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| Thread ID: 81976 | 2007-08-12 22:37:00 | Should the driving age be raised to 18 ? | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 580170 | 2007-08-14 04:41:00 | Battleneter2 - It's 15 not 16. When I was 15 parents didn't buy their kids Honda CRXs, you got to borrow the family car if you were lucky and God help you if it got damaged. It was the 18 year olds with their own (old) cars that had more incidents. Very true and oh how times have changed. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 580171 | 2007-08-14 04:47:00 | My first car was a MK3 Cortina station wagon with a tired 1600cc engine, It took me months to save up for it. Nowadays on the same wage a youngster can go get a 8 thousand dollar missile thats doing a 100mph in a few seconds. I personally think refusing credit over $1000 to anyone under 20 is a good start. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 580172 | 2007-08-14 04:53:00 | Mine was a VW Beetle 1200cc, top speed of 120k down hill with the wind behind me. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 580173 | 2007-08-14 05:43:00 | i didn't even have my restricted license for 6 weeks before I lost it for drink driving for 6 months My parents were never keen on any of us boys getting our license at 15. So the rule was simple, you want it you pay for it out of money you earned. I wasn't even allowed to touch one of my parents cars till I was at least 18. Todays cars are no excuse for bad driving, my first car MK2 escort sport was enough to get me into trouble. Cars were modified back then it was just a bit harder. Lost control of the escort going up the gorge in the rain doing 140 in the process taking out 2 cars. that was at the age of 17. It wasn't until my first child was born when i was 22 that my driving got sensible. |
plod (107) | ||
| 580174 | 2007-08-14 05:46:00 | It wasn't until my first child was born when i was 22 that my driving got sensible. It is amazing how a bit of enforced responsibility can change ones outlook on life. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 580175 | 2007-08-14 06:14:00 | MK3 Cortina: LUXURY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | tedheath (537) | ||
| 580176 | 2007-08-14 06:59:00 | MK3 Cortina: LUXURY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Luxury indeed. My first was a dark green 1948 Morris 10 called Fred. It was a rectangular box. (It was also the only car I ever found which had a convenient/safe ashtray on the driver's side - but that's another subject) Assorted previous owners had put so many dings in the bodywork (remember mudguards?) in the decades before I bought it that there was no point in cleaning its exterior. I knew nothing about how the the engine worked. My rule-breaking was confined to sometimes getting up to 70mph on long straight stretches (legal limit was 60mph) with little other traffic. I thought that was quite daring in the beat-the-traffic-cop stakes. But I had to pull my horns in when my boyfriend went quite pale after I said I'd been doing 70. He said my car could possibly fall apart at that speed. Edit: A long time since I wrote mph. I guess most members here never have.... (And sorry, Sweep. I'm sure you were a lovely traffic cop...) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 580177 | 2007-08-14 07:13:00 | A 10 hp sidevalve Morris doing 70 mph you have got to be kidding. I would guess you had a massive speedometer error or a dry speedo cable causing the needle to flicker. tedheath |
tedheath (537) | ||
| 580178 | 2007-08-14 07:16:00 | A 10 hp sidevalve Morris doing 70 mph you have got to be kidding. I would guess you had a massive speedometer error or a dry speedo cable causing the needle to flicker. tedheath She could have been on a slightly downhill slope. :lol: |
intel hunter (6666) | ||
| 580179 | 2007-08-14 07:17:00 | With a strong nor wester behind her. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
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