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Come Inside... => Petrol/Diesel/Red Diesel/Aviation Fuel Head Zone => Topic started by: Pastis on September 11, 2007, 05:25:59 PM
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Running on from the "Your first car" thread, there's surely the one that you enjoyed most - for whatever reason - and were sad to part with sad24:
Mine? A beautiful TVR S2. Midnight blue, cream leather interior, went like proverbial sh*t off a shovel, sounded marvellous...
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My XJR sad24:
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sad24:
That must have hurt sad24:
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My:
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It got nicked, "Used in the pursuit of crime" and wrecked by the police.
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Never had a favourite car, not that interested in them and they are just a means of getting from A to B.
As long as they start, need very little attention and are cheap to run then that's good enough.
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sad24:
That must have hurt sad24:
Indeed, I sold it to come out here. Right decition in hindsight but the depreciation was crippling... noooo:
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I'm afraid my favourites are a little more mundane.
Never even been in a Jag tbh, or a TVR. redface:
Been in a Lambo Gallarado and DB9 last year though....as a passenger. ::)
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Mine would have to be this one:
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My old 1948 Morris 8 Series E that I owned for a few years prior to going to live in France for a time.
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Crazy I know, but with the 1.6 Pug. 205 Gti engine under the bonnet, and very low weight, it was an absolute hoot to drive.
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I liked Lulu! Pity about the brakes!
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Mine would have to be this one:
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My old 1948 Morris 8 Series E that I owned for a few years prior to going to live in France for a time.
Ye Gods! I taught myself to drive in one of those! But it looked bigger... eyes: My elder brother worked nights and I used to steal the keys and drive around the bomb site behing our house. Once our next-door asked me to tow-start his Austin 7 and it needed us to go out onto the road where I came across a police car... They said eight-year-olds have no business driving on roads and instructed me to drive around the block and back onto the dump. cloud9: Those were the days! the 7 started and I went home... My brother found out and when he got over yelling, gave me the keys. ;) My uncle was a police driver and started me on some serious training so I never really looked back from there...
The following year, I bought a wreck of a Vespa for 30/- and spent the summer hols figuring out how it worked and what was wrong with it. I was the only kid that rode to school on a scooter ;) but I used to hide it around the corner... just in case any of the teachers got snotty about it...
Amazing what a picture can do...
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I also used to hire Citroen 2CVs from an outfit called Two Horse Hire. Like driving a very slow Spitfire (aeroplane). I once picked up a hitchhiker. He said it was like "being in a moving tent". I nearly dropped him off again evil: Once had a race with a Porsche in a 2CV on an otherwise empty M1 late one New Year's Eve. He won noooo:
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I also used to hire Citroen 2CVs from an outfit called Two Horse Hire. Like driving a very slow Spitfire (aeroplane). I once picked up a hitchhiker. He said it was like "being in a moving tent". I nearly dropped him off again evil: Once had a race with a Porsche in a 2CV on an otherwise empty M1 late one New Year's Eve. He won noooo:
Great little cars the 2CV (or Deux Chevaux). Even had air conditioning and cruise control - or at least mine did.
Air-con was virtue of two little flaps above the dash which could be opened to allow a force 9 gale in to keep you cool.
Cruise control (at least in mine) consisted of a house brick! I kid you not. I used to use it for trips down the M1 - simply join the motorway, attempt to attain max cruising speed (between 50 and 75 depending on the incline) and drop the brick on the throttle, sit back and enjoy the ride. My record was (in the early hours) from the M6/A5 junction, all the way to Mill Hill in North Londonistan without removing the brick!
Cornering was also interesting! The thing used to sway alarmingly but always went round the corner. I'm told that Citroen offered a cash reward to anyone who could overturn one in normal motoring!
The suspension too was phenomenal. Whilst in France I had a 2CV - local back road was ex-railway line so almost straight and gentle downward slope. To slow cars down they'd installed many Gendarmes dormant (sleeping policemen) or traffic humps. If taken as 'sensible' speeds, the wretched thing bounced up and down like a toddler in a bouncy castle! If, however, you took them at >50kph then it just went 'thump - thump' and sailed straight over with no bounce or wallow at all! Great for overtaking manouvres.
Bring back the 2CV I say!
Piccy:
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Oh christ. ANOTHER car I want. I need a bloody mansion with a very large barn to stuff all these motors in.
Drove one once, and was totally smitten. Going up in value now too.
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Oh christ. ANOTHER car I want. I need a bloody mansion with a very large barn to stuff all these motors in.
Drove one once, and was totally smitten. Going up in value now too.
What? The 2CV? Growler? confused2:
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Oh christ. ANOTHER car I want. I need a bloody mansion with a very large barn to stuff all these motors in.
Drove one once, and was totally smitten. Going up in value now too.
What? The 2CV? Growler? confused2:
YEA! The 2CV! happy088
Look at this lot. Talk about an investment if you bought and kept one in mint condition!! eeek:
http://www.quirkyclassics.co.uk/cars_for_sale.html
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Oh christ. ANOTHER car I want. I need a bloody mansion with a very large barn to stuff all these motors in.
Drove one once, and was totally smitten. Going up in value now too.
What? The 2CV? Growler? confused2:
YEA! The 2CV! happy088
Look at this lot. Talk about an investment if you bought and kept one in mint condition!! eeek:
http://www.quirkyclassics.co.uk/cars_for_sale.html
Well . . . . . if you want to talk quirky classics, how about this little beauty?
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you - The Bond Bug (nothing to do with James)
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Oh christ. ANOTHER car I want. I need a bloody mansion with a very large barn to stuff all these motors in.
Drove one once, and was totally smitten. Going up in value now too.
What? The 2CV? Growler? confused2:
YEA! The 2CV! happy088
Look at this lot. Talk about an investment if you bought and kept one in mint condition!! eeek:
http://www.quirkyclassics.co.uk/cars_for_sale.html
Well . . . . . if you want to talk quirky classics, how about this little beauty?
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you - The Bond Bug (nothing to do with James)
I remember those ? quirky certainly, classic? rubschin:
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Yet another one for me barn collection. cloud9:
I'd have killed for one of them when I was a teenager.
Fetchin' MONSTER money now...if you can find one. ::)
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... when I was a teenager.
Anyone remember these?
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A friend of my mum's had one... she used to turn up looking like Doris Day in her aquamarine Metropolitan... tantalising eyes:. She's got a lot to answer for, that woman... ;)
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I remember those (shows age). My Dad has a Vauxhall Victor, then a Ford Popular with orange ears. (Arthur) He installed his own heater in it!
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I remember those (shows age). My Dad has a Vauxhall Victor, then a Ford Popular with orange ears. (Arthur) He installed his own heater in it!
By heck lad tha wost rich ~ heater?
T'only warmth we 'ad was when me Dad chewed a mint and we warmed us 'ands on 'is breath.
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It only strikes me as odd now that you would have to install a heater in a car rubschin:
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then a Ford Popular with orange ears.
I suspect most know the answer to this, but for the benefit of the younger boys and girls...
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Known also as A Trafficator ;)
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No. The ears were the newer model. They didn't come out of the car, they were stuck onto the side in the middle
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Also known as trafficators until the word indicators (Short for Direction Indicators) took over. The "Arm" variety were, to give them their correct name, called Semaphore Trafficators. The Semaphore variety predates the fixed half moon "ears". Both were on the door pillars at the sides of the vehicle and were eventually replaced by the fore and aft variety of indicator lights we use today. There is of course a return nowadays to side indicators as well .... most manufacturers refer to these "Repeat indicators" or repeaters for short.
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All very well and good but I only wish more drivers would use the bloody things! Banghead
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No. The ears were the newer model. They didn't come out of the car, they were stuck onto the side in the middle
doh:
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All very well and good but I only wish more drivers would use the bloody things! Banghead
Now that is a whole different argument. I do agree that the majority do not seem to know what the little stalks on the steering column are for. It's worse now that they also have one for the washers, one for the stereo system, one for the lights and one for the direction indicators. I am convinced many people sail round corners wondering why their radio just changed channels whilst being blissfully unaware that they have just failed to indicate and in the process caused me to brake and take avoiding action. evil:
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All very well and good but I only wish more drivers would use the bloody things! Banghead
Optional extra on all BMWs. ::)
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All very well and good but I only wish more drivers would use the bloody things! Banghead
Optional extra on all BMWs. ::)
Nonsense! In extended trials, BMW have discovered that the additional weight penalty of the indicators and associated wiring and stuff account for the loss of 0.000000013 BHP across their range, with the greatest loss being experienced by the 3 series, causing the decision to cease handicapping their cars with all the equipment which robs them of so much power and speed. On older models (still in service with impoverished wannabe notable drivers) a circular issued by BMW warning of the disadvantages of using the gear proved effective enough to render the systems obsolete. No real BMW driver would now be seen flashing indicators as it is uncool.
The transformation to the indicator-free high performance BMW range was given a boost by the research results from the M3 arm that proved beyond doubt that the lapse of concentration caused by thinking about and deciding to use indicators reduced the overall performance of ace BMW drivers by the average speed by 1.03 MPH overall. The performance gain from dispensing from indicators meant nobody else could keep up with BMW's average speeds therefore making them completely unecessary as no other vehicles or drivers will ever be close enough to notice the lack of signalling.
Unfortunately to account for the research and development of the indicator-free range of vehicles it has proved necessary to increase the price of these advanced cars by a flat ?3000 across the range, 'It was a price well worth paying' declared the BMW Owners Club 'Perhaps we can think of more innovative methods of improving the appeal of these cars, rear lighting springs to mind as completely usless to the cars performance as well as the high penalty of the horn, a device fitted that only calls your mates out of their houses is quite an extravagance...
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Foolish cat ~ the whole point is that BMW drivers don't use their indicators simply to balance the environmental effects of Volvo drivers who travel hundreds of miles along motorways with their indicators flashing away for no purpose whatsoever. I thought everyone knew that ::)
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Owner of this obviously did a bit too much Big Willy Waving. lol:
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/someone-upset-p1.php
Seen this done to a pub landlordess who banned some prick out of her boozer.
Came back, smashed the windows of her new Astra, and chucked a couple of gallons of creosote inside. eeek:
Better keep that posh car of yours locked up BM, what with that dodgy beer of yours like. ;)
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Tsk! That is not necessary but the perpetrators will not see it as a crime "'Cos the insurance pays innit?"
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Owner of this obviously did a bit too much Big Willy Waving. lol:
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/someone-upset-p1.php
Seen this done to a pub landlordess who banned some prick out of her boozer.
Came back, smashed the windows of her new Astra, and chucked a couple of gallons of creosote inside. eeek:
Better keep that posh car of yours locked up BM, what with that dodgy beer of yours like. ;)
Many, many years ago a girlfriend?s neighbour poured paint stripper on my car ?because we were too noisy?. whistle:
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All very well and good but I only wish more drivers would use the bloody things! Banghead
Optional extra on all BMWs. ::)
Nonsense! In extended trials, BMW have discovered that the additional weight penalty of the indicators and associated wiring and stuff account for the loss of 0.000000013 BHP across their range, with the greatest loss being experienced by the 3 series, causing the decision to cease handicapping their cars with all the equipment which robs them of so much power and speed. On older models (still in service with impoverished wannabe notable drivers) a circular issued by BMW warning of the disadvantages of using the gear proved effective enough to render the systems obsolete. No real BMW driver would now be seen flashing indicators as it is uncool.
The transformation to the indicator-free high performance BMW range was given a boost by the research results from the M3 arm that proved beyond doubt that the lapse of concentration caused by thinking about and deciding to use indicators reduced the overall performance of ace BMW drivers by the average speed by 1.03 MPH overall. The performance gain from dispensing from indicators meant nobody else could keep up with BMW's average speeds therefore making them completely unecessary as no other vehicles or drivers will ever be close enough to notice the lack of signalling.
Unfortunately to account for the research and development of the indicator-free range of vehicles it has proved necessary to increase the price of these advanced cars by a flat ?3000 across the range, 'It was a price well worth paying' declared the BMW Owners Club 'Perhaps we can think of more innovative methods of improving the appeal of these cars, rear lighting springs to mind as completely usless to the cars performance as well as the high penalty of the horn, a device fitted that only calls your mates out of their houses is quite an extravagance...
Is that in addition to the ?2000 charged for the special document in the owners 'wallet' in the glove box giving permission to ignore speed limits and other road laws, as well as giving sole rights to the outside lane on motorways?
I'm given to understand that Mercs provide a similar service so maybe it's standard issue on German motors?
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All very well and good but I only wish more drivers would use the bloody things! Banghead
Optional extra on all BMWs. ::)
Nonsense! In extended trials, BMW have discovered that the additional weight penalty of the indicators and associated wiring and stuff account for the loss of 0.000000013 BHP across their range, with the greatest loss being experienced by the 3 series, causing the decision to cease handicapping their cars with all the equipment which robs them of so much power and speed. On older models (still in service with impoverished wannabe notable drivers) a circular issued by BMW warning of the disadvantages of using the gear proved effective enough to render the systems obsolete. No real BMW driver would now be seen flashing indicators as it is uncool.
The transformation to the indicator-free high performance BMW range was given a boost by the research results from the M3 arm that proved beyond doubt that the lapse of concentration caused by thinking about and deciding to use indicators reduced the overall performance of ace BMW drivers by the average speed by 1.03 MPH overall. The performance gain from dispensing from indicators meant nobody else could keep up with BMW's average speeds therefore making them completely unecessary as no other vehicles or drivers will ever be close enough to notice the lack of signalling.
Unfortunately to account for the research and development of the indicator-free range of vehicles it has proved necessary to increase the price of these advanced cars by a flat ?3000 across the range, 'It was a price well worth paying' declared the BMW Owners Club 'Perhaps we can think of more innovative methods of improving the appeal of these cars, rear lighting springs to mind as completely usless to the cars performance as well as the high penalty of the horn, a device fitted that only calls your mates out of their houses is quite an extravagance...
Is that in addition to the ?2000 charged for the special document in the owners 'wallet' in the glove box giving permission to ignore speed limits and other road laws, as well as giving sole rights to the outside lane on motorways?
I'm given to understand that Mercs provide a similar service so maybe it's standard issue on German motors?
That's the jobbie! It's a little known fact that you can get a ?7,000 discount if you buy your BMW wholesale - that is - supplied without the key fob. 8)
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Don't talk to me about bastard key fobs. evil:
Shitroen want to charge me 20 snotters to 'tune my key' (spare) into the ECU because I haven't got some poxy plastic card with an ID number on it, cus the previous owner can't (be arsed to) find it....or the original spare either.
What's the 20 quid for?
For Shitroen to fax the number to the main stealer. eeek: evil: eeek:
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Must be the trade rate - they told me it would be ?80.
Thinking back to the XM, All the relays fitted to the car had unique resistors fitted and had to be recognised by the ECU before they would work.
I found this out when a relay failed and the (many) replacements would not work.
I had to have a unique one 'manufactured' and Fedex'ed from Paris for ?65 VOR 6 days Ordinary relay ?4. evil:
I wasn't supposed to know what was unique about it but I always carried a few spares afterwards. whistle:
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Back on topic, my favourite car was a racing Mini 7 that I won for a quid by buying a raffle ticket in a pub. VBH pulled my ticket out at the "Mini festival" at Silverstone in 1999. The car was - allegedly - worth twenty grand. I raced it once (all paid for by the Mini owners club) at Silverstone in Octiber 1999 - finished 18th out of 32 starters and sold it a year later for five grand. Not quite the amount I was expecting...
Still, nought to sixty in about five seconds is pretty good in a Mini and the corner speeds make my Gixxer look pedestrian. Flat in fourth under Bridge, take the right hander still flat in fourth on two wheels. Utterly brilliant.
Not bad for a quid.
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VBH
Que?
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Back on topic, my favourite car was a racing Mini 7 that I won for a quid by buying a raffle ticket in a pub. VBH pulled my ticket out at the "Mini festival" at Silverstone in 1999. The car was - allegedly - worth twenty grand. I raced it once (all paid for by the Mini owners club) at Silverstone in Octiber 1999 - finished 18th out of 32 starters and sold it a year later for five grand. Not quite the amount I was expecting...
Still, nought to sixty in about five seconds is pretty good in a Mini and the corner speeds make my Gixxer look pedestrian. Flat in fourth under Bridge, take the right hander still flat in fourth on two wheels. Utterly brilliant.
Not bad for a quid.
VBH?
VBH?
Ahhh, light dawns, Vicky Butler-Iwould-Henderson!
You can see her here (http://www.vb-h.net/pictures.htm)
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I was on holiday in Kos with the ex at the time - the first I knew of it was when me bruv phoned me up and said "Bruv, you've won a car" I assumed he was pissed again, but no, he wasn't. I then received a phone call from someone at the "Mini magazine" asking for an interview when I returned fron holiday.
It was all a bit surreal.although I finished 18th, they still insisted I stood on the podium at Silverstone with the top three, cameras clicking everywhere. Most embarrassing.
PS my engine was, apparenty about 15 bhp down on the better cars, so that is my excuse for my lowly position :-)
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Ahhh, light dawns, Vicky Butler-Iwould-Henderson!
We all would... whistle:
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Not me.
Not my type. noooo:
Now, Miss Netball Kit 2007 happy088
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Not me.
Not my type. noooo:
Now, Miss Netball Kit 2007 happy088
Oh, you?d turn her down would you? noooo:
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Put like that, prolly not rubschin:
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Even Clarkson said "there's something about her" and he's more interested in pistons than tits,,,
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Put like that, prolly not rubschin:
Good man.
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I had forgotten about this one. I think I inherited it from somewhere.
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