Boys and their toys

**bugjuice** · 11th August 2005, 16:22

Originally Posted by justsomeguy

haaha - thats an old school TVR - just like an old school Ferrari - the roof probably leaks, breaks down as often as it feels like - has more oil leaks than a menstruating women but in the end

......

It's still a

actually it was pretty well built. It didn't leak. It never dropped oil (could eat your dinner off the alu V8, shiny as a wankers' knob) and fired first time every time. Strange, cos I know how TVRs go.. Only issue was the alarm and imobiliser decided it'd had enough of life, so died. Not TVRs fault, cos it was after market. A good afternoon messing around had that bypassed, and it was humming again.. The sound of that thing makes you shake.. and the whole car rocked when it revved. And the smell of all that leather inside. Never forget that.. What is it about sports cars and the fukin horny leather smell they have?

**Big Dave** · 11th August 2005, 16:23

Originally Posted by v.ros`

man this thread gone long:

my 2 cents:

the pistons were huge on those cars

same size pistons in a Triumph rocket III as a viper.

**justsomeguy** · 11th August 2005, 16:25

Like this???

http://www.maserati.org.au/gallery/M...r_gallery.html

**justsomeguy** · 11th August 2005, 16:27

Originally Posted by bugjuice

What is it about sports cars and the fukin horny leather smell they have?

I don't like that smell...... and I prefer stripped cabins with no leather just the bare essentials....

**v.ros`** · 11th August 2005, 16:28

Originally Posted by Big Dave

same size pistons in a Triumph rocket III as a viper.

yeah i know !!!

**Big Dave** · 11th August 2005, 16:31

Originally Posted by v.ros`

yeah i know !!!

OK smartarse - what's next week's Lotto numbers then?

**justsomeguy** · 11th August 2005, 16:33

Originally Posted by v.ros`

yeah i know !!!

Hey mate could you explain your avatar - are you a wanker or are you calling Rossi a wanker or what??

**Phurrball** · 11th August 2005, 16:35

I just note the time of the incident...gotta be real early to have any chance of moving quickly when cage-bound in the city of snails!

Doesn't matter if it's a fancy car or a shitter like my "Laser", they're both just as slow when the motorways clog up...

[Apart from that nutter in the white Commodore Wagon who was in the high speed chase along Ponsonby Rd and on the northwestern this morning - looks like the Police made good use of the stone wall just past St Lukes road to stop him (I assume the masculine in such a case of driving lunacy)]

Here's hoping I have me a bike soon to make the Northwestern more bearable in the mornings...

Spare a thought for us as you belt along on those traffic-free southern roads...

**Lou Girardin** · 11th August 2005, 16:37

Originally Posted by scumdog

You would love my Mistral then bugjuice, 3rd gear in the wet and a stab of the throttle and it's wheel-spin city, do it in 4th too if 'provoked'.

Or so I have been told.

My MX5 would do that.

**onearmedbandit** · 11th August 2005, 16:39

A mates Godfather owns an F40 here in ChCh, very nice car (goes without saying). But the pick of the bunch for me was the 1926 Bugatti F1 car, one of two driven in the factory colours of that year. Bugatti where very keen to get it back.

**justsomeguy** · 11th August 2005, 16:41

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

My MX5 would do that.

You Mr. Hardcore tough guy drive a MX5?????

**Waylander** · 11th August 2005, 16:51

CARS SUCK!!!
That said I wouldn't mind a rebuilt '68 Dodge Charger.

**Lou Girardin** · 11th August 2005, 16:58

Originally Posted by justsomeguy

You Mr. Hardcore tough guy drive a MX5?????

It was a 'special' MX.
Eaton blower, water/meth injection, etc. It would eat HSV 250's to 100. Stayed with a Sierra Cosworth to very naughty speeds. The funniest one was giving a Harley 50 metres start then leaving him like he'd dropped a cylinder.
I surprised quite a few people with that thing, apart from the wider tyres it looked stock.
Who the hell wants to grow up?

**WRT** · 11th August 2005, 17:01

Got a mate with a mx5. Done some work on it, and I have to admit it is fun to drive (drifts quite well too) but still looks like a hairdresser whenever he drives it . . .