The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T(Vol XIX)
Discussion
Rocket. said:
Yep good find Fast Bug, it's one of those shapes that is just begging for someone like Singer to restomod into something that works.
There aren't enough of them about to warrant a Singer type company I would have thought. It would surely be easy to make them modern though. Drop a crate LS7 in, supercharged if you like. Modern brakes, suspension, tyres, cooling, etc. The body is perfect as it is so doesn't need flaring like a Singer 911. I'd do it if I won the Lotto.Whether doing something like that to a car from such a small pool as this is sacriliege or not could be an interesting debate though. They were famously crap to drive from the factory, but that might also be the essence of the car. Making it fast, easy to handle and stop well might just ruin a terrible drive. Some might consider it the same as painting a big, sh!t-eating grin on the Mona Lisa.
Fast Bug said:
Todays want
https://scuderia-sportiva-colonia.de/en/cars/155-f...
Another dealer whose website is well worth a nose around
They have some really interesting stock. That Simca coupe is awesome. https://scuderia-sportiva-colonia.de/en/cars/155-f...
Another dealer whose website is well worth a nose around
Everything seems to be POA though, which is a bit frustrating.
BrettMRC said:
??The link goes to a standard looking Mazda Cosmo at Fast Classics.
L100NYY said:
Pretty accurate if brief summary of the car, shame he only scratched the surface of the way it goes though.
Hi, I know that I can sometimes come across a little bit anti-new when it comes to cars but I honestly, and apologies for not being around for a while and then coming back with a little bit of negativity and, yes, lovely Mangusta BTW, but how is it that BMW had such an elegant luxury saloon and they have, by means of a thousand (not that many) little cuts turned it from this:
to this...
I'm not quite sure what it is they're trying to achieve. I know it's a particular bugbear of mine but they must have gone mad in the eyes.
Anyway, this looks like a laugh / moneypit
FIA Carrera 3.0
to this...
I'm not quite sure what it is they're trying to achieve. I know it's a particular bugbear of mine but they must have gone mad in the eyes.
Anyway, this looks like a laugh / moneypit
FIA Carrera 3.0
I was thinking similar recently wrt current BMW range.
E32/E38/E34/E39 et al are getting ever more appealing as the years go on.
Yes, it's an auto but.....
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1182322
E32/E38/E34/E39 et al are getting ever more appealing as the years go on.
Yes, it's an auto but.....
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1182322
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L100NYY said:
I was thinking similar recently wrt current BMW range.
E32/E38/E34/E39 et al are getting ever more appealing as the years go on.
I have 3 of those 'E's on my drive and I've been secretly searching for a decent E32 to complete the set; an M30 engined 735i or V12 engined 750i would be perfect but nice ones don't seem to pop up any more, so I might have to go for an M30 (straight six), or M60 (V8), engined 730i as there seems to be plenty of those.E32/E38/E34/E39 et al are getting ever more appealing as the years go on.
L100NNY said:
The M30 535i engine works equally well with auto or manual gearbox with the auto far better suited to the comfort seats and 60 profile 15" rims car fitted to this car. The metallic malachite green of this car is stunning in the sunshine, and the black leather makes a nice change from the normal biege it was chosen with.minimoog said:
To think I chopped my E34 540i in for a monkey...
I mean it made sense at the time, but still -
My first E34 was a 540i, a six speed Touring; I mean it made sense at the time, but still -
I'd like to think I would still have it and not half a dozen other cars but a sleepy taxi driver wrote it off when it was parked up.
McGee_22 said:
My first E34 was a 540i, a six speed Touring;
I'd like to think I would still have it and not half a dozen other cars but a sleepy taxi driver wrote it off when it was parked up.
Jesus,I'd like to think I would still have it and not half a dozen other cars but a sleepy taxi driver wrote it off when it was parked up.
That’s such a small world! You bought that car off my friend Matt, who was a staff photographer for a few big car magazines as well as Ford at the time. As it happens I was there too when he spotted the add in the paper! and called the lady owner. We were on our way to collect it within 30mins realising what a gem he had found while casually perusing Auto trader. Your car was one of the last 10 RHD 6-spd E34 Tourings and the studio pictures were done by Matt for an article by Andy Everett at one of the BMW mags. Despite all my Porsches I would still bleed blue and white if you cut me but just for the old stuff
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