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Post by Revolution 9 on Feb 27, 2005 21:00:08 GMT
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Post by L u c k y S u p r a 7 on Feb 27, 2005 21:02:55 GMT
What year were they made in?
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Post by Revolution 9 on Feb 27, 2005 21:06:00 GMT
1956-1970. Although I prefer the later ones, like the one pictured, the series 3, made from 1962-1970. They had nicer outside trim, inside trim, were more reliable and slightly more powerful.
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Post by L u c k y S u p r a 7 on Feb 27, 2005 21:08:46 GMT
That's great! I wish you good luck on finding one! Sometimes old cars are the best cars! ;D
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Post by Revolution 9 on Feb 27, 2005 21:13:40 GMT
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Post by L u c k y S u p r a 7 on Feb 27, 2005 21:19:01 GMT
Darn! Must be expensive. You can kind of always find old cars here in The States. Its the matter of finding one in good condition. If I wanted a old car, I would like to have a Ford Mustang or Chevorlet Camaro.
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Post by Revolution 9 on Feb 27, 2005 21:29:50 GMT
You do tend to see a good few older British and European cars around here, although 60s cars are getting scarcer and scarcer in the UK, especially here in the West of Scotland, the salty sea air, and the salt they put on the roads in huge quantities to stop the roads iceing can cause a lot of rust, and the hilly terrain (I don't think there's a level piece of ground in Greenock! ;D ;D) tends to strain tired engines.
The thing with Soviet cars is that they never reached anywhere but the Soviet Union in large numbers, so even now after the Cold War and the end of the USSR there aren't many of them in the West. Having said that we don't get many American cars either, since there was never a huge demand for very large cars or V8 engines, since our fuel is really expensive.
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Post by L u c k y S u p r a 7 on Feb 27, 2005 21:34:05 GMT
Ya'll probably get more Japanese cars than American cars because there smaller any way. Some companies are finding new ways for cars to take less fuel.
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Post by Revolution 9 on Feb 27, 2005 21:44:13 GMT
That's true but I can't remember the last 60s Japanese car I saw either, I think it's because in the 60s British car companies still had most of the markets covered with their own products, and tax laws etc made imports impractical, plus there were far more ignorant people around who had some imperialist delusion that "British is Best", ie that no matter what kind of car you were looking for you should buy a British one over a foreign one every time regardless of which cars actually were better in their class, I mean the Imp's Scottish like me but that's not why I like it, I'm keen on Soviet cars, and Swedish cars as well, rear wheel drive Volvos are great underrated cars as well. I'm told that a similar situation existed in many countries years back, where people had some delusion that their country produced everything so much better that they didn't need to even consider the competition, which is of course rubbish, I mean there are a lot of countries that are competant at making cars!
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Post by L u c k y S u p r a 7 on Feb 27, 2005 23:02:23 GMT
I see. Its totally unfair that ya'll had to get what they told you to get. Then its good to have competion because you can sell in more countries than just yours and learn something from the other companies to help make your cars better. It will give people more choices too. I heard that Volvos make good rally cars! ;D
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Post by Ryan on Feb 27, 2005 23:57:26 GMT
my 3 favourite road cars are the skoda fabia vrs, vauxhall monaro and the audi S4
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Post by L u c k y S u p r a 7 on Feb 28, 2005 16:57:56 GMT
I like the Skoda Octavia (2001 or 2002)! It has big headlights and it is boxy!
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Post by mattwrc on Feb 28, 2005 18:47:09 GMT
really like the rs version of the skoda in black!
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Post by L u c k y S u p r a 7 on Feb 28, 2005 18:49:01 GMT
I think it would look nice in red or white. Black looks good too.
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Post by L u c k y S u p r a 7 on Feb 28, 2005 18:57:34 GMT
Actually, any color is ok with me. As long as I don't get a Octavia that looks like this: Junk car!
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