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OK, this comes out of our friends in the north begging a go in PhoenixC's new ride.... Who do you let have a go in your prized possesion? (note: the MOT man is exempt from this!!) Personally - my missus has NEVER driven a RWD car and she'd be backwards through the bushes at the first corner if I let her loose in my beemer....she only knows understeer! I've let a couple of mates drive it, but I've always found that a bit scary as they all drive shopping trolleys and go mental when they find some go under their right foot..... So how about you lot!!!!??
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never owned a rwd drive car - having fun now tho lol
none of the family ladeez were driving up till 18 months ago so that would be a no
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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I'm not that fussed about who drives my cars, as the Sprite doesn't have enough power to get it into trouble, and the Volvo normally understeers long before the back end steps out, so familiarity re fwd vs rwd shouldn't be a problem. For a few years, the Volvo was my dad and step-mum's only car (both are still insured on it)!! However, that doesn't mean that I'll just let anyone drive them My gf doesn't want to drive either due to their age and the resulting unservoed brakes Oh, and I've also tried to teach my sister to drive the Sprite, but she kept stalling it
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well my last GF loved driving my 535, quite funny seeing a 5ft 1" tall size 10 lass drving my old pimp mobile
my sis also likes driving it too, dad hates it, mum wont drive it. A couple of mates have driven it, and i just tell em to roast it....
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I'm dressed in black again until someone invents a darker colour.
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My wife (can actually control a car in a slide that police driving course must have worked) My dad (taught me the fun of rwd in the first place) Most of my mates (Tonycocacola, Mr Sigma and Mantamad included) Only one person can make me nervous is my brother in law and I co-drive for him. ;D Not that I don't trust him, its just anything I can do he can do faster. within 2 minutes of getting in my nissan 200sx he was holding it in a drift round a motorway sliproad roundabout at 50-60mph at 11.00am with loads of other cars on same roundabout. ;D
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Most of my mates (Tonycocacola, Mr Sigma and Mantamad included) this, but for me ;D I'm going to let my mate sal take my 411 down the strip.she thinks shes gonna be quicker than me. hope shes not cos il never hear the end of it ;D
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Is she the hooters girl? Even if she's slower she'll look better doing it than you! ;D
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Is she the hooters girl? Even if she's slower she'll look better doing it than you! ;D lionel blair, give us a clue, style pointing ;D ;D ;D
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Davenger
Club Retro Rides Member
It's only metal
Posts: 7,272
Club RR Member Number: 140
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Who do you trust?Davenger
@dminifreak
Club Retro Rides Member 140
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Only let a girlfriend drive my GT once. She crashed it She is now an ex girlfriend
Unsurprisingly
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Curt
Part of things
RIP Richard Burns
Posts: 301
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I mainly let my dad drive my Sunbeam (as I'm too young at the moment), but I once let an ex-rally driver take it round Curborough Sprint track with me passengering.
He was a very good driver.
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Nobody ever wants to drive my cars! My missus once had to borrow my old G40 for a few days, she enjoyed thrashing the ar$e off that but for long-term use she reckons most of my rides are nasty... polo was too loud, audi was too smelly and there's more chance of her flying a 747 than driving the fastback!
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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my mates and my missus can drive them all if they like, but pheonixc is the scariest curse word ive ever been in a car wit ;D!!
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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My missus is welcome to drive all of my cars, although she has trouble with the seriously low ones! She drove my old Herald (5.0 V8) to a meeting once...I wish I could have seen the others faces when she pulled up in the car park!: I let all my mates drive the Herald for a quick test run if they wanted...except one, it turns out I was right not to trust him as he proved later when he failed to pay me for a job I did for him and I haven't seen him since!
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Who do you trust?DarrenW
@darrenw
Club Retro Rides Member 74
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Whilst in my custody, the only people that have driven my Golf are my best mate (who had a similar Mk1 at the time so we swapped and raced each other on the night I bought it!) and I let my other half drive it low-speed for a few laps of the Herts County Showground at VWoodstock last year! It felt REALLY weird seeing my car driving past me, I normally only see it in motion from the drivers seat!
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My other half can only drive autos due to a dodgy foot so the Imps are safe ;D I trust most of my mates to drive my cars but they wouldent be seen dead driving an Imp ;D (can you drive a car when youre dead )
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BS Nymph Singer Chamois Coupe Series 3 Landy
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You can but it's hard to get insurance when you're dead! ;D ;D ;D ;D There aren't many people who've ever drove my Imp while I owned it. There's me, the ol' man a few times, (he's being driving 44 tonne GVW artics since the 70s so I can trust him with a half tonne 1 litre Imp! ;D ;D ;D ;D) and that's about it really, although I did give my hippie brother a shot of it once! ;D ;D ;D
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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dads on the insurance and he can drive it, as he fixes what i cant (should really in hindsight, he is by far a more scary driver than myself)
he being the only person ive let have a go without me being in the passenger mind.
ive tried to teach my 14 year old cousin in it, on a trading estate mind, for some reason she thinks the biting poiunt is about the right time to completely remove her foot from the clutch (so prob never friving it again tbh)
ive let a pal have a go, but he cudent (been driving a year and cudent even get mine moving), and recently i had an argument with a girl about how she wudent even know how to drive my car (following on from my pal not beiong able to) and she cud! which surprised me.
not really fussed as long as i know they wont stuff the bloody thing ;D ;D
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Who do you trust?rustingdeathtrap
@GUEST
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I think it depends on the car really. If its an old dog then don't give a toss who uses it, as long as they put petrol in it ;D. As for nice cars, close friends only, or people who I know will respect them. Case in point, when I got my CRX I took a couple of my mates out in it and we went down a road on canvey known as the drag strip. I let them both have a go and as my mate Ad was canning the ass of it I heard a nasty sound coming from the bottom end. To cut a long story short, it had rung an end and ended up costing me £500 to get it back on the road. People were saying to me "aint you curse word off with him?" And I was like, at the end of the day, he didnt do anything that I wouldnt have done. It was just coincidence that it let go while he was behind the wheel.
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GJM
Posted a lot
Alloy engines; like communism- great in theory.
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Mum and dad are insured on the Orion, sadly. The second time dad drove it he forgot he was in the Orion and not in the S70 2.5 T automatic, stuck his foot down coming out of Tescos and wondered why it was screaming its curse word off and not moving ;D
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bryn
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Used to be really precious, but now will let anybody drive. They bend them, they mend them... Only trouble is by the time I've finished giving them instructions, they've got bored and gone off the idea I did leave a 535i at a track day last year with some mates, in fact they even trailered it up there. I did five laps and they did another twenty after I'd gone. The thing that changed my opnion was about ten years ago I had a bay window crew cab, whilst watching the RTTS convoy pile past in the rain, a bloke in a small block powered Model A rod parked up next to me at the services. We got talking and when the cars had passed by he said he'd rather drive my van back into town (six miles) as it was raining, and I could drive the rod (no roof, chucked me his steamed up goggles). I'd never met him and haven't seen him since, although I knew of him at the time. When I started mincing about insurance and all that, my van etc. He just said, it's only a car kid... He was right.
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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