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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 29 December 2017, 17:54:33
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In Sainsburys car park, just taking my trolley back and a bloke got out of his car and started talking to me. Initial thought was he was one of those nutters you encounters at supermarkets, but he wanted to tell me how nice my Omega looked for a 15 year old car, and how I wouldn't get as good a car nowadays no matter how much money I spend.
It made my "washing and drying it properly" attitude seem more worthwhile, although I suppose he might have been just one of those nutters you encounter at supermarkets. :)
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Was it STMO?
It's the 'nutter' part of your post.
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Nope. I got home with a full set of wheels and none of my shopping missing. :)
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Well done Albs 'tis a great feeling.
I had a similar "encounter" during the summer when returning to mine I found a middle aged couple looking in and all over my car. I was a little aprehensive but saw their enthusiasm immediately. Being a vauxhall confused them as all omegas were sold as opels here but they had never seen an estate and thought it much prettier than their modern 520d bmw.
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Nope. I got home with a full set of wheels and none of my shopping missing. :)
Nope.....not him then.
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Always nice when that happens, I’ve had a couple of comments including my local VX dealer saying it was the best Vauxhall ever built!
Hardly surprising I want to store it and show it off at shows
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Which Sainsburys was it Albs?
I'll head for it on the next shopping trip....see if I can find him ;) ;) :y
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Tollgate. :y ;D
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I had the opposite on a Morrisons car park... For my Mini...
Some fella fell out of his Nissan Sunny and said to his wife, just loud enough for me to hear that it was an old banger..... for his wife to say that my old banger was probably worth more than the peace shit we drive about in :)
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Tollgate. :y ;D
The one that’s close to the blind school.
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.......& the poor taste appreciation society?!
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(....only joking Albs ) ;)
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Your all just jealous. You can far cough. :P ;D
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I had the opposite on a Morrisons car park... For my Mini...
Some fella fell out of his Nissan Sunny and said to his wife, just loud enough for me to hear that it was an old banger..... for his wife to say that my old banger was probably worth more than the peace shit we drive about in :)
;D ;D ;D
I saw a W-reg (as in 2000, not 1981) Cooper over Christmas.. on that plate I assume it's one of the very last cars they produced, and very nice it looked too (complete with obnoxious exhaust, rear window louvres, wide 10" steels etc)
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Nice when that happens , not enough people in the UK appreciate well preserved older cars unlike in the USA, I've lost count of the times I've heard what reg is it ? When someone one says they've changed their car , too much of a keep up with the Jones's attitude.
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I had the opposite on a Morrisons car park... For my Mini...
Some fella fell out of his Nissan Sunny and said to his wife, just loud enough for me to hear that it was an old banger..... for his wife to say that my old banger was probably worth more than the peace shit we drive about in :)
;D ;D ;D
I saw a W-reg (as in 2000, not 1981) Cooper over Christmas.. on that plate I assume it's one of the very last cars they produced, and very nice it looked too (complete with obnoxious exhaust, rear window louvres, wide 10" steels etc)
Last of the line, 1/3i - and still the A-panels rotted like apples...!
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I saw a W-reg (as in 2000, not 1981) Cooper over Christmas.. on that plate I assume it's one of the very last cars they produced, and very nice it looked too (complete with obnoxious exhaust, rear window louvres, wide 10" steels etc)
Last of the line, 1/3i - and still the A-panels rotted like apples...!
The A-panels are easy. The sills, floors, A-pillars, roof, windscreen scuttle, rear subframe mounts, rear subframe, and just about any metal bit of the car that doesn't get soaked in oil from the engine rot even worse. The whole structure of the car meets late '50s prototype durability standards.
And I can't see 10" wheels on a W plate car, as they don't fit over the disc brakes.