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From: "Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot" on 3 Nov 2007 14:47 Krustov wrote: > www.jpgimage.co.uk/viewfull.php?image=194 > I started learning to drive in one of those when I was ~14. Lovely car. Then. Si
From: Les Hemmings on 3 Nov 2007 16:39 Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot wrote: > Krustov wrote: >> www.jpgimage.co.uk/viewfull.php?image=194 >> > > I started learning to drive in one of those when I was ~14. Lovely > car. Then. > > Si Reminds me of the Austin Westminster automatic i used to get taken to school in.... mid '70's to '80. L -- Remove Frontal Lobes to reply direct. "These people believe the souls of fried space aliens inhabit their bodies and hold soup cans to get rid of them. I should care what they think?"...Valerie Emmanuel Les Hemmings a.a #2251 SA
From: Willy Eckerslyke on 5 Nov 2007 04:01 Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot wrote: > It must have made an impression on me because I distinctly remember the > smell and feel of the soft, deep, leather seats, the sound of the lovely > engine, the quietness inside when the door thunked shut etc. It must have > been around thirteen years old then but it was for sale in the showroom of a > petrol station I worked in with my step-grandfather at weekends and he used > to let me play about in it - learning what did what etc. He didn't drive, > himself, so feck knows what he'd have done if I'd put it in drive and > floored it! Seeing that picture does make me wish I had it now. M3_2! I bought one for a hundred quid when I was about 19. It was my second car after a Hunter estate. First thing I did was a 1000 mile round trip down to Devon and Hampshire to visit friends. It never missed a beat and could sit at 105mph until the petrol ran out. I'd never been to Devon before and was thrilled to discover Porlock hill, which the VP blasted up with me sitting back as if in a leather armchair. A wonderful car, apart from the 2 inches of play in the steering and the slipping reverse gear that made it impossible to reverse up hill. Oh, and the headlining that let go and draped itself over you when the sun got hot enough to melt the glue...
From: "Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot" on 5 Nov 2007 05:05 Willy Eckerslyke wrote: > > M3_2! I bought one for a hundred quid when I was about 19. It was my > second car after a Hunter estate. First thing I did was a 1000 mile > round trip down to Devon and Hampshire to visit friends. It never > missed a beat and could sit at 105mph until the petrol ran out. I'd > never been to Devon before and was thrilled to discover Porlock hill, > which the VP blasted up with me sitting back as if in a leather > armchair. A wonderful car, apart from the 2 inches of play in the > steering and the slipping reverse gear that made it impossible to > reverse up hill. Oh, and the headlining that let go and draped itself > over you when the sun got hot enough to melt the glue... *Sigh* <Thinks> 15mpg. <Thinks again> It'd be worth it :) Si
From: Willy Eckerslyke on 5 Nov 2007 05:25
Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot wrote: <VDP 4L R> > *Sigh* > > <Thinks> > > 15mpg. I used to get 18. A bloke in the owners' club at the time claimed 23, which seemed rather unlikely to me. > <Thinks again> > > It'd be worth it :) Yup. They never really had it fair, always being seen as a poor man's this or that, supposedly being outclassed by the P5B, etc, or just regarded as overgrown Austin Cambridges. But despite everything, they worked surprisingly well, even handling a lot better than you'd expect. On an 'A' road with sweeping bends you could get into a sort of rhythm and hustle along at quite a pace for such a large car. |