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I didnt notice the exact plate, but yeah, it was a black one with what seemed to be a custom reg. You know him? (are him?! or her )

Didn't pay too much attention to those details at the time as I was concentrating on avoiding slamming into the back of the c*** at all of 28 bloody mph.... It suddenly seems like a very high speed when someone darts out right in front of you with little warning, and then STOPS still for no reason on a wet road. Almost caused a 4 car pile up on one of the major roads thru south-central brum - him, me (locked the wheels a bit in the end), the Smartcar behind me, and the civic behind the smart - which seriously MUST have ended up kissing his bumper.

Then there was the cabbie 50 yards down attempting a 3 point turn in the middle of a 4 lane road (like, you could easily have done a no-point u-turn in a Hummer), in no particular hurry at all..!

Could have been Martins (Mr Boost)





the engine spec looks like this:
3.0 24v Twin Turbo, HKS Super drager exhaust, HKS high performance air filter system with gold cover and screw, HKS Super SQBOV with uprated ring,, engine compartment colour coded in bronze. . Supra-Performance cat replacement pipes. HKS type R Gearbox cooler, TRD radiator Cap, Triple core high pressure race spec radiator by Rad-Tec. Greedy Polished alloy radiator pipes, TRL Performance DSC and VFCC. HKS Super AFR, Blitz SBC-ID Series II boost controller.

Running about 600hp at last check i think

from the front:

http://www.novaload.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=91999
http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=125233
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=322262
http://www.saxosportsclub.co.uk/forum/S ... /posts.htm
http://corsa-c.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=942

I've never known a car get such a huge swathe of negative response! [/url]

Naw it certainly wasn't THAT supra. It was an older model for one thing (better clue as to where I was - the place was a hive of 15-year-old japanese cars ) and not as well looked after, dusty and dirty even in the rain. Plus I reckon I would have heard the exhaust of that thing over my stereo even at idle. (Third point - no one putting so much effort into their motor can really be suspected of driving in a way thats likely to put a banger into the back of them? Even if my car was written off it wouldnt match the cost of a dented panel on such a mota! its modded, but in a much more 'clever' way than the corsa)

Speaking of which, even the driver of this slack jawed yokel

thinks it looks like a puddle of the white stuff!

(and the folks on migweb sure half have some cracking one liners for it... its a moonpig)

hows this for a lot of pipes



I can just imagine that when someone says the driver should pull out all the stops, he does.... including the one marked "farmyard sounds" and unfolds a little keyboard out and across from the glovebox, using the pedals for bass...
Nice lights though, kinda... batman meets buck rogers, on the back seat of a 57 chevy.

hes from Scotland!!

I'm no good on geography - is glasgie close enough to strath that you could pop over there, hunt 'em out and see if you can play scotland the brave on those pipes?

(be great if they *were* actually tuned, and there was a series of levers inside for operating each note)

http://wraggy.com/barryboys/forum/phpbb ... php?t=4986 I suppose it was only a matter of time before Barryboys.co.uk got hold of it.

I bet he's at MaxPower Crail on sunday.... oh dear.

Please.......help...........
I feel sick

that has to be photoshopped!!!!! i mean, check out those rear indicaotrs, theyve just been stuck on the back. i hope they just made that for a laugh, id hate to think how much the lad paid to have his car ruined like that.

[quote="KarlM"]I'm in f*****g TEARS!!!

tears of joy? or tears of sadness
that looks sooo bad, how to ruin a good car
-Ben-

fao krupa.....

*reads barryboy link*

it's a 12v? Wicked! That means I could race him and comfortably win! (had a bit of a duel-that-wasnt with an unmodified 12v along the M23... some young lady at the wheel who was quite plainly flat out in 5th, and it took at least 3 miles to catch up, slipstream, and then inch past. Needed a hill to properly close the gap. Luckily the road was pretty empty at that point so no-one behind got the 2-trucks syndrome at 80-odd mph)

Mind you it's also kind of sad that someone would dump so much money on modding a car and not even have a decent motor underneath to start with - the price difference is peanuts in comparison and surely he's made sure to extend his insurance to all that bodykit and work? (otherwise... have a crash.... 15 grand of uninsured mods in the toilet)
Then again it's a barry car, probably not taxed or insured


EDIT: Oh, whoops, its had a 1.6 16v swapped in, which must make it... ooh... at least as rapid as a 1.3 CL with all that stuff on .... but as it's still registered as a 12v it seems he hasn't bothered to inform the relevant authorities of the capacity increase. bazza.

Previous mod apparently looked like this:

Which, to my shame, I must say doesn't look all that bad. At least from that angle. It's a beauty in comparison anyway!

And a couple bits of randomness from the same stupidnorthernmonkey site:

If you can't afford even a knackered 2nd hand Landie... then blow a couple thou on getting your Fiesta jacked up instead. (How do you get in or out of it?! Built in stepladders? Must corner like a double decker bus, but without the weight of the engine on the bottom)


Now THATS low. We should all give up now. (how do you steer that thing?)

That site is classic

Should've photoshopped it first, it looks bad.