Just seen this car on the way home

[Accy cyclist]

Oh dear, a Vauxhall. Possibly the least reliable brand on our fleet of 30,000 vehicles…

I've only owned one Vauxhall in over 43 years of driving and that was a 1969 Vauxhall Viva 1300cc, which I had from about 1981 till 1984. Like most cars of that time it was prone to rust and was a regular visitor to garages. I remember having to constantly drop down to 3rd gear when climbing steep(ish) hills approached at a decent speed. It looked pretty cool though in its mint green paintwork. On about that neighbour's 'little grey box on wheels' I haven't seen it move in a fortnight. It has a 2016 plate and I bet it hasn't done 10,000 miles. yet.🤔

 

[cougie uk]

I've only owned one Vauxhall in over 43 years of driving and that was a 1969 Vauxhall Viva 1300cc, which I had from about 1981 till 1984. Like most cars of that time it was prone to rust and was a regular visitor to garages. I remember having to constantly drop down to 3rd gear when climbing steep(ish) hills approached at a decent speed. It looked pretty cool though in its mint green paintwork. On about that neighbour's 'little grey box on wheels' I haven't seen it move in a fortnight. It has a 2016 plate and I bet it hasn't done 10,000 miles. yet.🤔

I had an old Belmont that I loved. Boot could take my bike with just the front wheel off and you'd not even need the seats down.
Later we got a sporty astra that we loved but was totalled in a head on by a lad on our side of the road on his phone.
Replaced that with a Vectra that had DAB - that was the highlight and was scrap just after I'd finished paying for it. I doubt I'd go back to Vauxhall again but I suppose it's a different company now ?

I've finished with petrol cars anyway. Electric is much better.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've finished with petrol cars anyway. Electric is much better.

I don't fancy electric, it makes me think of milk floats. I'm going to buy that Fiat 500 this aft'. I'm back on petrol after 2 and a half years on diesel.

 

[Cycleops]

That colour reminds me of a foul tasting medicine I used to have to take as a child (in the 60’s) whenever I had tonsillitis.

Me too. What was it called?

 

[Cycleops]

Definitely not in pink

Not to mention the Katie Price connection.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Me too. What was it called?

Further back thread someone said it's penicillin and someone else Gaviscon. The pink reminds me of Largactil (used to treat various problems such as severe depression or behavioural disturbances) which was handed out liberally at the hospital I worked at in the early 1980's. It also reminds me of that raspberry blancmange which as children we had with raspberry jelly at our grandma's in the 1960's/early 70's.

 

[fossyant]

Have you got it yet ?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Have you got it yet ?

I phoned him up 10 minutes ago intending to go in to buy it, but he closes at 3.30, so it'll be tomorrow now. Not to worry as another day will give me more time to empty cd's and stuff out my Mini and burn up that little but of diesel that's left.

 

[Oldhippy]

Could get a good electric bike for that price and have money left for fashion items.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Could get a good electric bike for that price and have money left for fashion items.

Nowhere to safely park an electric bike and I have enough clothes!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Good grief…
Yellow ones are super cool tho

What do you reckon to this then?


Our biology teacher (Mrs Perry) had the same car and in that colour, in the early 1970's. I think her's had a roof rack on though.🤔

 

[vickster]

Very cool but completely impractical as I don’t have a dry heated garage to keep it in. Old Fiats were always rather prone to rust.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Very cool but completely impractical as I don’t have a dry heated garage to keep it in. Old Fiats were always rather prone to rust.

Once took a Fiat 131 Supermirafiori for an MOT, guy started to test it & then came over & asked if I really wanted it testing, he made me go over & put my feet either side of the front wheel, then said look down, can you see your feet, yes I said, well you shouldn't bloody be able to. I'm not testing it, take ti away.

 

[Brandane]

I phoned him up 10 minutes ago intending to go in to buy it, but he closes at 3.30, so it'll be tomorrow now. Not to worry as another day will give me more time to empty cd's and stuff out my Mini and burn up that little but of diesel that's left.

The suspense is too much.
Have you bought the #@$€in' thing yet, or not? Are you out and about, posing in your tweeds with the roof down on the back lanes of sunny Lancashire..... Or have you backed out because it had a dust cap missing, and we can look forward to another 18 pages in the latest instalment of the "will he/won't he" accy saga?

 

[Cerdic]

Once took a Fiat 131 Supermirafiori for an MOT, guy started to test it & then came over & asked if I really wanted it testing, he made me go over & put my feet either side of the front wheel, then said look down, can you see your feet, yes I said, well you shouldn't bloody be able to. I'm not testing it, take ti away.

Ha! The 70s were a very rusty decade, but the Italian car industry had an additional handicap. The Italian government had done a deal with the Soviet Union to buy cheap steel. Which turned out to be utter crap quality!

This was bad news for Italian car makers as they were told they had to use it.

Shame because some otherwise great cars just crumbled to dust…