Age related cars

[conaero]

I suppose you were just luck you slid and did not hit anything. Do you remember trying to adjust your slide to avoid stuff?

I bet you thought you were going to leave this world the way you came in, Kicking and Screaming!

 

[GransportFan1]

bloody **** 138mph, like you said, must have felt it took ages to stop.

 

[RSM Masser]

.as a biker can you explain why loads have to drive in the day and on a sunny day with their fron ligh on high bean a blind any one coming towards the...Please don't say its because they want car users to see them...

Depending on the age of the bike - after 2003 I think all bikes have to have to have the headlight on, I cant switch mine off, engine on = lights on, bit like the old Volvos whose side lights where always on. Not sure if this is a law or just an unwritten safety agreement by manufacturers. Mine is always on dipped beam whether I like it or not.
Sadly there are some idiots on bikes - I am not saying I have never broken a speed limit or raced another bike, bit like car drivers, truth is there are more high performance bikes on the road than high performance cars - especially on a sunny Sunday

 

[BennyD]

I suppose you were just luck you slid and did not hit anything. Do you remember trying to adjust your slide to avoid stuff?

I bet you thought you were going to leave this world the way you came in, Kicking and Screaming!

I do remember pushing my hands into the road to try and slow myself down and thats where I broke my finger. When I felt pain I rolled onto my right side, then my back and then my left side. Everything I was wearing was trashed but I stood up and walked to the bike which was also trashed. Still, you live and learn and I haven't done it again since!

 

[RSM Masser]

I do remember pushing my hands into the road to try and slow myself down and thats where I broke my finger. When I felt pain I rolled onto my right side, then my back and then my left side. Everything I was wearing was trashed but I stood up and walked to the bike which was also trashed. Still, you live and learn and I haven't done it again since!

Ouch - - that sounds nasty - crashin' means your're tryin' but glad you ok, low sided my first bike at about 60mph - I remember sliding along on my ar** watching my bike disintegrate itself as it was sliding next to me,I was counting ££ signs as each bit flew off

 

[BennyD]

Been there, done that and not that keen on doing it again!

 

[Khamsin433]

I'm with Andrew on this one.

On the wrong side of 45, I grew up with mags full of countach, 512BB etc which I like. But I do prefer the clean lines of the 50's/60's cars. 250 Lusso, Dino, Ghibli, 3500 Vignale spider, Miura, Lamborghini 350 GT, DB4, Iso Griffo and many more that I can't think of right now.

Someone posted somewhere (maybe on here) that the slim pillars gave a light airy look to the cars. I think this delicate touch does it for me, no massive A pillers that you can't see past that create a mobile blind spot for me (read into that me being a midget). Not fussed about the saftey, to quote that great movie Predator, "we're all gonna die" so may as well be in something nice.

 

[BennyD]

My formative years were spent watching rallying so I still hanker after a Vauxhall Shoveit HSR or a Sunbeam Lotus. Don't know why, I just like them. Stupid money now though.

 

[Andyk]

Sunbeam Lotus...mad as a box of frogs......A friend had one and drove it on track sideways everywhere...Great fun.

 

[BennyD]

Sunbeam Lotus...mad as a box of frogs......A friend had one and drove it on track sideways everywhere...Great fun.

Probably the hot hatch of the era. Far better than A Golf GTi Mk1.

 

[Andyk]

Oh God yes Benny....Also new someone who came to a very untimely end in one....Lost it by Chepstow race course on a dark wet night went off road and under a trailer on the back of a lorry....Not pretty.

 

[GransportFan1]

Probably the hot hatch of the era. Far better than A Golf GTi Mk1.

That is quite a bold statement, a golf gti in silver with gold bbs wheels looks the dogs danglies.

Sunbeam Lotus was probably a great car back in the day but they dont have the status like the mk1 Golf GTI.

 

[dem maser]

I like the mk1 and mk2 gti.......

 

[GransportFan1]

Mark 2 GTI try finding an unmolested one, i looked at one of those as a first car, still too expensive on classic car insurance although the one i looked at had an Audi s3 engine yet it was not on the log book as a modified car.

 

[dem maser]

What happens if you have an accident and they find out it had a bigger engine, you wont be covered, dont go down that route

 

[GransportFan1]

no i wouldn't buy anything like that, would only want a standard one with subtle mods such as suspension and exhaust.

 

[dem maser]

Cant find any, they all modded.....a 16v is a good runaround

 

[Parisien]

Not a fan of the MkII......prefer the Mark I!

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[GransportFan1]

MK I are collectable though, well good ones are.
I wanted a Lupo GTi but it is insurance group 12. Crazy.

 

[BennyD]

That is quite a bold statement, a golf gti in silver with gold bbs wheels looks the dogs danglies.

Sunbeam Lotus was probably a great car back in the day but they dont have the status like the mk1 Golf GTI.

Hmmmmm, let me think about this; a 2.2 litre with 150 bhp and rear wheel drive against a 1.6litre with 115 bhp and front wheel drive, which one would I prefer? As a driver, no contest, and it's a Lotus, what more could you want?