Street Cred?

[stephenpolhill]

I'm 18 myself and most of my friends love the car. Because even the standard exhaust is noisy enough, anyone I would suspect will laugh I simply lift my foot off the throttle in second and the looovely growl from the exhaust bellows out shocking most people. I have never had problems with anyone disliking my car. Maybe a couple preferring splitties or MM's but still comment on how nice it is .
At the end of the day like the others have said. You bought the car, it belongs to you and enjoy it. There is all of us lot and more to enjoy Morris Minors.

[limegreen]

I was driving around Essex a couple of years ago and took a wrong turning. I carried on down the road to find a suitable place to turn around. Passing a bus-stop with a group of chavs hanging around it I was met with laughs and interesting sign language. However after turning round and heading back out from whence I came I accidently drove through the puddle just next to said bus-stop. How careless of me.

Who's laughing now!!

I like this (:

[stephenpolhill]

I was driving around Essex a couple of years ago and took a wrong turning. I carried on down the road to find a suitable place to turn around. Passing a bus-stop with a group of chavs hanging around it I was met with laughs and interesting sign language. However after turning round and heading back out from whence I came I accidently drove through the puddle just next to said bus-stop. How careless of me.

Who's laughing now!!

I like this (:

Just read it. I love it!
If anyone gets a tailgater or someone with road rage, don't swear back, blow them a kiss. Works a treat ;)

[Blaketon]

What if they get the wrong idea .

[StaffsMoggie]

Just ignore the idiots, thats all they are, not worth a thought. That said though, one of the advantages of the Minor is its speed through town traffic and acceleration from a stand. I have often left a chavmobile behind at lights....Boy do they hate it!!!!

The lack of respect for other people by some of the elements of society which suffer from low intellect is sadly too common now and it is not always young morons who are responsible.

I once followed a bloke in a Reliant Robin through some heavy traffic and we were passing through a fairly rough area. A group of youths were yelling abuse at him and throwing beer cans at his car, which he ignored, until two of them started rocking the car when it had to stop for traffic. That was the final straw. Mr Reliant got out of his car and gave the loudest one of the bunch the hardest punch on the nose ive seen. His mates scarpered of course.

I hate violence of any sort but that guy deserved it im afraid.

[Fingolfin]

Absolutely agree with you there, Staffs. Violence is deplorable -- but sometimes people need a good wallop across the nose to understand a point!

I''ll be nineteen in June, and most of my friends just think I'm nuts to have a car like my Moggie. Many of them think it's cute. I have a friend with a '69 VW bug and he thinks Mog is great, and my girlfriend is a motorhead! She loves the thing! Nonetheless, I think most kids in my generation -- at least the American ones -- value speed over charm.

We'll see what they think once it's on the road.

[Blaketon]

Yobbs are very brave in a gang but not so clever once their card is marked.

About twenty years ago, some customers were cycling over a local mountain road, when some vest clad “Hard men”, in a convertible Escort, passed the group. They spat at the cyclists and threw empty beer cans etc at them. This was just before a four mile descent and at the bottom of the hill, the cyclists pulled in front of the car and stopped it.

One of the cyclists, a slight man middle aged, asked the driver if he’d like to spit at him again. The driver, apparently proud of his tattoos and his vest, mouthed off at Bill and took a swing at him. In an instant the yobb was on his back, unconscious and with a broken jaw. Bill was a former Empire boxing champion. He just happened to catch the yobb when his mouth was open; hence his jaw was more vulnerable. They other three yobbs ran away.

The sequel was that some time later, the yobbs were canvassing to do tarmac drives. They just happened to knock on Bill’s door. When they realised who had answered it, they exclaimed “Oh ****, it’s that man again!” and they ran away.

I too dislike violence but if these people think they can dish it, then they should expect the consequences. A lesson well learned.

[moggyminor16]

i used to have that a lot coming throw the village late evening, i can remeber i was sat at the traffic lights near the green were they all stand (how sad in the rain ) they was pointing so thought right no worries so i turned up the radio with a nice sound from the WHO playing My Generation to full they soon changed there minds clapping and waving, now when i see them all they all wave lol.
Its so funny seeing them trying to catch up on there hair dryers they call scooters put the pedal to the metal lol lol bye bye scooter.
I have takern the traveller to southend strip ,and gt yarmouth and always get young ones coming to have a look most do like the moggy.

[ferret76]

I used to drive my moggie to high school and of course was ridiculed by all the v8 and rice burner yobbos. They used to do horrible things to my car, I was forever wiping various substances off the windscreen, getting the gardener to recover my hub caps off various rooftops and cleaning graffiti off the panels. One day I had the fortune to come into the carpark after school where a group had gathered around a Holden Torana (I cant' even think of the european equivalent, basically a mini muscle car). Apparently it wasn't starting due to a flat battery with the starter motor just managing a click. I offered some assistance but it was declined due to me apparently not knowing anything about "real cars" so I wondered over to my car, fetched the starter handle out of the boot and started my car with it. As I drove back past them I asked if they wanted to borrow the handle. I thoroughly enjoyed that moment. Best part of driving a mog to school though, is young ladies always wanted a lift home and their fathers always approved if you came to pick them up for dates in a mog.

[Johnny]

Just read it. I love it!
If anyone gets a tailgater or someone with road rage, don't swear back, blow them a kiss. Works a treat ;)

Thanks. I always get a kick out of pointing a and laughing at them also. It's amazing how incensed it makes people.

[MarkyB]

One of the good things about getting older is realising just how trivial and unimportant thing like street cred etc. really are.
It were called something else when I were a lad, but the sentiment was the same.

You just get over it somehow and stop worrying what your mates/the neighbours will think and just get on with your life being yourself, take it or leave it.

This is the reason that most adults tend to be less much more relaxed than most teenagers. They know that the world will go on even if they have spots, or their girlfriend/boyfriend has left them or whatever.

[Dean]

or their girlfriend/boyfriend has left them or whatever.

Provided they didn't take the mog with them of course!

[marcusthemoose]

the "lads" at school hate mine and supertubbsy's mogs. then you get the proper guys who understand why you have one. the ladies don't seem to mind no mickey taking. TBH a bad bloke doesn't drive a mog really does he.

[Johnny]

TBH a bad bloke doesn't drive a mog really does he.

Oooh the modesty heheh

[marcusthemoose]

TBH a bad bloke doesn't drive a mog really does he.

Oooh the modesty heheh

they like the mog- shame its not the owner hey.

[heathy12]

We dont usually worry about Street Cred in our village!

[lottieisdamned]

i get quite the opposite im always getting smiles and strange looks as i drive through town, in fact i drove past a group of lads the other day and they all cheered and whistled lol and anyways i love my moggie even if anyone else doesnt!

[alainmoran]

I can say for sure that I have gotten a girl at least once purely because I own a Minor - no sheet ... she left a note on my car window saying how she'd seen me driving about and fancied me like crazy, left her number and everything, and tbh I'm pig-ugly, so if it can happen to me...

Fairly often I get the thumbs up from chavvy type people too, I think they like the contradiction that is a Morris Minor blasting out dubstep at ridiculous volumes ... although maybe it helps having a head full of dreds too?

Seriously though, in my experience a Morris Minor has WAY more street cred than any modern car, especially a well maintained one.

[pao7psb]

I reckon a Moggie will always be a hit with the right type of lady, I have had a few positive comments from some yummy-mummies (or rather the car has )

[Dean]

I've been out a few times now and it's surprising how many second looks my car gets. I'll be blasting down a dual carriageway at 50mph and the amount of cars that don't pass me! They simply sit behind me.... then I see them laugh in my rear view mirror when the trafficators come out.

Alain.. you do realise we'll all be waiting for the women to pounce on us now!