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[cort16]

I recon if you shopped around you could get an Adam for more like £170

 

Like this..

 

http://www.evanshalshaw.com/brands/vauxhall/vauxhall_new_car_offers/adam_models/jam_12i/low_payment/

[Sigmund Fraud]

Just returned home after a week of travelling around Andalucia. Contrary to my expectations, the Andalucian villager's cars of choice seem to be decade-old, diesel Berlingo's and Kangoo's rather than ancient SEAT 127s and Renault 4Ls. Opportunities for chod spotting were therefore limited :

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

This evening, I chopped a chunk of my thumb off with an axe. Cue an emergency drive to town (12 miles away) in the 2CV! I'm very annoyed with myself as I'm permanently damaged, but relieved it wasn't worse and that the A&E department didn't keep me waiting too long.Typing is a bit tricky and my piano playing is very much on hold.

[HillmanImp]

That wasn't too smart. How did you do that? If it got in the way whilst swinging i can imagine it was lucky you did not get your whole hand.

[dollywobbler]

I was making kindling, which is always a bit risky as by its very nature, you tend to get close. I usually let go of the bit of wood just before I hit it with the axe, but clearly failed to do it this time. Only a small hand axe, with a blunt edge, but that bit of thumb very quickly disappeared! Wood is harder than hand after all. Feeling quite rightly stupid. Mrs Wobbler will be getting an introduction to the Sirion today to take me back to the hospital.

[hairnet]

 

hope the bandage isnt too big

[vulgalour]

Axe can't have been that blunt if it took a bit of your thumb off.  No more hand tools for you, clearly they're too dangerous, you need to get yourself a power-axe.  Do they make power-axes?  If not, why not?

[Jim Bell]

Just bumped into all old mate at the petrol station.

 

Never thought of him as an emotional sort, but as we chatted about old times I could see him filling up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Budum-tsssh!

[trigger]

I fitted some high quality audio entertainment into the Acclaim at the weekend, the Alpine stereo was £25 which also has Bluetooth and a USB thingy, aren't these cd players cheap now!, and the rear speakers which are Saisho one's were only £5 although I had to solder new wires in, The sound quality is pretty pants really, no bass or depth but at least I can get FM radio now and listen to semi modern music again.

 

 

[barefoot]

A quick aside, when was the last time you actually played a cd in the car or the house or anywhere?

 

The last ice I bought didn't even have a slot for one!

[Spiny Norman]

CDs??? Pah, new fangled witchcraft. I still play vinyl.....

[trigger]

Not very often anymore, I normally just download sounds for free and play them through my phone, that said I have just bought this CD for the Acclaim as it was so cheap, bet it's shite though. http://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Hits-Classics-Various-Artists/dp/B005Z2WBCS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1382456299&sr=1-1&keywords=80%27s+classics

[oman5]

I tend to listen to the cd player a lot in the truck when working. mainly old radio shows like HHG2G, round the horne, goon shows etc. My volvo 240 has lasted 21 years with its original factory radio cassette so it would be rude to swap it now. I only ever have radio 2 or 4 on in the car. at home its normally old vinyls I listen to

[Shep Shepherd]

When I'm driving, I mainly listen to my iPod or DAB digital radio via my Pure Highway thing nowadays. At home, I tend to listen to TuneIn or Spotify via my PC.

 

Having one foot firmly in the past, I still have loads of CDs, cassettes and LPs, though, and both of the Volvos have stereos which will play both cassettes and CDs: a Blaupunkt cassette player and CD autochanger in The Volvo and an OEM 3-in-1 double-DIN head unit in TV2

[vulgalour]

I see your 21 year old radio cassette player and raise you my 32 year old MW/LW wood faced factory radio.  Car journeys are so miserable, I don't even have a nice engine to listen to *sob*.

[Cavcraft]

A quick aside, when was the last time you actually played a cd in the car or the house or anywhere?

 

The last ice I bought didn't even have a slot for one!

 

About an hour ago. I've got this...

 

 

...on almost continuous loop in my car. Occasionally I intersperse it with other stuff like The Smiths, but I wore that CD out.

[Mr Livered]

I have cd players in two of my cars, and do indeed use them. Those cars have a handful of cds in the glove box.

 

It has been suggested that I could put my entire music collection onto mp3 and then listen to it all in any car (except the Minx which doesn't have a stereo). That is undoubtedly a good idea but there's something daunting about sussing out how to do it so I haven't got around to it. I've only just progressed from using the cassette player with a little tape-shaped adaptor plugged into a Discman.

[Mr Livered]

My Saab has a broken window winder motor. I failed to get it going again on the bench, so resolved to go to the scrappy today to see if the've got any old Saabs so that I could look for a new motor.

 

However, my mate rang and I ended up in the pub at lunchtime instead.

 

Then, by enormous coincidence I ended up chatting to a girl in the smokers area who said that her mate owns the scrappy, didn't charge her for parts and did I want anything?

 

Result! The moral of the story is, when there's serious work to be done, ALWAYS go to the pub for a couple of beers first. You could save money.

[Lord Sterling]

I have a small dilemma when it comes to my car stereo. I like originality and am very reluctant to change the original stereo in the Rover despite having a nice modern stereo with USB capability sitting around and knowing how easy it is to transfer music onto USB. However, when I'm in the car I really only listen to Radio 4 (getting hooked on it thanks to 'tinworm' Steve) even Classic FM hardly gets look in these days as it used to.

 

There are times though that I wish I could listen to the stuff I have at home which I could easily transfer to USB, it takes a matter of minutes to do with minimal effort, yet the originality side of me is always victorious, I even forked out on buying a working CD-Changer to replace the one that didn't work. But having to choose tracks froms CDs, then burn them onto CD just seems like a long drawn-out process.

 

I think I'll just stick with Radio 4.

[dollywobbler]

I generally can't be arsed with car stereos, but must concede that I have upgraded the Sirion from cassette to CD. Amount of driving I've done in it with music playing since? Zero. Hmmmm.

[Mr Lobster]

I've been wondering about a digital radio / usb  / ipod compatible radio for the Seat now that MW on the original one has given up and I'm rapidly running out of Radio 2 tolerance.  The thing stopping me is that most of the time a replacement unit combined with the extra surround (needed as the new unit will be smaller than the manufacturer fitted one) look utterly shit.

[r.welfare]

I take the shite approach to ICE - 1gb iPod shuffle (other MP3 players are available) into the tape deck via a Poundland headphone jack adapter. I'm sorted for tunes all right.

[trigger]

I was doing that to start with but I was getting terrible interference from my phone all the time that it had to go before I went mad!

[HillmanImp]

A cassette player is better as you can get those cassete to jack adapters and play your phone/ipod etc through it nay bother. I am currently listening to the same ten fucking cds i put in the boot the day i got the car as cant be arsed changing them.

[HMC]

For the ultimate shite ICE experience i keep a selection of partly chewed up 80's cassettes to put into whatever car ive just bought that still has a cassette player. I was suprised that a 1999 bmw 5 series i breifly owned had an 'business edition' factory upgrade which still featured a cassette player. Wonder what the last uk avaliable car was that still feature a good old cassette deck?

[Craig the Princess]

A cassette player is better as you can get those cassete to jack adapters and play your phone/ipod etc through it nay bother. I am currently listening to the same ten fucking cds i put in the boot the day i got the car as cant be arsed changing them.

 

/\ This, although now I'm driving the AX with just a radio with no aerial so radio 4 long wave is all I have. Living the dream.

[oman5]

My 306 has found a new home. I didn't want to sell it as its a bloody good car but a friend of ours was in a bind and its just been sat there for months so we let it go.

 

anyway, the point is it now frees up space for another stupid and pointless purchase.

[vulgalour]

Red Oktober at Crich was missed by me, again, but I know at least one Autoshiter was in attendance.  There's a thread with some photographs, and even a video, on the blue forum: http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/158234/red-oktober-crich-tramway-pics?page=1&scrollTo=1854318

 

This is my favourite picture from that thread.

[vulgalour]

In other news, quite literally, turns out I still really want a Reliant Rialto, specifically a Rialto because of the shape and the front grille.  Ideally a badly Trottered (so I can un-Trotter it) one too.  The only things stopping me are that they're all either wankered to fuck or over-priced by about £500 or both.  I know they're stupid and uncomfortable and far too small and likely to catch fire but I don't care, it would appear I actually genuinely really want one some day.

 

But not for more than £200 if there's no T&T and not for more than £500 with MoT, unless it's rather exceptionally good, and I want one that's a bit rough around the edges... Geez, I have a problem and am clearly living in a fantasy world.  I'm keeping my eye out though, you never know, could make for a very handy little third car.

[bub2006]

You won't regret it vulgalour. I'm 6 foot and I was comfortable. Did about 8k in 8 months. Mine had electronic ignition and electric fuel pump plus a few other engine miss. Went from eastwood to Birmingham at 85/90 all way there and back. Averaged about 70 mpg. Mine was an h plate robin. The catching fire is from people who don't maintain them properly. I fitted new fuel lines as soon as I bought it so no issues with a toasted robin. You will be hard pushed to get one as cheap as you think though. I sold mine for 500 and it needed a new rear over rider and fibre glassing on one sill and front wing had a crack in it. Also only had about a months tax and ticket. As for the last car made with a cassette deck, a chap I know has a vauxhall astra envoy dti on a 53 plate with a cassette player