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Girlfriend with a car! Impressive.......
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Girlfriend with a car! Impressive.......
Petrol Pete
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Wife now...and I seem to have paid for her last couple of cars ....how did that work 
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Chrishazle
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If all you've had to pay for is a couple of cars, you got off light! I'm sure my wife has cost me more than a couple of AMG's over the years!!
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Special edition Caledonian model.
Darrell
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In my yoot, I only went out with a bird if she had a car.
Semaphore, sticking uselessly out of the side of the car..my Dad had an Austin van of some sort when I was a toddler, had them.
I paid £200 exchange for 2 replacement signalling arms (they light up, too!) for the Sunbeam. Nostalgia doesn't come cheap.
Also has the button switch for high beam.
And suicide doors.
Column gear change, anyone?
Not to mention windows which require manual effort
And it has a heater, which was an optional extra .... standard "ventilation" is a push me-pull you lever which opens a flap connected to the grill at the front of the car.
No seat belts or airbags.
Crossply tyres.
Remind me again why I bought it?
In my yoot, I only went out with a bird if she had a car.
You must have lived in a posh area?
Like the south of England?
Justintyme
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Column gear change....MK1 Ford Cortina, with the "Rumble Seat" configuration........ also with wind up windows all round, and with out seat belts, but did have ashtrays though.... and TC arms , Track rod end's and king pin's which were no match for the roads of the day.....
Yes, forgot the ashtrays ... not quite Arthur Daly quality, but typical of a time since past.
Darrell
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Yep. Almost every bird in Edgware got a red XR3i for her 17th birthday.You must have lived in a posh area?
Like the south of England?
Petrol Pete
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Sold it to a friend of ours, I didn't know much about them but I did tell her to keep an eye an the temperature gauge. She overheated it taking a mate of her's to the airport, did not want her mate to miss the plane. Car was scrapped.
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I took driving lessons at BSM in 1964, in a Consul Cortina, with individual front seats and floor change. But the day before my test it was crashed, so they provided another Cortina, with bench seat, column change, and a different ventilation set-up.
Fortunately they gave me a free hour before the test to get used to the car - I’d never driven a column change before - but unfortunately they didn’t show me the ventilation bits, and it started to rain. I had to ask the examiner if I could stop to wipe inside the screen!
Passed the test though....
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Neither my Morris Traveller nor my Frogeye Sprite had screen washers, but I fitted pump action aftermarket sets to each.
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Things I'm struggling to remember? Work.........! Ten weeks now and counting 
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Four years next month, and guess what? I couldn’t care less if I never remember it...Things I'm struggling to remember? Work.........! Ten weeks now and counting
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Drove several 1960's Peugeot 404, a 1975 Dodge D200 pickup, and a 1970 W115 Mercedes 220, all with column gear change. It's quite intuitive once you get the hang of it, same logic as a floor mounted stick. Some American cars had semi-automatic (clutchless) gearbox with electric buttons on the dash to change gears - it sounded weird even then (never actually drive one though).
My first car was a Ford Consul with 3-speed column and no synchro on first. Later a Vauxhall Cresta PC, same but with synchro. I also drove Toyota Hiace and Mazda pickups all with column change. The Japanese really had them sorted by then and were quite pleasant to drive.
Petrol Pete
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My dad owned an old Toyota Hiace with column change which we all drove waaaay before we were legally allowed to, if you didn't know and different ..it was not different. Would his Ford Zephyr have had column shift ? I think so (never drove that, just did the standing on the lap thing while he drove and I 'steered' ).
Probably helped me out as an apprentice having to drive vehicles with 'three on the tree' and no clutch. Tri-Matics I think they were called, 1st gear was so short if you had no load you didn't need it, pull away in second, let the revs drop , pop it in 3rd and forget about it.
My old Iveco van has 1st gear in the 'wrong' place , down and to the left.
).Probably helped me out as an apprentice having to drive vehicles with 'three on the tree' and no clutch. Tri-Matics I think they were called, 1st gear was so short if you had no load you didn't need it, pull away in second, let the revs drop , pop it in 3rd and forget about it.
My old Iveco van has 1st gear in the 'wrong' place , down and to the left.
I drove Citroen CX Prestige with a semi automatic box or electronic clutch, It was a bit weird as it had a stick but no clutch.
The manual screen-wash pump saved the day once for me and my girlfriend one night when the electric fuel pump broke down in my Austin Cambridge.
I rigged the screen wash pump to the fuel lines and got my girlfriend to lie down in the boot and keep pumping the fuel up to get me home. I ran my girlfriend home ( high on petrol fumes) in my mother’s Morris Minor.
BTW she’s now my wife of 50 years next June.
The manual screen-wash pump saved the day once for me and my girlfriend one night when the electric fuel pump broke down in my Austin Cambridge.
I rigged the screen wash pump to the fuel lines and got my girlfriend to lie down in the boot and keep pumping the fuel up to get me home. I ran my girlfriend home ( high on petrol fumes) in my mother’s Morris Minor.
BTW she’s now my wife of 50 years next June.
