Are you sure you're not in a Top Gear challenge?

Matthew wrote:Does it sound nice?

nah, pretty unremarkable tbh. I can feck about with the exhaust a little tho..

CIH wrote:

Matthew wrote:Does it sound nice?

nah, pretty unremarkable tbh. I can feck about with the exhaust a little tho..

Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Seriously, it's like the thing kids do when they stick credit cards between the spokes of their bikes to sound like motorbikes. Fine for 8 year olds, but for adults?

We didn't have crdeit cards. We used flattened coke cans.

Aldo's just jealous.

Cutting off the muffler is a bit obnoxious, but putting a nice muffler on is fine.

to do list;

fix windscreen jet spray no-worky
mot
mot-fixings
renew insurance
dick about with banded steel wheelsies
dick about with suspension lowerings
dick about with half arsed service and minor rust fixings
dick about with the 'zorst
general dicking-about with my old chod Porsche

Matthew wrote:Aldo's just jealous.

Cutting off the muffler is a bit obnoxious, but putting a nice muffler on is fine.

I'm not sure why I'd be jealous... I've yet to see a car 'modified' here in such a way that my little 1.5 couldn't still beat it from a standing start. Which sort of defeats the point of the defeaning penis-compensatory engine noise, surely? Mind you, I've seen someone drive the smaller engine model of my car having paid extra for stripes and superflous spoiler (really, on a 1.3L hatchback?)... when they could have just had the better spec model for less overall. It's an idiot mentality.

I live within earshot (natch) of a retail/cinema car park, where every night these pillocks have revving contests to see who can piss as much as possible of their mums petrol money away. Y'know, the kind who add a gargantuan 1970s formula one spoiler (seriously) to a 20 year old Audi saloon. Go faster stripes with wank factor twelve.

Perhaps they also paint their name on the side (girls really) or in one noticable case, paint the hubcaps on an otherwise ordinary black renault clio with what appears to be pink nail varnish.

They can then grow up and buy a Range Rover, which is custom painted pink. (I know the painting is custom, because no car manufacturer in the world would allow their image to be defaced in such a way. It is, frankly, both hideous and f#####g hilarious to see a man driving it in the car park)

I guess if you actually wanted to be associated with the sort of mentality that watches Fast & the Furious and thinks 'hey, I'll get a new bumper on my 1993 corsa so I can't go over a speedbump at more than 2mph', then it's your choice.

CIH wrote:to do list;

fix windscreen jet spray no-worky
mot
mot-fixings
renew insurance
dick about with banded steel wheelsies
dick about with suspension lowerings
dick about with half arsed service and minor rust fixings
dick about with the 'zorst
general dicking-about with my old chod Porsche

Have to say, think you should paint that thing silver.

why ? every other car you see is silver nowadays...

CIH wrote:why ? every other car you see is silver nowadays...

Looks nicer on that car, IMO.

Had an ikkle accident. 'think I've killed the Porker....

Doesn't it cost an arm and a leg to get those older models repaired when damaged?

And they never do look the same.

I feel for you, CIH. It may be just a fender-bender, but I'd be absolutely heartbroken if I got even a little dent in my T-bird.