Hmm. I wasn’t trying to be obscure. I was thinking of Henry Ford.
When I was young, we used to say that FORD stood for Fix Or Repair Daily. Ford cars didn’t have a good reputation with people I knew when I was young.
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My first car was an Austin Allegro - fellas in the car trade often called this model an “All Aggro” - because they reckoned they were nothing but trouble!
Personally, I never had any bother with my Allegro - I never gave her a name but I was very fond of her. I kept her points and plugs in good order and kept her clean and tidy - she always started first time - and she had lovely quality russet brown shiny paintwork with lovely shiny chrome bumpers and trims.
She came to me second hand and I only parted with her after about 5 years because a job promotion included a company car.
I was sad to see my Allegro go - but I knew the person who bought her and knew she was being looked after. 
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I had two Allegro’s and thought they were good motors, although I did have to renew the oil rings on the second one.
This is the only photo I’ve got of the second one. Vermillion Red with a matt black roof…
This was the start of a Lyke Wake run…Dad was driving support in it…
A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet. Across many aeras where fords exist, they are known as the ‘watersplash’ 
I called mine EffOff for a long time until it was retuned and performed better - then I called it My SweetBaby!!
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thanks eliza do you fink of your cars as males or females and how do you treat them??
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yes,its called my car,as wifes is her car
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@bret
The cars hubby had was always a She , I might ask whats up with her now ,theres always something with a car going wrong , or in need of something …
Myself I dont drive Ive always had a Chauffeur . 
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We had an ancient Austin 1936. My mother named it Bessie from BFG.
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Ah some great metaphors on your info there about hubbies position towards his car - he’s riding one of his mistresses perhaps and she is never performing perfectly - always letting him down ; always demanding more and more attention - but just to annoy ‘her’ more he introduces his even more constant mistress to sit astride her like a prima donna?? well that’s one viewpoint anyway - but it is interesting heh how we treat all our possesions and how we care for them and relate to them? - I’ll leave left stage entrance now!!
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BFG ??? - sometimes these international abbrevs can mean different things - remember this is an international site is it not WWW?
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I visited my daughter in Canberra this weekend she has just bought herself a Subaru WRX tS Sport. When she took me for a ride in it I nearly named it “Jesus Christ” because that was all I could say when she put her foot down, talk about being pressed into your seat! It is quite remarkable considering it only has a 2.5 litre engine
It’s a nice enough car with stupid things like heated seats, warnings when a car is in your blind spot or even beside you, an adaptative cruise control which won’t allow you to ram into the back of the car in front and a dashboard screen you need an 8 volume manual to master. Just a lot of things to go wrong in my opinion.
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I’m with you on that one Bruce. A car from hell in my opinion. I like to be the driver of my car and not a passenger…
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A lot of people here are British and our old car was BFG 983. With more vehicles on the roads we had to add additional letters. My first car was CSP 477 C in 1965.
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BFG = Quote from Wiki…
In some circles, the BFG is a rapper also known as ‘Big F–kin Gangsta,’ in others, BFG stands for “Big F–king Gun” — a term popularized by the Doom and Quake video game series. But, for other, more innocent ears, BFG has only one meaning: Big Friendly Giant .
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thanks OGF - you can always be relied on to clear the air and tell Gods honest truth!!
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I think Old Bessie was quite a bit older than the rappers !
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The Big Friendly Giant ! Another classic children’s story banned due to over zealous politically correct people who should really butt out. Apparently it’s depicted as cannibalism 
. People are getting sillier by the hour.
Quote: The human bean is not a vegetable,” one giant says. Even though the plot of the book involves ridding the world of people-eating giants, The BFG frequently lands on banned lists for its depiction of cannibalism . In The BFG, the title character kidnaps Sophie and takes her to Giant Country, where kids are on the menu.
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RMT. Because it stops working for no reason.
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