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  • hostahousey
    hostahousey Forum Participant Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭
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    edited August 2016 #452

    I got my first car - an Austin Maxi (bought off the in laws) and engaging first gear could only be achieved by engaging second gear first - wonderful synchromesh! But it was 1750 cc and had 5 gears and could tow a caravan.

    First car I ever bought at auction. Wasn't overly enamoured of it and sold it after six months.

     Ya should have got a Princess !

  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2016 #453

    plus a fifty gallon drum of 'Kurust'?

  • hostahousey
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    edited August 2016 #454

    Never had any problems, wasn't your Maxi from the same factory?

  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2016 #455

    Mother in law had a Princess. It dissolved before your eyes.

  • paul56
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    edited August 2016 #456

    plus a fifty gallon drum of 'Kurust'?

    I think it was Waxoyl that was sprayed into all the orifices! I did get good at filling, sanding and spraying wheel arches! Now they did rot in front of your eyes!

  • Briang
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    edited August 2016 #457

    Going down the pub under age of course a pint of beer 1and 8 a pint

  • Fysherman
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    edited August 2016 #458

    I got my first car - an Austin Maxi (bought off the in laws) and engaging first gear could only be achieved by engaging second gear first - wonderful synchromesh! But it was 1750 cc and had 5 gears and could tow a caravan.

    Also my first car. Horrible British Leyland rubbish.

    I did the decent thing and put it through a hedge backwards.

     

  • spk
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    edited August 2016 #459

    aha, coincidentally I did the very same thing with a mid 70s Vauxhall viva. Totalled a hedge and knocked a small tree over, backwards. Not a mark to be seen on the car. I don't think it had crumple zones in those days

  • hostahousey
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    edited August 2016 #460

    Mother in law had a Princess. It dissolved before your eyes.

    Write your comments here...Did she manage to escape

  • robsail
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    edited August 2016 #461

    My father had a Hillman hunter which he towed a knowsley Caravanto the lake district he always was nervous when approaching shap!

  • briantimber
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    edited August 2016 #462

    The little dynamo that you clicked onto your bike tyre to give you lights......Cool

  • hostahousey
    hostahousey Forum Participant Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭
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    edited August 2016 #463

    3 forward gear , gearbox... early cars

  • Goldie146
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    edited August 2016 #464

    I learnt to drive in a three gear Ford Anglia (the one before the sloping back window), The gear stick was about three feet long. It was like stirring porridge.

  • volvoman9
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    edited August 2016 #465

    Clockwork toys Happy

  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2016 #466

    side valve BSA's

  • hostahousey
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    edited August 2016 #467

    I owned a BSA three wheeler about a 1930s I think. Was given me by my brother in law but needed ally weld on one pot so did' keep it long.

  • papgeno
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    edited August 2016 #468

    Having to give hand signals as part of the driving test

  • hostahousey
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    edited August 2016 #469

    Having to give hand signals as part of the driving test

       Too true ..now some don't bother to indicate  ...baaaa

  • Goldie146
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    edited August 2016 #470

    Indicators that popped up and out rather than flashed.

  • Rubytuesday
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    edited August 2016 #471

    Lining shoes / boots with newspaper 

  • G Cherokee
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    edited August 2016 #472

    Wagon wheels that were as big as your face Sticking Tongue Out

  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2016 #473

    Indicators that popped up and out rather than flashed.

    Only if you thumped the B pillar.

  • briantimber
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    edited August 2016 #474

    When we used to have to use public phone boxes....Cool

  • Rubytuesday
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    edited August 2016 #475

    Wagon wheels that were as big as your face Sticking Tongue Out

    Write your comments here...I remember wheels on Wagons !! 

  • hostahousey
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    edited August 2016 #476

    Rawltool.. For making holes in brick....now battery drills do the job

  • briantimber
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    edited August 2016 #477

    Making my own kite with a bamboo  cane string and greasproof paper.....Cool

  • triky auto
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    edited August 2016 #478

    Tungstone tipped ,hand held ceramic tile cutters .Now,we have battery powered angle grinders & diamond discs.!!

  • hostahousey
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    edited August 2016 #479

    Black Lead

  • hostahousey
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    edited August 2016 #480

    Black Lead

  • Fysherman
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    edited August 2016 #481

    Wal Phillips Turbo Visor on sale

    Any motorcyclists of a certain age will know what this is / was

     

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