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 what should I say to people who...
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Wed, 29 January 2003 07:01
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pay me out about owning a celica??
On what grounds?? Oh because it's "small" and "japanese" of course... 
What do you say?? it's so stupid a thing that there's just no come back for it because it's just gonna be just as unintelligeble... which i can't even spell  ... as the stupid comment saying that they suck.
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I supported Toymods
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Wed, 29 January 2003 07:02
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Just run the fuckers over with it 
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Oosutoraria
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Wed, 29 January 2003 07:23
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ah yes! 
If only it weren't so damn illegal... 
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Brisbane
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Wed, 29 January 2003 08:18
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Politely ask them what car they drive. (if any)
When they tell you, reply "thats nice but i dont like slow ugly cars" and drive off.
gets people heaps cut if you drive off before they have a chance to reply
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Canberra, ACT
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Wed, 29 January 2003 08:25
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Make sure you have a 1g/1j/4agte or something tough under the bonnet, smile, then light em' up and leave them for dead... they can't pay you out if they can't catch you 
-Andrew
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Oosutoraria
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Wed, 29 January 2003 08:32
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Oh well with one person who said this I asked them their age and they said "oh i just turned 16 yesterday"
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Thu, 30 January 2003 02:19
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At least you can say mine is classic not plastic and that it looks good with out any mods.
Or you can do like me and spend some money pop the bonnet and watch their jaw drop at the sight of a turbo on a 2T engine  that that can easily go up to 7000rpm and over.
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Canberra
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Thu, 30 January 2003 04:47
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| Jason wrote on Thu, 30 January 2003 15:05 |
Where i use to work i got that all the time. They use to say it was a hairdressers car the only thing i had to say back was "not when im finished with it", this usually made them go away and think. I also use to get that at tech until i showed them what it could do while still being stock under the bonet.
You know its ironic but 8/10 people like that usually drive commodores or falcons.
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I can relate to that.
I was at a party a few weekends back and some mates were taking the piss out of my MR2, saying its a hairdressers car.
They were all falcodore drivers too.
fools..
*shakes head*
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melbourne.victoria.austra...
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Thu, 30 January 2003 05:27
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tell them they don't know what they're missing out on...
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Sydney
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Thu, 30 January 2003 06:02
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nah
I just tell them to get f..*bleep*
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Brisbane
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Thu, 30 January 2003 06:29
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Bah! Who gives a toss if some Commodore-driving bogan doesn't like your car? I know I don't! If someone tells me my Celica is slow/gay/ugly/whatever, I just agree with them and continue to enjoy driving my Celica (when the stoopid thing is actually running that is). If they prefer their Commodore, that's their own loss.
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MELBOURNE
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May 2002
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Thu, 30 January 2003 10:11
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Falcodore owners are so one eyed, when they see pictures of my Sprinter they say "what's that a Hyundai??" I don't care I love it.
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Thu, 30 January 2003 10:48
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i just say yup - its a rust bucket, or old - or jap - then politely remind them that i drive a REAL sportscar, not a plastic toy or a commodore with big wheels etc ..
If they say its not - just remind them it was designed to go head to head with the fiat 124 - while not as EXOTIC - it kicks the fiats arse from here to next week - doesnt rust - and you can still find parts ..
plus it was the first car in the world with factory fitted 5 speed with all syncros standard , and a design template for alot of later sports greats ( ie RX7 )
Celica has ALOT going for it - its history speaks for that - if bogans and tossers dont care to listen - just let them see your taillights
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Thu, 30 January 2003 11:07
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man, people who bagg out other people's cars usually know nothing about cars anyway. and they have bigg mouths that get them into trouble. if you're happy with what you have then whatever they say should not matter, rite? 
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Thu, 30 January 2003 11:43
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strober: like people who bag out everyone elses car at dyno days and then when they get in their expensive as white mkIV supra can't even drive it and need to load up the clutch to get the thing to spin the wheels, bust still can't do it.
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Thu, 30 January 2003 23:45
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Everyone has a rite to dribble shit if they want to. And it is your choice if you want to drive a classic piece of art and not a commonwhore shopping trolley.
I think the shit and dribble coming out of their mouth probably doesn't need any reply, just remind them that it is an uninformed and baseless opinion. Why bother trying to tell someone like that how great a celica is. They wouldn't appreciate it anyway
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Fri, 31 January 2003 00:24
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| BR1183 wrote on Thu, 30 January 2003 13:19 |
you can do like me and spend some money pop the bonnet and watch their jaw drop at the sight of a turbo on a 2T engine that that can easily go up to 7000rpm and over.
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dude.. is it a 2TG?? cause if you mean just a 2T the i would love to know how the pushrods are holding out??
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Fri, 31 January 2003 02:00
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| Jason wrote on Thu, 30 January 2003 15:05 |
They use to say it was a hairdressers car
You know its ironic but 8/10 people like that usually drive commodores or falcons.
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Funny that i have a few mates that say that about my car ner... ner...ner hairdressers car but their berlina and calais v8s are always in my rearview mirror
haha
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Fri, 31 January 2003 02:23
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Ahhhhhh, i'm actually glad to see i'm not the only one that is constantly in the fireing range from these drop-kick Yobbos hurling abuse at anything that isn't made by either Ford or Holden. I beleive however, that i have copped it worse than the majority of you guys, mainly due to the fact that not only do i drive "jap crap" cars, i'm also a self confessed rotorhead. Beleive me, trying to own a rotary in a country where 80% of "car enthusiasts" are, well, V8 driving yobbos with 2brain cells, is not an easy feat. It is a LOT worse than you guys could imagine. I'm not over-exaggerating here, but i would say that 85-90% of my total trips in my previouse rotaries, i would hear someone yell some sort of abuse at me while i drove past them.
Funny thing that too, you drive past them while they are standing on the footpath, and they are all cocky and big, yelling crap out at you, however i have always noticed that when you are just leaning on your car with some mates, 90% of the yobbos just walk past and look the other way, EVEN THOUGH, 5 mins ago on the way into the carpark they could barely spare time to breath in between the abuse they were hurling. Or it's the other way around, if you're sitting on the car they will drive past and stop at the crossing/lights, just looking at you from 2 metres away, not saying a word, then as soon as the lights turn green, BANG out comes the abuse as the driver puts his foot down to speed off to safety. Just shows what type of cowards they really are. Seldom have i ever had someone come up to me and say it to my face.
I used to get really wound-up, i couldn't stand taking crap from people. For years my mates and myself were standing-up and fighting back, coming up with comebacks, until after a while we just realised, there is simply no point. We first realised this when one of my mates decided he needed a comeback for the consistant abuse his RX3 was getting. We tried to workout what it was that these yobbos were saying, but soon realised that the majority of the stuff they said or did was soo pathetic, it made us realise that in order to come-up with a comeback that they would understand, we would also need 2 brain cells to think of one.
At first we used to just try and get technical with them, but found the majority of them were so dumb they had no idea what we were talking about and would simply reply "SO, SO, SO" It was like fighting with a brick wall. Even if we had an extremely convincing argument, they would still disagree, even though we had givin them the plain facts in black and white, they would still go "NUP".
"I'd like to see a 1.3 litre V8 even close to putting out 900hp mate." "Easy, my mum could make one" The conversations were SOO frustrating that i couldn't bare it anymore. After a while I realised that it just wasn't worth bothering with anymore. They were so intellectually-challenged that no matter what was said, they either wouldn't understand, or would chose not to. Then i realised "why am i even bothering trying to convince them, there is no way in the world i would even want somebady like this liking Rotaries in the first place, they belong driveing booner cars" after all, that's what they are, booners.
Looking back now, i can't beleive i even thought for a second that i could make them change their minds. When one guy thought, sorry, KNEW, that his stock-as-a-rock, baby-shit-brown, XDFalcon was "1000% better" than my mates 99model Supra with 19's and a 500hp motor to boot, i should have realised then that he was too far gone to bother worrying about. Also he would laugh uncontrollably when i told him my dad's '98 model V6 camry with just an exhaust and airfilter ran flat 15second 1/4miles with wheelspin. He said his XA (he had 9 booner fords lying around his mums front lawn) running on 5 cylinders would beat my dad's camry hands-down, and he was 100% serious too.
Anyway, you can see what i mean, the majority of them are such one-eyed loosers that it's not even bothering arguing with them. I actually find it quite amusing now to just play along with their games. There are several ways to annoy them, one of them already mentioned here, spit out your comeback and drive-off b4 they can give their brain-dead one back to you. Another one i particularily like to try on them is the agreeing one. Whatever they say about your car you just agree with them, simple as that. "uggghggh (booner laugh) look at your wheels, they are worth more than your car aren't they" "Yeah man, i bought the car for $50 off my mum, so the 3grand i had saved for a car i just spent it all on the wheels" it's really funny, most of the time they think you're seriouse too. "eheghegh you bought your car off your mum, ahahaaghggugugug (booner laugh again)" The best bit is when they are really trying their best to annoy you and you appear totally un-flustered, agreeing with everything they say is the perfect way to get on their nerves. It's like those bullying talks you used to get from your primary school teacher "They are just out to get an reaction from you, if they don't get one they will tire and move on." Same deal. If you're too self conciouse to step down, then there is also another simple comeback that my friends always use. When the booner makes his move, in my friends case "brap brap brap brap, you goin' to cut some trees down with your rotary mate?" The simple reply is, "What do you drive? Race me then" This always ends in tears for them, but not all of you drive 9second Rego'ed RX3's, so i guess you'll have to stick with "Yeah toyota's aren't built as well as Fords, i'll agree with you there..." (snigger)
André
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Fri, 31 January 2003 04:34
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Dylusion yes it is a 2T engine (the old push rod type )
all stock on the engine only mods is a fuel injection system (my dad an auto engineer got bord one day),a turbo (because I got bord one day).
First engine i blew the rings thats all the rods are still good as with the rest of the engine. So i put a head spacer on my rebuild. Still a 2T.
Have to take some more pics and put them online for you.
As for people telling people licke us that we have jap crap I say piss off the japs turn the power of V8's in to 4's that can rip the shit out of a 8 with small mods.
plus the cost a hell of a lot less to fix so we can push our cars faster with out to much of a care.
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Parramatta
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July 2002
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Fri, 31 January 2003 04:48
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bag and MR2 what is wrong with these ppl..... for that matter bag a toyota i would slap em down and say lets race bitch..... but make sure u can win other wise u would look like the biggest dick LOL
... mr2 a hairdressers car pffffft i think these ppl are just jelous of all our sexy looking cars.
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Sydney
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Fri, 31 January 2003 08:20
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| MR. 2 wrote on Fri, 31 January 2003 15:48 |
... mr2 a hairdressers car pffffft i think these ppl are just jelous of all our sexy looking cars.
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yes they were jealous...the car certainly caught the eyes of some of their rather attractive looking girlfriends.
I ended up give a few of them some joy rides
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Oosutoraria
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January 2003
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Fri, 31 January 2003 10:05
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| Norbie wrote on Thu, 30 January 2003 16:29 |
Bah! Who gives a toss if some Commodore-driving bogan doesn't like your car? I know I don't! If someone tells me my Celica is slow/gay/ugly/whatever, I just agree with them and continue to enjoy driving my Celica (when the stoopid thing is actually running that is). If they prefer their Commodore, that's their own loss.
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I've been called a bogan before...
and I don't even know why... for liking some ford or something i think??? Weird.
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Fri, 31 January 2003 12:02
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who gives a shit, you should have your car because you like driving it and like that model of car, you shouldn't have it to try and impress people you should have it for your own satisfaction weather it be a Viper GTS or a Mitsubishi Colt, if your happy don't give a shit about what other people think,
also i don't know about all Celica's but i know according to the NRMA the RA23 is considered a sports car, whats a commodore classed as? a family sedan
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Gippsland Victoria
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January 2003
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Sat, 01 February 2003 02:06
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i usually offer them a race up bush. when compared with the handling and weight of a car that was winning off road rallies in its day, we both know which one will come out alive.
its always good to ask them how many dead commonflaws and chooktins they saw broken down on the side of the road on that day then remind them how many toyotas they have seen in the same position
i believe holden have just descovered independant rear suspension! and they still cant get it right!!! ive been told you need to buy a camber kit just to stop the tires from skuffing out
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Blacktown Bro
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July 2002
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Sat, 01 February 2003 09:31
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so whats the go with corolla? whos bagging out the corollas man?
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Sydney
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Sun, 02 February 2003 03:02
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leaving a local club the other night some 17/18yr old in a commodore yeled out to me nice two inch exhaust.. I couldnt even laugh, I just couldnt understand what he meant. my car is dead silent.. ohwell he go to see the end of my 3 inch exhaust and what a 1g can do... stupid children....
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Sun, 02 February 2003 13:03
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i drive a ford
i have always driven a ford ever since i got my learners.
shure i get bagged out too since my car is on lhe lower side of the ford food chain, but i still am quite happy with what i have. at the end of the day its the guy behind the wheel that hurls abuse at you, not his car.
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Gippsland Victoria
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January 2003
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Mon, 03 February 2003 08:37
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Certin cars attract certin people though. for example, holden usually attract the bogins and hooligens. many of which believe it is THEIR road and they can do WHATEVER they like such as cut you off at the very last minute without warning then blame the close encounter on you not watching. (i had to complain. ive had sooooo many commonflaws cut me off on the road)
ford drivers are usually a lot calmer (usually)
the more classy cars usually attract the more stuck up drivers. ive lost count how many times my lane is about to end on a freeway and some stuck up #@$%*$ in a new mecedies benz refuses to let me in
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