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

[barchetta_boy]

Very sorry to read that... scumbags

[DeejRC]

So chaps Ive sorta got permission to acquire something cheap and convertible for the summer. Its costing me a baritone sax for one's wife, but its (almost) a cheap price to pay for permission to buy something for summer evenings.

So, budget is £1500. What is there?

MGF VVC and rotten MX5s I presume.
GTV Spiders seem to be at least £2500.

[dom9]

DeejRC said:

So chaps Ive sorta got permission to acquire something cheap and convertible for the summer. Its costing me a baritone sax for one's wife, but its (almost) a cheap price to pay for permission to buy something for summer evenings.

So, budget is £1500. What is there?

MGF VVC and rotten MX5s I presume.
GTV Spiders seem to be at least £2500.

Higher mile MR2 Mk3!

Been having similar thoughts and looking at early Boxsters...

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Has to be MR2 Spyder as Dom says, thoughts with Bungle-don't let it get you down.

[ATM]

dom9 said:

DeejRC said:

So chaps Ive sorta got permission to acquire something cheap and convertible for the summer. Its costing me a baritone sax for one's wife, but its (almost) a cheap price to pay for permission to buy something for summer evenings.

So, budget is £1500. What is there?

MGF VVC and rotten MX5s I presume.
GTV Spiders seem to be at least £2500.

Higher mile MR2 Mk3!

Been having similar thoughts and looking at early Boxsters...

Anything Boxster like will end up costing a lot more depending on your capacity for ignoring problems / lying on your back covered in grease / handing over your hard earned to a so called specialist.

Can you tell the veneer is wearing off?

[ATM]

What are these like?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

ATM said:

What are these like?

Rabid but a bit fragile in my experience.

[ferrisbueller]

14 years ago I had a play in an Elise S2 111R. "I think I'll have one of those when they're down to 15k or so" said a Younger, Slimmer version of I.
bds never really dipped to that and are now back at 20k. FFS.

[L100NYY]

DeejRC said:

So chaps Ive sorta got permission to acquire something cheap and convertible for the summer. Its costing me a baritone sax for one's wife, but its (almost) a cheap price to pay for permission to buy something for summer evenings.

So, budget is £1500. What is there?

MGF VVC and rotten MX5s I presume.
GTV Spiders seem to be at least £2500.

MGF
MR2
Streetka (if you're feeling brave)
Spend a few hundred more and get a 916 Spider

You know very well what I would do chum

[ATM]

L100NYY said:

Streetka (if you're feeling brave)

Someone has clearly hacked loon's account.

[L100NYY]

ATM said:

L100NYY said:

Streetka (if you're feeling brave)

Someone has clearly hacked loon's account.

[L100NYY]

Took the Sud Sprint to the Southern Alfa Day at Duxford yesterday, couple of pics from pretty much Loon heaven....

[Diesel Meister]

DeeJRC - MR2 and a squashy bag in the passenger footwell (or on the seat itself if you don't have a passenger that fits neatly in a bag ). Job jobbed.

[Leins]

L100NYY said:

Took the Sud Sprint to the Southern Alfa Day at Duxford yesterday, couple of pics from pretty much Loon heaven....

Very nice Loon, especially this 75

[s m]

L100NYY said:

Any of those 3 for me
Love those Junior SZs

[ATM]

Leins said:

L100NYY said:

Took the Sud Sprint to the Southern Alfa Day at Duxford yesterday, couple of pics from pretty much Loon heaven....

Very nice Loon, especially this 75

I'm not sure about that Duck Tail - sorry - otherwise Yes.

[L100NYY]

The Junior Zagatos are just fabulous little things......Our family accountant has had a couple and I've always wanted one

There were a couple of lovely 75s there, a red one very similar to that black car was another of my favourites.



Oh and how about this (Fiat 20vT engined) 155...... (yes it is road legal and driven to Duxford)

[Cheburator mk2]

L100NYY said:

Oh and how about this (Fiat 20vT engined) 155...... (yes it is road legal and driven to Duxfod)

I have a friend with a Fiat Tipo 20vT 4x4 - runs the 1/4 mile in the high 10s... One of the best executed sleepers that I have ever seen. I guess the only give away are the Alfa 4-pots and the bigger wheels. On the whole though, it is a car, which FIAT should have made... The faces of supercar owners as this thing annihilates them are beyond funny. Underneath it is all Integralle running gear, which apparently fits with minimum fuss...

[L100NYY]

Some great pictures and features following this years Tour Auto on classic driver....

https://www.classicdriver.com/en

[L100NYY]