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

Spotted this in Bristol the other week always love these

Decent ones are good value at the moment.

The guy who owns this has a blue A reg one as well

Love it

Oh nice blue would like to see the blue one. He doesn't need two though he needs to pass one on to me.

👍👍

Looks like it belongs to the exact right type of person going by the house behind it

Ebc yellow stuff anyone used on road?

My weekly commute is a lot of fun and some more brakes wouldn't go amiss, don't care about dust or city usage brake pad noises as car is either a work horse, doesn't get driven in town really at all.
Going up a size of rotor or caliper would get very spendy.

They're fine, you won't notice a difference. Used them on 3 or 4 cars now.

Can someone please buy this
https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1440374

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Ebc yellow stuff anyone used on road?

Yes. I thought they were awful. Replaced them after a few hundred miles with Mintex pads, a vast improvement.

That is very lovely. And tempting.

That's so cool. No desire to own it but I'd love a drive of it.

This is amazing.

That has been mentioned (by me ) in the past on this thread, The interior is amazing.

All much of a much ness now with those bastards in the EU making pad manufactures conform (ecer90? ) be with 5 or 10 percent of orignal oe spec.

Ah so maybe better off getting old stock, pre 'you can't have more brakes' legislation.

What didn't you like about them? I found that they worked just the same as the Mintex M1144 on the road. At one time they used to be sent with a notice saying they'd be shit from cold but I didn't find that they were.

Nice of BBC 2 to air Le Mans wid McQueen this avo matinee

It isn't a case of more brakes, more a case that aftermarket pads and linings are roughly as good as new oe, and meet safety and environmental legislation. You know asbestos bad, copper bad etc.

Now what do you guys think
https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic/saturday-11th-sunday-12th-june/alfa-romeo-sprint-spv-series-3-clvr-1987-one-owner-from-new/

pretty cool.

I see there is a proposal to extend the ULEZ to all greater London. From August next year.
FFS.
I have no particular petrolhead objection to it in principal, but if they had said that was the plan last year, I would have made completely different financial decisions.
Keeping the old family S-Max and leasing a small EV has been great for us now, but finding ourselves in the zone means a charge every time I go to the tip, we go any significant distance, or go somewhere as a family + dog.
If I'd known this was happening I would have got rid and got a bigger/longer range EV/hybrid.

Amazing!

In other news, mrs has been done twice in the recently imposed 20 MPH limits on a couple of trunk road round here.

I get the intent behind it, but it does seem a bit perverse to get fines for 1) 26MPH and 2) 24MPH when we still have all the local toe rags screeching around at 50MPH+ on unmonitored residential streets.

Bah humbug etc.