Do you ever just go for a drive?

[Speicher]

When i was younger i did but its changed quite a bit in the 10 years ive been driving, i remember fuel costing 86p a litre and thinking that was expensive

I can remember when petrol was 86p for a gallon.

 

[asterix]

I can remember when petrol was 86p for a gallon.

I can remember when you got it free with every little plastic model of Emmerson Fittipaldi. Or was it the other way round?

 

[helston90]

I used to when I could first drive in a little 1.0 petrol hatch ragging the whatsits off her on the country lanes, now the 2.0 diesel estate is far more about wafting along comfortably and arriving without fuss- that and I can't afford it any more!
We only go 'for a drive' if something has interrupted the 1 year olds lunch time nap (such as awkward lunch invites) and go for a pootle to give him some more time to sleep.

 

[skudupnorth]

I can remember when petrol was 86p for a gallon.

Oh bugger that means I am old........I remember when it was 75p and two stroke was on sale which I can confirm makes a 1300 Mk-4 Cortina pink like hell !

 

[ASC1951]

Oh bugger that means I am old........I remember when it was 75p and two stroke was on sale which I can confirm makes a 1300 Mk-4 Cortina pink like hell !

I'm afraid I can remember it at 3s 11d a gallon, plus three hundredweight of Green Shield stamps.

 

[Linford]

In a car now...only if I were exploring an area I'd never been before with the family...like Snowdonia, or the Mountains in Mallorca, otherwise, A2B in a car is that (unless the rare occasion I get to go green laning)
Motorbike...a totally different kettle of fish... the journey is part of the destination for a motorbike..doesn't have to be pushing it to enjoy a winding road.

Cycling at the moment with the poor weather...in the dark, with commuting traffic...er no thanks.

 

[Leaway2]

I just send the chauffeur.

 

[jayonabike]

I drive a lorry for a living, that's enough driving for me. The car gets minimal use, only when I have to.

 

[Fnaar]

I can remember my dad saying when we were kids "let's go out for a spin" meaning a drive in the car. It was a bit of a novelty, as the parents got the car in 1970, when I was 9. We used to go somewhere though (a quick walk round a beauty spot somewhere, then an ice cream, then home again). They were usually unexpected, spur of the moment trips, and in my memory, always fun. That spontaneity is something I try to build into my own life, but everyone/everything seems so planned and timetabled these days.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I can remember my dad saying when we were kids "let's go out for a spin" meaning a drive in the car. It was a bit of a novelty, as the parents got the car in 1970, when I was 9. We used to go somewhere though (a quick walk round a beauty spot somewhere, then an ice cream, then home again). They were usually unexpected, spur of the moment trips, and in my memory, always fun. That spontaneity is something I try to build into my own life, but everyone/everything seems so planned and timetabled these days.

I can reply to this in 35 minutes when I have a 'window' free.

 

[tyred]

Dad often took us out for a drive on a Sunday.

Sitting in the boot of a Cortina estate making faces at the people in the car behind in those pre -seat belt and childseat days, sitting eating fish and chips overlooking a wet and windswept beach through steamed up windows or else sitting on sun-baked black vinyl upholstery in the middle of a heatwave whilst wearing shorts and leaving a layer of skin on the seat and screaming in pain.

- those were the days

 

[ColinJ]

I don't drive so I don't ever just go for a drive by myself. The nearest thing for me would be to catch a train or a bus for the sake of it, which I don't normally do. Once, however, my elderly mother and sister were up for a visit. They were not able to walk far so my mum used her bus pass and I bought day rover tickets for me and my sister, and we used the local minibus network to explore the area. They enjoyed it, and I enjoyed them enjoying it. If they hadn't been here though, I would just have got my bike out and cycled round the same roads!

 

[Archie_tect]

I can remember when petrol was 86p for a gallon.

I can remember when it was 3s/6d a gallon.... [17.5p]

 

[Saluki]

I never drive for the fun of it. I cannot afford the petrol. Back in the old days when petrol was 41p litre and I had a rather lovely motorbike, I would go for a ride, just for the sheer pleasure of riding. Nowadays I ride my road bike for the joy of it but I never ever take my car for a drive unless its to work (I combine my monthly food shopping trips with the drive home so as not to waste fuel) or if we have an emergency i.e. Husband was taken ill a few months ago and I didn't think that his cycling to casualty was a goer.

 

[Kies]

I quite often just go for a drive in my E30 325 :-)

One of the best cars BMW ever made, before they went all soft!