TG's Top 100 cars ever driven - S2000 is 27th!

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12-10-2001, 11:05 PM

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lol, Superb! My 33 just used to devour batteries, like you say, no-one this side of Hades has a clue what is going on with the electrics in those cars

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12-10-2001, 11:09 PM

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Originally posted by Kobe
Did you get any splinters off those wooden steering wheels? I always thought that they were a bit dangerous if you had a crash.

The 33 impacts more than the owners - there is always somebody in your office with a 33 who walks in from the car park once per week asking to jump from your car or "give me a push" - I have been there in the rain quite a few times. They always claim they went to the garage but nobody understood the Italian wiring.

Didn't have the wooded wheel in mine. Which is a shame because there is pretty much nothing that could have gone wrong with that!!!

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12-10-2001, 11:37 PM

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Did you get any splinters off those wooden steering wheels? I always thought that they were a bit dangerous if you had a crash.

Ah, when I were a lad we didn't know about such namby-pamby safety things. Never heard of airbags and seat belts. I bought a brand new MG Midget in nineteen hundred and frozen to death (navy blue, woodrim wheel, wire wheels, knock-off hub caps). It had a PROPER tonneau cover (covered the whole of the cockpit with a zip-out section for the driver) and I loved it. Memories of those brilliant top-down times have stuck in my mind all the while since and it was the hankering after that feeling that led me to the S2000

Ay, those were t'days... You could take your girl out for a spin, go t't pictures, have a pint and some fish n chips and still get change from a quid.

Pete