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Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:18 pm
by pete_bubonic
My mum had a Micra when I was about 11? What a bag of shit.
My housemate had the same damn model until about 4 months ago.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:22 pm
by magma
murky21 wrote:haha micras were the absolute bottom of the food chain. they made Kas look like fucking bugattis. the Luke Chadwick of cars
One of the best conversations I ever had with my Mum went something like:
My friend Joy's getting a new car.
- Oh nice, what's she getting?
A Nissan Micra.
- *jokingly* Oh right, is she retiring then?
She just has, yes.
The older ones are solid as fuck though...
Prime stock car material, I reckon.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:29 pm
by Forum
First car I can remember was my dads Quattro, proper ashes to ashes style.
I used to think it was real futuristic because it had a "digital" speedo (it was like an old school calculator screen)

Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:30 pm
by Sexual_Chocolate
whys man hating onthe micra?
better than a robin
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:34 pm
by magma
southstar wrote:First car I can remember was my dads Quattro, proper ashes to ashes style.
I used to think it was real futuristic because it had a "digital" speedo (it was like an old school calculator screen)

Unggffhh. I did a mess. Your Dad wins at being Dad.
My Dad drove a succession of Ford Granadas.

Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:34 pm
by PinUp
I had one of these
It had some sort of special edition pink, purple and cream striped interior with a see through pink diamond shaped gear stick.
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:36 pm
by wub
magma wrote:
Prime stock car material, I reckon.
Just like Kia;
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ver_vl.jpg
southstar wrote:First car I can remember was my dads Quattro, proper ashes to ashes style.
I used to think it was real futuristic because it had a "digital" speedo (it was like an old school calculator screen)

The Quattros were mint, reminded me a lot of original (?) VW Sirocco from years back.
magma wrote:My Dad drove a succession of Ford Granadas.

Mine had a Granada, two Montegos, Carina then a Seat Toledo. All proper 'Dad Sedans'
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:37 pm
by Pedro Sánchez
My old man had a Beige Ford Capri

Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:37 pm
by murky21
that is a sick audi for real. imagine having a mint one of those nowadays
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:39 pm
by Forum
My uncle on the other hand, brown mini metro with brown seats

Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:48 pm
by wolf89
magma wrote:southstar wrote:First car I can remember was my dads Quattro, proper ashes to ashes style.
I used to think it was real futuristic because it had a "digital" speedo (it was like an old school calculator screen)

Unggffhh. I did a mess. Your Dad wins at being Dad.
My Dad drove a succession of Ford Granadas.

That is pretty cool
My dad had a black 1970s TVR 1600M with the replaced engine I mentioned (which he had to use two batteries to start, I think it' had something to do with the ridiculously high compression ratio or something)
and a 60s Cadillac Eldorado
and a Range Rover. All at the same time. So I reckon that's pretty good going
Also Magma that's crazy about the Mini. Would be such a difficult choice but I think you did the right thing though really. I mean could you enjoy it that much knowing you got it from ripping of an old lady from down the street to you?
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:51 pm
by teamhobson
Johnlenham wrote:garbage truck( uk name?)
Bin lorry ya fud!
wub wrote:Riddles wrote:arent SUVs more like range rovers?
Yeah, people carriers in the US are called minivans.
SUVs in the UK are just called 4x4s
Right you are
Lancia Delta anyone? The Quattro gets me hard but Delta's make me moist. Shame about their price tag eh...
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:53 pm
by wolf89
I prefer the Lancia Delta to Quattros really yeah
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:54 pm
by Forum
Lancias were hideously unreliable, probably why there's so few of them left
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:01 pm
by Johnlenham
magma wrote:murky21 wrote:haha micras were the absolute bottom of the food chain. they made Kas look like fucking bugattis. the Luke Chadwick of cars
The older ones are solid as fuck though...
Prime stock car material, I reckon.
Thats the one! In Red as well

F37FKM I think was the plate, as we used to call it "Fuck em"
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:08 pm
by teamhobson
I really like the old micras ^
They look like small corrados
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:18 pm
by magma
southstar wrote:Lancias were hideously unreliable, probably why there's so few of them left
Yep.. I'd take a Quattro any day if I was actually going to drive it. And even then I'd be thinking about whether I should just get a Celica GT4 (which would no doubt end up in me scrapping the rally idea entirely and buying my boyhood dream Supra)
I saw a Delta being properly opened up around Castle Coombe a few years ago... incredible sound and pretty fucking rapid for a 20 year old car, but ragging it around a track must be like practising your juggling with a Ming vase. I doubt there's much spare bodywork lying around for them...
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:20 pm
by NickUndercover
Haveonly had my 205 til now but my dad has a history with cars
one was a 1st generation 1979 suzuki alto
One day my dad noticed the rust had dug a hole through the foothold for the passenger's seat (didn't see it til then because of the rug placed), I could see the road moving below the car

got rid of it as fast as we could. And my god look at those rear view mirrors. One of the worst ideas ever.
Then he got one of these badboys

red pug 304 convertible. My dad bought it in summer and when the rain came the roof was leaky as fuck, waited til next summer to sell it back. I had my glory moment every morning at school for 2 months though so totally worth it.
Now he drives a merc 250D

Ultimate old man car. You couldn't get a speeding ticket if you tried
Edit: He also confessed to me that he once owned a Lotus Esprit
Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:20 pm
by murky21
currently driving a 2002 astra, only problem is navigating through the sea of gushing women and awestruck blokes

Re: Post Your Random Thoughts Thread!
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:26 pm
by teamhobson
murky21 wrote:currently driving a 2002 astra, only problem is navigating through the sea of gushing women and awestruck blokes
Maggy, you just reminded me of JamieP's Supra, this one you...
http://www.pistonheads.com/GASSING/topi ... p%21&mid=0
60+ pages of absolute filth.