Well a short insight to my motoring life
My first car was a vauxhall viva , it had been converted to look like a droop snooted firenze, sadly the only pic ive got of this won't load up into my editors so i cant show it. Ive scoured the net to find a pic of one from vauxhalls site to the whacky world of owners clubs but to no avail, so if anyone out there has got one plaease send us it (jpeg if poss).
My second car a bit of a stunner, 18 years
old in a beemer and getting pulled every week by the local constabulary, suspected
as a dealer. What more can you ask for. This was for me my favourite car and
I miss it dearly. I would now like to own another of these but not the new model
as its a bit to sharp for my taste. And suffers from being an 80's yuppie mobile.
This fine specimen of a car is now the domain of your
old aunt who uses it for the shopping and grandad who wants to be hip. But when
I was driving one of these I really thought it was the mutts nuts. But now I
realise that it was not the case but hey! Black Lace got to number one in the
charts in the 80's. So forgive me and if you see me even looking at one show
me an Oxfam shop and help me pick out a nice beige cardigan.
The ultimate in C15 cool, Bodie
and Doyle had the early Capri in the Professionals and every young spotty kid
wanted one to wheelspin. I managed to break my speed limit in this Beast of
a car and managed to write it off in a patch of ice one Christmas. Which was
probably just as well as the welding it needed would make a welder a very rich
man. A few of these 28i's are fine examples of motor cars, but I think anybody
who owns one now definatley need their wheels spinning.
Small but fast sports version of a very popular shoppng
trolley, these cars are now the domain of boy racers and sunbed wrinkled 23
year old female hairdressers. But when I cruised the streets of my home town
I was the bees knees, the king of cool, the only problem was when I tried to
hit 100mph the head gasket went west as I slowed down. not once but three times.
Good old Henry got his fair share of my pennies that year.
Now this is one of my dream cars, I think
if I won the lottery this would be my weekend fun car. I have never seen one
except in magazines and photographs but im sure I wouldnt be dissapointed by
its spartan interior or its low ride on England's bumpy potholed roads. But
give me this over any Porsche, Ferrari or Maclaren.