Max Power alive and well in...
Discussion
...Gibraltar.
I thought with the summer coming up and people travelling around it would be good to see how far Max Power Land reaches.
So while chilling out in one of my favourite European hotels, and having a wander around the rather dull/cheap/tacky town, I had to chuckle at a black accord aerodeck thingy with blacked out windows, bonnet vents, 3" exhaust and chrome alloys. Also a pug 106 with full body kit (including roof spoiler) and big exhaust. No sign of the washer jet lights though - export business perhaps!
All on a bit of rock where you would be lucky to make 20mph!
Shame I didn't have the camera handy, lets see how far Max Power reaches, what do you say?
I thought with the summer coming up and people travelling around it would be good to see how far Max Power Land reaches.
So while chilling out in one of my favourite European hotels, and having a wander around the rather dull/cheap/tacky town, I had to chuckle at a black accord aerodeck thingy with blacked out windows, bonnet vents, 3" exhaust and chrome alloys. Also a pug 106 with full body kit (including roof spoiler) and big exhaust. No sign of the washer jet lights though - export business perhaps!
All on a bit of rock where you would be lucky to make 20mph!
Shame I didn't have the camera handy, lets see how far Max Power reaches, what do you say?
Agree about the general place Mel for sure! 
Streets are cleaner in Tangiers!
But the hotel is good - nothing too much trouble for them and it's good to do fcuk all for a while!
Only went in the the town once and that was to fill a few bags with vodka (3 quid/litre) and single malt (15 quid/litre). And if your a smoker it's around 5 quid for 200!
Streets are cleaner in Tangiers! But the hotel is good - nothing too much trouble for them and it's good to do fcuk all for a while!
Only went in the the town once and that was to fill a few bags with vodka (3 quid/litre) and single malt (15 quid/litre). And if your a smoker it's around 5 quid for 200!
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it's good to do fcuk all for a while!
Only went in the the town once and that was to fill a few bags with vodka (3 quid/litre) and single malt (15 quid/litre). And if your a smoker it's around 5 quid for 200!
Mate, that's an admirable pursuit of alcoholism you've got going on there... going to a sh1thole so you're forced to stay in your room and get blitzed! Hardcore is not the word.
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Mate, that's an admirable pursuit of alcoholism you've got going on there... going to a sh1thole so you're forced to stay in your room and get blitzed! Hardcore is not the word.
Reading had a similar effect on me.
Only downside was the selfish sod who set the fire alarm off at 3am in the hotel. If it was you (as we seem recently to have threads apropos "If you were the driver of the blue Metro.....) - thanks !
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Mate, that's an admirable pursuit of alcoholism you've got going on there... going to a sh1thole so you're forced to stay in your room and get blitzed! Hardcore is not the word.
Surely that's what getting away is all about!
That and decant the vodka into a mineral water bottle and pretend to be sensible by the pool!
Was almost worth it to see the Merc tin top convertible thing with British plates parked outside who had clearly not gotten used to the width of the car yet and had creased the passenger side from front to back and ripped the door open like a tin of sardines on something very hard!
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Not that I've ever been pissed in the Angry Friar (AKA Mad Monk) or the Horse Shoe (AKA Donkeys Flip Flop) you'll understand its just pure speculation on my part
Never did manage to travel one end to the other and remain upright myself
Biggest nightmare was if a O boat crew was in for the duration at the donkey's flip flop
Harry
Went to Gib in '85 (not long after the border was reopened) and had a mad week actually staying in La Linia (sp) walking across the border some days into Gib.
The guys we were visiting were working in Gib in a bar and bought a Dutch-plated Citroen 2CV from two blokes who were sailing off to one of the Greek islands. Anyway, we tried to get this bloody car over the border into Spain the same day as they'd bought it – only thing was – no papers yet for the car from the Dutch geezers.
Christ if we had shot Franco himself we couldn't have had it harder at the border. Literally the whole car was stripped (drugs) and then of course we never made it over anyway because of the papers.
Got the papers and then tried again successfully. After a few nights coming back down from Marbella on the coast road pi55ed on cocktails – we came home – then discovered the brakes were knackered and you had to pump the pedal about 20 times to get them to work.
One of us actually bought a Spanish brake-bleeding kit
Of course, when you're young you're also naive and the idea that these Dutch guys could have known we lived just the other side of the border and could have stuffed the 2CV full of weed and let US try and get it through the border before casually walking over and driving away with a spare set of keys never dawned on any of us.
When they moved on to work in Greece, our mates drove onto some MOD land and pushed the Citroen off a cliff into the bay.
>> Edited by MikeyT on Tuesday 11th June 00:39
The guys we were visiting were working in Gib in a bar and bought a Dutch-plated Citroen 2CV from two blokes who were sailing off to one of the Greek islands. Anyway, we tried to get this bloody car over the border into Spain the same day as they'd bought it – only thing was – no papers yet for the car from the Dutch geezers.
Christ if we had shot Franco himself we couldn't have had it harder at the border. Literally the whole car was stripped (drugs) and then of course we never made it over anyway because of the papers.
Got the papers and then tried again successfully. After a few nights coming back down from Marbella on the coast road pi55ed on cocktails – we came home – then discovered the brakes were knackered and you had to pump the pedal about 20 times to get them to work.
One of us actually bought a Spanish brake-bleeding kit
Of course, when you're young you're also naive and the idea that these Dutch guys could have known we lived just the other side of the border and could have stuffed the 2CV full of weed and let US try and get it through the border before casually walking over and driving away with a spare set of keys never dawned on any of us.
When they moved on to work in Greece, our mates drove onto some MOD land and pushed the Citroen off a cliff into the bay.
>> Edited by MikeyT on Tuesday 11th June 00:39
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Shit I don't know what shows less taste the descrption of the cars or holidaying in Gibralter. The place is an A grade shit hole!!
Last time I was there I was impressed by the size of the breasts on the young ladies. Must be the influence of the rock or something in the water.
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