StephTell

Your self-awareness becomes you

ANDYRACER

It is illegal to have your car displaying numbers when on the road.

Technically if you've drove back from santa pod with the number in the back window that they've wrote on you can be done for it.

Dont know if there just lient about it but i drove around for about 2 weeks with the number in the back window of my nova after USC.

Maria.

Lee's sierra goes out on the road as normal.... and i think it looks pretty damn smart!

Its different, it stands out, and people like to look at it!

TurboShed

No, it's because they're laughing at the gay Laguna splitter

foreigneRS

nothing gay about a laguna splitter. my estate for the council estates with genuine cossie bumper had one fitted even though nothing matched colour wise (grey car, black 4x4 cossie bonnet, white sapph bumper). i didn't care what it looked like though, it was great fun - especially with the welded diff

jb fletch

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Hear hear Nick !

I really dont give a f**k what mine looks like really, it's brutally fast & so much fun, again wit the welded diff !


PMSL

So difference between yours & mine is their laughin at my splitter but their laughin at you smokin down the road soundin like a wannabe Scooby

jb

Seademon

Whats the point in having numbers? Track cars dont have numbers only race cars do - just keep it simple & dont cover it in crap stickers which have no relevance!

vibrating_cake

its not illegal to display numbers on the side of your car. thats a myth!!!!
but.... heres a stupid but.. companies like churchill insurance will NOT insure your car if it has "race numbers" on the side of your car. if you have numbers on the side of your car, the insurance will be invalidated!!!
as i found out a couple of years ago! (before i crashed dont worry lol)

as for the stickers on the side of a car. a few of the people around me have had the 106 blue splodge decals down the front back and sides of their car without the sponsors and shopping lists. but with race nuumbers and all bar one hated having it for all the attention they got off police other people in garages in carparks etc etc etc.
its not worth the hassle unless you have a big head and like repeating yourself to every mofo who wants to know! n theres lots of em!

jb fletch

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The other thing about number on the side of ya car is if their illegal, then would that mean phones numbers etc (advertising & so on) was illegal too ?

lol

jb

Dicko&Vacant

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our nova is totally stripped out bar 2 front seats that gets used daily.

Was at traffic lights other day and saw someone in a higher car peering in the back looking very confused


Sarah

Paddy

But that's not Ł300s worth of mk4 Escort with Ł400s worth of shit bolted to it

ballin

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fpmsl, once again, summed up perfectly

cossiegreg1

give the lad a break. You were young once.

Nick D

At the end of the day "base model escorts rule" so it doesnt matter if it looks track or wank it's still going to rule!

CossieRich

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Must admit bonus boy does seem to get the piss taken out of him a fair bit on here. Seems to take it well though

percybigun

years ago a mate of mine had an old mini, monte carlo rally rep (very nice motor b4 any1 moans, it was done properly, caged, proper wheels, the stickers all correct etc). when he rang his insurance they wanted Ł200 extra because he had the door numbers. at the time this was a fortune, so he simply took the numbers off and had the blank white square boxes on the doors. still looked cool imho.

if you want more street cred from your bonus, your better off doing more subtle mods. check out the blue cossied mk3 escort for a very good guideline on how to make an escort look hard as fook without a helluva lot done externally.

JonnyBravo

is this the sort of look your after ?

T3ORA

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cut box's not cut spring's

bonus_boy

last couple of threads ive started are poly carb windows/track look cars on the road/pinned bonnets and boots..

and people take the piss :S i just realy dont get it, thought this was a top class site when i first came on it, even spent 10pound in becoming a gold member, what a load of shit that is if every thing i ask about for my car turns into people taking the piss..

sorry i havent got a fully specced cossie etc but still i try to make the most of what ive got...

bonus_boy

and that just sums it up by the last couple of posts..

thanks guys!

RWD_cossie_wil

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If you can't take a joke you shouldn't drive one .
Personally I think a nice clean base model lighly modded is pretty cool for a young driver, just don't ruin it by doing stupid things to it.

Thing is mate, most of us have been there and done it, and realized as we grew a little older that it would have been a MUCH better idea to save the cash that you spend on little mods, that really do sweet fa, and have a much better car more quickly as soon as your insurance drops to a reasonable level.

Porkie

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and so far you have

Subtle and retro and the 'less is more' approach can be cool as you have proved.

but the Stickers Idea is totally against that...

No-one means to take the piss, its just the way this site is. We ALL rip the piss out of each other.

And because you are alot younger than some of us... you are doing the things that we thought were cool when we were younger but now we would just laugh at!

for example.. I used to have 4 earrings when I was 17! and would deffo have had my name in the window!

but now I think those things are laughably wank. Tastes change as we get older!

Dont take offence mate

Porkie

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Sorry Will.... I was typing my reply and didn't see yours!

I'm STILL doing that!

RWD_cossie_wil

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The Embarrasing thing for me is, the amount I have sunk into my escort and sapphire over the last 2-3 years, I could have quite easily bought a Ferrari 360 or somthing similar

Paddy

What he said!

Plus the more obvious point of, why care what people you've never met think anyway? We have zero bearing on your life and I'm under no illusions that my opinion isn't worth a spit to anyone except me

If you're looking for universal approval, you won't get it anywhere in life, let alone on an internet forum!

JonnyBravo

Right, this is my old road/track car :



150hp, done a 8 min lap round the ring in it, 13sec dead 1/4 mile, and covered approx 25k in it using it everyday for work, any trackday and trips to Germany.

In the whole time I owned it I had to replace the head and a gearbox, It cost Ł3000 to build from a bare shell and I so wish I never sold it.

It was subtle, reliable and bloody good on fuel.

Some fair points made my Porkie IMO, some things were cool, I've had a dozen novas in every shape and form but without doubt that white one was the best as it was a bloody sensible car to own for 18 months, through the years I've learnt that bad ass kits and loud stereos have no place in a car your actually going to use.

Graceland

Someone else is a fan of Edgars hospitality I see

JonnyBravo

You want egg ?

aduz

oh dear

bonus_boy

ive had novas in the past aswell..

and i havnt spent anywhere near asmuch on my escort as you did on that white c20xe...

i havnt got much money coming in from my job (as its only casual) but ive still managed to have quite a few nice cars imo, build a 150bhp efi turbo'd bonus (my last one) which cost me just over 3k, and now im spending money on my escort (in my sig) and my corsa run about at the same time, aswell as paying keep, paying petrol to get me about, food and drink etc, all at the age of 18, people take the piss but tbh im not as bad off as most people are...

most people taking the piss are aged 30+ i would imagine, with a decent job (i would think) and a nice car etc, but end of the day we all have got to start off somewhere..

lozi

do what you want mate its your car, if you like it thats the main thing fuck what anybody else thinks your modding it how you want it for you, not for some other cunt

i quite like your car tbh i think its pretty cool

dovboy

i think the general opinion is keep it subtle with no big stickers.

if i was 18 i would be proud to drive a turbo bonus that looks like yours!

sometimes folks have to add in things like you are a tit,moron,chav etc to make them feel better about being over 30 and nearly dead








i was 32 last week chav

Graceland

Quote of the holiday that

JonnyBravo

Same with ours too

Edgar is a top fella, I once rang him at 11pm looking for somewhere to stay after driving all day from Budapest and he had the beers ready

Porkie

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Graceland

Top man he is. I'm booked up for my next trip in August at his

JonnyBravo

Well he did't have enough room for us all so were staying at the Ringhaus, typically now a few people have dropped out we could of stayed there

Graceland

Arse

What dates you going - I'll be there 16th to 19th - Hopefully in the E36

JonnyBravo

Not my thing sorry

were going out on the 29th August till the 4th September.

we always try to make it a bit of a holiday although last year I spent most of it changing a engine and gearbox

Graceland

Fair play, Did we meet at the recent trip over? I can't remember if we did or not