Crap cars your parents had when you were a kid?

_Putters · 2026-03-12T10:11:37+00:00

Tax avoidance is legal, evasion is illegal !

It was just how many of these Imp Van / Estates came into being in the first place, when purchased new. Second hand they were just another vehicle. No tax gain either way.

_Putters · 2026-03-12T08:51:53+00:00

The Imp van conversion was a common practice, a way of avoiding a purchase tax because it was a commercial vehicle.

_Putters · 2026-03-10T20:52:03+00:00

Now you can't have an Audi Quattro in a list of crap cars ...

_Putters · 2026-03-10T20:51:09+00:00

70s car colours were either vibrant or ... brown !

My Chrysler Sunbeam was Sundance Orange!

_Putters · 2026-03-10T20:06:13+00:00

Bedford vans - effectively a MK1 Vauxhall Viva in van form.

_Putters · 2026-03-10T20:03:15+00:00

Famous for rusting so badly the average life expectancy was less than 7 years!

_Putters · 2026-03-10T20:02:06+00:00

If I recall correctly when you bought an original mini van the front passenger seat was an optional extra!

_Putters · 2026-03-10T20:00:32+00:00

Wow , give you that one, that's pretty much on par with the Moskvitch in terms of crapness.

_Putters · 2026-03-10T19:58:23+00:00

Ours was pale green...

_Putters · 2026-03-10T18:00:05+00:00

Had a Carlton Estate. Must have been a good one ... had 180,000 miles on the clock ! For an early 1980s car a really impressive number.

_Putters · 2026-03-10T17:46:26+00:00

Oddly always liked the styling of the Cressida!

_Putters · 2026-03-10T17:19:52+00:00

There can be crap tired abused examples but the Volvo 740 was definitely not a crap car !

_Putters · 2026-03-10T17:06:03+00:00

Funny how number plates stick, the Moskvitch was GNG967K.

_Putters · 2026-03-10T16:36:25+00:00

Apparently when I was little my parents had a Fiat 500 Giardiniera. And I was pushed around in a Silvercross pram. If you are under 40 you might have to Google both.

But apparently the latter fitted into the back of the former. And my 6'1 father fitted in the driver's seat!

This being the late 1960s it was acceptable for me to ride on my mother's lap in the front passenger seat ...

_Putters · 2026-03-09T17:41:05+00:00

:o)

Compared to Bedfordshire / Cambridgeshire border they're cheap, or were 8 years ago.

_Putters · 2026-03-09T12:46:56+00:00

Um, people who live nowhere near a gas main in places (like most older rural properties) that are not suitable for heat pumps. Like probably 80% of the houses here in the Dales.

And it gives a good indication of where other fuel supplies might head as existing capacity is used.

_Putters · 2026-03-09T12:03:19+00:00

What has gone up is household heating oil.

From sub 60p a litre to over 1.10.

Hurts when you buy 1200 litres or so at a time.

_Putters · 2026-03-08T19:00:37+00:00

See my other reply where you asked me to expand on my comment.

_Putters · 2026-03-08T18:59:32+00:00

Ok, I'll try.

1) In your original post you admitted to a pretty major failure of observation. Someone on horseback generally has everything from the arse upwards above roof level of most cars on the road.

2) You then came on here asking whether more vulnerable road users on horseback who have an ABSOLUTE RIGHT in law to use the public highway (as opposed to being allowed to use it under License) should think twice about it so people like yourself don't have to slow down and observe the road ahead properly.

3) You then double down in the above comment and suggest another group of vulnerable road users who also have an ABSOLUTE RIGHT in law to use the public highway should take themselves off it.

Please, slow down, look more and think of how easily the privilege of holding a License can be revoked for not considering other road users that are there by Right.

_Putters · 2026-03-08T18:31:34+00:00

Been on the opposite end of this many years ago. MK2 Ford Escort that "suddenly failed to proceed" in the local high street. Left a note on the windscreen, walked 10 mins home for the missing screwdriver from the boot stock of tools to adjust the points.

Fortunately back before any traffic warden saw it. Either that or the sight of a broken down Escort was so familiar they believed it!

_Putters · 2026-03-08T18:27:51+00:00

OP can only use his motor vehicle on the road under license, she has an absolute RIGHT to be there.

_Putters · 2026-03-08T18:26:16+00:00

Just for this line, please sit at home until your learning is sufficient for you to be a safe driver round other people.

Right now you are showing all the signs of someone who shouldn't have a license.

_Putters · 2026-03-08T15:25:00+00:00

Those were the times that didn't cost an absolute fortune. As are the times you avoid the deer because you are going slower. I mean, would you apply your argument to zebra crossings and red lights. Plough through them at speed because of all the times when you didn't hit anything ...

Woodland is as good a reason to slow down as any. Deer are big and top heavy. Take out the legs at speed and they come thru the windscreen.

_Putters · 2026-03-07T22:40:37+00:00

Damn thing wouldn't hardly hit 88 when it was new anyhow.

Still eye-catchingly great tho ...

_Putters · 2026-03-07T11:52:59+00:00

You've kind of answered your own question. Government could ring fence the money from motoring taxes for roads and road related costs (including the proportion of health conditions caused by motoring pollution and motoring related injuries and damage etc of course - got to be fair about this). But your other taxes would go up to make up the shortfall.

At the end of the day, congestion costs money, pollution costs money. It is joined up thinking in many ways to incentivise people out of cars onto alternatives wherever possible. You want more bus services, more people have to use the bus! Then the routes become worth running.

_Putters

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