How do you know you are a petrolhead?
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I think I've realised. Went on a trip to tesco which is about 5 minutes away if that. Bought a game and subway, ended up coming home an hour and fifteen minutes later. I got 'side-tracked' by some b roads, just spent my time blasting about!
The car? A 1.4 MG ZR, can have fun in anything
The car? A 1.4 MG ZR, can have fun in anything
This is part of the reason why i'm selling my XJS. As a GT it is perfect and i love using it at weekends to waft in or go to the pub in. However it just isn't the right car to go for a hoon in...and i really miss that. I miss a manual gearbox, tight handling and lusty performance on B roads.....hence the decision to get a 944...
The lads went up north to the highlands for a hoon on a long weekend. They took their time to get there (a couple of days). Yours truly came out of lectures at 4pm on the Friday and promptly pointed the Reichbeetle north for loch ness and despite the appalling weather on route still headed for Glencoe. My decision was ultimately rewarded by finding out that god also has petrol for blood and cleared the skies as I came out of crianlarich and kept them that way till I got home 3 days and 1200 miles later 
petrolsniffer said:
When you're spending £20 a week on petrol in a 1.1 205 .
Even though you walk to work and the only other journey you need to do in the week is the weekly shop
Spent about £70 last week Even though you walk to work and the only other journey you need to do in the week is the weekly shop
And my work is a 5 minute drive away, and I don't need to do shopping. Good times and money well spent
I probably spend more time dedicated to the car than i do on any other single thing, excluding sleeping. (god only knows how much time i will spend when i can actually drive the damned thing)
Also- does anyone else try to work out which cars are aproaching you at night just from the headlight cluster? I do. I probably get 70-80% right too.
Also- does anyone else try to work out which cars are aproaching you at night just from the headlight cluster? I do. I probably get 70-80% right too.
slomax said:
I probably spend more time dedicated to the car than i do on any other single thing, excluding sleeping. (god only knows how much time i will spend when i can actually drive the damned thing)
Also- does anyone else try to work out which cars are aproaching you at night just from the headlight cluster? I do. I probably get 70-80% right too.
Yes, though I'd say I get 81% right Also- does anyone else try to work out which cars are aproaching you at night just from the headlight cluster? I do. I probably get 70-80% right too.
Also I think the fact the novelty of driving has not faded in the slightest in the year and a bit i've been driving, confirms my petrolhead status. Not having a car at uni, and having to take the bus, staring enviously at everyone sat in their nice comfy cars is just intolerable. Every single penny I earn/or can sneakily extract from the uni fund is now finding it's way into the car fund.
I went home last weekend and the first thing I did was grab the keys and go for a long drive.
Being told not long after my getting my licence that I'd be "sick to death of driving" within a couple of months. Over a year on, and more passionate and immersed in cars and driving than ever, I think I'll decide when I'm ready to get "sick" of driving, and I can't honestly imagine it being any time in the next 50 or so years 
When you can identify a car at night by the shape of the headlights from a fair distance away.
When you wind down the window in traffic to listen to an engine note on something exotic.
When after a week of driving a van, the first thing you do on a friday after work is go in the house, change shoes, grab car keys and bugger off for an hour and then get shouted at the next morning for leaving the OH with no fuel to get to work
When you wind down the window in traffic to listen to an engine note on something exotic.
When after a week of driving a van, the first thing you do on a friday after work is go in the house, change shoes, grab car keys and bugger off for an hour and then get shouted at the next morning for leaving the OH with no fuel to get to work
petrolveins said:
slomax said:
I probably spend more time dedicated to the car than i do on any other single thing, excluding sleeping. (god only knows how much time i will spend when i can actually drive the damned thing)
Also- does anyone else try to work out which cars are aproaching you at night just from the headlight cluster? I do. I probably get 70-80% right too.
Yes, though I'd say I get 81% right Also- does anyone else try to work out which cars are aproaching you at night just from the headlight cluster? I do. I probably get 70-80% right too.
Also I think the fact the novelty of driving has not faded in the slightest in the year and a bit i've been driving, confirms my petrolhead status. Not having a car at uni, and having to take the bus, staring enviously at everyone sat in their nice comfy cars is just intolerable. Every single penny I earn/or can sneakily extract from the uni fund is now finding it's way into the car fund.
I went home last weekend and the first thing I did was grab the keys and go for a long drive.
I despise public transport, when I get home from uni at the end of the week I am doing exactly the same thing as you did! I am hoping to have a good enough NCB, and enough money to get a clio 182 when I am out of uni in 3 years
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