how does one manage to get that much money and still have no taste.
300k on the car and another 30-50k doing that to it.
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Fairly hideous, very vulgar, quite amusing though don't you think? That yellow side panel, Holy Excrement Batman!
'We call it urine sir. A subtle echo of the gold-plated brightwork, banalizing it for the recession. We like to see it as recession chic for the more inyerface high-net-worth individual... '
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The photo's dont do it justice, the wheels were painted yellow and blue inside as well. Its seriously hideoous in the flesh, like I want to be sick hideous.
Last edited by: Zero on Sat 8 Oct 11 at 17:40
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I'd rather drive a Lancer than that tasteless tat.
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I'd swop my Lancer 4 it any day!
It's what J. Lennon would be driving if the Beatles were doing Sgt. Pepper 21st Century style.
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I would rather drive a Lada Riva than drive that :)
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I'm 'coming out' and saying I like it, and I like it a lot, but I don't like the interior, in fact I hate it, I hate it a lot!
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Not necessarily perro, although he/they had a psychedelic-painted Phantom V. Psychedelic was different you dig? I reckon he might go for rat look or even a G Whiz or something were he still among us... I don't think he was really a car person.
For the record, I thought psychedelic was vulgar too although in a different way. I didn't much like that Phantom or the Cobra that was exhibited in the Robert Fraser Gallery, whose owner was a (slight though) acquaintance of mine. You wouldn't have wanted to be seen in the thing really.
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>>he/they had a psychedelic-painted Phantom V. Psychedelic was different you dig?<<
That's where I was coming from Sire >>>> then fast forward 42 years geddit :)
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A bit too psycho delic Rob (even for me!)
This is for auld lang syne ~ www.pooterland.com/index2/literature/oz/oz.html
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We launched our own underground newspaper in the sixth form (based on OZ) - not quite as notorious....
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I was more an 'it' man www.international-times.org.uk/ although I did read Oz quite often, back then.
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>> I was more an 'it' man www.international-times.org.uk/ although I did read Oz quite often, back then.
Heh heh... I might have known it Doggins.
Never wrote for it I don't think - I hadn't gone respectable yet -, but they were my lot to the extent that I had one... in touch with two of its leadingest spirits within the last fortnight...
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Did you ever go to the Arts Lab in Drury Lane at all, at all, we often ended up there in the early hours,
by which time I was out of my head, so don't remember much ;}
www.luxonline.org.uk/history/1960-1969/drury_lane_arts_lab.html
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>> Did you ever go to the Arts Lab in Drury Lane at all,
Who didn't comrade? I knew the American who ran it, Jim Haynes, from a few years earlier when he ran the Paperback Bookshop in Edinburgh. In those day the place was looked after by a huge bearded kilt-wearing, plaid-wrapped Hells Angel type called Highland Jim, actually another American who had gone native in a big way. He had a Doberman Pinscher dog which he disciplined with ferocious whacks, causing many a squabble in the street with kind-hearted old ladies.
Around 1959-60 Highland Jim and his dog spent a couple of days staying with me and my then gf in our room in Wimbledon. Despite their great size and intimidating style they were considerate guests.
The cutest of the Arts Lab waitresses ended up living on the top floor of our gaff in the Grove, and left just over a year ago at the same time as us.
I don't remember anything very impressive in the arts line being done there though. It was more of a hangout for dubious characters like you Dog.
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>>I don't remember anything very impressive in the arts line being done there though. It was more of a hangout for dubious characters like you Dog<<
(Hahaha!) Rolling on the floor laughing ... Highland Jim reminds me of Manchester John who used to get down the Crown and the Frigate in Leicester Sq.,
One night he was after my gf and he came to where we were all sitting and asked her to come with him, he kept on and on and she kept on saying no, my friends were all keeping schtum, I eventually stood up, looked him in the eye and said something along the lines of naff off, she's staying put, you could cut the silence with a knife but fortunately ( for me) he went on his way, which is just as well because he was one tough cookie, and I was a skinny 15 year old long haired Yetti.
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Old school bouncers were/are the same the world over - there must have been a factory somewhere that churned them out, before it was shut down by the SIA of course !
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That car is the motoring equivalent of a German dressed for golf.
Last edited by: gmac on Sun 9 Oct 11 at 18:35
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>> That car is the motoring equivalent of a German dressed for golf.
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Have you seen some American golfers? :-)
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Yes, but they have their own motoring Faux pas...
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We used to make cars like this in the Seventies! (by "We" i mean us spotty youths!) with a Red door off one "Scrapper" a blue one from another, Bonnet and boot lids off yet other dead `uns, and if we were bored on a saturday morning, we would hand paint them with Valspar!!
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Wasn't there a limited edition Polo with panels of different colours?
Red, green and blue rings a bell.
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>> Polo Benetton, that's what it was:
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Close, Polo Harlequin
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If you'd watched the X-factor over the weekend you'd have seen a bright pink Pug 306 cabriolet take centre stage for one of the acts.
Probably explains why they got voted off :)
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A few more pics and details of the Roller here:
www.cosmiccar.com/2011-rolls-royce-phantom-limo-harlequin/
Different wheels in one of the pics, and the interior is a different colour, so I'm not sure what's what.
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I think it best to recall the words of Clint Eastwood in the film "The Rookie", with Charlie Sheen in the eponymous role.
They were in a chop shop and standing beside a Lotus Esprit painted a truly hideous dayglo lime green colour. This produced the memorable line:
"Anyone who does that to a beautiful piece of machinery like that ought to have his a$$ removed....."
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Hideous or Work of art? - nyx2k
