Boy racer fads I don't understand

[mac11irl]

1 hour ago, Aspman said:

Barry Boys website still on the go.

 

http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=39244

 

Needz moar down 4ces...

 

 

[penguin17]

18 hours ago, Coops said:

I grew up reading "Max Power" too - used to love these:

 

Dimma body kit 

[penguin17]

Anodized tow hooks on the rear bumper, just in case you get stuck in the kitty litter in Nando's/McD's/KFC car park.

[XLBaconDoubleCheese]

15 hours ago, gadgetman said:

Round here recently the ladz are going high tech putting action cameras in their bumpers to video their antics with F1 wing style view points. 

 

I do that, I also lost my mates GoPro from his rear bumper on a roundabout trying to get an exhaust video  The truck that come round after didnt hit it luckily but it did keep recording. 

 

14 hours ago, ahenners said:

Seems to be a current fad of tinting everything - tail lights, head lights, number plates. Don't understand this at all, looks terrible.

 

I normally tint my lights slightly to get a look similar to what your vRS has standard on the front lights. The number plate thing just looks cheap. 

[mac11irl]

@Aspman

 

That barryboys site is a rabbit hole!

Full of sheds, bangers, buckets, scrappage dodgers...

 

A guy could get lost in their for days and end up with a bodykit stuck to yer forehead

[KenONeill]

@Aspman's Elise 1 looks like Bozozoko style, rather than Barry Boy or Max Shed!

[mac11irl]

4 hours ago, KenONeill said:

@Aspman's Elise 1 looks like Bozozoko style, rather than Barry Boy or Max Shed!

 

 

Quite true actually, after a google to figure that out

 

 

[Aspman]

15 hours ago, mac11irl said:

 

 

Quite true actually, after a google to figure that out

 

 

 WTF...

 

Last time I saw something like that a corsa had gone through a farmers gate.

[mac11irl]

My favourite feature is the tiny fmic plumbed outside the bumper. . Just make sure the guy who cant park ahead of you breaks it ..

Bit of a theme going by what i saw during my googling of the style

 

[KenONeill]

3 hours ago, mac11irl said:

My favourite feature is the tiny fmic plumbed outside the bumper. . Just make sure the guy who cant park ahead of you breaks it ..

Bit of a theme going by what i saw during my googling of the style

 

I think/hope that's a oil cooler.

[CWARD]

I don't get the rat car rust look.  I spend a lot of time keeping our clean and rust free, to do the polar opposite is just bizarre to me.

 

[CWARD]

Another is the cars that have fueling so far off they are constantly back firing of spitting flames. Following a Focus trying to look like a rally car the other day it constantly popping and farting. Even when he tried to open it up there was just noise with no go. Can only assume the owner had intentionally let air into the exhaust system to create this. 

[Aspman]

On 09/05/2017 at 15:55, KenONeill said:

@Aspman's Elise 1 looks like Bosozoko style, rather than Barry Boy or Max Shed!

 

Apparently so. But that 'style' is probably one of the more 'orrible things I've ever seen.

 

http://www.modifikasi.com/~modifik/showthread.php/498042-Bosozoku-Style-Modifikasi-Extreme-Pada-Mobil-Ala-Jepang

 

[mac11irl]

Clearly they dont have speed humps in japan 

[tempra007]

After reading this I don't know if I should own up to buying both Max Power and Fast Car (still buy Fast Car). My modifying has got more in your face, when I was younger it was all about having a Q car, stupid engine in a small standard looking car, now it's look at me and less power, maybe I've regressed?

 

[AMD87]

I turned 30 yesterday and my cars covered in stickers wonder what that says about me 

 

[Graffiti]

1 hour ago, AMD87 said:

I turned 30 yesterday and my cars covered in stickers wonder what that says about me 

 

 

No what you mean... Im 34 and have the most modded car I have owned just now....... Last week i tinted my headlights lol

I might be more experienced and safer on the road than when i was 17 but damn im boosting more than ever!! 

 

Fast car / Max power.... They were the days, saving lunch money up to buy it.  Alas my mother flicked through a Max Power in my bedroom when i was at school.... That was the end of me buying that 

[Octy0GG]

Flat bottomed steering wheels.

Worse still, Skoda fitted it as standard and I bought it, at least it can't be seen from the outside.

 

[Auric Goldfinger]

On 05/05/2017 at 19:35, P6bJOHN said:

I still have this Escort, I'm 61 next month

 

Talking of Escorts

 

ford-escort-2-0-3dr-knaresborough

[Octy0GG]

ford-escort-2-0-3dr-knaresborough

 

Gulp.

 

And it's only a Pinto! not even a BDA 

 

Still I remember when nice RS2000s got up to £10000 - Thought I should have bought one a few years ago for 1/2 that, still too late now they have probably about peaked thinks me.

 

Oh dear, how wrong can you be. 

Edited 3 August, 2017 by Octy0GG
capitalisation - still probably plenty errors though

[P6bJOHN]

Mk 1/2  Escorts are silly money now, but they are great little cars. (but not as great as some people price them).

[Ootohere]

Re Escort.

 Love that, advert full of information, obvious error is a 2 door escort has 2 doors, a bonnet and a boot, so is not a hatchback so not a 3 door.

[Auric Goldfinger]

They have some rather nice cars for sale

 

Have a Look

 

www.redlinespecialistcars.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

**  Other Garages selling cars are available  **

 

 

Edited 3 August, 2017 by Auric Goldfinger

[@Lee]

Local KFC a couple of years back

[Warrior193]

On 5/10/2017 at 16:51, Aspman said:

 

Apparently so. But that 'style' is probably one of the more 'orrible things I've ever seen.

 

http://www.modifikasi.com/~modifik/showthread.php/498042-Bosozoku-Style-Modifikasi-Extreme-Pada-Mobil-Ala-Jepang

 

 

Quick, fire up the crusher. Mr. J. Clarkson's hybrid looked similar to this. And that was truly horrible.

Edited 3 August, 2017 by Warrior193
addition.