Looking Back At The Old Car Club

[thebigfelly]

As per title.

when i first passed the drivin test all those years ago.. fast and furious had no long been out in the cinema . Modding neons and all that halfords cheap tat were the tuning clinics folk thought they saw in the movie haha. Demon tweeks etc was the catalog of choice and max power with the undef car neons dafy body kits and thousands spent on old novas and corsa and saxos etc were the in thing. Still remember the cruise meets in the mag at the back and one lucky girl ,promo girl or not got asked the question pink or brown haha.

so the first club for cars i joined was edinburgh cruises.was a no bad club had some nice motors and done some no bad shows /events at crail and the royal highland centre. Tho i was never one of the ones/sados to sit in a parked car up waterloo place in edinburgh on a fri and sat night all night . Them were the nights i was breaking shapes on the dance floor in clubs up town.

anyway obviously times change people move on the car scene changes. 11 years roughly down the line and im on facebook there and see a friend of a friend is a member or runs ediburgh cruise now and theres a facebook page for it.

so i browse it and fook me times have defo changed. Befors used to be a good selection of modded cars or works in progress . Now its just any old selection of day to day cars

therss an even coming up about take over the sky carpark or sumthin. Think they mean the top storey of a multistorey car park along with a cpl other cars.going by the pics of the owners cars that are atteneding . Its just gonna look like any other carpark with a load of cars parked on it.ith the exception of the odd scoob ,evo , and civic type R lol.

The cars and pics of cars of a cpl meets were just bog standard yaris,corsas,clios ,polos or fiestas. No mods no engine mods. Maybe just the odd sticker on the boot and some that just have a ridiculus back box and halfords best deal alloys on it.

I was looking and thinking WTF.. i could turn up in the misus old 1litre micra and be part of the scene..

to me personaly things have defo went down hill since my youth lol.

anyone else remember their old car club days from 10 years ago

[mugs]

I remember the time before Max power when it was CCC and the like with serious engine mods and sensible wheels etc....it was all about the engineering and engine transplants etc.

I was driving a Mk2 escort with a few subtle engine mods that must have produces all of 80bhp lol

I actually bought the 1st issue of max power but it was all neon's, dimma bodykits and ice but still had decently tuned engines.

fast forward 10 years and I had a flick through another copy to find 1.0ltr novas with 10 exhausts and covered with every halfrauds stick on part (£500 for the car and £5k for the mods that have added 100kg to the weight) .

yeah, times have changed but at least we (on here) are far removed from the now corsa brigade.

[g1983]

I remember 10-11 years ago i had my super tuned mondeo with custom twin exits and the like, no one could touch it, even my bosses tuned mr2 g limited, it was something special. Then came mint a mint escort that my dad and i fixed up when a diddy hit my mondeo, at a red light going 60. That again although not as fast and responsive as my mondeo kicked ass. Traded that for a 3 series, which was the business, fast, clean and fast lol.

Although not really interested in the cruise scene up here as is still populated by 1 litre wanabees with Halfords sport badges, my cars have always been more than capable in the early years to merit the many club invites i received.

Gone, perhaps, are the days of fast and the furious stereotypes that people want to add crap and imitate rather than add power and prove. Although its all about the drivers/ cars / personas instead of a tack on neon.

Subaru and dare i day it mitsubishi/ other performance brands/ models are league's ahead of the generic 1.2/ 1.6 SRI or laterly the ST/ VXR that push the boundaries of standard productions to try and achieve close to basic spec for us, makes our clubs that little bit special.

In conclusion now car clubs are perhaps more focused to love, power and perfection as opposed to love and double sided tape, the pre 1990s cars however are something else.

[mctwistuk]

Only car club I have ever attended meets and events through is sidc.

[mctwistuk]

Lol. Never really was into car clubs or had a good car before my first scoob lol

[mugs]

another thing that springs to mind happened about 10 years ago.

I was road rallying (opel manta gte, mild tune, caged etc but most of the work and money was on the handling set up) and on one Saturday night road rally (I think it was the Bullnose rally of Newbury) we came across a group of cruisers who thought we were just on a pleasure drive lol.

a few tried race us......(you can imaging the scene....50 odd road rally cars of all varieties and the odd neon clad corsas, saxos etc belting out drum and base tunes, tanking it down the country lanes)

well, one gave a good fight for 2 miles until he couldn't make a 90 left and ended up going straight on, through a farmers field gate, taking it clean off the hinges and ending up like a DJ stage at a rave in the middle of the field.

oh, how we laughed, it was the subject of conversation for weeks.