Tiny rims? Check. Slammed? Check. Oldskool colour? Check!

I had a Talbot Sunbeam for my first car. It was £120 and brown. It wasn’t very good, but I loved it. This one isn’t brown, and is rather good

Retro Rides build thread

The Calibra got crashed into and written off, then sold to some Poles.  In it’s place is now a shiny new BMW 318 coupe

It came with a new set of 18″ MV2 copies on it so that’s the wheels sorted.  It’s a really straight car and has been looked after by it’s business owners before me. It came from Junction 27 Cars in Annesley (near Mansfield) who were disorganised but nice to deal with.  The driving experience is soooo different to the old and knackered Vauxhall.

I ripped all my stereo gear out of the Calibra, so the Sony MP3 headunit will be going in this week when all my wiring and facia adapters arrive.  The 6.5″ dB Audio components will be getting shoehorned into the doors by a pro stereo fitter after all the ballache I had installing them last time! Now it is dark and cold, the last thing I want to be doing is rolling around on the floor fitting speakers.  The amp and sub will have to wait a little while until I recover from the financial shock of obtaining a new car.  Apparently there is a “credit crunch’ on, but that didn’t stop a couple of credit card companies throwing 0% cards at me after a two minute online application

And lo, the era passed when the roads were clear and progress was made in a timely fashion. New term came to be and behold, the streets overflow with people carriers and jeeps.  Ignorance smote the world with increasingly large 4x4s and stupidity spewed huge, windowed vans containing one baby upon us.

As the seasons changed, unhelpful molecules slowed the pressing river to single digits and eventually bring the impatient flow to a standstill to let insignificant streams join the flow.

Woe overcame previously joyous denizens, woe, woe and thrice woe.

I have recently installed a set of db Audio 6.2c speakers into my Calibra front doors. The install process itself was a Herculean task, but that’s another story…

Not wanting to randomly buy some speakers online, I visited the Car Audio Centre in Hyson Green, Nottingham. As I have found with this shop before, most of the goods don’t have prices on. They ask you what you have seen it at. You tell them the website price and they go “Yeah, that’s web only prices, it is £more in the shop”. I asked for a set of Infinity components which I had seen on their website. Again, as many people have found with these guys they didn’t have any stock. What they did have however were lots of InPhase and db Audio stock. Hardly surprising, as these are their own brands. The shop used to be called InPhase Audio back in the day. So they tried to switch sell me onto db Audio.
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