Drivers of classic cars have no style
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Not wanting to generalise ... but you started it CC.
Ever noticed how fans of the older vehicle always look like (a mummy still dresses them or b) they haven't bought any new clothes since mummy died.
Crimplene trousers and nylon shirts may have been the height of fashion for five minutes because of the novelty value (but I doubt it!), but that was 40 years ago dudes.
But fashion is such a low brow thing eh? Lets face it, when you are as attractive to the opposite sex as a wet haddock, theres no point dressing it up, is there?
Ever noticed how fans of the older vehicle always look like (a mummy still dresses them or b) they haven't bought any new clothes since mummy died.
Crimplene trousers and nylon shirts may have been the height of fashion for five minutes because of the novelty value (but I doubt it!), but that was 40 years ago dudes.
But fashion is such a low brow thing eh? Lets face it, when you are as attractive to the opposite sex as a wet haddock, theres no point dressing it up, is there?
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Yeah - and all teachers have bad coffee breath.
And all elise drivers with alli/carbon tat are knobs. (PS I know where you are)
Lets not start this rubish up again. There is an old thread for general abuse hurling. Phil's comments were well well constructed, if a little critical, but were meant to solicit discussion.
Sparks
P.S. and I don't actually believe my opening comment
Phil,
Could it be something to do with the general age of most classic car fans?
Also do you not spend most of your money on your stead? Or are you a trendy bod too?
I would love an XK150 dhc, but would use it rather than molly coddle it. I am however, a little (not much
) younger than the average classic car fan.
Sparks
Edited by Sparks on Tuesday 30th October 09:08
Could it be something to do with the general age of most classic car fans?
Also do you not spend most of your money on your stead? Or are you a trendy bod too?
I would love an XK150 dhc, but would use it rather than molly coddle it. I am however, a little (not much
) younger than the average classic car fan. Sparks
Edited by Sparks on Tuesday 30th October 09:08
I own a classic car (Lotus Elan) as well as modern stuff and I nearly soiled my corduroys at such nonsense.
Although I may not be the height of fashion (although still quite young), I think I would look a tit driving an Elan with a reversed baseball cap, baggy jeans with thier arse about my knees and unlaced Nike air bollocks shoes.
(It also gives me great pleasure in blasting past the trendy tit brigade in thier golf GTIs, in my untrendy, but beautiful and fast Lotus)
Sparkey
Although I may not be the height of fashion (although still quite young), I think I would look a tit driving an Elan with a reversed baseball cap, baggy jeans with thier arse about my knees and unlaced Nike air bollocks shoes.
(It also gives me great pleasure in blasting past the trendy tit brigade in thier golf GTIs, in my untrendy, but beautiful and fast Lotus)
Sparkey
Sparks,
My comment was supposed to be a humorous generalisation like the post before mine, just like saying all SAAB convertible drivers have small knobs.
Maybe I should attach a disclaimer to all my posts as my sense of humour has quite often caused offence.
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My comment was supposed to be a humorous generalisation like the post before mine, just like saying all SAAB convertible drivers have small knobs.
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Ye Gods! I have to say I agree most wholeheartedly that a lot of 'classic' car drivers do wear cords and double-two shirts. One only has to turn up to a lot of the club meetings to find this out. However - certain sections are far more prone to this than others.
The Brooklands society annual reunion may have more than its' fair share of tweedy types, but a lot of them really drive their cars rather than (a) pose or (b) mollycoddle them. They are real drivers of some of the most hairy-chested cars there have ever been. Aero-engined monsters, supercharged Bentleys, and all manner of other interesting vehicles - many of which are most certainly 'used' for their original intented purpose and not trailered unless their use is purely for track.
I saw one old chap (and I mean as old as the car) holding on for dear life (being bounced virtually out of the car) as he accelerated up the Brooklands hillclimb in an ancient vehicle faster than any car I had ever seen previously. Tweed cap and cords maybe but that Gentlemen had guts. Modern vehicles mollycoddle you too much. Classics teach you how to drive far better.
And I have always owned classics - my 1969 Stingray is older than I am by some margin. And it is most certainly not for wusses. So there.
Edited by Captain Chaos on Tuesday 30th October 14:02
The Brooklands society annual reunion may have more than its' fair share of tweedy types, but a lot of them really drive their cars rather than (a) pose or (b) mollycoddle them. They are real drivers of some of the most hairy-chested cars there have ever been. Aero-engined monsters, supercharged Bentleys, and all manner of other interesting vehicles - many of which are most certainly 'used' for their original intented purpose and not trailered unless their use is purely for track.
I saw one old chap (and I mean as old as the car) holding on for dear life (being bounced virtually out of the car) as he accelerated up the Brooklands hillclimb in an ancient vehicle faster than any car I had ever seen previously. Tweed cap and cords maybe but that Gentlemen had guts. Modern vehicles mollycoddle you too much. Classics teach you how to drive far better.
And I have always owned classics - my 1969 Stingray is older than I am by some margin. And it is most certainly not for wusses. So there.
Edited by Captain Chaos on Tuesday 30th October 14:02
Phil just read your profile with some amusement.
I know where you're coming from
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Pet hates? People who think they are some kind of TVR Elite. I don't care who you think you are, how old your TVR is, or how long you have been a TVR owner, you still shit sitting down like the rest of us.
I know where you're coming from
Ted, don't blame you for needing to reappraise your mental picture of me. The big three-oh is still a few years off for me. Sorry 'bout that!
As for cords and body warmers I hate to dissapoint but you're more likely to see me in T-shirt and jeans grovelling underneath my untrustworthy steed. Either that or in pinstripe and double-cuffs for my day job
Edited by Captain Chaos on Wednesday 31st October 11:08
As for cords and body warmers I hate to dissapoint but you're more likely to see me in T-shirt and jeans grovelling underneath my untrustworthy steed. Either that or in pinstripe and double-cuffs for my day job
Edited by Captain Chaos on Wednesday 31st October 11:08
Not wanting to further Generalise but...
People in pinstripes and double cuffs seem to think that by donning the above uniform and reading the financial times it makes them a superior life form.
You're such a bunch of merchant bankers
Jim
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People in pinstripes and double cuffs seem to think that by donning the above uniform and reading the financial times it makes them a superior life form.
You're such a bunch of merchant bankers
Jim
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Well, as we are all generalising about things - if I had the need to feel superior I'd drive a bloody Merc or Beemer or heaven help us, an 'off'roader'. Do you really think I drive along in my Stingray wearing pinstripes, brogues, double cuffs and have a copy of the FT next to me on the drivers seat?
What I wear for work equates to a school uniform, nothing more. Everybody wears it. I just have a large collection of cufflinks with cars on them to break the monotony of feeling like Reggie Perrin all day.
It's some TVR owners (sorry boys) who on occasion seem to act all superior and snobbish about vehicles other than their own, especially those made in the USA. But frankly old chum, I don't give a rats' ass
Das Kapitan
What I wear for work equates to a school uniform, nothing more. Everybody wears it. I just have a large collection of cufflinks with cars on them to break the monotony of feeling like Reggie Perrin all day.
It's some TVR owners (sorry boys) who on occasion seem to act all superior and snobbish about vehicles other than their own, especially those made in the USA. But frankly old chum, I don't give a rats' ass
Das Kapitan
Lloyd's is an Insurance market, nothing to do with merchant bankers. Just like a market selling fruit & veg except it is for insurance. And I work within it underwriting but NOT for it. Let's make that one clear.
A ten gallon reserve petrol tank would be more use in my car than a ten-gallon hat
Edited by Captain Chaos on Wednesday 31st October 18:19
A ten gallon reserve petrol tank would be more use in my car than a ten-gallon hat
Edited by Captain Chaos on Wednesday 31st October 18:19
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