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honbuns
FemaleFirst Senior Member (500+ Posts)
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| Moris Marina an absolute piece of rubbish. The only reason I had it was it was all I could afford at the time. |
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azraelle
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Joined: 29 Apr 2005
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Location: southern utah, usa
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I've never owned a Chevrolet that was worth a damned--most were given to me, though, but even the very easy to maintain '57 P/U I bought 5th hand, needed ALOT of near-constant maintenance. |
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minigirl
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Joined: 29 Jul 2007
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Location: inner west sydney, australia
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| honbuns wrote: |
| Moris Marina an absolute piece of rubbish. The only reason I had it was it was all I could afford at the time. |
one of my neighbours used to have one of them and he loved it (it was a six cylinder coupe) and he only got rid of it a few years ago because his wife wanted him to. i was talking to him a few months ago and when i mentioned something about an old car i had seen he commented about how good he thought leyland's cars were.... |
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honbuns
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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minigirl wrote "one of my neighbours used to have one of them and he loved it (it was a six cylinder coupe) and he only got rid of it a few years ago because his wife wanted him to. i was talking to him a few months ago and when i mentioned something about an old car i had seen he commented about how good he thought leyland's cars were...."
Think he must have come from a paralell universe, pretty much everyone I know would disagree with him as Leyland stuff universally rubbish. |
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minigirl
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Location: inner west sydney, australia
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| honbuns wrote: |
| Think he must have come from a paralell universe, pretty much everyone I know would disagree with him as Leyland stuff universally rubbish. |
maybe - or perhaps the australian built cars were better put together - my mother used to have an austin kimberley, which was one of her favourite cars, my grandfather had a wolseley 24/80 for over 20 years, and my first car was a mini (now you know where my username came from!) and when i was in my first job i worked with someone who had an austin tasman and liked it, although he did say something along the lines of "you have to be a bit odd to drive something like that" but then he did have a rather warped sense of humour..... |
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worst - take your pick from Datsun 140J, 1976, '58 Standard 8, '59 Morris Oxford.
Best - '63 Cortina GT - & surprised to see people slagging off mk 1 cortinas - clearly they were never maintained |
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FMJ
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A well sorted Cortina of any type was a great car to drive, and old GT's on crossplys, rocked... We could actually drift ours, tyres smoking, round what we called the airport bend back in the '70's near Prestwick. They've gone and built a roundabout in the middle of it now!!
My personal worst was a 1984 Audi Coupe 2.2 GTI. Flimsy suspension, electrical parts that fell to bits, mounting brackets that would snap, etc. Once I had to hotwire it at Heathfield Hospital as the ignition switch fell apart, drive it to an Audi dealer in town, then had to explain to the assembled 'techs' on the forecourt how to do this before they would sell me a new switch... |
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sleepy
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Joined: 28 Jun 2008
Posts: 3999
Location: here there and everywhere :O)
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ford escort .. took it to the car wash 
the water poured in from everywhere , got soak'ed
was i glad it finished ... it was like a scene from one of them comedy show's
can laugh about it now 
p..s.. the car did only cost me £50 quid |
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Gladys
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Joined: 08 May 2005
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Location: Lancashire
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| 1947 Jowett Javelin. It used to stop when I drove through a puddle. |
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2cv man
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| 1947 Jowett Javelin. It used to stop when I drove through a puddle. |
Pity about the puddles Gladys, I always fancied a Jowett Javelin! Bench front seat and steering column gear lever if I remember correctly. I suspect that there are quite a few who won't have ever seen one - have you driven any other really rare cars? |
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Gladys
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Location: Lancashire
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| Gladys wrote: |
| 1947 Jowett Javelin. It used to stop when I drove through a puddle. |
Pity about the puddles Gladys, I always fancied a Jowett Javelin! Bench front seat and steering column gear lever if I remember correctly. I suspect that there are quite a few who won't have ever seen one - have you driven any other really rare cars? |
The Javelin was a fast motor for its day. It was made in Bradford.
I had a Morris Isis Series II. The gear lever and handbrake were between the bench seat and driver's door.
I briefly had an Austin Metropolitan but could not get spares for it so I quickly got shut.
Another motor I had was a Citroen Light 15. Front wheel drive and very advanced for its day. |
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2cv man
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Very interesting and individualistic cars Gladys! Unlike today's cars none of those you listed could possibly be confused with each other!  I think a really good citroen light 15 would still be practical today, agree that they were certainly ahead of their time. |
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