This is not the car. It kinda looks like the car, though. So it shall be a reasonable representation of the car and I shall refer to it as the car for the purposes of the website.
When Neil told me he’d found a bright green Peugeot for sale, the first thing I asked was how bright it was. I do not want to be driving around in a French version of the QQ (”young, peppy and cool”).
My favourite thing about the car is that there’s nothing worth stealing. It runs, seems fairly efficient, and even people who don’t freakin’ drive are going to have better car stereos than we do (think fully analogue, dials, and a loose faceplate that rattles and annoys the living shit out of me).
I’m still thinking of a suitably tough name for my green mini-monster. Something along the lines of The Destroyer. 1124ccs of Pure Fury has already been floated a number of times, but it’s quite a mouthful when introducing the car to your friends. Mad Max? Conan the Barbarian? Gabrielle the sidekick? Hercules? Steroid Steve? Roid Rage?
Comments
27 December 2006
18:25
Kristen
S’gotta be Begbie.
28 December 2006
04:17
Jerry
slime? hulk?
28 December 2006
06:41
Terry
Hulk is decent. Death Eater, Cthulhu or Tsathoggua (I think of both as green), Nightmare’s Disciple
The 106 looks like it would have been approved by this focus group.
28 December 2006
09:19
andrea
Was his name Frank Begbie? For some reason I think it was Frank Begbie… *checks* Yeah, it was.
Hulk seems good but maybe it should be Dr. Banner, the car doesn’t get mad too easily. Or Eric Bana?
Is Nightmare’s Disciple a death metal band or something?
I think I should put a poll up?
28 December 2006
11:04
neil
It would be Francis, not Frank. You could call the car Francis, it’s the right colour!
28 December 2006
11:48
Andrea
I don’t see the car starting fights, that’s the problem…
28 December 2006
16:48
Terry
Have you left room in your car budget for spinning hubcaps and a big wing?
28 December 2006
20:08
Andrea
The car is already no’ well! Neil is outside checking it out now.
29 December 2006
04:22
Terry
Oh, Nightmare’s Disciple was a Lovecraft-like story about a serial killer.
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