The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T (Vol XVI)

[braddo]

Looks like Mr 124 has the ultimate spec Merc estate coming in:

E320, black, mushroom leather, sportline chassis, 8 hole wheels, aircon, 108k miles.

http://www.w124.co.uk/carsforsale.php?page=detail&...

I wonder if it will be five figures?

[L100NYY]

DJRC said:

Left field...Loon are you booking up for the Easter members meeting?

[MrReg]

Olf said:

EQUALIZER!

Would Edward Wood have one?

[L100NYY]

anonymous said:

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Spookily I have an itchy trigger finger over this.....

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C499492

Edited by L100NYY on Sunday 7th September 21:35

[trooperiziz]

Ok threadists, a theoretical question for a Sunday night, that may have some basis in reality in the future

You buy a new house, with parking space for a few cars and a double garage. Sounds perfect, but after buying the house, you only have around £5k to put a couple of cars in that garage.
They are purely fun cars, you have others for the daily grind. What do you buy?

A mk1 mx5 plus something else?
Only buy one car and make the other half of the garage a workshop?
An 80s hot hatch?

£5k really isn't a lot of cash to play with, but houses turn out to be expensive...

[Justayellowbadge]

R129

[L100NYY]

Itchy trigger finger.......

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MINI-COOPER-SPORTSPACK-1...

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Triumph-Vitesse-Mk-1-160...

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRIUMPH-VITESSE-MK1-1967...

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Top of the list is of course.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-Morris-Austin-Mi...

[trooperiziz]

An R129 is a bit, dare I say it, boring though, for a car that has no other requirement than fun.

[olly755]

trooperiziz said:

no other requirement than fun.

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...



Although

[hornetrider]

anonymous said:

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Too much of a GT, I say MX5.

[Cunning Punt]

hornetrider said:

MX5

Probably the sensible choice.

Here's a contrastingly daft one:

L100NYY said:

Itchy trigger finger.......

Your Sini-bin is now up to £18. At this blistering rate, you'll be thrashing an A-series round the back roads of Essex by year's end (2045).

[SpeckledJim]

trooperiziz said:

Ok threadists, a theoretical question for a Sunday night, that may have some basis in reality in the future

You buy a new house, with parking space for a few cars and a double garage. Sounds perfect, but after buying the house, you only have around £5k to put a couple of cars in that garage.
They are purely fun cars, you have others for the daily grind. What do you buy?

A mk1 mx5 plus something else?
Only buy one car and make the other half of the garage a workshop?
An 80s hot hatch?

£5k really isn't a lot of cash to play with, but houses turn out to be expensive...

£2.5k on an MX-5 Turbo for solo.
£2.5k on a Jaguar XJR or XJS for 'with company'

[braddo]

SpeckledJim said:

£2.5k on an MX-5 Turbo for solo.
£2.5k on a Jaguar XJR or XJS for 'with company'

Good call. Possibly a Series III Jag rather than an XJR, depending on how much you want the raw grunt.

[braddo]

Just remembered, during the weekend I saw a nice yellow 968 CS parked on the street near me. Looked great, although I'm not really a fan of the body coloured wheels that some of the CSs have.

Like this one:



It would be intersting to see how the trends of car colour have changed over the past 40-50 years. Today's roads seem ever more monochrome, and with cars also having become so much taller, a low, yellow 968 really stands out!

[L100NYY]

Cunning Punt said:

L100NYY said:

Itchy trigger finger.......

Your Sini-bin is now up to £18. At this blistering rate, you'll be thrashing an A-series round the back roads of Essex by year's end (2045).

[Blueprint]

......and now for something completely different......



http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/fo...

[VEA]

Blueprint said:

......and now for something completely different......



http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/fo...

Looks cool from the outside, expected interior to be better.

[thelawnet]

How to turn a VW into a rapper's Chrysler:



http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

Edited by thelawnet on Monday 8th September 18:20

[tdm34]

thelawnet said:

How to turn a VW into a rapper's Chrysler:



http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...

Edited by thelawnet on Monday 8th September 18:20

[Frio3535]

http://vimeo.com/105151604