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I remember borrowing my new bosses Astra GTE 16v redtop when he went skiing and my co car hadnt arrived.... I might have done 100mph before but this was a different level....
So on my morning commute, I nipped to the local test track and managed 134mph... Digital speedos were brill! |
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It was 1989, I think the digital speedo was standard but my memory is hazy for many reasons..
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Five of us, mostly school age, travelling in a Mk2 Escort van and pooling our funds to put 19p (I jest not) worth of fuel in - it got us nearly home, but not up the long steep final stretch. Twice we ran out of fuel half way up (we tried fast and slow).
On the third occasion we reversed the van all the way home - the fuel pickup was obviously at the front. Job sorted |
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It was a life of working weekends and school/Uni holidays in Tesco that afforded me the car.
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I was thinking that recently. Used to feel like a very regular job.
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Joined the M8 in Glasgow, reached the end of the M1/start of the North Circular in 4 hours and 5 minutes with one stop for petrol only; - in 1975 in a 1.6 JPS Capri.
Nowadays it takes me nearly as long to go to Glossop on the outskirts of Manchester, and my car is way quicker than the JPS. |
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From (relatively) quiet, to very noisy with flames!
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Once drove the Headpostmasters Carlton 2.0CD back from Lancaster to Preston, might have briefly seen 125 on the speedo back in the mid 80's, would've been not long after I got my licence, paid for and taught how to drive in less than 2 weeks by The Post Office, I miss those days!!
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