Can you live without your car?
As an experiment Sparky and I have decided to try to live without our car. This will be the first time that I haven’t had a car in 27 years.
When I was a child my parents had a car each. Looking back I can see how unusual that was. My earliest memories of the family cars are listed below:
Austin A35
Ford Popular 103E
Morris Oxford
Austin Cambridge
Hillman Super Minx estate
Austin Mini van
Ford Escort MK1
Hillman Avenger
Talbert Sunbeam
And a couple more that I cannot remember.
My first car incidentally, was MK1 Ford Cortina (with Webber carburettors and a Lotus engine).
So looking at the list of cars my parents had you can be forgiven for thinking that we didn’t walk too far. Basically I’ve not experienced life without a car. And looking through the older pictures here on Picture Penzance I wondered what it would be like without one.
Now I know that some of you don’t have cars and survive, but the majority of you wouldn’t contemplate life without cars. So this experiment should be interesting.
Despite the generous offer by the government to trade our car in and get £2000 discount on a new one, we opted to scrap our car even though it has a full M.O.T., climate control and multi CD player.
First thing Tuesday morning the car will be collected and our experiment begins. I should add that I am keeping my motorbike, although that shouldn’t affect this experiment too much. Not exactly the best form of transport for a family of four.
I will be adding in bits and bobs to update this thread so that you can track our progress. My question in this poll is Can you survive without a car?
As an experiment Sparky and I have decided to try to live without our car. This will be the first time that I haven’t had a car in 27 years.
When I was a child my parents had a car each. Looking back I can see how unusual that was. My earliest memories of the family cars are listed below:
Austin A35
Ford Popular 103E
Morris Oxford
Austin Cambridge
Hillman Super Minx estate
Austin Mini van
Ford Escort MK1
Hillman Avenger
Talbert Sunbeam
And a couple more that I cannot remember.
My first car incidentally, was MK1 Ford Cortina (with Webber carburettors and a Lotus engine).
So looking at the list of cars my parents had you can be forgiven for thinking that we didn’t walk too far. Basically I’ve not experienced life without a car. And looking through the older pictures here on Picture Penzance I wondered what it would be like without one.
Now I know that some of you don’t have cars and survive, but the majority of you wouldn’t contemplate life without cars. So this experiment should be interesting.
Despite the generous offer by the government to trade our car in and get £2000 discount on a new one, we opted to scrap our car even though it has a full M.O.T., climate control and multi CD player.
First thing Tuesday morning the car will be collected and our experiment begins. I should add that I am keeping my motorbike, although that shouldn’t affect this experiment too much. Not exactly the best form of transport for a family of four.
I will be adding in bits and bobs to update this thread so that you can track our progress. My question in this poll is Can you survive without a car?