Right up their own arses

[zephyr ally]

I was out in the zodiac earlier and gave a cheery wave to the driver of a TR5

I've had exactly the same in the Zephyr. "Classic British sports car" folk like TR5 and MG owners completely ignore a wave/thumbs up/ headlight flash but everyone else seems happy to acknowledge another masochist driving something a bit more interesting than the norm. It's as if the MGB etc folk aren't really into older cars and only own one cos they've been told they should...

[Colonel Privet]

I was at a car show about ten years ago in the Zodiac (which seemed to get a hell of a lot of attention) and a red rubber-bumper MG pulled alongside. The bloke got out and started to polish the thing within an inch of its life, but it was an overheard comment that left me open-gobbed for the whole of the afternoon. Somebody engaged MG-man in converstaion and I swear at one point, I heard him say:"Of course, the engine comes out every October."Eh?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

full set of new engine seals/gaskets/pipes every year or 12,000 miles, BMC service requirement innit to keep all/most of the fluids inside the engine.

[reallyloud]

I have found that owners of the odd, unloved and forgotten cars will at least engage (even if its out of politeness) when I tell them my thing for old Japanese cars. A thumbs up from Lada owner means so much more to me than almost any open 2 door sports car.

[outlaw118]

I remember myself and bro' went to Enfield Pageant about 12 years ago in a 1979 Capri 3.0Ghia manual. It was on minilites, oyster gold, slightly lowered...lovely.Until it beached itself on the ruts the traction engines had made and flicked mud over the snooty stuck up bastards on the Morris 1300 owners club stand....

[FredTransit]

Turning up to classic car shows in a hot rod or some festering old Yank barge is a sure fire way to hack off the cravate brigade. I got banned from out local Boxing day classic car run some years ago for turning up in a severely rodded Model A Ford, the great unwashed public loved it, the Bentley boys regarded me as some sort of pond life. Uncorking the headers and starting it up was probably not the best way to ingratiate myself............................................................

I will see your festering Yank and raise you an 80s transit!

[Guest]

Had a mixed bag with the Volvo boys.When my Amazon was rough (and I mean ROUGH - if you saw it at RR 2007 you know what I mean when I say that) I got the thumbs up from a chap in Stockport driving the mintest P1800 I've ever seen. P1800s tend to be mint - you don't really see rough ones on the road. Mainly because they snap in half.Amazons can be as rough as a donkey's post curry ball sack and nobody seems to mind. Got photographed in Manchester coming home from work once and had an Asian lad berating me because no one was taking pictures of his car.... which was a Ferrari 360.The best though was the flash of lights that I got from a bloke driving a Series 1 Land Rover into the Trafford Centre. With no roof or shirt on. In the rain.It meant a lot, it really did.

[garycox]

I haven't driven a proper old car for ages, nobody tend to notice a Mk5 Transit!Since getting the little 121 though, which is not at all old but is unusual, I've exchanged waves with a bloke driving a rusty Ford Classic and a foreign chap in a LHD Skoda 1000MB... I must get my Mini on the road...

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

a Ferrari 360.

Don't get me started on that fucking shower. Did you see the Fezza club stand at the NEC last year? Did you?? They had various £20'000 308's, valueless old Mondial / 400i scrap (and one very nice Boxer) yet they had a fucking white chainlink/fence to keep the scum out....................AND A BASTARDING SECURITY GUARD LETTING PEOPLE IN!!!So I climbed over the plastic white chain and started looking at the Boxer, a very nice 1974 365 model. I'm fucked if I'm queing up cap in hand so I can look at some old Fezzas worth less than the Golf hire car I came in. Stupid bint starts berating me, and I subtly told her to fuck off.'What do YOU drive then?" She asked.'A new BMW M3*, which is worth more than this old shit put together. Except the Boxer, that's the only decent car here. The rest is just tat".I left with a big smile. :-)But who the fuck do they think they are?* I haven't, but Boy I can bullshit on the spot.

[Guest]

a Ferrari 360.

Don't get me started on that fucking shower. Did you see the Fezza club stand at the NEC last year? Did you?? They had various £20'000 308's, valueless old Mondial / 400i scrap (and one very nice Boxer) yet they had a fucking white chainlink/fence to keep the scum out....................AND A BASTARDING SECURITY GUARD LETTING PEOPLE IN!!!So I climbed over the plastic white chain and started looking at the Boxer, a very nice 1974 365 model. I'm fucked if I'm queing up cap in hand so I can look at some old Fezzas worth less than the Golf hire car I came in. Stupid bint starts berating me, and I subtly told her to fuck off.'What do YOU drive then?" She asked.'A new BMW M3*, which is worth more than this old shit put together. Except the Boxer, that's the only decent car here. The rest is just tat".I left with a big smile. :-)But who the fuck do they think they are?* I haven't, but Boy I can bullshit on the spot.

I don't remember the Fezza stand Rev to be honest. I was on the Tatra stand for most of show dribbling at the T87 they had on display......... apparently this wrong.But the fence effort doesn't surprise me at all.

[marcus]

Not all Triumph owners are snobs.

Here's mine, it's 33 yrs old and BRITISH LEYLAND for f*cks sake - truly shite.

Got it off a bloke in the pub, probably for a lot more than it's actually worth.

Drips oil from the engine, gearbox and diff.

Roof leaks, heater pointless, lights hilariously dim.

Was shit when it rolled out the factory.

I love it. And I wave back!

 

Apologies for the HUGE photos -

 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I love the AA van in the distance. A bit like the Top Gear Beetle/Marina!

[Rusty Pelican]

True quality that Spitfire