMT
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I used to write pub quizes when I worked on the ships. I used to stay the F away from football and the usual curse word you get in them. I preferred more interesting stuff, current events, factoids, the sports rounds were often things like "Look at this F1 Helmet. What year was it?" with closest answer getting the points if no correct answers. Used to have all sorts of rounds, with some real gross questions too. You can make "What is the volume of a standard Olympic swimming pool?" quite interesting when you word it "Assuming an average load of 5mm per wad, how many blokes whacking off three times a day would it take to fill an Olympic pool in 30 days?" or "assuming X calories per wad, how many pints would a lady have to drink to get her recommended 2500 calories per day?" - gets some discussions going I can tell you! LOL Used to have "Spot the nonce" rounds too, usually a load of pictures of Disney characters (when you think about the age of the Princesses in the stories, and when the "Prince" swept her off her feet...). There wasn't much high-brow about mine! LOL The question up there though would have been a nice movie / car geek question. Hijacked much? LOL Definitely highbrow. Our only rule was no Maddie jokes, and that was after someone complained to the brewery and nearly got us shut down. *n [Lasthijack]I'm surprised there isn't a "Where's Wally?" book released for that... could be a fundraiser...[/lasthijack] |
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Mar 13, 2017 19:47:49 GMT
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Yea...back on topic, it's great looking at prices in old mags But I do find ford mags amusing 5 years ago a mk5 cortina was roughly £2000 in good nick..now?? Nearer 5k , escorts well they just aren't worth the money owned a good few and I'd rather spend my money on a luxury barge from merc or jaguar "Barn Find" winds me up when you see adverts. Back then it meant something, now it just means "old and sh!tty" |
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you aint had it up to 88mph yet LOL
