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

I’ve been away. Is that yellow Turbo yours? Is it!?

I've just put my car in a garage for autumn/ winter. Is there an LUFGUSS approved trickle charger I need to think about

20w panel on the roof, small solar charge controller, bosh.

I’ve been away. Is that yellow Turbo yours? Is it!?

No, but I am somewhat actively looking for something with (as my co-conspirator describes it) "shit your pants power".

That's why I was looking at the CLS-63AMG with the performance pack - 560bhp and 800Nm.

I would like a 996 turbo though.

"shit your pants power".

I thought that was the point of the engine faff.

Ish. I'd define SYPP as being all about torque - being fired off the line so hard that you involuntarily make a silly squeak.

BHP is kind of different in terms of experience - your car may go through the gears fast but it still has to wind round to (say) 4,000 RPM before you get into the proper power, so you kind of settle into it, even if the countryside is starting to flash past at a frankly intimidating rate by that point.

The E63 was just ridiculous off the line, the hot-V twin turbochargers just gave it immense thump low down. The 911 will be pretty shit, I suspect, lower down - but will be really getting into it's stride above the constant, 5252 rpm.

Recession bargains ahead.

Those in the trade tell me folk are trying to bail out of their expensive motors left right and centre but dealers aren’t brave enough to pay top prices. At the moment sellers are saying ‘how much? I’ll keep it then’ but that won’t last.

Not sure if anyone here will be interested, but I've got a 59 plate Volvo C30 1.6D R-Design that failed it's MOT last year. I've been messed around by a few people on Autotrader so I'm just going to take the salvage price for it unless anyone here wants to get it back on the road?
It needs a new rear tyre, a track rod end ball joint that has excessive play, the DFP fluid tank is cracked, so it will need a refill of the DPF fluid and a new tank, and finally, because it's been sat for a while it only starts when jump started (battery is dead). It'll need a trailer to be taken away.
If that takes anyone's fancy, I'd like £450 for it..

Location?

Andover, Hampshire

Probably a bit too far from Leeds!

Any suggestions for a banger paint job?
Current front runner is probably a ropey John Player Special rattle can over black emulsion.

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I used to use a ctek jobby on my Impreza, seemed to do the job.

Take your pick:

https://www.bmw.com/en/design/history-of-the-bmw-art-cars.html

@Nef I do love a JPS I owned a 1974 JPS Mk11 Capri, for nine years started 1.6 GT eventually put a 2.0 stage 2 GT in it :)
Definitely the car I whish I had never sold

What a beaut, those wheels!

Yeah it was an original JPS they only made them in 74, after that they were just called Specials, this had the black and gold RS Alloys and black and gold recaro seats :P
Those alloys were in a sorry state when I got it, my Grandfather had it from new and lived by the coast , I cleaned them with wet and dry paper used those Humbrol model enamel paints for the black and gold, polished the rest and gave them a few coats of lacquer.

I got pulled by the Police so much in it I still know my drivers license number off by heart :)

Hmmm. I had a P Reg [what I thought was a] 2.0 JPS. So that would have been 76. Gold seats, pinstripes and wing stickers, gold and silver 4 spokes. Was it not an actual JPS then?

Hahaha, that’s amazing. Seems like your record of high attention to detail stretches back pretty far! Model paint to touch up the rims is proper dedication.

The JPS had a plate under the bonnet stating limited edition JPS , I was always lead to believe only made 74/75 the first year of the Mk11, maybe it was old stock registered late ? or I was lied to :D

I had a JPS for a very short while in my 20s. 79-80 ish Coming out of the pub car park one night, putting on seat belt, it stuck in the steering wheel stopping me putting enough lock on to make the turn. Careered over the central reservation of a dual carriageway. Not big, not clever. But very funny for the co-occupants.

Sent you a PM.

Cheers dude. It's not mint, it's got Patina but I think it was Zeibarted from new so that has preserved it well.

Those in the trade tell me folk are trying to bail out of their expensive motors left right and centre but dealers aren’t brave enough to pay top prices. At the moment sellers are saying ‘how much? I’ll keep it then’ but that won’t last.

What has the defenestration of Kwarteng done to this forecast I wonder?

Ta, I'm guessing they're all much of a muchness