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My ae86 gets a fair bit of attention - most people just think its an old Corolla (well ok, it is, but still...) but I occasionally get stopped when I am putting fuel in it. Always positive, although I do get tired of hearing "when are you going to turbo it"
Only had someone ask me to sell it once - when I told him he'd need $10k to make it happen he backed off!
I really enjoy the little bit of attention. If I was driving it everyday I might get tired off it I suppose
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sweep
Part of things
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Jul 22, 2014 19:09:52 GMT
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I miss driving retro stuff for this exact reason. Maybe it's time to search the classifieds?
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Clement
Europe
ambitious but rubbish
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Jul 22, 2014 19:14:28 GMT
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Isn't it always time to search the classifieds?
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sweep
Part of things
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Jul 22, 2014 19:22:25 GMT
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Isn't it always time to search the classifieds? As there's already three cars on the parents drive, apparently not I should rephrase that, 5 cars of which 3 are mine
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Last Edit: Jul 22, 2014 19:23:01 GMT by sweep
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Clement
Europe
ambitious but rubbish
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Jul 22, 2014 19:35:31 GMT
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Sell two, buy a retro, then sell the third because your retro makes it redundant. Then thoroughly buy several other retros for no real reason other than "because I could".
Any questions?
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sweep
Part of things
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Jul 23, 2014 18:00:43 GMT
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Sell two, buy a retro, then sell the third because your retro makes it redundant. Then thoroughly buy several other retros for no real reason other than "because I could". Any questions? Understood, they're now on eBay. Now, what to buy..
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Jul 23, 2014 20:02:22 GMT
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Sell two, buy a retro, then sell the third because your retro makes it redundant. Then thoroughly buy several other retros for no real reason other than "because I could". Any questions? And then one day, you wake up, and you got 36 cars sitting outside ;D (true story) For some reason, i seem to have gotten a "Nah, he wont sell anything" reputation, but the truth is that every bloke thats turned up here with cash in hand, have left with the car he wanted, so i dunno... Probably just some of the, what was the term, Wastemen who offer less than scrap price being little bitches I kept getting people thinking they knew more of my car than me with my `58 beetle, like "Thats a 7x model, yea?" and then INSISTING that they had split rear windows until like 1970 But mostly its just people wanting to chat, been stopped by both the police and motor vehicles dept. people just because they wanted to look at whatever car i was driving at the time
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Had an eastern European gent chatting to me about my car last night. He was really digging the R5. I asked him if he was from Slovenia & he was surprised that I was right. There used to be loads there as Renault shipped the production there in 1991. Sadly, the last time I was there 2009 I barely saw any.
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Jul 24, 2014 23:11:09 GMT
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I'd just like to point out that, "What the Donald Duck is that thing?" wasn't a request to buy it. hah, I know you secretly (and openly!) loathed it. It was at a filling station a couple of miles away just before I reached you. Speaking of the police, I was pulled over once years ago in my favorAt (this happened constantly) and the guy wanted to know who had painted all the murals on it - he wanted to do his split bus the same. One of the few times that car got pulled over and DIDN'T get the full checkover because something had to be illegal...
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Jul 25, 2014 10:56:00 GMT
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Once whilst out working, a kid shouted "nice car mate!" I just smiled as in all fairness, my golf was filthy and in my opinion looked like a bag of poop! Haha
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I think some are getting the wrong idea. People generally don't mind chatting about their cars. I got out of a parking ticket because the old boy doing the parking tickets loved Senators. He loved them so much that he paid extra attention to mine so it didn't get pinched (it was in Bristol).
I think the problem people have is the dreamers that ask "is it for sale?" who have absolutely no intention of buying it or would have the money even if they were looking for one.
Its like the age question you ask your missus when you get home, "how was your day today?", for the most part, all we want to hear is "yeah, it was OK", we're absolutely no expecting, nor are we interested in a blow by blow account of that day.
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Aug 10, 2014 17:07:30 GMT
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Freshandminty, i remember that one! think it was a blue lancia if i remember rightly? it was there for years!
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