A souvenir will bring you any other car you will discover a time do not know.
was the first family car was bought in 1966, I drove from 1982 to 1991 in year 82 still hobnobbing with the cars of the era and one so advanced with their 105 Km. / h top speed without the car vibrate, from that speed appeared to be going to pieces, but in 91 when I park by a blow given to me, and cars will advance all the time and began to be dangerous because its speed was below average, however the blow they gave me stopped at a light sending in the back.
was the first family car was bought in 1966, I drove from
My father was very fond of him and has spent 20 years under the sleeping car in a garage and out from time to time to sunbathe and once a year to pass the ITV.
They called the car of widows because it had rear wheel drive and in the curves was a lot of people and not told, was a very powerful motor car for his time and his body had the same engine then took the Renault 8.
In any garage or workshop I always said if you knew that the car was called the widows, and a cousin or an uncle had it and I put two bags of cement in the trunk forward or a steel plate case is that my father, my brother and I drove it without any extra weight and we care.
From my Gordini I have many anecdotes, marked the first half of my life, first as a child and then as a young driver.
There are some very curious, I will relate some,
One day my father brought a mirror to put it on the side the driver, until that day and I reckon it would be around 70 or 72, there had been nothing more than the rearview mirror, not surprisingly, there was virtually no cars in Spain and who was not looking in the mirror, and when came a plenty of it coming in the rearview mirror,
Another day brought some belts and were not for pants, belts were totally useless in those cars so old, they had no headrest the neck to protect you, just wanting to come another day with a few balloons and say that we would call airbags.
trips were an ordeal, a Madrid-Benidorm 450 km in 8 hours by two-way roads ahead of the few trucks but also had his pestering him to sometimes formed a caravan ten or fifteen cars behind a truck for more than ten minutes before he had visibility to advance, was the Spain of 600 and the Gordini, and 1500 and 2 hp 850 and 1000 Simca and prior to the highways, going to be that what appears in the program tell me Some we can tell because it was our life.
But in those pre-democratic cars could all, to grandparents, dog, cat or the canary in its cage that took up more, and suitcases with luggage for everyone, but had a very handy item , a cow with some elastic and a plastic octopus is was a package as we now see the Moroccans and Algerians who cross every summer to catch the Ferry to Algeciras.
I remember as a driver and my first year as the 82, a trip I did with my Gordini to Barcelona from Madrid, I had to spend the night in Zaragoza!
But I gave good service during my college years while my colleagues were laughing unfair car when it mounted through the holes left on the floor pedals clutch brake and the street and I saw said that if we would have to stop with his feet like Fred Flintstone in his mobile trunk.
What they saw was not like in the morning had to scrape the inside of vapor condensation of breath froze in her windshield, and is heating never worked on that car and travels morning in Madrid of 80, were not covered, were stays in endless traffic jams, then the fleet if it had grown but the roads were the same as the 60.
There were three models, the oldest were the Dauphine and Ondine, the Gordini was the last model, although all three were identical in bodywork, the Gordini engine was the most powerful and one of the first two , the Ondine or the Dauphine was produced initially with a gearbox only three speeds, was the third direct.
I am very tall and not wearing the visor, like the roof was curved, stretching I was not the sun, it was normal to be afraid to go to see the road curved.
My father was traveling when I explained all the parts they had in the trunk, but I it was denied for the mechanics, said that if she had a breakdown would go to a workshop, would open the hood and tell the mechanic was served, with confidence, and in particular had an electrical fault was often the points that came together, my father insisted on teaching me how to fix it, remember I said we had to separate the ; thickness of a business card, I told her that if they met the points, the only thing I could do was open the hood and please ask them to separate.
Anyway, these memories are my tribute to my first car, which made me more excited.
I am very tall and not wearing the visor, like the roof was curved, stretching I was not the sun, it was normal to be afraid to go to see the road curved.
My father was traveling when I explained all the parts they had in the trunk, but I it was denied for the mechanics, said that if she had a breakdown would go to a workshop, would open the hood and tell the mechanic was served, with confidence, and in particular had an electrical fault was often the points that came together, my father insisted on teaching me how to fix it, remember I said we had to separate the ; thickness of a business card, I told her that if they met the points, the only thing I could do was open the hood and please ask them to separate.
Anyway, these memories are my tribute to my first car, which made me more excited.
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