One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Jameshow]

Yeap Suzuki running gear I bet!

 

[Jenkins]

Yeap Suzuki running gear I bet!

I did have a look and it is a 4x4 underneath which is why I did the DVLA check to see what it was based on.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Carlisle today walking the dog. Decades since I've seen one.

 

[Drago]

The old Shove-it wasn't a bad car. Totally conventional and unexciting, but not a bad motor for all that.

 

[Jenkins]

Haven't seen that style of aloys in many years.

 

[Fastpedaller]

No photos as I wasn't quick enough......... Last week in a nearby 'wealth Town' a Rolls Royce drove alongside us (pedestrians), and at the low speed the RR centres of the hubcaps were stationary! Clearly, they are mounted on a low-drag bearing and I wonder what happens at higher speeds? Impressive. Even more impressive (bearing in mind (no pun intended) the vast difference in development budget) was a 'Lotus Seven inspired kit car' I spotted at a show several years ago - The cycle guards on the front suspension on such cars tend to vibrate due to only being supported from the suspension on the inside of the wheel. The cycle guards of the subject car had additional stays on the outside, which were supported by a sealed bearing at the outside centre of the wheel. Very impressive for a home-built vehicle.

 

[Profpointy]

Rather lovely (pre-war?) Morgan three wheeler

 

[Profpointy]

And some various Yank vehicles seen on my travels

 

[figbat]

No photos as I wasn't quick enough......... Last week in a nearby 'wealth Town' a Rolls Royce drove alongside us (pedestrians), and at the low speed the RR centres of the hubcaps were stationary! Clearly, they are mounted on a low-drag bearing and I wonder what happens at higher speeds? .

Many years ago I visited the Rolls Royce assembly plant in Goodwood. Walking around the production floor I noticed that the RR logos on the wheels were all upright. I commented to our host what an amazing feat of attention to detail this was, that all cars were arranged with their logos upright. That was the day I learnt about the weighted logos.

 

[biggs682]

The old Shove-it wasn't a bad car. Totally conventional and unexciting, but not a bad motor for all that.

Mum had a 1256 hatchback that used to go through clutches at an alarming rate , needless to say that I spent many an afternoon laying on my back pulling gearboxes in and out

 

[Drago]

Mum had a 1256 hatchback that used to go through clutches at an alarming rate , needless to say that I spent many an afternoon laying on my back pulling gearboxes in and out

Do you think it was the car or your Ma?

A friends mum had the auto, a proper slush box on that weedy 1.3 engine. Apocalyptically slow.

 

[biggs682]

Do you think it was the car or your Ma?

A friends mum had the auto, a proper slush box on that weedy 1.3 engine. Apocalyptically slow.

Don't really know as ma never had issues with previous and next cars .

I used to quite like driving it as it handled well enough for what it was.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Mum had a 1256 hatchback that used to go through clutches at an alarming rate , needless to say that I spent many an afternoon laying on my back pulling gearboxes in and out

My first car was a Chevette hatchback

@biggs682
@raleighnut

Ladybower Reservoir
About 1986/1987?

Her first car…

A 1989 Marin Pine Mountain
Bought from (the legendary?) Two Wheels Good in Leeds city-centre

 

[Drago]

My first car was a Chevette hatchback

Mine was an Allaggro. Id have been cock-a-hoop to have had a Shove it. Even bubonic plague looks preferable if you've got rabies.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Drago
What if it had been like this?


View: https://youtu.be/Cf1U7APzIj8?feature=shared



A friend still has his first car, & he even took his driving test in it! (in early 1983)
We’re both almost 60, he’s about a month younger than me

A 1956 Series 1 (86”)