What car do you drive

[pearlygirl555]

Diesel prices here were always lower than gas until I bought my first diesel pickup What with wear & tear on 6 tires and the cost of diesel it's more economical to drive the van, but if all things were equal I'd take the truck every time.

We've camped in the van, it's only got a drivers seat and a rear bench seat so there's room for either 2 humans who have a close relationship, or me and Pearlygirl there in my avatar. We travel quite a bit to events that require overnight stays, dragging a trailer full of rocks wherever we go, so I'm thinking an aluminum 2-3 horse trailer with modest living quarters would be just the ticket. The truck will pull anything I'd be inclined to put behind it and I think I'd rather go for that setup than a bulky box van. Although a modified Dodge Sprinter diesel could probably be made to work too, and with better fuel economy.

[Triumph7]

I have five old Fords that I drive. The oldest is the 1964 Ford Capri in the photo. The only one that is problematic to keep going is the Sierra because of all the electronics on it.

I was looking at a early Capri at Thorseby Hall classic car show on bank holiday Monday. It was absolutely mint. The owner was telling me that there were only 19,000 of them made, and 109,000 of the Ford Classic's.

I went touring France, Switzerland and Italy in a Ford Classic in 1966 exactly the time of the world cup final, we had to listen to it on the radio in Italian. I made a cardboard cut-out of the world cup and stuck it in the back window of the car. You'd be suprised how many German drivers were acting about and trying to run us off the road....Great days!!!

http://uk.ebid.net/stores/Stainless-for-classics

[baconsdozen]

I've got an old Mk1 transit motorhome and before that I converted an old Mercedes 307D.I trundle aboutin a retied black cab,which has proved a brilliant load carrier/estate.The greens would be horrified by my love of old inefficient cars and trucks.
Another good reason for having them.

[pearlygirl555]

Interesting stories behind your much-loved old vehicles. You do good work, O crazy one! That Fluid Film is great stuff --- I've got 5 gallons of it in the very next room. Didn't know you had it over there.

[lejoueurdepipeau]

No-one could hazard a guess then - oh dear!!

[pearlygirl555]

No-one could hazard a guess then - oh dear!!

Okay, not meaning to offend you at all, and bearing in mind that I'm an American who's never seen a Citroen but.....it's a Citroen, right?

I read an article in Car & Driver magazine about some Citroen collectors here in the states, and some of the goofy things they got up to when too many of them got together in one place. Like a race where your team took a Citroen apart, carried the pieces up a hill and drove down to the finish. And a parade where they dressed the cars up in costumes. The article made the car and the fanciers seem like a bunch of loveable oddballs.

Few things I like better than a loveable oddball, don'tcha know

[baconsdozen]

Yes I rate fluid film highly.I live right next to the sea on the most easterly point of the British isles so the salt air has a good go at any unprotected metal it can find.Over the years I've tried all sorts of rust treatmens and the fluid film is the best in my opinion.
Years ago there were competitions to remove the engine from a Hillman Imp (rear engined British car,about as rare as rocking horse poo these days) and to stick it in the back of another one and drive away.The record was something pretty ludicrous like five minutes.Progress now means it takes about as long for one of those Chinese factories to turn out a whole car.

[foxescome]

No-one could hazard a guess then - oh dear!!

Well I think it's lovely, used to have a green and white deckchair one and I loved it. Such character and had loads of fun in it, windows were always flying open when going around a bend

Wish they still made them

[sketchtech]

I've never heared of this fluid film is it expensive.

[bluebedouin]

No-one could hazard a guess then - oh dear!!

Thought it was a rhetorical question!