The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T(Vol XVIII)
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Failed thread purchase from me yesterday.
I put a bid in on this beauty at the Historics at Brooklands auction yesterday. I couldn't attend in person so filled in the forms online beforehand.
Unfortunately they then cocked up and even though they received my bid ok they didn't use it at the auction and the car sold for £29k (just not to me!!)
One that got away.
I put a bid in on this beauty at the Historics at Brooklands auction yesterday. I couldn't attend in person so filled in the forms online beforehand.
Unfortunately they then cocked up and even though they received my bid ok they didn't use it at the auction and the car sold for £29k (just not to me!!)
One that got away.
0a said:
Wow. That is lovely. 
rejn said:
Failed thread purchase from me yesterday.
I put a bid in on this beauty at the Historics at Brooklands auction yesterday. I couldn't attend in person so filled in the forms online beforehand.
Unfortunately they then cocked up and even though they received my bid ok they didn't use it at the auction and the car sold for £29k (just not to me!!)
One that got away.
That's a bugger, I almost went down to there Friday to have a look to see what's what and meet up with an old acquaintance. Could have had a look at it if I'd known. I put a bid in on this beauty at the Historics at Brooklands auction yesterday. I couldn't attend in person so filled in the forms online beforehand.
Unfortunately they then cocked up and even though they received my bid ok they didn't use it at the auction and the car sold for £29k (just not to me!!)
One that got away.
L100NYY said:
rejn said:
Failed thread purchase from me yesterday.
I put a bid in on this beauty at the Historics at Brooklands auction yesterday. I couldn't attend in person so filled in the forms online beforehand.
Unfortunately they then cocked up and even though they received my bid ok they didn't use it at the auction and the car sold for £29k (just not to me!!)
One that got away.
That's a bugger, I almost went down to there Friday to have a look to see what's what and meet up with an old acquaintance. Could have had a look at it if I'd known. I put a bid in on this beauty at the Historics at Brooklands auction yesterday. I couldn't attend in person so filled in the forms online beforehand.
Unfortunately they then cocked up and even though they received my bid ok they didn't use it at the auction and the car sold for £29k (just not to me!!)
One that got away.
I popped along on Friday and had a long sniff around the AMG cars as well as a brief look around the rest; I was rather unimpressed with the fabled MB quality and decided to stick with what I knew; the S65 estimated at £5k - £8k (with some dash lights unhappily lit) went for £16k+, the incredibly shoddy E55 for less than £3k.
ATM said:
S3_Graham said:
O/T picked up my M140 a few weeks ago. Enjoying it very much! Certainly a car that can do a bit of everything and making a very good daily 
Just been reading specs on these. Main difference from 135 is the water cooled intercooler for lower intake Temps. Probably a bit more boost too.Edited by S3_Graham on Thursday 4th August 17:29
My mate picked up a 135i yesterday and is loving it. One of my other friends had one and didn't like the auto box so went back to a 335i dct.
Is yours auto or man?
How you finding it?
Bonsoir les Threadists, I have been away for a couple of weeks on a nice rest in the middle of France. Took the GT3 down, and after the initial shock of how narrow and bumpy the local roads were, it was very surprising to see how well the car could cope with such roads. One just has to find the right fruity velocity so that the frequency of bumps matches the stiffness of the suspension. 
It is a place where a bog standard, soft Elise or Caterham would an absolute revelation. Most cars including mine are bit wide, so blind corners are taken at tractor pace. But that means more acceleration and brakes on the clearer bits.
The return trip was non-stop from the maison de vacances to the tunnel, on a single tank of fuel and comfortably beating the google maps time by an hour. Eventually I noticed the car's indicated remaining range basically tracked the distance to Calais, to the point that I arrived at the tunnel with 0km of range left. No problem, I'll just get fuel on the other side. Oh, there's quite a bit of queueing - time for some manual stop/start operation!
I filled up on the other side as soon as I got off the train. The car has a 67L tank.
It is a place where a bog standard, soft Elise or Caterham would an absolute revelation. Most cars including mine are bit wide, so blind corners are taken at tractor pace. But that means more acceleration and brakes on the clearer bits. The return trip was non-stop from the maison de vacances to the tunnel, on a single tank of fuel and comfortably beating the google maps time by an hour. Eventually I noticed the car's indicated remaining range basically tracked the distance to Calais, to the point that I arrived at the tunnel with 0km of range left. No problem, I'll just get fuel on the other side. Oh, there's quite a bit of queueing - time for some manual stop/start operation!
I filled up on the other side as soon as I got off the train. The car has a 67L tank.
braddo said:
Bonsoir les Threadists, I have been away for a couple of weeks on a nice rest in the middle of France. Took the GT3 down, and after the initial shock of how narrow and bumpy the local roads were, it was very surprising to see how well the car could cope with such roads. One just has to find the right fruity velocity so that the frequency of bumps matches the stiffness of the suspension. It is a place where a bog standard, soft Elise or Caterham would an absolute revelation. Most cars including mine are bit wide, so blind corners are taken at tractor pace. But that means more acceleration and brakes on the clearer bits.
The return trip was non-stop from the maison de vacances to the tunnel, on a single tank of fuel and comfortably beating the google maps time by an hour. Eventually I noticed the car's indicated remaining range basically tracked the distance to Calais, to the point that I arrived at the tunnel with 0km of range left. No problem, I'll just get fuel on the other side. Oh, there's quite a bit of queueing - time for some manual stop/start operation!
I filled up on the other side as soon as I got off the train. The car has a 67L tank.
Weren't you tempted to fill up in France? I was there just after the Brexit vote and it was still a good third cheaper than at home?! It is a place where a bog standard, soft Elise or Caterham would an absolute revelation. Most cars including mine are bit wide, so blind corners are taken at tractor pace. But that means more acceleration and brakes on the clearer bits. The return trip was non-stop from the maison de vacances to the tunnel, on a single tank of fuel and comfortably beating the google maps time by an hour. Eventually I noticed the car's indicated remaining range basically tracked the distance to Calais, to the point that I arrived at the tunnel with 0km of range left. No problem, I'll just get fuel on the other side. Oh, there's quite a bit of queueing - time for some manual stop/start operation!
I filled up on the other side as soon as I got off the train. The car has a 67L tank.
I did Provence to Oxshott last night!
About 1,200km in the 545i...
Suffice to say I burned just over 2 tanks of fuel - LOL!
The French roads really are lovely compared to ours
In fact, the big estate did well to Iseo, Italy, across to Provence and back home.
My first road trip with Bella the Lab and Mrs9. Will do again!
About 1,200km in the 545i...
Suffice to say I burned just over 2 tanks of fuel - LOL!
The French roads really are lovely compared to ours
In fact, the big estate did well to Iseo, Italy, across to Provence and back home.
My first road trip with Bella the Lab and Mrs9. Will do again!
98 unleaded was around 130 cents away from the autoroutes (around 150 cents at their service stations) so I guess i would have saved a bit by filling up in France, but I would have had to find a place away from the autoroutes and I probably would have missed my train.
There was a hidden radar trap within the last 100km'ish of Calais, which I had guessed might be around on a Sunday afternoon to catch Brits racing for their crossings. Other than that, the roads were blissfully quiet. It's amazing how you can have the cruise control on for so long at a time.
There was a hidden radar trap within the last 100km'ish of Calais, which I had guessed might be around on a Sunday afternoon to catch Brits racing for their crossings. Other than that, the roads were blissfully quiet. It's amazing how you can have the cruise control on for so long at a time.
Looking at houses for sale, I approve of this drive in NW2
E30 cab and two(?) 944s...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5588319,-0.20679...
E30 cab and two(?) 944s...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5588319,-0.20679...
ncjlee said:
Looking at houses for sale, I approve of this drive in NW2
E30 cab and two(?) 944s...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5588319,-0.20679...
White one looks like a 924.E30 cab and two(?) 944s...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5588319,-0.20679...
Is DeR back?
Strela said:
Having already met their quota of twelve E-Type articles per year, and it being still only June, the editorial team sought a new angle. The We’ve run out of decent and interesting cars to write about so let’s take a s
te one, ask if it’s time to reassess it and implausibly decide it’s now awesome format had been battered to infinity by the over-eager cub reporter Bungle Hippodrome over on the Classic Cars for Sale website. Before exploding in a fit of pointlessness, Hippodrome had applied this format to all cars ever made, concluding with the AC invalid carriage, which he described as, “a quirky, classic city car and fun alternative to a hospital trolley and what’s more, now it’s illegal you can enjoy an added frisson of gangster. What’s not to like?”
So, before exploding in a fit of desperation, they brilliantly inverted the format to reassess a decent and interesting car and implausibly decide it’s now rubbish. The 250GTO was thus found to be poorly insulated, heavy on fuel and difficult to park, the Lamborghini Miura woefully inadequate off-road and the Lotus Elise a marginally less refined method of motorway commuting than being blown along in a paper bag.
There was an unusually brief five page tribute to a particular racing driver who had not only won Le Mans more times than any other British driver, but more impressively had won more lifetime achievement awards than Jesus and was still racking them up at the rate of one a week. His awards success was such that his answering machine message ran: ”Poop, Poop, old bean! Can’t talk now as I’m busy inserting locks of my hair into 25 limited edition Rolexes as part of their new range called Flogging Dead Horses to Sycophantic Plebs, er, hang on, I mean Timeless Heritage for Discerning Connoisseurs. Terribly sweet of you to ask little old me along to your awards dinner, which sounds absolutely super. That’ll be ten grand. Just wire it to my personal banker Ulysses Thunderbd, send a Bentley to the airport and I’ll take it from there – literally!”
“This is all well and good”, thought I. “Fully appraised, as I now am, of key developments in the classic car milieu, it’s time to go and spank the Binky!”
te one, ask if it’s time to reassess it and implausibly decide it’s now awesome format had been battered to infinity by the over-eager cub reporter Bungle Hippodrome over on the Classic Cars for Sale website. Before exploding in a fit of pointlessness, Hippodrome had applied this format to all cars ever made, concluding with the AC invalid carriage, which he described as, “a quirky, classic city car and fun alternative to a hospital trolley and what’s more, now it’s illegal you can enjoy an added frisson of gangster. What’s not to like?”So, before exploding in a fit of desperation, they brilliantly inverted the format to reassess a decent and interesting car and implausibly decide it’s now rubbish. The 250GTO was thus found to be poorly insulated, heavy on fuel and difficult to park, the Lamborghini Miura woefully inadequate off-road and the Lotus Elise a marginally less refined method of motorway commuting than being blown along in a paper bag.
There was an unusually brief five page tribute to a particular racing driver who had not only won Le Mans more times than any other British driver, but more impressively had won more lifetime achievement awards than Jesus and was still racking them up at the rate of one a week. His awards success was such that his answering machine message ran: ”Poop, Poop, old bean! Can’t talk now as I’m busy inserting locks of my hair into 25 limited edition Rolexes as part of their new range called Flogging Dead Horses to Sycophantic Plebs, er, hang on, I mean Timeless Heritage for Discerning Connoisseurs. Terribly sweet of you to ask little old me along to your awards dinner, which sounds absolutely super. That’ll be ten grand. Just wire it to my personal banker Ulysses Thunderb
d, send a Bentley to the airport and I’ll take it from there – literally!”“This is all well and good”, thought I. “Fully appraised, as I now am, of key developments in the classic car milieu, it’s time to go and spank the Binky!”
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