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- Egham
Big alloys, indeed small alloys, stretched tyres, heavily cambered wheels and making your 3 cylinder 900cc Corsa exhaust pop. Apparently it's cool....
Motoring Fads
- Thread starter biggs682
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Spot Lights on the grille. My first Escort MK2 did have them, fitted before I had it. Electric ariel - they weren't boingy rubber roof ones then, so you needed one that popped away so the scally's didn't snap it off.
Metros had hydro elastic band suspension, with grease ports...
Metros had hydro elastic band suspension, with grease ports...
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Kevin and Tracy in blue vinyl on top of screen. Furry dice. Manual chokes.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
You'd struggle to get a car now without the whole rear nearly blacked out - manufacture fit.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
All the rage still. Literally. Your SUV's are often a Golf on stilts - T-ROC etc...
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Why are people having special number plates done at the moment where the figures are cut out of black perspex and glued on, so they're raised above the plate itself?
Seems to be the pointless fad of the moment.
Seems to be the pointless fad of the moment.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Ah, it's the fad, my son has just had some bought for him (from a mate as he's done loads of jobs for him). Pain in the ass to wash, but perfectly legal if in the correct font and size. My son's got shortened plates as his reg is 5 characters long, but so long as all the boarders, font, size etc, is OK it's fully legal - I checked..
Me, I'd just get a normal size plate. Gell letters were 'in' but now it's the plastic 4d ones !
PS sunstrips are still in, but they usualy are balck or body coloured, to be all 'racer'....
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Oh and 'stickers' are still in.... argh.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Spot lights on the front bumper. Instant rally car appeal.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
I can see why my dad decided he wasn't crawling under cars anymore from his mid 50's - he was a mechanic as his trade (handy when I got my first cars) but later years in aerospace making planes, but now being 50 myself, whilst I can do it, with my back injury, doesn't make it easy, nor painless under a car, so I now have a capable 'monkey' that will just do it. He has his own tool chest, slider (for under the car) and has made ramps from timber, and has access to my tools.
I'll make him crawl under and remove the plastic engine panels on my car next time the oil is due a change.
I'll make him crawl under and remove the plastic engine panels on my car next time the oil is due a change.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Well MK2 Escorts were....
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Oh I wasn't questioning their legality, I know it's all legal. I was just wondering why it's a thing, I've always struggled to understand why people will pay money for a number plate. It's crackers.
"Shortened" or private plates even more so. I think to most normal plate owners it just signals that there's a thrunger aboard the wagon in question, which is probably not what the buyer had in mind surely.