28 years ago..........

sevenfourate

sevenfourate

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.....i started driving on the Queens highway.

17 years old, wet behind the ears; but little old me had a 950cc Fiesta babe magnet. For all the freedom it gave me - it might as well have been a Ferrari :smile:

And on day two of my driving life (Might have even been day 1) - i got a puncture.

Fast forward 28 years; and today i've just had my second ever puncture !

£16.80 it cost today. Call it £5 back then; so thats £21.80 in 28 years of motoring on punctures.

Thats 0.00213 pence per day. Good value i say :smile:
 
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Lol, never had a puncture on my own car however my first time ever driving a van (merc sprinter) one of the tires decided to explode all over the motorway about 200 miles away from home, exciting stuff haha
 
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Only ever had 1 puncture(well more like a blow out!!
Think I must've been 17/18 as well lol
Was in my fiesta 1.1 popular plus on the M1 on my way to a dirty weekend in blackpool:wink:
Scared me s******s not that I let on to the bird I was with:grinning:
 
Big Ben said:
Only ever had 1 puncture(well more like a blow out!!
Think I must've been 17/18 as well lol
Was in my fiesta 1.1 popular plus on the M1 on my way to a dirty weekend in blackpool:wink:
Scared me s******s not that I let on to the bird I was with:grinning:
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You had to mention yours was a 1.1 too didnt you. I used to envy you boys......
 
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Epic post! Brilliant Shuv.

I've only ever had two as well. One was about three or four years ago in the BMW. And the other was in the early 90's in my 1.4SR Vauxhall Nova on the bloody motorway. The Nova had a cheap spare in the boot. The BMW... well nothing is cheap there and there's no spare obviously!

Loving the price per day. :smiley:
 
I've long since lost count of the number of punctures I've had. In my works van I was getting 1 every 2 weeks or so at one point, mainly due to being sent to take stuff to the tip twice a week. Not the public tip, but the one where the dustcarts go. Not my favourite part of the job. Probably had 4 or 5 on my own vehicles since taking to the roads on 7/12/1976 on my "nifty fifty" with something like 3.5 screaming horses! I was a GOD!!!
 
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I've long since lost count of the number of punctures I've had. In my works van I was getting 1 every 2 weeks or so at one point, mainly due to being sent to take stuff to the tip twice a week. Not the public tip, but the one where the dustcarts go. Not my favourite part of the job. Probably had 4 or 5 on my own vehicles since taking to the roads on 7/12/1976 on my "nifty fifty" with something like 3.5 screaming horses! I was a GOD!!!
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We were all Gods John.

Even if only in our own minds.....
 
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Ive had the one also, again before I hit 20!

Was a jaggered bit of curb I put it down too, ripped my tyre all the way round (will try and dig up a picture at some point)


Quite some time there Shuv, I was only a twinkle in my old mans eyes and an egg swimming about when you started to drive - hah!
 
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