One For Classic Car Fans.....

[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”)

 

[Drago]

That's the same colour as mine, albeit a previous owner had bestowed mine with a hand painted chocolate brown Starskey and Hutch style speed stripe.

 

[biggs682]

That's the same colour as mine, albeit a previous owner had bestowed mine with a hand painted chocolate brown Starskey and Hutch style speed stripe.

Harvest gold

 

[Drago]

Rampant Diarrhea didnt have the same ring to it.

 

[Fastpedaller]

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.

They must be very free-running bearings! If the wheel centre cap stopped rotating at high speed (ie went round with the rest of the wheel) it could, in theory, put the wheel out of balance. I guess because it is a very small difference in weight at its bottom and is a very small radius from the centre (compared to the size/weight of the rest of the wheel/tyre that it may not be significant.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I always lusted over teh

They must be very free-running bearings! If the wheel centre cap stopped rotating at high speed (ie went round with the rest of the wheel) it could, in theory, put the wheel out of balance. I guess because it is a very small difference in weight at its bottom and is a very small radius from the centre (compared to the size/weight of the rest of the wheel/tyre that it may not be significant.

It's doubtless attached to the wheel centre, not the wheel