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[Mister Rog]

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I've never been over 70mph, I would imagine it gets quite scary. 

70mph is quite fast enough in a 451 Smart when it's windy 

As a lad 60mph in my Dads Morris 1000 seemed pretty damned fast. I eventually did the big ends in. Nobody told me anything about checking the oil now and again 

[Auto Addict]

145 mph across the Bodmin moors in a Carlton 3 ltr 24v Gsi, pissing all over a Ford Cosworth.

I was a lot younger then

[Keith ABS]

 Couldnt get to 70mph when I owned a 2CV for a month
Even the owners handbook said 70mph n/a
Good grief, have I just admitted to you all that I have previuosly owned a 2CV

[Andy B]

Couldnt get to 70mph when I owned a 2CV for a month
Even the owners handbook said 70mph n/a
Good grief, have I just admitted to you all that I have previuosly owned a 2CV

[Lizzie Zoom]

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I've never been over 70mph, I would imagine it gets quite scary. 

70mph is quite fast enough in a 451 Smart when it's windy 

As a lad 60mph in my Dads Morris 1000 seemed pretty damned fast. I eventually did the big ends in. Nobody told me anything about checking the oil now and again

Oh yes, those cars needed it as piston rings and valve seals all leaked oil, unlike modern cars!

In 1970 my A40 was so bad, it used 1 gallon of oil for every 20 gallons of fuel.  The black stuff was pouring through into the cylinders until I rebuilt the engine!

[Entwood]

Way back in the early 70's I had a Ford Consul that on a drive from Thirsk (Yorkshire) home to Wiltshire I stopped at several garages and purchased a gallon of used oil for pence..... I used 10 gallons to get home ... leaving a smoke trial like a world war two smoke laying ship !!

One of the pistons had a hole about an inch diameter in it !!

Got home, filled it with tractor gearbox oil and left it to stand in a layby near a garage I knew ....  drove it in there the next morning, whilst still cold, dipping the clutch just as I arrived to coast to a stop....  and did a "deal" on an Austin 1100 ... guy offered me £50 for the consul .... I said I wanted £100 as it was a "goer" ... he said OK as he saw it drive in, never bothered to start it or drive it ....    I drove the 1100 home , packed my bags and left back for Yorkshire within the hour .........

[Lizzie Zoom]

Way back in the early 70's I had a Ford Consul that on a drive from Thirsk (Yorkshire) home to Wiltshire I stopped at several garages and purchased a gallon of used oil for pence..... I used 10 gallons to get home ... leaving a smoke trial like a world war two smoke laying ship !!

One of the pistons had a hole about an inch diameter in it !!

Got home, filled it with tractor gearbox oil and left it to stand in a layby near a garage I knew ....  drove it in there the next morning, whilst still cold, dipping the clutch just as I arrived to coast to a stop....  and did a "deal" on an Austin 1100 ... guy offered me £50 for the consul .... I said I wanted £100 as it was a "goer" ... he said OK as he saw it drive in, never bothered to start it or drive it ....    I drove the 1100 home , packed my bags and left back for Yorkshire within the hour .........

 

It is amazing what we got away with in those days!  My smoke trail was so bad that a very keen, for her stripes, female officer stopped me in the A40 and said "your car is making a bit of smoke" (an understatement! ) , to which I said "am I ?" with a grin.  In those days there was no law about the blue smoke - if there had of been a lot of vehicles would have been driven from the roads - but she didn't half grill me about everything to do with my poor car and me, a teenage girl!  After finding nothing wrong, she stormed back to her patrol car 

Often after traveling to the bottom of a steep hill, the cars behind used to disappear in a big cloud of the blue stuff as I accelerated away and the pistons increased the cylinder pressure and pushed out the build up of oil !

Good job Greta Thunberg and her like were not around then  

I certainly did my bit back then to create Global Warming!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Couldnt get to 70mph when I owned a 2CV for a month
Even the owners handbook said 70mph n/a
Good grief, have I just admitted to you all that I have previuosly owned a 2CV

Mr Albitz will be impressed. He loves all things froggie.

[biggriffin]

Speed does not kill.
Large trees appearing from nowhere kill.
Large lumps if metal hitting each other with people inside them kills.
Speed ? That's just a measurement of how much it's going to hurt should a tree or other object arrive in front of you without you knowing.

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  Speed and power...

It's the stopping that kills 

[biggriffin]

145 mph across the Bodmin moors in a Carlton 3 ltr 24v Gsi, pissing all over a Ford Cosworth.

I was a lot younger then

 I had a similar experience in one of them fine examples of GMs saloons, not long after new 4lane A1 was opened towards pbro,  The blonde sort in the passenger seat in the porch, who the gentleman was trying to impress, wasn't as a lowly Gsi 24v went past, and the porch struggling to catch up,,, 

[Davies]

Sorry - late to this post.
Pre Omega - Austin metro, Mark 4 escort, Mark 5 escort.
The Omega was Sorn in 2014.
Then had a 52 plate golf TDI
Last month got a 67 Golf R.

The Omega was the most comfortable. The Golf R by far the highest BHP.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Sorry - late to this post.
Pre Omega - Austin metro, Mark 4 escort, Mark 5 escort.
The Omega was Sorn in 2014.
Then had a 52 plate golf TDI
Last month got a 67 Golf R.

The Omega was the most comfortable. The Golf R by far the highest BHP.

Nice little car and quite nippy with 300BHP and 4 wheel drive.

I think the 2 door version looks better than the four.

[TheBoy]

Sorry - late to this post.
Pre Omega - Austin metro, Mark 4 escort, Mark 5 escort.
The Omega was Sorn in 2014.
Then had a 52 plate golf TDI
Last month got a 67 Golf R.

The Omega was the most comfortable. The Golf R by far the highest BHP.

Nice little car and quite nippy with 300BHP and 4 wheel drive.

I think the 2 door version looks better than the four.

Certainly the only Golf I would tolerate, having had to suffer lesser Golfs frequently as hire cars.

[Davies]

Re the golf R - it’s the 310BHP and a fantastic car.
5 door I’m afraid - children and car seats in and out so 5 doors was essential.
Thought about the estate at one point - but didn’t need the extra boot space.