h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Going back to Memory Lane folks, do you remember all the old cars we used to drive?? I drove a Hillman Imp? Ford Cortina! Sunbeam Rapier! and the old Zepher? Does any one else remember these old cars??
I like looking out for them in the older movies, when you see cars and vans that you had forgotten all about? Do "you" have any specials that have fond memories???
Smudger.

hi everyone.

on to transport now, eh?

when i was a toddler, my dad had a motorbike and sidecar. dont ask me the make, im not into bikes. i remember mom, me and my brother inside the sidecar and my dad driving.
we then progressed to cars(1963ish).
the first being a hillman husky estate. it was green and yellow.
i cant remember all of our cars, but at one point we had a light blue triumph herald estate.
the final cars that both my mom and dad had, before they died were morris 1100's one beige and one blue.(1979/82)

despite having cars, we didnt do that much travelling. we still did a fair bit of walking or going by bus.
not like today where everyone just automatically aims for the car door as they leave the house.

i learnt to drive in a ford escort mark 3. a yellow one

hi abbi,,i have always saidthere are some lovely people on this site....and i .the "drop in and tell us anything" idea.the memory lane is wonderful...but we really can talk about anything that we want to on this thread ,cant we!!!!
smudger....we had a hillman minx...we very proudly took the three girls,and my mother out to the country for the day,and my youngest wanted to sit in the front with me when we stopped for a from the flask!!!it wouldnt start again,so we had to ring for a garage to come out....bank holiday as well it was.......and very little money.......
just before they were due to arrive my hubby realised that when i lifted my daughter over from the back i had knocked the immobiliser switch with her foot!!!!my mother was none too pleased.....and neither was billy!!!
we also had a cortina,an escort,a corsair,and a viva,,,,,to name but a few.billys passion at the moment is the granada,..he loves his automatics!!!!

Isnt it funny how we use songs and cars (as well as other things)to recall certain events in our lives
Like when you hear a song, you can remember where we were when it first came out, or other things, like who our partner was at that time

I saw a Ford Cortina the other day, and it took my mind way back to 1975 when I had one
Smudger.

hi smudger

i never wanted to drive,but i asked a few pages back if anyone remember the shootingbreak,and what kind of car it was,
for the live of me i cant remember.

only thing i do remember is going to hospital in one over 50 odd yrs ago
when i was living in lancishire i was about 6 at the time,jim

Anyone remember orange Carmen Ghia cars(?)They had 2 colors , I forget the other one.
I mentioned those on another thread (similar but younger than us)

Hi Smurfles, A shootinbreak? was the estate type car with wooden side panels, (imatation wooden sides) to simulate a the old western style covered wagons?

The Morris 1000 had a similar type thing, they called it a "traveller"

Abbi, not sure about your Carmen Ghia? is it an American car?

I remember driving my Dads big Austin A70! Now there was a car! built like a tank, with a column gear change, and the dip switch was a button on the floor!
Smudger.

hi smudger,it me jim

i put the shootingbreak on.lol

sal should be back on soon,i did her a permanent link this morning,she was updated on tw,and her h2g2 blobbed on reboot.jim

Hi Jim, wots TW? as regards to the upgrade?

There was a car like that Jim,& it was called a shootinbrake, I think it was in the USA though, it was like an estate car (as we call them)
Smudger.

smudger,telepest

tele west,some are cable and wireless
in other areas.

the warrington ifirmary had one,i vaughly remember it outside the house
to take me for checkups.i had a cast on.

but whats strange is ive never had a broken bone as far as i know,
but it was months of toing and frowing.to warrington 8 miles round trip at least.

hi all.i'm sorry to change the subject,but i have just got a book from our local church,they are ben sold for cancer research,and jim will understand what i am talking about,at least when it comes to the the regions.i had to buy it,heres a piece from it.........some street calls i remember were"1/6dbag of coal, "peas all hot a penny a pot" ..there were roast chestnuts,bell clanging,scissor sharpening on a big grindstone worked from a treadle.this book is called up a nic i bowlin,by ken higgins,,,and it is all about the original west bowling..it is fantastic!!!!
i'm sure that smudger will remember er the street st sellers as well
what about everyone else?????

jim,thanks for your help love....i just need to get a keyboard that hasnt got a mind of its own now!!!!

glad to help sal,now you know why i call myself the linksman,but i cant take credit for the link.

well evryonethis time tomorrow i,ll be another yr older(56)

and hopefully halfway to blackpool till saturday night.then i,ll have a few more memories to add to my memory list.

and hopefully meeting that zany lady
sheryl lol,love>

Well Happy Birthday Jim have a good time in Blackpool

I remember steet traders alright, also my very first job when I was 4 yrs old? I had to sit on the step of our Cafe & shop and shout "shop" every time someone stopped at the counter, as opposed to entering the Cafe bit
I had fair curly hair then, and I can still remember sitting there and folk would rub my head while I was sitting eating my jammy piece
Smudger.

thanks smudger

i havent been farther than york in 20 plus yrs,a few days away will do for now.

i had a mate that wanted to know about h2g2,i showed him the earlier m,lanes messages,

he saw something i didnt,
in one of mine about the haydock races,going to see the riders and horses before the rain,

i didnt realise i was picked up to pat the horses,and given icecream and pop,by the jockeys,one around that time must have been lester piggott,and the top ones of the dayjim

The following were some comments made in the year 1957:

(1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20.00."

(2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $5,000 will only buy a used one."

(3) "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."

(4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"

(5) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.."

(6) "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage,"

(7) "Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail hair cuts make it
impossible to stay groomed.. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls,"

(8) "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying damn in "Gone With The Wind", it seems every new movie has either Hell or damn in it."

(9) "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."

(10) "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday that they will be making more than the President."

(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."

(12) "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet."

(13) "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."

(15) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."

(16) "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes.. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to Congress."

(17) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I
seriously doubt they will ever catch on."

(18) "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel."

(19) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."

Good ones there Abbi! A lot of them can easily translate to things here in the UK

Its amazing when you look back over the yrs and try to remeber life before, Computers, Video recorders, Sterio, Fax Machines, Mobile Phones,
Colour TV, Push Button Phones, and the list is endless Trouble is, I can remember those days I feel old
Smudger.

hi all....abbi....they aey are as smudger says just the same things that have been said over here.i understand american money,,,,well.fairly well,and things were ineinexpensive then werent they.??you have made me laugh!!xx

evening all..... (oops didn't mean to sound like dixon of dock green... lol.... hey, there's another memory...)
do any of you remember gas shillings and the tanner rush at the pictures.. (as it was called way back then..)

see ya tomorrow jim...

sheryl...xxxxxxxx

evening all

this is my last for a few days,
away by 8-30am tomorrow.

on the lines of abbi,
when i was a kid we watched the pics dandare,and the simulated rayguns

and the later scifis with the laser firing,
then it was a prop concocted to make the pic look more exciting.

and now what was makebeleive is fact
we have lasers that can restore eyes to there 20.20,vision,jim

Happy birthday jim