Must be the Escort then. The Maestro replaced the Escort, and he had

the Maestro when I learned to drive in '94.

The Escort replaced two successive brown ("Gold") Vauxhall Vivas, which replaced a Morris Traveller 1000 that in a former life had been a police car. Dad once got pulled over by Babylon just outside Swardeston, for no reason other than the copper recognised the reg no as his old beat car, and wanted to meet the new owner. That was before I was born though.

Posted By: Arizona Bay on February 19th 2015 at 12:03:33

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PM: AB - "...Worldview shattered, instantly..." - mine was shattered when I used a (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 19, 11:08:45
- when i went on the driver had an EU sized mountain of sunflower seed husks at her feet (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 19, 11:50:11
  - They certainly do very, very long straights on their roads (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 19, 11:56:24
    - they go the old traffic lights sorted though that's proper heads up thinking that is (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 19, 12:08:07
      - and hang them on string, 20 feet above all the cars. They don't half (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 19, 12:16:00
- you'd never want to take a bus to cross the Atlantic, that's just insane (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 19, 11:22:50
- We never used them. We hired a Chevvy Nova. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 19, 11:13:34
  - "Vauxhall Cortina"? - Cortinas were Ford - I had one of these (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 19, 11:17:41
    - We had a MK2 (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Feb 19, 11:39:06
      - A Genuine Norwich or Norfolk registration plate (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Feb 19, 12:10:16
        
        The Renault came from East Bilney (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Feb 19, 12:40:29
      - I'm like that with reg nos of my old man's cars. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 19, 11:47:22
        
        So that was a car from 35 years ago. But AB is, nonetheless, in his mid-30s. Oh yes. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Feb 19, 11:55:14
        
        Must be the Escort then. The Maestro replaced the Escort, and he had (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 19, 12:03:33
        
        PW - Norfolk reg. The white Lotus in The Spy Who Loved me was a PW reg. (General Chat) - norway, Feb 19, 11:50:51
        
        Best thing in the whole fillum (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Feb 19, 12:38:06
        
        ***stares*** (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 19, 11:53:18
        
        Some things just stay in there (General Chat) - norway, Feb 19, 11:57:20
        
        well, i never knew that (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 19, 12:02:39
        
        I don't know that either. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Feb 19, 11:58:29
        
        I'll just guess Chelsea. (n/m) (General Chat) - norway, Feb 19, 12:02:16
        
        Ok... so apparently Man City beat Sunderland 3-1. (General Chat) - norway, Feb 19, 12:04:57
    - not sure why, but I think that's a pretty cool looking car. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Feb 19, 11:27:57
    - A Ford Cavalier? (n/m) (General Chat) - norway, Feb 19, 11:18:51
    - My dad had a 2000E auto. Same colour. (n/m) (General Chat) - Pit, Feb 19, 11:18:51
      - Mine was brillo - went like shit-off-a-shovel (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 19, 11:23:05
        
        Great days. Great cars. Modern life is rubbish. (n/m) (General Chat) - Pit, Feb 19, 11:24:28
        
        Blur thread below! (n/m) (General Chat) - yellowman, Feb 19, 11:26:03
        
        bingo! (n/m) (General Chat) - Pit, Feb 19, 11:27:38
    - What am I thinking of? Vauxhall what? Midsize saloon. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 19, 11:18:33
      - Velux (n/m) (General Chat) - yellowman, Feb 19, 11:20:26
        
        vulva (n/m) (General Chat) - selwyn, Feb 19, 11:22:00
      - Viva? (n/m) (General Chat) - Pit, Feb 19, 11:19:08
      - Cavalier! (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 19, 11:18:59
        
        Had one of those as well (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 19, 11:20:54
        
        i had a vauxhall victor for about a week (General Chat) - Tombs, Feb 19, 12:05:10
        
        Ha yeah, that's what we used to do for holidays - buy an old wreck, drive to Cornwall and, (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 19, 12:26:24
      - What year? (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 19, 11:18:51
        
        Ah, probably a Chevette? One of these? I had one of those too. (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 19, 11:20:10

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