You know you've been driving a mk1 too long when...

When you lock your (only) keys in your car at work and the engineers can't understand why you keep repeating the  words 'I'd rather smash the window than bend the top of the door'

when you've not been on the forum for nearly a year and when you get back to it this thread is still going.

OR

When you neighbours start talking about the shanty town in your back garden, due to all the sheds that you have to build to accomodate the amount of mark 1 parts that you collect, just in case. "No dear, I'm not getting rid of it.  I might need it one day." :wink:

….you are tearing your hair out and snapping at people who just don't understand …… that when your phone line goes kaput you can't get on the internet, which means that your world has come to a stop because you can't get on this site…..

Prowler said

….you are tearing your hair out and snapping at people who just don't understand …… that when your phone line goes kaput you can't get on the internet, which means that your world has come to a stop because you can't get on this site…..

That makes two of us!!!!!!! Pitty its not that busy all day long :cry:

Prowler said

….you are tearing your hair out and snapping at people who just don't understand …… that when your phone line goes kaput you can't get on the internet, which means that your world has come to a stop because you can't get on this site…..

That makes two of us!!!!!!! Pitty its not that busy all day long :cry:

You know you've been driving a MK1 too long when

You keep stalling your 05 plate vectra cos the clutch is too light

you still haven't worked out how to put down the windows on said vectra.

and this one is a bit specific to me

giving up a fantastic job teaching english in japan after only5 months because you couldn't bear to think of your car sitting idle in your parents garage until you came back  :lmao:

You know you been driving a MK1 too long when,

Before you set off at night, think it is normal to get out of the car and slap the headlight to get it working.

Become decidely religious when the first time you turn the ignition key, nothing happens….. prayer to the motor gods then ensue.

You are able to spot the smallest rust imperfection at 50 meters.

You know when you have been driving a mk1 for too long when:

You put it it the garage for a while until you can afford the respray it deserves.

Sell the rubbish Pug D Turbo you have been running around in to keep the mk1 nice to a spotty cross-eyed student and buy a VR6.

Having got the VR6, sit in it thinking "this is all so modern, is this a concept car?" and then realize that it is 13 years old.

Spend lots of time and money getting the VR suspension nice and stiff and bumpy so everything rattles, CD's jump and your passengers feel sick, just like the mk1.

Wish you weren't now paying to use twice as much fuel to drive a car that now feels just like the mk1.

….when the guy in the brand new BMW that has been sitting next to you in a traffic jam for ages gets all excited and gives you the thumbs up and mouths 'nice motor mate' after eyeing up your car for 5 minuets.

when the kids who live next door make get well soon cards for your car every time it goes back in the garage

you know that you have been driving a mk1 too long when you know the spiders by first name basis and dont even mind them living in your beast.

When the blue rope found in the boot has become too short to tow with anymore because you keep cutting it due to only being able to tie a double knot. ops:

-When someone who drives a Pug/Citroen/Vaux/Ford says "Yeah my mates got one of these" and you ask "a Mk1?" And they reply "Yeah well it looks like this" and you blatently know they mean a Mk2.

-When you sit behind a Mk5 GTI and say to yourself "This one's better".

-When you roll down your window you roll down the passenger window straight after just so you can get the full effect of that 'burble pop' noise.

-When you know the man at GSF will give you a discount "just because its a Mk1".

-When you make sure you get in the car before your passenger so you can close the door when they're getting in just so you don't have to shut your door twice and they do.

I love my Mk1  

That last one about the doors is so true. I do it automatically without even thinking now. We're off up the road and the passenger is still looking for the chrome seat beat buckle.  

-When you have to turn the steering wheel to the left to get it in first gear.

You know you've been driving a Mk1 for too long, that whenever I go round my freinds house I always park somewhere where I can see my Mk1 from his window, not really for security purposes but so you can keep looking at her and reminding yourself how good the car looks!!!!!

You know .......when the new chev stands in the hail storm, but you dont worry becouse the MK1 is in the gerage. LOL

Deejay said

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-When you sit behind a Mk5 GTI and say to yourself "This one's better".


I love my Mk1  

   i do it all the time.

When after driving a six wheeled john deere gator around all day at work... you still look forward to the 10 minute journey home in your mk1

when you get in another car and hit your head on the windscreen the first time you use the brakes