First cars!
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@Bones said in First cars!:
pretty angry fucker back then). So most of the first few lessons was spent learning to go down through the gears approaching roundabouts or give ways, without touching the brakes or get shouted at. Oh and backing it up our 40m skinny driveway only using mirrors or get shouted at.
We might be brothers by a different mother, as they say (except I'm not from middle Eastbourne).
Our Dad's taught us the same way. Bloody funny when I look back at it."Where are the wheels!!!?
"You are still 3 inches from that wall!"
"It's supposed to be parked, not abandoned!"I still drive my car rarely touching the brakes, which is good as I have discovered what they cost.
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@Snowy said in First cars!:
Was going to say that you guys had some really shit cars and then realised that at the time they were all shit and we took what we could get.
Times have changed. Most of us would have had a cheap manual car that was probably at least 10 years old for our first vehicle because that was before the cheaper Japanese imports flooded the market. Now almost everyone learns in an auto and wouldn't know what that left-hand pedal was for, or even know how to use it.
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@Bovidae I still prefer manuals. 3 of them at the moment. The best thing about that is nobody ever wants to borrow them - even the RS4 and TVR.
When my father taught me to drive an auto (my Mum had one) I had to stick my left leg over the center console so that I didn't left foot brake and could prove it. Left foot braking would have been handy when I was racing but my left leg was always over the console.
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@Bones said in First cars!:
@Snowy I'm guessing from your height that your old man was close to 2m like my dad so could easily reach you from the passenger seat too. Gotta learn the five Ds early.
Oh yes, he could reach, and yes, about 1.92m but heavier than me.
5 d's in my case was distract, duck, dodge, deflect, distance wasn't really an option as you have said.
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@Bovidae said in First cars!:
@Snowy said in First cars!:
Was going to say that you guys had some really shit cars and then realised that at the time they were all shit and we took what we could get.
Times have changed. Most of us would have had a cheap manual car that was probably at least 10 years old for our first vehicle because that was before the cheaper Japanese imports flooded the market. Now almost everyone learns in an auto and wouldn't know what that left-hand pedal was for, or even know how to use it.
I haven't driven a manual for over 20 years, when I had to move one from less than a km away to our place for a mate to park up our drive some years ago I stalled the shit out of it like a learner. I am living proof you can forget how to drive them. Fuck manuals. They're a thing of the past. Move with the times.
Work have recently upgraded my uber to something that's worth about 60 grand ( brand new off the lot ) it beeps, flashes and warns me of hazards. That's before I even start the engine. It beeps before I change lanes.....that sort of stuff. I think it would probably park for me if I let it. It's got that new car smell and yet despite all the safety features I'm petrified of dinging the fucken thing and getting told off by the accounts department. I miss the freedom of years gone by knowing you can write off a heap of shit with little to no repercussions.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
Fuck manuals. They're a thing of the past. Move with the times.
Not if you actually like driving and "a bit" of control - often in my case not so much of the control thing, but it makes me feel better.
Agree with the rest. I miss not being able to fix a car myself without a diagnostic program on a laptop to plug in to the car. A different (but actually better) world.
My old man's electric Audi is bloody awesome tech wise.
The thing that makes me laugh the about it, is that it shouts at him all the time. Karma.
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@Snowy said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
Fuck manuals. They're a thing of the past. Move with the times.
Not if you actually like driving and "a bit" of control - often in my case not so much of the control thing, but it makes me feel better.
Agree with the rest. I miss not being able to fix a car myself without a diagnostic program on a laptop to plug in to the car. A different (but actually better) world.
My old man's electric Audi is bloody awesome tech wise.
The thing that makes me laugh the about it, is that it shouts at him all the time. Karma.
I need my left hand to hold my beer, not change gears.
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@Snowy said in First cars!:
@MN5 said in First cars!:
Fuck manuals. They're a thing of the past. Move with the times.
Not if you actually like driving and "a bit" of control - often in my case not so much of the control thing, but it makes me feel better.
Agree with the rest. I miss not being able to fix a car myself without a diagnostic program on a laptop to plug in to the car. A different (but actually better) world.
My old man's electric Audi is bloody awesome tech wise.
The thing that makes me laugh the about it, is that it shouts at him all the time. Karma.
A few years ago I would have said the same thing and that's what I love about the Caterham. However, it's also partially why it's for sale.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
I haven't driven a manual for over 20 years, when I had to move one from less than a km away to our place for a mate to park up our drive some years ago I stalled the shit out of it like a learner. I am living proof you can forget how to drive them. Fuck manuals. They're a thing of the past. Move with the times.
My current car is the first auto I have owned so it's been 5 years since I have driven a manual car. I don't miss having to use the handbrake for hill starts or alternating between 1st and 2nd gear in gridlock on the southern motorway.
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@MN5 said in First cars!:
@Bovidae said in First cars!:
@Snowy said in First cars!:
Was going to say that you guys had some really shit cars and then realised that at the time they were all shit and we took what we could get.
Times have changed. Most of us would have had a cheap manual car that was probably at least 10 years old for our first vehicle because that was before the cheaper Japanese imports flooded the market. Now almost everyone learns in an auto and wouldn't know what that left-hand pedal was for, or even know how to use it.
I haven't driven a manual for over 20 years, when I had to move one from less than a km away to our place for a mate to park up our drive some years ago I stalled the shit out of it like a learner. I am living proof you can forget how to drive them. Fuck manuals. They're a thing of the past. Move with the times.
Agreed. Sitting in traffic with a short ratio box and puck clutch gets tiresome real quick. For street driving I just want to push the throttle and with adaptive cruise control do the rest. I can't wait for autonomous cars.
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@antipodean last time I went to Aus I had an outlander with ACC. Thrashed that feature, it was awesome! That and the commodore I had on the previous trip that tried to gently steer you away from white lines were awesome for freaking out Bonesetta.
Not so awesome when I discovered the white line feature for the first time while overtaking a cyclist and it tried to take him out.
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@Bones said in First cars!:
@antipodean last time I went to Aus I had an outlander with ACC. Thrashed that feature, it was awesome! That and the commodore I had on the previous trip that tried to gently steer you away from white lines were awesome for freaking out Bonesetta.
Not so awesome when I discovered the white line feature for the first time while overtaking a cyclist and it tried to take him out.
Wouldn’t have been a great loss
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First car was a 1978 mitsi mirage, 4speed 1300cc. Had it for about about a year until it got written off while getting hit by a van while parked outside lou Vincent’s little sisters house. We were both in the car too!
I remember the day I got it I drove from the shore up to pakiri with the choke out and almost used up all the gas
Replaced it with a mitsi station....what a farken beast 2ltr turbo rwd but auto. Never had another mitsi since and didn’t have another auto until about 15 years later when came back from the UK.
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@Bones said in First cars!:
Not so awesome when I discovered the white line feature for the first time while overtaking a cyclist and it tried to take him out.
Just going to have to drop this in here.
My father in law is a mad keen cyclist, mostly because my brother in law took it up and FiL can't stand his son being better at anything than him. So FiL out training on his bike, pretty much got taken out by a car and was furious. Catches up to it and starts shouting at the driver.
It was my MiL. We still don't know whether it was intentional... -
My first car was a red subaru impreza that was maybe from 1998 if I remember correctly and I had it in 2003 after it had been tinkered with for aaaages by my dad. When I eventually got to drive it I hated everything about it, because I'd been using my mom's car, took my mates to New Quay in it a month after having it and it got stolen. My dad was effing furious. I don't know why I ever had that car anyway it was a shit heap and soooo noisy. Too much for me.
Talking of cars is anyone else scared of drive thru car washes....
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@JK said in First cars!:
First car was a 1978 mitsi mirage, 4speed 1300cc. Had it for about about a year until it got written off while getting hit by a van while parked outside lou Vincent’s little sisters house. We were both in the car too!
I remember the day I got it I drove from the shore up to pakiri with the choke out and almost used up all the gas
Replaced it with a mitsi station....what a farken beast 2ltr turbo rwd but auto. Never had another mitsi since and didn’t have another auto until about 15 years later when came back from the UK.
I’m sure there’s a bloody good story here
