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Targarama said:
I like the clunge magnet sticker.
Why?! Do you honestly find it funny? I'm not sure if the OP honestly thinks that his car might be attractive to females, or if he's just doing it to be ironic. Either way, it looks ridiculous and most people that see it will think the driver is an idiot, when in fact he might be a really nice guy.I like the black car. Front lights a little OTT but a nice little motor. Certainly better than I had at that age.
Nothing wrong with finance. It is quite sad that it is deemed a bad thing on PH. I would never pay outright for a car. Finance subsidises the car and a monthly payment is far easier to attain than finding 20, 30, 40 or more thousand pound.
My first new car was a black Sierra 2.0 LX that I bought on September 5th 1989. Aged 20 the finance was £238 per month for four years, with a £3000 MG Maestro 2.0 traded in.
When I decided finance was bad for me I downgraded to 4 or 5 year old cars which cost more to run and own than a new car would have.
Well done OP, but the lights on the second car are a bit silly.
Targarama said:
Hey Cheekmeister - don't take the feedback too badly, 99% of 'maturer' PHers did something just as gash to their first rides too. They probably didn't tell their insurers about all the mods either. However it didn't seem to matter so much 20+ years ago. Perhaps your Mum or Dad are insured on the car and you're a named driver? (if so, please do a search for 'insurance fronting').
I'll just leave this here:
My first two years of motoring. Aged 16.5years to around 18.5years.
Then at 21 I played silly f
kers and blew £15k on modifying a 200SX. 
There's also been an MG ZR that I sunk £8k of tuning into
And now I launch money down classic cars.
Have fun kidda. Modifying is frowned upon, but I'm 24, 25 next month and love it.
NotDave said:
My first two years of motoring. Aged 16.5years to around 18.5years.
Then at 21 I played silly fkers and blew £15k on modifying a 200SX.
Funny thread, each to their on. We've all done it, at 17 I horribly abused a brand new Punto Sporting (18s, lowered till it scraped, huge subs, everything short of Lexus lights), and then wasted a similar amount to yourself on an MR2 Turbo. Then once you reach your mid-twenties, you start looking down on the people who are only doing the exact same thing as you once did Then at 21 I played silly f
kers and blew £15k on modifying a 200SX. 
monthefish said:
^^^^
This is the failure, right here.
What gives anyone the right to "look down" on anyone else on here, no matter what they drive, or what they do to it?
Have a +1This is the failure, right here.
What gives anyone the right to "look down" on anyone else on here, no matter what they drive, or what they do to it?
We're all petrol heads, whether it's spanking a 1000cc corsa, dropping an MXghey on its chassis rails or thrashing t'nuts off a classic, we all get our kicks with cars!
Me? Nowadays I have a 2006 Saab 93 SS derv for mileage duties, only mods are de-cluttering & colour coding, oh & some HIDs.
A 2002 Ford Mondeo lx, snottering and b road thrashing. Far more fun than it has any right to be.
And a 1971 Austin 1300 in original condition .... That is pure fun factor!
Been ten other cars, some daft.
Judge me at will
ArsE92 said:
Targarama said:
I like the clunge magnet sticker.
Why?! Do you honestly find it funny? I'm not sure if the OP honestly thinks that his car might be attractive to females, or if he's just doing it to be ironic. Either way, it looks ridiculous and most people that see it will think the driver is an idiot, when in fact he might be a really nice guy.Of course it looks silly, but it is on a young lad's Corsa, not a middle aged execs Merc. Therefore appropriate.
Geesh
ArsE92 said:
Targarama said:
I like the clunge magnet sticker.
Why?! Do you honestly find it funny? I'm not sure if the OP honestly thinks that his car might be attractive to females, or if he's just doing it to be ironic. Either way, it looks ridiculous and most people that see it will think the driver is an idiot, when in fact he might be a really nice guy.What saddens me as a 90's teenager is that everyone aspired to a fast, cool car. Now it seems to be who can afford the newest shopping box with up to the eyeballs finance 
My first car at 17 was an Opel Manta GT/E. Rear wheel drive, fun handling & moderately pokey. It was cheaper to insure than my mates 1.0 fiesta, and another mates metro ( haha!)...
At 18 I had an Uno Turbo, then after that rotted away, an Astra GTE 16v...
At 19 I had my first Sierra Rs Cosworth, 270Bhp & rear wheel drive, amazingly good fun & only £4500, although insurance was expensive at £1500 tpft.
Most of my friends had interesting cars, from MR2 Turbos, 5GTTs, Rs Turbos etc etc, and took great pleasure in looking after them & improving them with good, safe mods that improved the car.
I really think that this generation of lads have sadly missed the golden era of modding & tuning for the sheer fun, it has spilled over from "borrow as much as you possibly can for new st"..
My first car at 17 was an Opel Manta GT/E. Rear wheel drive, fun handling & moderately pokey. It was cheaper to insure than my mates 1.0 fiesta, and another mates metro ( haha!)...
At 18 I had an Uno Turbo, then after that rotted away, an Astra GTE 16v...
At 19 I had my first Sierra Rs Cosworth, 270Bhp & rear wheel drive, amazingly good fun & only £4500, although insurance was expensive at £1500 tpft.
Most of my friends had interesting cars, from MR2 Turbos, 5GTTs, Rs Turbos etc etc, and took great pleasure in looking after them & improving them with good, safe mods that improved the car.
I really think that this generation of lads have sadly missed the golden era of modding & tuning for the sheer fun, it has spilled over from "borrow as much as you possibly can for new s
t"..Xeno said:
Funny thread, each to their on. We've all done it, at 17 I horribly abused a brand new Punto Sporting (18s, lowered till it scraped, huge subs, everything short of Lexus lights), and then wasted a similar amount to yourself on an MR2 Turbo. Then once you reach your mid-twenties, you start looking down on the people who are only doing the exact same thing as you once did
We haven't all done it. I've never bought fugly wheels, daft spoilers or f*ck-off big speakers for any of my cars.
Have always much preferred the looks of standard cars, and have spent money actually turning them back to OEM looks.
Engines/brakes/dampers are fair game when it comes to modding though!!!
Again though, I can't say it bothers me if somebody else wants to do it - it's their car. Makes me laugh how superior some people think they are because they haven't modified their cars.
CheekMeister. The Max Power look is sort of 2005 and died when the magazine died. As others have said in this thread, take a look at cars on this forum and in magazines and the trend is towards either factory look or race inspired styling. Have a look at the photos from the last Sunday Service. No cars with Max Power styling anymore.
Everyone has their own taste though. Best of luck with your car, and most of all enjoy it (which I'm sure you are!).
DK
Everyone has their own taste though. Best of luck with your car, and most of all enjoy it (which I'm sure you are!).
DK
RWD cossie wil said:
What saddens me as a 90's teenager is that everyone aspired to a fast, cool car. Now it seems to be who can afford the newest shopping box with up to the eyeballs finance
A very sad indictment of modern society. "modifying" becomes some new wheels & lights ... What happened to engine rebuilds? Suspension swaps? Brakes?On the curb side @ 1am
NotDave said:
A very sad indictment of modern society. "modifying" becomes some new wheels & lights ... What happened to engine rebuilds? Suspension swaps? Brakes?
On the curb side @ 1am
Somebody wanting to change the wheels on his car is a sad indictment of modern society? On the curb side @ 1am
Please, get a life. Get out a little more. Don't get so riled by what the young people get up to. Life has evidently passed you by, but there's no need to take it out on other people.
Brakes? Suspension swaps? Engine rebuilds? It's a perfectly good car - why does it need any of that? As the OP has demonstrated, the suggested suspension change was considerably worse than OEM - so why bother?
Cars have come on a long way in the past 20 years. The start, run, and stop on a regular basis, if nothing else. They certainly didn't a lot of the time in the 80s.
Edited by pthelazyjourno on Monday 21st May 22:08
pthelazyjourno said:
Somebody wanting to change the wheels on his car is a sad indictment of modern society?
Please, get a life. Get out a little more. Don't get so riled by what the young people get up to. Life has evidently passed you by, but there's no need to take it out on other people.
Brakes? Suspension swaps? Engine rebuilds? It's a perfectly good car - why does it need any of that? As the OP has demonstrated, the suggested suspension change was considerably worse than OEM - so why bother?
Cars have come on a long way in the past 20 years. The start, run, and stop on a regular basis, if nothing else. They certainly didn't a lot of the time in the 80s.
You miss the point by a country mile my friend! No one is slating the op for his choices, simply commenting on the changing face of the young car scene?Please, get a life. Get out a little more. Don't get so riled by what the young people get up to. Life has evidently passed you by, but there's no need to take it out on other people.
Brakes? Suspension swaps? Engine rebuilds? It's a perfectly good car - why does it need any of that? As the OP has demonstrated, the suggested suspension change was considerably worse than OEM - so why bother?
Cars have come on a long way in the past 20 years. The start, run, and stop on a regular basis, if nothing else. They certainly didn't a lot of the time in the 80s.
I'm only 31, the days of people spending less money on a great base car such as any of the great 80's & 90s hatches & saloons etc, then modding them to a fantastic fast road car are dying
. One of the great things were you never quite knew what you were up against, that Nova could be a 1.4 with fancy wheels, or it could be an utter sleeper with a fire breathing 2.0 LET smuggled under the bonnet, same as golfs with VR6's in them etc, Ford turbos tuned to the edge, etc etc. people invented subtle touches to their cars, very few sported hideous bodykits etc. Most lads into their cars could have the engine out in a Saturday morning, and back in again running for work on Monday, people got involved in working on & learning their cars..Gradually it has crept to people buying 1.0 shopping boxes, and fitting a 30" set of wheels that stop the car driving properly, and the loudest exhaust known to man, then sticking a set of Lexus rip off led lights on.
Whilst anyone taking an interst in cars & modding is great, it seems to me they are missing out on all the fun whilst paying 14k for a 12' plated shopping car that will lose 90% of its value in 6-7 years
You could pick a great MX5 or MR2 up for less than 2k, take the hit on bigger insurance, and still be better off than swallowing the interest & depreciation on a car that was never meant to be for a keen driver..
Just my view, if the OP is happy then that is all that matters!
RWD cossie wil said:
You miss the point by a country mile my friend! No one is slating the op for his choices, simply commenting on the changing face of the young car scene?
I'm only 31, the days of people spending less money on a great base car such as any of the great 80's & 90s hatches & saloons etc, then modding them to a fantastic fast road car are dying . One of the great things were you never quite knew what you were up against, that Nova could be a 1.4 with fancy wheels, or it could be an utter sleeper with a fire breathing 2.0 LET smuggled under the bonnet, same as golfs with VR6's in them etc, Ford turbos tuned to the edge, etc etc. people invented subtle touches to their cars, very few sported hideous bodykits etc. Most lads into their cars could have the engine out in a Saturday morning, and back in again running for work on Monday, people got involved in working on & learning their cars..
Gradually it has crept to people buying 1.0 shopping boxes, and fitting a 30" set of wheels that stop the car driving properly, and the loudest exhaust known to man, then sticking a set of Lexus rip off led lights on.
Whilst anyone taking an interst in cars & modding is great, it seems to me they are missing out on all the fun whilst paying 14k for a 12' plated shopping car that will lose 90% of its value in 6-7 years
You could pick a great MX5 or MR2 up for less than 2k, take the hit on bigger insurance, and still be better off than swallowing the interest & depreciation on a car that was never meant to be for a keen driver..
Just my view, if the OP is happy then that is all that matters!
Good post. Nicely put. I'm only 31, the days of people spending less money on a great base car such as any of the great 80's & 90s hatches & saloons etc, then modding them to a fantastic fast road car are dying
. One of the great things were you never quite knew what you were up against, that Nova could be a 1.4 with fancy wheels, or it could be an utter sleeper with a fire breathing 2.0 LET smuggled under the bonnet, same as golfs with VR6's in them etc, Ford turbos tuned to the edge, etc etc. people invented subtle touches to their cars, very few sported hideous bodykits etc. Most lads into their cars could have the engine out in a Saturday morning, and back in again running for work on Monday, people got involved in working on & learning their cars..Gradually it has crept to people buying 1.0 shopping boxes, and fitting a 30" set of wheels that stop the car driving properly, and the loudest exhaust known to man, then sticking a set of Lexus rip off led lights on.
Whilst anyone taking an interst in cars & modding is great, it seems to me they are missing out on all the fun whilst paying 14k for a 12' plated shopping car that will lose 90% of its value in 6-7 years
You could pick a great MX5 or MR2 up for less than 2k, take the hit on bigger insurance, and still be better off than swallowing the interest & depreciation on a car that was never meant to be for a keen driver..
Just my view, if the OP is happy then that is all that matters!
Some of which I agree with, bits not so much. Will answer tomorrow when I'm not so tired.
By all means put your own stamp on your car. But don't do it on a stbox corsa. I left my swift well alone apart from some different alloy wheels and fitted fog lights (not standard on the 1.3) and that suited me. It won't go anywhere near as fast as you are trying to make it look so don't bother.
Save the money, get a scooby and go nuts. Its the natural way.
tbox corsa. I left my swift well alone apart from some different alloy wheels and fitted fog lights (not standard on the 1.3) and that suited me. It won't go anywhere near as fast as you are trying to make it look so don't bother.Save the money, get a scooby and go nuts. Its the natural way.
RWD cossie wil said:
What saddens me as a 90's teenager is that everyone aspired to a fast, cool car. Now it seems to be who can afford the newest shopping box with up to the eyeballs finance
My first car at 17 was an Opel Manta GT/E. Rear wheel drive, fun handling & moderately pokey. It was cheaper to insure than my mates 1.0 fiesta, and another mates metro ( haha!)...
At 18 I had an Uno Turbo, then after that rotted away, an Astra GTE 16v...
At 19 I had my first Sierra Rs Cosworth, 270Bhp & rear wheel drive, amazingly good fun & only £4500, although insurance was expensive at £1500 tpft.
Most of my friends had interesting cars, from MR2 Turbos, 5GTTs, Rs Turbos etc etc, and took great pleasure in looking after them & improving them with good, safe mods that improved the car.
I really think that this generation of lads have sadly missed the golden era of modding & tuning for the sheer fun, it has spilled over from "borrow as much as you possibly can for new st"..
My first car at 17 was an Opel Manta GT/E. Rear wheel drive, fun handling & moderately pokey. It was cheaper to insure than my mates 1.0 fiesta, and another mates metro ( haha!)...
At 18 I had an Uno Turbo, then after that rotted away, an Astra GTE 16v...
At 19 I had my first Sierra Rs Cosworth, 270Bhp & rear wheel drive, amazingly good fun & only £4500, although insurance was expensive at £1500 tpft.
Most of my friends had interesting cars, from MR2 Turbos, 5GTTs, Rs Turbos etc etc, and took great pleasure in looking after them & improving them with good, safe mods that improved the car.
I really think that this generation of lads have sadly missed the golden era of modding & tuning for the sheer fun, it has spilled over from "borrow as much as you possibly can for new s
t"..- cough...
That's 18, with a 41 year old (CAR)
bought it because its amazing to drive, and annoys the eco people as it currently does around 16MPG...
cheap to insure, and modifications don't change the price...
cost me £2,600 plus on going modifications, its low ...I mean doorhandles on most cars, loud, and has a bad ride, if that's what your looking for in a car - it also goes around corners nicely and makes you grin
Yeah that's right im 18, with a '71 plate... beat that
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