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But then again, when my kids were eight, I had one of these......
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This
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but he bought this...
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It was a good comprimise!
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+1 for the dodge charger and delorean
Or this
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Or this
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And how could i forget this
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mathewjb - that's odd - our family history of cars and car wants reads almost identically to yours. Although my dad did get a Capri once. And a Maxi for some mad reason (although it WAS the 1750 twin SU carbed version so it was pokey (for its day).
When I was eight, [i]any[/i] car would have been a luxury. There were only around five cars in the whole street, and two of those belonged to a family who ran a taxi/wedding car business. When we finally got a car it was one of these:
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Sadly, before we had a chance to really use it my dad died. I was eleven.
Family transport was one of these:
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Nice example and pics here: [url= http://66.129.69.181/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4723 ]autosleeper[/url]
Don't remember wanting my dad to get a specific car, just any car would of done.
Imagine my confusion when the Auto Sleeper died and he came home with one of these to transfer all the camping stuff over to instead. Never a problem finding it the ASDA carpark.
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Remember wondering why we couldn't get a normal car like my mates dad just got.
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Thankfully my mates smugness wore off after they found out it was actually pretty awful, they got rid of it within a year.
mastiles_fanylion - Member
mathewjb - that's odd - our family history of cars and car wants reads almost identically to yours.
I guess lots of people of a similar age bought cortinas etc.
Before that we had one of these:
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I assume you didn't. 🙂