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FarmyardPants

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4,372 posts

247 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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To celebrate our 10th anniversary I thought I'd take the Mrs to a posh London hotel (the Oxo tower was full wink), and for a bit of extra specialness decided to drive up in the cerb.

Arriving at the hotel I followed the signs for the garage. Garage, not car park - those are for plebs. Passing by the hotel I noticed an abundance of nice cars milling about, most with arabic number plates. I rejected the idea of valet parking and decided to deposit the car myself.

Driving up, the chap confirmed my reservation, looked at the car, and invited me in. "Just find a space and I'll write you a ticket", he said.

There was one space left - so I parked in it.

Between a Maybach and a Porsche Carerra yikes





Silver with mulberry interior. Evidently, the clients of this place have impeccable taste.


The other cars in the garage were mostly Bentleys and Ferraris, there was at leat one 599 and a new California in there...



On the way out we noticed there was an underground bit where all the regular cars were parked. I like to think the cerb earned a spot in the flash section on its looks and road presence alone and didn't look at all out of place alongside cars worth 20x more smile

Made my day.


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Being a TVR-driving thug, I secretly hoped to set off a few alarms when I started her up the following morning but it wasn't to be...




Edited by FarmyardPants on Wednesday 4th August 21:14

Cyclone1

2,614 posts

275 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Wow, certainly not out of place at all.....plus I bet the owners of the exotica parked in that car park took the time to look at your Cerb on the way back to their cars.

Great colour combi by the way and exactly what I would want should I return to the fold...

Jules.

amazon

3,704 posts

240 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Excellent F'Ya Pants! smile

JonnyW

867 posts

271 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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I Bet you had dirty pants after that! redcard

BLUETHUNDER

7,881 posts

289 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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Are you sure you had a posh weekend away Rog?. That place looks very similar to level 2 of the stolen vehicle,s squad compound at Alperton West London, where they keep all there high end suff. I got to give it to you fella. You had them fooled....hehe

AllezWasps

592 posts

195 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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One space left? They must have been saving it for the best looking car of the lot! It never ceases to amaze me just how good the Cerbera looks. Knocks the socks off of that Porsche!

garylythgoe

831 posts

251 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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That looks incredible!

Is your Cerbs colour called Starmist?

FarmyardPants

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4,372 posts

247 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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AllezWasps said:
One space left? They must have been saving it for the best looking car of the lot! It never ceases to amaze me just how good the Cerbera looks. Knocks the socks off of that Porsche!
I have to say the cerb looked stunning. The looks it got driving through London were amazing (it helps that you can hear it coming). I had people pointing, taking photographs and one chap even took a video as I went past. biggrin

FarmyardPants

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Thursday 5th August 2010
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Cyclone1 said:
Wow, certainly not out of place at all.....plus I bet the owners of the exotica parked in that car park took the time to look at your Cerb on the way back to their cars.

Great colour combi by the way and exactly what I would want should I return to the fold...

Jules.
Cheers thumbup

The colour is silver stardust. Dash, console and tunnel are black (red stitching), black carpets, seats are mulberry with black inserts.

Cyclone1

2,614 posts

275 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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FarmyardPants said:
Cyclone1 said:
Wow, certainly not out of place at all.....plus I bet the owners of the exotica parked in that car park took the time to look at your Cerb on the way back to their cars.

Great colour combi by the way and exactly what I would want should I return to the fold...

Jules.
Cheers thumbup

The colour is silver stardust. Dash, console and tunnel are black (red stitching), black carpets, seats are mulberry with black inserts.
Nice spec, I think the mulberry seats suit the colour very well, are they factory fitted or have you had them re-done to your own spec? Mt old 4.5 was also silver stardust...

Jules.

FarmyardPants

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247 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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Not done any interior work, it's as the original owner specified smile

I would love to redo the dash in black alcantara one day though.

Mr Completely

5,151 posts

259 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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Nice one Rog. Reminds me a little of CREAM 2005 when I'd never seen another Cerb apart from mine and went to the underground Hotel parking to find every spot with a Cerb in !

My Gast had never been so flabbered smile

My Mrs had Alcantara on the inside squabs. Wore through in about two years !

Would never touch the stuff again !

Edited by Mr Completely on Thursday 5th August 16:39

FarmyardPants

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Thursday 5th August 2010
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Mr Completely said:
Nice one Rog. Reminds me a little of CREAM 2005 when I'd never seen another Cerb apart from mine and went to the underground Hotel parking to find every spot with a Cerb in !

My Gast had never been so flabbered smile

My Mrs had Alcantara on the inside squabs. Wore through in about two years !

Would never touch the stuff again !

Edited by Mr Completely on Thursday 5th August 16:39
I agree it doesn't wear well, but for the dash top it should be ok, and cut down on reflections.
I once had a suede steering wheel on another car - felt really good for a few months until it went shiny.

greenm

473 posts

229 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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Did you set off all there alarms on the way in?? very nice.