Nathan
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Most Enjoyable Retro Driving MemoryNathan
@bgtmidget7476
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Sept 13, 2005 12:45:59 GMT
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Right In the light of this fuel thing going off, I found myself in a bit of a Mess. Basically the Focus was on red Before i Left work Yesterday so I was Buggered this morning to get to work in the 05 SHED, As its diesel and everywhere in my area was totally dry and fuel and so was the car. So I decided to Pull me Toy out and RAG the GT to work (What a Thrill comapred to that Modern thing). Anyhow, best thing was It needed fuel instead and of course its unleaded so I thought i woul queue at the pump to get some fuel (Please the read the Whole Point to this post is comming just wanted to tell the story first), Every man and his dog was in that queue and quite a few of them Filling up jerry Cans as well (Pisses me off). Just then I noticed the RED pump FOOKIN LRP ;D ;D was not being used and well never is so Whoooooopppppp round all the mums in the 4x4's and boooom Full take of the stuff, of course i curse word a few off. Including the usual White van drive, But Having No hair does have its Bonuses LOL. Then on the way to work I drove down a Road i Usually don't and it sprung memories of me and my mate in my Midget Ragging it down the road only to find that i was going too fast for the corner, (I did get round it But Browned myself in the process). So basically Whats your best moment in your retro car, Apart from Shagging your missus\Girlfriend\Ex in the back.(TRY it in a BGT, Its possible to, but not the best way) So come on guys tell us you most memorable moments............
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Last Edit: Sept 13, 2005 13:15:09 GMT by Nathan
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Sept 13, 2005 13:08:04 GMT
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Two from my Alfa 33 ,.. Hacking it out of Guildford towards Godalming with a friend in the car late in the evening,.. doing sillymph (I was a lot younger and stupider then) crested a hill car went a bit light, which isn't usually a problem but there was a sharp corner a hundred yards away. Turn the wheel, understeering down the hill towards the bollards in the middle of the road. Finally get grip again just before hitting aforementioned bollards, scoot off round the corner, pretending like I'd ment to do it... *cough* My other fave for the 33 was playing silly buggers with a (modern) Porsche 911 on the A3 very late at night coming out of London. It was during the last petrol crisis, I didn't really worry about fuel as I worked from home (and for myself)... the roads were empty and we were just racing between the speed cameras, nothing serious just fun. I was ahead of him when it came time for me to pull off, so I slowed down, he sped up to catch up and he have me a wave and a toot... really good natured, two people enjoying their cars. Funny thing is I wouldn't do either of those things now. Driving like that is for the track.
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Sept 13, 2005 14:10:28 GMT
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Probably the drive in my mate's 105e Anglia some four or five years ago. It was one of those lazy hot Sunday afternoons and me and my mate were bored so we headed over to Milton Keynes shopping centre to have a look round, and revel in the fact that my mate's Anglia was built when much of Milton Keynes was just a glint in the planners eye. Milton Keynes is also one of those places that seems plastic and false and it appears that there is a culture of 'keeping up with the Jones' with everyone rushing about in their brand new finance puchased Audis & BMWs. So it felt liberating & self rightous to be bumbling around in the little Ford. Anyway on our way out of MK we stopped off at a bar alongside a lake. My mate asked if I would mind driving the Anglia home as he fancied a second pint. I jumped at the chance. The Anglia took some getting used to - mainly the gearbox which had a Wooler quickshift & needed a deft knack to get the lower down gears. However once I was up and running things seemed to flow better. At Olney I pulled off the A509 and took in the small villages of Yardley Hastings and Grendon. It was enjoyable 'making smooth progress' (but keeping well below the limits) Snicking the gears between third & fourth using the torque of the throaty 1700cc crossflow to pull the car out of the bends. The Anglia was probably the least dynamic car i'd ever driven - you could really feel the rear axle shifting from side to side & the steering being vague and in-precise. But just somehow that drive down the pretty country lanes was the most enjoyable yet ...... bloody hell i've waffled
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Sept 13, 2005 15:15:53 GMT
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I can't drive so no actual memories like that one of my favorite memories tho was driving from Oxford to Hartlepool with my sister in her Rapid (now mine). that journey was great, cruising at 70 in the inside lane and every time someone went past you would hear the ashley's exhaust... and then we stopped and bought two bottles of iron bru and i was given the task of opening them...so i opened my sister's first, and it was really fizzy and fizzed all over...then i did mine and exactly the same thing happened - was really funny but i think you had to be there...was good times tho. As was driving from the Duxford air show to my gran's (in dorset) in the same Skoda, and we got lost and finally made it to my grans at 3am...going round a roundabout half awake in a skoda late at night.... those were the daysI could go on and on and on about memories of that car....
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Davenger
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Sept 13, 2005 15:52:25 GMT
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Mine both involve my now deceased 1275GT One is figuring out how to do it in the back (yes it is possible) and the other involves drag racing a MK2 Astra sri down a disused airstrip. I left the astra standing ;D When my mate finally caught up (i.e, when I stopped) he started making all kinds of excuses about it not running right etc, sounded fine to me, sore loser ;D
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Sept 13, 2005 16:21:41 GMT
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being on holiday in dads mk 3 tina (kermit grreen hand painted black) and listening to the same tape over and over flattening the battery ;D
it was 25 years ago ;D (I'm 32 now lol)
also as it was parked on a hill - bump started it on me own - mot bad when yer 7
still have the tape lmfao
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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RetroMat
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Sept 13, 2005 20:12:44 GMT
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One my way to work this morning i stopped of at my local sainsburys, they had all but run out of unleaded. After waiting in the queue for 10mins i saw the 4 star pumps were free, it was great to see the looks on every ones faces as i shot past and filled up, even more so when a bloke in a Riley Elf pulled up behind me to do the same ;D
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Sept 13, 2005 21:17:45 GMT
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Sept 14, 2005 7:57:39 GMT
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Favourite was a dice with a Nova SR with my Fiat 127 Sport. Young lad near me had the Nova which could just outrun the 1050cc 127 then I bought an identical 127 fitted with the 1300GT engine (heh heh) . Didn't tell him for months. Speaking of "backseat use", I met a guy when I first got the 850 whose father told him he was conceived in the back of one, its my favourite 850 story
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ImpManiac
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Imps... Imps... Imps...
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Sept 14, 2005 9:01:40 GMT
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Three memorable drives spring to mind. The first was in my 1973 Imp Super. I had stayed with my brother when he was training to be a surgeon in Penzance. The day I drove home, I decided to travel back to London via Land's End. I took the coast road from there to St. Ives, then on to Newquay, Bude, etc. What a drive! It was a beautiful sunny day and the Imp is an amazing driver's car. The second was driving back from a mate's flat in Godalming, Surrey, very early one Sunday morning after a barbecue. It was just a jaunt around the M25 but it was a fabulous evening. I was in the Imp again. Happy days! The last one was actually quite a number of years ago, when I was still at school. I was about 18 and in my first car - a beaten up old BMW 735i! Yes, really! In those days, you could get insurance at that age. Anyway, I was picking my brother up from somewhere and my mate and I took the wrong route and ended up on the wrong side of England - as you do. So I picked up the pace and hacked west across from Nottingham. This was before speed cameras too. Anyway, the Bimmer and I had a moment when I floored it coming out of a junction onto a dual carriageway. I ended up facing the wrong way momentarily as she came round for the full 270 degree swing. Brown pants aside, great fun! Those old Bimmers don't arf move! Great machine... I'm
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1966 Singer Chamois sprint/hillclimb car in white over blue two tone 1975 Triumph Stag long term project (over 20 years so far) in colour TBA 2003 Vauxhall Vectra GSi 3.2 in black sapphire
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Sept 14, 2005 13:09:37 GMT
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It was 1985 86 time well the mid 80's i was 19 and i had a spitfire 1500 in Yellow ( nice ) i lived at home with my mum and dad in sunny North Wales but it was relay only 10 miles from Chester ... that place ... thats where the real RAC LOMBARD RALLY started from for a few years ..
it was great i would take the week of work ( pizza hut ) and follow the Rally around the uk all week mainly sleeping in the car in a sleeping bag or one or two night's in a b&b as this was before the days of travel lodge ..
also the rally use to be great down to South Wales and up to Scotland, with the roof off it was a blast and cold ..
One day the rally was crossing the country from Hexham to carlisle on the A69 if you have ever been on this road you will know how tempting it is , and was as we are talking about pre speed cameras here ,,
So there i am flying in my spitty as fast as my little wheels would turn , when from nowhere behind me like a rocket appeared Michelle mouton in her Audi quarto S1 well at this point idd like to say i floored the spitty and left her ......BUT....... er .. no i moved over to the right a bit and with a blow on her horn for thanks she was gone ............. i and i mean gone idd never seen anything like that on the road it was great , however about 4 miles later i went over one of the humps too fast and landed hard the the car made a funny noise ........ it would appear that a piston had decided to go walkabout from the engine ... so a long walk to the nearest hotel ( closest phone ) to call up my dad the hotel was " the George in Cholerford " even to this day i can remember it like yesterday...... but then again the rally now only stays in south wales and is a bit mickey mouse so i don't even bother to follow it anymore ..
so there you go my " best retro drive "
have fun
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