by YaTingPom » Fri Sep 09, 2016 4:02 pm
ricecakes wrote:It was a cunt of a car. The bloody back axel used to fall off and the trip up to our farm over the old dirt highways that ran the hinterlands was 7 hours of murder as a little passenger...
Alas those cars fill eyes of people of that age with misty nostalgia when in reality they were unreliable shitty British crap, much like most of the cars up until about 2000!
Ford , BL, and Vauxhall of the 70's and 80's (Viva, Escort, Sierra, Marina) were all pieces of poo but now go for silly money as the people who drove them, or their parents did, try to relive their youth.
Saw a Mk1 Escort (Base model, 1.1 OHV or something) go for $10k USD!
I paid $20 for one of those in the early 90's.
[quote="ricecakes"]It was a cunt of a car. The bloody back axel used to fall off and the trip up to our farm over the old dirt highways that ran the hinterlands was 7 hours of murder as a little passenger...[/quote]
Alas those cars fill eyes of people of that age with misty nostalgia when in reality they were unreliable shitty British crap, much like most of the cars up until about 2000!
Ford , BL, and Vauxhall of the 70's and 80's (Viva, Escort, Sierra, Marina) were all pieces of poo but now go for silly money as the people who drove them, or their parents did, try to relive their youth. :stupid:
Saw a Mk1 Escort (Base model, 1.1 OHV or something) go for $10k USD! :shock:
I paid $20 for one of those in the early 90's.