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Thread ID: 122212	2011-12-07 23:00:00	Unregistered and Unwarranted cars	Trev (427)	PC World Chat

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1247724	2011-12-08 11:28:00	You what? If they were safe it was because the took 3 minutes to hit 80k/h. Our neighbour used to have a Humber Supersnipe in the old days, black with red interior, I'm sure it made it to 50mph in less than 3 minutes - just :D We used to have a Morrie, it never made it to 50, tried once, maxed out at 45mph and sounded like the pistons were about ready to come through the bonnet :eek: My brother still managed to smash it into the school bus one day (a failed overtaking maneuver), it didn't need speed to cause destruction lol.	Iantech (16386)
1247725	2011-12-08 11:56:00	A lot of the English so-called cars took months to hit 5 amps. Achieving 12 volts twice in a week was the inspiration for Mission Impossible. :D	R2x1 (4628)
1247726	2011-12-08 12:01:00	A lot of the English so-called cars took months to hit 5 amps. Achieving 12 volts twice in a week was the inspiration for Mission Impossible. :D At which point Terry came in, but he must have gone back, to attempt to resurrect Smith instruments.	Cicero (40)
1247727	2011-12-08 17:40:00	A lot of the English so-called cars took months to hit 5 amps. Achieving 12 volts twice in a week was the inspiration for Mission Impossible. :D Best thing for a teen to learn in I reckon. You couldn't boot it - it would laugh at you, so turning out into traffic required thought and caution and patience. No power steering or power brakes so you drove carefully and with effort. And as solid as a brick so that if you did hit something nothing much happened. I had 2 accidents in our Cambridge. Got rear ended by a bus once - no damage to me or my car. Hit a Valiant that pulled out of a drive in front of me. Bananaed his car, mine got a small dent in the bumpers overrider. I loved that car.	pctek (84)
1247728	2011-12-08 17:46:00	I hope the council and police have better things to do. Fair enough report drunk drivers etc.	Digby (677)
1247729	2011-12-11 10:18:00	No, now there is 30 year old plus clapped out rust buckets from Japan made from recycled baked bean tins with little safety standards, at least the old pommy cars were made out of decent tin and could take a bit of a beating in an accident, older jappas crumple up like paper in a crash. Bollocks! Thirty years ago Japanese cars were a damned sight safer than their Brit equivalents. Thirty-five years ago I worked for a company that had a fleet of good old British Ford Escorts. We had an employee hospitalised after a 50km/h crash when the other driver failed to stop at a give-way sign. Around that time I was issued with a new Ford Escort that locked its front wheels in the wet even under normal braking in typical suburban driving conditions. It scared me shltless but the Ford Dealer's solution was to re-tyre it with wider rubber, which didn't help at all. One day the wheels locked under light braking and I slid off the road on a wet curve and clouted a parked car. By the end of three years service, rust was a major problem. A year or so later I was promoted and was issued with a new Toyota Corolla as part of a full fleet replacement scheme (the Fords were so unreliable we kept a spare engine and gearbox in our stores and whenever one crapped out we'd deliver the corpse and the spare engine etc so that we could have it back on the road within 24 hours). To be fair, around 1974/5 Toyota had a rusting problem on the doors of Corollas but that was not a structural problem and was rectified by dipping all body shells and doors through an anti-rust bath. That was the end of that problem. A couple of years later I had the misfortune to be hit head-on at open road speed by a MkIII Ford Cortina that crossed the centerline due to (sober) driver error. We met at something between 160 and 180kmh, my Corolla was shortened by about 1.5 metres, and the engine & gearbox were somewhere under the front seats. The steering wheel ko'd me under the chin and the rear view mirror split an eyebrow, but when I woke up the driver's door opened OK and I was able to get out. If I had been in the old Escort I simply could not have survived. The Cortina came off much worse, but fortunately the occupants escaped with leg injuries only. At that time the safety standards of Japanese vehicles were much higher than those of whatever was left of the British motor industry, BMC's equivalent at the time being the Morris Marina. How many of those are still on the roads? In reality, since the influx of used imports began the average age of the NZ domestic vehicle fleet has dropped significantly, and it would be hard to find too many thirty year-plus Japanese cars on the road today. Most are under 15 years. Cheers Billy 8-{) I do have some backgound in the MV industry, I have visited Toyota and Nissan car factories in Japan to study their manufacturing processes, and on the way back from that trip I visited a Ford Plant in Melbourne where I was treated to the mind-boggling experience of seeing an engine assembler using a block of wood and a sledgehammer to pound a piston down the bore of a Falcon engine block. No kidding, that's for real, it gave a whole new meaning to 'force fit'. In addition, I spent considerable time in the Ford/Mazda, Nissan and Toyota assembly plants in New Zealand over period of several years and have seen every aspect of their assembly processes. Didn't see a single baked bean tin in any of them. You are welcome to declare the factual or experiential basis for your 'baked bean tin' opinion.	Billy T (70)
1247730	2011-12-11 17:58:00	You know most car crash tests are conducted at 40kph? And whether it's new or old and solid, it's better to avoid being hit in the side - no protection there. Some modern cars are good - those with a full chassis - which helps considerably. Old or new.	pctek (84)
1247731	2011-12-11 20:44:00	At which point Terry came in, but he must have gone back, to attempt to resurrect Smith instruments. I fear there is just not going to be an Easter for Smiths - no matter how hard Terry tries. (You cant "rise again" if you were only ever at the bottom even on a good day. ;) )	R2x1 (4628)
1247732	2011-12-11 22:53:00	I fear there is just not going to be an Easter for Smiths - no matter how hard Terry tries. (You cant "rise again" if you were only ever at the bottom even on a good day. ;) ) One has to wonder if Terry is going to rise again, let alone Smiths Crisps.	Cicero (40)
1247733	2011-12-12 05:28:00	It's those Smiths Alarm clocks - never been the same once daylight saving came in (although it helped a lot of Lucas owners). We'll lure 'im out, talk about Vincents.	R2x1 (4628)
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