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

New model or the proper one?

I wish I had had the money back in 2002 or so when they were about 35k.

Actually I didn't even have a licence back then. details...

Proper model, 80's v8 vantage. Believe it will be in a magazine. The car has been sitting for a while and the reason it was taken off road was a piston had come out of the block hence being a 7 cylinder.

In 2002 what could you buy for 35K....

a row of houses in Salford

Garage update: no additional costs identified today.

Congratulations. One day at a time. Stay strong.

Everyday and in every way, it's getting better and better.

Really like the wheels on it by the way, are they more recent?

Yes, they're from a later car- Hefty may be able to ID them.

What's the mileage on your Porker Dammit? Any pics of the inside, just being nosey.

60,000 miles, here's the Autotrader advert

You've done well there, looking forward to the updates. Looks well with the hard top. #bestofbothworlds

I'm considering doing the centre console delete as the tape storage unit/cubby sit where my left leg would like to be, and I don't have that number of tapes to store:

However this would mean moving some buttons around as I have heated seats - these buttons are on the lower part of the centre console and would have to be moved to the upper centre console, which would also require a bit of button re-arranging.

Yup, they were amazing just sliding around and bouncing off eachother on the beach!

Meanwhile, in Sweden, we're making progress on de-pinking:

Check out the grey bumper plastic post-G4 Technique'ing:

Dope, I need to head to cars and coffee at some point.

I'm just here with no real plan and it's brilliant, heading back to LA on friday where I wanna do some maintenance before I go on any longer trips, there's a fair bit to do but luckily it's all easy and cheap stuff so far.

Alternator belt
Handbrake
speedo cable
O/S taillight bulb
oil and filters change
and to just clean the things out and make sure the interior is all solid.

There is a filter?

There is an alternator?

It is a 1600, so probably.

I always used 20w50 or sae30 oil in a beetle but some say 15w40 just changed alot max 3k miles. Also using mineral oil, not semi and especially not synthetic as the engine runs hotter.

I always used Morris 30w in aircooled engines and avoided multi-grade and synthetic oil too.

From the mid 70's beetles were speced with multigrade oil. So was happy to use multigrade. Especially if the engine is the 1600.

Need a city car at some point, cheap but nicer spec preferred.
Looking at
2004/7 jazz, not sure which is the better engine, dsi or vtec
2000/2005 audi a2, either 1,4 4 banger tdi manual or 1.4/1.6 petrol (avoiding fsi seems to be the concensus)
2006> yaris 1.5 or larger vvti

Always liked the a2 shape and design, jazz the most practical (dog sized boot and magic bench rear seats) but 5 door and average owner is 72 years old. Yaris haven't found a not totaply destroyed one yet, seem to get the most abuse?

Don't you mean let the car sit and watch the paint work fade.

Which one? The early ones are nissan while the k13 on are clio with different bodies. the 160sr is fun. Mind you the 1.2 80bhp is a laugh.

Looked at a few A2 quite a few around with blown engines but that is not an issue. The bodies are aluminium.

Jazz wise vtec always wins but check when the vtec needs looking at (valve clearances) and it has been done

Magnificent. You're welcome to use my tools if you need anything. My neighbor over the road is not necessarily the friendliest dude in the world but is a VW whizz if you're stuck.

Meant air and fuel filters, I'll clean out the little strainer too though :)