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Any car in the 60s was a babe magnet for a young guy IMO as so few people actually had a car. Offering a girl a lift home was quite impressive, rather than walking her to the bus stop, which I often had to do.

bigjim wrote:Any car in the 60s was a babe magnet for a young guy IMO as so few people actually had a car. Offering a girl a lift home was quite impressive, rather than walking her to the bus stop, which I often had to do.

Yer not wrong there Jim

bigjim wrote:Any car in the 60s was a babe magnet for a young guy IMO as so few people actually had a car. Offering a girl a lift home was quite impressive, rather than walking her to the bus stop, which I often had to do.

My friends mum warned her 'Don't worry about the boyfriends with cars', it's the ones on a bike you have to watch out for. She did end up marrying a cyclist who never learned to drive.

I had a 1984 Cavalier, it was very good

800 000 were sold but most failed the MoT because of rust

Modern cars should not rust, how long will they last? If fewer cars are scrapped, will fewer be produced or will more and more be produced, will there eventually be too many vehicles?

Cyril Haearn wrote:I had a 1984 Cavalier, it was very good

800 000 were sold but most failed the MoT because of rust

Modern cars should not rust, how long will they last? If fewer cars are scrapped, will fewer be produced or will more and more be produced, will there eventually be too many vehicles?

We had a 1985 one. It was my company car and I bought from them for use outside of work. It was utterly reliable, never broke down in it's 13 years of life but boy how it could rust. We had it welded every year to pass the MOT. I scrapped it with 215000 miles on the clock. It still had the original clutch and cam. The reason we got rid was my wife said she was ashamed to get into it!

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Here's a Staggering Panorama - very 70's!

Taken at Brands Hatch. We did a couple of parade laps at lunchtime..

https://flic.kr/p/4ZKsmA

Al

reohn2 wrote:[quote="bigjim"

Babe magnet you say?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
This(exactly like the one I had)was a babe magnet :-

Did you get it cheaper because it was left hand drive?

We had what im told was the first capri sold in wolverhampton. Everyone was certainly keen to have a good look at it. With its super high powered 1.3 engine, and lovely vynal roof (i think it came with the rust ready implanted under it). Have to say though, always had a soft spot for capris....my old 2.0s was the most comfortable car i had, and you could rent out all the spare space in the engine bay to a family of six to live in

In the pre-internet days when the local rag was a common way of advertising private car sales, a paper not a million miles from Leeds had an ad for a car with a white vinyl roof with a typo affecting the letter w.

Cyril Haearn wrote:I had a 1984 Cavalier, it was very good

800 000 were sold but most failed the MoT because of rust

Modern cars should not rust, how long will they last? If fewer cars are scrapped, will fewer be produced or will more and more be produced, will there eventually be too many vehicles?

There already are too many...