Saltlick
Well-Known Member
Now, I've got a Disco 1 300, it's got a 2" lift, 265/75 knobblies, big defender roof rack, spot lights, roof rack etc. and looks suitably off road to not be dismissed as just the school run wagon, and it's used off road as well when I take it shooting, and trundling around farms. It's not a pay & play toy though, and hopefully doesn't look like I've just spent all pocket money on and still live with mum and dad etc.
But this is also my family car which the wife drives around in as well, and it usually has the 2 kids in.
It was also bought to save me money, and running on veg oil (proper twin tank setup) it's the most economical car I've ever owned (or ever will, probably).
I get it that we're 'in the club' - I have exactly the same thing with my (real) mini: you see another and you wave/flash and it's usually reciprocated.
What annoys me is to be associated with the 18 year old chavs who've just bought a disco because it's cheap, then thrown the usual set of off road mods at it:
Fark off big Insa turbo Special tracks, snorkle, mahoooosive set of spot lights on a roof bar, suspension lifted so high the local McDonalds have to keep repairing the height barrier at the entrance to the drive by, bumpers cut down or off, 'sports' exhaust (on a tractor ffs
) and the injection pump turned up sooo much that as soon as the spotty inbred yoof looks at the accelerator, the nearby vicinity turns into a re-enactment of the great smog of 1952, while you can only hear them tearing off at "fookin-well-fast-mate" speed into the distance.
I suppose the answer is to just keep my disco looking half sensible, but you just know that people in their euroboxes are looking at you and thinking you're about to drive across the nearest golf/park/garden because you're obviously an off road chav: You drive a modded Disco.
Is it me, or am I just being a snob?
But this is also my family car which the wife drives around in as well, and it usually has the 2 kids in.
It was also bought to save me money, and running on veg oil (proper twin tank setup) it's the most economical car I've ever owned (or ever will, probably).
I get it that we're 'in the club' - I have exactly the same thing with my (real) mini: you see another and you wave/flash and it's usually reciprocated.
What annoys me is to be associated with the 18 year old chavs who've just bought a disco because it's cheap, then thrown the usual set of off road mods at it:
Fark off big Insa turbo Special tracks, snorkle, mahoooosive set of spot lights on a roof bar, suspension lifted so high the local McDonalds have to keep repairing the height barrier at the entrance to the drive by, bumpers cut down or off, 'sports' exhaust (on a tractor ffs
I suppose the answer is to just keep my disco looking half sensible, but you just know that people in their euroboxes are looking at you and thinking you're about to drive across the nearest golf/park/garden because you're obviously an off road chav: You drive a modded Disco.
Is it me, or am I just being a snob?