Drivers that really grind your gears

[bernardgreen]

Tights? Tights?? Most of my G/Fs wore stockings even in the nineties!

True, it was a pair of stockings, I seem to recall the cost of a pair of replacement stockings was about the same price as a new fan belt.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

True, it was a pair of stockings, I seem to recall the cost of a pair of replacement stockings was about the same price as a new fan belt.

Repairs were much easier to access then. I fitted a new main and a/c belt at home a few years ago, at home with access to a full toolkit. It took me all of five hours and a lot of ingenuity. Some of my early cars, I could sit on the wing, legs dangling down the side of the engine. Now, it's a struggle to even get a hand down between the bits of engine.

 

[bernardgreen]

Some of my early cars, I could sit on the wing

Triumph Herald and Spitfire allowed you to sit on the front wheel while working on the engine.

 

[JOHNBOY42]

I remember my hillman avenger..... starter motor kept on sticking..... 1lb hammer and a few taps would sort it out....

 

[ReganAndCarter]

I have saw the Reginald Molehusband one not many years ago, so it is still around somewhere.

Maybe you saw the recreated version? Would be great if the original still survives, but looking doubtful.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Its rare these days that I get to say "sorry, that was before my time", so let me just relish this moment.

Young whippersnapper!

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Triumph Herald and Spitfire allowed you to sit on the front wheel while working on the engine.

+ E Type.

 

[securespark]

I remember my hillman avenger..... starter motor kept on sticking..... 1lb hammer and a few taps would sort it out....

I used to drive an Escort that did that. I was always leaping out and cracking the starter with a lump hammer to get it going!
Oddly (and pointlessly), I can still remember the reg...B429 RVM....

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I used to drive an Escort that did that. I was always leaping out and cracking the starter with a lump hammer to get it going!
Oddly (and pointlessly), I can still remember the reg...B429 RVM....

1964/65?

 

[just pumps]

1964/65?

Is that what St Google told you?

 

[Stivino]

1964/65?

Nope, if that was the case, the B would be last.

 

[crystal ball]

Probably memory, I had a D reg Hunter that was 66, F reg Cortina, 68, H reg Moggy 70

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Is that what St Google told you?

Nope!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Nope, if that was the case, the B would be last.

OK.. I thought the single letters were only used after the 3N + 3L ran out in 62/63.

I had a 63 Cortina, which would have been an A, but the local authority hadn't yet run out of the 3N + 3L ones.

 

[wobs]

Young whippersnapper!

Charlie says I shouldn't talk to strangers.