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

Well chap has said couple of hundered quid, suspect No MoT and has been sitting for a while as he had a stroke and won't get his driving licence back.

@Dramatic_Hammer Interesting auto correct.

https://twitter.com/CharlesRist/status/1197871384007004161?s=19

This.

Very cool, apparently one of only 300 made in 1978 to mark Lotus winning the F1 championship that year, in their famous black and gold JPS liveried car. Funnily enough I saw that exact car on The Mall in London's famous London last November.

Spots this week, a nice 80's throwback yuppie killer.

And these are scattered all over the globe and still running, but you rarely see them looking as pristine as this. Want.

Spoke briefly to the owner/driver, I asked how often he drives it and did today’s conditions put him off? He happily drives it whenever he can and isn’t unsuitable (too many passengers/dog etc).
Love seeing classics getting used and not wrapped up and locked away out of sight.

Love that Merc, great colour too.

yeah spot on about classics being used and not wrapped away. That Lotus is superb, and adds to the recent spot that @Crispin_Glover made of the Excel over in Walthamstow and the Elite I saw being parked in Hackney a couple of weeks ago.

Got a lot of time for those Merc estates too. There is one half-abandoned near my house. Tempted to leave note under the wiper as it deserves to be saved.

I was taken by how good looking the Merc was, they're so familiar but I hadn't really paused to give them a close look recently, but the condition of that really made it jump out, its a real classic. The modern plastic Mercs won't age as well.

Props to the Lotus driver for using it so often, and it has the added bonus it won't rust.

The lotuses are parked or broken ;) I speak from bitter sweet experience from owning an éclat and elite. Both bought as needing repairs and both supposed to have been Elan's. Both need major excavations to remove the cars from the garages.

Should have bought bq Merc, that was awesome.

Depends, some times am amazed what water can get in to and damage.

The black on silver not the correct year narks me.

Wonder if the cigarette/booze and racing links will fade with time.

Delf mode activated.

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My wife’s parents have one

That cinches it! Test drive booked for the weekend.

This is wild! I want one.

Yes!

Replaced all four run flats on my 320 with “go flats” earlier this week. Just did Glasgow to Wales and the difference was significant. Much less road noise and so much less harsh on country roads. Wish I’d done it sooner!

Just need to figure out what I can get in the boot for emergency puncture fixings as a last resort.

The M series cars never had the run flats so there may be a pump'n'gunk kit for those that would fit in neatly.

I scrolled through a lot of threads on bimmerpost discussing this so I shall regurgitate some half remembered nonsense - ‘best’ solution reached was a really clunky oem space saver spare option (instructions - Strap carefully to lashing points against back of rear seats, just so). It does at least come in a branded bag so you have something to look at as you realise how little boot space remains. I think some 5 series space savers are also ‘right’ and maybe just about stowable somewhere sensible as long as you’ve not got an xdrive. Pump’n’gunk a superior option for maintaining practical car use imo.

Something like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-F90-F80-M3-M4-M6-X5M-TIRE-Mobility-INFLATOR-air-compressor-Sealant-Tow-Hook/192968678143?epid=1126247116&hash=item2cedd45aff:g:FT8AAOSwQCBdGDLU

Although this is much cheaper: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-1-SERIES-F20-MOBILITY-TYRE-PUNCTURE-REPAIR-KIT-AIR-PUMP-COMPRESSOR-SEALANT/332828832517?hash=item4d7e24f305:g:KNgAAOSwyHpdVmvK

Have you informed your insurance company, stupidly changing from run flats counts as a modification, so needs to be notified in most cases...

What is wrong with just using slime when you have a puncture and inflating the tyre.

Used it on motorbikes, and it was fine till the tyre was very very worn.

Some nice stuff here.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25825/

Some lovely Porsches. I’m liking though the pug in a @jonny french style. Just needs yellow headlights. Also the 914

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Yeah something like the latter @Dammit posted would do, a few folk seem to rate the conti repair kit as well.

@Sam_w I called my insurance company and they couldn’t have cared less. Just left a note on the system to say what I had done but they didn’t regard it as a change/mod.

Few point of interest from a local rally sprint in Otago

MR2 was a 14yr development project, full aero, 2.2 turbo running 460bhp. It won outright by 3 tenths of a second

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yep sweet as fuck dude. would be happy with either of those. nice R5 Le Car on there too.

Oh be interested in more details on the AW11 mr2. I know that the audi r8 is fitted in to the mk1 and mk3 so wondered what has been done to that one.