That should fill the air with a certain aroma and frighten a few young children too.
I like to do that a lot [farting when the person behind gets too close in Lidl's checkout queues, and really taking to heart the advice on many a laundry cleaner advert, namely, ''Keep away from children!'' ]
With the current and impending crisis in less well off finances..I foresee a good market for 40 year old stuff as well...[zero VED, unlikely to change, given the parliamentary lobby] and zero need for MoT..[easier on my pocket, at 40 quid a throw, just to point out how roadworthy my old stuff actually is...as if I didn't know already?} the whirly 1980's being the real start of economic, practical small cars, really the start of what we know of as 'modern' vehicles..
Vehicles which, being more basic than today's heaps, will be easier to 'keep running' than similar stuff from the late 1990's onwards.
By very selective application of modern technologies, older cars[and bikes] are able to oevrcome many of the age-old issues of apparent 'reliability'...
Let's face it, stuff from 1983 and newer is still relatively cheap to get hold of...especially as many folk don't see the basic runabouts as being 'classic' in any way. I would take advantage of that 'snobbery' whilst it lasts.
The only thing I wouldn't buy is an old Land Rover!
Aside from the silly fuel consumption [but there are LPG kits around]...being well over 6 foot tall, I find I cannot even get myself behind the steering wheel of any Series Landy! I've tried & tried, but hte seat won't go back anything like far enough...and my legs don't fold up in the way they used to. Which is a shame really as I quite like Landy.s...especially the ex-milly types [which I used to work with for nearly 20 years...and could just about squeeze my frame behind the wheels thereof.]
Charging for using motorways is probably coming too....Not something I'd have an issue with.
Being a retired bodd, IE a not-worker, I find a perverse pleasure in plotting journeys using maps, especially to avoid motorways [roads under motorway regulations]
To be even more perverse, I firmly believe motorways should be the haven of the slower vehicles in the nations traffic queues..rather than the fastest.
I believe motorways are there to enable old lorries to more quickly from A to B, seeing as motorways , by their very nature, offer routes with the least number of conflicting delays, junctions etc..exactly what an old lorry really needs, to get about.
Unfortunately, motorways have become victims of the UK's perverse driver who wants to go ever faster and faster, so much so that the real purpose of motorways has become lost in the boswellox that surrounds what folk think about as 'driving'...
Let's face it, 99% of all drivers out there cannot in reality cope with speeds in excess of 69 mph anyway....the human body being what it is.
I also think that racing drivers,especially formula one, can't drive at all, in reality.
To prove my point, what about formula one races starting, with half the grid circulating in one direction, and the other half going round the opposite way?
That would sort out the sheep from the goats, as far as driving is concerned!
Also, what about advertising on motorway overbridges? ''Should have gone to Specsavers'' would be a good one...
The Dellow, with its sidevalve Ford engine, fired up first click this morning.....[as it always does]...benefit of modern, Hall effect ignition module instead of points. Still no seatbelts....no room for air bags, nowhere to go except sideways anyway....But, it does have doors!
