
Shame that in the later models build quality suffered...
The MG Metro Turbo is still one of my all-time favourites and one car I always regret selling...
Moderator: RichardW
Amber Travel based just outside Turriff ran our school buses, and our usual was an ancient Bedford Y series Duple Dominant. About two brake mouse power and a gearbox that could only be navigated by those who knew the bus. It was always utterly hilarious seeing a new driver trying to find first on the really steep hill outside the school, lurching ever closer to the bus behind us. Granted, a few years later my first time driving a YNT wasn't much more graceful, there are five gears in there, but I swear that they move every time you change gear. Most baffling one I ever encountered in a coach was in an old Scania which had a split ratio box, fair enough except that the shift pattern in the top four gears was different to the rest. Not a problem once you know, but it didn't half confuse me just outside Aberdeen when I discovered that while on the move.daviemck2006 wrote:Maestro was an underrated car. I had one of them, followed by its big brother montego. The maestro was 1986 C reg, and the bottom of the doors were rotten by 1990, when I traded it in for a new montego on 1st August H reg. It only took less than a year for the rust to have to be treated under warranty! It lasts yo Jan 1993 before being traded in for a Japanese rover 216. I always had a soft spot for BL having learned to drive in a princess.
And I loved old Leyland tiger coaches, with the clutch less manual gearboxes with the tiny gear leaver on the dash to the right of the wheel. Compared to the full manuals that you got a gear if you were lucky, they were great. A little blip of the throttle changing down, if you timed it right it was ace! We had an old tiger at Deveron Coaches where there was a totally botch job of the linkages. 1st was where 6th should be, 2nd at 5th, 3rd where 4th etc. The usual driver had no problems with it, but when I got given it for a school run one day,,,,,,,,let's say the kids did not get a smooth drive to school that day[emoji23]
Hows this as an example of a SAAB Classic 900 Convertible?Zelandeth wrote: Unknown age Saab Classic 900 convertible on H6, had a private plate but I can tell it's a post 86 car.
Finally an X plate (as in X suffix) Daimler Double Six, that was parked up in the lower carpark in Sainsbury's. Owner arrived back at the car at the same time as I did and we must have spent half an hour chatting. He was as interested in the Saab as I was in the Daimler!
NewcastleFalcon wrote:
There is something satisfyingly precise about the lines (spoit a bit by that thing on the bonnet though).
Regards Neil