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pete75 wrote:

kwackers wrote:I'm struggling here and need help.

Ye you are rather aren't you?

See a doctor mate, your memory's going.

kwackers wrote:

pete75 wrote:

kwackers wrote:I'm struggling here and need help.

Ye you are rather aren't you?

See a doctor mate, your memory's going.

No need be like that - I was merely agreeing with you.

pete75 wrote:

kwackers wrote:

pete75 wrote:

Ye you are rather aren't you?

See a doctor mate, your memory's going.

No need be like that - I was merely agreeing with you.

I think I got that the first time...

Cars in the 70s were better as they didnt mean people sat at computers having petty "oh yes it is", ""oh no it isnt" arguments, were they post fix every comment with a smiley so that they can say "but i was only joking"

Si wrote:Cars in the 70s were better as they didnt mean people sat at computers having petty "oh yes it is", ""oh no it isnt" arguments, were they post fix every comment with a smiley so that they can say "but i was only joking"

A good point well made.

Double post.sorry

Mick F wrote:Dad had a Mini Van in the early 1960s with a hidden fuel-pump switch. That was the only good thing about electrical fuel pumps.

There is at least one other advantage though.
If one needs a bit of petrol for the lawn mower etc it's very easy to pull off the pipe at the float chamber and get a few litres (sorry half a gallon!) in a container.
I had a Minor with a sticky pump, if you kicked the floor from inside it would start up again.
It was guaranteed to induce mirth and surprise to any passenger or hitchhiker when asked "could you just kick there, hard!).
For the pump was sited just above the passenger footwell.

Bit like one Morecombe and Wise car chase scene, where turning on the wipers turbo charged the car they were in!

Something else I've remembered about cars from that era is plastic seats: leave a car out on the sun and the seats would be too hot to sit on. Somebody must think that was a good idea because some posh cars now have heated seats.

The company car I was given in 1972 was a Ford Cortina with an oval steering wheel. Very odd till you got used to it.

I forgot the Chrysler Avenger,gulp,another mistake

Car security - 70s you leave a nice car on your drive and it may not be there when you come out in the morning. Modern you leave a nice car on your drive and you are woken at 2am by the thugs whove broken down your front door and are holding a knife to your kids' throats, demanding the car keys.

Ok, this is still a fairly rare occurance but similar does happen, and demonstrates that making a car more secure isnt necessarily always an advantage...theives will target the weakest link...which is unfortunate if its the driver.

A similar thing might be said about modern car safety and the knowledge that you can take more risks and still walkmaway from it (even if other road users may not be so lucky).

Anyway, my old capri had a couple of wires running from the coil to a switch down the side of the back seat. People tried to nick it a couple of times but couldnt get it to start no matter how good at hot wiring they were. I wouldnt fancy trying to fit such a device to a modern car.

Not that im using these two items to argue that 70s carsnwere better.....more fun maybe, but not better.

reohn2 wrote:I forgot the Chrysler Avenger,gulp,another mistake

I had one of those. Horrific car.
Tossup whether it was worse than a Marina though...

Had a Moggie Minor pickup for a while, that was good 'fun'. Old men on bicycles used to beat me from the lights, think it must've done 5mph in first.
The 'pickup' bit was about the size of a middle sized cars boot - although I had a poster where they'd obviously played with perspective and put a teeny bloke next to it to make it look big.

Overall for all their problems mini's were my favourite. I like the hard suspension and the point and shoot steering...
Seen a few now with 2 litre Honda engines fitted. Twenty years ago I'd have been all over that, now I can't be bothered - just want something that starts, needs no help from me and lasts more than a few years...

Chrysler Avenger - my FIL's always used to break down exactly 54 miles into the journey? It had perforations too in all the wings. When he died I flogged it to an ' enthusiast' from the IOW. Bet it didn't last long there. It was his pride and joy though.

Al

PDQ Mobile wrote:

Mick F wrote:Dad had a Mini Van in the early 1960s with a hidden fuel-pump switch. That was the only good thing about electrical fuel pumps.

There is at least one other advantage though.
If one needs a bit of petrol for the lawn mower etc it's very easy to pull off the pipe at the float chamber and get a few litres (sorry half a gallon!) in a container.

I'd forgotten about that!

Me and a mate were driving down to Portsmouth late one night. I was in my Mini Van, and he in his Triumph Vitesse 1600. He ran out of petrol, so I was able to pump a few pints into a can and got him going again!

al_yrpal wrote:Chrysler Avenger - my FIL's always used to break down exactly 54 miles into the journey? It had perforations too in all the wings. When he died I flogged it to an ' enthusiast' from the IOW. Bet it didn't last long there. It was his pride and joy though.

Al

Just after we were married my wife temped at the main Hillman dealer in Edinburgh. Almost every letter she handled was from irate Avenger owners. We had a wee cackle because the blowhard salesman son of a blowhard salesman who lived next door to her parents had bought one, and for all his cocky chortling his was one of the letters.