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Old 13th December 2019, 14:45   #1
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Smile Is there something wrong with me?

When I get out of my Connie and the door shuts with that special 'Clunk' I get a real lift, then, after walking away I turn around and look back and see that 'shape', well, it's a bit (well just a bit) like that honeymoon feeling.

Could this be love?
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Old 13th December 2019, 15:54   #2
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The turning to look back at the car is perfectly normal as that is what the designer Richard Wooley intended according to something I read
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Old 13th December 2019, 16:07   #3
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......... and do you get jealous when gentlemen of a certain age admire her?
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Old 13th December 2019, 16:19   #4
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......... and do you get jealous when gentlemen of a certain age admire her?
I don't get jealous, I get a feeling of being the proud owner. I regularly meet a gent in his 70's at my newsagents when I pick up my morning paper.
Each time he runs his hands along the roof, and looks at the interior, smiles, and says " oh a Rover 75, lovely, lovely, lovely".

I like that guy !!
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Old 13th December 2019, 17:24   #6
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When I get out of my Connie and the door shuts with that special 'Clunk' I get a real lift, then, after walking away I turn around and look back and see that 'shape', well, it's a bit (well just a bit) like that honeymoon feeling.

Could this be love?
the clunk.... just like a Golf

I think it is a reassuring clunk

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Old 13th December 2019, 17:26   #7
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Earlier this week, I had just parked my scruffy looking ZT [due to volume of rain /muck on roads following local floods] in a restaurant car park [and looked back..] when a chap who'd parked in the other end of the car park walked up to me and said what's your car-it's so different to everything else. After I'd told him and explained it's got a BMW diesel in there etc. etc. he was fascinated. When he said he'd come in a Tesla and explained that you can update it via software upgrades I was amazed [bit out of touch with new cars etc.]. Then he said, I bet you get more fun per pound for yours, which I guess may be true!

BTW He then revealed he'd bought the wrong Porsche recently: his father in law has a 996 and he spotted what he thought was a similar one and bought it. Turns out it's a 997 which he told me is prone to engine problems along the line....! I suggested he might like to buy a 75 or ZT and have some cheaper fun!
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Yes, a Tesla looks OK, but like most modern stuff, all a bit clinical. It's less driving a car, more operating a game console! I think the MG ZT and Rover 75 just about got it right at the time. Heads turn for a reason - a real classic design icon... so I am biased... but the depreciation costs annually for ours are peanuts, and insurance is low too compared to the modern stuff. So, I shall keep on with these cars, I reckon.
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Always look back .... probably at least twice after cleaning it!

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When I get out of my Connie and the door shuts with that special 'Clunk' I get a real lift, then, after walking away I turn around and look back and see that 'shape', well, it's a bit (well just a bit) like that honeymoon feeling.



Could this be love?


Hi mate ,

I do the same all the time🤠
What a car ...the emotions the repairs the shine 😎 mine looks like it’s from another planet in the corporate car park of Audi BM merc earth . 🤪

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