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idun

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I know that there a few french people that post on here, so please, tell me which cars were the cars that young french men thought that they could pull the women with from the 70's onwards.

I've noticed a few MG's and Triumph's recently and remembered how these cars were bought to impress and pull. A good friend of ours would buy second hand ones and the first job, always was to repair the passenger seat. As a young naive thing, it took me a long time to work out what he meant by saying that it would take a hammering. At the time I don't think that I would have believed him if he had told me what that meant.

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Sorry, Idun, as you know I'm not French.  It just amazes me how many car enthusiasts round here (a bit of a Mecca for sports cars) seem to like British marques but especially MG.  Just don't get it myself.  They wouldn't have pulled me.  Sorry, AnO (although that's probably a relief to you![:D])
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[quote user="nomoss"]

I think this is what young french men aspired to in the 70's [:)]

 

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Is that right Nomoss? It could be right, what an idea,[:-))]

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[quote user="woolybanana"]I reckon a girl who has been done in an MG sports can hold her head high whereas in, say, an Escort, she hides![/quote]

Not a lot choice with the space in an MG[:D], Abingdon is so much nicer than Dagenham though don't you agree?, however no doubt if she had any savoir faire, would she not have given her all for the ultimate style of the Facel Vega Facellia?

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My interest in cars is so limited that I had never heard of the 'Facel Vega Facellia' and as I am bit dyslexic, I though that the utube thing was going to more than a little naughty, but it was just a car, which is pretty much how I feel about most of them.

I quite like the look of the Maserati 4 door and some Range Rovers, but that is about as far as it goes. A very good friend has recently bought an Audi hard top TT and when I ride in it, I do wonder why, it's raison d'etre.  At least with the dinky old sports cars, they felt fast and a bit exciting, but there again, I found having a ride in a mini the same. That's just me.

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[quote user="cooperlola"][quote user="just john "]its association with Lotus says it all . . .[/quote]Did you see the Grand Prix : The Killer Years prog the other day?  Fascinating what Chapman did in pursuit of power to weight ratios. [/quote]

Yes I did, brilliant, glad just to see Jim Clarks mechanic explaining his accident which has puzzled me ever since; somehow I had eliminated the memories of just how terrible the death rate was, and for the first time felt like defending Jackie Stewart against his detractors for the strides he made in track safety, tracks and cars have improved so much since then. Close wheel to wheel dicing I love, after all its not rubbing it's racing, but I was turned off by the accidents. I used to support CC innovations (especially the John Player Specials, unfortunately technology of stress failure seemed to be less developed then, whereas now there is a sensor for when a driver coughs;  I remember particularly Hunt & Regazzoni's rescue of Ronnie Peterson, but that wasn't mentioned? I met Regazzoni and chatted to him at Angouleme where he was bravely trying to thrash his big ol' merc around, still game, despite his injuries. Sad episode.

 

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[quote user="cooperlola"]

Nice.  But this is rather more my style.

[/quote]Just for you Coops, the 1973 WRC winning A110 resides in Corsica and we visited it's owner when we were there on a club run last year. It''s in immaculate condition as you can see and I can't begin to imagine what it must be worth.

PS: That is not me in the photo !

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Whilst it may have been a turn on for some girls to get seen to in a yoga position in a small sports car,  courting in cars was never the same after bench seats, column gearchanges and most of all rear seat ankle straps went out of automotive fashion.

How many of you ladies and gents are going to admit to having kicked out the rear side window of a Mk1 Escort whilst in the throes of passion?

I have fond memories of the gonzesses who aided and abetted me to baptise my Frogeye Sprite and Westfield, if you happen to be reading this I would love to repeat the performance if you are still up to it / up for it [6]

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I was a shy young lady, I was so ignorant and naieve.   A kiss and a cuddle and the start of a little grope in a car, was as far as I ever got. And I did realise that ignorance was not good and addressed the 'problem'.   

I am not sure if I was ever built for such contortions as mentioned, what with wrestling with gear sticks and back seat ankle straps and windows being kicked out!!! Did I miss out, I'll never know now. Unlike some friends though, the good thing was that my initial ignorance made me afraid of the unknown and I didn't get pregnant until I wanted  to and no shot gun wedding as that was what happened then.

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I simply don't get the discomfort, but, there again, maybe the excitement compensated, no idea and if I don't think I was built for contortions 'then', I  most certainly am not now[:D].  Would Chancer's lady friend be, that is the question?[Www]

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