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

Ha! So I was the closest with https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13953190/

If this was the price is right I'd have a washing machine or something.

Are those Landrovers yours ?

I need a few parts for mine.

As far as I'm aware.

I'm picking up my new exhaust mani after work and the guy I'm picking it up from says he can show me what to do to fix it on his spare steering rack he has in his garage so fingers crossed.

2 dead tyres in less than 2,000 miles bad

As far as I can see everything is tip top, I really don't want to resort to this.

I'm sure they would but I've pretty much run out of time and money now, baby is due on 5th December, if I don't get this fixed before it comes then this car isn't getting fixed for months.

Is the guy fucking high? I'd definitely be speaking to Volvo UK about the dealer's behaviour.

See the pile up at the Ring? Watch to the end, the guy filming gets a 911 into the back of his car and there's a very big sideways shunt at the end by what looks like a TT

https://jalopnik.com/watch-a-harrowing-massive-pileup-unfold-at-nurburgring-1820397933

Yeah looks to be pretty sad case of misfortune all round.

I think there's a lot of armchair experts wading in, I'm waiting for Dale from B2G's opinion.

Ah looks like he already did a piece on it:

http://www.bridgetogantry.com/freak-14-car-pile-up-mars-otherwise-perfect-weekend/

but no comment on the guy flagging people down. Completely disregarding what I just said above, I do think the guy whose headcam footage is used did the right thing, if anything it looks like he spread the carnage out a bit making each individual incident less damaging.

I'd do the same, I'm not sitting there waiting for someone to plough into the back of me!

It's not just that, people are saying he should have carried on and gone past the original accident and not stopped at all, but by not doing that, pulling over and flagging cars down, he prevented a much higher speed accident happening, at the cost of his own car getting smashed up. It's the classic Nurburgring issue that there's not enough marshalls and flags.

Sadly not, scruffy farmer/hoarder, there must be 60+ cars in that field plus several others.

gone past the original accident

Watched it on a smartphone. Maybe on a big screen you could make that judgement, but from what I saw as a viewer its impossible to see whether that would have been a threat right call.

Armchair speculation: it was gonna end up as supercar pinball whatever the headcam guy did.

It looked greasy, apparently the first 911 had spilled fluids and it was at the end of the fast straight, so I'm thinking that's probably the case, plus you've got a load of over-excited civilians on road tyres

or

?

Tough Call.

I have a particular penchant for the RUF but you can't deny a singer is a lovely lovely machine

That's the one with this in the back

Hate the arches on the singer- the Ruf is the more elegant design. Think about that for a second.

Thinking about it - I actually really dislike the front indicator and the lower mask / splitter on the singer.

I'm in for a RUF.

RUF.

If you don’t agree we can’t be friends.

Just waiting for California to wake up to see if I might have an intake for my engine.

Shows how out of touch they are with reality, and/or, the number of old crusties who would jump at 500£ off a new car if the dealer took their "old tired(but now modern classic) car" off them

BMW spot near us used to do that, often be a collection of decent looking 635 and various older m cars in suspiciously good nick lurking round the back that were not for sale and also did not belong to workers but the business itself...

I finally got round to picking up the Minor today after it's long, long restoration. Here's some pics:

It's slow, noisy, bumpy and the brakes (which admittedly are brand new and need to be bedded in) are appalling. However, it does make rather good raspberry sounds on the overrun and it's actually quite jolly to drive. While they're both estate cars, there are few similarities between these two:

The bright blue covers on the front seats are just the dust covers to protect the new upholstery - I've left them on so that @Cycliste can do an unveiling when she's here this weekend. Unfortunately she won't be able to drive it, as no-one appears to do a classic car policy which permits non-UK resident named drivers.