How many times a week do your friends/family tell/ask you ...

[Organisys]

People don't bother to ask me anymore.

I might get a sensible car, but I will get bored with driving it.

.........Waiting on Lottery for my 911 RS.


 

[dan iow]

im 19 and had a 1960 ford anglia for my second car , i got told to buy a new car every single day by my mrs , and family , but some people dont understand all new cars look exactly the same . and are ugly as hell , old cars have character , and its actually quite fun having a car to fix up , and if i bought a new car and it was extremely reliable ,i would be bored of it within seconds . but now i own my mk3 golf , it isnt new or really old , and it works out a perfect medium and i think they look great .

[danny_p]

think the one old car i wish id listed to people about was a morris ital.  nasty cars nasty enignes.     it clatterd to a hault with only 15,000 miles on the clock about 500 of them done by me.  anyways  built a new engine for the thing  useing some spectial bits.    all excited  then i drove it not a happy bunny.   spoke to some peopel that knew those cars  and some old blocke tipped up in a morris minor and had a look and had a drive and loved it.  following conversation was funny.

me > so what do you thinks wrong with it i just cant get it to go
blokey > what are you one about  it the quickest one i've driven
me > Oh B0LLOX is that all you can make them do.

2 weeks later i sold the engine to him,  hes still driveing around with now  and he gets in my way daily.

one old car i wish i never owned and it still f**king taunts me

[Ben Lessani]

Lol!

[Neo Badness]

Lol.
I love my old mk2 as I always have done,  my mates even baked me a birthday cake in the shape of my old 8v!!
Was going down the by pass in town and passed a brand new S4 convertible with the top down (weathers not been too bad up here) lassies in the back were rubber necking to see what was cruising past smiling and wavin...
Also I love the fact that it stands out in a carpark full of jelly moulds, there's only one other oak green in my city but his is pretty different style to mine so no chance of confusion.
I also love the road to work when I hit the passing place and slaughter everything in my path, makes 7am starts bearable

[ians]

thought I'd just rehash this old thread 

I'm getting this kind of small minded cr@p at the moment from college people (i dont call em friends) and the local lads around my way, I'm 20 had my car since last year, had a 1995 fiat cinquecento sporting before it. I get "that golfs really old, citeron are doin a deal blah blah blah". I get fairly angry as they cant dont understand....My argument is the fiat 1100cc cost my £1159 to insure, my 1.8 golf driver with twin choke weber on costs my £698 insurance  and its totally individual not like your frence fries 

I love to kicking their scrawny french butts down the by-pass.....resulting in "erm well Ian your cars fast" luckily I have 6 mates whom drive old dubs that understand and nod knowingly 

peer pressure is a strong thing..but feck I love my motor 

[The Mighty Elvi]

I'm getting this kind of small minded cr@p at the moment from college people (i dont call em friends) and the local lads around my way,

Ignorance is bliss. 

You're just ahead of the curve.

[oakgreener]

I get this as well. A few years ago my Mk2 golf misbehaved ( I just can't say "broke down") with the wife driving. The small clip came off the throttle cable at the throttle body end. Hardly a catastrophe.
Some commented "why don't you get a new car".
They just don't understand.
And as for going for the scrappage scheme. Don't get me started.

[scott-o]

I've always drummed it into my gf that im going to get a mk2 some day. She hates them with a passion, red ones the most (she hates red cars for some reason) :|

Luckily for her i bought a white one (2 weeks ago) most of my 'non car' mates appreciate it, my mates that bum jap crap have asked me 'why?!' and my dub car mates love it. Old cars have character, this mk2 has bags of it, people that havnt experienced cant and wont understand if they dont want to.

I was showing my gf some of the history one sunday morning though and when she saw that the mk2 was 13K back in 1992, she perked up abit and there seemed to be abit of realisation about what the car was haha

End of the day 'You are not what you own', it'l just take the materialistic a-holes awhile to realise this, if they ever do.

[Thom89]

Someone once suggested to me that should get shot of my car, for something newer! Or at least upgrade to a mk3 

Thom