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    Who remembers this.?
    Did you have one.?

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    Yep that and starting handles, how time flies , cheers

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    The girl friend's nylons as an emergency fan belt, no chance these days

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill Morrison View Post
    The girl friend's nylons as an emergency fan belt, no chance these days
    It was Quite usual to see a roadside breakdown In those days, or maybe somebody pushing a car or even thumbing a lift,
    Today’s Younger drivers don’t have any Of the fun we had, And don’t know what they’re missing, , cheers

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    First car was a split screen Morris Minor convertible, starting handle proved useful on many an occasion. Also wore out three Gold Exchange gear boxes in a month travelling to and fro from Hull to Bristol when courting my first(late) wife in that month, no motorways in those days but plenty of hills for the moggie to climb

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    My first car was a 1949 Standard Vanguard, it was built like a tank and very reliable, I think I paid £12 for it in 1960, one
    Day I decided to give the inside a clean, when I lifted the carpet on the drivers side I found a sheet of plywood, imagine my
    Horror when I found the floor had half rotted away, no MOT’s at that time, I kept it for a couple of months , sold it for
    £10 and bought an Austin Devon which was a decent motor, cheers

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    Yes all those good Years now gone! What a pity as we did have lots of fun. Seems all the fun has now gone out the Window and as said the Younger ones of Today dont seem to do the things of yesteryear!

    My first Car was a 1958 Beetle Non Water Cooled and ran forever! Went well and never had much trouble at all with her.
    Sold reluctently when she had some 260 Miles on the clock, and her Engine was still ticking over well.

    Sure was the Peoples Car then!
    Mind you i still drive a VW and love them as always!
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    My first car was a VW air cooled engine and a great little car used to come home winter time to a great mound of snow get the yard brush and get rid of the snow give her full choke and off we went the battery was under the rear seat so well protected from the weather. Den

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    Quote Originally Posted by Denis O'Shea View Post
    My first car was a VW air cooled engine and a great little car used to come home winter time to a great mound of snow get the yard brush and get rid of the snow give her full choke and off we went the battery was under the rear seat so well protected from the weather. Den
    Sounds the same as my old Beetle mine too was Air Cooled No Water required
    They were great little Bugs , mine had the small back Window.
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    Our first car here in Oz was a Ford Escort, bit on the old side but only until we were settled in.

    It ran OK and was economical, 100 klm to the liter, of oil that is.

    About four weeks after getting it we ran into rain, the wife said her feet were getting wet.
    When I looked under the passenger floor mat I saw the problem, no floor there, rusted away with just a couple of struts holding the carpet up.

    It began to smoke and had to go, how to hide the smoke?
    One of the guys where I was working by then said put some Polyfiller in the sump.
    I had found another car and was getting rid of the Escort as part exchange.
    Put the Poly in on the way to get the new car, no smoke.
    Often wondered how it all ended?
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