Other Interests/Hobbies....
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:59 pm
This may or may not have been done before, but after going back 2 or 3 pages i got bored of looking for a similar thread so lets have a new one!
So, other than fruits and related things, what do other members of the site do in their spare time i wonder.
I love going to raves and things like that (when i can afford it) plus i mix myself too, usually hardcore, both on my 'proper' technic decks, but been fiddling with mp3's using virtual dj pro in more recent times, its not the same as using vinyl though.
Plus cars are a big thing in my life as well, working on my own, doing odd jobs on other peoples motors too, plus my main love, banger racing!
Been on the scene on and off for quite a while now, got into it totally by chance as well.
Was meant to be picking my missus up but she had got really bad flu so said for me not to go round incase i caught it, and she said 'why dont you go and see your mate chris you aint seen him for a while' so i did, but he werent home.
His mam said 'he's up at number 1 helping the lad there build a banger' so i walked up there, my mate introduced me to this lad (james) and the other mechanic there, james then asked me what i was like on the old spanners, i said not too bad (used to be a mechanic when i left school) and he then said 'well you can take carb and distributor unit off that [pointing at a 1300 crossflow engine sat in the garage] and fit them onto that [pointing at another 1300 crossflow lump fitted in a rotten mk5 cortina] if you fancy summat to do', so i did, and thats where it all began, i appeared in his garden that day and pretty much never ever left!
We had a work out about 2 year back about how many cars we must have built since i had been meching with him, his dad had also made a list of the meetings we did in 2004 (might of been 05, one of them anyway) and we had done 58 meetings that year, and not many cars made more than one meeting so we must have built 50 cars in that year alone.
And that was when he had a 3 bedder house on the end of a terrace, a front lawn that could just fit 2 cars side by side on, a small garage where you couldnt even open all doors of a car up without hitting the wall and a drive that you could fit one car on infront of the garage. all his spares were in 2 small sheds in the back garden, wheels and tyres lived in the garden in stacks of 5 or 6 high and all the heavy stuff like engines and gearboxes lived down the side of the wall next to the drive, all tools and the small mig welder rammed to the back of the garage, his transit, trailer, and road car (which had to park on the trailer joined to the van to save space) all parked on the road.
The only thing which wasnt at the house was the old B plate 12.5t ford cargo we had for going to bigger meetings (where we needed the hiab to pull cars straight again) that lived in a borrowed corner of a blokes farm yard a couple of miles away, it was a right old squeeze!
Now we have a substantially larger proper workshop, well, one side of an industrial unit type thing, roller shutter doors both ends, big racking for most of the spares inside, room to park 3 cars at various angles inside the building with all doors open and still oodles of room to move, farkin huge mig welder, proper bench drills, BOC gas bottles for cutting, (welder and BOC shared, drills ours) room out the back for at least 40 cars (if we double stack em) plus the 2 lorries, 2 vans (one recovery pickup/beavertail thing, one normal) the same trailer (which is now nackered) and we have 2 drivers racing full time out of there now, and its the previously disused side of the newer drivers dads work premises, he pretty much said to us if you can be assed to put the graft in and sort it all out (roller doors were seized and fucked, all the outside bit out the back was overgrown etc, had been disused for at least 10 years) then as long as you chip in a bit for the leccy you use and dont take the piss with making mess and rubbish everywhere and noise real late at night then stay here as long as you like.
Couldnt have worked better for us really!
Oh yeah, the girlfriend who had the flu, that i mentioned right at the start, said 'its racing or me' soon after she got over the flu, erm, okiee now, byeee then love!
But more importantly, you may wonder, whatever happened to that mk5 cortina i put the carb and dizzy on......
Told ya it was rotten!
So, other than fruits and related things, what do other members of the site do in their spare time i wonder.
I love going to raves and things like that (when i can afford it) plus i mix myself too, usually hardcore, both on my 'proper' technic decks, but been fiddling with mp3's using virtual dj pro in more recent times, its not the same as using vinyl though.
Plus cars are a big thing in my life as well, working on my own, doing odd jobs on other peoples motors too, plus my main love, banger racing!
Been on the scene on and off for quite a while now, got into it totally by chance as well.
Was meant to be picking my missus up but she had got really bad flu so said for me not to go round incase i caught it, and she said 'why dont you go and see your mate chris you aint seen him for a while' so i did, but he werent home.
His mam said 'he's up at number 1 helping the lad there build a banger' so i walked up there, my mate introduced me to this lad (james) and the other mechanic there, james then asked me what i was like on the old spanners, i said not too bad (used to be a mechanic when i left school) and he then said 'well you can take carb and distributor unit off that [pointing at a 1300 crossflow engine sat in the garage] and fit them onto that [pointing at another 1300 crossflow lump fitted in a rotten mk5 cortina] if you fancy summat to do', so i did, and thats where it all began, i appeared in his garden that day and pretty much never ever left!
We had a work out about 2 year back about how many cars we must have built since i had been meching with him, his dad had also made a list of the meetings we did in 2004 (might of been 05, one of them anyway) and we had done 58 meetings that year, and not many cars made more than one meeting so we must have built 50 cars in that year alone.
And that was when he had a 3 bedder house on the end of a terrace, a front lawn that could just fit 2 cars side by side on, a small garage where you couldnt even open all doors of a car up without hitting the wall and a drive that you could fit one car on infront of the garage. all his spares were in 2 small sheds in the back garden, wheels and tyres lived in the garden in stacks of 5 or 6 high and all the heavy stuff like engines and gearboxes lived down the side of the wall next to the drive, all tools and the small mig welder rammed to the back of the garage, his transit, trailer, and road car (which had to park on the trailer joined to the van to save space) all parked on the road.
The only thing which wasnt at the house was the old B plate 12.5t ford cargo we had for going to bigger meetings (where we needed the hiab to pull cars straight again) that lived in a borrowed corner of a blokes farm yard a couple of miles away, it was a right old squeeze!
Now we have a substantially larger proper workshop, well, one side of an industrial unit type thing, roller shutter doors both ends, big racking for most of the spares inside, room to park 3 cars at various angles inside the building with all doors open and still oodles of room to move, farkin huge mig welder, proper bench drills, BOC gas bottles for cutting, (welder and BOC shared, drills ours) room out the back for at least 40 cars (if we double stack em) plus the 2 lorries, 2 vans (one recovery pickup/beavertail thing, one normal) the same trailer (which is now nackered) and we have 2 drivers racing full time out of there now, and its the previously disused side of the newer drivers dads work premises, he pretty much said to us if you can be assed to put the graft in and sort it all out (roller doors were seized and fucked, all the outside bit out the back was overgrown etc, had been disused for at least 10 years) then as long as you chip in a bit for the leccy you use and dont take the piss with making mess and rubbish everywhere and noise real late at night then stay here as long as you like.
Couldnt have worked better for us really!
Oh yeah, the girlfriend who had the flu, that i mentioned right at the start, said 'its racing or me' soon after she got over the flu, erm, okiee now, byeee then love!
But more importantly, you may wonder, whatever happened to that mk5 cortina i put the carb and dizzy on......
Told ya it was rotten!
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