Chavs listen to Mike Oldfield shocker

[jj]

RetroDon wrote:
> It is a fine line, but a modd'd hatchback does not necessarily
> a chav maketh.
Nay, Sirrah, thou art perfectly correct: ownership thereof does
indeed not render such individual a Chav, but merely a Greebo.

[Rude Boy]

"What is alarming is the amount of people of a similar ilk are getting their hands on good cars like Impeze Turbo's, Mitsi Evo's, Seat Cupra R's... I didn't realise Yes! Car Credit stocked such models...."

They are not so much chav cars but poor man's sports cars, at least that's what someone called my Celica 190 anyway!

[Deuce Bigolo]

God help them if they ever hear

Jean Michel Jarres.....Oxygene

cheers
B....OZ

[Rude Boy]

"Jean Michel Jarres.....Oxygene"

Funnily enough I have a chav story about that! A few years ago a bloke I know who was a kind of chav before chavs were officially recognised (A true pioneer!) got really into Jean Michel Jarre. I HONESTLY used to see him walking around the local town wearing a shellsuit with a big "Ghetto Blaster" type stereo on his shoulder playing at a very loud volume......"Oxygene!"

It sounds too good to be true but I swear on Schumacher's life that it is gospel. Eventually he got into Mike And The Mechanics and used to blast out that song "Living Years" instead of Jarre.

[jj]

Well ,a lot of the Jap jobs DO like mutton dressed as lamb.
And drive like turkeys, alas.

Doug Adams joke, Part 94: Beautiful spaceship- looks like a fish, steers like a cow.

[Rude Boy]

I test drove an Impreza once as I'd heard rave reviews about it, I thought it was pretty average to be honest and I thought it looked like a Skoda. Ugly as fuck.

[Deuce Bigolo]

A group I used to hang round with 20 years ago were into it bigtime

They were bigtime into Dope & LSD and for some reason that Music sent them spinning....the video by Jarre of the fast moving through a city fully lit iwas another of their favourites

So did Pink Floyd....sent them into a coma almost

Derek & Clive sent them into laughing fits that would last for hours

Drugs & Music for the extra effect on the senses

cheers
B....OZ

[jj]

I have (albeit incompetently: I'm still learning, yes, at 45, ( know....) driven a Skoda, and it beats Hell out of a Vox.
Cheaper/better HP, too. Spare? A doddle.

Fuckit: I'm getting an X-Jag as soon as I pass, anyway. you poor sods.
?2K min ins/about 1 inch per gal, but the canine's bollocks.

[Rude Boy]

Oh I'm not knocking modern Skodas as I know they are pretty good these days but what I meant was that the Impreza reminded me a lot of the old, ugly Skodas. The most pathetic so-called sports car I ever drove was a BMW Z-3, it was gutless, pitifully gutless. The best was the sublime 355 Spyder....171MPH on the A12 but don't tell anybody!

[jj]

Agree: that Z3 is utter shite- one pathetic soft-dick step-up from a Boxster.
I have also (illegally,but eternally gratefully- a mate does stereo upgrades on classic cars) taken a driver's-seat ride in a custom Maserati Ghibli, complete with walnut gearstick-knob (you can see the rest is solid stainless steel), the most AMAZINGLY soft-leather upholstery and complete teak-veneer; eight-zone real-time clock, and GPS.
And, of course, the stereo was perfect*.
A near-comparison as far as I can tell would be an old-model XJS, which at least is within my price-range, but I'm dubious about the perennial Jag rust-problem and the spares-situation.


*A snip at 170K............plus extras, natch.
Only for Europeans, of course, where you can give a car like that its head....