Am I too old for my Scoobie
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From: Skoda Kamiq Monte Carlo 7 Speed DSG now bought and loving it!!!!!
After a comment made on T.V. last night about car owners who own Scoobies&Mitsibushi's the age is between 27 to 35 so at 43 should i have a Vectra or something else like it.
Opinions please guys
Cheers
Colin
Opinions please guys
Cheers
Colin
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Scoob , Vectra - Vectra , Scoob??
You may be an old b*****d
but it seems to me like you've got the right priorities. Hell im too young to own a scoob by those age groupings but you don't see me rushing out to buy a nova 
You may be an old b*****d
but it seems to me like you've got the right priorities. Hell im too young to own a scoob by those age groupings but you don't see me rushing out to buy a nova
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Judging by my insurance premium I must be too young for a Scooby... but have owned one since I was 26....
Stuff em I say... got and buy another performance mod and say screw the report!
ho ho JGM
Stuff em I say... got and buy another performance mod and say screw the report!
ho ho JGM
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Well, I am too old for my Scoob, I too am getting on - alas, I remember the days when cars didnt have the built-in 'features' of the Impreza - those bad ole days when cars didnt hesitate, the clutches didnt judder, the paint wasn't cr4p, those bad ole days when the interior didnt rattle and squeak, the horrible underseal stayed on and did its job for years without expensive checks, the old cars would take car park knocks without the 'special feature' of buckling like bacofoil ............... oooooo those days in my Cortina Mk 2!!!!!!
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If you go out on many British Rallies with a radio scanner you may hear a lady with the callsign "Forest 2". I believe she's in her early 70's. She used to have a UK Turbo until she traded it in......for an RB5
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by RON:
<B>Bob's even older than Graham![/quote]
Yes I'm the original old fart. Always had fast cars and now ringing the neck of a P1. But even I'm a spring chicken up to the 74 yr old I meet the other day in his Impreza Turbo.
<B>Bob's even older than Graham!
[/quote]Yes I'm the original old fart. Always had fast cars and now ringing the neck of a P1.
But even I'm a spring chicken up to the 74 yr old I meet the other day in his Impreza Turbo.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by GM:
<B>If you go out on many British Rallies with a radio scanner you may hear a lady with the callsign "Forest 2". I believe she's in her early 70's. She used to have a UK Turbo until she traded it in......for an RB5[/quote]
I believe this lady now drives a P1!
My mum and dad are both in their 60's and lurve driving the scoob, especially with its full scoobysport system Dad got the thumbs up & a load of respect recently from a car full of baseball hatted Nova boys, it made his day
<B>If you go out on many British Rallies with a radio scanner you may hear a lady with the callsign "Forest 2". I believe she's in her early 70's. She used to have a UK Turbo until she traded it in......for an RB5
[/quote]I believe this lady now drives a P1!
My mum and dad are both in their 60's and lurve driving the scoob, especially with its full scoobysport system
Dad got the thumbs up & a load of respect recently from a car full of baseball hatted Nova boys, it made his day 
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The first Scoob I ever saw was driven by a 65 year old woman (well she looked that old anyway) way back in 1993. She drove it very slowly as I overtook her on my push bike (I was going down hill at the time at about 45mph)
ive got a vectra at the moment (sri) but fully intend to own a scoob (SOON :cool)
at 41 looks like (from the posts above) that ive got at least 30 - 40 years left in me!!!
as to the good ol days of cortina mk2's, stick the body shell of one these onto the drive train and engine of a Scoob Sti and frighten EVEYBODY to death
at 41 looks like (from the posts above) that ive got at least 30 - 40 years left in me!!!
as to the good ol days of cortina mk2's, stick the body shell of one these onto the drive train and engine of a Scoob Sti and frighten EVEYBODY to death
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When young I lusted after a Mk II jag but all I could afford was a Morris 8 (prewar) which I bought for £12/10/0, the chassis of which I mended with a bit of wood!
Petrol was ony 6d per gallon but I only earned 2/6 a week! (I exaggerate slightly I know but you get the idea)
Gatsos would have been an irrelevance anyway given the performance of the car.
I am sure I saw your Cortina around!!
Hey remember the Lotus Cortina (Mk I) and Jim clark driving it (In those days F1 drivers drove other things as well, quite often on the same day as the GP
fetch my pipe and slippers....
JD
Petrol was ony 6d per gallon but I only earned 2/6 a week! (I exaggerate slightly I know but you get the idea)
Gatsos would have been an irrelevance anyway given the performance of the car.
I am sure I saw your Cortina around!!
Hey remember the Lotus Cortina (Mk I) and Jim clark driving it (In those days F1 drivers drove other things as well, quite often on the same day as the GP
fetch my pipe and slippers....
JD
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by pslewis:
<B>I reckon only senile people would pay the P1 money for a 2 door version of my 5 door[/quote]
Ah but he didn't pay P1 money for it 'cos he's a dealer so presumably paid cost for it.....
Dave T-S, you're remarkably quiet on this subject/thread....
Matt
<B>I reckon only senile people would pay the P1 money for a 2 door version of my 5 door
[/quote]Ah but he didn't pay P1 money for it 'cos he's a dealer so presumably paid cost for it.....
Dave T-S, you're remarkably quiet on this subject/thread....
Matt
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Things WERE better in the old days - no bloody Gatso`s, 80mph was considered bloody quick, petrol at three shillings and sixpence a gallon OH HALCYON DAYS! I remember so well my Cortina GT No hubcaps, wheels painted a different colour front and rear, sticky number plate on the bonnet, spotlamp on the back as a reversing light and one of those swivelling spotlamps mounted inside the windscreen (Helphos?) excellent for illuminating the crumpet walking along the high street at night! and of course the mandatory straight thro` exhaust, oh and those musical air horns!
All the young`ns reading this are saying "sad `ole git" just remember guys you`ll soon be there!!
JohnD
Things WERE better in the old days - no bloody Gatso`s, 80mph was considered bloody quick, petrol at three shillings and sixpence a gallon OH HALCYON DAYS! I remember so well my Cortina GT No hubcaps, wheels painted a different colour front and rear, sticky number plate on the bonnet, spotlamp on the back as a reversing light and one of those swivelling spotlamps mounted inside the windscreen (Helphos?) excellent for illuminating the crumpet walking along the high street at night! and of course the mandatory straight thro` exhaust, oh and those musical air horns!
All the young`ns reading this are saying "sad `ole git" just remember guys you`ll soon be there!!
JohnD
Jay-Dee
I remember the Mk1 Lotus Cortina well - As I worked at Ford (craft apprentice toolmaker) at the time I made plans to get one! and guess what? the poxy insurance company said no! they also said no to a MkII Jag.3.4
I remember paying £19 fully comp on my Cortina GT at the age of 19!
WILL THE MODERATOR PLEASE STOP THIS THREAD, I AM BECOMING MISTY EYED AND WITH ANY MORE PROVOCATION I MAY RAMBLE ON INDEFINATLY!!
JohnD
PS. Stuff your pipe and slippers, my kids have been instructed to induce euthanasia in the event of such an occurance.
I remember the Mk1 Lotus Cortina well - As I worked at Ford (craft apprentice toolmaker) at the time I made plans to get one! and guess what? the poxy insurance company said no! they also said no to a MkII Jag.3.4
I remember paying £19 fully comp on my Cortina GT at the age of 19!
WILL THE MODERATOR PLEASE STOP THIS THREAD, I AM BECOMING MISTY EYED AND WITH ANY MORE PROVOCATION I MAY RAMBLE ON INDEFINATLY!!
JohnD
PS. Stuff your pipe and slippers, my kids have been instructed to induce euthanasia in the event of such an occurance.
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Just turned 40 - was in Halfords today sizing up tartan blankets for the back seat and some nice leather backed driving gloves....
Graham - cracking idea mate. I'm in Wokingham. We can talk about the best shade of magnolia to paint the living room, stair lifts and, if we don't forget, Pans People.....
Dave