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

This is true, which is a bit ridiculous I think. Anyone have any idea on the legality of "plates" like these:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cW1MXsC62OI/UCA7a-1SQ_I/AAAAAAAACUc/pwXwh9PcD0s/s1600/Lotus-7-Caterham-The-Prisoner.jpg

Old-style plates permitted on old enough cars?

Just watched Merc Diesel drift video again. Imagine twinning with that thing!! Fuck that. It's basically a tank looming in and out of your blind spot while traveling sideways at 80+

This is true, which is a bit ridiculous I think. Anyone have any idea on the legality of "plates" like these:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cW1MXsC62OI/UCA7a-1SQ_I/AAAAAAAACUc/pwXwh9PcD0s/s1600/Lotus-7-Caterham-The-Prisoner.jpg

Guy I bought my MX5 from used to have one, said no problems until the paint started fading.

^ This
I use it as a selling point in that the buyer is seeing a genuine car and not one that's full of cheap, bodged repairs.

Selling my baby..

Off road hill climb in an MX5...

Selling my baby..

Nice. What are the numbers?

Which one, there's so many?
330, 52, 85,000, 2, and I'd like to see 6k (probably in my dreams but one's got to start somewhere).

Engine size mainly. A 330i that's done 85k isn't even born yet. Those engines are bombproof.

It's only got to last a few weeks until I sell it :-)

That's the spirit.

Why are you selling it?

Time to move on I guess. I bought the car just over 6 years ago. I've never owned a car that long! I just had a new (old shape) Golf delivered on a 2 year lease. It's a GTD with a DSG box. Lovely car but in a different league to the Bimmer. We've got 3 cars in the household, the BMW, a TT and an A3 convertible. I wanted at least one car with a useable back seat. I may also buy a 'toy' of some description in the near future.

Practical test tomorrow at 8.40 pm....nervous!

Time to move on I guess. I bought the car just over 6 years ago. I've never owned a car that long! I just had a new (old shape) Golf delivered on a 2 year lease. It's a GTD with a DSG box. Lovely car but in a different league to the Bimmer. We've got 3 cars in the household, the BMW, a TT and an A3 convertible. I wanted at least one car with a useable back seat. I may also buy a 'toy' of some description in the near future.

Those DSG boxes are unbelievable.

What sort of toy would you be looking for?

lol. ice overtaking like a boss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Lhl5k_WLf8g

Those DSG boxes are unbelievable.

What sort of toy would you be looking for?

They certainly are. As for a toy it's just an vague idea right now and may never happen. I've got nothing in mind.

War entertainment?

Car died on Saturday, I was running late already for sister's 30th birthday party preparation and I was a bit stressed. Doing 70ish and the revs drop to 0, engine dead and now coasting in the outside lane of the A12. Bollocks. Manage to make it to a layby, all electrics still working but it won't start. Bonnet and boot open, checking the earths, all good. No split fuel hoses or anything, can't check spark as I haven't got the deep tool to whip them out, and air looks fine. Bit stumped, make some calls to advise I'm running late, then I start doing some sort of CSI style 3D animation in my head of the processes involved with starting the car. Key turns starter, fuel flows, air sucking in through supercharger and intercooler, coilpack to spark plugs etc etc, when BAM! it hits me, ACU for fuel and timing management controls it all! I go straight to the unit sitting under the dash next to my left knee and the cable's hanging loose out the back of it. I must have knocked it bracing my knee while going through the tunnel. Plug it back in, turn it over and it fires up. Then splutters and dies. Cable has popped out again. Leccy tape it on and we're away. Problem solved.

That's why you generally mount those in the passenger footwell/glovebox.

Well done on fixing it by the roadside, I'd probably have gone Fawlty.

Yeah I need to extend the cables and mount it better. I use it as my IAT monitor so I need to either keep it hidden and use a different gauge or mount it in the centre console.

Did you at any point say "enhance!" or make dot-matrix printer noises?

Sadly there was none of that. I'll remember for next time.

Fuck, failed test, first corner. :( only 3 minors as well. :(( rebooked already though :)

Unlucky. Don't worry about it though, best drivers pass 3rd time! ;-)