A shed of a 1972 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow
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k em I love it. Your as impulsive as I am. But I'd try and not get your farm clogged up with cars or you'll never get anything done on the shedow. Im all for the learn by doing approach, especially since its on knackered old rolls. This will probably take years even if your committed though. Ahh I wish I had a farm.
k em I love it. Your as impulsive as I am. But I'd try and not get your farm clogged up with cars or you'll never get anything done on the shedow. Im all for the learn by doing approach, especially since its on knackered old rolls. This will probably take years even if your committed though. Ahh I wish I had a farm.Slow said:
Trabi601 said:
Erm, who said you had to buy a boring hatchback?
The money sitting rotting in a farmyard could have bought something that is both interesting and working.
Each to their own, but I don't get the 'this is what PH is all about' - it's a collection of semi working and rotting hulks. Any fool can do that! - and I speak as someone with 3 motorbikes without MOTs, and 3 cars with MOTs due within the next couple of months. I've come to the conclusion that it's quality not quantity that matters!
Hate having to get into the finances of this but I am actually making a decent amount of money while driving fun cars so let my try show you why I work on the collection of "rotting" junk. During this time I have had many a boring car (mk3 golf gti 8v, pug 307, honda civic to name a few) which have all required work but were cheap and did the job of being used for 2 weeks while I hunted for my next car. The money sitting rotting in a farmyard could have bought something that is both interesting and working.
Each to their own, but I don't get the 'this is what PH is all about' - it's a collection of semi working and rotting hulks. Any fool can do that! - and I speak as someone with 3 motorbikes without MOTs, and 3 cars with MOTs due within the next couple of months. I've come to the conclusion that it's quality not quantity that matters!
I only really post the PH cars on here and not all the s
te that comes and goes. I change cars on a whim so nothing really lasts unless it gets under my skin. Easy to sell sub 1k cars in the Highlands, not so easy to sell 5k cars. Im over 20 cars in 5 years of driving now I believe.What would you recommend me then? Last time I spent 5k I bought a Range Rover.
Total value is probably near £13k mark once the E30 is finished and assuming Rolls is worth what I paid. Total purchase price is sub £5k for it all so only got £5k towards a interesting car as in your eyes they are slowly rotting and worthless.
Yes this Rolls is barely working but the rest work, only the E30 and cars being broken have no Mot.
The E30 starts/runs/drives/stops its just being welded up then painted before I decide if I keep it for nice days or try sell to get a M car of some sort. Bought it to make a track car till I realised what I had found and its worth too much for tracking so its having a slow resto due to a friend with a new child doing the welding so limited time.
Got a E46 330i touring daily which needed a weekends work with my friend (neither of us mechanics may I remind you but it saved me near to £1k)
2 e46 in the quarry being broken for bits, one was my old 320 which drank oil so broke it and the other 320 is a convertible I bought for wheels + front seats. Cheaper to buy the whole car and scrap the rest, however its profit if I break it so why not have it sat around.
My old daily E38 is now sitting ready to be sold in the next few weeks as this is a awful time to try sell anything.
Soon a Merc S430 which might end up being the daily and the 330 either gets sold or track car
I applaud PHing, but you're bordering on justifying delusion. Owning a series of crappy old cars in poor condition is not the PH dream.
C70R said:
All that is lovely, but it's worth remembering what a horrible state that 330 was in even after you "sorted" it. It was still riddled with rust and looked like it had been used to transport livestock inside.
I applaud PHing, but you're bordering on justifying delusion. Owning a series of crappy old cars in poor condition is not the PH dream.
What exactly is "the PH dream" because to me it is loving cars and having fun driving them alot more than what they look like. Who cares what it looks like really? If you are that vain then I think you need to man the fI applaud PHing, but you're bordering on justifying delusion. Owning a series of crappy old cars in poor condition is not the PH dream.
k up and do what makes you happy and not what pleases/shows off to the neighbours/family.Im not trying to impress people by buying old cheap s
t when I could walk into a showroom and leave with a brand new BMW on finance. Its actually FUN to mess about with cars and not have to worry about any damage. Ive seen PHers almost blow a fuse over a small parking ding, seems to stressfull a life to get worked up over cars.I think Slow's threads are great. Just really fun.
And a scruffy 330i to drive around in every day is still a decent car, to my mind. It helps that I don't care about my cars being shiny - maybe because I live a long way down muddy lanes like Slow, and I know it's pretty much impossible so I don't bother.
And a scruffy 330i to drive around in every day is still a decent car, to my mind. It helps that I don't care about my cars being shiny - maybe because I live a long way down muddy lanes like Slow, and I know it's pretty much impossible so I don't bother.
A petrolhead with (some) spannering skills decides to buy some interesting sheddy snotters and have fun getting them up and running, some propositions bordering on quite fantastic lunacy with a side order of almost certain wallet buggeration.
Guilty of indulging his passion, and hurting no-one (save perhaps the environment when the Roller breathes life again) Slow needs a medal, not criticism.
@Slow : love your threads, and keep up the good work. As an aside though, your most recent purchase of a big Benz appears to not only a) work but also seems b) quite sensible. I can only assume you drank too much over the festive period or may have bumped your head...
markoc said:
@Slow : love your threads, and keep up the good work. As an aside though, your most recent purchase of a big Benz appears to not only a) work but also seems b) quite sensible. I can only assume you drank too much over the festive period or may have bumped your head...
Normal people go and buy something stupid when drunk. It looks like Slow goes the other way and buys utterly inappropriate things when sober and working sensible things when drunk. 
Keep up the good work!
C70R said:
Owning a series of crappy old cars in poor condition is not the PH dream.
No, for you that would be causing confrontation and making stuff up.Go play with people like yourself and have a think about how stupid you and those like you look posting sensible and utterly boring b
ks in a thread such as this, filled with content such as this. Don't even respond to them, OP.
Digby said:
C70R said:
Owning a series of crappy old cars in poor condition is not the PH dream.
No, for you that would be causing confrontation and making stuff up.Go play with people like yourself and have a think about how stupid you and those like you look posting sensible and utterly boring b
ks in a thread such as this, filled with content such as this. Don't even respond to them, OP.
In step the PH White Knights to defend his honour.
C70R said:
Digby said:
C70R said:
Owning a series of crappy old cars in poor condition is not the PH dream.
No, for you that would be causing confrontation and making stuff up.Go play with people like yourself and have a think about how stupid you and those like you look posting sensible and utterly boring b
ks in a thread such as this, filled with content such as this. Don't even respond to them, OP.
In step the PH White Knights to defend his honour.
ttish IMO. I'd never buy a car on a lease or PCP but don't jump onto every thread where someone has to take the piss.
C70R said:
Bloke posts crappy cars and unrealistic goals (and a number of fantasist threads) on the internet. Gets told his dreams are ridiculous.
In step the PH White Knights to defend his honour.
I'm no White Knight, I doubt anyone else is, either. They just don't feel the need to log on and be boring and pointlessly argumentative every day.In step the PH White Knights to defend his honour.
You obviously do, as shown in that other thread.
Show me I'm wrong and ignore this thread.
TooMany2cvs said:
Digby said:
This image just cropped up on Unloved Classic And Retro Cars on facebook.
Bangered or saved? was the question..
Thought I recognised it. How's it going?
I suspect the answer is that the space is needed for...Bangered or saved? was the question..
Thought I recognised it. How's it going?
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Digby said:
I'm no White Knight, I doubt anyone else is, either. They just don't feel the need to log on and be boring and pointlessly argumentative every day.
You obviously do, as shown in that other thread.
Show me I'm wrong and ignore this thread.
Show me when the cars are working and I'll stop thinking you're wrongYou obviously do, as shown in that other thread.
Show me I'm wrong and ignore this thread.
bmw535i said:
Show me when the cars are working and I'll stop thinking you're wrong
I won't ever be wrong, because the OP and myself and all the others here who love these kind of adventures won't give a damn if these cars never run again. If they do, bonus. If not, I look forward to what else may appear and which also may or may not end up back on the road.The OP will mess around and see what happens, if it ever happens. He doesn't care. It's fun. He has no interest in the fact new suspension may cost more than a house.
Surely you get that?
This is a thread about someone being completely stupid just for the hell of it and gaining some experience along the way. He is letting the world know that's what he is doing (not that we needed telling - just look at the cars and the pics)
People telling him things he already knows and suggesting he could buy a brand new beige Honda Accord are simply here to satisfy their lust for an argument.
You are telling someone who juggles chainsaws for a living that they should stop that and become an accountant.
He doesn't want to. Most here don't want him to. The vast majority of retro related car pages wouldn't want him to. The Facebook page I mentioned doesn't want him to.
Is it sinking in, or do you just want to pointlessly argue again?
Anyone who fiddles with old cars is "stupid". It costs money, you get skinned knuckles and get filthy. Much more sensible to get a Kia thing and play golf at the weekends. We could then have some threads about detailing Kias, which would be really interesting.
Not.
I've got 6 more Alfas than I need. They're in better nick than Slow's cars, but spending a weekend spannering a V6 Alfa that you don't need is no more useful than fiddling with a knackered old Roller that may never see the road again.
I actually enjoy the fixing more than the driving these days. My most rewarding driving experience in the last few years? Borrowing my mum's Vectra estate when she went on holiday. Drove it to work every day for 2 weeks, cataloging what was wrong with it, and fixing things in the evening. At the end of it, it was still a crap Vectra, but it was running like clockwork, and handled as well as a Vectra ever could. Not very PH, but I don't really care, and nor should Slow.
Not.
I've got 6 more Alfas than I need. They're in better nick than Slow's cars, but spending a weekend spannering a V6 Alfa that you don't need is no more useful than fiddling with a knackered old Roller that may never see the road again.
I actually enjoy the fixing more than the driving these days. My most rewarding driving experience in the last few years? Borrowing my mum's Vectra estate when she went on holiday. Drove it to work every day for 2 weeks, cataloging what was wrong with it, and fixing things in the evening. At the end of it, it was still a crap Vectra, but it was running like clockwork, and handled as well as a Vectra ever could. Not very PH, but I don't really care, and nor should Slow.
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