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

I dunno. Winning IS Winning. Looking forward to seeing pictures of you drinking a pint of champagne out of the trophy.

deal. come and watch

If HSCC goes international this season and you have a race at Mosport in Canada I'm there!

just spotted in the street round the corner from mine

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Clearly a better class of street than my manor Jonny - spotted this on the way back from a ride a couple of weeks back....

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that one is kinda cooler joe. loving the tape work on it.

I hanker for a sweaty motor like that from time to time

Seat arrives:

And is instantly turned into a cat basket:

It's going to take you ages to get that cat hair off

The seat is fireproof, I'll just use a blowtorch

The smell of burning hair though...

I've never actually blow torched a cat so I'm presuming it smells as bad as human hair.

Yes, I'm actually just going to use the vacuum cleaner.

Any chance you can scooch over to mine with it this weekend?

Obligatory "don't store wood next to the burner" comment.

Sure, I've got the Recaro side mounts as well as the BBI in the picture.

It’s more about the slidey mount than the seat. I’m not getting my powerful engine room in that.

First clean in a while, restored a genuine Saab rack which looks the part, moving onto the engine bay shortly...

Nice! More pics please!

Sweeeeeeet saaaaaaaab

It's been mildly lowered at the front since these were taken

Lovely! A car I’ve always desired!

My friends dad has a near mint 900 that has been given a fair bit of sensible mods by Abbot Racing.

I’d love first refusal on it but the 3 sons are all ahead of me a (and probably a few more) in that queue

Subhuman scum

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Been thinking on Abbot gear for some time but in reality the gearbox won't thank me for it. Plan is to go stock Carlsson spec (185bhp) using all genuine Saab. Mines solid as a rock but actually pretty beat up on the outside which is how i like it these days. It's the newest car i've owned in 22 years of driving and the boot is the best i've seen for a non estate.

I currently have first refusal on an 850R in similar condition but i'm not sure what it would give me over the Saab.

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Two different worlds I think. Completely different approaches to cars. Both are great, but in different ways. If your heart says one or the other, go with that, you can't reason your way through these kinda decisions. Unless you need the boot space perhaps.