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

[shalmaneser]

ATM said:

anonymous said:

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No discussion about the panda is complete without a pic of the spare wheel placement. Yes I had one before I upgraded to the cinq. I had a 1000S which had real seats front AND back. I think I read that the piece of material folded rear seat was meant to also form into a bed - or something like that. Ah ha i found the bed config too...

Ah memories of that rear bench seat! My mum had a 4x4 Sisley one when I was about 11 and that rear seat was so damn uncomfortable!

Ended up bursting into flames, rolling down our driveway and into a car parked opposite!

Those were the days.

[JS1500]

Ah, the original Panda.
I went car shopping with my mother at the age of 8 and tried to convince her to buy an X1/9. She bought a Panda 'Bianca' which was, erm, white. It had two sunrooves of the black fabric roll-back variety and the washer jets could be easily turned to spray at pedestrians.
Agreed the bench seat was awful.



An mother, yesterday.

Edited by JS1500 on Tuesday 5th September 17:53

[Output Flange]

Cheburator mk2 said:

I know where the sister car lives and have first dibs on it... Seriously tempted as it is priced low to take into account that it has not turned a wheel in 7yrs... What could possibly go low?

I don't know what other cars you have, but surely this would be a great addition to any fleet if you don't have something practical?

[Cheburator mk2]

Output Flange said:

I don't know what other cars you have, but surely this would be a great addition to any fleet if you don't have something practical?

If I had the place to store it...

996.1 GT3 CS K400
E46 M3
928 GTS 5-spd
928 S4 5-spd
X5 4.8iS
944 Turbo Cup
928 Cup

They are all garaged except the M3 and the X5 which are the practical dailies.

Living in Zone4/5...

I need a Hammer like a hole in my head. If I end up buying it, it will be solely to tart it up and move it on for a decent profit. Sad as it may sound...

[rejn]

Cheburator mk2 said:

If I had the place to store it...

996.1 GT3 CS K400
E46 M3
928 GTS 5-spd
928 S4 5-spd
X5 4.8iS
944 Turbo Cup
928 Cup

They are all garaged except the M3 and the X5 which are the practical dailies.

Living in Zone4/5...

I need a Hammer like a hole in my head. If I end up buying it, it will be solely to tart it up and move it on for a decent profit. Sad as it may sound...

Wow. Nice fleet!!!

[Cheburator mk2]

rejn said:

Wow. Nice fleet!!!

Thank you... Very, very tempted to roll the GT3 and the GTS into an AMG GT-C. Cannot quite stretch to a GT-R. Seems the logical successor to the 928, but also combining GT3-light track ability. I am not a believer in dedicated track cars for just track day work. If you are that far into it, given the faff with trailers etc. you may as well go racing, which I do anyway....

[JS1500]

Cheburator mk2 said:

rejn said:

Wow. Nice fleet!!!

Thank you... Very, very tempted to roll the GT3 and the GTS into an AMG GT-C. Cannot quite stretch to a GT-R. Seems the logical successor to the 928, but also combining GT3-light track ability. I am not a believer in dedicated track cars for just track day work. If you are that far into it, given the faff with trailers etc. you may as well go racing, which I do anyway....

Agreed, very nice fleet!

I had to sell my V8 Vantage last year and looked at 928s as a replacement as they're similar on paper - couldn't find a good manual within budget though... so I bought a 996!
Have you thought of a V12 Vantage in place of the GT3 and GTS? The values of manual ones are only going to go one way...

[ATM]

JS1500 said:

I had to sell my V8 Vantage last year and looked at 928s as a replacement as they're similar on paper - couldn't find a good manual within budget though... so I bought a 996!.

An early 3.4?

There are a few threads running now where fellow 996 owners circle jerk. If you have one you really need to get involved.

[JS1500]

ATM said:

JS1500 said:

I had to sell my V8 Vantage last year and looked at 928s as a replacement as they're similar on paper - couldn't find a good manual within budget though... so I bought a 996!.

An early 3.4?

There are a few threads running now where fellow 996 owners circle jerk. If you have one you really need to get involved.

Oh yes, I'm already deep in the 996 3.4 circle-jerk game.
Not started my own thread yet but keep whoring my car on everyone else's! It's the Guards Red one, sans aerokit. Pic in my profile.

[ATM]

JS1500 said:

ATM said:

JS1500 said:

I had to sell my V8 Vantage last year and looked at 928s as a replacement as they're similar on paper - couldn't find a good manual within budget though... so I bought a 996!.

An early 3.4?

There are a few threads running now where fellow 996 owners circle jerk. If you have one you really need to get involved.

Oh yes, I'm already deep in the 996 3.4 circle-jerk game.
Not started my own thread yet but keep whoring my car on everyone else's! It's the Guards Red one, sans aerokit. Pic in my profile.

That's nice. How long have you had it?

The only reason I bought mine is everyone was gushing about them in this thread. Maybe not 100% true as I did know I wanted a 911 but couldn't decide which one to go for.

I cant believe they were 7 or 8 grand a couple of years ago.

[L100NYY]

That's all very well but I want to see pictures of your tweaked Midget?!

[Patrick Bateman]

Prince Albert?

[braddo]

DeejRC said:

Howdo chaps, long time etc, etc.

How are we all doing?

[Cheburator mk2]

JS1500 said:

Agreed, very nice fleet!

I had to sell my V8 Vantage last year and looked at 928s as a replacement as they're similar on paper - couldn't find a good manual within budget though... so I bought a 996!
Have you thought of a V12 Vantage in place of the GT3 and GTS? The values of manual ones are only going to go one way...

There was a moment when a deal was on the cards back in 2014 - a straight swap between my 928GTS 5-spd and a DB9 Manual. Found the AM lovely to look at, but incredibly cramped and somewhat less engaging to drive. A V12 is a good shout, but somehow I have the urge to own a Mercedes. You can take the boy out of Eastern Europe, but you cannot take the Eastern European out of me. The love affair between the Eastern Bloc and rude MBs and BMW is still well and truly there. And what is ruder than an AMG GT-x these days

[Crook]

There's a guy in the next unit that has a smattering of interesting French metal which he rolls to work in on the days where our weather is a bit more agreeable, they include a gorgeous restored SM, a GS and a CX too but the car that appeared outside yesterday had me taking a long hard look.





I remember when these came out, a friend's mum had one and it would get borrowed and pressed into service taking us to various locations. It never seemed a particularly wierd looking car in the same way that growing up in the eighties I never thought it strange we had a lady for a Prime minister. It just was how it was.

Looking at the BX now it looks so much more futuristic than I ever gave it credit for.

It was great to see.

ET remove 'an' sneaked in there somehow.

Edited by Crook on Friday 8th September 12:21

[DeejRC]

Well after years of resisting the family disease, I've finally given and bought something rot and Stuttgartian.

Fortunately the real Deej hasn't died and I'm looking to rectify the situation with something Milanese.

I'm even showing the wife around one this weekend!

[braddo]

Crook said:

There's a guy in the next unit that has a smattering of interesting French metal which he rolls to work in on the days where our weather is a bit more agreeable, they include an gorgeous restored SM, a GS and a CX too but the car that appeared outside yesterday had me taking a long hard look.





I remember when these came out, a friend's mum had one and it would get borrowed and pressed into service taking us to various locations. It never seemed a particularly wierd looking car in the same way that growing up in the eighties I never thought it strange we had a lady for a Prime minister. It just was how it was.

Looking at the BX now it looks so much more futuristic than I ever gave it credit for.

It was great to see.

Looks like a spaceship on wheels to me. It's funny thinking just how weird Citroens and Renaults used to look compared to everything else.

Good luck with the SL. I've had a Cayenne as a family bus for just over 2 years now it has only cost one routine service so far (ignoring the stloads of petrol) and I can feel some bork lurking... It's just hit 120k miles after a 1300 mile summer holiday trip so I've been lucky so far. Let the Russian roulette continue.

[DeejRC]

It drives nice enough so far. Deceptively bloody quick for something so big!

It's the wife's motor though, I just need to make the man maths female compliant to grab the 4C!

[Crook]

braddo said:

Looks like a spaceship on wheels to me. It's funny thinking just how weird Citroens and Renaults used to look compared to everything else.

Good luck with the SL. I've had a Cayenne as a family bus for just over 2 years now it has only cost one routine service so far (ignoring the stloads of petrol) and I can feel some bork lurking... It's just hit 120k miles after a 1300 mile summer holiday trip so I've been lucky so far. Let the Russian roulette continue.

Thanks

It's had three trips to the garage so far and hopefully that's enough for the immediate future. Will see how the trip to Spa goes next weekend.

Anyone else going?

Also, re Cayenne, friend had a V8 series 1 (don't know identifying code) and it went, and went, and went. Never had a problem other than the Oliver Reedesque one.


Edit: unexpected 'hoes' removed.

Edited by Crook on Friday 8th September 09:44

[peterg1955]

braddo said:

Crook said:

There's a guy in the next unit that has a smattering of interesting French metal which he rolls to work in on the days where our weather is a bit more agreeable, they include an gorgeous restored SM, a GS and a CX too but the car that appeared outside yesterday had me taking a long hard look.





I remember when these came out, a friend's mum had one and it would get borrowed and pressed into service taking us to various locations. It never seemed a particularly wierd looking car in the same way that growing up in the eighties I never thought it strange we had a lady for a Prime minister. It just was how it was.

Looking at the BX now it looks so much more futuristic than I ever gave it credit for.

It was great to see.

A Citroen BX Gti was the first brand new car I ever bought, it was in 1987 and after a mk1 Astra it was a very different drive!


Looks like a spaceship on wheels to me. It's funny thinking just how weird Citroens and Renaults used to look compared to everything else.

Good luck with the SL. I've had a Cayenne as a family bus for just over 2 years now it has only cost one routine service so far (ignoring the stloads of petrol) and I can feel some bork lurking... It's just hit 120k miles after a 1300 mile summer holiday trip so I've been lucky so far. Let the Russian roulette continue.