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

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.

In my head, whilst this was going on you also had your laptop out on the passenger seat...

Ha. Repped.

Of course there was extreme danger to manifold.

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

I hope this is true.

Passed 1st time after 14 lessons. Does this make me a crap driver then?

Hope not, I'm about the same.

Can't remember how many lessons- around about the 12 mark I think, passed second time.

Ive had 5 lessons! guess was in a bit of a rush oh well! everything happens for a reason etc...
Im rebooked for sunday week

I passed 1st time with one minor which he gave me about 30 seconds into the test. It was for squeezing through a gap which I (apparently) should have waited for instead.... pfft.

Anyone got a welder?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1964-DAIMLER-250-V8-COMPLETE-SERIOUS-RESTORATION-PROJECT-DONOR-SPARES-CAR-/170990165939?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item27cfcedfb3

That's a twenty large job...

I'd rather an amazon

Rather have this Hooper Empress, myself.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1951-Daimler-Empress-Hooper-Body-/300861281275?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item460cbad3fb

That's awesome.

How and why is that awesome?

A money pit if ever I saw one...

Slam it, 20" spinners, neon under-lights...

Good point, well made.

Anyone got a welder?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1964-DAIMLER-250-V8-COMPLETE-SERIOUS-RESTORATION-PROJECT-DONOR-SPARES-CAR-/170990165939?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item27cfcedfb3

Just drive it like that and pretend you're in 'Withnail & I'

It's (literally) just round the corner from me, however it's slightly more of a project than I have time for currently- or ability to fix, to be blunt.

It's the kind of thing I'd love to have a crack at when I've finished the flat though.

new gt3

can't believe its getting bigger again.

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991 GT3 inside look - interview with Andreas Preuninger - YouTube[/ame]

^^ Have you seen the other shit little gems he's selling? I think 'laid up' probably means abandoned at the back of a railway arch.

lolwut?

Perfect. Then the 35 came along...