Why does every drunk.....
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Why does every drunk.....
..... know someone with a 600-700bhp Evo/Skyline/Subaru/Cosworth?
After Friday/Saturday night out i used to stop off at a burger van outside my local club for a cup of tea, and every time i was there some drunk would stagger over and bore me with how his mate ''had the quickest car in the South''. (Apparently there are several twin turbo, 1000bhp Cosworths in Surrey)
Haven't stopped of there in years, but saw an old mate when driving past on Saturday, and stopped off for a chat. (was in the Impreza)
Suprise suprise..... out of the club rolls a Mr ''my mate's got on of these with 600bhp, does 7 second 1/4 miles''.
Is it just me that attracts the idiots, or is it a common thing?
After Friday/Saturday night out i used to stop off at a burger van outside my local club for a cup of tea, and every time i was there some drunk would stagger over and bore me with how his mate ''had the quickest car in the South''. (Apparently there are several twin turbo, 1000bhp Cosworths in Surrey)
Haven't stopped of there in years, but saw an old mate when driving past on Saturday, and stopped off for a chat. (was in the Impreza)
Suprise suprise..... out of the club rolls a Mr ''my mate's got on of these with 600bhp, does 7 second 1/4 miles''.
Is it just me that attracts the idiots, or is it a common thing?
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It's the car that attracts idiots. If you were in a Nissan Primera for example,nobody would want to compare their mate's anything with it.
It's a small price we all have to pay for owning cheap fast cars
It's a small price we all have to pay for owning cheap fast cars
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I live in a small town (2000) people so of course everybody knows everybody. They all seem to know somebody who owns a Saxo that would show my Impreza what real power is. Im yet to meet this Saxo
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No, it's a common thing - they don't even have to be drunk!
Just before I got mine, I was telling one of the guys at work about it. One of the other blokes who works for our firm but I'd never met tried 'educating me' about Subarus and Evos (bear in mind I worked for Subaru for a couple years...)
He was trying to tell me that Subarus were all crap, and blew up all the time, hence the fact that there were loads at some breakers yard, and that Evo's were much better cars, less temperamental, with stronger engines and less hassle, fuel consumption, costs etc. I laughed at him, especially when he started on about his mate having a 440bhp Evo and how it could do 160 or something and subarus were crap top end.
I quoted the old Subaru line: "97% of all Subarus registered 15 years ago are still on the road today" (that's true that but he was having none of it.
I argued with him how it's all about driving, not top end for long periods of time ( we all know what happens there) , and that if his mate had been pinning his evo at full whack, doing 160, for the distance he said, he would no doubt have had problems.
'Nah mate, he can have it bouncing off the limiter all day and it won't go wrong, it's what they are made for!'
He then tried to tell me that P1's were 2.2 overbored engines and were 40k new. RETARD!!! In the end I just walked away laughing and said he needed to learn to read so that he could find out what he was gibbering about!
Why is it that so many people who buy Imprezas think they are a real rally car and treat them as such?
We sold a 06 or 07 plate STi brand new to a 24 year old, who spent 8k on it, getting full rally graphics, different alloys, PPP etc. At the 500 mile service he had bent the rear ARB's and snapped an engine mount. Over the course of 18 months he went through 3 turbos and 2 engines along with a massive list of other stupid things. All under warranty!!!!! (The car had £28k of warranty work in 18 months - more than the original price of the standard car!) He even had the cheek to make massive complaints to Subaru (I.M uk) when they refused to pay any more warranty claims!
Just before I got mine, I was telling one of the guys at work about it. One of the other blokes who works for our firm but I'd never met tried 'educating me' about Subarus and Evos (bear in mind I worked for Subaru for a couple years...)
He was trying to tell me that Subarus were all crap, and blew up all the time, hence the fact that there were loads at some breakers yard, and that Evo's were much better cars, less temperamental, with stronger engines and less hassle, fuel consumption, costs etc. I laughed at him, especially when he started on about his mate having a 440bhp Evo and how it could do 160 or something and subarus were crap top end.
I quoted the old Subaru line: "97% of all Subarus registered 15 years ago are still on the road today" (that's true that but he was having none of it.
I argued with him how it's all about driving, not top end for long periods of time ( we all know what happens there) , and that if his mate had been pinning his evo at full whack, doing 160, for the distance he said, he would no doubt have had problems.
'Nah mate, he can have it bouncing off the limiter all day and it won't go wrong, it's what they are made for!'
He then tried to tell me that P1's were 2.2 overbored engines and were 40k new. RETARD!!! In the end I just walked away laughing and said he needed to learn to read so that he could find out what he was gibbering about!
Why is it that so many people who buy Imprezas think they are a real rally car and treat them as such?
We sold a 06 or 07 plate STi brand new to a 24 year old, who spent 8k on it, getting full rally graphics, different alloys, PPP etc. At the 500 mile service he had bent the rear ARB's and snapped an engine mount. Over the course of 18 months he went through 3 turbos and 2 engines along with a massive list of other stupid things. All under warranty!!!!! (The car had £28k of warranty work in 18 months - more than the original price of the standard car!) He even had the cheek to make massive complaints to Subaru (I.M uk) when they refused to pay any more warranty claims!
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Or you could play their game and pretend you know Andy Forest, so your "mate" has a 900BHP scoob that has/had (?) the world record for top speed in a scooby and shortest standing quarter.
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Great thread.
Oil runs thick in my veins, I've had a few Impreza's are crap comments but my Dad has a 1934 Aston that was his first car, £120 in the 60s. The day after my wedding 200M from the hotel the gear selector jumped out due to his modification. A crowd gathered 'to help' and I had a comment to me:
Aston's are rubbish, a Kia is what you need. Tongue in cheek obviously but poor taste given the timing, how many Kias will make it to 75yrs old.
As for my trusty old (13yrs) cheep Scoob, 150000 miles on original engine & drive train, a few mods and 150mph - **** car obviously.
Oil runs thick in my veins, I've had a few Impreza's are crap comments but my Dad has a 1934 Aston that was his first car, £120 in the 60s. The day after my wedding 200M from the hotel the gear selector jumped out due to his modification. A crowd gathered 'to help' and I had a comment to me:
Aston's are rubbish, a Kia is what you need. Tongue in cheek obviously but poor taste given the timing, how many Kias will make it to 75yrs old.
As for my trusty old (13yrs) cheep Scoob, 150000 miles on original engine & drive train, a few mods and 150mph - **** car obviously.
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And guess what again, yeah it's his mates, you wouldn't adam and eve it would you.
Fecking gob sh1tes that have never owned a decent motor in their life but some how seem to know every bastrd thing about my Scoob.
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So true.
I used to get this when I'd get petrol and if there was a young,male cashier I would get the 'my has an RS Turbo or Nova etc,etc and it kills Scoobys,Evos ,Ferraris etc, etc' even offered a few to wait for their mate to pick them up or met up up to go for a blast.
Funny thing is they never took me up on the offer
I used to get this when I'd get petrol and if there was a young,male cashier I would get the 'my has an RS Turbo or Nova etc,etc and it kills Scoobys,Evos ,Ferraris etc, etc' even offered a few to wait for their mate to pick them up or met up up to go for a blast.
Funny thing is they never took me up on the offer
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So true.
I used to get this when I'd get petrol and if there was a young,male cashier I would get the 'my has an RS Turbo or Nova etc,etc and it kills Scoobys,Evos ,Ferraris etc, etc' even offered a few to wait for their mate to pick them up or met up up to go for a blast.
Funny thing is they never took me up on the offer
I used to get this when I'd get petrol and if there was a young,male cashier I would get the 'my has an RS Turbo or Nova etc,etc and it kills Scoobys,Evos ,Ferraris etc, etc' even offered a few to wait for their mate to pick them up or met up up to go for a blast.
Funny thing is they never took me up on the offer
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A friend of our our oldest son came round once and as the scoob was on the drive he made the comment, nice car mate, my dad had one of these but was too slow so he bought a renult megane (1997 model no less) it has two 600 bhp engines in it from a civic type r and it one of the quickest cars ever.
I kept a straight face and just asked if his dad would be along shortly as I would like to take a look, his dad was picking him up so I waited, along came a battered red megane with 14 inch steels and some impressive wheel trims and the unmistakeable tick of a crap engine, the lad still maintains to this day that the above was true, crazy.
Think he may have issues as his next comment was, my dad bought me the new scooby hatch for my birthday and it's parked next to my type r civic.
Hold on mate, you live in the worst part of the village and your parents don't work and your 15, why?
I kept a straight face and just asked if his dad would be along shortly as I would like to take a look, his dad was picking him up so I waited, along came a battered red megane with 14 inch steels and some impressive wheel trims and the unmistakeable tick of a crap engine, the lad still maintains to this day that the above was true, crazy.
Think he may have issues as his next comment was, my dad bought me the new scooby hatch for my birthday and it's parked next to my type r civic.
Hold on mate, you live in the worst part of the village and your parents don't work and your 15, why?
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As I used to be in the forces you meet all sorts of idiots along the way, one such idiot told me, my then Sierra cossie was a waste of money as he knows where the screw is on any car to alter the bhp to whatever he wanted, was rolling around for hours as he was talking about the mixture screw on a carburettor, he was dead serious and actually believed the ****e he spoke.
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A friend of our our oldest son came round once and as the scoob was on the drive he made the comment, nice car mate, my dad had one of these but was too slow so he bought a renult megane (1997 model no less) it has two 600 bhp engines in it from a civic type r and it one of the quickest cars ever.
I kept a straight face and just asked if his dad would be along shortly as I would like to take a look, his dad was picking him up so I waited, along came a battered red megane with 14 inch steels and some impressive wheel trims and the unmistakeable tick of a crap engine, the lad still maintains to this day that the above was true, crazy.
Think he may have issues as his next comment was, my dad bought me the new scooby hatch for my birthday and it's parked next to my type r civic.
Hold on mate, you live in the worst part of the village and your parents don't work and your 15, why?
I kept a straight face and just asked if his dad would be along shortly as I would like to take a look, his dad was picking him up so I waited, along came a battered red megane with 14 inch steels and some impressive wheel trims and the unmistakeable tick of a crap engine, the lad still maintains to this day that the above was true, crazy.
Think he may have issues as his next comment was, my dad bought me the new scooby hatch for my birthday and it's parked next to my type r civic.
Hold on mate, you live in the worst part of the village and your parents don't work and your 15, why?
funny as ****,thing is they belive their own bullsh*t !!!!
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So true
It's not limited to cars either.
I was at a wedding and some fat chav was spouting on about how he'd been on a 90mph jetski at Bristol's west country water park that morning.
I tried to enlighten him that (at the time) the world speed record on a jetski was only 87mph, and that was in the States on a fully modded, triple piped Yammy GP13R..and over a 2 mile length of water... (the impeller pitch required to get to that speed meant the pickup was pretty slow..so you needed that distance to get to 80mph+)
West country water park is around 400m long at most..
Well he still would not accept it... his mate told him it was a 90mph jetski so it was gospel..
total **** I moved on before I enlightened him of that fact too
It's not limited to cars either.
I was at a wedding and some fat chav was spouting on about how he'd been on a 90mph jetski at Bristol's west country water park that morning.
I tried to enlighten him that (at the time) the world speed record on a jetski was only 87mph, and that was in the States on a fully modded, triple piped Yammy GP13R..and over a 2 mile length of water... (the impeller pitch required to get to that speed meant the pickup was pretty slow..so you needed that distance to get to 80mph+)
West country water park is around 400m long at most..
Well he still would not accept it... his mate told him it was a 90mph jetski so it was gospel..
total **** I moved on before I enlightened him of that fact too
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