• Sign up or login, and you'll have full access to opportunities of forum.

Cars And Related Things

Go to CruxDreams.com
Apostate said:
That’s exactly why Brits drive on the left.

In the Middle Ages you never knew who you were going to meet when travelling. Most people are right-handed, so if a stranger passed by on the right of you, your right hand would be free to use your sword if required. (Similarly, medieval castle staircases spiral in a clockwise direction going upwards, so the defending soldiers would be able to stab down around the twist but those attacking (going up the stairs) would not.)

https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Why-do-the-British-drive-on-the-left/
Click to expand...
Tree goes for a drink...
 
Apostate said:
That’s exactly why Brits drive on the left.

In the Middle Ages you never knew who you were going to meet when travelling. Most people are right-handed, so if a stranger passed by on the right of you, your right hand would be free to use your sword if required. (Similarly, medieval castle staircases spiral in a clockwise direction going upwards, so the defending soldiers would be able to stab down around the twist but those attacking (going up the stairs) would not.)

https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Why-do-the-British-drive-on-the-left/
Click to expand...
Same goes for japan ;). Then the french screwed everything up and started driving on the right because their wagons and propensity to hit passerbys with their whips!
 
thehangingtree said:
Tree goes for a drink...
Click to expand...
..........while this Old Slave ponders the question, if we Brits DRIVE on the left, why do we SAIL on the right?

And what persuaded most of continental Europe to adopt the 'Give way to the Right' (priorité à droite) rule at unsigned road junctions, yet is alien in British Isles and I think N America? (The logic being the same rule as maritime law-----if you can see the other ship's Red (Port-side/left) navigation light, you give way).
 
Joker14 said:
Same goes for japan ;). Then the french screwed everything up and started driving on the right because their wagons and propensity to hit passerbys with their whips!
Click to expand...
In pre-Revolution France, foot traffic kept to the right and carriages kept to the left. After the Revolution, in the spirit of egalite, all traffic kept to the right.

This was my first car. It was a different color but it did have the black vinyl roof.
69-Cougar-3-5-940x636.jpg
 
Naraku said:
In pre-Revolution France, foot traffic kept to the right and carriages kept to the left. After the Revolution, in the spirit of egalite, all traffic kept to the right.

This was my first car. It was a different color but it did have the black vinyl roof.
View attachment 616117
Click to expand...
Damn nice first car!!! Mine was a five year old VW Beetle!
 
Naraku said:
And, it had a 351 Cleveland under the hood.
It had been my father's, but I started driving it my senior year in high school.
However, like Toad in "American Graffiti", a nerd in a cool car is still a nerd.:(
Click to expand...
Never!!!!
 
Baracus said:
My idea of a car.....(it's my mate's and I've cruised in it ;) ) Can anyone identify it ??
( I know the answer....) :)
View attachment 615227
Click to expand...
phlebas said:
Do you mean cars like this, or cars in general? I imagine these cars have the steering wheel on the correct side for Britain, do they Baracus?
Click to expand...

Quite clearly UK registered from style of plate, but steering wheel not visible on right side.

Britain had multiple USAF bases after WW2 (it still has a handful) and personell posted here had free transportation for 'personal effects' which included cars. So we saw many examples of big American cars on our narrow roads. They were registered on US Military plates. When it came time to move on, and the cars were a few years older, many sold them to Brits eager for something more exciting than an Austin A40: austin.jpg

Some time in the 60's I was invited by an American Airforce officer to an air show open day at a USAF base; he picked me up in his car but had some other business so I sat in the car on my own for a few minutes. It was a warm day, and I saw things in his car that I'd never seen before: ELECTRIC WINDOWS. Yes, they were unheard of in those days even in posh cars like Rovers. So I smugly worked out the switches, and opened the window. Only to be told when he returned "Shut the goddamed window, it screws up the AIR-CON".

(For all that, we had a great time eating burgers and hot-dogs and drinking milkshakes, and he was very impressed by the Red Pelicans who popped in (predecessors to the Red Arrows) : red.jpg
 
Naraku said:
In pre-Revolution France, foot traffic kept to the right and carriages kept to the left. After the Revolution, in the spirit of egalite, all traffic kept to the right.

This was my first car. It was a different color but it did have the black vinyl roof.
View attachment 616117
Click to expand...

In the 60’s I kept up with car models like most preteen American boys, and this Newsday article gives some reasons why I preferred this one to its Mustang progenitor.

Visually, the Cougar was a pleasant piece. Along with its must-have long-hood, short-deck styling, the car featured unique hidden headlights that remained cloistered behind the front grille until pressed into service. But the real knockout feature was the car's sequential rear signal lights that strobed in the appropriate direction whenever the stalk indicator was flicked.

When you’re 11 those rear signal lights were so COOL.

https://www.newsday.com/classifieds/cars/mercury-cougar-was-it-actually-a-better-mustang-1.4138268

My Dad didn’t drive one. He was a Ford/Lincoln-Mercury dealer and sold the suckers.
 
Apostate said:
In the 60’s I kept up with car models like most preteen American boys, and this Newsday article gives some reasons why I preferred this one to its Mustang progenitor.

Visually, the Cougar was a pleasant piece. Along with its must-have long-hood, short-deck styling, the car featured unique hidden headlights that remained cloistered behind the front grille until pressed into service. But the real knockout feature was the car's sequential rear signal lights that strobed in the appropriate direction whenever the stalk indicator was flicked.

When you’re 11 those rear signal lights we so COOL.

https://www.newsday.com/classifieds/cars/mercury-cougar-was-it-actually-a-better-mustang-1.4138268

My Dad didn’t drive one. He was a Ford/Lincoln-Mercury dealer and sold the suckers.
Click to expand...
A Cougar was a different car related to the Mustang but it you were going to race you took the Mustang (unless Ford paid you to drive the Cougar!)
 
thehangingtree said:
A Cougar was a different car related to the Mustang but it you were going to race you took the Mustang (unless Ford paid you to drive the Cougar!)
Click to expand...

Well, the Cougar did have a standard V-8, which was optional on the Mustang, but it wouldn’t matter to me which car would win.

Dad sold both of them. ;)
 
Apostate said:
Well, the Cougar did have a standard V-8, which was optional on the Mustang, but it wouldn’t matter to me which car would win.

Dad sold both of them. ;)
Click to expand...
What the hell does it matter... Did you dad rob them all:devil::devil::devil:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom