FabSwingers.com forum: Those were the Days

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Distributor caps & Points

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There’s a matter of a few years between us and I have no idea what you’re talking about

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Distributor caps & Points

And cars not starting on cold mornings, yay, let's bring it all back!

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Manual windows.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having to unlock the car door with a key

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

My first car had a stereo where you pushed a button in and the needle jumped left or right.

I also had to pull the cable out when you first started it up which increased the fuel flow.

(Wasn't allowed the easy, banned word used to describe this device)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Distributor caps & Points

And cars not starting on cold mornings, yay, let's bring it all back!"

Manual cho.kes... bane of my life when I was a learner

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My first car had a stereo where you pushed a button in and the needle jumped left or right.

I also had to pull the cable out when you first started it up which increased the fuel flow.

(Wasn't allowed the easy, banned word used to describe this device)"

Haha... ditto hence the random full stop

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Raking...

Using your boots to ruck out

Waking up Sunday morning with your back stuck too the bed sheets because you were slowing the ball down.

Oh how I miss those stud marks

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Wearing a baseball cap when driving guaranteed me being pulled over by the police to make sure I wasn't a joy rider.

Who would knick this MG Maestro?

Or its stereo?

Officer, what makes you think there is any joy riding this thing or even being seen riding in it?

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Going down the shop with a pound note and a hand written note off Mum and coming back with a packet of fag for her.

Snickers were marathons and Starbucks were opal fruits.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When Freddos were 10p

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"Distributor caps & Points

Tearing a piece off a cigarette packet to gap them because you didn't have a feeler gauge.

Then again who remembers feeler gauges?

And you forgot condenser and coil.

Oh and mechanical fuel pumps bolted to the side of the engine and driven by the camshaft.

Remember pushrods and tappets?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Raking...

Using your boots to ruck out

Waking up Sunday morning with your back stuck too the bed sheets because you were slowing the ball down.

Oh how I miss those stud marks

Separated the men from the boys though!

Er, couldn't you get Lacey a pair of size 6s and get her to ruck you about a bit on the back lawn....I said ruck!!

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Modern cars with generally inbuilt reliability have led to a whole generation of adults being useless at manual tasks around the home

I've had a huge argument years ago with a vauxhall garage where a laptop was telling them there's no fault on my vectra(bad car) but the dam car has cutting out on the motorway

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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago

Derry

"Modern cars with generally inbuilt reliability have led to a whole generation of adults being useless at manual tasks around the home

I've had a huge argument years ago with a vauxhall garage where a laptop was telling them there's no fault on my vectra(bad car) but the dam car has cutting out on the motorway"

The mechanic with the laptop and diagnostics. I've met a few of them, can't diagnose or troubleshoot to save their lives.

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By *ouplefunukCouple
over a year ago

North Bristol

"Having to unlock the car door with a key "

I REALLY need to get my keyfob fixed!

*Him*

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

White dog poo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When obtaining intercourse with a new parter only took a few sentences on AOL Instant Messenger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When obtaining intercourse with a new parter only took a few sentences on AOL Instant Messenger

A/S/L?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Distributor caps & Points

And cars not starting on cold mornings, yay, let's bring it all back!

Manual cho.kes... bane of my life when I was a learner

I hated those, I always flooded the engine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Modern cars with generally inbuilt reliability have led to a whole generation of adults being useless at manual tasks around the home

Get a cleaner then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember when all this was fields.

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"Modern cars with generally inbuilt reliability have led to a whole generation of adults being useless at manual tasks around the home

Get a cleaner then

I'm ok I had teenage years keeping old cars, mopeds, motorbikes running with nothing more than wd40 and gaffa tape oh and a hammer

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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago

south east

Remember when i used to get mail in here ahh the good ole days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Had a old Austin Cambridge that had a crank start years ago

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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago

between havant and chichester

"Had a old Austin Cambridge that had a crank start years ago

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And you still need it in the mornings

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Distributor caps & Points

The dizzy in my mini lived in a rubber glove for a while as it kept getting damp.

Can't just mend motors so easily now, everything is all computer bullshit controlled. Motoring costs me so much more these days because of such un user mendable stuff. You need a laptop before you need a socket set now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Had a old Austin Cambridge that had a crank start years ago

And you still need it in the mornings

Don't you fecking call me a crank

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

We had to go up chimneys, but now people have central heating, so can't earn an honest farthing or two.

And there weren't several hundred TV channels ,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

fixing the exhaust with bake bean cans.lifting the bonnet on the cortina in the cold mornings to spray the engine with cold start as you know the damn thing would never start without it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When it was hot in summer and snowed in winter.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Filling your tank for a score.

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"When it was hot in summer and snowed in winter.

We were discussing this in the pub last night and couldn't decide if it was nostalgia or true, I argued it was true tbh.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"When it was hot in summer and snowed in winter.

We were discussing this in the pub last night and couldn't decide if it was nostalgia or true, I argued it was true tbh."

It was most definitely true

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"When it was hot in summer and snowed in winter.

We were discussing this in the pub last night and couldn't decide if it was nostalgia or true, I argued it was true tbh.

It was most definitely true "

Thought so, I remember long hot summer holidays and weeks off school because the bus couldn't get to us and when it struggled through snow drifts to get to us we his and went home saying the bus hadn't turned up.

Met mates with sledges and walked a couple of miles to the nearest proper hill

Happy days

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"When it was hot in summer and snowed in winter.

We were discussing this in the pub last night and couldn't decide if it was nostalgia or true, I argued it was true tbh.

It was most definitely true

Met mates with sledges and walked a couple of miles to the nearest proper hill

Happy days"

All you need to ask yourself is when was the last hosepipe ban? That's what summers were made of.

When the tarmac was literally melting underfoot. You could smell it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When it was hot in summer and snowed in winter.

We were discussing this in the pub last night and couldn't decide if it was nostalgia or true, I argued it was true tbh.

It was most definitely true

Met mates with sledges and walked a couple of miles to the nearest proper hill

Happy days

All you need to ask yourself is when was the last hosepipe ban? That's what summers were made of.

When the tarmac was literally melting underfoot. You could smell it.

Those were the days! I didn't even get my shorts on this year. Probably a good thing to be fair.

I'm off sledging the first snowflake I see.

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