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I remember staring at that very same ad! It was the Mk2 Harrier I was lusting after though. I was driving a Mk2 1.1L at the time, looking cool on it's Revo 4-spokes but immensely slow and I didn't have the ability or facilities to consider an engine swap! Sadly didn't have the cash for it on my salary at the time of £6k per year! i still have this and years of them there after until it got less of the old skool stuff and more into shopping trollies
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1996... er... I'd have just bought my '71 Dyane (for £50, drove it for the next 5 years, off and on...) after my '72 Renault 4 died on it's . I also got my Split on the road after 3 years in the garage... (Now rotted out again.)
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aaaaaaaaah, 1996, Year 8 of Secondary school getting bullied cause my dad had a ....................
1984 Freight Rover Sherpa 310 minibus as our family car/camper van ;D
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Last Edit: Dec 5, 2008 14:26:16 GMT by Deleted
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Norm: You mean Captain Mainwearing or Afrikan Boi? Ain't this cashier the guy who says, "They don't like it up in them?" ;D ;D ;D
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It was actually Corporal Jones who's catch phrase was "They don't like it up 'em" as well as "Don't panic, don't panic, don't panic..."
But my former avitar was Arthur Lowe who played Capt. Mainwearing.
That checkout chap is a fair ringer for him though.
I think I need to change again as Afrikan Boi is not giving me much joy.
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Last Edit: Dec 5, 2008 22:58:45 GMT by akku
1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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One Of Us Will Live To Rue The Day We Met Each Other (Wire : 2008)
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I was 13 and already hating secondary school.
Renault 10 was 4 years away.
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I turned 12 that year. Lowering the tone of our street were an Austin Maestro 1.3 and a MkI Fiesta Popular that looked old even then (I've long been taught, by the way, that lowering the tone of our street was A Good Thing ;D). I vividly remember going on holiday to Ireland via ferry in the Maestro, and it being so heavily loaded that it took 3 or 4 attempts to get up the ramp in the car deck of the ferry, finally accomplishing it by wheelspinning all the way up in a cloud of smoke. Coolest thing I'd seen my dad do
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1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary.
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1996? I was working for a computer games developer, driving a Sherpa Combi and the Herald. My dad had a FIAT 127 Fiorino, AFAICR their car was a Mk2 Polo breadvan and my sister had a turd brown Allegro3 estate.
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"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor
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1996 you say? I passed my test on the 20th of December, by which time I'd spent all summer saving up to buy one of these: Which I was pretty sure at the time was THE NUTS. At a time when my mates all had Novas, Mk3 Escorts and Mk2 Fiestas, this was like something from the future - they'd marvel at my - still working - electric windows and sunroof, and the huge 'Diff-lock' button on the centre console...
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:)i was 25 and working all ours under the sun , away from home as a shopfitter,glasgow 1 day ,poole the next so i needed something cheap to run and insure , reliable diesel van maybe to carry the tools etc, NO I HAD 3 OF THESE IN A ROW!!! 2 got stolen and burnt out,3rd i traded for a legacy turbo!!!!! i was skint for years!
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yes ,it started badly ,petered off in the middle and the least said about the end the better!!!
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