I've wondered before if you could get round it by making them programmable so any content displayed is not the responsibility of the seller. You could market it as a digital bumper sticker that allows you to change the message, and therefore isn't specifically designed for telling people to fuck off.
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Rowly
offlineMemberYou can get those moving digital displays & type in your own message,
or select a pre-programmed message.
Any ideas for pre-programmed messages???@Jenny
Its a "Sumo" Kit, with 6.3litre V8 Chevrolet, 440BHP.
I built it, like the TV series "a car is born" by the vet Mark Evans.
My experience was, don't take mechanical advice from a Vet,
Also, one should never take pet care advice from a mechanic, I couldn't find a spanner to fit on the cats nuts!!Posted 1 year ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberCool, we looked at a kit a few years back, but opted instead to buy a, whisper it, BMW Z3M Coupe.
The running costs were unbelievable so we sold it a few years ago. Think the next car project will be a '70/71 Alfa Spider we can restore. I've wanted a Spider for as long as I've known what a car is and to restore one ourselves is probably the most satisfying way to do it.
That's some lump you've got under the bonnet, and an incredible growl no doubt.Posted 1 year ago # -
waylandsmithy
offlineMemberGod, I've just had a flashback to a loud, drunken conversation where I was advocating the invention of sweary car horns. I think we were thrown out of the pub, after failing to resolve whether 'Urrrrrpppp yerrrarrrsssss' was better than 'Cuuuuuuuuuuuuunt'.
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rikkor
offlineMemberhttp://jalopnik.com/5813957/hear-the-2012-bmw-m5-in-full-wail-mode
Here's something for all the whiny little girly-men here.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberOxy, you have a point.
But those men tend to have really shit cars.Posted 1 year ago # -
FraserWords
offlineMemberI've still got a Toyota. It's still really dull. But I've had a pint of Guinness now, so that's all right.
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Jeremy Hunt
offlineMemberExcuse the interruption.
Re-the following tags ; rikkor = humourless twat
I think he's a prickGood to know I'm not the only Jeremy frequenting this web-site.I just wish the contributors would let their identity be known,perhaps we could meet up for a drink sometime.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberBut you can take consolation in its reliability.
I've got a pretty dull, practical car too, but at least it's not something so embarrassing I feel the need to pretend I'm not interested in cars.
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FraserWords
offlineMemberI used to have to pretend I WAS interested in cars, cos I used to write about them. Christ, that was a hard gig. Holding down conversations with people who'd talk about the flex in the outer starboard scrunge futtock for 13 hours without drawing breath. Brilliant free motoring, booze and travel, though. Principles? Couldn't afford them in our family. Did I mention that I've got a Toyota and it's very dull?
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FraserWords
offlineMemberForgot - PS, I like Rikkor, though I suspect he's a 13-year-old boy turned pale, thin and anxious from furious bouts of masturbation in his lonely bedroom lit only by the eerie glow from the internet porn sites on his netbook...
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waylandsmithy
offlineMemberI used to write handbooks. Easy gig: no-one ever reads them, unless they want to reset the clock.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberSounds like my dream job being a motoring journo, but only if I could work for a mag/paper that didn't expect me to be the slightest bit interested in anything other than how a car handled, accelerated and what its top speed would be.
Couldn't be arsed talking to beardy men about the best way to de-fungle a whatsit from a 1979 Capri.And I like Rikkor too, not that he needs me to stick up for him, but some of those tags are cowardly, childish and pathetic.
If you're not brave enough to put your name to your opinion, then you don't post them.Posted 1 year ago # -
rikkor
offlineMemberThank you, Jeni. You don't just like me, you love me. As far as pale and thin and 13, all long gone. I will just never understand the apparent British tendency to grouse about those people who have more stuff, brains and/or money. Let it go, lead your own life. Stop worrying about other people.
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Hey Rik, the point obviously hasn't been made forcefully enough yet, but it is the manner in which many BMW owners drive that is the problem. I'm not sure many people who have a BMW driving 2 feet behind them are jealously coveting the car. They are wondering whether getting behind the wheel of a BMW makes you a dick, or whether only dicks buy them.
You can't let it go and lead your own life because you have to be constantly on your mettle when you are driving, as you never know when a BMW might appear out of nowhere seemingly intent on pushing you off the road.
Maybe it's a quirk of British BMW owners, and in the US they are all fine upstanding people.
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I think they offer a free introductory course when you buy one ollie, to teach you how to drive appropriately. And it's definitely not jealousy, I'd never drive one because of the stigma attached, if it was jealousy we'd be slagging off aston martin drivers. I know somebody who got a bmw and loved it, said it was a great car, but people wouldn't let him out at junctions any more.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberI'm well aware of that Ostee, every time I type too quickly, this site tells me to slow down, I move too fast.
Posted 1 year ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberRikkor, I absolutely love the 'Bullitt' style Mustangs. Enormous engines and the kind of exhaust note that has me reaching for a change of underwear, but I would never want to own one.
Simply because there is an association between this type of Americana and middle-aged Brits wearing Stetsons, cowboy boots and bad taste shirts. They also tend to have an unhealthy Elvis fixation and are members of their local Country and Western club.Posted 1 year ago # -
Erik
offlineMemberHello, a Newbie here. Forgive my impertinence, but sadly my protected membership of the MLOC (Middle Lane Owners' Club) is endorsed to forbid use of the overtaking lane, otherwise I might have been able to hold up the BMWs and save the company a lot of heartache. In my young motoring days it was the Jaguar drivers who hogged the road and couldn't control their tailspin.
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beau-jolly
onlineMemberI'm going to buy a van. That's all.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Oxbridge
offlineMemberRikkor, the issue isn't an inferiority complex on the part of people who can't afford a BMW or choose not to buy one, wonderfully though your country runs on these principles. It's the pathetic superiority complex of those who do, causing them to drive like twats in order to display their self-assumed status.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberYou're right Salty, I'd threaten to round 'em up and sort 'em out, but they might enjoy it.
And it would only perpetuate this assumption that I'm some kind of loose woman, despite there being absolutely no room for anything to be loose in this catsuit.Posted 1 year ago #
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