Beemer02Perv
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1971 BMW 1602 ,2002 Ti Running gear
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May 20, 2004 21:12:04 GMT
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Dear all, What do you love /hate about life with a retro car? Here are a few of mine:- Love Free road tax Dirt cheap insurance Headturning! Conversations with total strangers Wet Roundabouts....... Hate Boy racers wanting to burn you of the road 4spd box on motorways(must do list  ) |
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If you have to ask you wont understand........
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Hate that a lot of other drivers assume old car = slow car
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lukeB
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In my beetle:
Love everything (except steamy windows in winter).
Especially cruising with the AM pushbutton radio on full 5 watts of power.
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 67' beetle  78' viva |
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Love:
Beating boy racers away from the lights
Engine sound
Precise handling
Availability of parts / repair costs
Hate:
Ice on inside of windows in winter
Useless heater
Curbs
Speed bumps
Police asuming the cars not 'legal' / without MOT
Gits trying to nick it
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 I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people I don't like. |
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SkoCan
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Quando omni flunkus, mortati
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May 21, 2004 14:28:02 GMT
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Love  Engine sound Turns on a dime (then gives your change back!) Engine sound Cost of tires Engine sound Gas mileage Engine sound Unique Engine sound Hate  No parts Hard to explain to insurance what it is Can't slalom it (no swing arms allowed) No meets No other owners near No parts I'll never sell it! Did I mention I love the sound of the engine? ;D |
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Beemer02Perv
Part of things
1971 BMW 1602 ,2002 Ti Running gear
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May 21, 2004 19:58:12 GMT
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Oh yes ,Iforgot today when my brakes gave up and I almost rear ended a Lexus........  |
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If you have to ask you wont understand........
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Shortcut
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I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the Green Cross Code.
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Love: seeing it through the lounge window every morning and thinking, ooooh I own that!
Hate: developing retro-car wallet twitch, a common condition bought on by every small knocking sound threatening to empty the wallet.
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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Shortcut
Posted a lot
I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the Green Cross Code.
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Love: seeing it through the lounge window every morning and thinking, ooooh I own that!
Hate: developing retro-car wallet twitch, a common condition bought on by every small knocking sound threatening to empty the wallet.
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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May 22, 2004 17:26:04 GMT
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Love... Meeting people at shows who remeber owning a similar car to yours and the good memories they have of it.
Hate... Meeting people at shows who remeber owning a similar car to yours and the bad memories they have of it....
Best story I've ever heard about my car (A FIAT 850). Complete stranger came up to me in the street one day and said his parents claimed he was conceived in the back of one!!....
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May 22, 2004 18:05:26 GMT
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;D Well removing one Lexus bland mobile would have been a start !
Love:
Noise
No one has one like mine
Wife hates it
New baby too young to hate it
Roller skate handling
Boy racers do not know what they ahve just been messed with !
Hate:
Not a lot except Labour won't let me have free tax even though it is 27years old and rust !
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Just a modern....but surrounded every day by Porsche's !
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May 22, 2004 18:17:03 GMT
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Love: Tax exempt Engine note Simplicity ‘Old car’ smell Random people, of all ages, approaching me saying ‘I had one of these’<br>The 'grin like a tw*t' factor when i drive it Hate: Poor brakes Turning circle Expensive to make it go fast |
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Last Edit: May 22, 2004 18:18:43 GMT by fatony1
Banded wheels are for winners.
5 doors are not a crime.
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May 22, 2004 20:02:58 GMT
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Love:
Free road tax
cheap insurance
having something unique, that people don't understand
suprising boy racers
giving/receiving a wave/thumbs up from a fellow classic driver
seeing it in a car park and thinking: "Thats mine!"
Hate:
having to explain that it's modified
having to explain that no, the paint WOULDN'T "shine up with a bit of T-Cut"
not being satisfied with it, not being able to decide which direction to go with it
being lumped together with maxi pants muppets
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down  and that's not really the car's fault. |
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May 24, 2004 19:02:00 GMT
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;D Annoying the new neighbour with the even more annoying son than my Grp-B exhaust !!!! Nice weather here,gives me big kick up the  to get Snotty on the road after i have convinced wife that the child seat will fit nice and safe between the roll cage with a few U-clamps ! |
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Just a modern....but surrounded every day by Porsche's !
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Beemer02Perv
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1971 BMW 1602 ,2002 Ti Running gear
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May 29, 2004 10:24:54 GMT
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I hate the fact that its 33 years old and in far better shape than me.....(I should have been garaged all my life ;D)
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If you have to ask you wont understand........
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;DMybe we should all coat ourselves in Waxoyle then we would look as good as our old cars !
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Just a modern....but surrounded every day by Porsche's !
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May 31, 2004 15:26:09 GMT
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I love just about everything about old cars, but I hate when I cant get cartain parts for love or money, I really hate being stuck out in the freezing cold in the dark trying to fix something to get the car home (believe me, changing Imp gearbox oil seals late on a Saturday night in the middle of the winter isnt funny!!!) And I REALLY REALLY hate when modern car-lovingwankers come up to me and take the curse word out of my cars just because they are old and unusual. The next person to tell me that Imps are slow and unreliable gets knocked across the room!!!
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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and that's not really the car's fault.