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

[L100NYY]

Not particularly Thread but we added a wafty Volvo S80 to the family fleet over the weekend.....what a wonderful thing!

[rejn]

L100NYY said:

Balls. I so want an Integrale

A pick from me to brighten up a Monday morning -

1. Off here Saturday to collect a car but I have also rather fallen in love with this -

https://robertglover-ltd.com/cars/1926-bugatti-typ...

Wow. That is lovely. Not sure I’d even have known it was a Bugatti without more investigation. A few rather lovely things for sale of that website.

[L100NYY]

One from the family album.....

[L100NYY]

[Fast Bug]

Low miles, but these are getting pricey!



www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lancia-Delta-2-0i-16v-HF-Integr...

[ferrisbueller]

The days of the £5k 'grale are over!

[rejn]

Looks good in black.

I know the later Evo cars have been silly money for a while but that does seem a bit pricey...

Last time I looked scruffy ones were still available for £10k or so...

Eta: or maybe not. Cheapest one on eBay is £17k.

And this one:



Yours for £115k!!!

link


Does look nice though.

Edited by rejn on Monday 4th June 22:58

Edited by rejn on Monday 4th June 22:59

[Fast Bug]

Before I saw the price I thought it was a £20k because of the miles. But then I thought the Evo models were around £40k or so. I'm obviously well out of touch with prices

[ferrisbueller]

Final editions were always the top of the Integrale food chain.

I had a quick blat in an Evo 1 which cost the owner £7k to buy at the time. The kind of thing you drive on tenterhooks when it's not yours, even though it begs to be spanked.

[ess]

TorqueDirty said:

I regularly search for these on the various classic car sites but I have never had the balls to buy one! I really should just grow a pair and get one.

TD

I feel exactly the same about the XJS.
There's a tatty one parked up on my walk to work. Always stop to admire the stunning lines and petite understated elegance.

S

[stickylabels]

Crumbs...I thought these had all been ricere'd to death. I had one exactly same colour/spec
back in the day and sold it with roughly the miles this one has now! Steering from memory
was too slow in an E30 type way and it didn't much like bumpety roads (too jittery), but the
engine was a peach and whilst not as quick as the vtecs that followed very sweet spinning
and unburstable feeling. Sold it for an original BBR'd MX-5 which suited the roads better
with quick steering and better damping but it's engine didn't seem as exotic even with
Dave's tweeking!

Sticky.

[jeremyc]

stickylabels said:

If you were visiting surely you'd want to come back with this instead.

[Crook]

Do you remember when Nissan restored a load in the 90’s?

240Z

[Leins]

I’ll take a nicely updated 900 T16S please. And an E34 535i if there’s one spare

[Fast Bug]

Didn't Toyota build some Land Cruisers? Were they over restored?

[E24man]

Leins said:

I’ll take a nicely updated 900 T16S please. And an E34 535i if there’s one spare

Me too. In fact an M30 engined E34 535i Touring would be be the perfect work donkey; I still rue the day I didn't buy the one rhd conversion when it was on ebay many, many moons ago.

[ferrisbueller]

jeremyc said:

f you were visiting surely you'd want to come back with this instead.

There are some lovely examples for sale in the US, as you'd expect. Including LSx conversions.

[Output Flange]

Leins said:

And an E34 535i if there’s one spare

We’ve got a Threadist looking to offload one of those, I think.

Olly

[Mattygooner]

anonymous said:

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That would be an excellent idea, I would think cars with known inherent issues which the manufacturers didn't recall or known issues which prove a safe second hand purchase as high risk would be perfect. Or at the very least they should provide affordable OEM parts and assign dealers ton manage it.

Thinking 996/early 997 vintage pork and E6X M5s back to the first model and of course, all little Italian cars made mostly of rust. A factory refresh of any of those would sell very well in limited numbers in today's market.

Would love Porsche to come along and refresh my Boxster, they could also fix the 930 whilst they were at it.

[Crook]

I think I've mentioned this before but a 'Greatest Hits' selection from a few manufacturers would be a great thing.

On the subject of Bugatti, I was at a wedding a few weeks ago and as is the way with these things you end up on a table of random people. My friend was kind to me and put me on one with his uncles and a great aunt. At some point after the first couple of glasses and talk of cars she pipes up with "my dad had a Bugatti..." followed by her son correcting her with "didn't he have a couple?" :-)

Coincidentally on the way home I saw a Type 35 (I think) on the road and then a similar vintage racing Alfa about an hour later.

Other car spots of note, both in the local supermarket car park on different days were a beautiful red pin sharp original Ghibli and, also red, a 965 3.6. So much want for the 911. You forget quite how great they look and in Guards too.

Sunny days are the best