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Old 30-12-2007   #2626 (Post Link)
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Re: i got the Alfa wave!!

light blue 156 facelift sitting on mediera drive in brighton this afternoon......if only you werent so engrossed in your newspaper!!!!!
so no wave for me....

also silver 147 on the way from brighton > hove this evening, i eased up to let you filter into the traffic infront of me.......dont think you acknowleged me but i may be wrong. booooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Old 30-12-2007   #2627 (Post Link)
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Re: i got the Alfa wave!!

Saw another red GTV in Peterborough yesterday. He flashed his lights, I waved, he smiled and waved back... could have been the start of a beautiful romance if he didn't have his girlfriend in the passenger seat
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Re: i got the Alfa wave!!

to the Silver 156 driver on the A1 near St neots around midday today if you're here

had to take it a little easy through the bendy bit, first reason was the passenger seat rev limiter (the wife) and I think my front wishbone bushes need attention the gtv is a bit vague in the twisties at speed.

good little run though
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passenger seat rev limiter (the wife)
Very good!
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Re: i got the Alfa wave!!

I always wondered if there was an Alfa wave. I sadly am one of those dipsticks that dont know of the Alfa Wave (uncultured swine) but I am all for it. I used to own a mini only a year ago and it always made me smile when a friendly wave from a stranger was excahnged.
In fact im guna start waving at every Alfa I see...So if you live in the Northampton area and you see a curly haired man driving a black alfa 156 sele with big spoiler giving you a supisiously enthusiastic wave dont worry...Its just me.
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Old 03-01-2008   #2631 (Post Link)
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Re: i got the Alfa wave!!

Just a thought when you dont get a wave back, I was reading a report that says drivers only actively concentrate for 30% of the time, the rest is sort of autopilot. So by that theory only one in three will actually see you wave anyway!

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Re: i got the Alfa wave!!

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Just a thought when you dont get a wave back, I was reading a report that says drivers only actively concentrate for 30% of the time, the rest is sort of autopilot. So by that theory only one in three will actually see you wave anyway!

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So, we are providing a service by flashing and getting their attention back to the job in hand.
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Yep a majopr contribution to road safety!! prob wakes up the drivers in front and behind too!

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Re: i got the Alfa wave!!

OK own up. Who owns the red 33ti in Hornchurch!


That car is stunning!
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well done that man on hospital hill dunfermline with the gtv not even in his car and waved happy new year to you too!!!
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I wave at every alfa I see and I guess non of them are on here cos they look at me like I'm a nutter!!
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Old 07-01-2008   #2637 (Post Link)
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To the owner of the stunning 164 Cloverleaf , driving north on the M3 near junction 4 on Saturday afternoon, in case you were wondering who the demented idiot waving at you from a silver self-drive VW Caddy van was......



........it was me .........



........and I was very disappointed that you didn't wave back







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So which one of you in a burgundy 147 drove past me near Doncaster when I was trying to get my front flat off!! I nearly got killed just changing a wheel!!! If you find yourself in a similar situation point the nearside car at the kerb and slow every fecker down!!!
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Why do 156 drivers look at me like I'm a rapist when I wave???
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Don't worry about it rhett

I waved an flashed lights at another Cup on Friday

No response even though there was only 155 Cups ever built

Some folk just don't understand
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Re: i got the Alfa wave!!

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Why do 156 drivers look at me like I'm a rapist when I wave???
probably the tat that says same on your forehead

thought all 147 drivers were rapists
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i passed a stunning red alfasud on the m6 by wigan earlier, absolutly stunning
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Why do 156 drivers look at me like I'm a rapist when I wave???
PMSL!!!!
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Re: i got the Alfa wave!!

Got a wave back from a Silver 156SW yesterday in Batley, it must be the first time in months anyones bothered
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just exchanged flashes with a similar rosso red 156 on Upney Lane in barking
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Re: i got the Alfa wave!!

Nobody bothers in Southampton. Only really see 156 and147.

Even the new Spider that I see going past my place every day can't be arsed when I pull up alongside. Giving up.
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