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

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ATM said:

anonymous said:

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Didn't know these give you the horn. I've always liked them until I saw one recently [well probably 5 years ago] with the soft top up. What is it about old cars with soft tops. They just look poor fitting, ill thought out and incapable of stopping anything smaller than a mouse from getting in.

That's why they have a hardtop. The system works fantastically well in practice!

[ferrisbueller]

anonymous said:

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WibbleMyThud.

I do like an R129. Alas, an itch never to be scratched methinks.

[Leins]

Diesel Meister said:

Mixing it up - a tempting throwback:

Bit late to the party on this one, but that looks superb! 4-dr, Avus, black leather, ambers, Contours =

[Diesel Meister]

R129s - car of champions.

LoH - A thousand times

Leins - Tasty isn't it? Vaguely suspicious of the relatively inexpensive asking price though...

[olly755]

ferrisbueller said:

WibbleMyThud.

I do like an R129. Alas, an itch never to be scratched methinks.

Everybody needs to own a car with an electrically adjustable rear view mirror at least once.

[MattOz]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

http://m.finn.no/car/used/ad.html?finnkode=7654232...

OOF! Have seen a couple of E46 M3 tourings in the UK, but that looks great.

[L100NYY]

Quite fancy a go in one of these...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Output Flange]

anonymous said:

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They're definitely ageing well.

[LHD]

Output Flange said:

anonymous said:

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They're definitely ageing well.

[Output Flange]

Not me.

[Frik]

Me either. Looks lovely.

[Scho]

"Some service history"

Still, does look shiney.

[Fresh Prince]

I've run out of space. You should purchase it for the benefit of mankind.

[LHD]

olly22n said:

fk it.

Going for a look on Saturday morning.

Get it fking bought.

All the cool kids have Boxsters.

[castex]

Livery or, in the U.S, 'colorway'.

[braddo]

Thread to the rescue again.


Good luck on Saturday Olly.

[olly755]

anonymous said:

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Thought you'd set up a Porsche-only detailing company for a min.

[Output Flange]

olly22n said:

I've cooled on it.

Lots of questions around resprays, refurbs and then being punted on. as well as can i live with 200bhp?!

As someone who knows what a smashed up Porsche looks like, the front driver's side bonnet/headlight/wing shutline needs checking from those pics.

And then buy it.

[olly755]

Good decision. Nice looking thing, but a triumph of preening, polishing and good photos.

If it needed as much respraying and refurbing as it's had, then it was a neglected scruffbag of a thing up until very recently. No reason to doubt the oily bits will be similarly affected.

[Pulse]

All this talk of Z4s has really got me quite sad. As good as my MR2 is, it will never match the 'emotions' of the Z4s - particularly the Z4M (though the 3.0si was special to me in its own way)...

It's been very hard to think of a replacement for both the MR2 and the Z4. The MR2 because the way it drives is just insanely good, and the Z4 because it just looks so good (to me).

I keep considering the newer Z4, in 35is guise... My thinking is that it has the newer creature comforts which are nice, still a pretty quick motor, has a folding hard top, and will be reasonably cheap to run. (I keep lusting after Astons, but pretty sure I don't earn enough to run one!)