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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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I'm sat here waiting for a 1.2 Gb postscript file to print so...
it's cool story time! Not necassarily you driving.
My top one. A bloke I used to share a flat with was going out with this lovely girl, who, unfortunatley, was married, even more unfortunately, to a local drug dealer (niiice).
Well she blabbed to him and before you know it he had come a visiting in a big black Jeep Wrangler. Needless to say he was not let into our house so he got back in the Jeep, and drove it through our front door screaming "I'll kiiiiill you!!" very loudly.
Turned out not to even be his Jeep!
next... 1 Gb to go!
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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guy
Part of things
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Fook!
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Mk1 Escort slowly rusting into nothing! But safely stored in a dry garage. Mk2 Golf, Low n' Loud
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Sooo, I guess i won't be moving to the cotwolds for a quiet life.......
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dp
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DP Race Tech
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104zs in da house: madest car moment ever?
Had so many of those I don't even know where to start but one that sticks is during my years in Cali I bought a 90½ Saab 900 Turbo Convertible from Saab, it was their magazine tester, loaded, Aero package, yellow on black and with some work done on the T16 motor by the crew at Swedish Service West LA. The car was real fast and I have proof of that (but that's a story for a verry special occasion). Going down to work from Santa Barbara to West LA one early morning I decided to take PCH just because, the night before had been spent with friends at Montecito In and I did not get much sleep. Humming along cutting of the 101 at Ventura and out on the coast, shortly after Point Dume I fell asleap behind the wheel, the car left PCH and a short flight later it was stuck on the beach, the dropp from the road to the beach was somwhere around 3 to 3½ meters but enough to bend the car like a banana. I woke up just as it leaves PCH and it was to late to do anything but go along for the ride, I remeber thinking SH*T I'm about to die!!! but it all turned out quite well, nasty bruised chest (and ego) from the seat belt but the car was a total write of. The look of the tow crew was worth it all and shortly after them California Highway Patrol arrived and filed a report on the accident, the Officer jokingly said I guess you wern't doing 55 but since I can't prove that I'll just fine you for littering a State Beach, we all stood around talking and laughing for a while and then I got a ride with CHP to the Sheriff station in Malibu, the car went to Swedish Service West LA but was beyond saving so the insurance coughed up and for that cash I bought a Merc 190 2.5 16 EVO II.....
DP says: Don't get involved with drug dealers they'll damage your respect among neighbours....
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Last Edit: Jun 2, 2006 14:06:59 GMT by dp
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bryn
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Hmm not sure on this on. Again been very lucky...
I was in an insolated biker bar in the Catskill mountains in north New York State. My best friend who I was travelling with had just 'befriended' one of the locals girlfriends (in the toilets), it was 4am by the time we left the bar. Luckily the local was too young to drink in the bar so was waiting outside with his pal in a Toyota Carina.
I went out first while my mate straightened himself up, there was some staring action and a bit of verbal abuse (at me) so I walked on into the dark. I then fired up our rather shabby 425ci Cadillac Sedan De Ville and smoked it over to where they were sat waiting for my mate and the girl.
They both came out, he kissed her goodnight and we left spraying gravel over the Carina. The boys then chased us for what must have been twenty miles as I criss-crossed the mountains trying to outrun them... Every time I pulled some length out on them they'd catch up on the corners. As the situation at the bar had been a bit desperate I'd had a sharpener or two... Which probably kept me from having a heart attack.
In the end I resorted to killing the lights and we ducked down a forest track round a corner and lost them.
I can remember laughing so hard it hurt with relief. Ten years ago this year that was. Blimey ;D
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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bstardchild
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madest car moment ever?bstardchild
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Driving back from Italy in the Bstardchild it had ben a steady old drive cruising at 80mph (ish - bit lower thro Switzerland cos they get the right hump with speeders) anyway mid afternoon and we are into France and she is asleep in the passenger seat and I've been winding the wick up a bit where traffic conditions allow Anyway it became a bit of a convoy as a M3 had been playing tail end charlie for a while. I didn't fancy upping the pace too much but he obviously did and on one long straight came past flat out (maybe 155-160) Well as much as I tried to resist the urge it seemed rude not to drop a gear or three plant the loud pedal and pass him back (no limiter ) Went past flat out in 5th the wrong side of 180mph and as I went past I changed into 6th for maximum effect - held onto the speed for maybe 2-3 miles till he was a distant blob and then eased of the gas and settled down to a more reasonable cruising speed maybe 120mph ish....... He gradually caught up and pulled alongside - big thumbs up and then he floored it again...... Now I'd done it once - that was enough - one thing I have learnt is you don't push your luck too often..... We were almost at the top of a long incline so just mainained my cruising speed - Sheesh next thing I see is a huge load of smoke of the tyres on the M3 and he's sliding all over the road. I rapidly realised that there was something ahead - confirmed by cresting the rise that revealed 3 lanes of stationary traffic backed up as far as the eye could see and curse word all braking area Got good brakes M3's - he gave me the heads up early enough to lose some speed and the brakes had a relatively easy time losing the remaining 100mph - he stoped inches from the last car and I stoped beside him Mad would have been doing 180mph and barrelling over the crest to prove the point again It would have been like skittles
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