What do you remember- seems impossible now

[flipflops]

No Nick. Suez Crisis and rationing 1956. Happily it went down again. When I started work it was about 4/10d and 5/1d for top grade.

My first car was a Hilman Californian two door coupe - very snazzy!!!
hadn't had it five minutes when the bottom fell out - an early and painful lesson in consumerism. Replaced it with a sit up and beg Ford Anglia that's probably still puttering along somewhere lol

[youngtug]

Singer gazelle 1960s


[sorry, that was  larger than I thought]

[Nick29]

No Nick. Suez Crisis and rationing 1956. Happily it went down again. When I started work it was about 4/10d and 5/1d for top grade.

My first car was a Hilman Californian two door coupe - very snazzy!!!
hadn't had it five minutes when the bottom fell out - an early and painful lesson in consumerism. Replaced it with a sit up and beg Ford Anglia that's probably still puttering along somewhere lol

Yep, you're right.   It was 4/11 a gallon.  Maybe 2/11 was wishful thinking 

[Nick29]

Singer gazelle 1960s

Mine was an automatic one, previously owned by someone with one leg.  The old Borg-Warner gearboxes weren't very good, and lots of times I got stuck half way up a hill.  Very heavy bodywork too. It was two-tone green. When you cruised along, you could hear the clock ticking in the walnut instrument panel. 

[Deb D]

My first car was a Hillman Minx, which looked like the one in this pic when I first bought it for $95.  Blue, but no shine on the duco ... so I started cutting it back ... and discovered it was British Racing Green, under all that oxidisation 

'T'was a manual ... no synchro on first or second, so I had to teach myself to double-shuffle, ... and if she gained a bit of speed, going downhill, the gear selector arms used to fail, and she'd "pop" out of gear, with no hope of getting it back in until you slowed right down to almost walking pace (very embarrassing on an expressway!).

[Chris_Beds]

I don't remember the Gazelle.  But we replaced the Chamois after 4 years and 100,000 miles with a Hillman Minx estate that would take dogs and pram - lovely.  But in white - you have to take what's going   Then in 1975 I got my own car - a 1957 Morris Minor - boy I was proud of it!

[janan]

Even worse when mum used your own spit 

Ah! I remember now . . . that's the way mine used to do it . . . 

Mine too - I think it was meant to be more hygienic that way

Jan

[candleflame]

Does this mean we don't use spit wash nowadays..................

[Jean McGurn]

I remember when money went decimal in 1971 petrol was 31 new pence a gallon

Jean