HMC

1995 citroen sm

I somehow missed out on them - i qualified in 97 but only had my own car from about 2004.

I remember in the next street another 1st car for someone. It was 2 door, in black, black bumpers, black vinyl seats, IIRC it was a 1.1. Uncle Henry’s povvo dream.

Growing up there was one of these down my street. a 1.3 GL 4 door. Aged 10 you could keep your ferraris etc, what i really wanted was one of these. I absolutely loved them. Back then they were cheap first cars (around 1990) couple of hundred quid and scrap it when the mot was up. That is assuming it hadnt dissolved already, or been crashed. Then a strange thing happened. They vanished overnight and then slowly they started getting expensive. By the time i started driving they were not mega expensive, but just hard to find. My route to a mk2 escort was avoid 2 door (££££££) avoid uk RHD (££££££ plus most heavily welded or rotten) So here we have a solid LHD import 1.3GL which is being delivered next week…

Inside Issigonis’ thoughts by dali

honda Jazz urban gun turret edition

1959 cadillac 4x4 brochure art

Im an outlier, but i hardly drive anywhere. In general i only drive for pleasure. Abolishing VED and adding it as a component of fuel duty would suit my usage more realistically and to my eyes would be fairer, but also i don’t care. For instance id like to have a post 2006 taxi- id hardly ever use it, and theres the rub. £800 per year just to use it occasionally- no thanks. But im an eccentric outlier and they have to make some sort of generallised basis to legislate from.

I blame Gordon Brown

Is this still available? (sorry havent read the last 2 pages)

I also discovered its a focus cc-3. This from an era of ka2/ ka3 etc. This gives your heated part leather seating and other bits. bonus! Does my bum look big in this? No. (yes)

Yes. Unlike, say in a tt mk1 someone over 8 years old can sit in them but even with my fairly forward/ hunched favoured driving position, its more of a 3 seater with the legs of the rear occupant over in the opposing footwell.