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I don’t know how I forgot this one. I was at my local tip last year in my Sierra when an old boy came in with a black, convertible 1967 mustang. Not the thing you see every day and caught everyone’s attention. Especially when he started unloading all sorts of junk from the boot. I mentioned something to him and he says he drives it as regularly as he could. Then earlier this year I was up the tip again (on going house renovation, I don’t go there for fun) and as I was leaving the same old boy was pulling in, once again in his mustang. Very cool. That just reminded me of a car I encountered at the tip, the owner was probably in his 70s. Datsun 240Z by Chris, on Flickr
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I'm a pensioner, but not yet an OAP and i daily a near mint E280 with less than 40k.
Pics to follow
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I’m mid 50’s and currently not* dailying a Mk3 escort cabrio, does that count? (* would be using it more if not for the current madness)
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My wife and I are in our mid fifties and both daily thirty year old cars too.
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Older couple around here drive a very tired looking Jensen Interceptor! Don’t tease us like that We needed to see this...
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vader
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I only ever see it at the Co op (seems where all the old folk shop, don’t know how they afford it) or at the petrol station. Next time I see it I’ll get a photo. It really is well used.
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Triumph Stag Ducati Supersport Shanks’s Pony
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Saw this Aston a few years ago at B&Q, tidy but not mint, when I came out the elderly fella was pumping bag after bag of cement in the boot, I must have stood with my mouth wide open for too long because he asked me what I was looking at
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There used to be, around 20 years ago, an old lady of very limited stature who drove an old Porsche about where I lived, usually at no more than 25mph in 2nd gear. At first glance, it looked like a driverless car, until you saw the knuckles on the steering wheel.
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I’ve told this before, but driving a mk1 3.0 capri I was doing slow laps of StAlbans high st waiting for a mate to get our order from a burger bar, with a second mate in the back of the car A Fiat 500 burned past me Mate said’ ***** He’s moving!’ I said ‘ yeah, that’s my Grandad..... He wasn’t known for hanging about 😀
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I lived near a village named Miskin years ago, one of the villagers was an elderly recluse nicknamed 'the Prof' whose everyday runabout was a Triumph Stag. He died and the estate was being administered by a local solicitors, in his garage they discovered a semi restored early Lagonda tourer and in his front yard shielded from view by the hedge was a pre-war MG saloon with a prototype engine which hadn't made it into production.
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Last Edit: May 5, 2020 22:43:01 GMT by MkX
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Anybody hear about the old dear in the states with a genuine AC Cobra? Apparently she knew it needed a service when the 50-70 time was slower......😆
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spacekadett
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F*cking take that Hans Brrix!!
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I work at a Ford main dealer and we have an old guy who still brings in his mk3 Granada Ghia. However, when I started in a village garage in the 90s we had a little old lady, deaf as a post who used to bring in her Triumph TR6. Her only concession now they were both getting on was she didn’t take it over 75 on the motorway!
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Mechanic's rule #1... If the car works, anything left on the floor after you finished wasn't needed in the first place
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Anybody hear about the old dear in the states with a genuine AC Cobra? Apparently she knew it needed a service when the 50-70 time was slower......😆 I tried to find this clip on youtube to no avail, I remember watching this many years ago, she'd kept her husband's (?) Shelby Cobra after he died. I think what she used to do was to bring the car to a stop on a straight road then floor it, I think she said " I count to 10 and if it's not doing 100mph I take it in for a tune up."
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My mate was working at a rural garage in the late 80's, one of the elderly locals was regularly bringing in her Vanden Plas 1300 automatic chapel chariot with sooted up plugs. He'd adjusted the mixture on his Krypton tuner several times and knew that was OK. On one visit he noticed the choke was out with her handbag dangling off it, when questioned she had no knowledge of a choke or its intended use but she was happy to demonstrate her factory-fitted pull out handbag peg.
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Last Edit: May 6, 2020 13:09:09 GMT by MkX
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