"Cheap fuel"

[merylvingien]

Our local tesco is doing a deal like this, but only offering 10 pence a litre off, every little helps LOL

 

[luckydunny]

Our local tesco is doing a deal like this, but only offering 10 pence a litre off, every little helps LOL

Carefull or the ban commercial advertising brigade will be on this thread in a jiffy, (and I do not mean bag!!).

When is Mr Hussein going national?

 

[region2]

Mk1 Escort achieved about 25mpg.

Rubbish. My Mk I Escort returned over 30 mpg. Townies using it only to do the two mile round trip to the shops, or school, would get less.

Your weekly wage was more than five years out of date, too, as I recall.

How rude you are - it was my Escort and that was the mpg I was getting. I was young, I'd changed the engine for a 1300 out of a cortina with a non-standard carb so 25 is what I got boy racing around the Devon lanes. So less rubbish, just different to you...
As for the weekly wage, that was about right for 1971 - I remember as that was the year I returned to the UK so I recall the figures quite clearly. Might I suggest you're a bit less confrontational?

R2

 

[oliver90owner]

How rude you are

Get real. You said a MkI Escort, not a hacked about heap. Yes, I got more than that from my 1970 Mk I Escort, and even after fitting a modified cross-flow 1500 GT motor in it, it was over thirty if I regulated my right foot. I didn't hang about, either, at times. My 1200 Cortina gave around 25 mpg. That was certainly better than a mate's cortina - he fitted a big V8 chevvy in his. You apparently needed to know how to set them up properly.

From the net: Average salaries were around £2,000 a year in 1971, with the average house selling for £5,632: That is about double your twenty quid a week. Someone was pulling your....

So not rude at all just quoting some better figiures to replace your rubbish ones.