We used to own this, it was Nicky's "mid life crisis" car. Great fun to drive, a lovely burble from the exhaust, but too thirsty to be practical.
makes me laugh now I can't tell these modern cars apart - Christ knows what would happen if we didn't have electronic key fob thingys can you imagine forgetting where you parked your car and having to try the key in each lock of a similar looking vehicle
LOL a bit like trying to tell a 748, 916, 996, 998, maybe even a 1098, 1198 apart eh?! Or even worse, any of the Monsters!
Here's mine i owned a few years ago. Evo 1, big turbo model, the Evo 2 had a smaller one that spooled up quicker, mine was nothing and then BAM, oodles of power!! Haha, loved it! Tho averaging 15mpg on a run to London and back sucked!
This was the best and worst car I ever owned. Foot down 8 miles per gallon! Bloody quick! But every time you floored it you'd get something go wrong and a big bill to fix it. Got a Volvo C30 R design now which is equally as good but doesn't break down.
My girlfriends mate has a Peugeot 307, came out tesco a few weeks ago with 4 pints of milk and then couldn't get into 'her' car. Key fob doesn't work so she always uses the key in the cars door. When she realised it wasn't even her car she began panicking because she couldn't get the key out now. Getting v. flustered and rapidly embarrassed thinking the owner was about to appear, after 2 minutes she finally got the key out and was so mortified with what just happened she fled leaving her 4 pints of milk on the floor by their car door. Most probably with a mashed up lock. I wonder what the proper owners thought when they got back to their car to find the milk sitting there!
oops nightmare - I've got in the passenger seat of the wrong car before now - not sure who was more shocked me or the driver
We, as a family, climbed into the old Morris Marina estate after a holiday to Spain. The old fella had left it in the long-stay car park at Gatwick. As we drove along he asked me to check in the glove box for a pack of tobacco. It wasn't there. At that precise moment my old man realised he'd driven off in someone else's car! So we drove back, parked it up in the same spot and went looking for our car. sure enough it was exactly where he'd left it, complete with packet of baccy in the glove box. If anyone tells me nowadays that cars all look the same, I tell them this story. A car is a car is a car is a car...
An Electrician I once worked with told me the story of His Caravan. He took it to Cornwall for a week then left it on the site so his mate could go down the next week and use it then bring it back to sunny Scunny Yep he spent a week in someone else van and then brought it back
Re keys: When I was still at school in the 70s I worked in a garage filling up cars. On a Sunday I was the only one there. We sold a few car things, like Gunk, liquid gasket and the like. We also had an old plastic board on the wall with hooks on it holding random car keys. The keys were all unbranded - just regular keys. They were to be sold for 5p each - if you could ever sell one (which needless to say, we never could). Talk about a useless piece of stock. One day an Irishman came in and said his car was down the road but that he'd lost the key. Did we have one? I pointed to the board. "Can i try one," he said, "and if it's the right one, I'll come back and pay you for it". "Fine," I said, not overly concerned if he came back or not to give us the 5p and reckoning that his chances of finding the right key were approximately nil. "Which one would you like to try?" So Paddy squints at the board over the counter and makes his choice: "I think it's that one," he says and picks one out. It had to be said that nothing looks quite as much like an unbranded car key on a board as another unbranded car key. At this point, I came to the conclusion that everything they say about the Irish is true. Anyway, he picked up his key and toddled off. About 20 minutes later, he came back. "Yup, that's the one," he said and handed over 5p. With a feather knocked me down you could have.
Ditto on the key story. When i lost the keys to the knackered old Viva that i mentioned in the earlier post i went to the scrap yard. Following my enquiries the scrapper sent to a bloke on site..he pointed me to a large white paint can full of keys. Scrawled on the side is said 'Vauxhall'. You got 10 keys for 10p. I took a bunch of them and left. All but about 3 would start the car, and every one would get into the car... I later discovered that i could unlock and start the car with a penknife..i felt ripped off...bloody pikey scrappies.
Four blokes with Fizzies at my school back in the day. Every ignition key was identical and had the same number stamped on them...
Up to the 70s all BMWs had the same key - it was a switch, there was no pretence to uniqueness. And up to the 60's, bikes with magneto ignition had no switch at all let alone a key. You just kicked the bike and it started. When I had a Velocette the only thing stopping people from pinching it was that the kick starting procedure was so difficult nobody could start it up except me. The ignition lock with a key fitted to 70s & 80s Ducatis (made by a then little firm called Aprilia) was a step forward.
Were they simpler times back then? I'm not so sure, perhaps it was just the thieves that were simpler...
I have a Toyota Supra TT (twin turbo), Porsche performance, Toyota servicing costs! Unfortunatly I will be selling it soon...........anyone interested?
