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Lord Shagg-Pyle:

--- Quote from: muddyjames on November 30, 2008, 12:30:46 ---I find wearing a hi vis jacket makes me a moving target for people. closest anyone has got to me was when I was a postie and thier wing mirror skimmed the back of my hi vis. That was a brown trouser moment!

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With that I would concur. I was at a 3 car prang on the A3M a couple of weeks ago. It was dark, all three services were in attendance, so there were lots of lights and folk in Hi Viz clothing, but we still had jokers slowing down, driving through the cone barriers in an effort to get through the RTA scene, before meeting a very angry LSP, telling them to "Get the 'F' out of my accident scene, you myopic murderous moron!" :evil:
All colours of cars are safe. Its when you put idiots behind the steering wheel, that it becomes a problem.

J B:
i had a red cavalier once, it turned pink and got knicked, maybe by a gay car thief  :shock:

MudPlugger:
Charcoal grey is my unlucky colour, my 416 was a beauty until it started to cough and splutter every time I tried to pull off after the engine had warmed...

Turned out that my induction kit was a [!Expletive Deleted!] for "heat soak" basically it pulls hot air in instead, thus sapping the power, took it off and reverted back to the original airbox, and it ran sweet as a nut for 2 weeks then at a set of traffic lights one of my passengers (ex's brother!) says to me "whoa, your temp gauge has gone right up!" looked at it and it was almost overheating. So I went over the road on green couldn't find a parking space so drove nearly a mile then it finally erupted in a cloud of steam...

First thing I was thinking was head gasket...nope took me 2 days and about £20 on public transport to figure out that the overheating was caused by a 20p fuse that had blown for the fan! so she was back on the road and I was as happy as larry for about 3 weeks, then outside my mate's house just popped round for a cuppa and a chat and all i hear was screeching and then a smash...turns out someone had managed to scrape their motor down the side of mine and take the wing mirror and a bit of the trim with them, without even so much as leaving a note to say sorry!

Replaced the wing mirror then about a week later someone reversed out of the petrol station at Asda without bothering looking and smashed full pelt into mine rendering it a write-off.

And then a mate from another forum offered me the old shape Rover 218 SLD in the exact same colour for £80 as it was nearly out of MOT (about 2 months left on it) and I loved it for a while...and then whilst on a routine trip to the shops with my ex, her brother and his wife I came out of Tesco was promptly surrounded by 5 coppers pulled out of the car and handcuffed I was wondering what all of it was about...turns out that I had stolen the car 20 minutes earlier "No officer I bought the car 3 weeks ago the new log book and my details including license is in the glove box" so off he goes and spots that I'm telling the truth so he radios through to get the details through again...turns out he mis-read my numberplate which was M488 OOX for a car with the numberplate M408 DDX!!!

In short I was pulled 8 times in 3 months in the 416, 3 times in a week in the 218 and they were both the same colour, my dad borrowed me the Discovery (which was his at the time) which is blue, I was driving it for weeks and wasn't pulled once even though the Disco had bits hanging off it here there and everywhere...including the exhaust!

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