Two Knobs - Ferrari vs Porsche

[TooMany2cvs]

culpz said:

So, is that what we reckon happened here? As said above, i'm not sure why you'd run off otherwise, especially if all of your personal details should be with the rental company anyway.

I'm sceptical.

Perhaps it isn't Hartley's car, and it's all a remarkable coincidence that they seem to have something very similar in stock, and it is a low-rent-rental.

I can't see Hartley lending/renting a stock car out with a moody plateswap, even if business is slow enough (they seem to have had that one since November, going by the photo's dates) to be doing rentals.

If we go with the theory that it is/was Hartley's Ferrari, then I suspect it was being driven fairly legitimately, just happened along whoever was driving the Porsche (the Sheffield dealer's only just round the corner, opposite the big new Ikea), and it all escalated into a willy-wave which went tits-up. The running is either a resignation letter from a now-ex-staff member, or an admission of naughty blood-alcohol levels (8pm on a sunny Saturday after a wedding/footie party or bbq somewhere?).

[anonymous-user]

F1GTRUeno said:

cmaguire said:

F1GTRUeno said:

cb1965 said:

J4CKO said:

Not sure "PC is everywhere" but there does seem to be some casual racism and also some moral highground being taken in these types of threads.

Couldn't agree more, maybe they think they are being cleaver by 'thinly veiling' their prejudices..... only they're not as anyone with half a brain knows what they are getting at. On top of that there is the whole envy scenario over the cars. Witness the numberplate thread recently when the plate FA57EST was mocked but the plate JU57TAP was praised. Guess which one was on a Porsche and which one was on a van?

I'd rather they were just open about it instead of pretending that someone, somewhere is telling them not to say stty things.

If you're gonna be racist then be racist, don't hide behind wording as if the PC hammer is gonna come at you. People will rightly judge them for being a tt instead of saying 'oooh you can't say that'.

That's realistic.

The posts would be censored and the poster banned shortly afterwards due to all the professionally offended desperate to make themselves feel superior.

Again, professionally offended is all in your head. There's no such thing as 'PC', there's just people with stty views and those without who don't like reading/seeing/hearing them. Those that decry the PC culture know they're spouting stty stuff and don't want to be called out on it.

The posts would rightly be censored and the poster banned for spouting racism, which shouldn't be tolerated.

Unless you think it's fine?

Rewording it merely to imply the racism and thinking that you're being 'clever' about it is being a cowardly stehawk as opposed to being simply a stehawk.

Well said! I am getting mightily fed up of being labelled PC just because I don't tolerate bigotry! Newsflash - people of all cultures and creeds can be t***s, most aren't though despite what some would try and have us believe.

[Ayahuasca]

cb1965 said:

I don't tolerate bigotry.

I cannot abide people who are intolerant.

[Byker28i]

2Btoo said:

TooMany2cvs said:

Not seeing many quickly visible differences with the crashed one.

Apart from the fact that the one in the advert seems to have been crashed into a lake but survived while the one in the wedding convoy was crashed into something more substantial and didn't. Other than that they are pretty nearly identical.

Wonder where that shallow lake is. Great location for a car shoot

[Tickle]

Byker28i said:

Wonder where that shallow lake is. Great location for a car shoot

Thats Hartleys garage. I think most of their cars for sale are pictured on it.

[RZ1]

TooMany2cvs said:

http://www.tomhartley.com/used/2012/ferrari/458-sp...
This one doesn't say "sold", but doesn't show in their current inventory...

Not seeing many quickly visible differences with the crashed one. Colour, interior, wheels, calipers, black shields.

How do you get in and out of that without getting the carpets wet? Unless the driver has been photoshopped out?

[rampageturke]

RZ1 said:

How do you get in and out of that without getting the carpets wet? Unless the driver has been photoshopped out?

take your shoes off

[CRA1G]

RZ1 said:

How do you get in and out of that without getting the carpets wet? Unless the driver has been photoshopped out?

It's on a remote controlled bridge that lowers down into the water....

[RZ1]

CRA1G said:

RZ1 said:

How do you get in and out of that without getting the carpets wet? Unless the driver has been photoshopped out?

It's on a remote controlled bridge that lowers down into the water....

Hmm clever

[Jim AK]

Shuvi McTupya said:

devnull said:

Butter Face said:

Im going with Chicken Korma on the screen.

Agreed!!

What comes around , goes around.

Oh, wait..that's not Korma.

Pulled (apart) Pork perhaps?

[Fore Left]

Ayahuasca said:

cb1965 said:

I don't tolerate bigotry.

I cannot abide people who are intolerant.

I'm lactose intolerant

[The Surveyor]

TooMany2cvs said:

culpz said:

So, is that what we reckon happened here? As said above, i'm not sure why you'd run off otherwise, especially if all of your personal details should be with the rental company anyway.

I'm sceptical.

Perhaps it isn't Hartley's car, and it's all a remarkable coincidence that they seem to have something very similar in stock, and it is a low-rent-rental.

I can't see Hartley lending/renting a stock car out with a moody plateswap, even if business is slow enough (they seem to have had that one since November, going by the photo's dates) to be doing rentals.

If we go with the theory that it is/was Hartley's Ferrari, then I suspect it was being driven fairly legitimately, just happened along whoever was driving the Porsche (the Sheffield dealer's only just round the corner, opposite the big new Ikea), and it all escalated into a willy-wave which went tits-up. The running is either a resignation letter from a now-ex-staff member, or an admission of naughty blood-alcohol levels (8pm on a sunny Saturday after a wedding/footie party or bbq somewhere?).

Which would be plausible, however the Sun (I know...) reported that :-

"Can confirm, from Sheffield and they were hire cars at a local wedding in Tinsley, there is footage on social media with these cars in convoy with others"

The reporting was that they were hired for a local wedding, unless this all happened afterwards. There has to be some Tom foolery at play otherwise why leg-it from the accident?

[Dan_1981]

As I said in an earlier post - i'm almost 100% sure I saw these very cars booting it up the M1 at about jct 29a on the saturday morning about 11am.

[Ayahuasca]

Fore Left said:

Ayahuasca said:

cb1965 said:

I don't tolerate bigotry.

I cannot abide people who are intolerant.

I'm lactose intolerant

Stop milking it.

[XMT]

RDMcG said:

These kinds of incident just contribute to a popular belief that all Ferrari /Porsche etc drivers are privileged clowns and irresponsible posers.

Have to say I've never heard of that "popular belief"

[timrud]

I saw a photo with the Porsche number plate on yesterday but can't find it now, it was either 90 H(x) or 92 H(x), with (x) being the part I can't remember

[LeighW]

timrud said:

I saw a photo with the Porsche number plate on yesterday but can't find it now, it was either 90 H(x) or 92 H(x), with (x) being the part I can't remember

It's 90HH. Not a plate you'd expect on a hire car of any sort...

[Butter Face]

timrud said:

I saw a photo with the Porsche number plate on yesterday but can't find it now, it was either 90 H(x) or 92 H(x), with (x) being the part I can't remember

[Martin_Hx]

Get yer phone on charge lad

[Butter Face]

I like to live dangerously