My first car had a stereo where you pushed a button in and the needle jumped left or right.
I also had to pull the cable out when you first started it up which increased the fuel flow.
(Wasn't allowed the easy, banned word used to describe this device) |
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"Distributor caps & Points 
And cars not starting on cold mornings, yay, let's bring it all back!"
Manual cho.kes... bane of my life when I was a learner |
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"My first car had a stereo where you pushed a button in and the needle jumped left or right.
I also had to pull the cable out when you first started it up which increased the fuel flow.
(Wasn't allowed the easy, banned word used to describe this device)"
Haha... ditto hence the random full stop  |
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Raking...
Using your boots to ruck out
Waking up Sunday morning with your back stuck too the bed sheets because you were slowing the ball down.
Oh how I miss those stud marks  |
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Wearing a baseball cap when driving guaranteed me being pulled over by the police to make sure I wasn't a joy rider.
Who would knick this MG Maestro?
Or its stereo?
Officer, what makes you think there is any joy riding this thing or even being seen riding in it? |
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"Distributor caps & Points "
Tearing a piece off a cigarette packet to gap them because you didn't have a feeler gauge.
Then again who remembers feeler gauges?
And you forgot condenser and coil. 
Oh and mechanical fuel pumps bolted to the side of the engine and driven by the camshaft.
Remember pushrods and tappets?
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"Raking...
Using your boots to ruck out
Waking up Sunday morning with your back stuck too the bed sheets because you were slowing the ball down.
Oh how I miss those stud marks "
Separated the men from the boys though!
Er, couldn't you get Lacey a pair of size 6s and get her to ruck you about a bit on the back lawn....I said ruck!! |
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Modern cars with generally inbuilt reliability have led to a whole generation of adults being useless at manual tasks around the home 
I've had a huge argument years ago with a vauxhall garage where a laptop was telling them there's no fault on my vectra(bad car) but the dam car has cutting out on the motorway |
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"Modern cars with generally inbuilt reliability have led to a whole generation of adults being useless at manual tasks around the home
I've had a huge argument years ago with a vauxhall garage where a laptop was telling them there's no fault on my vectra(bad car) but the dam car has cutting out on the motorway"
The mechanic with the laptop and diagnostics. I've met a few of them, can't diagnose or troubleshoot to save their lives. |
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"Distributor caps & Points
And cars not starting on cold mornings, yay, let's bring it all back!
Manual cho.kes... bane of my life when I was a learner "
I hated those, I always flooded the engine |
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"Modern cars with generally inbuilt reliability have led to a whole generation of adults being useless at manual tasks around the home
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Get a cleaner then |
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"Modern cars with generally inbuilt reliability have led to a whole generation of adults being useless at manual tasks around the home
Get a cleaner then "
I'm ok I had teenage years keeping old cars, mopeds, motorbikes running with nothing more than wd40 and gaffa tape oh and a hammer |
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"Distributor caps & Points "
The dizzy in my mini lived in a rubber glove for a while as it kept getting damp.
Can't just mend motors so easily now, everything is all computer bullshit controlled. Motoring costs me so much more these days because of such un user mendable stuff. You need a laptop before you need a socket set now. |
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fixing the exhaust with bake bean cans.lifting the bonnet on the cortina in the cold mornings to spray the engine with cold start as you know the damn thing would never start without it |
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"When it was hot in summer and snowed in winter. 
We were discussing this in the pub last night and couldn't decide if it was nostalgia or true, I argued it was true tbh."
It was most definitely true |
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"When it was hot in summer and snowed in winter.
We were discussing this in the pub last night and couldn't decide if it was nostalgia or true, I argued it was true tbh.
It was most definitely true "
Thought so, I remember long hot summer holidays and weeks off school because the bus couldn't get to us and when it struggled through snow drifts to get to us we his and went home saying the bus hadn't turned up.
Met mates with sledges and walked a couple of miles to the nearest proper hill
Happy days |
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"When it was hot in summer and snowed in winter.
We were discussing this in the pub last night and couldn't decide if it was nostalgia or true, I argued it was true tbh.
It was most definitely true
Thought so, I remember long hot summer holidays and weeks off school because the bus couldn't get to us and when it struggled through snow drifts to get to us we his and went home saying the bus hadn't turned up.
Met mates with sledges and walked a couple of miles to the nearest proper hill
Happy days"
All you need to ask yourself is when was the last hosepipe ban? That's what summers were made of.
When the tarmac was literally melting underfoot. You could smell it.
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"When it was hot in summer and snowed in winter.
We were discussing this in the pub last night and couldn't decide if it was nostalgia or true, I argued it was true tbh.
It was most definitely true
Thought so, I remember long hot summer holidays and weeks off school because the bus couldn't get to us and when it struggled through snow drifts to get to us we his and went home saying the bus hadn't turned up.
Met mates with sledges and walked a couple of miles to the nearest proper hill
Happy days
All you need to ask yourself is when was the last hosepipe ban? That's what summers were made of.
When the tarmac was literally melting underfoot. You could smell it.
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Those were the days! I didn't even get my shorts on this year. Probably a good thing to be fair. 
I'm off sledging the first snowflake I see. |
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