12th Jan 2024, 12:06
My second car was a Talbot Samba style silver, a late-ish 86 model I bought cheap from a car dealer back in 1996. I bought it for believe it or not a tiny sum of £90. It had no MOT and tax, and was sold as seen. We towed it home, and I booked it in for an MOT at my local garage only half a mile away. It passed; it needed a headlight bulb and headlight beam adjustment, and only had 30000 miles on the clock. I had a 10 year old low mileage car for less than £140; try that now.
It was economical and reliable, but the tappet rattle did my head in. I adjusted them and adjusted them, but could never quiet them. Apart from that it was a good little town runabout until I crashed it on ice the following winter and it was a write off.
16th May 2015, 23:27
What a great comment - really personalises what old cars can mean to people, and how even the most unloved of models always means something to somebody somewhere.
My own fond memory is the SEAT Marbella - great memories of the car that took me the length of the country to the lady who is now my wife of 20 years.