Sight of the week so far

[MrRegieRitmo]

A young looking female in the driver's seat of a white S reg Allegro with it's hazards flashing by the side of the road, as I passed in my R9. If I hadn't been late for work I'd have stopped to see if she was alright / have a chat / satisfy my curiosity / get her number** delete as appropriatealthough I doubt I'd have been any use to her on her predicament, other than to offer words of advice / encouragement & inform her about this website!

[RedSparrow]

Was she hot? If so its probably best that she doesn't join this forum cos of the fighting over her that will oocur.Just shows though that maybe Allegros might have reached 'retro/cool/chic' stage....

[Mash]

Stuff work, you should have stopped! The amount of young ladies driving old shitters is sadly far to low I must agree

[CortinaDave]

Theres a really quite hot bird rocks about dundee in a Viva HB. Sadly any time I pass her I'm always in my modern daily!

[Guest]

I like the idea of a really tidy young lady being given their grandad's old Stanza as a first car. But they're a nice sort who doesn't want to upset anyone, so they just deal with it, driving it to work everyday, wrestling with the steering and blipping the throttle on rainy days to prevent stalling. It's a nice thought.

[ashmicro]

You should've stopped Regie, and then told your boss YOU broke down, hence the lateness.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

You should have given her an Autoshite card, and she could have followed the usual drill of posting one time.

[Guest]

You should've stopped Regie, and then told your boss YOU broke down, hence the lateness.

I did that once, changed the tyre for a reasonably tidy lass and the boss didnt believe my story - looked at the dirt on my hands and had a pop at me for driving an old A-reg pile of shite (which admittedly had genuinely made me late before when it wouldnt start and I had to waste time changing the battery and luzzing some pez down the carb so as it was encouraged to fart into life). OK so the girl was only driving a Ka but I wish I'd got some photos, even if only to prove what happened!

[Father Ted]

and the boss ......had a pop at me for driving an old A-reg pile of shite

This boils my piss, to coin a phrase. I get that on a regular basis from the doctors I work with.I drive a shitter because I dont want to lumber myself with a huge finance agreement - I have one newish car ( the Zafira) which the wife uses to lug the kids about in. I cant afford to buy anything costing much more than a grand and for that I wexpect 2 years use at least - so £500 a year.So fook off salaried GP with your £69K a year job and nice side line doing the drug clinic for anothr £300 a session and let me get on with my life.

[pompei]

Isn't the average GP salary now just over £100k?

[Father Ted]

Very probably, I just going on one I saw advertised recently which was about the 68k mark.i have a mate whos a anaests, anaesthatisht, ane... gasman and he probably unintentionally) pisses me off quite often by derriding my shite and telling me to but a Focus RS or some other fantastically priced tin, yah great - I nod sagely and remind him that he earns about four times what I do and has no mortgage.

[MrRegieRitmo]

My colleague's current squeeze is a trainee doctor on about 47k which apparently will top 100k once she's the finished article! Rather humbling. I know she'll probably save a lot of lives but isn't helping the lives of computers also important?? There are IT jobs for that sort of money but they seem to be the exception rather than the norm...

[Volksy]

I got a B in GCSE Biology.. CANZ I AV 100K PLZdidnt think so..

[reallyloud]

From the few girls I know (of) driving older cars, tend to have husbands or boyfriends who do the oily bits, maintenance and repair work. I think the allegro bird sums up the issues of safety and reliability of owning an old car. There are plenty of women who drive late 80's/early 90's cars around here but I guess that due to financial circumstances as opposed to choice. Of course I have to assume there are women who also know their way around a engine.....

[FredTransit]

eh-hem......

[andrew e]

Not you Fred, he means the one's too lazy to fit a starter motor

 

Avoids incoming virtual slap!

[FredTransit]

Oh fair enough....

[Father Ted]

There is a woman who lives next door to my mate who subscribes to the whole 1950's thing - period clothes, period make up, period furnature, period decor and of course period motor - in this case a little A35 (might be an A30, but pretty sure its a 35).

 

One weekend I saw her, overalls, hair up, spotty headscarf, make up and fag in mouth, spanner in hand with various bits of the donkey on a sheet on the pavement at the side of the road, and she looked to know what she was doing too.

 

Kwolity. I wonder if she would marry me?

[Guest]

I think the allegro bird sums up the issues of safety and reliability of owning an old car.

Amongst other items, one thing I've never quite understood about ladies is their attitude with regards to breakdowns. I read some "motoring for women" type newsletter about a year ago and it had a section on breakdowns illustrated by a mascara-streaked crying face, which sums it up pretty well.There'll no doubt be exceptions, but I've never heard of a girl breaking down and reacting by being mildly annoyed, phoning for recovery, getting it fixed and viewing it as a problem which has been resolved. They seem to go absolutely hysterical - selling the car afterwards because it can't be trusted, etc. What's the problem?

[FredTransit]

God you just reminded me somebody on one of the forums asked me if I was single.....I seem to have pulled.

[andrew e]

I must admit when the fuel pump failed on my Voyager, the wife bit my head off - just because we were fully loaded in rural france with 2 kids on a saturday afternoon I had a good run avoiding continental breakdown cover I suppose To be fair being a mechanics daughter she knows whats what, not that she ever bloody joins in when it needs fixing....

[garethj]

There is a woman who lives next door to my mate who subscribes to the whole 1950's thing - period clothes, period make up, period furnature, period decor and of course period motor - in this case a little A35 (might be an A30, but pretty sure its a 35).

 

One weekend I saw her, overalls, hair up, spotty headscarf, make up and fag in mouth, spanner in hand with various bits of the donkey on a sheet on the pavement at the side of the road, and she looked to know what she was doing too.

 

Kwolity. I wonder if she would marry me?

If you can just forward her details to the Autoshite stalkers society, we, errrr they would be very greatful

[Louise2cv]

From the few girls I know (of) driving older cars, tend to have husbands or boyfriends who do the oily bits, maintenance and repair work. I think the allegro bird sums up the issues of safety and reliability of owning an old car. There are plenty of women who drive late 80's/early 90's cars around here but I guess that due to financial circumstances as opposed to choice. Of course I have to assume there are women who also know their way around a engine.....

Erm....???????????????????????????A large number of boys that I know of need help changing the light bulbs on their cars, and pay the garage to do everything else.

[reallyloud]

Erm....???????????????????????????A large number of boys that I know of need help changing the light bulbs on their cars, and pay the garage to do everything else.

You're right. A lot of men out there wouldn't know how to change a set of brakes or replace an air filter - mostly out of laziness or lack of interest. What I'm saying is that there are a huge percentage of women (and men for that matter) who won't simply work on their cars because they can't be bothered. If you buy a classic car then you're forced to learn how to live with its problems, and I guess both Louise and FredTransit clearly know their stuff.

Not you Fred, he means the one's too lazy to fit a starter motor

LOL. On a freaking GS! Engine out job as I recall! Sod that.

[Louise2cv]

I'm just touchy because I'm a girl I had to laugh earlier this week, a delivery driver was coming down the road, I spotted him from under the bonnet of the 2cv (changing the speedo cable or something) and gave him a wave, with a spanner still in my oily hand. He pulled up and my boyfriend came out of the house. The delivery driver then asked him what he was doing with the car Maybe he thought I'd been cleaning it after the one with a willy had done the actual work

[MrRegieRitmo]

My intention wasn't to open a can of worms, I don't hold any sexist views (not publicly anyway - kidding!), I just thought it was nice to see a young woman in a 70s car other than a VW Beetle, it doesn't happen often! I like to see any young person in an old skool vehicle though, male or female it's encouraging!

[Guest]

I don't hold any sexist views

I do however, I would be well up for a tidy bit of skirt that knew how to adjust my gearlever. As long as she could still cook and iron my shirts, or earned enough money to pay someone to do so. :)I was once involved with a petrolhead lass that turned out to know more about cars than I did, which I dont mind admitting became really annoying after a short time, it was actually embarassing listening to her bore my mates senseless while I sat there silent.

[Andrew353w]

This might be a little off topic, but my daughter passed her test when she was 17 (she's now 26) and her first car, given free by Dad (me!) was a Lada! Later, when I sold the Lada over her head I gave her a FSO 125p. She used to receive admiring glances from Russians & other east Europeans... She currently drives a 1995 ("M") Rover Mini Cooper, which is a classic, in my opinion. She now receives admiring glances from more "normal" classic car enthusiasts. As for keeping the Mini on the road, she has a Dad who wheels a spanner as and when necessary!Andrew353w

[ashmicro]

Also a bit OT, but still on the gender issue. About this time last year or thereabouts I was dating a barrister who had a new 911GT3. I was gobsmacked to see the way she could drive it and she went on about how she loved the sound of the engine!The whole experience told me a bit about myself, a bit that surprised me!