richy
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Flatheads forever....
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Jan 17, 2009 19:58:07 GMT
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When I was asst editor on a certain motor trade magazine I used to commute from Wales to Middlesex in my Cortina Crusader every week.
Now as a writer for a few trade mags I use a '96 XJ Sport and a soon to be bought X300 four-litre, with manual box. No blagging press cars here!
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MonzaPhil
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought
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Jan 17, 2009 20:03:09 GMT
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I drive to work in my '75 Vauxhall Victor or my '81 Merc 300GD and every day I get to drive a 1950 Landrover 80inch, a 1966 Landy 109 recovery truck (with a big crane on it) and often a variety of other old stuff. Much more fun than moderns. Used to commute 30 ish miles (either way) in the Monza, that got pricey!
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This is now a clicky linky!
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Hirst
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This avatar is inaccurate, I've never shaved that closely
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Jan 17, 2009 20:33:47 GMT
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If you see this parked up outside a business: Chances are I'll walk out with a load of crumpled tenners. Best car ever!
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spacekadett
Part of things
F*cking take that Hans Brrix!!
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Jan 17, 2009 22:49:51 GMT
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I work in a backwater garage and have a few customers with old motors we mot, service etc. Includes the usual stuff like MG Bs', Midgets, Moggy Minors to an MG TC, Austin 10 and Princess , the odd Lotus and kit cars and one or two yanks as well. A lot are owned by one family of customers who must have a warehouse somewhere (I saw a fire engine in one of thems' drive last week!) and we also get to test thier Turbo Bentleys, an Alvis Ferret scout car, Murcelargo and a 1200 mile from new Testarossa. Amongst others. But mostly I just work on modern curse word!
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Mechanic's rule #1... If the car works, anything left on the floor after you finished wasn't needed in the first place
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Mike D
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 57
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Cars versus your jobMike D
@v8mike
Club Retro Rides Member 57
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Jan 17, 2009 23:16:39 GMT
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If you see this parked up outside a business: Chances are I'll walk out with a load of crumpled tenners. Best car ever! Dammit Hirst man, U R Booked in PRONTO to Mike D's Chop N Drop once the civic is out of it ;D SORT THAT NEG RAKE OUT!!!!
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miaspa
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Jan 17, 2009 23:40:18 GMT
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The Pao has business insurance and used all the time traveling to meetings and clients, mind one of the juniors uses a 1967 Rat Look Beetle so I am using something pretty modern. This is em parked up in the office carpark.
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Found my flashing Pao again.
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Hirst
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This avatar is inaccurate, I've never shaved that closely
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Jan 17, 2009 23:42:25 GMT
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Dammit Hirst man, U R Booked in PRONTO to Mike D's Chop N Drop once the civic is out of it ;D SORT THAT NEG RAKE OUT!!!! Hey it's not that bad really! That was straight after I swapped those wheels on so the suspension hadn't dropped at the front properly (rear settled down straight away presumably down to the live axle or whatever). It is a little nose-up but not that bad.
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427
Part of things
Praise The Lowered
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I drive the Galant all of my jobs. It's used as gear van when we do film shoots at pubs, lunch runs at the hobby shop and deliver pizzas 3 nights a week. Also at the pizza shop is my mates KE70 'rolla and one of the other guys drives a nissan pulsar Q with an LSD in it. Cheers EDIT: This is my bosses daily from the hobby shop. I made him this sticker, as he gets pulled over once a week just about.
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Last Edit: Jan 18, 2009 8:45:57 GMT by 427
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No cars for work for me.... in fact no going outside, or windows. I used to drive various VWs to work, got a bit of a reputation for 'lowering the tone' which I loved I stopped using an aircooled VW as a daily about 7 years ago, but there's still oil marks in just about every parking space. Highlight was borrowing a load of parcel tape (Mastercare branded) to go and tape my back window in on a break after lowlifes cut it out. They wouldn't pay me advertising fees though!
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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When i work it's whatever car I'm insured on at the time. However it can be guaranteed that it won't be the tattiest/least reliable/worst looking car there!
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1997 TVR Chimaera 2009 Westfield Megabusa
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MWF
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Like a few others I'm self employed so can drive what I want and get to claim 40p per mile back from the business for any use. The Jeep is handy for photography as you can get just about anywhere in it, plus stand on the roof to take shots.
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We make the front and rear wings for these: Which means I get to visit the factory twice a week in the wagon delivering them. We also do a lot of the outer body panels for Aston-Martin (which is a worry at the minute), the engine cover for the Lamborghini Gallardo (unfortunately I don't get to visit....), front wings for the Rolls-Royce Phaeton..thankfully we do just as much in the aerospace/medical/train fields, which are still somewhat more buoyant than the automotive market..... In the past the company made the panels for the Aston-Martin Lagonda in the 1970's, right up to the Ford Puma Racing in the 1990's. so there's a tenuous Retro connection.
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Jan 18, 2009 10:14:20 GMT
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Just this week, the big bosses were off on a trip to Germany, and I was the highest ranking manager left so I got to play MD for a couple of days, parking in the reserved spot etc. All the cars in the office car park are 51 plate onwards, except for my '85 Mazda. Wish I'd taken a picture now!
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Jan 18, 2009 11:09:57 GMT
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Mr S
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10-4 Good buddy.
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Jan 18, 2009 11:36:08 GMT
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If I have to travel any distance with work, which is unusual - I either use the 420SEL, the Rangie (when I had it!) or the truck... Once the truck is LPG'd, that'll see most 'work related' action. Having said that, 99% of the time I'm on my snotty old Kawasaki GT550, so it's retro all-round for me!
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Suzuki GSXR1000 K2 BMW R1150GS BMW K1200RS Chevy K5 Blazer Chevy Suburban LT Jaguar XKR
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Jan 18, 2009 16:15:13 GMT
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was talking to an idiot technician in work recently. he pays 4 grand a year in taxes to run a company car and hes on his 4th in a year due to failures... really! The reason he was an idiot is because when I said he could buy a car and insure it that would do the job for less than 4 grand and save himself SO much money he replied 'I don't want to drive an old scrapper!' TOSSER!! I got really annoyed face out and glared at him. I don't need to explain the rest to you guys, you know I'm right and why. still, what a fool.
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misteralz
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I may drive a Volkswagen, but I'm scene tax exempt!
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can you guess who I work for? Calsonic?
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Jan 19, 2009 10:36:59 GMT
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I used to work for a legal firm and I used a slightly down at heel Mk3 Cortina GXL as my daily driver, work car, and hack for shifting PCs or whatever. They were going to get it clamped when they saw it in the car park as they thought "Gypsies" had left it there. LOL. You can imagine it was a little out of place there.
Other than that, I have used a string of retros for work use. I even had a Mk2 Cavalier which was pretty much specifically used as the network support express as I didn't want dirty equipment loading in my Capri which I ran at the time.
I used to use a Morris Minor convertible for work as well as commuting, great little car, you could load large items into it by dropping the roof LOL. Imagine that "the computer knows!" DVLA advert but with a rack of servers poking out of the roof of a soft top Minor.
People keep suggesting my current retro daily makes me look like I am delivering Pizza or touting for fares but it doesn't get that kind of use...
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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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Jan 19, 2009 10:57:30 GMT
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I got mistaken for a gypsy when I was labouring for a local builders a few years back.
I arrived at a school where we were working (during the summer holidays) at about 6.30am, parked on the edge of the playing field, got out and the caretaker came sprinting over shouting 'you'll have to move that!' I realised why he'd come to that conclusion, as I was driving a rusty Series 2 Landy, was wearing ripped jeans, and it was 6.30 in the morning. He must have thought I was doing a recce for some travellers. The year before they had a group of travellers 'move in' to the field during the night, and it took the police 4 weeks to evict them.
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1967 Morris Traveller 1971 Series IIA Land Rover 1991 Golf GL 4+e 1992 Corrado G60 1986 E28 BMW 528i
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ChasR
RR Helper
motivation
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Club RR Member Number: 170
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Cars versus your jobChasR
@chasr
Club Retro Rides Member 170
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Jan 19, 2009 11:13:33 GMT
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I used to drive my Beetle to Uni, but that almost got me thrown off the course (It had a habit of losing all power after driving it for 5-20 minutes, and then not starting for hours, before coaxing into life (was a rotor arm - a new one at that! and points closing up, although we checked everything else and tried it (IMDU (Inlet Manifold Deicing Unit for those not in the know) etc.). I'm sure that without a Bosch 00Shite (sorry, 9) distributor and a half decent rotor arm (which now do seem to be resurfacing again) it would have been better than ever, as it was close to being at the end.
Besides that I used to drive to Uni when the Focus was smashed in a '89 Volvo 740 GLE Estate. When I used to park it outside my mate's place (down a terraced part of Hillfields in Coventry) I used to get funny looks from a few windows with people asking my mates if they knew who the car belonged to (It probably didnt help that it a: had a suspected leaky rear main seal and b: it was large). I remember sometimes driving it, and joking with my mate who used to travel up with me that nobody would have a problem with finding us as they could just follow an oil slick.
Not sure if it can be classed as a 'future-retro', but I did drive the Pug for many miles to Uni with no problems and still do as my daily. My mates owned older cars anyway (except one) like an AX (now a Dolly Sprint) and Pug 205 1.4, but the other guys all had their cars on finance for which we couldn't see the point.
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Last Edit: Jan 19, 2009 11:17:03 GMT by ChasR
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