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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    I often drive on the roads I used to in the 70s and 80s and think I used to hammer it down this bit or that section, today, being older I see everything that could go wrong, side turnings and people pulling out etc.
    But it did seem much freer in those days and you could actually overtake some one, something that is almost non existant these days, how many roads do you see that are wide, but the centre is hatched out to slow everyone down to the slowest farm tractor.
     
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      I've still got a clean Lience, never had any fines for speeding or parking, now it will be even harder for me to get any pionts as i don't go very far now :) i'm a hermit
       
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        pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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        Thanks for that Herman.:biggrin:
        I think he was a hermit, you dont get many of them these days, it kind of gone out of style.:roflol:
         
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          Cars are also much, much bigger now than they were back then. We considered a car like a Sierra to be a big family car - yet the current Focus would dwarf it.

          When I last went to Scotland, I went down roads that I know I used to fly down (my Dumfries to Edinburgh average time was around 65-70 mins back then) and there was no way I could hustle the Volvo at those sort of speeds on those roads; you're right, some of it is down to being older, wiser etc, but also some of it was definitely the size of the car - - it felt so fat/wide at times it was almost uncomfortable - and bear in mind that I used to chuck double deckers around as though they were Tonka toys.
           
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            pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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            I'm not so sure about a focus being bigger than an old Sierra, I've got a focus and the newer ones are not any bigger than than mine, but everything seems higher these days.
            I had the old 2.8 injection capri back in the day and it could out pace a lot of the old family cars of the day, especially uphill:biggrin:, which was my preferred overtaking manoeuvre.;)
            Remember when you used to have to change down to get up a hill.:biggrin:
             
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              I had a Mk 1 Golf that had been fitted with a bigger engine and had been 'breathed on'; from a standing start it could climb trees - stupidly quick off the line, but with only a four speed box, by 80 it was screaming its head off.

              Only one car scared me back then - Fiat Uno Turbo ie. Absolutely nuts.
               
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                pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                My old capri had only four speed box and no limited slip diff, it was a nightmare in snow and often in wet when cornering, but it was a case of foot down and go right up the revs on a dry road.
                The best part was seeing the exhausts curl in opposite directions on a cold morning.:biggrin:
                Sad I know.
                 
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                Volvo 360GLT was the same - an absolute hoot in the snow if you had wide open space (car park) but literally like Bambi on icy roads. I wrote it off in deep snow - was following a neighbour to his work to take his bosses Audi back as the snow was just getting worse; the Audi being front wheel drive went round this wee bend, but the Volvo chose not to and I was presented with a choice - - a brand new Peugeot 205 or the hedge, so I took the hedge. In that hedge, however, is the end post of a fence that was essentially a tree trunk with the bark knocked off and some holes bored through it. Devastated the front of that Volvo.

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                  That was you, was it? :whistle: :heehee:
                   
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                    My first new car was a 1964 Ford Anglia 123E Super with a 1500cc GT engine - built specially (think it was built in S. Africa) for one of the Ford junior execs and sold to me by mistake. They didn't find out for a few weeks and wanted it back - no way! :nonofinger:.

                    Went like a rocket but was a rust bucket!

                    It lasted (only just) until 1974 and by then was only held together by rust. That was just in time for me to go to the motor show in 1974 and buy the first Volvo 240 off the show stand at 50% discount - as seen. It was the only one in the country as this brand new model (replacing the 140) was held up in the dock strike for a couple of months.
                     
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                      I have spent hours looking for a nice soft wool type long-sleeved jumper, suitable for someone who's 6'3" (1.9m) , so a tall fit, 41"-42" (104cm - 107cm) chest, without logos on it, preferably in red or cream, and can I find one? Can I 'eck as like!
                       
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                        Can't you knit one whilst you're sitting there? :whistle:
                         
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                          pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                          I get good jumpers from the Edinburgh woollen Mills.
                           
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                            Really?

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                              pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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