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Offline stoop

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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #20 on: April 08, 2018, 15:57:29 PM »
Dad had a 67 Herald that some stupid woman driver wrote off whilst I was driving it. She turned right at a no right turn junction as I was going through it in the opposite direction. She even had the audacity to say it wasn't her fault and it went to court. As I was about to go in to give evidence she changed her plea to guilty.

Nice car - no sinc in first though.



Offline Stuart T

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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #21 on: April 08, 2018, 16:12:22 PM »
Love the stories that go with the first cars.

Bashes, crashes and unreliable motors - the golden age of my driving years.

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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #22 on: April 09, 2018, 09:18:31 AM »
Triumph Herald shows off its cornering abilities.



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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #23 on: April 09, 2018, 12:38:58 PM »
My first was a Singer Gazelle and then a Humber Hawk. The Hawk was a Petrol guzzler but wow the comfort. It also had overdrive which was like an extra half gear, when you flipped it on you could fairly feel the car surge.

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Re: What was your first car?
« Reply #24 on: April 10, 2018, 13:42:46 PM »


   When I was at school I had a Morris ex GPO van that I used to run around in (illegally).

    My first proper car was a  1947 Vauxhall Wyvern, metallic green with bench seats and column change. A garage owner wanted

    me to give up Motor bikes saying they were dangerous. I said I couldn't afford a car so he showed me the Wyvern and said if

    you could afford it would you give up the bikes? I said yes and he sold me this one owner car for £ 4. I kept it for nearly a year

    and sold it to my mate for £ 8. We still meet up and he still jokes that I ripped him off.!!!




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