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scott_e
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by scott_e » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:33 pm
i needed to drop my sister and her very large suitecase off at the station this morning so had to borrow my wifes car. it was horrible seeing the lotus drive off without me for the first time
I believe my wife got a very good response when she got to school ... i should point out she is a teacher

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by rossybee » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:36 pm
scott_e wrote:I believe my wife got a very good response when she got to school ... i should point out she is a teacher

Thank fcuk for that!
I regard myself as lucky in that dept - SWMBO won't drive the the Snot (not insured anyways

) or the Uberbarge (insured, but "too big & too powerful"

)
Which is nice

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by scott_e » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:15 pm
rossybee wrote:scott_e wrote: I regard myself as lucky in that dept - SWMBO won't drive the the Snot (not insured anyways

) or the Uberbarge (insured, but "too big & too powerful"

) Which is nice

which is great ! lucky you
she told be she was shaking uncontrollably when she got to work

... i may have went over the top on the "be carful its dangerous" speech.
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by renmure » Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:18 pm
scott_e wrote:she told me she was shaking uncontrollably when she got to work
I thought all teachers were like that when they got to school??

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scott_e
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by scott_e » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:10 pm
renmure wrote:scott_e wrote:she told me she was shaking uncontrollably when she got to work
I thought all teachers were like that when they got to school??


very good point.
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by SteveBanks » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:57 pm
You won't risk going on track but you let your wife drive it

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by jj » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:04 pm
My girlfriend is insured but cant drive it as she cant reach the pedals

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by Karen » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:35 pm
I took the orange beastie to work on Friday as the BMW was in for a service and had a great time! Loads of blokes looked on in amazement when I got in the car and it was thumbs up all the way from anyone under the age of about 11!!! They don't have boost your confidence these wee lumps of plastic, mind you, there was also the boy racers at the traffic lights etc., who thought that they could beat a woman in a Lotus! The smile was wiped off their face when I put the foot down and off it went

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by scott_e » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:45 am
Karen wrote:I took the orange beastie to work on Friday as the BMW was in for a service and had a great time! Loads of blokes looked on in amazement when I got in the car and it was thumbs up all the way from anyone under the age of about 11!!! They don't have boost your confidence these wee lumps of plastic, mind you, there was also the boy racers at the traffic lights etc., who thought that they could beat a woman in a Lotus! The smile was wiped off their face when I put the foot down and off it went

im have noticed that people like to race me too. Im not confident enough in my driving ability to doing anything however.
my other half wanted to take it to school again today ... it seems she absolutely loved the NOISE , acceleration and the attention ... i have unleashed a monster.
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by Michael » Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:07 pm
scott_e wrote:
which is great ! lucky you
she told be she was shaking uncontrollably when she got to work

... i may have went over the top on the "be carful its dangerous" speech.

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by campbell » Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:19 pm
scott_e wrote:
im have noticed that people like to race me too. Im not confident enough in my driving ability to doing anything however.
And of course, even when you are, you won't be engaging in anything like that on the public highway!
On the other hand, driving the car like it's meant to be driven does often mean that the majority of other hardware gets left in the dust...but take a leaf out of Kelvin's book, whose spirited yet legal driving one day resulted in an Escort RS Turbo exiting stage left through a hedge. He went back to check the bloke was OK, but we wouldn't really want to put people in that position in the first place would we
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by Kelvin » Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:19 am
LOL. Oh I remember that post well. Feels like a lifetime ago now. Last time I was in Scotland I bumped into the ex RS Turbo driver in the local boozer. He now has Subaru.
Cheers
Kelvin.
campbell wrote:scott_e wrote:
but take a leaf out of Kelvin's book, whose spirited yet legal driving one day resulted in an Escort RS Turbo exiting stage left through a hedge. He went back to check the bloke was OK, but we wouldn't really want to put people in that position in the first place would we
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by campbell » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:45 pm
Kelvin wrote:LOL. Oh I remember that post well. Feels like a lifetime ago now. Last time I was in Scotland I bumped into the ex RS Turbo driver in the local boozer. He now has Subaru.
Cheers
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Maybe he now has half a chance of staying on the road then

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by rossybee » Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:12 pm
NOOPS 160 wrote:Still I'll keep trying to get Mags to go on track

I'll still never forget her initial comment after paxing with me in the wet....
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by rossybee » Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:10 pm
NOOPS 160 wrote:rossybee wrote:NOOPS 160 wrote:Still I'll keep trying to get Mags to go on track

I'll still never forget her initial comment after paxing with me in the wet....
Which was

( there's nabody lookin so jist tell eaz)

did it go somthing like Y** F******
Yep

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