What’s made you happy for a change

[Scrappy]

Now own up @Scrappy , have you been using paint shop to touch up that pic? there is not enough rust and rot on that car to be genuine, they rotted as they went down the production line

Oh that wasn't mine Yes mine had rust, and it only occasionally fully worked as various things would frequently decide to have a day off. It had previously been an automatic, but converted to manual, so I guess the auto box was as temperamental or just died

I remember pulling into Scotts Tyres in Northampton to have them fix my exhaust, and they took a quick look at the car and told me to get it off their premises... it had got a fuel leak and petrol was pissing all over the engine

 

[half ton]

Most British built cars around that time seemed to have hand painted underseal up to the bottom of the doors ... on occasions you could spot a piece of tabloid newspaper poking out of it ..filler was more expensive .

 

[Don the Don]

Most British built cars around that time seemed to have hand painted underseal up to the bottom of the doors ... on occasions you could spot a piece of tabloid newspaper poking out of it ..filler was more expensive .

That's why you always took a magnet with you when considering buying one

 

[Doc Strange]

Can't remember how much driving lessons were back in 81,but it was getting on for a fiver.

Can't remember what I learnt in, but first car was an Austin 1100 - 'inherited' from an uncle who hadn't driven in years due to long illness.

Scraped through one MOT, but not a second - think I got £20 scrap for it.

Still had lots of fun in it - could barely get up a hill if full of me and me mates, and I'll never forget getting out after being stopped so a copper could look in the boot and having to rely on my mate in the passenger seat to lean over and push the footbrake on as handbrake didn't work and we'd have rolled back into the cop car if he hadn't

DS

 

[Scrappy]

Most British built cars around that time seemed to have hand painted underseal up to the bottom of the doors ... on occasions you could spot a piece of tabloid newspaper poking out of it ..filler was more expensive .

I remember seeing cars with sills stuffed with newspaper, and my first car, a MKII Escort, had most of the rear wheel arch reconstructed out of chicken wire and filler

It was completed with such craftmanship, I think I could have been a sculptor

 

[Don the Don]

"Oh" but what times they where lad's old bangers bought for a few bob and a mars bar, go for a run with the lads for drink and midnight plane spotting with some willing lass and if the car broke down plates off and dump it and buy another I would not trade the youth of today for them old days, the joys of the open road are dwindlling.

 

[Tallpaul]

That's given me an idea for a thread...

How much was a 1hr driving lesson when you guys were learning to drive? Mine started out at £4 & went up to £4.50 after a few weeks.
How much is a 1hr lesson these days?

Old git bonus points will be awarded for any lessons paid for using large white £5 notes or a handful of farthings

£1.50 in a MK11 Escort. PUY 742 L

 

[Doc Strange]

£1.50 in a MK11 Escort. PUY 742 L

£1.50!

Fuck you must be really old!

Credit to you still being able to remember that far back.

DS

 

[chas]

£1.50!

Fuck you must be really old!

Credit to you still being able to remember that far back.

DS

I appreciate it that he converted it from thirty shillings into 'new money' for us youngsters.

Thanks @Tallpaul

 

[Judd Dredd]

I appreciate it that he converted it from thirty shillings into 'new money' for us youngsters.

Thanks @Tallpaul

question is did the ford escort even exist or was it a different type of 'drive' with Ford's Escort down some alley?

 

[DD67]

question is did the ford escort even exist or was it a different type of 'drive' with Ford's Escort down some alley?

I reckon it was a typo.
Paul meant to say it was a brand new Austin A30

 

[Steve 998cc]

With the reg number he gave it's 1972/1973 and I was riding a Suzuki T500 Cobra. At the traffic lights GP it would beat most britsh bikes of the line. Probaly they could not see it left a good smoke screen behind it

 

[Sarky B’stard]

I reckon it was a typo.
Paul meant to say it was a brand new Austin A30

My Mum had an A35 (2nd/3rd/4th hand!!) with the bigger back window. It was a tiny, top heavy tank but I got to operate the indicator toggle switch on the middle of the dash!

 

[Tallpaul]

Yep. it was £1.50 per hour, which rose to £1.95 when the first "fuel crisis" occurred. We had petrol ration books for a while!

 

[GaleForceEight]

My sole hour of paid driving instruction was £14.50. My mum insisted on my doing it as an assessment before I did my test to make sure I was ready. That was in 1990.

Did my car test in the morning and my bike test in the afternoon. Mum would have flipped if she’d known about the bike test.

 

[GaleForceEight]

My Mum had an A35 (2nd/3rd/4th hand!!) with the bigger back window. It was a tiny, top heavy tank but I got to operate the indicator toggle switch on the middle of the dash!

We had a Morris Minor and a Citroen Dyane . The Moggy Minor had travelcators which popped out from the side of the car. The Citroen was affectionately known as ‘Orangemobile’. Mum did have a beetle, but whenever it was windy in certain places in the Welsh mountains the front end would lift, so she got rid of it. I remember she did ‘borrow’ an old (very old) gravestone that she kept in the boot because she was worried about the car flipping.

 

[Foxy]

I took my bike test in '75, and mi car test in '86. Only took mi car test cos mi 1st wife had a mini, and I used to nip out in it to local shops, etc. I had a moment of clarity and realised that if I got done driving it, I would lose mi bike licence anorl. Mi Dad had taught me to drive, on an old airfield in Sheffield, at around 16, cos I was into bikes, and mi parents weren't too keen, although mi Dad, and Grandad rode bikes. I have no idea what it cost, or what car, cos I only did it out of necessity, and I still have no interest in cars.

 

[GaleForceEight]

I took my bike test in '75, and mi car test in '86. Only took mi car test cos mi 1st wife had a mini, and I used to nip out in it to local shops, etc. I had a moment of clarity and realised that if I got done driving it, I would lose mi bike licence anorl. Mi Dad had taught me to drive, on an old airfield in Sheffield, at around 16, cos I was into bikes, and mi parents weren't too keen, although mi Dad, and Grandad rode bikes. I have no idea what it cost, or what car, cos I only did it out of necessity, and I still have no interest in cars.

Dad used to race Minis back in the 60s. He went all around Europe to various races - he wouldn’t get in the car with me driving until after I passed my test, then he took me onto the old runways at Ford Airfield and taught me stuff that “This is what you don’t learn on the road” but that would help me get out of trouble if things go wrong.

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

I was in the pub last night and together with another patron the only guests.

We drank ‘til 1a.m..
We ranted, laughed and cried.

It was the most human experience for me in quite a while and it made me happy for a change!

Did you cry cos you were poking each other in the eye to see how tough you are

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

A statue that deserves to be removed. The incest peado dog shagging pervert statue that has stood outside the BBC for nearly 90 years has been attacked, I wonder if the guy responsible will get let off, like those who attacked the Colston statue?

Says video unavailable so I don't know who shagged a puppy