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[Victor101]

(01-18-2022 07:31 AM)Pumper72 Wrote:  Hi. Hope I can contribute lots. I’ve been into cranking and stalling almost 60 years. Since I was 3 and my parents owned a stalling Hillman Imp in Scotland. I was eventually lucky enough to own my own first car at 16 years and 10 months. My Granny left it to me in her will. It was a 1977 Vauxhall Chevette. The morning after we’d got it to our house, my Mum took me to a disused airfield for my first driving lesson - off road as I was still 16. She started it from cold and it went first time. I was quite sad about that as I’d have liked my first car not to have done so. She reversed off the drive and drove away with no stalling or issues. Boo! In no time, there was a downhill stretch of road into a T junction at the exit to our housing estate. I was still alert to any potential stalling. She had the choke in a bit now. On the final approach to the junction, the ignition light lit up. As the wheels stopped turning, the oil light lit up on her too. Ha! Stopped!! I thought my heart was going to explode. It went on to be a wonderful car. Full of failed starts and much much stalling!

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Hi, wonderful memories, my neighbours daughter had an ancient early chevette in the mid 80’s that regularly used to refuse to start on winter mornings, it was an N reg, with lovely check half vinyl seats