Mr K
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i have had a few good ones, the worst has to be:
'Is that a robin?'
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'they are pretty unstable arnt they, didnt the one in mr bean always fall over'
'del boy drove one of those'
the above two realy annoy me as not ownly does my car have 4 wheels, but its nothing like a regal!
' they burn well'
but the best one ever was aimed at a friends car at bug jam:
two guys standing looking at a completely open and un cowled vw flat 4 in the back of a formula Vee single seater.
'Why did he bring a formula ford to a VW show'
now i would say the VW flat 4 is a pretty distinctive engine, and looks rather different to all the rest. Cocks.
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Overheard by dope at Snetterton Trackday.... "Them Marinas handle like s**t" Next session I caught up with him round Coram....in his MINI Cooper.....
Pulled up to a petrol station, twonk in Nova looks at car.... "S'cuse me mate, what 'zorst you got on it?" "Errr, Unipart I think...."
Same twonk, looking under bonnet... "Wos them things them?" pointing at 2 x SU Carbs......
"Them fings are just Morris Minors, aint they...." GRRRRRRR
"Your car's sh*te mate"...soon followed by loud noise and rear end squirming away from traffic lights, leaving tw*t in shock.....
"My dad had one of them, 1600 wiv a five speed box..." No, 1.8 and four speed, dope!
"Yer can't get parts for them any more, can ya?" Well hows it running then...good luck and scotch mist?
"A what?" - Halfrauds Spotty Erk.
And the best one yet.... "Cool Escort mate!"
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Last Edit: Apr 2, 2007 18:24:31 GMT by marinanut
Rover Metro - The TARDIS - brake problems.....Stored Rover 75 - Barge MGZTT Cdti 160+ - Winter Hack and Audi botherer... MGF - The Golden Shot...Stored Project Minion........ Can you see the theme?
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Favourite one, heard at custom shows back in the days of murals..... "Where d'you get them stickers from mate?" One of the best things about driving the Range Rover is the black looks you get from soapdodgers and tofu-eaters. And cyclists. I had one not so long ago purposely bump his way up the inside of me at some traffic lights shaking his head and mouthing something about 'Chelsea Tractors'. I didn't bother remonstrating with him, as I have found that a lungful of hydrocarbons is worth a thousand words... I let him pedal away from me as the lights went green, floored it in first, then skip-changed up to third. This flat-footed the turbo and shovelled about a litre of partially burnt diesel out of the exhaust pipe, just as I passed him chucking out as much smoke as a tractor-puller. As I looked in the mirror I could see him coughing his guts up and wobbling all over the road. Numpty.
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curse word: You can get Porsche 911 engines in them y`know They drop straight in don't they
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once out in my W123 someone shouted "taxi". which i thought was fairly funny. and every time i ventured out in the 500 SEC old men were always asking "is it a 2.8?" which got annoying after the 3 billionth time. got asked if my 411 was a skoda, look at the badge chucklehead!!!
had all the "your cars sh1t mate" lines, I'm just like yeah whatever. best line ive replied with that really shut the fcuker up was "at least mine is paid for" ;D ;D ;D
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Colonelk
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Club RR Member Number: 83
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Cyclists with attitude do annoy me I must admit, as I loved riding my bike round London but everyone has a bad vision of cycling due to those red light jumping curse word.
Have to say most of the comments aimed at me come from my parents (admittedly no daily driver Ive had has been savagely retro..... yet!).
When the senator failed its MOT recently (on a bent track rod arm... easy fix) my mother said....
"Are you sure you wouldnt like a newer car? We might be able to help you out with some money towards one you know..... you sure you wouldnt like a nice car?" No I bought my car because I thought it was curse word. Ive loved cars since Ive been aware of the world around me, and of course I'm going to buy something I hate. Gah.
I do often get "Why don't you get a normal car?" from friends. Errrm. No ta.
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guys...you all gotta chill out a bit, don't worry about people slagging off your cars, and asking daft questions, or making kind but uninformed comments. it's because you've got an interesting vehicle. no real malice to it. That's true - I'd hate it if nobody reacted at all to my car! I don't mind people talking to me about it, no matter how little they know. It's all usually friendly. And the negative stuff just makes me laugh! ;D
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I often get the old 'you don't see them everyday' line...which I almost always follow with 'Yes I do'. ;D
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parked up in carpark in the firenza . (with firenza badge on the boot ) spotty,white socked,shell suit , gold chain wearing chav walks from the back of the car to proclaim " alreet mate , nice capri " another spotty oik - " like your car mate , me uncle had a couple of them.." me - "a firenza ? really ? " oik - " oh aye , he loved his old beemers , me uncle.." ? and countless conversations like.. prat - cost you a few quid to insure that eh ? me - not really , bout £190 prat - 3rd party eh ? me - er no. fully comp prat - is that one of them low mileage fings ?? you can only do about 300 miles a year ?? me - er no. 3000 miles a year. prat - wots the tax for it then ? me -free. don't have to pay anything prat - so why you got a tax disc on it then ? me- no offence kind sir , but with all due respect , please be good enough to take your face for a well desereved sh1t. i thankyou.
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winging old men,its summer chill.its cool to chat curse word,i love it. "scuse me mate,like how fast is your car..............woah,have you had it on a rolling road?360 bhp,thats class from a corsa sport.id love to own a car like that." they chat curse word we line them up then laugh,like i said the suns bin shining who cares.
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Hirst
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This avatar is inaccurate, I've never shaved that closely
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Quite often get "Why don't you get an ordinary/new car?" with respect to the Mira daily. Considering it is T-reg in mint condition and has never let me down, this baffles me. Are people THAT snobbish about car age now? I bet getting rid of age-related numberplates would probably halve car buying overnight (hence why they won't).
Another thing that got me was when someone was talking to me about cars and mentioned the RX-8. Nice car but I'd prefer an RX-7. The conversation went somewhat like this, bear in mind I am talking about the FD3S sort still sold until 2002 (though to be honest I think I'd have an older one, preferably with a mega brown interior):
"How could you prefer the RX-7 to the RX-8?" "It's not a bad car by any means, but with the RX-7 you get twin turbos which makes it brilliant for tuning up, really easy to get extra power from a turbo car. Plus it is intended almost as a supercar, the RX-8 is a fast car but it isn't really a full-on sports car in the same way. Plus as well it has flip-up lights!" "IT IS OLDER, DO-NOT-UNDERSTAND. ALL NEWER CARS BETTER THAN ALL OLDER CARS!!" (waves hands around like a nutter)
As for the Charmant, don't really get many comments but I get a lot of confused stares. No one dare comment though. I think they're all just thinking "Why?"
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Similar to the RX7 / RX8 thing (and natch, the RX8 must be better, 8 is a better number than 7 right?)
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Overheard comment about a guy I used to work with, who had spent years saving up to buy a Ferrari, because thats all he wanted out of life.
"oh he finally bought a Ferrari then" "really?" "Yeah, its just one of the old curse word ones of course" <both laugh like drains>
Excuse me but when exactly were Ferrari making the "curse word" ones. TBH I'm not a Ferrari fan, they do little for me but I do realise that they have alwasy been pretty much the last word in Italian supercars.
Comments like that show a lot more up about the tossers making them than the people they are making them about.
People can be as dumb as they like as far as I am concerned so long as they go do it somewhere else. I do like when my car gets a reaction, when I drive past people stare, point, even laugh out loud, fair enough. But why morons think you want them to step up to you, and why they are so dumb and arrogant to think their opinion is automaticcally better than mine... They can burn in hell.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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A guy who works near me recently got rid of his fully kitted MR2 and bought a Porsche 356 Replica - a very nicely finished one too. I saw it in his yard and spoke to some of the people milling about (his employees, as it happens) about who the owner was. Here's the conversation: Me: That's nice, is it a Chesil? Employee: It's Dave's, do you like it? Me: Not my taste really, but it looks well done Employee: It's a fake! Ha Ha Me: What, a fake Chesil? Employee: Huh?
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Last Edit: Apr 3, 2007 8:40:04 GMT by rmad
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I get the worst of it from school! 'Why do you have a picture of a banger on the wall?' - polo 'But its just a curse word steel frame thing!' - locost 'No way will it do 0-60 in 4 secs, my dads Porsche only does it in 5.6!' (guy who knows a fair bit about cars!) - Locost '45bhp? I'm surprised it moves. My dads Discovery has like 8 times that' (and weighs 8 times that!) - Polo 'Is the suspension broken? It's really really low' (I took it as a compliment ) - Polo 'Theres no way you built that. My dad couldn't even do that and he works for Honda' - Locost 'Those wheels are curse word' (personal opinion of course!) - Polo Me - 'Its a Locost, like a Caterham' Them - 'So its a Westfield then. My uncles neighbour had one' Me - 'It's a Locost, but its basically the same as a Westfield' Them - 'So it's made by Westfield then, they're really nice' Me - 'No, I built it myself, some parts are Stuart Taylor but the rest are my own or Ford' Them - 'Stuart Taylor, yeh my friends got one of those. Its like a beach buggy init.' tscccchhh I've given up explaining now. The Locost is no just a 'kit car' when I tell people about it, not a Lotus Seven replica or a Caterham lookalike or whatever.
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1997 TVR Chimaera 2009 Westfield Megabusa
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Whatever they say, it usually makes me smile. so long as its not just an agressive, ya car is sh1t, however cheeky petrol station kids comment annoyed me so much I never went back. In my solid rock steady FSH Polo, I went to pay for a tank full of petrol him "ere ya petrol iz worth more than da car innit"? not expecting abuse I wasn't ready! joking along I said "What ya on about thats great that is best car I ever had" which I realise to him sounded like I was a loser! It was though, cost me nowt, went on for ever, good MPG, cheap tax, powerful enough, just cos its not a blingin Type R innit! Best one was yesterday, Twigzy's kid neighbour. Twigzy banging rust with hammer,,, Young girl: "what are you making" she enquired politely with an interest, Twigzy: "A Car" it did take a kids imagination! made me chuckle. ;D bad thing was, the mom said, stop talking to strangers! Strangers are neighbours these days!!!!
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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People are usually too busy pointing and laughing at my 2CV to say anything worth mentioning but colleagues are usually the worst rolling out all the old jokes as if I'll find them funny - sardine can, upturned pram, quicker to walk etc.
That said, lately I've noticed that more teenagers will wave or give a thumbs up which is something I don't know how to deal with! Perhaps they are just being ironic.
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1986 Citroen 2CV Dolly Other things. Check out my Blog for the latest! www.hubnut.org
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Another couple we've had about the Impreza.
Lad - 'Nice WRX, my mate has the STi version and it drives nice' Mum - 'This is actually an STi and yeh it does'. Lad - 'Thats not an STi, they've got a big spoiler and stuff' Mum - 'Its a limited edition Spec-D' Lad - 'Thats rubbish, it's a WRX' Mum - 'Fair enough!'
'Bad luck, you got the ugly version' (about the old one), bad luck? It was choice!
'Leather seats in an Impreza? They're meant to be world rally cars!' errrrrrrr.
'My mate has the old version. 500bhp its putting out on the standard turbo' Definately.
'Why don't you fit some decent wheels. Halfords have some 20's that would look good'/
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1997 TVR Chimaera 2009 Westfield Megabusa
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i never get any comments about anything i drive, i think i tend to scowl and don't look very approachable at the best of times.
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My best ones have been - about this one - Tosser - is it a Morgan? Me- Nope, Sylva kit car. Tosser - Ah, an old pinto then, or is it based on a herald? Me - Nope, honda. Bespoke chassis, but mainly ford escort and sierra bits. Tosser - Honda? You mean Rover K-Series then? Me - Nope 909cc four pot. Tosser - 900cc, it bet it goes curse word! Me - It doesn't really struggle Tosser - can it do 60? Me - in about 4 secs. Tosser - ... Tosser - Is it a westfield/caterham/dax/robin hood/tiger/locost/locust? Me - Nope, Sylva. Tosser - Well the only one to have is the caterham, the rest are just copies. Me - Actually the westfield pre-lit was as close to the original as the caterham and that is a copy, the only REAL one is the lotus super seven. Tosser - Lotus never made them, they were always sold as caterhams Me - Nope, Caterham used to assemble and sell kits bought from the factory, then the Nearn family bought the rights to the MK3 seven in the 70's after the mk4 was a flop and started making them as a factory built car and kit under the Caterham name. Tosser - Eh? Tosser in Audi TT at lights - Your car sounds curse word. Me in bike helmet - <thumbs up> Tosser in Audi TT at lights - I said IT SOUNDS LIKE curse word! Me in bike helmet - <thumbs up and points down the road> Tosser in Audi TT at lights - <revs hard> Me in bike helmet - <revs hard> Tosser in Audi TT at lights - <sets of like a nutter> Me in bike helmet - <turns left>
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Yesterday at 7:54, pogweasel wrote:
Nothing wrong with creature comforts. If I want masochism, I'll just go and slam my knackers in the fridge door for a bit.
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Bought tatty black pop as quick fixer upper to get me to work. Conversation on Uk Hotrods over the last 6 months...
Me: Complaining about how much parts are and how much spannering it has turned out to be.
Mark H: Bet you wished you'd got a £300 Sierra now eh Jon?
Me: No
Me (sometime later): poxy diff has broken, it's turning into a money pit this damn thing...
Mark H: Bet that £300 Sierra is looking abit more inviting now eh Jon?
Me: On the contrary, no.
Me (sometime later): Damn brakes failed, more expense etc etc...
Mark H: You really should have got that Sierra, told you so etc
Me: Er, no :/
Me (last week): Pop failed MOT, ok I know when I'm beaten, it's up for sale, had enough of it.
Mark H: I thought this was madness from the start, why do you think my spare Pop sat on the drive unfettered? But you've come this far with it, pull yourself together and get it done.
Me: Ok
(parts are on order)
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