show snobbery

Your car

Your rules

Your choice

If people don't like it doesn't matter - if you don't like it change it till you do

Want encouragement spend more time here

Nuff said

do_what_you_want

My 2pence worth before its over.....


I often get peoples opinions on ideas i have for my car, people on here know that, but no matter what the outcome of those opinions, i always do what I want.

Use R-R.com as a 'mad-moment-filter' if you will.....we all have some strange and silly ideas late at night after a few brews, and its good to have people put things into a realistic light sometimes.













.....Or just go mental LOL

I think it comes down to origenality

It´s the same over here, unfortunately.

When the local Mercedes Club members (anoraks) found out i was running my W115 200D on cooking oil and actually daring to use it as a daily driver there was all hell to pay.

I was the only one who turned up at the pub meets with an old Merc in winter, it was great.

I´d go out of my way not to wash it before, the more they got pi$$ed off the more i enjoyed myself. When it snowed and i still turned up in it they stopped talking to me.....but who gives a f*ck!

I take my very battered daily driver (1986 Ascona C SRe- mk2 cavalier SRI) to shows and mix it with the snobs. I basically don't give a Feck what anyone thinks.

Just because someone has spent months and months and ££££ and ££££'s restoring or Retro modifying his or her car does not mean they have anything I want to look up to.

I mean if your car comes out only on Sundays you are not using it. And to me that's a real waste.

As for modern cars being retroable (is that a new word ?). I've seen a tastefully modified Astra VXR but it could never be retro this side of 2020.

But I've seen modified Cavalier 4x4 Turbo's and those that got it right looked stunning. Those that went TOO far looked wrong. and it's a VERY fine line.

Thi

I second that.....Mick's Omega rocks.


I must admit I get a childish, perverse pleasure from pulling into a local 'classic' pub meet and annoying the flat-cappers.

It happened a few weeks ago, as soon as they clocked the wide steels on the Oxford and spotted Max's satin-black Humber behind me they started giving us the kind of looks reserved for someone on the Sex Offenders Register.

I did have a fairly lengthy conversation that night about originality with an old giffer who owned a stock Cambridge. Unfortunately his pleas for me to 'keep it standard' co-incided with v8devon stood 3' behind him gurning, and Max baring his ar5e (again....)

The poor old fool spent the night resolutely avoiding eye-contact with me after that.

:)Interesting thread, but the bottom line I think is this:
If you build it and want adoration(?) then other peoples opinions will obviously matter, but build it for youself, and quite frankly who gives a shi! about others opinions.
I drove a cortina for years and years, whilst living in a place where all my mates were buying new, tax free cars, and not a single one of them got why!
(I now have a house nearly paid for, they all rent!) (That last bit's not even remotely relevant!)
I also love cortinas of course!!!!
Agree with the aircooled snobbery though, I just want to build an LS1 powered T4 and pi$$ all over the Splitty sub 18 runners or whatever they're called! ;D That's me being a snob I guess!

Here endeth the rant!!

show snobbery exists everywhere. i have copped it from many directions for driving what i drive and i know a good few people who have had similar experiences. at the end of the day i still love my car and drive it every day, and i love the looks from other driverswho cant imagine how or why i am driving the old girl, there isn't much Id trade it for. do what you want. retro rides will embrace you.

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