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General Car Chat / Re: The Law of Unintended Consequences
« on: 27 June 2022, 15:49:24 »
<Sigh> If only we had an energy policy.. or a government that did policies, or looked beyond tomorrow's headlines.

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I still also think that in its day, the Senator had more of a prestige feel and look about it than the Omega did in its day.
Course it did. The Senator was a peg above the Carlton ..... when the Omega appeared, it replaced both cars.
I agree, but the claimed 0-60 of the TR6 stretches credibility as much as Fords claimed power output figures for the Essex V6 did.
A figment of some marketing mans imagination.
Yep...200 miles in a low geared 4 speed Escort from the seventies would not be much fun in 2022. However, the Omega can still crush the miles today in comfort.![]()
My 1500 automatic Avenger was one of three in the Coventry Motor Museum car park for the owner's club AGM. The other two were local cars. It was quite happy at 70mph on the M1, although there wasn't a lot left. And it was better for that sort of trip than my mother's mk1 Focus....
I seem to remember such a beast known as the Avenger Tiger. Usually yellow, I think.
Was bound to happen.
I was just wondering..........how the hell is Boris now going to have his weekly audience with the Queen and manage to look her in the eye after all thats happened ?
My mate spent £28,000 buying a MGB GT V8 & importing it from New Zealand & is now spending upwards of £25,000 having it completely stripped down & rebuilt , utter waste of money in my opinion for a car which stays in the garage for around 350 days of the year & will no longer be "original". I will admit that the engine sounds beautiful but after a ride in it you appreciate how much vehicles have improved since 1974.
I failed my first test in a Maestro... The first and last BL car I have ever driven.I took driving lessons in a Marina. Thought it was great.
So did Sir Tigger. Oh, did you say driving lessons?
Yep took my test in my Dad's British Racing Green Marina pickup with no synchromesh between 2nd and 3rd gears, so had to double de clutch changing down!
The examiner said to my driving instructor after my test that I thought I was driving a tractor.![]()
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He didn't know about the lack of synchromesh and passed me.
I took driving lessons in a Marina. Thought it was great.
Always fancied one of those...