BlingoAliSep 16, 2024

@humanhorseshoes
Funny you should say that... I tooted a long series a while back #MyCarHistory

The bit we're currently discussing starts here:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@blingoali/110606840356674060

@brett

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Attached: 1 image #MyCarHistory (1/5) I had found the love of my life. OK, three years earlier I had found the love of my life but the car on the magazine cover came a close second. Not classically beautiful (the car again), I was nonetheless intrigued. Car magazine is not known for its love of kit cars but reviewer Richard Bremner was impressed: the Midas felt stiffer than a convertible Astra or Escort, with damping control and ride superior to a Honda CRX. #ClassicCars #ClassicCarsOfMastodon #Cars #Midas

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Richard KnottNov 10, 2023
With the pics of the prototype SUV Ford Capri, thought i'd go dig out my cars #MyCarHistory, which also counts as #weirdcarmastodon ?
First is my first car, a 1.3 L Capri Mk3, followed by a 2.0 Capri with 2.8 pepperpots. I originally got them for the 1.3, transferred them to the 2.0, where they outlasted that and i put them on my last (which i can't find a pic of) a 2.8i
Show threadDamien ScullyNov 7, 2023
@davidwilkins in the late 70's my parents had a 412 in dark matallic blue, it was a73/74 car I think. It was a replacement for a Varient which had replaced a Fastback. The 412 was lovely until the fuel injection went horribly, expensively wrong. I think that was our last VW 🤔
#MyCarHistory
BlingoAliNov 4, 2023

@Cbfoley
Hi CB, hope you're well and dry!

I don't think we'd met on here when I was doing #MyCarHistory but this was the successor to my HiJet MPV: 6 seats, 993cc and three cylinders-worth of hilarity.

Short wheelbase and narrow track made for a rather, um, queasy ride at times, but I loved owning it for nine years.

One day I'll find a picture of mine: it just pre-dated my first digital camera so the image is from the brochure, which I still have.
@Basmitharts @Mark

Show threadDavid WilkinsOct 18, 2023
PPS Managed to find a couple of photos of my first W202 (boggo silver C180). This is the only car I have ever owned from the cradle to the grave. I fetched it from the factory in Sindelfingen in 1998 and saw it off to the scrapper after over fifteen years of superb service. While it spent most of its life in the U.K., it’s an LHD I bought while working in Germany and originally bore the German number plate shown (the Mercedes salesman in Bonn got me a plate with my initials on it). #MyCarHistory
Show threadDavid WilkinsOct 18, 2023
PS As promised, a pic of my 1997 W202 C280 Elegance, bought as a practical classic (often an oxymoron but not in this case) in 2012 with just 58K miles on the clock. For most of the two thousand-teens, driving my lovely straight-six W202 to Techno Classica in Germany was one of the highlights of my automotive year. This was taken at a hotel stop en route to Essen in 2014. Normally this car was on alloys but here it’s on steelies and plastic wheel trims as I had my winter tyres on. #MyCarHistory
Show threadDavid WilkinsOct 15, 2023

PS - back in the day, the 6.9’s sub-eight-second 0-62mph (100km/h) time and 140mph top speed* put it almost in the same bracket as contemporary supercars. Today, these performance figures are fairly unremarkable and are just about matched by my everyday runabout, a 2019 W205 C180, one of the least powerful rear-wheel-drive Mercedes models of recent years. I’d still rather have the 6.9, though. #MyCarHistory

* the performance figures for the 6.9 vary quite a bit between different sources

Show threadDavid WilkinsOct 9, 2023
@dorkomatic @ZeKik Some of those cars are amazing. BTW it's worth looking at the @blingoali #MyCarHistory posts as well - a few unusual ones in there as well!
Show threadBlingoAliSep 17, 2023

#MyCarHistory
(5/5) I was lucky to grow up at a time when cars weren’t pariahs: they were freedom, privacy, romance, memories lasting a lifetime. They took you places you’d never have reached and sometimes brought you back again.

Those days have gone now, with good reason.

But a village shopkeeper stopped for a chat the other day. Apropos of nothing he said "I’ve never seen you driving your little red car without a smile on your face.” You never will.
#ClassicCars #ClassicCarsOfMastodon #Cars

Show threadBlingoAliSep 17, 2023

#MyCarHistory
(4/5) The #Ioniq5 is too big: too wide *and* too long. The turning circle would block the Suez Canal. It needs a rear wiper. And yet...

We had a break in Brighton in June, parked in an underground car park. The guy parked it for us, between a Bentley and a Porsche, next to two Range Rovers. He got out and said, “That’s a very nice place to sit.”

This one is a keeper and so there it ends.

Thank you to everyone who’s faved or boosted.

#ClassicCars #ClassicCarsOfMastodon #Cars