My dream job when I was 6 was to be a digger driver.
What silly misconceptions about cars did you have as a child?
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With cream leather! (Although dark grey ferraris don't look too bad).
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Go to giggerland it's awesome.
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I use to want to be a bin man too. I found the lorries fascinating the way they emptied the bins and did that scoop thing to compress all the rubbish.
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I think the only Ferrari that doesn't look best in red is the 400. And let's be honest, it doesn't look especially good in any colour.
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Out of 15 cars I've owned..my current golf mk 7.5 GTD DSG is the most reliable car ever I own so far. Just over 5 years old and 50k. Not a thing goes wrong...I'm impressedI naively believed Golf's were reliable. Oh how wrong I was
Ghia meant automatic.
The first time I saw a manual 3L Granda Ghia was an epiphany, not least as my Dad was driving us on holiday in it!!
Think 1970's, 2 tone, blue over silver, 3L with 5 on the floor.
To this young lad it was THE BEST CAR IN THE WORLD
It als had radio AND tape player
The first time I saw a manual 3L Granda Ghia was an epiphany, not least as my Dad was driving us on holiday in it!!
Think 1970's, 2 tone, blue over silver, 3L with 5 on the floor.
To this young lad it was THE BEST CAR IN THE WORLD
It als had radio AND tape player
When I was a kid used to be a lot of ex-military and possibly some military vehicles on Q plates (or more rarely QQ - though I think that was mostly used by US army when attached to NATO in Europe using German format plates from a Google). Some of the military personnel from the airbase near where I lived used to drive on Q plates on their civilian cars for some reason - no idea why.
There was 2 people around where I lived who had ex-military 6x6 armoured vehicles which as a kid I was a bit in awe of (there was one parked up at a fuel station by the A303 for years if anyone remembers that).
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depending where you came from in birmingham they were
i had a friend who collected sd1 rovers had about 8 emphasis on had a friend lol
I wouldn't go that far - but my estimation of Rover changed a lot around 2000 or so - when I was a kid where my dad worked used Rover 800s for shuffling higher ups around with leather and "wood" interiors and I used to think they were a much higher marque than they really are/were LOL. The 220 coupe turbo/Tomcat for the time was also quite a car.
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Erm...Q plate doesn't mean kit car.
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May understand is it's any car with an unknown or ambitious age. In the case of kit cars it's often that they reuse parts.
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Judging by the number around: that Brown was an acceptable colour for a car. As opposed to the real reason being that the rust would be showing through within a month of your August 1st brand new registration plate and it wasn't so obvious from 10 feet away on a brown car.