Chav cars

[bourbon]

The one mod that I just can't understand is slamming a car. Vans especially. On the subject. I wonder if anyone tells their insurance company about the modifications? If my van has a sticker on it, they won't pay out

 

[stuvy]

The one mod that I just can't understand is slamming a car. Vans especially. On the subject. I wonder if anyone tells their insurance company about the modifications? If my van has a sticker on it, they won't pay out

Now days you have to as the police pulls be properly check unlike the old school producers you used to get

I hate a slammed car but I do like a customised van

I love a sleeper it’s always been my favourite thing to torment a faster car

I had a 2.0 zetec ford ka it was brilliant as it was completely standard looking on 15”steels with st170 brakes and did 140mph… was a giggle

 

[Gragson]

Each to their own I reckon, think I was a much more annoying and nosier kid, teenager and twenties with bikes and cars.
Theres a big meet in my town every sunday night near the main train station car park, 50 cars plus sometimes, looking at each others mods and having a bit of a burn,/fun

Having a chat with an older plod and he said there quite a nice bunch and seem to have "rules" nothing like us back then I said, he laughed a lot at that.

 

[stuvy]

Each to their own I reckon, think I was a much more annoying and nosier kid, teenager and twenties with bikes and cars.
Theres a big meet in my town every sunday night near the main train station car park, 50 cars plus sometimes, looking at each others mods and having a bit of a burn,/fun

Having a chat with an older plod and he said there quite a nice bunch and seem to have "rules" nothing like us back then I said, he laughed a lot at that.

We have one in our town on a sunday

My main gripe is there’s a young lad lives down the road from me abd his mate lives in my close

He picks him up and revs the hell out of his civic. It drives me mental as my dad always said never s**t on your own door step, Iv been riding bikes with race cans for 20 years in may and had a daily v8 or a fast modified car myself I just wouldn’t dream of annoying the people where my mates live

 

[minimutly]

We had one, friends with next door but ones kids. Would be there all night playing computer games, leave at 0500, wake everyone up. ****** me off so much in the end I had words. Nothing worse than buggering about with peoples sleep.
Anyway, they grew up, problem went away, as it does usually

 

[Johnnybravo]

 

[Dieselman 63]

As I've said before, each to their own. We all have our 'thing'. As long as it impacts no-one else, let them be.

You didn't say that when I went on a spa break, you questioned my manliness

 

[MattF]

You didn't say that when I went on a spa break, you questioned my manliness

That's different, you wuss.

 

[Edward Teach]

Now days you have to as the police pulls be properly check unlike the old school producers you used to get

I hate a slammed car but I do like a customised van

I love a sleeper it’s always been my favourite thing to torment a faster car

I had a 2.0 zetec ford ka it was brilliant as it was completely standard looking on 15”steels with st170 brakes and did 140mph… was a giggle

I had a Y reg mk3 Escort 1300L 4 door, with an XR3i put into it, suspension, tank, loom, everything, "back in the day", and as yourself, steel rims, lol
That was fun at times

 

[Geoffm]

I, or rather my wife, had a red Toyota Corolla GTi, with a hot 4AGE 1600 motor, koni adjustable shocks, light flywheel, adjustable cam sprockets and other fruit. A friend of mine had spent a pile on it, in association with the whitewater manufacturer's workshop. Pretty sure they didn't know about the homers done there on company time.
The motor was uilt and ported by a then well known Toyota race engine builder and was basically a fast road/rally spec motor. I had the dynamic charts until we moved.
My wife used to commute to work with it. It was like driving a go kart and great fun.
Did you know that if you buy the right ones, you can fit 3 kiddies car seats in the back seat of a corolla? The events that led to this discovery also,led,to a,Toyota Camry wagon and the end of fun driving...

 

[Onoff]

a lad i know had a capri with a massively jacked up rear end. i said to him you have heard the saying have you . the lower the back end the higher the mentality the higher the back end the lower the mentality

I took off from a hump backed bridge in mine on the way back from Hastings at silly speeds late one night. On landing I broke a leaf spring, heads were banged on the roof etc.

The back end instantly got lower. If anything I felt a lot more stupid!

Then I lost it on bend, whacked the wheel on the kerb and bent the half shaft.

Luckily, on neither occasion were the dual static strips, hanging off the back, damaged.

 

[fixedfixer]

My parents encouraged me to buy a series 2 Landrover when I passed my test. They later explained their thinking, a slow vehicle, wouldn’t need spoilers etc, and would teach me a load of mechanical skills due ti it’s reliability , a fuel consumption that meant I’d not go to far. Dad also had a plan that he’d use it to tow his caravan. The reasons for its purchase soon put paid to that idea

 

[julianf]

My parents encouraged me to buy a series 2 Landrover when I passed my test. They later explained their thinking, a slow vehicle, wouldn’t need spoilers etc, and would teach me a load of mechanical skills due ti it’s reliability , a fuel consumption that meant I’d not go to far. Dad also had a plan that he’d use it to tow his caravan. The reasons for its purchase soon put paid to that idea

My first car was an 800cc 1954 Morris minor.

It was a hand-me-down from my older brother. My folks thought pretty much the same - can't go fast enough to do much damage with an 800cc car.

Thing is, with no seatbelts, no crumple zone, and no real side structural integrity, even a low speed impact...

My brother went to the police pound to get any personal effects. He said there were bits of jagged metal with blood and hair stuck to them, and that it didn't look like the sort of wreck anyone got out of alive.


My second car was a landrover 101 forward control.

 

[fixedfixer]

Yes, a series two steering column and no seat belts concentrates the mind. I never did get the single circuit drum brake system to do much. The middle pedal was a bit of a token item really. On the bright side I can still double the clutch

 

[GRW]

The more recent car trends that always make my chuckle are...
1. Any of the daft French chavvy-chic rag tops.
2. Freelanders and Audi TT's. To me mostly pointless, impractical vehicles that are more styling exercises and marketing at the expense of being a good vehicle. I can't help expecting the driver to be a Hairdresser

 

[frank horton]

like someone else on here......
I prefer a sleeper.....mine was a late MK1 Cortina with a V6 Wessex under the bonnet.....disc brakes helped a bit but forward planning essental if u wanna stop....hahaha....
Worst bit woz second gear kept stripping.....no 5 speeds then.....only outside thing to show woz the big steely rims.... remeber those ? with the extra banding weled in.....
Happy days....
Been thinking about a MK1 or 2 Escort with a 2ltr Focus engine minus the electronic's and the f/injection.....
keeping old school with 4 flat side Keihins (no room for DCOE's) with a tricked out MK3 Esc distributor....
No turbos and electronics to mess up.......
Keeping a sleeper of course.......Have found a doner vehicle.....
what'd ya think....?

 

[8ob]

I have always liked looking over and been interested in the engineering that goes into custom cars,hot rods,kit cars and anything with a silly engine fitted. Cant get my head around what the kids do with modern cars, like with the wheels looking like they are about to fall off and all the unnecessary noise from dump valves etc, most of it is pointless and some of it downright dangerous.

Bob

 

[bricol]

I'm as big a petrol (or diesel) head as most but some things I don't understand.
My total pet hate, its normally but not limited to mk4 Vw Golf's and Boras, Seat Leon's etc, expertly piloted by local bell ends with their seats so reclined they are almost horizontal, but they have to be to see out below the 2 foot deep sticker at the top of their windscreens. Bouncing along the road in their 'slammed innit' scuzmobile, bodywork being ripped to shreds by their 20" rims everytime they drive over anything bigger than a piece of gravel or a speed ramp, or have to go round one of those 'corners'. With their whistling dump valves announcing another deluge of unburnt diesel smoke obscuring their car and about 2 lanes of traffic behind them, adding to the carefully unwashed back end covered in soot. (The rest of the car probably gleaming) Naturally for a hatchback, the thoughtfully designed and provided useful rear wiper will have been removed preventing the much admired sheet of coal dust being inadvertently removed.
WTF is this about?

Crikey, which part of the 1990's did you time travel from?

 

[Pilgrim22]

I'm as big a petrol (or diesel) head as most but some things I don't understand.
My total pet hate, its normally but not limited to mk4 Vw Golf's and Boras, Seat Leon's etc, expertly piloted by local bell ends with their seats so reclined they are almost horizontal, but they have to be to see out below the 2 foot deep sticker at the top of their windscreens. Bouncing along the road in their 'slammed innit' scuzmobile, bodywork being ripped to shreds by their 20" rims everytime they drive over anything bigger than a piece of gravel or a speed ramp, or have to go round one of those 'corners'. With their whistling dump valves announcing another deluge of unburnt diesel smoke obscuring their car and about 2 lanes of traffic behind them, adding to the carefully unwashed back end covered in soot. (The rest of the car probably gleaming) Naturally for a hatchback, the thoughtfully designed and provided useful rear wiper will have been removed preventing the much admired sheet of coal dust being inadvertently removed.
WTF is this about?

Is this the sort of thing you're on about?

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[sako243]

The one mod that I just can't understand is slamming a car.

Wouldn't work where I live.

One of the roads out of my place has a hairpin on a very steep road. If there's someone coming down the only vehicles I've known not to cock a wheel and scrabble for traction are Land Rovers because of their articulation capabilities. Dad's shogun scrabbles, all SUVs I've seen scrabble, all pickups. Even the one tractor I've seen going up the inside of the corner has cocked a front wheel.