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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 15:31:30 GMT
I was watching the latest series of "Wheeler Dealers - Dream Car" this morning. It's not really very good, but it is greatly preferable to "La mañana del trece" on Canal 13 which makes my eyeballs bleed and my brain fall out. It's good enough viewing for morning coffee with some marmite toast. Anyway, the episode was about Caterham 7s and I realised I didn't know much about the Lotus to Caterham story so I looked it up. I found this interesting and pretty informative so I thought I'd put it here in case you did too. silodrome.com/lotus-7-caterham-7-history/ |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 15:32:53 GMT
p.s. though I did enjoy the CB750-F segment.
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Post by Humph on Mar 21, 2022 15:37:52 GMT
I had a Westfield you know…
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 15:40:24 GMT
No, I didn't. Bit surprised you've never mentioned it.
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Post by Humph on Mar 21, 2022 15:50:54 GMT
Sometimes, just very occasionally, I regret selling it. But, in truth, I doubt very much I’d use it often enough now.
It was at a time when we lived in rural Scotland in a camera free area with mainly empty and fantastic driving roads. Traffic volumes are much higher here and everything is so much more monitored and regulated now.
We took it on our honeymoon on our version of a grand European tour and on subsequent overseas long range jaunts before my son was born.
I guess he’d enjoy driving it now though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 16:00:28 GMT
Cars have a time.
I will never replicate the joy I felt from my first Lancia Beta. I'd never had a car that flash before. I went from a Mk1 Escort (plastic seats, manual windows, 1100 engine, mono radio) to a Beta (electric windows, stereo cassette, cloth seats, head rests, fog lights and goodness knows what other delights). And it happened in a lovely summer, with a lovely girlfriend*, in rural Oxfordshire. Fantastic, joyful memories.
Of course, in reality, it was an unreliable rust bucket with bits falling off all the time. But, well, you know...
I've had far better cars since, but I've never had a better car-oriented time.
*Hey Sally!
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Post by Humph on Mar 21, 2022 16:01:41 GMT
Everyone knew Sally…
😉
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 16:05:41 GMT
I *still* know Sally.
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Post by Humph on Mar 21, 2022 16:12:35 GMT
She’s still not fussy then?
Good girl!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2022 17:06:17 GMT
Actually she insists she married a better man. Three of them, as it happens, but I think this last one is the keeper.
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Post by WDB on Mar 21, 2022 17:48:49 GMT
Wicket- or goal-?
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Post by bpg on Mar 21, 2022 18:21:30 GMT
The disassembly instructions, to avoid tax, genius haha.
CKD and SKD still goes on today for some markets. Nothing new under the sun as they say.
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Post by Rob on Mar 21, 2022 23:36:08 GMT
You mention the Escort with plastic seats and a move up to the Lancia with cloth... Strange now that the top end cars are offering fake 'leather' rather than leather. They use various terms for it. The plastic covering in my 330e is as good as the leather in the Superb. The leather was really nice and soft in the Passat CC though.
Turn back the clock a few years and my brother narrowed down his choice of car to a Mercedes C Class because of the fake leather with a (difficult to order) matching steering wheel. Car had problems so he sent it back and got a Tesla Model S which of course has fake leather.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2022 1:01:00 GMT
I put effort into getting cloth seats, I dislike leather or leather-like stuff intensely and avoid it whenever possible.
Leather - burns when the weather is hot, cold otherwise. About the only good thing you can say is that mostly it's wipe clean.
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Post by Rob on Mar 22, 2022 1:20:53 GMT
Rare to have the plastic/leather in a UK car to get so hot as to burn. But I did opt for the climate seat option on the Passat CC when I got it as it was my first car with leather.... Rarely used it but it was a tiny cost and maybe not as good as climate seats on say a Mere. I think the cost on the car was a few hundred at most and monthly it was a few quid.
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