"There's a bloke/lass down the road with...."
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Was a great thread, though now i'm just scanning all the posts to find out how many times oilspill has written 'low self-esteem'.
I suspect i'm *that guy* on my road, a shame really - if there were many more nice cars i would be able to get away with something more to fix my low self-esteem.
I suspect i'm *that guy* on my road, a shame really - if there were many more nice cars i would be able to get away with something more to fix my low self-esteem.
jimmybell said:
Was a great thread, though now i'm just scanning all the posts to find out how many times oilspill has written 'low self-esteem'.
I suspect it's a plot to instill this phrase in the PH consciousness, such that it becomes a standard response along the likes of 'red-bull can throwing', 'powerfully built goatee wearing director', frozen sausages.. lawn', 'custard', etc. 'Naw mate - you've just got low-self-esteem'.
shirt said:
Saturated with supercars where I live, but there are some gems.
A colleague has a 964 3.6turbo. First owner was a sultan and it has been breathed on. You hear it coming through the car park with a very lumpy idle then he boots it out in the road and it just sings. Fantastic car.
One of the Motorsport outfit owners has a Ferrari 333sp which he uses for track days. I've never attended one where he's had it out though, just driven past and heard that unforgettable music. There is simply nothing finer sounding than a N/A 90s Ferrari v12 at full chat.
There are a lot of nice cars locally, from a mint Clio Williams and rally-prepared ur Quattro in full replica livery, to an Alfa Montreal, LaFerrari and a P1. However absolutely nothing can beat a 333SP, so you were the winner of this competition on the first page of the thread! I think the most modern naturally aspirated Ferrari Le Mans type car which is sufficiently simple to operated with the help of only one (talented) mechanic. Saw one at the Silverstone Classic recently, and what a wonderful car it is.A colleague has a 964 3.6turbo. First owner was a sultan and it has been breathed on. You hear it coming through the car park with a very lumpy idle then he boots it out in the road and it just sings. Fantastic car.
One of the Motorsport outfit owners has a Ferrari 333sp which he uses for track days. I've never attended one where he's had it out though, just driven past and heard that unforgettable music. There is simply nothing finer sounding than a N/A 90s Ferrari v12 at full chat.
Since becoming a dad and having lots of evening walks with the pram to get the youngster off to sleep I've been surprised by the number of nice old cars round the housing development I'm in.
Lovely restored oval window beetle round the corner. Then a mint red corvette C3. Assorted old Porsches. Couple of VW campers. Also a caterham across the road has arrived and various Elise's. I guess if someone else in the area replies they might mention the chap with the rather noisy Capri and Spitfire
Lovely restored oval window beetle round the corner. Then a mint red corvette C3. Assorted old Porsches. Couple of VW campers. Also a caterham across the road has arrived and various Elise's. I guess if someone else in the area replies they might mention the chap with the rather noisy Capri and Spitfire
p1stonhead said:
oilspill said:
Stuffy stuff McStuff-stuff.... a point this makes me feel a complete wker when I was a teenager fitting the loud pipes blasting through as many towns and villages as possible. I can name a town in the UK that are no longer visited by the show offs due to speed bumps being installed, job done for whoever went on that crusade. Its now popular with cyclists and latte drinkers.
Oh fantastic Edited by oilspill on Wednesday 31st August 20:55
I think we found the root of your issue though. You used to be an antisocial wker, so you think everyone else is.
Dave Hedgehog said:
all my neighbours have very boring cars, i am the only boy racer
about half a mile away up the hill is a 6 wheeled Citroen like this
That is fking AWESOME! Imagine taking that in full Fly Saudia / MArch livery to Le Mans?about half a mile away up the hill is a 6 wheeled Citroen like this
If he ever wants to sell it for shed money, send him my way.
p1stonhead said:
Oh fantastic
I think we found the root of your issue though. You used to be an antisocial wker, so you think everyone else is.
everyone else? no just the ones removing cats and fitting straight through pipes than can be heard from "miles away"I think we found the root of your issue though. You used to be an antisocial wker, so you think everyone else is.
Im hardly in the UK, so rarely notice. But Im pretty sure a blanket ban on mods would affect me and many posters here. There are also calls to stop us working on our own cars, there are some vindictive people who will use inconsiderate behaviour as an example to call for draconion cures.
I know full well my generation fitting loud pipes brought changes to the MOT test, type approval demands and made loud pipes illegal. I dont have any lingering issues, except appreciate what a tt I looked revving loud vehicles before my frontal lobes developed.
MDMA . said:
Gav147 said:
oilspill said:
At least the Goodwood festival of speed are on my side.
Indeed, no modified cars with loud exhausts popping and banging at the FoS is there... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hv2RAHjUEo plenty more as well as that one every year doing plenty of runs.Quite a contrast to the roads where w ankers de-cat their cars fit straight throughs (both illegal) and hard accelerate to show them off at all times of day and night. We're prob talking of 90-100 decibels. Accorindf to this thread from 5.30 am. Louder with the Harleys and GP pro pipes on Jap sports bikes..
Making noise on a private drive comes under council regs, which is why goodwood comply
Here you go then. A direct response to noise complaints across the EU who previously worked on "anti-tampering devices" but gave up and hit noise levels hard instead.
"A new EU regulation is being introduced from July 2016, Regulation (EU) No 540/2014, which will phase in tighter noise limits over 10 years, together with a revised, more representative test procedure. By 2026 the limit for most new passenger cars will be 68 dB(A)."
http://www.dft.gov.uk/vca/fcb/cars-and-noise.asp
That db level is surprisingly low!
Given that most new cars today not in a performance segment, already have louder tyre noise than exhaust note, this pretty much eliminates exhaust noise in the next 10 years. Oh, and we were warned about this for decades, it seems mild changes didn't get the message across.
Ferrari, BMW and Mercedes cheating the type approval noise tests seems to have backfired badly.
Lucky you left the EU, eh racists?
Edited by oilspill on Thursday 1st September 00:48
I live in an apartment building so there's an underground carpark below us. Visitors aren't too outrageous except for the occasional "classic" enthusiast around FOS, Revival or Le Mans times but of the residents there's mostly the usual white goods stuff you'd expect.
However, one or two nuggets persevere. There's a couple of Elises, a Mitsi Evo 7 (I think!) an F-Type and a Rosso Red 308 that lives under a cover and hasn't moved in the five years I've been here.
I've no idea if any of the owners posses a raincoat in which to furtively masturbate to the sound of their exhaust pipes while sobbing about their low self esteem. But I fully expect that to be the case as I know I certainly do when my V8V starts up in the morning.
However, one or two nuggets persevere. There's a couple of Elises, a Mitsi Evo 7 (I think!) an F-Type and a Rosso Red 308 that lives under a cover and hasn't moved in the five years I've been here.
I've no idea if any of the owners posses a raincoat in which to furtively masturbate to the sound of their exhaust pipes while sobbing about their low self esteem. But I fully expect that to be the case as I know I certainly do when my V8V starts up in the morning.
jayemm89 said:
If memory serves it got a quarter of a million miles on it, then the engine block cracked. He decided to get it rebuilt, spent a fortune, then on its first day out some git put it straight into a tree. Heartbreaking.
It did get rebuilt but I don't know what eventually happened to it?
I've never been a reader of Evo but stumbled across the article in old copy, probably in a dentists or vets, and it suddenly twigged that it was probably that bloke from up the road who's now moved out...It did get rebuilt but I don't know what eventually happened to it?
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