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

Corolla JDM. Who knew.

Beautiful, but I am biased :D

I took the Mini to a classic car meet to promote a new local café and the café owner’s daughter took rather a shine to it. Because of that it made the local paper!

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Apparently it was the car of her dreams.

Any luck?

Not so far, but the search continues! I should have realised that at this price bracket and type of car that there would be a lot run on a budget, missing service history, scrapes, dents, dodgy home repairs. Flaky paint around the tailgate is an issue on the white. There must be some that are cherished out there! Perhaps I'm being picky too, only looking for IQ2 or 3, white or silver, but then the silver ones have looked tired, lots of panel colour mismatch.

Get em while you can.

https://www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/construction-and-cars/car-toys/hot-wheels/hot-wheels-cars-and-trucks/hot-wheels-premium-rally-legend-collector-display-4-pack/p/219906

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An innocenti mini maybe....

Wrong Lancia should have been the 037...

Or the Delta S4…

Can insurance renewal just in. Multi car for three cars. Two old cars with old drivers (me being one of these). One car with a 17 yr old - passed test 2 months ago. The bill - £4000.
Any bright ideas how to reduce this?

17yo got their own car?

Black box it, destroy any enjoyment that they may have formed in the last 2 months but it’ll whack the insurance down

Change insurer? I did mine the other day and got my car's rate down about £600 through changing, although it's a bit of a faff.

I'd been with my previous insurer (elephant) for eight years, and usually they propose a high renewal which they then drop once you phone them. This year they didn't drop it at all so I shopped around.

I plan to phone around but Multicar has been great - up until now. The daughter’s insurance is the issue.
Thanks

Tried the usul tricks of adding a load of older people to her insurance as named drivers? That usually helps bring the quotes down.

That’s already been done. Thanks

Can't recall or find where I saw it, the Insurers algorithms know when you are adding and subtracting people, changing occupations etc to secure lower premiums and react negatively against it.

I was going to baulk at a 17yo having their own car then I remembered you live in NI. Can you not just tell Admiral that you've sat her down in front of the old 90's PSA boy racer UTV adverts and she's now too traumatised to go over 20?

She’s that traumatised that she won’t drive with me in the car! I’m full of warnings about the bad drivers here. Oddly she is overly cautious and I think that’s unsafe.
I’m still in shock over the renewal cost - I was expecting about £3000 which is mad but seems to be the norm for here now.

[mutters in Singapore]

I thought you were muttering in London at the mo😃

Winchester

But I’m not buying a car here, I’m just looking after my parents until my dad can come home from the hospital- then I’m back to Singapore, and $!

@Colin_the_Bald was it you with the z4? How’s it doing? I find myself idly considering an e86 and it’s beginning to slide into not so idle consideration. Dangerous.

broke down in france and got recovery, the RAC sent my car to a garage who apparently said there was nothing wrong with the car. so I am now obliged to go and get the car that I am fairly sure has a serious problem and try and drive it back to the uk.
i did make sure I was covered if I broke down again (which I think is almost certain) but this is a difficult situation.