That looks like fun
Did you get to hear 'Durr-ham' ?
Probably...but to be Honest my mams from Easington Lane and my Dad used to work for Durham County Council so wouldn't hit my ears as odd at all.
That looks like fun
Did you get to hear 'Durr-ham' ?
Can’t sleep been up watching TV since 5 am. Watching “a racing car is born” Remember watching it a few years ago, when it first aired. Bloody hell 2002. Nineteen years agoWhere on earth did the years go.
When I was teaching learners, I was reminded of this daily. A 17yr old today, was born in 2004. They knew nothing of the 20th century, or the silliness around the millenium. I check thier licence, and thier date of birth feels like yesterday.
Still get this a little with assessing qualified drivers. Even a 30yr old was born in 1991, so recent.
I have been watching the Blair / Brown documentary and recalling the events like they were yesterday. But unfortunately when I work out in my head how long ago they were I keep finding myself losing a decade, like "'89, 99,2009 - oh sh*t,2019,2021!
Old age.
I have to say, that really made me laugh, lol! [emoji23]When I first started as a driving instructor, my father, and father-in-law, both thought I had the best job in the world, with a constant stream of 17yr old girls in the car. My reply was that they were just kids, and whilst mostly nice people, were from a different era, with different outlooks and attitudes. I was more likely to fancy their mums.
Now, I'm more likely to fancy their gran!
I have to ask, do you find yourself missing it at all?Not that I'm stalking it or anything...
But notice a certain Mazda has already dropped by 20% of the asking price.
Once it drops another 500 quid it'll be at market rate
https://www.jccarcentre.co.uk/used-mazda-3-newcastle-upon-tyne-northumberland-3887701
At that money and with the quality of the advert, it'll be there February. It literally doesn't mention the front tyres have 8mm of tread on it...and the rears 6 for example. Or the tyres at all...which given at the current rates its on a 500 quid set of all season tyres on the run up to winter seems a bit remiss. No one looks for these in general as people forget they exist...and even if they were looking it's too much and they've given no reason why you'd pay more for for this particular one.
Sure they know more about sales than I do..
I have to ask, do you find yourself missing it at all?
That's fair enough.We were shopping in the C3 tonight...I miss the boot space. Weeks shop for a family of 3 requires a bit of Jenga.
Otherwise I had no unfinished business with it, it was time to move on. Might see one about in a few months/years and have a reminisce although I don't when I see Swifts about.
If I was still hooning about it would probably be more of a miss but C3 is better at bumbling about with a child on board and more comfortable once you figure out how to drive it properly.
If anything quite enjoying the smaller car, it's getting 50 odd to the gallon with me driving it and I can park it blindfolded.
That's fair enough.
I do know exactly what you mean about reminiscing though. I traded in my Daewoo Matiz nearly 11 and a half years ago, and it's now 7 and a half years since me and my parents parted with our mk2 Puntos. I still miss all 3 of those cars, and will always have a hefty soft spot for them.
As I get older I think I'm a bit less sentimental about the cars themselves.
I've got photos, I've got memories and although seeing one on the road would trigger those I'm not overly concerned about the cars themselves.
My wife's First car, a Micra we travelled round Scotland in on our first holiday together. A car which I had good memories in, I hooned the thing a long dukes pass for example (great road...terrible car for it) was scrapped a few years ago.
I see another one (amusingly 2 local museums have them as they are unremarkable but they were built in Sunderland) I don't really care cos it's not like I'm about to hop in and drive it up to Aberfoyle for round 2 and off to the Highlands and Islands.
Must fish out the photos at somepoint but in general you see another it's not yours..and the cars themselves aren't that special it's the people that were with you and what they were enabling you to do.
If a car becomes the centre of a travel story is usually because it failed...so eg..back when I had a Punto me and my ex. travelled to a hotel with the plan of dropping our stuff and going out for tea in York. Instead the car didn't start, so ended up getting trashed in the hotel on red wine and having a blazing row. It then fired up on the key the following morning when the flat bed arrived having defeated the breakdown company and myself the previous night enabling a long silent hungover drive home...Happy memories.
I just looked up the price of a replacement tyre by the way - Pirelli P Zero 245/40 R19 Strewth! I could just about afford one if I sold wee Becky! My neighbour's a very pleasant chap and we chat often. He was telling me he's bought it as a retirement present to himself - Hope he's got a really good pension.
Looking on black circles website the Pirelli P-zeros seem to vary in cost massively if you want a speed rating of W (168mph) or Y (186 mph) also if they are run flats or not. The speed rating alone almost doubles the price and for a 19” tyre 245 wide is probably quite narrow/an odd size. But if you go for a W rating assuming you’ll never be passing 168mph in your family saloon, then they are a much more reasonable £125 ish
So I must have a sly look at his tyres next time I get another chance to see what his speed rating actually is. Although he won't have much option as it's illegal to run a tyre of a lower speed rating to that fitted as original equipment, I think I remember him mentioning in passing that they are run flats.
There is a lot of money in nostalgia a lot of people spend a fortune on buying things up from their past, but the problem with nostalgia is you as a person has moved on and so the attachment is no longer there. As you describe better to remember things when something triggers that memory. Rather than spending a fortune on breakdown trucks reliving that memory
So I must have a sly look at his tyres next time I get another chance to see what his speed rating actually is. Although he won't have much option as it's illegal to run a tyre of a lower speed rating to that fitted as original equipment, I think I remember him mentioning in passing that they are run flats.