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

you looked on carandclassic I take it?

clean example 996 http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C785515

macadamia metallic > polished turd..?

I don't want an auto, this looks interesting: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C718290

not bad at all

going to look at this next week :O

Which is very nice, but I doubt it would fit into my £6k/year car allowance.

you might just have to 'top it up' a bit..

That way madness/a GT3 lies.

you wanted a manual 996, here you go

they've got a cheaper one in black too

My aunt was sprinting her 240z, we didnt go though.

you wanted a manual 996, here you go

they've got a cheaper one in black too

£785/month (Sainsbury Bank at 6.8%), that's £9,420/year.

I'd like one, but not sufficiently to put myself into that situation.

In that case I met your aunt, nice car by the way. Did she mention the other datsun 240/260 there?

She was one of two women I believe..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=6HhT34t9wBU

#DatNote

I'm friends with Brent from CBR the guy that built the motor for that car.

My mate went to him and say oh "I'd like a nice 13b turbo set nothing to crazy." Then he has convinced him into building a full house 20b turbo pushing 800hp haha. He also had a very cool rx2 drag car

Mr @Hefty, what's your view on this 40th Anniversary 911?

http://www.historique.co.uk/2003%20Porsche%2040th%20Anniversary/03%20Porsche%2040th.htm

The other z was orange with a body kit? They have a mint 240z too lhd and may be for sale.

For future investment low volume and high performance are the two keys, and it has those, but I just don't like the look of it. The silver dial rims, the halfords 911 rear badge, the fussy bumper and sills. It's covered in questionable bolt-on trinkets rather than a genuinely special model.

I think I'm alone tho, people like it generally.

On that particular car 'fully stamped service book' sounds deliberately vague, so I'd want that checking. I'm also not convinced the wheels are the correct finish. It's tricky to tell from the pics but the originals would have had a chrome type look which is expensive to do when refurbing so people often jut get them done silver.

this 40th Anniversary 911

All the fuctionality of a japanese toilet at 60x the price.

so tedious compared to other contemporaneous cars from that region

More and more I think I should get that blue 1998 from Dans motorcycles in Stone and drive it until the wheels fall off.

or this and drive it into the ground

Reminisce one time. #FOS2016

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If you are going to drive it in to the ground, why not buy a catd damaged car and get it repaired and use that?

cat d are more expensive than that!

It's an automatic Targa. It needs lighting on fire, nothing else.

so ideal for doing 1000 mile a week up and down the m1

Nope. For that you want something with forced induction and adaptive cruise.