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Jul 17, 2015 14:28:04 GMT
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I love these great stories...
Please do keep them coming!
There is something very special about someone showing an affinity to 'your' classic...!!!
Wonderful!
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Frankenhealey
Club Retro Rides Member
And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death
Posts: 3,875
Club RR Member Number: 15
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The stories you hear...Frankenhealey
@frankenhealey
Club Retro Rides Member 15
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Jul 17, 2015 15:07:18 GMT
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I love these great stories... Please do keep them coming! There is something very special about someone showing an affinity to 'your' classic...!!! Wonderful! I was fuelling up the Healey just outside Ringwood and a RR Silver Cloud Chinese Eye Coupe pulls up behind me and starts to fill up. I'm quite used to people coming into petrol stations and filling up faster than me due to the foam-filled tank but he had a lot more to put in his so we walked into pay at the same time. We both said we liked each other's car in a gruff manly way and we both hated our respective car clubs due to the Kurse of Konkours. His main beef was the owner's meeting were nice enough but they were attended by obsessives "who didn't even own a Rolls Royce" and he was so fed up with it that one day he would end up losing his temper. I told him about the shenanigans in my club and we wandered back to the cars, only to find someone standing by his car and obviously desperate to start up a conversation. I decided discretion was the better part of valour, said goodbye and started buckling up. Before I managed to start the engine I clearly heard the start of the fracas which went in a Harry Enfield/Jeremy Clarkson type voice "Excuse me, is this your car?" "YES!" "Did you know that your wiper arms are from a later model?" I didn't hear any more as the V8 caught but as pulling out of the forecourt the RR owner was chasing the 'helpful' chap round the petrol pumps.
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Tales of the Volcano Lair hereFrankenBug - Vulcan Power hereThe Frankenhealey here
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Jul 17, 2015 17:25:22 GMT
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Brilliant ^^^
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Jul 17, 2015 17:27:59 GMT
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Had a chap come over to talk to me about my van a few months ago saying how much he liked it as you didn't see many now and what good strong vans they were... I assumed he had been a banger racer but no he had been the driver for a series of ram raids cash point robberies done years ago all using Lwb transits
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Last Edit: Jul 17, 2015 17:32:24 GMT by dodgerover
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Del
South East
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Jul 17, 2015 17:48:05 GMT
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A couple of weeks ago I was just parking the Granada, having got home from work, and noticed an older fella watching. As I got out, he came over and asked me if I wanted to sell it, and how he'd loved his even though it hadn't had the leather, and wished he'd kept it. I politely refused his kind offer but thanked him and went indoors, thinking no more of it. A couple of days later, there was a knock on the door, and there was the same guy. 'I found this in my shed, you can have it' and produced a fuel pump!
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v8ian
Posted a lot
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Jul 17, 2015 18:02:21 GMT
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Perhaps I have already written my entry to the Underworld, My old Cortina was up at the Classic Ford show, I had managed a few good 12sec runs, and was parked up having a bite to eat, bonnet open cooling off, A youf walked up with his girlfriend in tow looking unimpressed, with the statement, "That's quick and sounds Mental mate---- what engine is that??" I replied Ford Crossflow Turbo, off he trotted sounding impressed, a while later with the queue for the track at stupid levels, I parked up, bonnet open, the same youf walked by, with all his mates, saying theres that 1300turbo car, the laughing and abuse he took was brutal, ooops. My Engine
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style. Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Jul 17, 2015 18:23:22 GMT
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My garage backs onto a footpath that is a fairly busy cut through into town. I am often tinkering on the car with the garage door open, and get quite a lot of the usual comments from passers by. A well dressed elderly chap had a look and stopped the other week, started with the usual 'and old Triumph, don't see many of them anymore', he then surprised me by saying 'which I still had my ST Sprint'. Turns out he was a local Bobby and owned a tuned Sprint that the traffic police used to plead him for a ride. They were stuck in there Mk3 Cortinas, which he said were awful, and his Sprint was the quickest car in Dorking, so he used to let them hammer it round town. They used the opportunity to ignore any limits as they were uniformed, even though they were just having a hoon.
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oukie
Part of things
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Jul 17, 2015 19:01:34 GMT
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Just a few days ago I was filling up my Mr2 mk1 supercharger with V power, this chap pulls up next to me, starts the normal oh that's nice, good condition, you don't see these anymore blah blah, then he says, why have I stuck supercharger decals down the door, I said I never, Toyota did that, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, they never he balls out I had the top of the range one in the eighties blah blah etc,
I just said yeah mate sure you did, go home use this thing called the internet and a very helpful website called google, I then got in and drove off. Fool.
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Mr2 mk1 x4
Honda Accord 2.4 Executive (luxo barge)
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A well dressed elderly chap had a look and stopped the other week, started with the usual 'and old Triumph, don't see many of them anymore', he then surprised me by saying 'which I still had my ST Sprint'. Turns out he was a local Bobby and owned a tuned Sprint that the traffic police used to plead him for a ride. Now that is a gem...!!!
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Jul 18, 2015 15:18:56 GMT
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Almost but not quite... I was spring cleaning ready for a housemove (as you do) and a chap & his son turned up to collect a pushbike I was selling. Chap saw my 70s daily in the garage and I got "they were great in their day - I had ... - shame to leave yours going to waste in there" I explained that it's my daily driver. Chap didn't believe it would start never mind pass an MOT - until I pointed out the valid tax disk "Oh - I thought you were joking" says chap Same car, same house, different chap stopped in front of me as I was trying to leave my drive. chap came around to me - stopped looking confused - and asked "was I going out"? Yes replied me. chap thought again (spot the pattern ) then asked "taking it to the scrapyard" Shame I was living in a chuch at the time so couldn't say what I was thinking in case the vicar heard Same car, different house, local bobby had been called (not by me) to take a statement as my windscreen had been smashed by vandals. His visit didn't start well "kids probably thought it had been abandoned (shabby car parked in long grass) - when was the last time it moved?" I explained we had gone shopping earlier that day I often visit folk 50 miles South for me and stopped 1 day at shops in small village 10 miles from theirs. Chap came over and expained he was on 60 mile trip East/West and had just stopped for a break. Turns out he owned my car 20 years ago The retro daily (that I got from KFW in Wales) gets MOT'd at a backstreet garage in a North East market town. 1st time I took in in for MOT they were sure they had sold it 5 years earlier. "Not possible" says me as it came from Wales. Turns out KFW had has a trip up to North East 5 years ago to collect it when he bought it
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