Steve X16XE
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Registered: 31st Dec 06
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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1. You think the primary purpose of wings is to PREVENT flight.
2. You feel compelled on a road trip to beat your previous best time.
3. You are happiest when your road car's tires are worn to racing depth (wear bars showing).
4. When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved.
5. When you hear 'overcooked it', instead of food you think 'off the track'.
6. You change engine oil every other week.
7. You sometimes hear whimpering noises from your passengers when you geton the throttle right after turning in.
8. You thoroughly enjoy showing the tailgater how to drive around a roundabout.
9. Your racing budget is one of the big three -- mortgage, car payments/maintenance.
10. Your email address refers to your race car rather than to you.
11. You push the shopping trolley through proper racelines through the supermarket.
12. You perfected power sliding shopping trolleys between aisles at the age of 8.
13. You've paid £1.00 a litre for fuel without complaining.
14. You buy new parts because you don't know where you put the spares.
15. You bought a racecar before buying a house.
16. You bought a racecar before buying furniture for the new house.
17. You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!
18. You find that you need a new house because you've outgrown your garage and the neighbors are threatening violence if you park one more vehicle on the street or in the front yard.
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Iain M
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Registered: 18th Aug 05
Location: Wigan - Drives 272bhp corsa ZLET
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11. You push the shopping trolley through proper racelines through the supermarket.
12. You perfected power sliding shopping trolleys between aisles at the age of 8.
Very true to me
[Edited on 23-07-2007 by Iain M]
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Steve X16XE
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Registered: 31st Dec 06
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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The requirements you give your estate agent are (in order of importance):
1) 3 car climate controlled garage with an attached workshop.
2) Outside parking for 6 cars, & trailer.
3) 3 phase 220V outlets in the garage for your welder.
4) Grease pit.
5) Convenient to a hazardous waste disposal site.
6) Deaf neighbours.
7) Across the street from a paint and body shop.
8) Some sort of house with a working toilet and shower on the ground floor.
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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Not really no 
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
Location: Aberdeen
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y0.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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My workshop is a paint and bodyshop 
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BeArDy
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Registered: 7th Aug 00
Location: Manchester
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15
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are so ture 
my jeep cherokee comes next week an last week i had a letter about all the cars parked at the back of my house
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Steve X16XE
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Registered: 31st Dec 06
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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The ways you get caught modifying......
1. YOUR MATE HAS JUST GOT ONE FOR HIS FORD (THEY ARE ALL THE SAME)
2. YOU SEE SOMETHING YOU LIKE AT THE LOCAL CRUISE AND DECIDE TO DO IT TO YOURS
3. TOO MANY STANDARD CARS AROUND AND WANT TO LOOK A BIT DIFFERENT
4. FREE CATALOGUES IN MAGS GET YOU THINKING UMMM...
5. YOU WANT YOUR CAR TO BE THE FASTEST/ BEST LOOKING IN THE WORLD IF NOT THAT THEN BETTER THAN YOUR MATE WITH THE MICRA WITH THREE SPOKE ALLOYS WITH THE £10 SUB BOX AND £20 AMP.
6. YOU WANT TO PULL THE BIRDS WITH A HOT LOOKING MOTOR..
7. YOUR CAR HAS LESS POWER THAN A HAIRDRYER AND YOU WANT EVERYONE TO THINK THAT IT CONTAINS 2.0LTR TURBO!
8. YOU WANT TO JUSTIFY THE FACT THAT THE LOAN REPAYMENTS ARE WORTH THE EXTORDANRY RATES THAT ARE BEING CHARGED AND YOU NEVER BY ROUNDS AT THE PUB.
(sorry for the caps)
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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7. YOUR CAR HAS LESS POWER THAN A HAIRDRYER AND YOU WANT EVERYONE TO THINK THAT IT CONTAINS 2.0LTR TURBO!
^^ very true for some of the shit box car's round here that think they are evo's or something
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Iain M
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Registered: 18th Aug 05
Location: Wigan - Drives 272bhp corsa ZLET
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Where you getting these from??
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Steve X16XE
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I had them on a floppy disc that i found when i clean up my bedroom. I think i've had them since i was 17 (6 years ago) when i was at college.
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Steve X16XE
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19. You sit in your racecar in a dark garage and make car noises and shift and practice your heel and toe, while waiting for your motor to get back from the machine shop.
20. You look at the purchase of tools as a long-term investment.
21. Your garage holds more cars than your house has bedrooms.
22. You have enough spare parts to build another car.
23. You have car parts in your locker at work.
24. If you can't remember when you last worked on weekdays and rested on weekends.
25. After your answer to "What did you do this weekend?" the next questions always: "And you do this for fun? Right?"
26. You have a separate drawer for 'garage clothes'.
27. Your reading material in your bathroom consists of auto parts and racing supply catalogs, and 400 car magazines,
28. People know you by your class letters, and car colour.
29. You talk to other cars on the road, calling them by the manufacturer's name.
30. You complain when cars in front of you, on the motorway exit lanes, don't stay in lane, causing your exit speed to drop.
31. You refer to the corner down the road from your house as "Turn One."
32. You enjoy driving in the rain on the way to work.
33. Where ever you go, you try to find the fastest line through the turn.
34. You always do a toe & heel downshift while whoever might be your passenger gives you a real funny look.
35. You can't stand anyone telling others how to drive. Of course, you are the best.
36. You can't stand under steer.
37. You always want to change something in your road car to make it handle better.
38. You hate long distance driving, but you will gladly drive 400 miles to the racetrack.
39. You think that traction control and ABS are for those who can't drive.
40. You save broken car parts as "momentous".
41. Your last several motorway forays included just brushing the curbs as you apexed the slip roads perfectly....
42. The local tire shop won't honor the tread life warranty on any car you've been within 50 yards of...
43. You would choose a roll bar over air conditioning if it were an option.
44. You enjoy driving through wet, empty parking lots and using the handbrake to kick the back end out.
45. White smoke coming out from under your tires is a common sight.
46. You consider the redline a "conservative suggestion" and the rev limiter "a fun limiter"
47. You spend more on insurance premiums than on food.
48. Your idea of a good time is sitting around figuring out gear ratios and the ideal final drive ratio for given situations.
49. When someone refers to "The Good Book", you think of "The Haynes manual"
50. You have parts shops/breakers yards programmed on your speed dialer.
51. You own three cars and only one of them is road legal.
52. You know the "racing line" of every turn in your daily commute, including your alternate routes, and practice hitting them every day.
53. You quote your street tyre wear life in weeks rather than miles.
54. You regularly live test your rev limiter on that straight that's a little too long for 2nd but not worth going into 3rd for.
55. You've started looking for sponsors for your daily commute and you see a deal on tyres and then buy a car to fit them to. Kevin Bendle
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
Location: Aberdeen
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23. You have car parts in your locker at work.
I've got an air filter and spark plug on my desk
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richc
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Registered: 24th Mar 07
Location: Ilkeston
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve X16XE
2. You feel compelled on a road trip to beat your previous best time.
6. You change engine oil every other week.
7. You sometimes hear whimpering noises from your passengers when you geton the throttle right after turning in.
8. You thoroughly enjoy showing the tailgater how to drive around a roundabout.
9. Your racing budget is one of the big three
11. You push the shopping trolley through proper racelines through the supermarket.
12. You perfected power sliding shopping trolleys between aisles at the age of 8.
13. You've paid £1.00 a litre for fuel without complaining.
14. You buy new parts because you don't know where you put the spares.
15. You bought a car before buying a house.
17. You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!
18. You find that you need a new house because you've outgrown your garage and the neighbors are threatening violence if you park one more vehicle on the street or in the front yard.
Thats me!
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Dan295
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Registered: 9th Oct 06
Location: London
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12. You perfected power sliding shopping trolleys between aisles at the age of 8.
i really did!
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