What do friends family think of your shite?

[Skoze]

I think I just about avoid the criticism with mine, i'd consider them fairly shitey but I think to others they're just about interesting enough to not be old tat. 

 

Uni mates kinda take the piss a bit (art school, hard-line lefty communists just because), missus is very understanding about it and quite likes them. Prefers the Capper as fishnets recaros are made for size 8 girls, thinks the 80 is thoroughly dangerous but has known it long enough to trust it. Mum's not stoked on usually having the two on the drive, but has stopped bothering to moan about the Landy pissing fluids everywhere now.

 

Mrs Skoze has actually started to convert, whether she realises or not. Current car choice post uni has gone from a fairly modern Clio or nothing to a Clio, an E30 beemer, a Rangey classic or a 110 Land Rover. Progress. 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I feel I have become quite out of step with society now. I can't seem to engage. There have been many changes in the last decade and I have not kept pace. I don't share the same goals nor value the same connections or aspirations. Most of it seems pointless; some of it is bewildering. I tried to stay in step, but always seem to march like Corporal Jones.

Superbly put. I face the same dilemma because I don't;

 

- watch any reality TV. X Factor, ant and dec jungle wankerfest etc.

 

- know what twitter is. Seriously, I've only the vaguest notion.

 

- know any One Direction material.

 

The day any of the above changes, I know I have become lax in my viewing and listening choices.

 

Will this isolate me a little from normal* society? I do hope so because it allows me to enjoy what really matters.

[panhard65]

My other half is used to all the tat I buy and usually tries to talk me out of it. She knows how much this habit costs me !. At least she doesn't utter the "why don't you sell all those old cars and buy something nice" My dad utters these words on a regular basis. He hates the hearse but I think I have finally won him over when I bought the Rolls. He loves every opportunity to show it off when I leave it at home. I am not sure what my customers make of my collection but pretty much all of them love the old renault 5 I use as a courtesy car.

[cort1977]

Our few friends here just think we're slightly eccentric/British so don't really say much but I do get the odd funny look from passers by when working on old shite in front of the house, people look at the house and then at the car and can't quite work it out.  

 

Most Americans, or at least Texans, seem to buy the most expensive car the can afford so 'bangernomics' is just not a thing here.  

 

Family don't get it but my parents are to blame really as they are pretty frugal.   My sister did make me happy recently when she got in my car, looked at the missing door card and said 'why are all your cars so shit?'

[oldcars]

My wife loves the Reliant, more so than me i think! My son likes it too, calls him dave and love to get taken to his nursery in it.

Some mates like it, some don't but mostly do.

[RobT]

My folks find it all amusing, but also genuinely like the older stuff now. The R8 416GTi I gave them gets more use these days than their modernish Corsa. My brother has always coveted new stuff so he takes the piss a bit, but even he was impressed by the 400 quid Rover 75. As for the missus, she's fine with my habit as long as I'm not spunking away too much cash, which 'aint going to happen anyway as I'm a bit of an Arkwright.

 

None of my mates really get it, or they just show a passing interest, so thank god I've got this place as an outlet.

 

As for the world at large, all the status bollocks of new stuff or being on Facebook etc is lost on me. Not saying I'm a luddite as I'll have new stuff if it has a function, but will then keep it to the death!

[cms206]

SWMBO genuinely loves the council estate and has threatened me on pain of death that it goes nowhere because the registration looks a bit like her name. Ish (E113/Ellie).

 

The Volvo thing disturbs her a little but she's even grudgingly accepted the 340. She hated the Senator and didn't mind the Montego though.

 

I reckon she's a closet shiter at heart, here she is in a Datsun Cherry c.1992 in a suave jumpsuit.

[RobT]

What did she hate about the Senator Andy? Mine hated the BX and was cool towards the Renner 25, so she appears to have anti-garlic crunching tendencies when it comes to cars. Fuck knows what she'd say if I came home with a Vel Satis.

[cms206]

What did she hate about the Senator Andy? Mine hated the BX and was cool towards the Renner 25, so she appears to have anti-garlic crunching tendencies when it comes to cars. Fuck knows what she'd say if I came home with a Vel Satis.

 

 

I think her main issue with the Senator was that I kept trying to crash into the horizon with it; it was a complaint she had with the B. Shitpez 850 T-5 too meaning that I'm "not allowed" a T-5 again.

[tooSavvy]

I occasionally have persons, known to the daughter - passing like 'ships in the night' - who get to see my motor.

 

Usually I get "OOhh, nice >> what is it?"

 

... whatever... I see tonight what the 'sensible' consumer rates my charge as.....

 

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/prices/used/proton/savvy/hatchback-2005/33052/adjust/?yearplate=85

 

... $hite, here we are then. £900odd

 

 

 

TS

[New POD]

I'm rubbish at bangernomics and usually form a hopeless attachment to whatever chod I've bought which causes me to throw money and time/effort at things that are virtually worthless.

 

 

That's when bangernomics becomes "Durable car ownership"

[Angrydicky]

My parents are pretty supportive, although they do keep pestering me to buy a newer car for everyday use. Mum is only really bothered by the lack of seatbelts in the Somerset. My two younger sisters aren't interested at all, and find my cars embarrassing, especially the Maestro.

My non-car friends don't really *get* my cars either, but as I've never had a modern car, the cars are part of me now.

I'm single so I don't have to worry on that score.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

That's when bangernomics becomes "Durable car ownership"

 

I will repeat that to myself for when the consequences of the hopeless attachment I have formed to my own worthless chod are brutally itemised on my credit card bill.

[New POD]

That's when bangernomics becomes "Durable car ownership"

 

 

If a car cost as much as a house, you'd keep it repaired and even upgrade it, so that it turned out to be a better car.

[mercrocker]

This is all very relevant to me at the moment.....I have spent an average of £777.00 or thereabouts on three of my cars over the last six weeks.  Given the seasonal dip in values that's probably increased each of them by approximately £1.60.   I should have binned at least two of these off £1000 ago.   I actually took out a small bank loan earlier this year to buy myself something "nice" (it wouldn't have been modern) and even sold my Farina to make room for it.   Having felt bad about doing that I couldn't then bring myself to sell anything else, so it all stayed and shared in the "windfall".   The only car not to benefit is the Merc and this is the car that bears the brunt of wifely useage and long distances as well as Saturday nights out all over the south coast, left out in all manner of dodgy carparks and streets.   Must be a moral here somewhere but buggered if I can see it neither would I care if I could.   Durable car ownership.   That's a much better way of understanding it.  Thanks!

[Angrydicky]

Mercroker, I saw a picture of your '55 Cowley in the other thread and that looks lovely! Is it on the road? Have you got any more pictures of it? 

 

Looks in the same sort of 'oily rag' condition as my Somerset. I really quite like genuinely faded old black cars, I think they have loads of character.

[Doctormop]

For me its sheer bloody mindedness mixed 2 parts to 1 with pure spite.

"You can't get a reliable car for under 5 grand" has me searching out something old and seemingly knackered for 5 hundred.

I like changing cars, when I have a big powerful motor I crave a small underpowered go kart, when I have a reliable economical 1 litre sensible runabout that costs me hardly anything to buy and run I need a huge petrol guzzling behemoth and I need it now.

Chopping and changing new cars like this would bankrupt John D Rockefeller in a matter of months (assuming he was still alive of course) but never risking more than a few hundred quid effectively insures you against losing more than a couple of weeks ale money on any purchase, the best bit is though at the grand old age of 42, having, stuck to this way of life for 20 years I can turn up at any classic car show, point to random exhibits and say in a loud steady voice "I had one of those in 1995, worst car ever, sold it for 15 quid" which has to be worth more than any 0% Apr payment on an Audi A1.

[Dax]

Family has no other choise but to accept it, and friends, well... I choose friends who like old cars so it is not a problem.

And collegues at work: well most of them think I'am crazy. I don't make anything to change their opinion - I am an IT supervisior and everybody tries to to be nice to me (just in case my help is needed)

[brickwall]

"I see you've parked you big truck in the hedge again...will you stop doing that. You knocked over an planter as well.", said mum.

[jonny69]

They don't get it.

 

My dad gets it and my mum hasn't known any different, nor has my other half. But nobody else gets it.

[Bobthebeard]

My lot certainly don't get it. They think I am weird. I suppose I am weird really, so that's ok then. I think they are weird. Especially my sister. Who is properly weird. She is an evangelist and prays for my salvation. So God doesn't like old cars then sis? Hmmm.