Those of Old

mt

<cough, cough>

You still in the shoe business, H?

Incidentally, Hanny, you probably ought to know that this is now a bicycle forum. Just so you don't make any mistakes and talk about cars or anything...

I cant believe your you're starting already

Hey, I'm the mod around here now. Tells you all you need to know...!

Sorry Sherifffff

Still here and back in another 20vt, although as 2nd car now.

Was considering an Alfa GTV V6 or Spider but got nowhere with that so settled on another 20vt and even that wasn't easy to find.

Had my first coupe from '99 to '05 and seeing the prices as low as they are now I thought "it's now or never" for another coupe, so got another steel grey 20vt earlier this year.

It only cost £700 so as you can imagine it needed a fair bit of work, the intention being to fix it up for the summer. That was exactly 8 months ago and I've only just "finished" it up this week after a looong list of work, mostly cosmetic and including a complete re-spray.

Total cost now over £3K (at least I just stopped counting at 3K, haha!), so it would have made more sense to wait for a good one at £2-3K but of course these things never work out as you intend.

Looking forward to driving it next summer as it spent most of this summer in my garage in bits, so it's only covered about 600 miles since I've owned it.

Hello Hanny, I am still here.
Does this mean you making a return to coupe ownership?

Roy

You think that's bad? I got co-opted as an admin!

Ey up Hanny!

No coupe here for many years - Skoda VRS estate now!

Hi Hanny - good to hear from you again. I fondly remember those early dyno-day meets - I remember being chuffed that my near standard 20vt gave 240bhp. I remember thinking that FrogtheDog's Coupe must be a complete animal with over 280bhp. I remember thinking that the L&M LE was an amazing feat of engineering (and expenditure)

The Prancing Donkey is long gone, but my current Coupe is far quicker

Go on - you know you want to get back in a Coupe and of course I have the perfect car for you....

I remember one of your friends turning up with a certain 'worded' number plate that made us all laugh but imagine that the police would not think it so funny!

You forgot me

and me

Perhaps we should start adopting pre-Hanny and post-Hanny monikers

Karl! How the devil are you? And what about the family these days, I was a bit worried when you said "we have just got two bulldog puppies" and thinking that was all you had in the family?

You forgot me too, I was on here when it was coupe-sport forum!!

I tried to blot out the memories of Hanny after the collective shame of his being battered by a Micra off the lights

And now it all comes flooding back!

Good to see you around Karl

"I was out [today/yesterday/recently/on parole] and saw a [Saxo VTS/Evo/Impreza/Audi/Porsche/Ferrari/Lambo/Saturn V rocket] [in front of me/come up behind me/parked].

I dropped [it to 2nd/it to 3rd/it to 4th/my sandwich] and gave it some welly and saw him [vanish behind me/vanish miles behind me/drop a car length behind me/scratch his arse and change CD].

I know he was trying because [he looked like the sort that would/he said so later, in court/he'd seen his wife in my car/if he wasn't then this story would be pathetic] but [he couldn't keep up/could keep up, but couldn't get past/overtook me easily but looked slightly surprised that I was going so fast ... or maybe was burping or something].

When I turned off he [gave me a friendly wave/made a note of my reg to find me later/pulled me over and gave me a summons/had already been home for 45 minutes/wondered what the **** that had all been about].

Anyway it was a great race and it turns out that my penis isn't tiny after all".

Job's a good 'un.

...my dream to own a Datsun Cherry...

Hi John

Finished the beetle yet?

Hello people of old! I do still exist too! Even though my coupe is long gone I still have a garage full of parts for memories

Maybe we should have an ex-coupe meet up and see who has the most embarrassing car now! I never lived out my dream to own a Datsun Cherry but maybe I'd make an effort to source one

I wonder what the turning point was for those of us who are no longer in coupe ownership and where the experience wasn't enough to keep the car any longer? Perhaps we could all learn from those long sufferers on Hanny's list who still have one or those who've 'returned to the fold' like Graham.
In fact Graham might not know, but it was some of his posts around tinkering with his coupe that in part led me to buy mine in the first place (and the rest was I had about a week to find a car before I had to return my company car!)


Anyway, good to see you're all still around.

Cheers
John

Hello Hanny,
Would I be much too young to be a part of this thread??
Paul

I am an old hand from 2005 vintage but I had a break from the forum for a while.

On my second 20v n/a and having my second mid life crisis.


Is vickster still on here ?

Hey Hanny - what about me?

Hey SeanC - how's it going

Anyway, you're only a REAL oldie if you were a signed-up member of the previous incarnation of the forum, before the hosting company went south! I still remember prowling a street in the @rse-end of New Cross on my own in the dark, drawing myself up to my full height and breadth and banging on a door and demanding our tape backups! Fat lot of use that turned out to be.

Anyway, you're only a REAL oldie if you were a signed-up member of the previous incarnation of the forum, before the hosting company went south! I still remember prowling a street in the @rse-end of New Cross on my own in the dark, drawing myself up to my full height and breadth and banging on a door and demanding our tape backups! Fat lot of use that turned out to be.

RIP Original Forum

Not too bad mate - I have sold the coop a few months back(starting to regret it already)and have now gone to the dark side - got a BMW M3.

it's broken...

(are you impressed how quickly I found out how to turn that box back on? No?... Really? Jim would be....)

Wmt?

Im still here!!!

Yeah definitely...drop me a pm or something.