What the hell is THAT still doing on the road??

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Next to me at a petrol station this morning was a Mk1 Escort. A very nice example, which had clearly been absolutely loved and cherished, appeared to have had various performance enhancements made to it, looked better than I expect it did leaving the factory. That, to me, is the epitome of the once common, now rare car sighting.

We then pulled out of the petrol station and went past a mauve A reg Triumph Acclaim which looked like it's being used as a daily driver for an odd job man!

This was a hideous car when it was new, so who in their right minds is still running one 33 years later???

Anyone else seen anything recently and wondered what on earth it was doing still being driven around today? I reckon that Acclaim had photos of its owner shagging a goat or something!

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Emanresu said:

Whatever you do, don't visit retrorides forum. Your mind will explode.

Is it so bad that people like different cars than you do?

I think you're missing the point. This wasn't a car that someone else liked by the look of it, or if they did, they have a bloody strange way of showing it!

It was absolutely filthy, full of crap, and I was amazed that it was still going at all. I'm not questioning for one second the people who choose to lovingly restore/maintain old cars despite knowing something modern would be far better to drive, much safer in the event of an accident and far more economical to run, and having owned a Hillman Imp and an MGB as daily drivers myself in the past, I'd have to take a look in the mirror first if I did.

This was someone driving something which, even when new, only claimed about 14 seconds to 60, coupled with fuel economy in the mid thirties, and is clearly driving it purely as a mode of transport 30+ years later, when I very much doubt it gets anywhere close to either of those numbers...