"There's a bloke/lass down the road with...."

"There's a bloke/lass down the road with...."

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alec.e

2,149 posts

123 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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Nothing really interesting near me, except for a Chap with a Maserati 3200 and a Scimitar GTE.

Phon_E87

198 posts

92 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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oilspill said:
<STUFF>
Fine, you have an opinion...
...you'll probably find that people are more amenable to taking on board what you've got to say if you don't come across as quite so much of a patronising, sanctimonious, and aggressive dick when you express it.

Gav147

976 posts

160 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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oilspill said:
My points arnt really off topic are they.
Yes they really are, we get your point, now please let the thread go back to people posting random/interesting cars their neighbours own as the OP intended

Edited by Gav147 on Wednesday 31st August 21:33

jimmybell

583 posts

116 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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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.

thiscocks

3,127 posts

194 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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In an estate with no particularly large houses mainly terrace so makes the white Diablo sv a couple of houses away stand out all the more!

jhonn

1,556 posts

148 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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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'. wink

castex

4,935 posts

272 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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Up the road from me are two latest-model M5s (one of which has the plate POWRR), and a lovely Nissan GTR. It is not these that I covet though.
Oh no.
It's the M4 in vomit yellow. That's a great car and I want it.

axel1990chp

569 posts

102 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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Old boy has a 1M at my local supermarket. White one in immaculate condition, turns out he's had it from new too. Want.

myhandle

1,182 posts

173 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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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.

Spitfire2

1,912 posts

185 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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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 wink

DBRacingGod

609 posts

191 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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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.

Edited by oilspill on Wednesday 31st August 20:55
Oh fantastic rofl

I think we found the root of your issue though. You used to be an antisocial wker, so you think everyone else is.
Indeed. As they say - there's no greater prude than a reformed whøre.

LanceRS

2,171 posts

136 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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I live on a main road not too far from Jay Kay, so I am treated to many fine sightings. His collection of classics is as amazing as the new flash stuff.

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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Dave Hedgehog said:
all my neighbours have very boring cars, i am the only boy racer biggrin

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?
If he ever wants to sell it for shed money, send him my way.

giveablondeabone

5,478 posts

154 months

Wednesday 31st August 2016
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Bloke a few doors down from the former marital home has a 308 GTB and a Bentley that must be around 90 years old and has been in the family from new ..................

oilspill

649 posts

192 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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p1stonhead said:
Oh fantastic rofl

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"

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.

oilspill

649 posts

192 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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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.
FOS is on a private drive. Victor Meldrew probably means the track days at the Goodwood curcuit smile
No... I looked at the charts that show goodwood making noise from only roughly 8am to 6pm. With peaks reaching 80 decibels from an ambience of 40 decibels.
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

oilspill

649 posts

192 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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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? wink





Edited by oilspill on Thursday 1st September 00:48

4154QLD

215 posts

151 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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There's a guy 2 streets from me that has one of these hidden in his garage. I've lived here for 8 years and only seen it move a couple of times.



Ford Falcon GT-HO Phase III

They were going for almost $750k a few year ago but now more in the $400k - $500k range...


Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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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.

bobbo89

5,151 posts

144 months

Thursday 1st September 2016
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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...