People who don't get it

[MGB Boy]

Do you ever find yourself in a 'discussion' with someone who just doesn't 'get' your choice of car?

I seem to get the idiots (Mostly friends, Most of the time my idiot brother) who seem to be hell bent to argue that my car is crap (In their wrongful opinion).
Mostly I get (from said idiot brother) how my car is (probably) slower than more modern cars with smaller engines, but refuses to take into account 30 years difference in age and therefore technological advances, He's obsessed with brining up the rust yet wont accept my request of 'Let's see your car in 30 years time' and he generally believes in his own little world that my car is 'st' because its "50 billion years old".

Ok maybe this is just me complaining about my idiot brother

It doesn't really bother me seems as I'm more than happy with my choice of car and there are hundreds of classics I'd rather drive than his 'Seat'! Also he's more easily wound up than me so I always 'win'!

[A911DOM]

You seem to have failed to mention what your idiot, I mean brother, drives?

[MGB Boy]

A911DOM said:

You seem to have failed to mention what your idiot, I mean brother, drives?

Seat Leon....
I think, it interests me so little I'm not 100% sure

[a8hex]

I should start all conversations the brother with "so how much has your Skoda lost today" you could then talk about the risk of falling asleep at the wheel due to extreme boredom.

Generally people who don't get it are so devoid of redeeming features that they can safely be ignored.

[leecostello]

hmmm well i respect anyone who choses classics man serious

now not sure what my mk1 age is but ill be honest iam going off what am told

mines a escort mk1 with a rover v8 5 litre like space framed mental serious shocker true mental creation mine car was raced in the euro saloons by my man peter thurston now he was kickin ass with new houndred grand ex touring cars in a mk1 escort man ????
a mk1 escort check it out on my facebook page
lee costello racing
i belive new cars are ok but 90 percent are jus not there so flair no feel driving them so ide say your right pal old cars kick ass classics rule

[MGB Boy]

I'm currently going on about the fact that the boot is a different colour to the rest of the car. He some how tries to counter this point by telling me how the boot hasn't been resprayed yet the rest of the car has

Something else he doesn't get!

He's extremly easy to wind up though so I always 'win', he usually starts calling me names his argument is so weak.

[leecostello]

he he well brothers will be brothers eh
you gotta do it to each other its the rules pal???

[RedexR]

Any "greenies" should be reminded classic cars are very sustainable , we haven't used a lot of energy and resources producing a 5 minute wonder eco car that will be sent to the crusher in ten years time , how can that be good for the planet ?

[slomax]

RedexR said:

Any "greenies" should be reminded classic cars are very sustainable , we haven't used a lot of energy and resources producing a 5 minute wonder eco car that will be sent to the crusher in ten years time , how can that be good for the planet ?

+1
My 2CV powered kit car probably does around 50MPG and thats knocking on 30 years old.
Very few of my friends "get it". They think it's stupid. But I can have about 10 times more fun in my car than in any of their modern cars (puntos, fiestas etc). And its a whole lot cheaper to run too.

[taznuv]

It's the same thing with some people about music, films, art, good food etc...

'If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.'

Louise Armstrong

[Travis Mcgee]

Its horses for courses I think. I dont " get " why people stand on railway platforms noting down Train numbers etc, or why some people go all round the country looking at birds (the feathered variety)The more i discuss it with them, the more I think, Whats the point?
Each to their own i suppose.

[StuStu]

First time i took my Dad out in the Frogeye, blatting around a few lanes, pulled back up onto the drive and his pronouncement on the experience ........ "Does it have to be that loud?"

If it is not in your soul, then you may understand it, you may accept it but you won't "Get it"

[RetroCosworth]

Travis Mcgee said:

Its horses for courses I think. I dont " get " why people stand on railway platforms noting down Train numbers etc, or why some people go all round the country looking at birds (the feathered variety)The more i discuss it with them, the more I think, Whats the point?
Each to their own i suppose.

That would sort of sum it up I suppose.

I'm sure those who 'get' things we don't get have the same debate over it all.

[Jalopnik]

taznuv said:

It's the same thing with some people about music, films, art, good food etc...

'If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.'

Louise Armstrong

Well, what would a woman know anyway!

[grahamw48]

Well why don't these clever buggers in their latest all singing and dancing cars do more than 50mph everywhere then...and get out of my blinkin way !

You could get around quicker in your wallowy MK3 Cortina 30 odd years ago, and that IS a fact.

Reason: Hardly any women drivers, and people knew how to overtake.

[slomax]

grahamw48 said:

Well why don't these clever buggers in their latest all singing and dancing cars do more than 50mph everywhere then...and get out of my blinkin way !

You could get around quicker in your wallowy MK3 Cortina 30 odd years ago, and that IS a fact.

Reason: Hardly any women drivers, and people knew how to overtake.

I think the other reason is that the "limit" of the cars capabiltiies was A LOT slower, so you were more prepared to take it there and on a nice twisty road, not break the speed limit. Modern cars limits are so high that you have to be an incredibly good or stupid driver to even contemplate going near the limit on public roads. It takes the fun out of it somewhat, so you don't even bother trying to get there.

[grahamw48]

Very true.

What is frustrating at times is that so many drivers still imagine that their modern cars will fall over at speeds exceeding 30mph around even the most gentle of country road bends, thereby restricting the progress of everyone behind them for mile after mile.

Join the motorway, and suddenly the same slomos are overtaking everyone and doing 90mph.

I do try to be patient, but...

[Benjybh]

The ones that really get me up are those you do a mental when you dare to pass them on a narrow road. One of my few blessings is fairly good spatial awareness, and I know the width of my car - in the MGB, not a lot! On a trip to pick my sister up from a friends house the other day I two instances of abuse for driving on rather than pulling into (usually non-existent) gaps. The first one was from - yep - a Smart-car owning woman who had enough space to turn the HMS Ark Royal around in either side of her car, but just sat there, dithering, reversing and moving a few foot forwards about four times. When I just drove on past with feet to spare, she stared straight at me and went mental, screaming and shouting at me.

The second was when two guys my age in a chavved Corsa B shot down a residential road at somewhere around 50mph, and when I continued to drive through (even though I'd reached the narrow section first) got the middle finger and a mouthing of 'tt' from both. Bags of space to either side of us. Again,

If I've got enough space to drive through, I will. I'm not making you stop, you can keep driving too, because you've got the width of Wales between your wing mirror and the parked car.

Edited by Benjybh on Thursday 20th May 10:45