Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

It was one of the few times I remember receiving the benefit of the cars we had lying around - there was an elan that lived solely in the garage before being trailered away and a ginetta that cohabited with the stag but was mostly in boxes. After the stag was a fun little rs1600i we used as a runaround but it wasn't the same (because it had a roof).

It is clear that your old man had more of an eye for cars than mine.

The RS1600i was a bit rare wasn't it,
a clear step up from the XR3?

precursor I think. trumped by the golf when the gti came out, which led to the xr3i(/rs turbo?) as a response iirc. probably made all of that up though. I liked it, it was in the dark grey and relatively subtle but made silly noises and had recaro seats so childhood me thought he was in a rally car. we ended up with a white xr3i cabrio for sunny coastal pootling that provided many more years of fun before sea air and life things saw the end of it and it moved on last year. shed a tear at that, loved it. flexier than my 531 tandem though.

They don't name cars like they used to...

then: Stag

now: Qashqai

Tried that autoglym wax stuff today. Pretty pleased with it... Super shiny. Thanks for the recommendation, people.

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A shiny BMW on the block-paved drive of a suburban semi.

Could that somehow be worked into the LFGSS logo?

that must turn some heads down at the country club.

Living the dream.

Not block paved though.. printed concrete.

Not block paved though.. printed concrete.

I think that might be even better.

If only it were in Croydon.

Bickley I'm afraid. Though I guess you could classify that as Bromley South.... do I win a prize?

Yes. You do. The prize of comfortable middle agedness.

I've won it too, except the BMW thing, we have a VW Tiguan. A fucking white one.

And the man is booked to lay our drive in May. We went for Marshall Tegula in Hazelnut. It's going to look lovely I think.

I hear there are still people starving in Africa but I cant see that from here.

The prize of comfortable middle agedness.

Christ, I've only just turned 31. Have I peaked too soon?

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Did you just type that whilst wearing a cardigan?

and,
pray tell which material are you going to use to seal the surface,
before endless tyre and shoe wear sends it a dreary mild grey?

I was 30 when we moved into our suburban semi. Don't fret it. We're still cool. Just a different kind of cool.

The kind where we panic when someone mentions that our new driveway might deteriorate with use.

That's my new aim in life,
post-Brexit vote,
upsetting the prototypical Daily Mail readership one driveway at a time.

I stayed in a hotel on Friday night when I was in Bristol, chap checking in as I was checking out was 60ish, socks with sandals, requested the Daily Mail as his newspaper of choice.

I went to the door to wait for my car to be brought round to see same chap helping his black, disabled wife out of their car. Much cognitive dissonance.

Moved house in October, forgot to register change of address with DVLA. Car tax and MOT lapsed last month but I never got the reminders and forgot to renew. Car parked on street outside the house got a "UNTAXED VEHICLE " sticker slapped on it today which prompted me to receive a bollocking, book an MOT, update the address and try to pay tax. Can't pay the tax without MOT and can't MOT till Thurs. DVLA says I have to register SORN if uninsured which I have done but I have no off-street parking. The car is still physically on the road. Am I going to prison?

No, but it'll probably be clamped and you'll get a fine.

Tweet them that it's not been called road tax since 1930-whatever. That's basically won the car vs biek internet war so it should work.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck.

I meant tax not insurance btw. Stealth edited. I can get a week's pass for the station car park 2 min away for £25. That counts as off the public highway right?

Good idea.

It took them a week from sticker to clamp on the Renault Clio I pass on my commute. It's stayed there with the clamp for ages now, maybe 3 weeks.

Audi rather than a BMW, definitely not shiny due to lack of washing, detached rather than semi. That means I'm still a wild-living free spirit, am I right?

Sure. Assuming the detached house is somewhere edgy, cultural, vibrant and exciting.

By which I mean within 2 miles of a Waitrose.

I'm getting an M&S Foodhall < 2 Miles

AUDI4EVA

(I GOT A SEMI)