tri
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Mar 10, 2008 11:44:07 GMT
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My friends and girlfriend all mock me, and I'm loving every minute. I have one friend at work, and my brother backing me, and that's all I need. As it's a late 80s car, people for the most part will just assume I'm poor, but hopefully I'll inspire other people to go "oo retro cars!!". I will admit it: I bought my escort estate cause I saw another late 80's 3 door escort estate in my town, and absolutely fell in love with it - everyone but my brother thought I was crazy.
I can take being mocked every time I get to work, just in the hopes, that one day - I'll be driving along, and someone will see my car, and go and save one from an old half blind lady.
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I forgot how to retro...
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chevazon
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1939 Chevrolet 2 door coupe, `67 `Zon estate, `87 Ragtop Cavalier, 4 x 800 Drifters,(!) 1500 Drifter
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Mar 10, 2008 12:43:47 GMT
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I`ve even been called an "anorak" for my interest in old cars. Surely this is for your bus/trainspotter types. (no offence of course to those noble people) It is a great feeling when you get out on to the open road and just enjoy driving something different. Most folk just don`t understand that we are saving the motoring heritage of this and other countries. I would love to have a new Mercedes estate that does 170 mph just to be practical etc. but would gladly use a practical everyday classic if it was economical etc. I`m looking for a nice little convertible for the summer to go back and forth to work, something like a Minor or Samba.
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bigrod
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Mar 10, 2008 13:07:52 GMT
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I used to go out with a girl who really didn't understand why I liked old cars. Especially as I had a perfectly good Vauxhall Cavalier company car she didn't get why I had to have a 1980 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am and didn't mind letting me know about it. (Incidentally, she had a Metro somethingorother that perpetually had something wrong with it and was getting me to fix it quite regularly!!)
Anyway, one night I happened across her having been out with her mates she'd gotten well and truly wankered, so doing the decent thing, I picked her up and drove her home.
the next morning, I made her a cup of tea and when I went into the room with it, realised she'd opened the curtains of her room to reveal the T/A parked outside.
She said, (and she might've been joking with me, but............), "You didn't drive me home in 'that' did you?",
I said "Yeah, why?",
She said, "I hope noone saw me!".
I said, "I'm just going to the loo."
Left a nice black #11 on the road outside and never saw her again!
Shame, she went like a privvy door when the plague was in town, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
When I met her my wife couldn't understand why I drove an older car, (MKIII Supra at the time), until she realised it was a state of mind I preferred to have rather than the financial willy waving I associate with having new cars. She actually even gets quite interested to know what I've been doing wi9th the Monza although I think there's still a bit of her thinks I'm mental! ;D
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Last Edit: Mar 10, 2008 13:09:39 GMT by bigrod
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