What's on your drive?

This is my latest run-about:wink:



What's yours?

 

This is, I've had it nearly five years.



s'pose I'm not very adventurous, this is the previous one, I had it seven years.

 

Pal, your gonna kill yourself in that thing.:lollol:

The new firms van I guess.

 

Dog house, you do know that parking on the pavement is an offence, I assume.:lollol:

 

Dog house...please forgive me,:ntwrth: I'm only joking!....It's on my drive but it's not mine,I'm only baby sitting it:D....Pete and Marley have sussed me straight away:p...Mine's a Saxo!!:hehe:

 

All these people who can afford new or nearly new cars is very depressing. :o :o :o

My only car that I have will be 50 years old in April. Do you think it's time I traded it in? It's in fairly good condition though as I only drive it now when the road is dry.

(It was built in Abingdon on the 24th of April 1960.)

 

Hi Kindredspirit .the only bicycle i have is 30 years old ,in May, do you think its time i traded it in .its in fairly good condition but due to the weather conditions in Scotland it is a bit rusty, nothing that a wee bit of oil and elbow grease could not cure!! :wink::hehe::wink: music.

 

No probs. I only put it up on the kerb while I'm waiting for my wife. She can't get in it when it's in the drive as the passenger doors are too close to the side fence.

This is like the car I bought when I was seventeen. Though it was blue and a "convertible." It cost me £35 in 1958, (I still remember my best friend's dad paid that much at the same time, for a set of naff lookin' tartan plastic seat covers, for his new morris Oxford).
I drove it without "L" plates for two months and then passed my test first time.
I've never had a driving lesson in my life and my wife says "she can tell."
I had it for a year. All it cost me in that time was 1/- for a new bearing for the dynamo.



The only really "serious" car I bought was in the early eighties, a 2lt Alfa Romeo Giulietta. Twin cam all aluminium engine canted at 30 degrees to reduce height. Two twin-choke down-draught Webber carburretors. Torque tube to rear mounted gearbox with deDion back axle.
It went like "compost off a shovel" and rusted to buggery, I nearly cried when I traded it in for a Renault 5 GT.

err.. I s'pose that was a bit fast too...

 

I haven't got a car on my drive. I did have a very nice Citroen Xzara estate until Tuesday morning when I was on my way to a meeting. I was driving down a country lane near Piltdown in West Sussex when I came to a flooded road. A vehicle came throught the water towards me and when it had passed, I thought "If he can do it I so can I". I got to within 10 feet of the end and the car splutterd to a halt.

Someone helped me push it out of the water and there it stayed. Well, for five hours until the AA finally rescued me, after demanding another £76 for relay.

Now it's in the garage and it looks like it's a write off as water was sucked into the engine. I'm just waiting to see how much the insurance company will offer me then I can look for something else. I know it's no-ones fault but my own, but one error of judgement has caused endless hassle.

So, that's why there's no car on the drive.

Chris

 

Worst snow for 30 years and the first year for about 12 that we've no 4x4 after having a SWB Land Cruiser (tough as old boots), two Jeeps and a very, very thirsty big Suzuki. Oh yes and a Land Rover Series IIA (tax exempt) and a LR County.

Now the drive only houses a boring but very frugal Vectra TDi and a Golf GTTDi :-(

Just wish I still had this Triumph TR4A. Probably the last of the real hairy sports cars. It was so easy to work on, though nearly killed us when the front suspension collapsed due to metal fatigue in a bolt. Twin SU carbs, knock-off wire wheels (you used a mallet not a spanner) and quick fill tank. A far cry from my first car which was a 1937 Austin Ascot Deluxe which cost me all of £5.00 in 1963.

 

Ah! I'd like a TR4 too but in red. Anyone lend me ten grand?

 

My brother-in-law once had a TR7. He swore that if he put his foot down hard, he could see the needle on the petrol gauge going down.

A golfing friend has a restored e-type "hatchback" and a 1970's classic 750cc Suzuki.


Err... He's seventy-three.

 

Do I remember there being a TR6, along with sunbeam tiger, they were the cars I gloated over in the 60s.

 

Whoops!

I should have said TR6, was my brother-in-law's car. The TR7 was rubbish by comparison.