They were a bit rubbish

[fern01]

In 1968 I had a british racing green Morris 1000 with a yard wide orange stripe over the bonnet, roof and boot with the number 7 in big white circles on the doors. I got stopped by the Police quite a lot.

[Glenlivet]

In 1968 I had a british racing green Morris 1000 with a yard wide orange stripe over the bonnet, roof and boot with the number 7 in big white circles on the doors. I got stopped by the Police quite a lot.

I got stopped quite a lot without the custom paint job.....

[magman]

tights for the fan belt (need i say more )

[Walker570]

I'm old enough to remember when our new patrol car arrived Ford Zephyr Six and had this fancy new alarm system to wake the neighbours ... instead of tingle tingle tingle..it went WHAHH!! WHOOO!!WHAHH!! WHOOO!! ...... problem was, vibration would pull the wires partially off one and you would get WHAAHH!! WHAAHH!! with what could only be described as a 'wet one' in between. Back then of course we had loud speakers on the front. During boring periods of duty you would find a suitable cyclist and creep quietly up behind and click the hand piece with a finger nail. They would look down at front and back wheel, eventually often get off and spin the wheels. Cruel you might say but heh!! whilst doing that we weren't booking some poor unsuspecting motorist

[Glenlivet]

tights for the fan belt (need i say more )

Not the old "I think me fanbelt's gone, you'll have to take your tights off" ruse?

[magman]

Not the old "I think me fanbelt's gone, you'll have to take your tights off" ruse?

 

not me sir honest

[four-wheel-drive]

Back in the day you could pop up the bonnet on your car and put water in the rad put oil in the big cap on top of the engine top up the brake oil and the screen washer container all in five minutes.

 

with modern cars you pop up the bonnet and are faced with a mass of plastic you almost need to get the hand book out to find where you have to top up the windscreen washer bottle let alone think about putting some oil in to it.

 

Or am I just getting to old.

[oowee]

Back in the day you could pop up the bonnet on your car and put water in the rad put oil in the big cap on top of the engine top up the brake oil and the screen washer container all in five minutes.

 

with modern cars you pop up the bonnet and are faced with a mass of plastic you almost need to get the hand book out to find where you have to top up the windscreen washer bottle let alone think about putting some oil in to it.

 

Or am I just getting to old.

Only if you can work out how to.

[amateur]

Back in the day you could pop up the bonnet on your car and put water in the rad put oil in the big cap on top of the engine top up the brake oil and the screen washer container all in five minutes.

 

with modern cars you pop up the bonnet and are faced with a mass of plastic you almost need to get the hand book out to find where you have to top up the windscreen washer bottle let alone think about putting some oil in to it.

 

Or am I just getting to old.

 

But, to be fair, how often do you need to top up a modern car with anything other than screen wash and air

[four-wheel-drive]

 

But, to be fair, how often do you need to top up a modern car with anything other than screen wash and air

I tend to have a look at least once a year if it needs it or not and I look at the tyres only when one looks to be going down.

[norfolk dumpling]

Oh and cloth seats - on a cold night passion died very quickly on those horrible plastic ones. My dads Hilman Hunter GLS was the first I drove with cloth - new girlfriend though I was made of money.

[UKPoacher]

 

But, to be fair, how often do you need to top up a modern car with anything other than screen wash and air

 

My wife's cars can go years without having to refill the screen wash. I'm sure she doesn't know about this feature. My 2003 Blingo van however needs a little top up of oil mid way between the 10K service intervals and a drop of power steering fluid every month or so. The thing I really begrudge though is having to top up the fuel tank every week

Oh and cloth seats - on a cold night passion died very quickly on those horrible plastic ones. My dads Hilman Hunter GLS was the first I drove with cloth - new girlfriend though I was made of money.

Nothing wrong with wipe clean vinyl especially when it is a shared family car