Needs, wants and dreams...

I had one of the jelly mould Granadas. Dark grey 2.9 Ghia 4x4 manual hatch. I agree about its appearance being somewhat challenging, but it was a nice thing to drive, if a bit (a lot) thirsty.

I always wanted an Alfa Sud green cloverleaf in red or the 1700 Sprint n metallic green with brown leather interior. Never seen one in good enough condition though.

I test drove a 33 estate in the mid-90s but half a field of crud in the back wheel arches of this main dealer prepared two year old car sent me into a similar age red Mk2 3 door big bumper Golf GTi.

I think I'd like an early 80s GTV6. I also test drove a late 90s 2.0TS GTV before buying a FIAT Coupé 20v turbo because it was faster and I was about to move to Germany.

I'm of an age now where I want Bluetooth, heated seats, heated steering wheel and not having to mess about with grease nipples and trunnions. I also do not want anything with software (spellchecker wants to insert suffrage - how appropriate) updates. OTA ? GTF !

Don’t worry, Humph. I think it’s just a kind of bracket.

Streaming occasional episodes of things like Between the Lines reminds me how much things have changed since the early 1990s, when the roads were pretty much defined by various sizes of Ford, BMWs were strictly for wideboys (and people still referred to ‘wideboys’) and there was hardly a Mercedes or a 4x4, still less a crossover, to be seen.

There’s a quaint Ford dealership in Marlow that would make a credible location for Dad’s Army but I don’t think I’ve ever been inside. Not sure where else I could go to buy a Ford round here.

Some people didn’t even get an L. Wasn’t there a plain Sierra 1.6 that didn’t even get a painted grille, just a lump of plastic in Punishment Grey? And lots of blanking plates and unused switches inside so you could look at what you could’ve won.

Yes, here’s one. People seem to be queuing up to kick it. 

What'll it do mista ?

Speedo says 160

Aye, you can knock 60 off that mista

I remember being sent to work at my employer’s head office in Switzerland for a few months. I arrived in my uk issued company car which was a then brand new Cortina 2.0 GL no less.
Now, they never really did company cars in Switzerland and the MD there had a three year old basic Taunus of his own.
Given that he was at the time my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss it was a tad awkward for a while.