1969 L88

Nassau65

Nassau65

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My personal experience of buying my own petrol was somewhat unusual. I went from running a Yamaha FS1E DX getting god knows how many miles to a gallon to a 1969 Shelby GT500 getting so few miles to the gallon. 😂😂😂
 
richie500

richie500

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Nassau65 said:
My personal experience of buying my own petrol was somewhat unusual. I went from running a Yamaha FS1E DX getting god knows how many miles to a gallon to a 1969 Shelby GT500 getting so few miles to the gallon. 😂😂😂
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James because you are very young a Yamaha FS1E (Fizzy) was a prototype motorcycle with some 300bhp which reached truly mind bending speeds, only speed freaks bought them back in the 70's. I was very much a bottler when i was younger passing up a 1968 immaculate bullet mustang for a ford xr3i, if only we had crystal ball's in those days.
ps dont mention the fully restored 1960 merc 190sl which i couldn't pull the trigger on and instead bought a new golf mk2 16v.
Still it could have been worse...
 
Roscobbc

Roscobbc

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My '66 Galaxie 7 Litre has a modified 428 cu in with 4 speed. Only ever drove through central London once en-route to a car show at Syon park. 6/7 mpg on the day vs 12/14 mpg on a run......
One of the local guys Brian built a barely street legal '68 Camaro drag racer. With its 496 cu in and Crower 8 stack mechanical fuel injection the 10 gallon fuel cell gave it a range of about 15/16 miles maximum. Yes, 1.6 miles per gallon. He always went out with cans of fuel on board plus a buddy with a back-up van.
 
Roscobbc

Roscobbc

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richie500 said:
James because you are very young a Yamaha FS1E (Fizzy) was a prototype motorcycle with some 300bhp which reached truly mind bending speeds, only speed freaks bought them back in the 70's. I was very much a bottler when i was younger passing up a 1968 immaculate bullet mustang for a ford xr3i, if only we had crystal ball's in those days.
ps dont mention the fully restored 1960 merc 190sl which i couldn't pull the trigger on and instead bought a new golf mk2 16v.
Still it could have been worse...
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One 'zero' too many.....?
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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I always liked the CV8 that preceded the Interceptor . More old fashioned looking but fibre glass bodied if I rember rightly and I just loved those wheel arch blisters .
 

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Chuffer

Chuffer

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Roscobbc said:
My '66 Galaxie 7 Litre has a modified 428 cu in with 4 speed. Only ever drove through central London once en-route to a car show at Syon park. 6/7 mpg on the day vs 12/14 mpg on a run......
One of the local guys Brian built a barely street legal '68 Camaro drag racer. With its 496 cu in and Crower 8 stack mechanical fuel injection the 10 gallon fuel cell gave it a range of about 15/16 miles maximum. Yes, 1.6 miles per gallon. He always went out with cans of fuel on board plus a buddy with a back-up van.
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By eck ! Those were the days !
 
Nassau65

Nassau65

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My good old fizzy. The DX ( front disc brake model) came in two colours reddy bronze or bright yellow both had RD racing stripes. 49cc of pure power, but about 100mpg. Dad bought it new for me. Had it for nearly a year, I wanted a Kawasaki KH250 dad didn’t want me to have a proper motorbike, so bought me the Shelby for when I passed my test.
 
Nassau65

Nassau65

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Chuffer said:
Oh yes ! I think that was when I was smitten by the Jenson , so `60s cool . :cool:
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Jimmy nail ( oz in auf wiedersehen pet) drove one in a episode of minder. The personal plate on it were my initials (324 PE) . Looked a real nice car.
 
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richie500

richie500

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Nassau65 said:
My good old fizzy. The DX ( front disc brake model) came in two colours reddy bronze or bright yellow both had RD racing stripes. 49cc of pure power, but about 100mpg. Dad bought it new for me. Had it for nearly a year, I wanted a Kawasaki KH250 dad didn’t want me to have a proper motorbike, so bought me the Shelby for when I passed my test.
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You are off my Xmas card list, My dad bought me a base model 2 door escort mk2 for £600 which I had to pay him back £10 a week. I think it was a Latvian thing were you pay for your own birthday pressents
 
Mr. Cricket

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richie500 said:
You are off my Xmas card list, My dad bought me a base model 2 door escort mk2 for £600 which I had to pay him back £10 a week. I think it was a Latvian thing were you pay for your own birthday pressents
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At least that was somewhat sporty. As an apprentice air conditioning engineer passing my test in late '82 I was given the keys to a Talbot Avenger estate and sent out into the big wide world. A few months later in the office one morning my boss Ken Buckley (RIP) said rather angrily give me the car keys. I handed them over fearing the sack then he presented me with keys to a brand new Ford Granada 2.0 GL estate, gold with brown velour interior - JRE 365V. My dad fair lost the plot with jealousy as he had a Rover 105 with *TAX APPLIED FOR* in the window and threw me on the street :D
 
CaptainK

CaptainK

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Base model Escorts, Talbot Avengers estate. Sounds all really nice. Guess what car my folks gave me when I was young? Go on, guess? I bet you can't..... well, maybe you can..... yes, that's right - Nothing. I had to save and buy my own car a few years later.
 
Roscobbc

Roscobbc

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Same for me, albeit perhaps a few decades before you. My parents couldn't even afford a car themselves - would't even have presumed to ask.....
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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Roscobbc said:
Same for me, albeit perhaps a few decades before you. My parents couldn't even afford a car themselves - would't even have presumed to ask.....
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Same for me , the cars I got given were either Matchbox or Dinky Toys ! Had to work bloody hard and save for my first car , a £700 1967 HB Viva I bought off one the guys in my Rugby team . Only had a push bike in my teenage years due to miserable apprentice wages . No silver spoon for me !!
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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Nassau65 said:
Time in some respects has caught up with (older) American cars in that in our country the £6 per gallon is slowly turning them into dinosaurs.
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£6 a gallon ??? What a shame ! You US types have been spoilt for donkies years . I picked up a parking violation ticket in Salem a few years back and went to City Hall to pay the fine . The very helpful girl on the desk said she would speak to her boss about getting it cancelled as we were Brits on holiday . I said "forget it thanks " , it costs more than the penalty fine to park for 4 hours in my home town ! She was gob smacked and then even more so when I told her how much a gallon of gas cost over here . You lived in another world :(
 
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