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General => General discussion => Topic started by: jv on 25 November 2005, 15:14
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Just bought Redline as they did a feature on Jo's tvr/golf a while back. 6 pages with loads of pictures :smiley:
Was photographed running all the huge golfgti.co.uk stickers as well so big thanks to Jo for the promotional work :cool:
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Cool, I will have to face the embarassment of buying that mag then :wink:
Did it make the cover? :huh:
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No, small picture in the corner. There is a tasteful bmw on the front :lipsrsealed:
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is it this months mag? if it is il pop out after work and get myself a copy. Hope they have done it justice and not put too many chavvy through the legs camera angles and not very funny quotes. who am i kidding, its redline i gues!
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LOL all the 'boy racers' i talk to about it (nova boys with 1.2s and bodykits i mean) Think it looks stupid because the engine doesnt look 'blingin enaugh'.
When i point out its a TVR Carbed V6 they usally give me a blank facial expression and make some sorta comment about why it hasnt got a sound system :shocked: I give up somtimes!
**Edit** Redlines probally the most taistful of the three main boy racer mags...Not that that says anything :wink:
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that is after max pooer and a magazine that dubbed itself f**k come on, compared to those redline is the old peoples home of chav mags!
first person i told about joes car they said so what does it look like!?! f**k off was my reply, it looks like a mk1, thats been widened 7.5 inches and lowered about the same on 18s with the most amazing sound youl ever hear.
idiots response - oh so the speakers are big then!?!
:rolleyes:
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the car does stand out a bit in the magazine against all that chrome on every other page!
it's a decent enough feature, bit low on tech detail but a lot of good pictures :)
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MK1 Golf = dribble
TVR engine on carbs = dribble
MK1 Golf + TVR engine = puddle of dribble
Who needs a stereo when you've got the sound of a TVR?
I may consider purchasing Redline in that case, anything else of note in it?
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MK1 Golf + TVR engine = puddle of dribble
lmao!! :laugh:
the car does stand out a bit in the magazine against all that chrome on every other page!
oi whats wrong with chrome?!?! :P
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its fine as long as its not mirrors, bumpers, window tints..... :tongue:
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the car does stand out a bit in the magazine against all that chrome on every other page!
it's a decent enough feature, bit low on tech detail but a lot of good pictures :)
all theyre botherd about is how many subs you have and not bothered about the actual details that make a car go, let alone go fast!
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Aye, seems more and more now those "Car Mags" are looking for some f**k wit who spent more on body work than the car is worth, and more on ICE than making the car actually more than a 1.1 8v Saxo.
It really does surpise me how much money they spend, and how bloody awful most of them sound, with their dustbins on the car as an exhaust, pure noise no go.
What a joke.
And chrome is good ok, I have chrome on my interior :cool:
Cra1g
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yet again i admire tvr jo - bloody fantastic!
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i wanna meet that dude who built that he must have some skill. does he come on here much, i hope hes at some meets next year.
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Aye, seems more and more now those "Car Mags" are looking for some f**k wit who spent more on body work than the car is worth, and more on ICE than making the car actually more than a 1.1 8v Saxo.
It really does surpise me how much money they spend, and how bloody awful most of them sound, with their dustbins on the car as an exhaust, pure noise no go.
What a joke.
And chrome is good ok, I have chrome on my interior :cool:
Cra1g
its an absalute disgrace isnt it! on 5th gear a year or so ago there was a feature on modyfied cars and this guy spent in total 30k on a 1.1 saxo! what a fooking idiot!!
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30k? What a tart man, they could of had a BMW/Merc/Porce/Jaquar etc for that money.
Ohh and a Golf :cool:
Cra1g
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LOL all the 'boy racers' i talk to about it (nova boys with 1.2s and bodykits i mean) Think it looks stupid because the engine doesnt look 'blingin enaugh'.
When i point out its a TVR Carbed V6 they usally give me a blank facial expression and make some sorta comment about why it hasnt got a sound system :shocked: I give up somtimes!
**Edit** Redlines probally the most taistful of the three main boy racer mags...Not that that says anything :wink:
You're a boy racer - "Built to street race", and it's a carbed V8.
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LOL all the 'boy racers' i talk to about it (nova boys with 1.2s and bodykits i mean) Think it looks stupid because the engine doesnt look 'blingin enaugh'.
When i point out its a TVR Carbed V6 they usally give me a blank facial expression and make some sorta comment about why it hasnt got a sound system :shocked: I give up somtimes!
**Edit** Redlines probally the most taistful of the three main boy racer mags...Not that that says anything :wink:
You're a boy racer - "Built to street race", and it's a carbed V8.
Ok...well i stand corrected on the motor size, And TBH, theres a huge difference between the street racer croud and the boy racer croud. Ironically boy racers dont race, they just drive faster than average road users until they hit a tree and die (whether of not thats a bad thing is up to you to decide), Street racers tend to be older (but not always) and tend to take a more mature attitude to there cars etc. If i was a boy racer id be talking in chav, painting my car pink and fitting a big purple neon to my foot well :wink:
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I've just spilled my tea!
Since when did 'street racers' take a mature attitude, if they were that mature they wouldn't do it!
And 'Ahem', if you were a boy racer you would do what...........??
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majority of street racers i know race on closed lenghts of road and drive skylines, supras, Scoobys, M3s. Most of there cars can handle high speeds and very few accidents occour.
Majority of boy racers i know race around high streets and speeds far over tehre driving capabilities and cars capabilities and kill them selfs.
As for what id do if i was a boy racer, did you not read my above post :wink: Its obvious you have attended very few organised street racing events :wink:
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majority of street racers i know race on closed lenghts of road and drive skylines, supras, Scoobys, M3s. Most of there cars can handle high speeds and very few accidents occour.
Majority of boy racers i know race around high streets and speeds far over tehre driving capabilities and cars capabilities and kill them selfs.
As for what id do if i was a boy racer, did you not read my above post :wink: Its obvious you have attended very few organised street racing events :wink:
1. Closed roads, who do you know closes roads for people to tear up at high speed, councils, I don't think so!
2. Very few accidents occur, so that means that there must be some!
3. What do you know about other peoples capabilities, all it takes is 24hrs in a different car to know what it's capable of. If you don't know what your capable of, then you shouldn't be behind the wheel.
4. Your 'friends' with the Skylines and Subarus must laugh their asses off when you turn up, what do you race against!
5. Your'e right, I've never been to a 'street-racing' event, because they're illegal and are full of helmets!
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nice open mind you have there. :rolleyes:
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majority of street racers i know race on closed lenghts of road and drive skylines, supras, Scoobys, M3s. Most of there cars can handle high speeds and very few accidents occour.
Majority of boy racers i know race around high streets and speeds far over tehre driving capabilities and cars capabilities and kill them selfs.
As for what id do if i was a boy racer, did you not read my above post :wink: Its obvious you have attended very few organised street racing events :wink:
1. Closed roads, who do you know closes roads for people to tear up at high speed, councils, I don't think so!
2. Very few accidents occur, so that means that there must be some!
3. What do you know about other peoples capabilities, all it takes is 24hrs in a different car to know what it's capable of. If you don't know what your capable of, then you shouldn't be behind the wheel.
4. Your 'friends' with the Skylines and Subarus must laugh their asses off when you turn up, what do you race against!
5. Your'e right, I've never been to a 'street-racing' event, because they're illegal and are full of helmets!
I know I'm new around here, so my tuppence may not count for an awful lot but - SPOT ON!
nice open mind you have there. :rolleyes:
:lipsrsealed: - words fail me!
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majority of street racers i know race on closed lenghts of road and drive skylines, supras, Scoobys, M3s. Most of there cars can handle high speeds and very few accidents occour.
Majority of boy racers i know race around high streets and speeds far over tehre driving capabilities and cars capabilities and kill them selfs.
As for what id do if i was a boy racer, did you not read my above post :wink: Its obvious you have attended very few organised street racing events :wink:
1. Closed roads, who do you know closes roads for people to tear up at high speed, councils, I don't think so!
2. Very few accidents occur, so that means that there must be some!
3. What do you know about other peoples capabilities, all it takes is 24hrs in a different car to know what it's capable of. If you don't know what your capable of, then you shouldn't be behind the wheel.
4. Your 'friends' with the Skylines and Subarus must laugh their asses off when you turn up, what do you race against!
5. Your'e right, I've never been to a 'street-racing' event, because they're illegal and are full of helmets!
1. your nit picking, ass the members here who got to Basaldon, a close road is a road closed off on all exits to stop anybody from wondoring into the path of a speeding car
2. yes they do, But thats nothing compaired to the amount ive seen at "kroozes", last 2 months alone ive seen a a Polo handbreak into a light pole, a suzuki pickup truck flip while also being handbreak happy, a 13 year old get get splattered by car doing a burn out, another car loose it into a moped rider while doing a burn out, the list can go on if you like?
3) the people i usally drive with (some people on here have met them at MK) are more than capable of handling there cars, A lot of them are also regular attenders of track days, A lot of us also drive daily drivers, so where more than capable of knowing how cars handle.
4) my friends with skylines and subarus understand im only a young'un and on some occassions i have driven there cars (although rare). Although ive only held a valid UK drivers licence for two and a half year, ive got plenty of (LEGAL!) experence behind the wheel, I spent a lot of my youth driving go-karts and other smaller cars. My dad was also an acomplished driver on and off the street. He had a trophy cabonet filled with trophies from Go-karting, track day racing and Off road racing. I picked a lot off of him before he left.
5) Ever been to a 'krooze?' lot more 'helmets' there trust me. I think its pritty retarded to slag somthing off you have never been too. I can name 4 members here who attend the street races in bazaldon and although they dont race they have a good time and can back me up on the fact its a pritty good enviroment. Ive done the big 'kroozes' and have the section 59 notice to prove it, Ive also been to the MASSIVE street racing events in birmingham where race organisers ware floresent jackets and use radios to communicated. at the street wars 3 event the police even pulled up to watch before eventually breaking it up after an hour. The convoy moved locations and continued again.
I might be young, But at least i can hold up an argument without resorting to persional comments. Its not an easy subject to defend (and trust me its not the first time ive had to sadly) becuase many people think they know it all but its not the way its portrayed. I feel safer parked at the side of a road with cars street racing past me than in a car park with a 17 year old in a 1.2 nova on cut springs sliding about with the hand break on. I would love to go legal, Show me a way to do it cheaply (especially at my age) and id happy go Legal, In the mean time i make do with my resorces. I drive because i love to drive and i race because i love to race, i also love building my car to race. I will back up my driving skills to anybody who wants to sit in my passanger seat and go for a ride.
Oh and i love the comment about people laughting at my car. Great argument, Real mature :grin: Enjoy whatever it is you do for a hobby and i will enjoy mine. Would you prefer i sat at home smoking pot / coke like so many of the kids i went to school with? Or should i acctually spend my money on somthing i have to show for it? Think about this.
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As I put on my other post, I'm new... and to be honest I'd like to stay around for a while :smiley:, this isn't a personal attack, just my thoughts...
I've not been street racing, and if I'm honest probably never will, I went to a cruise by mistake once (got told there was a car meet up the road so went along in my freshly polished mk1, looking all sweet and my freshly rebuilt splits... to find a load of muppets with quite awful barry-mobiles) and really won't go again. I don't understand how it can be safe to be around cars racing where there are no run off areas, no marshalls, no paramedics etc etc... just because track days and racing cost a lot of money it doesn't make it right to risk the lives of others because you can't afford to do what you want :shocked: - I'd love to do some track days, but haven't ever found myself in the situation where I've had the cash to do one, but I haven't been reckless enough to race other people on public highways because of my shortage in funds!
As for smoking pot... well that would be your choice, but you'd be likely to come to less harm doing that - and you wouldn't be a danger to anyone else. A guy I know quite well used to drive all his Dad's cars, ever since I can remember he'd driven proper quick cars (Ferrari F355 at 19?), one day whilst driving a new TVR Tuscan things went badly wrong, and the driver of another car died. This was someone used to driving proper cars who made a mistake and someone else ended up dying - that sort of thing doesn't tend to happen very often when you smoke pot...
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no worries dude, like i said, i dont mind persional oppinions and i wasnt referring to you in the persional attack bit. But as you have been to a cruise you will know what i mean by how dangerious it can be with all the tossers sliding about in a closed area. At a street race the croud (usally) sit behind the cars or at leat only about 20-30 feet ahead of them, so once the cars really pick up speeds there usally clear. not always tho.
Sorry to hear about your friend, But it would be foolish to say theres no risk in driving fast, Of course there is, thats the attraction. As for smoking pot, i used to be really into it and so did my ex, And well, she might not be in a wheel chair for it but as shes about to get kicked out of uni for doing nothing but getting stoned every day id say its gonna be f**king her up a but :(
Im trying to find photos / videos of the latest street racing so i can show people what its really like. but then again, where all guilty of racing at some point, I will persionally post photos of my self in my boxers if sombody who truily loves cars tells me they have never raced sombody before.
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majority of street racers i know race on closed lenghts of road and drive skylines, supras, Scoobys, M3s. Most of there cars can handle high speeds and very few accidents occour.
Majority of boy racers i know race around high streets and speeds far over tehre driving capabilities and cars capabilities and kill them selfs.
As for what id do if i was a boy racer, did you not read my above post :wink: Its obvious you have attended very few organised street racing events :wink:
1. Closed roads, who do you know closes roads for people to tear up at high speed, councils, I don't think so!
2. Very few accidents occur, so that means that there must be some!
3. What do you know about other peoples capabilities, all it takes is 24hrs in a different car to know what it's capable of. If you don't know what your capable of, then you shouldn't be behind the wheel.
4. Your 'friends' with the Skylines and Subarus must laugh their asses off when you turn up, what do you race against!
5. Your'e right, I've never been to a 'street-racing' event, because they're illegal and are full of helmets!
1. your nit picking, ass the members here who got to Basaldon, a close road is a road closed off on all exits to stop anybody from wondoring into the path of a speeding car
2. yes they do, But thats nothing compaired to the amount ive seen at "kroozes", last 2 months alone ive seen a a Polo handbreak into a light pole, a suzuki pickup truck flip while also being handbreak happy, a 13 year old get get splattered by car doing a burn out, another car loose it into a moped rider while doing a burn out, the list can go on if you like?
3) the people i usally drive with (some people on here have met them at MK) are more than capable of handling there cars, A lot of them are also regular attenders of track days, A lot of us also drive daily drivers, so where more than capable of knowing how cars handle.
4) my friends with skylines and subarus understand im only a young'un and on some occassions i have driven there cars (although rare). Although ive only held a valid UK drivers licence for two and a half year, ive got plenty of (LEGAL!) experence behind the wheel, I spent a lot of my youth driving go-karts and other smaller cars. My dad was also an acomplished driver on and off the street. He had a trophy cabonet filled with trophies from Go-karting, track day racing and Off road racing. I picked a lot off of him before he left.
5) Ever been to a 'krooze?' lot more 'helmets' there trust me. I think its pritty retarded to slag somthing off you have never been too. I can name 4 members here who attend the street races in bazaldon and although they dont race they have a good time and can back me up on the fact its a pritty good enviroment. Ive done the big 'kroozes' and have the section 59 notice to prove it, Ive also been to the MASSIVE street racing events in birmingham where race organisers ware floresent jackets and use radios to communicated. at the street wars 3 event the police even pulled up to watch before eventually breaking it up after an hour. The convoy moved locations and continued again.ÂÂÂ
I might be young, But at least i can hold up an argument without resorting to persional comments. Its not an easy subject to defend (and trust me its not the first time ive had to sadly) becuase many people think they know it all but its not the way its portrayed. I feel safer parked at the side of a road with cars street racing past me than in a car park with a 17 year old in a 1.2 nova on cut springs sliding about with the hand break on. I would love to go legal, Show me a way to do it cheaply (especially at my age) and id happy go Legal, In the mean time i make do with my resorces. I drive because i love to drive and i race because i love to race, i also love building my car to race. I will back up my driving skills to anybody who wants to sit in my passanger seat and go for a ride.
Oh and i love the comment about people laughting at my car. Great argument, Real mature :grin: Enjoy whatever it is you do for a hobby and i will enjoy mine. Would you prefer i sat at home smoking pot / coke like so many of the kids i went to school with? Or should i acctually spend my money on somthing i have to show for it? Think about this.
Listen 'mate', can you read?
All you have done is reiterate my points, so self contradiction must be a word in your everyday dictionary. AND you've still not come to the fact that it's illegal, and highly bloody stupid. I'm 30 years old, why'o'why would I want to go to a 'cruise' when I have a fully functioning workshop at my disposal. Like you've said they seem to be full of helmet kids in Nova's doing burnouts, whilst off thier t1ts on weed. The closest I've even been to a cruise is the monthly meet at Fleet with No-Rice, and they dont' shut off the M3 for a bloody 'race'. The fact still matters about you've still not justified the legality of this 'road racing', AND the fact of my initial reply, that YOU ARE A BOY RACER!!
If the personal jibes have upset you, then I apologise, but if you were mature enough then you would just rise above it.
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Five words...
Keep It To The Track....
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Fielder you devvo with a bit more class :grin: :tongue:
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i never once said it wasnt illegal, But so are a lot of things, Skateboaring in the street, riding a bike down the pavement, Graffiti, being drunk in the highstreet. Everything is illegal these days.
This section of the argument removed due to a Tip off from a friend
im 20 years old and i wouldnt even wanna be at a cruise persionally, unless i had a reasion to go to one like to organise races or see fellow VW owners (see MK for example when a group of us meet up on the occassional sunday and have a dub section  :cool:)
But fair enaugh, I put my case forward, I guess in your eyes i must be a boy racer, despite the fact ive shown plenty of reasions why there is a differnce between boy racers and street racers, But i guess your well on your want to becomming a bitter old man, Whatever next, Complaining about the noise from next door?? Those young bastards keeping you awake at night?  :grin:
So you ever watched a Gumball rally? Or getaway in stockholm? Notice what there doing? one of the biggest forms of street racing around, infact that makes out meets look like kids playing in a park compaired to the driving. Watch a Tekademics video from america (they use the 850BHP yellow M3 from DTMpower.net as a camera car) now thats dam fast racing and dam risky too, cutting traffic at 140+ MPH in porches, BMWs and farraris :wink:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_racer
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Fielder you devvo with a bit more class :grin: :tongue:
You startin'....ya fkin C**t!!!
(yeah my Devo impression sucks! lol)
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So you ever watched a Gumball rally? Or getaway in stockholm? Notice what there doing? one of the biggest forms of street racing around, infact that makes out meets look like kids playing in a park compaired to the driving. Watch a Tekademics video from america (they use the 850BHP yellow M3 from DTMpower.net as a camera car) now thats dam fast racing and dam risky too, cutting traffic at 140+ MPH in porches, BMWs and farraris :wink:
I don't think because some people have driven/ raced in America, or Stockholm, or anywhere else tbh that it should make it OK for somone to endanger the lives of others by racing here.
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Wanna play coins?
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yes...
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Valid point. Cant argue with that, Its not right, But find me an alternative and ill hapily switch, but until somthing is done about track day prices, track day insurance prices and all the other high prices that effect cars these days expect to see more and more people in the same position as me on the road. The goverment and racing bodies only have themselfs to blame for this. Its been proven that free 1/4 mile strip days are effective ways to stomp out street racing and the track owners cover the costs of free entery from sponsership and on site retailers etc. This has been explained to local authorities before who responded by shutting down the website who attempted to solve the problem and sweaping it under the carpet.
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Valid point. Cant argue with that, Its not right, But find me an alternative and ill hapily switch, but until somthing is done about track day prices, track day insurance prices and all the other high prices that effect cars these days expect to see more and more people in the same position as me on the road.
not that i really want to get involved but.....
those high insurance prices are there for a reason. and its not to stop you having fun its for the same reason we all b!tch about high insurance prices on our cars. its because the streets are full of tits who drive around un-insured, stupid kids who think because they have a license it must mean they can drive, people racing, people going to cruises and f**king up, people drink driving, people driving beyond their means and the list goes on.
i'm sure if it was free to go on a track these same dickheads would still race like idiots on the streets anyway so you can't blame that for the reason people street race.
i think the point lewy was trying to make was that your attitude makes you a boy racer regardless of what you say on here. you will have to admit to the amount of times you've posted about stupid things you've done while driving and also the amount of time you talk about going to cruises. you may have left that behind now but often the way you talk makes out that you are some kind of invincible kid who lives to drive like a tool, go to crusies/races to watch the carnage and pick up cruise slappers. so you can't then argue the opinion that some one has formed of you when you've spent the last week going on about how your car is getting "featured" in a boy racer mag at a cruise!
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Can i just say i love going to cruises, because most of the cars are that crap that they become good, its more for a comedy thing rather than to actually enjoy the cars! :laugh:awesome! :grin:
i think we all like to put our foot down occasionally, its the whole point of having golf gti's. I for one always stick to the speed limits on normal roads i.e 30's and 40's and 50's but when it comes to twisty B roads i will have a do if i am being honest!, in fact the roads i tend to go on are that twisty it is pretty hard to get above 60 anyway.
but it goes with out saying that when you are taking un-necessery risks it becomes un-necessarily dangerous! I will always drive to a point where i am comfortable with what i am doing. If you are getting to a point where you are driving like a c*ck then it defys the point in having a fast car, to enjoy it!
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Don't wanna get involved in the "discussion" that has formed in this post, just wanted to comment on the original post subject - this month's Redline magazine. Not a terrible read I thought, quite a few VWs mentioned throughout including the 5 Golfs run by the magazine staff which was surprising (thought they would all drive Corsas :grin:). Obviously there was a lot of crap in there, but good feature on the TVR Golf and a free plug for the site which can't be bad........... :grin:
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good feature on the TVR Golf and a free plug for the site which can't be bad........... :grin:
exactly - nicely back on topic ;)
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Read the article at jv's last weekend (so blame him for buying Redline ! :tongue: ) and I have to say that big golfgti.co.uk stickers on mad tvr mk1 golfs fooking rock ! :laugh:
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^^ no you didn't read it you just looked at picturtes of the girl in the back with the crackin body!
that and staring at fergie :P
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^^ no you didn't read it you just looked at picturtes of the girl in the back with the crackin body!
that and staring at fergie :P
Oh yeah I nearly forgot, I can't actually read. :laugh:
Can I just point out here that this is fergie from The Black Eyed Peas and should not be confused with fergie who used to be married to prince Andrew. :laugh:
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with her humps, her humps her humps her humps, her humps her humps her humps, her lovely lady lumps, check it out!
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^^ no you didn't read it you just looked at picturtes of the girl in the back with the crackin body!
that and staring at fergie :P
Oh yeah I nearly forgot, I can't actually read. :laugh:
Can I just point out here that this is fergie from The Black Eyed Peas and should not be confused with fergie who used to be married to prince Andrew. :laugh:ÂÂÂ
And also not forgetting Alex Ferguson!