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• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 14 hours

  

  From a personal POV, I’d avoid all inexpensive Ferraris. They’ll be a whole heap of intermittent fun, interspersed with a whole heap of telephone number sized bills…

  What about the Z3M breadvan?

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 14 hours

  

  I'll have to dig some out.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 20 hours

  

  Nineteen seventy two. My old man bought it as a ex demo from a VW dealer and the family have owned it since. He and I look so cute going along the road in it.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 22 hours

  

  My Beetle's still going strong, as is my M3. The worst car I've ever owned was a 2yr old SLK that I bought of a pal in Dubai when he was leaving - it was an utter dog. He'd owned it from new and had missed numerous services (essential in the Middle East because the dust and salty air destroys everything), but he was a mate and needed the cash. He gave it to me at a decent-ish price and then I sorted everything out with my friendly garage before I flipped it.

  One of the reasons I probably wouldn't buy a modern Mercedes

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 22 hours

  

  I had an R32 in the Middle East when I was there. Standard things to ensure is that the Haldex servicing on the gearbox is up to date, because if it isn't you're looking at some interesting bills. Most of the 3.2l things of that era are quite collectible nowadays, so it might well be a sleeping earner.

  There was a fairly limited version of the TT released with an interior the same colour as a baseball mitt - complete with glove style stitching on the seats. Also, a denim coloured metallic blue paint was available as well. Pretty sure this combo was only available on the earlier 1800cc models.

  As with all VAG cars of that period, they weren't the best as far as component lifespan because of funds being diverted into the loss-making Veyron project.

  Like everything German, as long as it's been looked after properly, it'll go on forever.

• Formula One ( F1 )

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week

  

  Not F1, but there's a really good docu currently on Sky about Michele Mouton. What a woman!

• Formula One ( F1 )

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 1 day

  

  RIP Sir Frank

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 4 days

  

  I always said I'd own a pre-war Indian Motorcycle - pretty much ever since Benjamin Button. Sadly I look nothing like Brad Pitt

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 5 days

  

  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154692123266?­hash=item24045e7a82:g:O9MAAOSwNgZhinPx

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 5 days

  

  Since the 355 and 550/575 they've all been designed by computers and accountants