stealthstylz
Club Retro Rides Member
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Dec 17, 2009 14:52:39 GMT
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Sorry about the weird title. Just wondering what style of cars people were into before the came on here?
I was a hot rodder, had the cars, went to the shows. Didn't really look at any other types of car, and took the curse word/got annoyed when anything different turned up at hot rod shows. Got a bit dissulusioned when the whole rat thing started and a load of new fashionistas came on the scene with their weekend fancy dress deriding anything that wasn't a rat rod. Discovered retro rides, now there isn't a style of car I can't take inspiration from.
Excellent.
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Dec 17, 2009 14:58:54 GMT
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i was the same as now e28s i just spend more time on the internet now
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97 volvo 940 turbo wagon 87 fiat strada abarth 78 gs1000 82 katana 1100 84 gsx1100 efe
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Dec 17, 2009 15:02:15 GMT
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Always had a Retro Rides mentality.
So RR's is just a perfect place for me.
Happy to have found it.
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Dec 17, 2009 15:04:35 GMT
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I really just like Capris and /somewhat/ liked escorts. Since RR, I like nearly any car I see that's older than me. Matt, I've never seen any pictures of any of your rods or your project.
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Dec 17, 2009 15:09:39 GMT
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The only forum I used before RR was the Mercedes Club. I always felt that my urge to modify my car would be met with outrage there. After punching "modified classic car" into Google I found this place, lurked for a feww months and was then promted to join when my car was flyered at Retro Cars 2004. I've been here ever since. ;D
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Last Edit: Dec 17, 2009 15:19:35 GMT by BenzBoy
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Dec 17, 2009 15:17:40 GMT
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I always drove tat, but tried to fool myself into thinking I actually enjoyed old uncool, much derided cars. Lucky I found this place which has happily re-enforced my delusion.
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RetroMat
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Dec 17, 2009 15:21:34 GMT
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I passed my test in Jan 2004 and signed up to RR in March 2004 ;D So RR and retro cars mag have pretty much shaped my driving career, with out these influences I very much doubt I would own what I drive now. Before RR I looking at buying a Pug 306, RR convinced me I should keep my k10micra. I've always been interested in anything old unusual, but back when I was learning to drive It never occurred to me I could actually own something 'different'.
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Last Edit: Dec 17, 2009 15:24:55 GMT by RetroMat
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Dec 17, 2009 15:25:53 GMT
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i grew up going to rod runs with my mum and dad since i was born. then at 14 bought a mk1 escort and done it up as my first car After that i passed my test and made friends with loads of different types of cars and went to all sorts of shows while i also owned other cars like my mk4 escort van. Then i got the Jetta as i realised i had always likes them but had never owned a VW despite buying Volksworld and PVW for years. Now i have that i have made friends with other people who have similar cars and thats also when i got the internet and signed up to RR. I don't bother signing up to other forums as everything that i look for elsewhere is all on here ;D Kris
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Dec 17, 2009 15:29:03 GMT
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Ive always been a retro rider, right from the start.
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Dec 17, 2009 15:31:51 GMT
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I used to be right into modded Vauxhalls, and owned a few. I used to be a regular on www.migweb.co.uk, became regonal co-ordinator for a while then lost interest as the club and forum filled up with 15yo kids and everything became very cliquey. If you werent running a 250+bhp c20LET in a corsa, then there was no point in asking anything on the forum as nobody would be intereste enough to answer. I'm not sure how I found RR, but the open-mindedness and variety was what kept me here.
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1986 Panda 4x4. 1990 Metro Sport. 1999 Ford Escort estate.
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jonw
Part of things
Can open a Mouse with a File
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Dec 17, 2009 15:55:01 GMT
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I was (and still am) into motorbikes. Grew up around vintage brit bikes, mainly Velocettes. Had the normal hatches, passed my bike test, bought my first Bike, a Honda Superdream, bought another Superdream for spares and started tarting the running one up a bit. Sold the superdream and got a Suzuki Sv650 which I still have. Decided to then upgrade the car to an Alfa Romeo 145 boxer... was great!! When it all worked!!! The best bit were the wipers which didn't like the rain...
Wrote the Alfa off after two years and got the mini (always wanted one). Changed jobs, bought the silver Superdream to commute on. Was pointed to this site by a mate from a mini club.
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Suzuki SV650R The good Triumph T20 The Bad BMW G650GS The Ugly Matchless G12CSR The Smokey Toyota Hybrid One pint or Two?
Ingredients of this post Spam Drunken Rambling of author Bad spelling Drunken ramblings of inner voices Occasional pointless comments Vile beef trimming they won't even use in stock cubes
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posam
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Dec 17, 2009 15:55:48 GMT
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Well I remember from early teens till I moved out, my room being plastered with the middle page pull outs from street machine magazine... be it the two tone skoda estelle, v12 supercharged cobra, to various rods and other modifieds.. then reality kicked in.. by the time i Actually got my butt into passing my test I ended up with my first car being a metro advantage... which I loved.. then moved onto mini's.. kind of natural progression I guess with the A-series.. and I stuck there for a while... that's kind of when I got into car forums.. miniresource in particular.. then followed over here as a natural progression with others... strada, rx 7, delica.. I'm working my way through different areas of retroness as I go.... anything that tickles my fancy and is in budget... though I'm back in my old mini short term while I sort out personal stuff. RR is the perfect one stop shop for all my automotive cravings.. of which I have many.
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Dec 17, 2009 16:00:14 GMT
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Ive always been a retro rider, right from the start. Ditto. Incidentally, posam - your avatar is amazing!
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Dec 17, 2009 16:17:29 GMT
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Never been into new cars. my favourite cars since I can remember were and are still the Mini and Lancia Delta. Up until 2005 my parents never had a new car so i was bought up on mk2 cavaliers, 309's, 305's, maestros, cortinas and mk1 fiestas.
Ive always looked at cars in a way that everything has potential.
before I came here I was a member of the Fiat Forum having owned an Uno and a Brava. nice people there but if its not italian they're not interested! when I bought my mini I joined the mini forum as you do. but too many narrow minded purists for my liking so I stumbled across this place full of like minded people (i thought i was the only one!) and been hooked ever since!
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1994 Mazda 323f 1.6i 16v GLX
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Dec 17, 2009 16:22:53 GMT
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Pretty much the same as you Matt, except I'll probably always be more of a hotrodder than everything else. But I do like and appreciate a lot of motors that wouldn't fit into that scene and the sort of innovation and adaptation that you see on here. I like Retro Rides, I am drawn back here like a spotty oik to porn.
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Dec 17, 2009 16:24:42 GMT
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I was always the odd one out...
and still am ;D
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Seth
South East
MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
Posts: 15,537
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Dec 17, 2009 16:47:56 GMT
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Similar to J69. I've always considered myself a hot rodder and still do since my influences are mostly from that direction. But in the last 5-10 years fewer hot rodders would probably consider me as such. I think many have either forgotten the roots of the scene in this country or have come straight into the "top end" and so look down on UK based cars. (I have neither the available cash or the willingness to go into massive debt simply to own something American and "acceptable") But that doesn't matter here on R-R and its introduced me to how other people deal with local cars from whatever part of the world they are from be it Japan, Sweden etc.
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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rob0r
East of England
Posts: 2,743
Club RR Member Number: 104
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Dec 17, 2009 17:17:17 GMT
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I was into Land Rovers, I had a defender for my first car. I went to uni and bought my second car which was a BMW for commuting, not really paying much attention to it, that was my black 316 in my sig. I went to Bodieandoyle's work to get some bits and he recommended this website and things never were the same...
4 years later I have tens of BMWs, sheds full of tat and cars in various states of disrepair everywhere, thanks Retro-Rides!!
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E30 320i 3.5 - E23 730 - E3 3.0si - E21 316 M42 - E32 750i ETC
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Dec 17, 2009 17:18:43 GMT
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been into retros since the retros were new cars 59 this week anyone on here older like a goor throaty side exit exhaust big wheels and induction roar beat that
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Dec 17, 2009 17:27:43 GMT
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I was a scooter-head (lammys etc) for many years but always had a soft spot for 50's Americana. I only got into Datsuns as I needed a runaround while my Consul was dead...the rest is history!
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Your car is not 'epic', this thread is not 'epic'....the OCEAN is epic, the UNIVERSE is epic.... please stop misusing this word!! It would appear Hotrods are the new VWs - aint fashion funny! '69 BUICK LESABRE 350
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