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

It's more that proper paint takes a fair bit of prep and that's easier to achieve when your not sat on the side of the road under a pop up tent . And then time, many products require fairly specific timing between coats, again not easily achieved by the side of the road. Not saying it can't be done, but imo I would say that's too much damage for a road side operation to do well. If it was a boggo model then maybe acceptable but if it's a vxr, worth getting done right.
Would expect it to be in a body shop for 3 -4 days, £250-350 + south east tax if that's where you live.

Bonnet lights look the full on rally car night stage.

Love it.

Thanks again, I'm getting a side of the road repair quote on Friday, along with one from our regular garage (although they outsource body/paint to a 3rd party)

Yes, you back in this side of the globe? In London?

We can talk it through. I'll even go to the bar for you ;)

I'm a bit out of date, but the principle will be the same.

Depends on the mobile, if they can't get behind the dent, the dent can be pulled.

I do not know, am not a dent person. Have had damage repaired that I thought was impossible. Best bet is find a few dent people, ask at second hand car dealers who they use. That has been very successful for me.

Spam: Selling my Legacy estate in classifieds.

I have eventually finished putting sill stand tubes into the car today. These will let me get the car about 500mm off the floor on stands that allow you to work under it without anything in the way.

Annoyingly my jack is about 200mm short of being able to get the car on the stands.

Bollocks

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Those the A frame things? I've seen rally cars high up in the air on those but they always look one good push away from collapse.

Yeah like this

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Eternal spunk fountain.

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Anyone heading to forever JDM at ace cafe or LSC flames meet this evening?

Eurocarparts have 37% off everything this weekend

Ahhh.... I feel like there are all these things I need, but can't think what!

But cheers for posting that!

Car ID ?

Looks like an Alfa GTV6?

Ha yes thanks

With interesting fifteen 52 wheel choice

I changed doctors surgery and went there for the first time today, this is on the same street (terrible photo soz)

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My friend is looking for a Z3 3.0, coupé or convertible, if you know of one for sale, please let me know. No silver cars.

^^They are a little spendy or I'd have one in my garage now.

scratch that, turns out we were being thick, found a few for sale now

I didn't know, but they make a non M 3.0 coupé, they're just very rare. The M coupés are going for 50K!!

The lines on that GTV6 are still interesting even now. Haven't seen one on the road in at least 5 years in the UK, all rotted away or in collections I reckon.

Alfa brera is probably the modern equiv, never sold many, think they looked good but were like a diesel astra to drive? Never been inside one so can't really comment

I thought the non-M Coupes were only sold in North America and Mainland Europe? I don't think I ever saw one in the uk?

No. They were definitely sold in the UK.

I spent a lot of my youth driving around Surrey and W. Sussex and there were plenty.

Thinking about it Ive only ever saw a couple of M convertibles ever.