Once Driven Forever Smitten

@62_Continental @x_ecutive Good lord you're right. A brick works not bad too

@OnceDrivenFS @x_ecutive You can also use a new car battery.

When the clip breaks on your toasted sammich maker just place an old car battery on top to hold it shut for top results

New video out tomorrow 8pm our 2.0 16v Cavalier gets a new timing belt but other problems are revealed (which we can fix, it's a Cavalier)

What's your favourite bit of obscure Vauxhall trim from the 70s onward from interior cloth to optional extras and paint? Been working on a base model video due out this weekend...

We've been busy on ODFS last week we drove a mint Cav CDX auto and before that another auto this time a Daewoo Nexia! Tonight it's more auto action with the Cadillac BLS and the UK's horrific motorway network

Vauxhall's MK3 Astra range was one of the most complex and continually changing especially early on. We've got a new batch of stickers out soon in red or black if you want to support us!

Castle Combe for Total Vauxhall Live 2010. Jim Pocklington reunited @jclelandracing with his genuine 1990 Cavalier GSi touring car. Autographed pics with my GSi 3.0 V6 4x4 which is alive but needing some work. What a day.

Top quality customer service from the lady at @intergasuk I had ordered a couple of bottles for my blowtorch via Amazon and DPD did their trick of "we attempted delivery" when I was 100% at home at the time + now sending them back. Quick phone call, replacements on way today.

The Cav Diplomat heater matrix is leaking big time. Bought 14 2L bottles of water to get to a job in Hawick today and then the car lost power and I knew it was going to end up backfiring the last of the sound deadening out. Had to force it going 3rd to 2nd as fast as I could 😂

Cars badly needed washed yesterday so dug out the petrol pressure washer. Bought a Corsa C the other week, vid on channel it's an awesome little car. Lots of work to do on lots of cars. The parts and tools ordering from eBay and Amazon has been nuts 😂

Ahah found my way back into the ODFS X account. Fantastic. We've got the Cavalier Diplomat back on the road for a bit to let Le Cav get some maintenance. And quite a few videos up on YT.

Good grief. Do any survive?

@thecarfactoids @neilmbriscoe @t2stu @DarraghMcKenna @TopOfTheTower @StvCr @autocar @BMMuseum A mate got an OAP's 213 back in 1997 and it had an absolute gem of an engine. It was so smooth all the way to the redline and could shift as well. Don't remember anything else about it other than it being unfeasibly quick at a time we were all on our 1st cars.

Factoid Extra: Yes, the Montego might be 40 next month, but this car is following close behind in June & the 213 version of the SD3 Rover 200 is now astonishingly rare - just 26 are currently licensed for UK roads… @neilmbriscoe @t2stu @DarraghMcKenna @TopOfTheTower @StvCr

@RoadworkUK I had an LXi estate in 2008. Bought for £150 with a low oil pressure light. Cleaned the pick up pipe and sump out and off it went. 216,000 miles estimated on it. It was on Google street view at one point. Don't know if it could still be....

Spotting this Astra immediately transported me back to 2003, when some of my clothes were possibly still fashionable.

@thecarfactoids @neilmbriscoe @t2stu @DarraghMcKenna @TopOfTheTower @StvCr @autocar Had to look twice at the ad 😂 I wonder if the copy writer meant to do that. Crude wordplay probably wasn't a thing in 1958 British car ads.

Factoid Extra: This 1958 ad gives an indication that the fashion for column changes was falling out of favour… @neilmbriscoe @t2stu @DarraghMcKenna @TopOfTheTower @StvCr

@HagertyUK They're always good entertainment 👍😁

@OnceDrivenFS We appreciate everyone's thoughts though! And they're ace fun to do!

These "choose one of these four" posts are always packed with replies. Never pick one of the options. Ideally come up with something that's much more expensive and hasn't been invented 🤷🤤🤯🤣 The Golf GTi is a 16v so it looks to be the best option. XR3i no match for that lot.

@thisisradio3dom @joncoupland Came here to say the same about Gold Star, it's often mixed with vinegar but sometimes not. Asda etc sell it now. 'Salt n sauce' is the standard option across eastern Scotland, the Lothians and Fife. Salt and vinegar is preferred in the west. Haggis super + salt n sauce 👍😋

Not sure this is accurate. Discuss

@russ_nicol @BulldogBDX No but I appear to be following the account 😝👍

@OnceDrivenFS Watching you do that fuel tank, with the uncertainty that the bolt was going to budge, I wondered if you were aware of @BulldogBDX?

New video live on YouTube 7pm (Sunday 21 Jan) second of the weekend courtesy of having new high speed broadband 👍