Chavs

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 24 Feb 2007, 13:05

I wondered about cars with stripes but around here the chavs don't have stripes on their Corsas (unless they're so thick they have stripes the same colour as the bodywork

).

It must be a metro-chav thing. The rural-chavs aren't nearly as sophisticated

Ian

Post by **DaveB** » 24 Feb 2007, 14:41

The rural-chavs aren't nearly as sophisticated

Fortunately, we don't have any rural-chavs here mate but they do ship-in from Reading at the weekend :roll: Goes without saying that my boozer is just a bit too sophisticated for them so they drive by

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Kevin Farnell · Post by **Kevin Farnell** » 25 Feb 2007, 01:47

Chavtastic

!!!!

Kevin

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 25 Feb 2007, 10:07

Me - the first chav?

Can't believe I didn't figure out the three stripes! I've just remembered that I invented them in 1967

Cool - or what? It was the coolest Thames 12cwt for miles around (if you don't know what a hundredweight is - don't ask!). Accessories included fitted 4 inch foam rubber throughout, Mum's old curtains and a crate of Brown Ale. The stripes obviously improved the speed quite dramatically and it even did a few laps of the IoM TT circuit on Mad Sunday 1967.

Sorry - couldn't resist it

Ian

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 25 Feb 2007, 10:45

You beat me with the stripes by a couple of years

Ford Anglia van (5cwt Thames?) painted bronze, black stripes with a Cortina 1500GT engine/gearbox dropped in. :redface:

Just a student adventure. No such thing as chavs then.

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 25 Feb 2007, 11:55

ianhind wrote:Ford Anglia van (5cwt Thames?) painted bronze, black stripes with a Cortina 1500GT engine/gearbox dropped in. :redface:

Whoa! Respect, man!

Ian

steveS4SSL · Post by **steveS4SSL** » 26 Feb 2007, 22:48

I assumed the three stripe thing is reference to the tracksuit bottoms they live in - black with three stripes down the seams and made by Adidas....

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 26 Feb 2007, 23:02

I found an old photo and since the thread is not quite dead:

First Mrs H with my Anglia in 1974. It had been to Dubrovnik and back by then.

Ahh.... Weber carb, 51/2J wheels. And used to get stopped on the M1 by the police - not for speeding but to ask what had been upgraded

Edit: actually I reckon I was still a free man at this time. :think: