Every time I drive a car a baby polar bear dies...
- 4 October 2010 10:3173621.... well not quite, but having environmentalist pretensions I certainly try to avoid driving.
When I gave up full time work I flogged my car with the A.C. and the kick-arse 6 speaker stereo and have pottered around in the bosses Fiat Panda when necessary, cycling into Sandwich across the Golf Course to my part-time work on my excellent Moulton space-frame TSR.
There are only two cars I really fancy, a Land Rover Defender (too thirsty) or a Lotus Seven (too impractical).
Today I buy the Telegraph to find that Morgan are starting to build three wheelers again and I really, really want one!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8040024/Classic-car-firm-Morgan-building-new-three-wheeler-after-gap-of-60-years.html - 4 October 2010 10:4273624Ah..a lovely picture there. Im a fan of those three wheelers too. In the old days in a different life I used to cover the motor shows in London, both for bikes and cars..and you would see three wheelers at both as they were/are driveable obviously with a car license but also with a motorcycle license too. Its good news Bob if they are indeed building them again. There is quite a wave of nostalgia running at the moment, even down to new cameras and so on, so they may be onto a winner.email: dover7@msn.com
- 4 October 2010 11:0373627You want to be more attentive when driving,Bob if the title of this thread is to be believed.Mind you having once ridden pillion on your bike from Penfold to the docks I can quite believe it...ffs it was an horrendous experience..
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter) - 4 October 2010 11:0473628beats del boys three wheeler hands down.
- 4 October 2010 11:3573635Marek,
My environmental affectations are beyond reproach nowadays.
I've even give up going out clubbing!
Seals, that is. - 4 October 2010 12:0073637Saw a few 3 wheelers when I recently stayed with Melvyn Rutter (who has a huge collection) at his hotel The Pitstop. They are fantastic.
- 4 October 2010 21:0073761And this is how to drive a Morgan
www.kenrbaker.co.uk - Photo Gallery - 5 October 2010 07:5073784Imagine sauntering down through France in one of them. Sheer bliss. Ambling along the quieter roads to the sound of the phut phut phutting from the purring engine. Stopping now and again for a jambon and fromage baquette and a glass of Bordeaux.
ps Ooops! you mustnt drive after the Bordeaux though!email: dover7@msn.com - 5 October 2010 09:2973799A friend at college with me had one with a twin Villiers engine like the matchless one above - Imagine him and I squeezed into it - we didnt go on long journeys!!
Getting back to the title - I regret that in my younger days I must have run over a few polar bears... I was looking at my old log that I used to keep and noticed the number of times that I had to decoke, change oil, renew clutches on my many vehicles over the years. also how bad the fuel consumption was. Even my mini was doing no more than 33mpg and 25 was normal.
Cars are so much more reliable with 100,000 miles being normal when 40 years ago it would be scrap. What I am concerned about is that older cars are kept running as every new car uses so many trees to make. Also i am getting paranoid about fuel consumption so I first look at that when buying. I use LPG or diesel now.
