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Posted: 24 Feb 2007, 13:05
by speedbird591
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 :lol: ).

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

Ian

Posted: 24 Feb 2007, 14:41
by DaveB
The rural-chavs aren't nearly as sophisticated
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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 :wink:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Posted: 25 Feb 2007, 01:47
by Kevin Farnell
Chavtastic :lol: :lol: !!!!

Kevin

Posted: 25 Feb 2007, 10:07
by speedbird591
Me - the first chav?

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

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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 :worried:

Ian

Posted: 25 Feb 2007, 10:45
by ianhind
You beat me with the stripes by a couple of years :lol:

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.

Posted: 25 Feb 2007, 11:55
by speedbird591
ianhind wrote:Ford Anglia van (5cwt Thames?) painted bronze, black stripes with a Cortina 1500GT engine/gearbox dropped in. :redface:
Whoa! Respect, man!

Ian :lol:

Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 22:48
by steveS4SSL
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.... :wink:

Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 23:02
by ianhind
I found an old photo and since the thread is not quite dead:

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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 :lol:


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