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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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it's a pretty rock and roll car history
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:56, 1 reply, 14 years ago)
Mk2 Golf GTi, Tornado Red
Mk6 Celica SS1 import, some sort of ugly silver
Mk1 A3 1.8T, Absolute Red
A pretty shitty collection of vehicles, except the Golf. I shall be correcting that with the next one.
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 9:59, Reply)
I've had:
Mazda 323 - Silver
Mazda RX-8 - Dark Grey with viper stripes
BMW 318 - Black
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:00, Reply)
White Polo
Metallic gray MGF
Burgundy Rover 420
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:03, Reply)
AND a 6-CD changer.
Luxury!
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:08, Reply)
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:09, Reply)
The Triumph was pretty good, the Rover less so but still only proper broke down twice. Of course, one of those was in Bristol.
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:13, Reply)
In this case, I'm using "of course" to modify the "only" in the previous sentence to indicate that although 2 breakdowns is not bad, one of them was far from home and thus worse than standard.
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:22, Reply)
also a honda fits with Lighty's old man car collection
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:18, Reply)
fortunately when i grew up I realised what utter shit they were
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:06, Reply)
The engine is shit, the electrics are shit, the brakes are shit, the handling is shit, and most importantly, looks like shit.
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:01, Reply)
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:02, Reply)
beetle had pulling power like you wouldn't believe.
although i was usually in school uniform, come to think of it. hmmm.
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:07, Reply)
It wasn't the car.
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:09, Reply)
they were an unwelcome surprise later in life
the rest of it may be true
(, Tue 19 Feb 2013, 10:11, Reply)
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