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Great scott(spot)!
My mum had a lovely little Vanden Plas auto four door with velour interior and walnut dash. Loved that crazy little thing.
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Haha, get her, the flash cow :)
What really strikes me when I see these old cars compared to modern ones, is look how bloody amazing the visibility is on both of them. I know its all safety and crash protection yadda yadda, but it genuinely seems now the cramped modern shit visibility car cabins are probably causing more crashes. If you drive a Metro you know you were the crumple zones and that hitting anything bigger than a cat was probably death.
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Doc Brown and his Delorean just dropped me off in a shitty looking estate in Battersea between August 1st 1980 to July 31st 1981.
That's the only explanation I have for what just happened, as there's no fucking way an OG Mini Metro is in as good a condition as this, outside in winter in 2023.
Its not often I'm stopped in my tracks by a shit car. My eye was first caught by the other car from the same year, the super cool Renault 5 Gordini, such a classy little car,which wiki tells me was the worlds first hot hatch as it was released before the OG Golf GTi.
But I couldn't help just staring at the Metro too, holy shit I don't think even new ones at the dealership back then looked as clean as this, I thought they'd all rusted to nothing. A proper time capsule.
