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bdr32 Apprentice

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If you drive a loud, fast, imported car no matter what it is, your gonna get dirty looks and people turn there noses up at you. At the end of the day they can do that but it doesn’t change the fact that you, the owner, enjoy the car other wise you wouldn’t be driving it. Coming from driving a torana to a skyline I have noticed a difference in peoples prejudice towards me when they see me in the car, but when its other skyline drivers, it usually nothing but a bit of a smile, a little rev so you can hear the bov and a thumbs ups. So f**k what other people think about your ride, just dive it and enjoy it. Other wise shut up, sell it and by an excel.

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-Ben

bdr32 Apprentice

bdr32

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My point was not to start another type of prejudice but only to state that if you owned an excel that you wouldnt have any trouble with cops, hoons wanting to drag or people having a go at you when you drive through a Residential area.

dezz Grand Master

dezz

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... but u have fried ur tyres in second gear when some1 was not trying to race u?

no. but i was making a point. you obviously failed to get it like everyone else

speaking of excels, the one that just filled up next to me at the servo was hilarious...

monster tacho, all the fast and furious style decals on the outside, fake bonnet scoop, silver bonnet guard to match the decals.....riced up to the max...good to see he was using 98ron premium in the beast....lol

JVP Grand Master

JVP

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ive had my car since december last year and have only been pulled over once for a random breath test and the copper commented on the car which was good. if u dont do anything stoopid u wont get hassled.

ive been followed a few times, but what are they gonna do if ur doing everything right?

ctjet Grand Master

ctjet

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ive been followed a few times, but what are they gonna do if ur doing everything right?

i was sitting a set of red light on Bourke Rd... not even moving... NOT EVEN MOVING!!... and a cop on a bike rode up next to me and said "after they turn green pull over" so i did. he told me to get out an stand a couple metres away.

10 mins later (10MINS!!) he came up and handed me two fines, one for a side mounted no. plate and the other for having my front wheels over the white line.. apparently i was "failing to obey traffic signals"... it would've been 6 points lost and $350+ worth of fines

Got out of it all... you can have a side mounted no. plate and i wrote a complaint saying that i was NOT over the white line and that i would fight it all the tooth and nail in court with my witness... sucker in biker cop, better luck next time!! lol @ you

PS i even kept the letter from johonny hopper saying "we will withdraw the fine"

**JaR** Grand Master

**JaR**

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my excel was louder than my skyline :pirate:

lol exhaust holes for the win.

speaking of excels, the one that just filled up next to me at the servo was hilarious...

monster tacho, all the fast and furious style decals on the outside, fake bonnet scoop, silver bonnet guard to match the decals.....riced up to the max...good to see he was using 98ron premium in the beast....lol

rofl. some chick on the hume with a similar riced up excel thought it would be a good idea to fly past me after i over-took her. i lol'd, cameras all up the hume now. haw haw.

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CSNet

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lol. i love clapped out VN's with there monster tacho and shift lights in auto's that all think they drive bathurst winning cars. they are my amusement everytime im in shepp.

LOL. Currently in shepp there is a clapped out VN with a monster tacho and 20"s. The guy thinks he's gods gift. The wheels would easily be worth more than the car...

No matter who I am with, everyone says "why would you bother doing that with a VN...", Hilarious.

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**JaR** Grand Master

**JaR**

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What the f**k is wrong with you?

hes 17 and on L's. >_<

LOL. Currently in shepp there is a clapped out VN with a monster tacho and 20"s. The guy thinks he's gods gift. The wheels would easily be worth more than the car...

haha yah, seen it. its pretty beatable. so ive heard. :whistle:

reece on a side note, where in shepp do you live?

pm ;)

Modena Grand Master

Modena

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Ive owned my stock GTST for over 4 months now and have NEVER copped anything from police (never even been stopped by police) and I only had a few people drag me... one was a Merc with an old chick and her toy boy, a VT SS and recently I had a modded 180SX drag me... as far as abuse goes, never had anything remotely in a skyline.

LTHLRB Grand Master

LTHLRB

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yeah good post JaR... Normally i am a very average driver. Stick to road rules and speed limits. Iv been given a 14 thousand dollar car, why would i want that into a pole. Touch wood if i am a dick one day and end up dead or in a pole its my stupidity. Thats one of the reasons why i am undertaking a defencive driving course for my 18th birthday.

LTHLRB Grand Master

LTHLRB

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i guess haha. My brother has had a bad car accident where his first 180sx was written off... I dont want to go down that track. Imagine is someone dies and its left on your shoulders.. how will you sleep at night? Personally if i were to do stupid stuff on street, id do it alone.

doxximus Grand Master

doxximus

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well good, even if a person acts a dickhead on the road, it is very terrible if they were to injure/kill themselves in an accident, not because of what the effects of image to imports ends up because of it, but because of the value of someones life at risk, that is the most important thing, no matter how much someone is a dick.

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saff_cossie Grand Master

saff_cossie

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i guess haha. My brother has had a bad car accident where his first 180sx was written off... I dont want to go down that track. Imagine is someone dies and its left on your shoulders.. how will you sleep at night? Personally if i were to do stupid stuff on street, id do it alone.

I dont normally jump on these posts as no one is perfect, me included but "id do it alone" is never alone. You may well be in the car alone however you are not alone in life. You dont want to see what it does to your parents and if your brother has already done it, try and imagine putting it them through it twice.

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