Night Train
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I parked next to a new Mini at the Traford Centre and noticed that it was wider then my Skoda Octavia Estate.
whats the oldest
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Night Train said:I parked next to a new Mini at the Traford Centre and noticed that it was wider then my Skoda Octavia Estate.
That is one of my main objections, the thing is hardly 'mini' at all!
in the late 70's/early 80's My brother and I used to drive around in old bangers - we would buy something for a few quid (most was £100. least was a bottle of whiskey), and drive it until the MOT or TAX expired, scrap it and then get another, we would often go through 2 or 3 cars a year.
We had a 1959 Morris Traveller, great car, eventually electrics burnt out in a pub car park. A 1958 Ford Prefect, leaked carbon monoxide and fuel. A 1968 MG, with a very very dodgy history. A 1958 BMW bubble car, usless thing, another electrical fire. A 1968 VW hippy van, brilliant vehicle. A couple of 1970's VW Variants, chassis and engine of a 911 Porche!. An old Beemer, a Ford Escort, a mini, and a number of Landies, SII and SIII mostly.
Been driving a Landrover Defender for 12 years now, by far the longest I have ever owned a single vehicle.
We really learnt how to keep a car going on string and wire, and to this day I can still bump even a big landie just on the camber of a road, and in a motorway carpark showed a couple in an old VW Camper how to start their broken down van using a tin of baked beans.
We had a 1959 Morris Traveller, great car, eventually electrics burnt out in a pub car park. A 1958 Ford Prefect, leaked carbon monoxide and fuel. A 1968 MG, with a very very dodgy history. A 1958 BMW bubble car, usless thing, another electrical fire. A 1968 VW hippy van, brilliant vehicle. A couple of 1970's VW Variants, chassis and engine of a 911 Porche!. An old Beemer, a Ford Escort, a mini, and a number of Landies, SII and SIII mostly.
Been driving a Landrover Defender for 12 years now, by far the longest I have ever owned a single vehicle.
We really learnt how to keep a car going on string and wire, and to this day I can still bump even a big landie just on the camber of a road, and in a motorway carpark showed a couple in an old VW Camper how to start their broken down van using a tin of baked beans.
Night Train
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- Greater Manchester
We should be keeping older cars going by improving them rather then replacing them but legistlation can make that difficult if you try to make it better or safer then it was when new.
What interests me is what people here have posted as old. I didn't list the pair of 1970 MGBs I had or the 1972 Mk1 Escort as I didn't really consider them old.
What interests me is what people here have posted as old. I didn't list the pair of 1970 MGBs I had or the 1972 Mk1 Escort as I didn't really consider them old.
Lardyboy
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- Still Somewhere In Wales.
I had a 1954 2 door Austin A30 for four years. Great little car. Then got a 1970 MGB roadster, which I've still got.
Young Un
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- Worcestershire
I've driven a 60's mini - not bad considering im 14 
jimbob
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My little A35van, I learnt to drive in her and pass my test in her in 1965. A 995cc gold seal engine, worked like a dream provided you kept chucking oil in her, but I travelled the length and breadth of England in her, what a fauthful servant she was until the day she died on the side of the road and could not be reccusitated, bit of a Viking funeral for her.
Rhythm Thief
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jimbob said:
James Hunt's favourite car was an A35 van. He reckoned it was fun to drive since you could drive it on the limit everywhere and still be legal.
