First time in a classic
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ejenner said:
If I didn't know better then I'd be thinking nobody has ever driven a car with chrome and a carburettor? But then again, I've seen older TV programs with people driving them... so they must have existed?
My first dozen or so cars had chrome and carbs.My first fuel injected car was a Rover 214.
First classic I 'drove' was this 911E last year, first left hand drive car too, first manual choke, and first time driving in front of a new client!
Before that the oldest car I'd driven was from the 2000's.
To be honest, I hated it, I was nervous as hell, and I was just moving it around really. Sure with a bit more confidence and proper driving I'd love it though.
Before that the oldest car I'd driven was from the 2000's.
To be honest, I hated it, I was nervous as hell, and I was just moving it around really. Sure with a bit more confidence and proper driving I'd love it though.
My first car back in 2012 was a 1987 Mk2 golf. To be honest it was fantastic, I still miss it now. The first time I drove it I was amazed at the lack of power steering and how heavy the clutch was. But I grew to adore it, made a great noise with a new exhaust with the carb allowing for pops and bangs of fuel and it's handling was just great. 55bhp meant flat out everywhere, it's made me love classic cars.
It was so simple, which is what is missing from modern cars.
It was so simple, which is what is missing from modern cars.
The first car I bought and paid for myself was in 1986.
It was a 1976 MkII escort which cost me £550.
It was already rusting to pieces and had had the rear arches, the strut tops and the sills replaced and been resprayed.
I spent at least £1k on boy-racer st and sold it two years later for £450...
It was a 1976 MkII escort which cost me £550.
It was already rusting to pieces and had had the rear arches, the strut tops and the sills replaced and been resprayed.
I spent at least £1k on boy-racer st and sold it two years later for £450...
I had to move a Morris Minor around a car park the other day. it was so old it had traficators and get this...
A knob you had to pull too start the engine! (Stop sniggering at the back!!)
The seat was fixed so at 6'2" I struggled to get in and out of it, the brakes were marginal even moving it about a small car park and the rim of the steering wheel was only just thicker than a paperclip.
It was, in a single word...
ste
A knob you had to pull too start the engine! (Stop sniggering at the back!!)
The seat was fixed so at 6'2" I struggled to get in and out of it, the brakes were marginal even moving it about a small car park and the rim of the steering wheel was only just thicker than a paperclip.
It was, in a single word...
ste
I've never driven anything made before the '70s. The oldest car I've ever driven, an Alfa Giulia GTV 2000, would have been roughly the same age as me. Manual choke, carbs, no power steering, but then that was the norm for cars when I started driving so these weren't really classic traits.
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