Post by dungle on Jun 26, 2018 12:52:06 GMT
Hey guys, thought I would write a quick introduction to myself before I start writing up in the build thread!
My name's Liam, for those who don't know me, I'm probably the obnoxious guy doing a burnout to try and show off to those kids that turn up to car meets on push bikes shouting "Send it!"
I'm 21, owned too many cars to count so I might have missed a few but here they are in order... And I'll throw the price tag next to each one so you know how much money I wasted on cars that would eventually blow up on me..
1st car "Alfie" my 1956 VW Beetle - £6500 - In cream with a roof rack, 100% original, brought it with my grand father's inheritance when I was 15, learnt to drive in it wish I never sold him!
2nd car was a VW Lupo - £1600 - Was a wicked little car, I brought to save me adding miles onto the beetle which I am glad I did because I would end up being run off the road later after a year and a half of owning her, 1.4 power was real!
3rd car was a British Racing Green MX5 - £900 - I brought off a 87 year old Vicar, who had a stainless manifold back exhaust system put on and in his words "I did it with out the wife finding out" what a legend!! This car unfortunately was written off by a drunk driver after having it insured for 2 months! Aswell as being 3 days after my 18th! Gutted..
My 4th car was a mk1 Ford Focus 2.0L Black top Ztec engine (pretty nippy tbh) - £500 - this was probably one of the comfiest cars I have owned to date, I did some sill things to it (slammed it so it would scrape frame...) Ended up selling this to my girlfriend at the times mum who never ended up paying me for it... Yeah..
5th car was probably one of the fastest cars I have owned, a Volvo 240 - £3500 - with a turbo kit (56mm turbo) made 2 bar of boost (24psi) and around 250/260 bhp... This would later bend a piston as it didn't have a waste gate so it kept spooling the turbo, managed 3 1/2 bar until it popped...
6th car was a birthday present from my girlfriend at the time, I had lost my license (6points first 2 years of driving... Wouldn't recommend it, worst 4 months if my life!..) she brought me a white MX5, NA ofc. - £900- the wiring was shot, it's was on cut springs it handled like ass over bumps, I got beached on a protuding man hole cover, but I loved it, and I hated having to sell it because I had a little one make an appearance!!! (I rattle canned the whole thing Matt black cause why not)
7th car for family reasons I brought myself a 1.6 Polo 6N - £350 - which then became the "OLOP" who Idgaf about.. so it turned into my experimental car, all the things I wanted to do but my previous cars had cost too much on insurance etc to willingly cut up wifinglooms paint body panels etc etc.. the time owning this car greatly increased my knowledge and skills on "modifying" a car, I recommend everyone to buy a cheap car just to dick with its totally worth it. I ended up crashing this car around 4 times, every time it was on a Wednesday, but the gearbox was starting to slip so I decided to get rid of it, rather than fixing her up and spending more that what she cost me, I sent her to a scrappage sceam that takes the money from the scrapped car and donates it to charity!
8th car and the one I took to Japfest Silverstone was my Subaru Impreza WRX - £6000 - It only had 58000 miles on the clock which is why it cost so much! But I don't want to talk about this one as the engine blew up on me so now it's sat in pieces ony driveway...
9th Car was supposed to be my daily but I hated driving it so I sold it and only drove maybe 500 miles in total in it, an Audi 80 - £500 -
10th is my 3rd MX5 NA in British Racing Green.. - £500 - and this is the car which I have had a week to prep for Trax/Japfest, and will be writing a build thread shortly about this rust box so if your interested in that I'll have written it up sometime today hopefully!
Cheers for reading that! If you didn't DW you didn't miss much!
Liam.
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My name's Liam, for those who don't know me, I'm probably the obnoxious guy doing a burnout to try and show off to those kids that turn up to car meets on push bikes shouting "Send it!"
I'm 21, owned too many cars to count so I might have missed a few but here they are in order... And I'll throw the price tag next to each one so you know how much money I wasted on cars that would eventually blow up on me..
1st car "Alfie" my 1956 VW Beetle - £6500 - In cream with a roof rack, 100% original, brought it with my grand father's inheritance when I was 15, learnt to drive in it wish I never sold him!
2nd car was a VW Lupo - £1600 - Was a wicked little car, I brought to save me adding miles onto the beetle which I am glad I did because I would end up being run off the road later after a year and a half of owning her, 1.4 power was real!
3rd car was a British Racing Green MX5 - £900 - I brought off a 87 year old Vicar, who had a stainless manifold back exhaust system put on and in his words "I did it with out the wife finding out" what a legend!! This car unfortunately was written off by a drunk driver after having it insured for 2 months! Aswell as being 3 days after my 18th! Gutted..
My 4th car was a mk1 Ford Focus 2.0L Black top Ztec engine (pretty nippy tbh) - £500 - this was probably one of the comfiest cars I have owned to date, I did some sill things to it (slammed it so it would scrape frame...) Ended up selling this to my girlfriend at the times mum who never ended up paying me for it... Yeah..
5th car was probably one of the fastest cars I have owned, a Volvo 240 - £3500 - with a turbo kit (56mm turbo) made 2 bar of boost (24psi) and around 250/260 bhp... This would later bend a piston as it didn't have a waste gate so it kept spooling the turbo, managed 3 1/2 bar until it popped...
6th car was a birthday present from my girlfriend at the time, I had lost my license (6points first 2 years of driving... Wouldn't recommend it, worst 4 months if my life!..) she brought me a white MX5, NA ofc. - £900- the wiring was shot, it's was on cut springs it handled like ass over bumps, I got beached on a protuding man hole cover, but I loved it, and I hated having to sell it because I had a little one make an appearance!!! (I rattle canned the whole thing Matt black cause why not)
7th car for family reasons I brought myself a 1.6 Polo 6N - £350 - which then became the "OLOP" who Idgaf about.. so it turned into my experimental car, all the things I wanted to do but my previous cars had cost too much on insurance etc to willingly cut up wifinglooms paint body panels etc etc.. the time owning this car greatly increased my knowledge and skills on "modifying" a car, I recommend everyone to buy a cheap car just to dick with its totally worth it. I ended up crashing this car around 4 times, every time it was on a Wednesday, but the gearbox was starting to slip so I decided to get rid of it, rather than fixing her up and spending more that what she cost me, I sent her to a scrappage sceam that takes the money from the scrapped car and donates it to charity!
8th car and the one I took to Japfest Silverstone was my Subaru Impreza WRX - £6000 - It only had 58000 miles on the clock which is why it cost so much! But I don't want to talk about this one as the engine blew up on me so now it's sat in pieces ony driveway...
9th Car was supposed to be my daily but I hated driving it so I sold it and only drove maybe 500 miles in total in it, an Audi 80 - £500 -
10th is my 3rd MX5 NA in British Racing Green.. - £500 - and this is the car which I have had a week to prep for Trax/Japfest, and will be writing a build thread shortly about this rust box so if your interested in that I'll have written it up sometime today hopefully!
Cheers for reading that! If you didn't DW you didn't miss much!
Liam.
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