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  1. Billy Death

    Billy Death Well-Known Member

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    Mine was a Land Rover.
     
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    RR Silver Shadow
     
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  3. Burly Hurley

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    Vauxhall Viva
     
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  4. Gordon Armstrong

    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan
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    A motor car . . . . and casual clothes :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  5. Nostalgic

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    Ford Popular with three forward gears.
     
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  6. Billy Death

    Billy Death Well-Known Member

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    ****ing hell!
    Did they even have tests back then?
     
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  7. rooch 3

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    Datsun sunny with a gypo as the instructer who actually said if you pull over to the middle of the road to turn left again I will cripple you. Funny how i never did it again and passed first time name was Danny anybody take their test with him in Sunderland early 70s?
     
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    When I was learning to drive an artic the instructor used to sit with the extension bar for the wheel brace and he would welly your ankle with it if you were riding the clutch - didn't happen too often
     
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  9. Tel (they/them)

    Tel (they/them) Sucky’s Bailiff

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    Some pile of **** like a Corsa I think.
     
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  10. arthur

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    Fiesta XR2 - loved that car,went like s##t through a goose then rattled itself to buggery above 85!
     
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  11. Billy Death

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    I was knocking a Jock bird off who had a Fiat Uno turbo.
    Would do maybe 130mph on the straight but would it **** break or go round bends.
    ****ing most mental car ever.
     
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    Morris mini 850 traveller
     
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  13. cumbrianmackem

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    Morris 1000, my first ever car.
     
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  14. C19RK73

    C19RK73 Red & White army!

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    Peugeot 205
     
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    Was that the one with no synchromesh between 1st & 2nd and if you went over about 50 the windscreen wipers stopped? If so I had one as my first car but took my test in the driving instructors Triumph Toledo.
     
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    That's the one. The gear stick was shaped like a dogs leg but the wipers slowed down when you went up a hill and lost revs. Used to fly at it in third and once you got to second the wipers stopped functioning. It wasn't made to go faster than 45mph though so yours was maybe telling you to slow up.
     
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    Think you lads are wasting yer time here with these younuns they wouldn't have a clue what the difference between a syncro and crash box are - they would probably think it was porno term <laugh>
     
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    Took my first test in a pair of jeans with a shirt and pullover
     
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    Double de - clutching?
     
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  20. cumbrianmackem

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    I used to get a lift to college with a mate who had a Alfa Romeo which was tied together with bits of wire and catty. What a heap of sh1t, his second gear didn't work it was a complete death trap.

    An even worse ride to five a side was in a mates Reliant Robin three wheeler, complete nightmare. Happy motoring memories.
     
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