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Pole: the wife's 'marmite' car

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View Poll Results: Marmite car?
I like that 19 42.22%
Do I not like that 26 57.78%
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Old Sep 15th, 2019, 21:03   #41
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Had three of them and two type 2 campers, probably my favourite car my 1200 '72 beetle. Would love a slammed, patina rat bug to cruise around in!!
No no no no no slammed patina rat is done to death, cheap way of making a balls up road legal! A nice shiny restored one is the ticket!
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Old Sep 16th, 2019, 00:19   #42
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No no no no no slammed patina rat is done to death, cheap way of making a balls up road legal! A nice shiny restored one is the ticket!
You like what ya like man. Slammed, low, very slow, standard mechanicals, standard interior. That will do me nicely. Restored original? Done to death!!😈
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You like what ya like man. Slammed, low, very slow, standard mechanicals, standard interior. That will do me nicely. Restored original? Done to death!!😈
Surprisingly not. Try buying one and slammed rats will outnumber restored origeonal 5 to 1. Probably one of the most modded classics at one time.
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Old Sep 16th, 2019, 18:59   #44
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Surprisingly not. Try buying one and slammed rats will outnumber restored origeonal 5 to 1. Probably one of the most modded classics at one time.
Shiny restored not for me, nice useable patina is much nicer to my eyes although each to their own!!
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Old Oct 3rd, 2019, 17:40   #45
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This has been running a while, so the results are:

I like that - 42%
Do I not like that - 58%

Told the wife about the pole. She said (and I quote) "I couldn't give a **** about what a load of old men drive Volvos think"

There, that told us now, didn't it
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She is quite right too 😁
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Might be interesting to try the poll the other way round, get the true opinions of our wives/significant others on Volvos, I know my wife would be in the dislike camp. I even tried to persuade her with a V40 the other day when we were looking for a new car for her and just the badge puts her off.
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