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Old Oct 14, 2006 | 10:02 PM
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Went up there tonight but the old bill had every corner covered.??

Loads of cars but no where to go.??

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Old Oct 14, 2006 | 10:42 PM
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i haven't been there for a long time i might pop down in 2weeks time see what going on

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Old Oct 14, 2006 | 11:09 PM
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Fucking hell....theres a blast from the past

10/15 years ago it was AWESOME
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Old Oct 14, 2006 | 11:24 PM
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Yep,the old circuit was

Do any of you remember a RS turbo that was called RS KILLER.

Hav,nt been up there for a while.The long straight at BIRMINGHAM WHEELS is to MOODY,Seen many cars up there crash and the people responsible just fuckoff and the one,s left RAPE your car.
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Old Oct 14, 2006 | 11:31 PM
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RS KILLER----------4 Spot lights along the front eh

You will find there is a load of us on here from "The Esses"

Me
Marco
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That,s the one (4 SPOT LIGHTS) The esses used to be shit hot,seen alot of scary things up there.A few near misses.Was up there one night and a car lost it and ploughed into a girl in the crowd.EVERY FOCKER jumped in there cars and done one.Poor girl was lying on the pavement with a broken leg and her boyfriend trying to drag her in his car before OLD BILL arrived.

Also remember 2 FIAT STRADAS with COSSIE LUMPS IN
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Old Oct 14, 2006 | 11:47 PM
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Went up there tonight but the old bill had every corner covered.??

Loads of cars but no where to go.??


Didn't think that'd be your thing mate- Too much wheels spinning and smoke attracting attention from the old bill...


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Old Oct 15, 2006 | 12:07 AM
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RS KILLER----------4 Spot lights along the front eh

You will find there is a load of us on here from "The Esses"

Me
Marco
Warley Pete
Shings
Deano
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the esses where awsome nites

always remember a scooby estate cruising round and firing a flre gun around into the crowd needless to say his bad luck when he got stuck in traffic as that scooby and him didnt end up to nice

wheels is just dangerous, no where to park its that full, they come racing round on the main road onto on coming cars, very dangerous, my mates s1 got smacked up there by a 405 and they done one but my mates gave chase and caught them

tisley which is up the road isnt bad, none of the idiots in stolen cars go up there,just a selected few and is quite a good nite then

then hams hall, heard the old bill dont bother as much now, but then thats what ive heard havnt been anywhere like that in 3 years now

dont think ill bother with what the police can do now
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Another little story of what used to go on.

,My mate driving around in his SAFF COSSIE being followed by 2 FIESTA XR2,S. Every move he made ,they made.Through red lights the lot.Wasn,t trying to get away,just trying to lose them.Anyway,after about 1 hour they were still on his tail ,so he rang a few of us that were up there and told us to meet up with him.We all met up and the XR2,S dissapeared.Then later ,there was a bit of a crowd at THE ASDA,so we went there (usual donuts ,handbreak turns,e.c.t)Then my mate shouts ,THERE,S THEM 2 XR2,S that were following me ealier.So we go over thinking that they were going to jack his car.Just 3 little CHAVS giving it large.They said "OH ,IT WAS JUST A JOKE "so my mate (BIG FAT STRONG LAD) SAID,"NO THIOS IS A JOKE " asnd proceeds to lift the XR2 on to it,s side,then onto it,s roof.At this point the other 2 CHAVS speed off in the other xr2 leaving there mate on his own.Then a crowd gathers and some cunt,sets FIRE to the seat and before you now it THIS POOR LAD IS WATCHING HIS NICE LITTLE XR2 IN FLAMES.And to top it all the POLICE have been parked in the corner of the ASDA watchin the lot and did FUCK ALL.
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Old Oct 15, 2006 | 12:28 AM
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it was alot better yrs and yrs ago we started it when we use to have the mk1 rs and mk2 rs escorts lin the late 80's

we use to drive around the city center for a while and we use to park up @ digbeth car park for a chat about cars

after afew months as word got around more and more cars came along

then after a few yrs it got out of controll some peeps use to go there with stolen cars ripping the shite out of them then crashing them afterwards

driving like fooking loons

it was very good yrs ago before all this shite started as most were very sensible


don't get me wrong i use to give the Mk2 Rs a good pasting around there driving sideways every corner with control ZF lsd did help alot it wasn't clever but i was alot younger then and a bit stupid

all i go there now is to watch and when i'm leaving i'll warm the car and then give it a bit of stick (not all the time )

i might pop down next week to see whats going on just to watch the loons

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Oh the esses, those were the days, i remember a metro hitting a scooby head on, and a week later a car trying to drive through the nat west bank on the corner.
It used to get silly, but it was fooking fun.
Every week ther by about 10pm home at 4am
RS Killer fook me i remember that
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Fiat strada was owned by 7 day auto spares in Digbeth, bright fooking yellow, running 300bhp, that was back in 1994
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Old Oct 15, 2006 | 12:35 AM
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Fiat strada was owned by 7 day auto spares in Digbeth, bright fooking yellow, running 300bhp, that was back in 1994
thats right it was pauls from 7 day auto spares it was 4wd aswell

he then done another green one BMW V8 rwd convertable
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I STARTED GOING UP IN ABOUT 1994,JUST AFTER THEY CONVERTED THE CICUIT FROM ONEWAY INTO 2 WAY TRAFFIC.USED TO LAUGH WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENED OR THE OLD BIIL WOULD TURN UP.EVEYBODY WOULD BE RUNNING TO THEIR CARS TRYING TO BE THE FIRST ONE,S TO GET AWAY.IT WAS LIKE THE START OF THE (WACKY RACES.)EXCEPT WITH RIOT VANS ,POLICE CARS AND HELICOPTERS.
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Originally Posted by marco polo
Originally Posted by Jasesapphy
Fiat strada was owned by 7 day auto spares in Digbeth, bright fooking yellow, running 300bhp, that was back in 1994
thats right it was pauls from 7 day auto spares it was 4wd aswell

he then done another green one BMW V8 rwd convertable
Yep that,s it .Was up 7 DAY AUTO,S about a year ago and they were both up on the ramps with COSSIE LUMPS still in tact.

Where abouts in BRUM are you???
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Old Oct 15, 2006 | 12:42 AM
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Originally Posted by mercury grey minter
I STARTED GOING UP IN ABOUT 1994,JUST AFTER THEY CONVERTED THE CICUIT FROM ONEWAY INTO 2 WAY TRAFFIC.USED TO LAUGH WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENED OR THE OLD BIIL WOULD TURN UP.EVEYBODY WOULD BE RUNNING TO THEIR CARS TRYING TO BE THE FIRST ONE,S TO GET AWAY.IT WAS LIKE THE START OF THE (WACKY RACES.)EXCEPT WITH RIOT VANS ,POLICE CARS AND HELICOPTERS.
it wasn't like this yrs ago it was the ss's it use to be 2 way all the way


it use to be good just to go some where to doss and it use to keep my out the pub
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I live in Bournemouth now but still go back to see the family every few months, i lived in Great Barr,
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Good old days

Got loads of story's & memories (good & naughty)
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Originally Posted by mercury grey minter
Originally Posted by marco polo
Originally Posted by Jasesapphy
Fiat strada was owned by 7 day auto spares in Digbeth, bright fooking yellow, running 300bhp, that was back in 1994
thats right it was pauls from 7 day auto spares it was 4wd aswell

he then done another green one BMW V8 rwd convertable
Yep that,s it .Was up 7 DAY AUTO,S about a year ago and they were both up on the ramps with COSSIE LUMPS still in tact.

Where abouts in BRUM are you???

Acocks green /Hall Green
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Hall green andf Acocks Green, didnt there used to be a dog track that way
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Originally Posted by marco polo
Originally Posted by mercury grey minter
Originally Posted by marco polo
Originally Posted by Jasesapphy
Fiat strada was owned by 7 day auto spares in Digbeth, bright fooking yellow, running 300bhp, that was back in 1994
thats right it was pauls from 7 day auto spares it was 4wd aswell

he then done another green one BMW V8 rwd convertable
Yep that,s it .Was up 7 DAY AUTO,S about a year ago and they were both up on the ramps with COSSIE LUMPS still in tact.

Where abouts in BRUM are you???



Acocks green /Hall Green


I.m only down the road in SHIRLEY. You wanna get yourself down ALDI after 10pm. Packed full of SAXO,S
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is your car a h plate?

did you buy it from shirley?
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I used to go down to the SS's many years ago... does anyone remember a silver mini with COOPER down the side.??

It had a 1480 full/race engine in it running a jack knight 4 speed close ratio gearbox. (Boy was that mini quick.??)

If you did well it was mine it was running 150 bhp and was shit hot.!!, used to race everyone and no one could touch me on the SS's, used to wind alot of peeps up as they could not catch me..??



Those were the days..

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Does anyone know area 11.??
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is your car a h plate?

did you buy it from shirley?

Mine is a H plate.But i didn,t buy it from SHIRLEY.There is another GREY H PLATE in SHIRLEY that was sold by a girl recently.Hers is completley standard.Why do you ask??
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i know the girl lol

know a few people up shirley, but havnt seen them in a couple of years so duno if they still live up there

used to go up there after bru hwheels to sum industrial estate
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God,talk about memorys!!!!

As said it was GREAT at 1 point,no knob heads,just genuine fans of cars,then you get the dobbers in the stolen cars,and it all went tits up from there!!!

Used to be ALOT of fast,well built cars up there..

Tiff,have you got the video for me yet?!Would LOVE to see it!!!

Who remembers that WANK Renault 19,stickerd up like a tourning car!!!

Jamie,Whippy,Me,and Ad in the Radier,GOD thoses were fun,FUN days...

Not really interested in it all anymore tbh,but if it was properley controled,then yeh id prob go back up to rekindle my youth!!

Pete..
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Pete, did you go to wheels last night?
inside i mean, lol
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any body remember the robin reliant getting pushed over



you should nt laugh , but how we did
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then someone setting light to the petrol that spilled out, lol, yep, i remember the robin. lol
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Originally Posted by mercury grey minter
Originally Posted by marco polo
Originally Posted by mercury grey minter
Originally Posted by marco polo
Originally Posted by Jasesapphy
Fiat strada was owned by 7 day auto spares in Digbeth, bright fooking yellow, running 300bhp, that was back in 1994
thats right it was pauls from 7 day auto spares it was 4wd aswell

he then done another green one BMW V8 rwd convertable
Yep that,s it .Was up 7 DAY AUTO,S about a year ago and they were both up on the ramps with COSSIE LUMPS still in tact.

Where abouts in BRUM are you???



Acocks green /Hall Green


I.m only down the road in SHIRLEY. You wanna get yourself down ALDI after 10pm. Packed full of SAXO,S
I live only 300 yards from Aldi, hasn't been much 17 year driver Saxo action of late, must be too scary for 'em now the nights are drawing in....lol

Hasn't been any burnt out cars where the taxi's park at the end of my road of late either, not that I complaining.... thieving scummy cooooonts!

But oh yeah, the Esses, memories of hurtling round in me Nova chased by the old bill.... awwwh.... the stupidity of yooofff... lmao
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What's the SS's?

The old trick round here is coppers turned up, we drive off, then find out the road leading out has been blocked off, and everyone is getting producers.

Luckily I was at the start of the queue, but people where there til 2am on a Monday night, just what you need.
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the esses is what ut says

basically a road with some cool s bends on, and people taking them at stupid speed

used to be always busy up even after they put them rumble strips a lot of good they did
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Used to be part of the Birmingham super Prix track, it was called the esses
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then someone setting light to the petrol that spilled out, lol, yep, i remember the robin. lol
Yup...

Pete,...
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And when the esses got on top and people were moved on where did we all go???????????????????????????



























THE CAGE. Red cage multi storey carpark.Anyone remember that.
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Yep remember the cage well.
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Originally Posted by RapidRS
Originally Posted by mercury grey minter
Originally Posted by marco polo
Originally Posted by mercury grey minter
Originally Posted by marco polo
Originally Posted by Jasesapphy
Fiat strada was owned by 7 day auto spares in Digbeth, bright fooking yellow, running 300bhp, that was back in 1994
thats right it was pauls from 7 day auto spares it was 4wd aswell

he then done another green one BMW V8 rwd convertable
Yep that,s it .Was up 7 DAY AUTO,S about a year ago and they were both up on the ramps with COSSIE LUMPS still in tact.

Where abouts in BRUM are you???







Acocks green /Hall Green


I.m only down the road in SHIRLEY. You wanna get yourself down ALDI after 10pm. Packed full of SAXO,S
I live only 300 yards from Aldi, hasn't been much 17 year driver Saxo action of late, must be too scary for 'em now the nights are drawing in....lol

Hasn't been any burnt out cars where the taxi's park at the end of my road of late either, not that I complaining.... thieving scummy cooooonts!

But oh yeah, the Esses, memories of hurtling round in me Nova chased by the old bill.... awwwh.... the stupidity of yooofff... lmao

What do you drive,?I might have seen you around.
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4 door Astra SXi
AXGT

And when I got done for Street racing I was in my Silver RS1600i
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And when I got done for Street racing I was in my Silver RS1600i


Don,t ring a bell.The onlhy HOT fords around here are MINE.

And a kid with 2 RS,S. SAFF COSSIE & ESCORT COSSIE.

Do see a BLACK 3 DOOR COSSIE now and again.
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