Pieman

The same page has now posted a short video clip of the car being raced. I've been looking for this for AGES. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0nSynCYp7VDaBa3P6jXJnFUGvkwtzeNXaGA5FVtemo1E3LHjyvVyh49CvxtvceLdZl&id=1427939787442733

Already been chatting to a few in the comments

Whenever I see people do that on any junction I always wish another car would clip them and send them spinning like a top.

Pictured car is a funny shade of red.

I wish manufacturers would fuck this stupid "keyless entry" off altogether. It has no advantage whatsoever over unlocking and starting your car with a key and the ONLY change it makes is making your car easy to nick.

Every other post you make is either about extreme weather threatening to destroy your home, or something about America that is rubbish. It always leaves me thinking "And you choose to live there?" Then I remember I live in a country which is the laughing stock of the entire world in every aspect.

Impressive spottage - just watched that sequence and it was indeed that very one.

My social media feed is making it clear that it's "prom" season, aka turn up to an over-hyped Americanised one-upmanship contest in the silliest vehicle possible just to be desperate for a bit of attention. We had a leaving do from my 6th form which I didn't want to go to but was pretty much bullied into it by the few friends I had. I was driven there by a mate's mum in a maroon Rover 45 (I think) and after I'd had my (rubbish) meal and one bottle of beer I realised I was surrounded by people who had by and large hated me for seven years, so I left and got a taxi home. Thinking about it, I may as well have driven myself there and back as I'd just passed my test. Looking back on that post...I think I just don't like seeing people enjoy themselves.

I have owned three cars in my time. The first one got written off when someone smashed into it, and I sold the second one to a friend's mother without advertising it. My neighbour's daughter should be passing her driving test soon. Having read this thread, I think rather than trying to sell my current car I'll just stick it on their drive and say "Here, just take it, it avoids me dealing with the public. Congrats and enjoy your free first car."

This thread (and the recent one about land trains) is EXACTLY why I am on this forum - to feed my obsession with obscure vehicles and find out about them. Thanks all.

Yeah - if they're not too close to your office buildings, set them on fire.

Hire some petrol saws, wait til they all go out on the rob and cut their caravans up.

Am I the only one who saw the new title and clicked expecting FSO content?

Heard today that a friend of mine over in Poland took her own life a few days ago. She was just 28. 😭

Driving home today from Yorkshire to the Midlands, encountered a massive rainstorm in Derbyshire on the M1 and A38. I slowed right down cos I could barely see where I was going...90% of the other traffic didn't even have any lights on. We should have permanent full lockdown because most of this fucking country is too stupid and ignorant to be allowed outside.

Stop stealing my ideas 😂 proves I was right though!

If anyone ever said "Last price" or "Best price" to me, I'd say I don't understand what they mean and ask them to explain the term in words a simpleton like me can understand. I bet they wouldn't be able to.

A couple of weeks ago I was flying to Italy (via Paris, thanks to a combination work booking the flights for me and Bologna being a pain in the butt to get to from the UK) - got to BHX really early after all the horror stories re security queues...and there weren't any, I didn't even slow down at security and actually asked one of the staff "Who's pinched all the queues?" Karma then got me for my humour, as the bloody flight was delayed for over two hours!

Solution: get a partner who likes cars as much as you do, like I have. I think she enjoyed the historic meeting at Donington yesterday even more than I did.

Driving home this evening, going across the top of M42 junction 9 - nobody ever gets the lanes right on this roundabout, and sure enough, up ahead of me a Golf decides to turn right and carry on round the roundabout without noticing the Merc in the lane next to it about to take the exit, and twats into the Merc's rear door. I pull in behind them as they stop and put my hazards on, deciding to be a good Samaritan and leave my details as a witness. Golf driving bloke and a younger lad get out of said VAGmobile and the driver proceeds to kick off at the Merc driver and start threatening him. From in my car I shout something like "Pull the cars out of the way onto the roundabout up there and we can talk there without blocking the road" and the Golf occupants get back on board, pull up alongside the Merc while still giving it a load of verbal, a lorry pulls up behind them and hoots at them to move - at which point the Golf fucks off without leaving any details. 😠 I calmed the rather panicky guy in the Merc down a bit and he called the police, and I have left my name and number with them as a witness. It's times like that I wish I had a dashcam.

Yes, the three Pickups were parked there as they were the top three finishers, for post race interviews with the PA commentator and with our livestream pit camera As for the Legends cars, I'm not sure why they are so called, but they are built in the US and are powered by 1250cc Yamaha superbike engines. Given that they are built to 5/8ths scale of 1930s American hot rods and therefore weight about the same as a large suitcase, that makes them bloody quick in a straight line. Their grids are drawn by ballot for the first race, then reversed for race two, and the third race is gridded by the aggregate results of the first two but with everything reversed again, which makes for a ton of overtaking.

Your face melts.

I like it.