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

[W00DY]

Crook said:

This may be on the vid thread I don't know. Can't take credit for the find (a link sent to me by my younger brother) but top class hooligan who is absolutely loving it.

993 at the 'Ring

That was mental.


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1987-LOTUS-ESPRIT-S3-ST-...

5 minutes with an angle grinder, throw away the windows and hood and hope it doesn't rain.

[Crook]

With no small amount of inspiration from that 993 vid, coupled with a memory of Cmoose's Box' at Bedford has me thinking of this as a possible. Especially as seeing how stupidly expensive 964s are now.



Seems a cheap way of fun briskness.

Also, Woody, you should post the trio of Celica, Clio and E30 from the retro thread on here. Three fine examples. The Celica being, I suspect all the thrills of an Integra with none of the headaches.

[Justayellowbadge]

I remember the Esprit conversion from the time. Paul Bailey?

The press/demo car was pearl white. It didn't have framed Windows.

[S3_Graham]

4941cc said:

The latter being >60% to most insurers.

Quite often it's Cat D is the cost of rectifying the damage plus the costs of providing a loan car for the duration exceed the value of the vehicle, whereas for C, the damage alone is greater than the market value of the vehicle.

For instance a part/parts may have a relatively low monetary cost itself, but if it is scarce and takes six weeks to arrive, the overall cost to the insurer renders the overall repair uneconomical to carry out, whereas the cash value of the repair alone wouldn't necessarily be sufficient to warrant a write-off payout.

I'd to love know what happened to mine, but sometimes I think it really would be better not to know.

must have been something relatively serious to write off a 2 year old M3 cab.

[NomduJour]

W00DY said:

Repost, try this instead:

[W00DY]

NomduJour said:

Repost, try this instead:

That really ought to be a hot tub.

[Justayellowbadge]

W00DY said:

That really ought to be a hot tub.

It ought to be landfill.

[L100NYY]

It's pictures like this that make me hanker after another S1;

Edited by L100NYY on Thursday 12th March 17:33

[Output Flange]

W00DY said:

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

Fantastic.

I'd rather buy a car from Keighley than anything from that vendor.

[W00DY]

Output Flange said:

I'd rather buy a car from Keighley than anything from that vendor.

I try to avoid Lancashire as much as I can too.

[Justayellowbadge]

L100NYY said:

It's pictures like this that make me hanker after another S1;

[Justayellowbadge]

This caught my eye the other day. What a fantastic looking Esprit.



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

[L100NYY]

I still kinda wish I bought this last year, would have been an epic road trip bringing it back home from Switzerland.....

[whysub]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

A pedestrian decided to walk over the top of my Cosworth Sapphire some 20 years back, putting a dent in the boot lid, one on the roof and two big ones on the bonnet. Insurers wrote it off as repair costs were too high (it was immaculate, standard and about seven years old). I replaced the boot lid and bonnet with identical coloured ones from a scrappy, and had a good body shop do the roof and put the vents from the Cosworth bonnet into the replacement one. I would have been happy with the insurance company using second hand panels if it would have saved the car being written off.

I sold it some months later declaring it had been written off, but had loads of photos top show it was just panel damage. No point doing that, seeing as the new owner smashed it to pieces hitting a tree sideways on, and really writing it off.
.

[Justayellowbadge]

olly22n said:

Gold leaf really doesn't suit the elise.

My father has had an S1 T49 since new, it's the Elise I have most exposure to and I bloody love it

[W00DY]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Porsche-968-Coupe-manual...

Oof.

Will hopefully be collecting a new motor at the weekend. Like a true threadist it's red too.

[rejn]

L100NYY said:

It's pictures like this that make me hanker after another S1;

Edited by L100NYY on Thursday 12th March 17:33

me too. sigh.

[ATM]

Justayellowbadge said:

This caught my eye the other day. What a fantastic looking Esprit.



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

Isn't this missing the other 4 pistons?

[barchetta_boy]

Is it true that the best part of car ownership is the researching and choosing and generally spending your time (rather than your money) in the classifieds?

I can't decide what I want... weekend hoon mobile which can be driven to a track, perform well, and driven home. Less than 1200kg. Up to £40k if necessary. Needs to be able to live outside, OR be small enough to fit in a council garage.

Started with 997 GT3, then thought too heavy, too much car on track for me right now. So thought S2 Exige S 220/240. Have driven one on circuit and loved it. There's not too many around, and, amazingly for such a track-focussed car, none of them seem to have harnesses or seats with harness holes.

Then I found this - surely just as quick but prettier and 10k rev limit, £10k cheaper (ok will be older and scruffier but so what)

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

Then somehow I started reading all the reviews of the original Elise, and thinking how sad that I never had the means at the time to even consider one, and how pretty they are compared to the more aggressive S2.

Which led me to this old nail but something in the ad feels good..

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

Now confused.com. Think I'll go and ride my bike and then have a cup of tea in the camper van.

Joel

[Output Flange]

::Here you go::

Plenty of change left over for trackdays, too.