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

Brace *your*selves. A previous owner did a bit of, er, cosmetic personalisation. All easily remedied :)

Dear Lord.

I can't wait to see these modifications!

Congrats on the purchase, very good choice. Please tell me it's that wonderful goldy-mustardy-yellow colour?

fuck yeah - i'd love one.

Nah stealthy black.

Yo Stigma! :oP < Audi Cnut

LOL remapping chip to lower HP, wrong forum son!

95kg here, me and youse diable, reckon we could have these pasty whippets one handed, perhaps eating a pasty in the other hand

TSW Venoms?

#soon

Nice!

that wonderful goldy-mustardy-yellow colour?

Phoenix Yellow. I had one. Mrs Hefty hated it.

This might be one for the LATFH thread.... Caterham x Reynolds collab:

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/general/bicycle-tech-for-caterham--update/33160

#Customz

So here she is. Initial list of crimes include:

1. Anthracite wheels
   
2. Black kidney grilles
   
3. Interior retrim in Ivory leather not my cup of tea
   
4. Boomy stainless back box
   
5. Nurburgring sticker
   
   

And I can't think of any oth- O SWEET LORD THE BONNET!

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All redeemed by the massive grin I had when driving her home. Never ever driven anything like it. Didn't dare turn the TC off, it was scrabbling in second and third in the damp.

That bonnet is criminal.

Everything else is liveable.

You could flog that stainless back box.

Shit, I quite like the modifications. :o$

Did they cut the bonnet or is that a whole unit as it were? I reckon you'd get decent dollar for it, if you can locate a fresh one.

I haven't looked closely enough at it yet. Maybe a track day guy will take it. I think can live with all of it for now, and just slowly slowly get it how I want it. Except the Nurburgring sticker - thats gotta go. :-)

You could flog that stainless back box.

Aye, it's just too droney under 3k revs. Sounds great after that. Bloody great.

Looks alright olly, I'll erm, take 3 grams off yer, right?

Chap on Turbobricks is transplanting an E46 M3 driveline into a 240, I could happily get behind that.

Bad ass! Hope you checked for the common cracked rear sub frame.... looks like it could have been used for a bit of 'spirited' driving.

That bonnet is fucking horrendous tho. I like black grilles, considering getting some for my baby M.

Yep, subframe welds are starting to pull, as they all apparently do, but no cracks yet. Only 62k miles, feels quite tight really.