Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

[artdjones]

6 minutes ago, Austat said:

Takes me back to my young days. If you did any kerbside repairs now the curtain twitchers would have a PCSO or someone from the council there in 20 minutes.

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ROADLINE!

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39 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Takes me back to my young days. If you did any kerbside repairs now the curtain twitchers would have a PCSO or someone from the council there in 20 minutes.

I moved house back in 2018 and was dreading that very scenario. I can’t remember what I was doing to the car but one of my neighbours from opposite came over, asked what I was doing, was very nice and her final words were “it’s great that you can do it yourself”.

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 hour ago, Austat said:

Steptoe and Mum

[colnerov]

4 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Steptoe and Mum

It might be Albert on his way down to get the pension. 😀

[martc]

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'See what I mean? Someone's knicked me engine and replaced it with a suitcase. Fortunately there's a spare in the boot'.

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ATCNBE

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Just look at those Windy Millers. An absolute liability; his fizzy has never exceeded 30mph due to wind drag. Or the fact that fizzies never went faster than 30mph regardless of what you've been told.

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[artdjones]

20 minutes ago, martc said:

Just look at those Windy Millers. An absolute liability; his fizzy has never exceeded 30mph due to wind drag. Or the fact that fizzies never went faster than 30mph regardless of what you've been told.

They were definitely faster than 30. I had the Puch equivalent and got it up to 48 without too much bother. Those trousers (Oxford Bags) were fashionable for a very short period of time, basically around my last year at school, 75-76, also back in the 20s and 30s.

[martc]

15 minutes ago, artdjones said:

They were definitely faster than 30. I had the Puch equivalent and got it up to 48 without too much bother. Those trousers (Oxford Bags) were fashionable for a very short period of time, basically around my last year at school, 75-76, also back in the 20s and 30s.

I knew I'd rile someone! I was lucky enough to also own a Puch and it certainly was 'quite fast', faster than a fizzy, which in turn was faster than an SS50. But nothing beat my mates Garelli Tiger Cross.

[artdjones]

34 minutes ago, martc said:

I knew I'd rile someone! I was lucky enough to also own a Puch and it certainly was 'quite fast', faster than a fizzy, which in turn was faster than an SS50. But nothing beat my mates Garelli Tiger Cross.

The SS50 was pathetic, only 2½ horsepower whereas most of the two strokes had 4 to 5. They all got limited to 30mph some time in 1977.

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, artdjones said:

They were definitely faster than 30. I had the Puch equivalent and got it up to 48 without too much bother. Those trousers (Oxford Bags) were fashionable for a very short period of time, basically around my last year at school, 75-76, also back in the 20s and 30s.

Fizzy “owners” at my school in the 70s claimed at least 60 top speed, but on the other hand we’d all claimed to have had sex (with a real girl), by the time we were 15. 

 

[eddyramrod]

17 hours ago, martc said:

ATCNBE

I had one like that in 1986.

 

The Fiat of course, what else could it have been?

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