is Shite actually nice??

[VWPowered]

i'm sat here wondering about where to go this weekend and its suddenly dawned on me, i take more pictures of shite than anything else.. no longer looking for that pristine, very cherished Rodeo when really i want to be taking photos of the completely rotten Fiesta, with no windows, floor, interior etc...now being in good company....are we just mad??? the world thinks we are the amount of garages i been to asked 'can i take pics', and get weird looks getting excited by a lada flattened by 8 other cars, rather than taking pics of his pristine lot the misses hate when i just lock up, jump out the car, click click click, jump back in and off again, seen afew cars moved (probably from owners abit paranoid at said bloke jumping out of car taking pics and speeding off)gone are the days of polishing the car, preferring to drive in a local rotbox never happy seeing a building with its roof on, where it work make much nicer pics with the roof caved in are we unique or just completely f...ed up

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

We're fucked up. But thank goodness for that! What other car enthusiasts could buy every single car they desire for less than the cost of a new Astra?

[michiel]

I like shite because I'm just lazy... and when I had the old Corolla I thought, why restore it when you can never find all the window seals, brightwork etc. new - you end up with a shiny car with rotten rubbers and old broken badges, so meh, fill the necessary holes for the MoT and you're okay. :wink:Edit: I'm fond of the unassisted steering and the click-clack box on my Starlet - drove a 2002 Peugeot 106 last week, absolutely hated it.

[Station]

Purely for nostalgia I think and sticking out in a sea if injection moulded, silver ultra-shite.

[Mr Lobster]

I think it's partly that we are sensible, prefering to run older cars rather than be hooked upto finance for ever more.That and old cars are more interesting and we can generally afford to own the cars we desire rather than chasing after some impossible goal.

[Guest]

When pointing the camera I like to think I'm some sort of social historian, when behind the wheel of an old crate I like to think I'm opting out of the rat race completely (which was an unbelievably satisfying feeling parking up my twenty-one year old faded blue Fiesta 1100 next to a collection of recent Audis at my sister's last birthday BBQ).Hopefully Hirst will be along shortly to put it more succinctly.

[Father Ted]

Speaking as someone with a BSc in Mental Health Nursing I can say with all confidence:YOUR ALL FUCKING MENTALLERS Mind you I include myself in that statement.....

[Owain-328i]

I like shite, as its good honest motoring with nothing to hide.

[trigger]

I like shite, as its good honest motoring with nothing to hide.

That's it!, What you see is what you get!, For example, The VW Passat TDi I've just brought has a slightly riding clutch so I've just gone and got a quote for a new one, £540+vat due to some mass flywheel thing!.Christ you can buy a pretty good shitter for that!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That's it!, What you see is what you get!, For exsample, The VW Passat TDi I've just brought as a slightly riding clucth so I've just gone and got a quote for a new one, £540+vat due to some mass flywheel thing!.Christ you can buy a pretty good shitter forthat!

The dual mass flywheel, a miracle of technology in the field of making things more complicated, delicate and expensive.

[AXrescuer]

I like shite, as its good honest motoring with nothing to hide.

Amen

[bassman77]

I work in a motor factors and the problems I hear about cars with dual mass flywheels!....jeez Ill stick to my old pov spec Mundano any day, over all the new ultra technical bollocks that on the road these days.Or am I just jealous cos all I can afford to run is an old shitter!

[VWPowered]

I like shite, as its good honest motoring with nothing to hide.

+1 great way of putting that

[outlaw118]

Shite has CHARACTER!!Too many "modern" cars are like white goods; only the true car-nerd can tell them apart, even Citroen, the last bastion of car weirdness have gone mainstream(ish) now, only the C6 looks different.How anyone can look at a CX or an Alfasud and say they're horrible is beyond me.Anyway, time for my medication....NURSE!!!

[VWPowered]

ohhhh alfasud yes please now your teasing me

[Richard]

That's it!, What you see is what you get!, For example, The VW Passat TDi I've just brought has a slightly riding clutch so I've just gone and got a quote for a new one, £540+vat due to some mass flywheel thing!.Christ you can buy a pretty good shitter for that!

I think it is possible to get a solid flywheel conversion for most DMF-equipped cars.

[trigger]

That's it!, What you see is what you get!, For example, The VW Passat TDi I've just brought has a slightly riding clutch so I've just gone and got a quote for a new one, £540+vat due to some mass flywheel thing!.Christ you can buy a pretty good shitter for that!

I think it is possible to get a solid flywheel conversion for most DMF-equipped cars.

I might have to look into that then, I still can't decide if the clutch is worn or not, It engages fine at the bottom of the pedal as it should but just slips a bit if you rest your foot on the pedal.

[Justin Case]

...now being in good company....are we just mad???

Next to those who:a: have a new car on some type of PCP scheme where the amount you get back at the end of three years is the exact amount you need to repeat the whole farce again, and do or b: take their treasured 'classic' to a show, jack it up and rotate the wheels so that all the tyre valves are all in the same position (I have actually seen this done )we are all refreshingly normal and I look forward to greeting you on equal terms in about 2 years time when wear and tear have taken their inevitable toll (on the SW of course )

[the spidery land's eye]

mad? dunno. before I go into the hell I call work, sitting in the 110, having a rolly, watching all the silver crap flowing into the car park, I always find myself thinking the same thing: thank christ for people that keep anything more than 7 year old on the road. From an Alpha to a Yugo, at least they are bloody different shapes: the stuff made these days seem to come from the same cookie cutter! mad? I call it pragmatic and sensible. although not so sure about the urge to take pictures of knackered cars! i've got reams of them, and when i find the time, i'm going to stick 'em on here!

[gallondrunk]

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