Lex
South East
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I know its a thing that people say they don't care about what people think about them liking something or other, but for someone like me where i am surrounded by people who are very narrow minded when it comes to understanding that everyone has a different taste in cars all I get is stick for doing what I'm doing.
I like to talk to people about what I'm doing with my car, why do loads of stuff and get excited and not tell anyone what you're doing?
I just told my friend I am going to get a D sticker for the back of my Golf, and he then pushes back in my face saying its tacky and takes the curse word because I think it would look nice on my car. Everyone does this, and quite frankly its curse word me off. There is no one local to me that is of a similar age who I can share my passion with, or at least anyone who can understand I like different things and don't have to point out their negative thoughts about everything I do to the car.
Are you guys in the same sort of boat as I am? Do you often get curse word for owning your cars and styling it in your own way? I wanna know what other peoples experiences are with owning retro cars.
I always say I don't care what people think, its my car I do what I want to do with it. That doesn't really mean I enjoy being the only person who likes my car. It would make me so happy to know others like what I'm doing to my car, but at the moment I'm not really getting much of it.
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Resto-UKal
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tigran
Club Retro Rides Member
In rust we trust. Amen.
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Where you from dude? I don't have this problem because i'm too old and too ugly to care about people's oppinions in the first place. However i have transformed my ghetto-fied straight-outta-hounslow mates at uni into going 'ooof' when they see a mk1 golf slammed running 16v power. They all love the stuff i do with my cars and the tastes in cars.
The person to give me the most ammount of curse word is, of all people, my mum.
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1964 Rover P5 i6 1987 BMW 525e - The Rusty Streak 1992 Micra K10 2001 BMW E46 316i 2002 BMW E46 330Ci 2013 BMW F31 320d 2018 BMW G31 530d
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Mike
East Midlands
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People give you stick for putting a D sticker on your Golf? Ignore them. I drive a 20 year old Hyundai Pony with bright orange wheels, that gets you some funny looks...
It can be hard if no-one else seems bothered about what you are doing with your car, but stick with it, if your mates don't come round to the idea you are still having fun doing it.
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markbognor
South East
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Try explaining to a load of other teachers teachers why your car hits the speed bumps on the way into work, or why you have a coil spring loop dangling from your tow eye.
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I'm at a 'public school' where everyone owns a Bentley, Aston Martin, Merc or BMW. I find myself explaining to them why driving a car that requires all passengers to get out before driving over speed bumps is cool!
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1997 TVR Chimaera 2009 Westfield Megabusa
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Lex
South East
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Where you from dude? I don't have this problem because i'm too old and too ugly to care about people's oppinions in the first place. However I have transformed my ghetto-fied straight-outta-hounslow mates at uni into going 'ooof' when they see a mk1 golf slammed running 16v power. They all love the stuff I do with my cars and the tastes in cars. The person to give me the most ammount of curse word is, of all people, my mum. I'm just a 17 year old from Dover, still at school full of people who either like tuners, or don't like modifying their car at all. It seems most people are going to say you're being silly if you do anything to your car that is different and might make people look at you in your car for possibly a negative reason. Hell why would you have a car that looks like someone else's? Having an individual car is the perfect way forward!
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Resto-UKal
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jack
Part of things
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"What car do you drive?"
"I have two actually"
"Oh really, what are they"
"Nissan Bluebirds"
"Hahahahahahahaha"
Actually, that doesn't happen that often, and if it does they usually lighten up when I say one of them's a turbo. Most people my age don't even know what one is, and they've only been out of production 18 years. More difficult for me is just finding someone who wants to talk about cars at all.
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1986 Nissan Bluebird Turbo SR
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davej
Part of things
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If people ask why, they wouldnt understand the answer anyway! I find taking the mick out of their standard/chav/modern cars is a good comeback too! Some of my friends just think I am wrong in the head though... ;D
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All of my friends are wrong in the head too. If you don't want to suffer normality in your cars, why put up with it in your friends? I'm proud to be a bit of a freak, and I find people who are the same in that respect make the best friends.
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i am with the guy with ugly face . who cares what others think man ,its all about being inderwijuval innit
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I am with the guy with ugly face . who cares what others think man ,its all about being inderwijuval innit Tats cos u is a lonErrrrrr.
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1997 TVR Chimaera 2009 Westfield Megabusa
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Lopez
East Midlands
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My proper mates are into the same stuff as me.
Nobody at work "understands" my Volvo daily driver, I was asked on Friday "Don't you feel like a gyppo driving that about?"
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Most people always attack things that are different - usually because they know sod all about it or because the known way is the safe way. Meh, just live with it and spend more time here where we all understand!
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B-8-D
Posted a lot
down to one car!!
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ive done everything different from a very early age so most people i know just kno thats what I'm like by now.. if thay do try to take the pi$$, i just slap them about the face with a wet fish. you should too!! si
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I'm just a 17 year old from Dover, still at school full of people who either like tuners, or don't like modifying their car at all.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- welcome to the real world. you gotta remember if you're into retro stuff you really are in a tiny minority of the population. apart from a couple of local rodders i know no,one into cars. suits me just fine. blokes at work are always interested what I'm doing.but none are into cars . just ignore you're mates advise and enjoy you're car for what it is,and do what you want with it.
after all its youres,you drive it so no one Else's opinions should matter
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Used to get that a LOT. "why you wasting yor time and money on that heap....the money you have spent would have bought you *insert whatever is fashionable at that moment* ?" friends, family, the lot.
The point is, its my hobby. I don't have to justify it to anyone. I don't take the curse word out the guy who builds model trains, i let him get on with it, and show an interest if he wants to talk about it. They couldnt see that to me, their past times of spending loads of cash getting blazing drunk at the weekend then spewing it all into the gutter on the way home is completely pointless to me, but I let them ge on with it.
Everyone goes in for a bit of taunting and leg-pulling, but it shouldnt be anything serious. If they are really offensive about it, as I found a few people to be, then screw them...time to re-evaluate how good a friend they really are.
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topi
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It's a race car officer, I swear!
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I get it alot. My usual reply is 'but do you want a race?'. All the lads I know my age drive sub 100bhp hatches that I could dust effortlessly.
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Hirst
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I quite like getting stick to be honest, the idea that driving a beige Galant around actually offends people fills me with smug satisfaction.
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Lex
South East
日本車 <3
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Used to get that a LOT. "why you wasting yor time and money on that heap....the money you have spent would have bought you *insert whatever is fashionable at that moment* ?" friends, family, the lot. My dad said that about me wanting to buy coilovers for my Golf. He also said that about a Renault 18 he scrapped because it needed about £300 worth of engine to be fixed (it seems he always gets ripped off with this stuff), he also said he scrapped it because its french (bought it for my mum to learn in). Made me quite angry actually, would have loved that Renault 18!!!
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Resto-UKal
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skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member
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None of my friends or family understand my love of cars let alone my new found love for retro cars always having a go at me telling me to get something newer, more reliable et etc, gets really disheartening but thankfully i have one mate who is into cars a bit and has a golf GTi so knows the 'scene' a bit.
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