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

So, DT Swiss 190 hubs, ENVE rims and DT Aerolite spokes? I think expecting sympathy for the fact that they cost a bit might be rather ambitious...

180's

Bah, bloody keys too close together. Big fat fingers.

I paid 132 for the rear hub, something of a bargain I thought.

And the fucking hub doesn't work. This is quite annoying.

should the wheel builder not have picked that up? :/

Not such a bargain then?

I think a fairly conservative assessment of my current mood would be "cross".

I paid the money I did to have the wheel ahead of leaving for my parents tomorrow.

Now I will be doing so with an unrideable bike, which is rather less than optimal.

Not such a bargain then?

The hub is fine, it's the new stuff supplied by the bike shop that's not working.

have you considered collecting stamps?

That does look like precisely the right sort of thing to spend £22k on.

I just need to get round to putting the gearbox back in my 914, so I can sell it to make room in the shed.

I really do think the Exige itch needs scratching.

Each to their own.

(You're wrong tho)

Would you like to hear my 3200GT #csb?

Great. Here goes:

My neighbour had one about 10 years ago, bought it off a main dealer for £18k with a year's warranty.

Within that year it had £17k worth of warranty work - new gearbox, various electrical things, engine work.

He sold it back to the dealer after 364 days.

Just to rub it in: I've just spotted my old GT3 has recently sold at 911 Virgin. 'Twas a great car. Guards red, proper club sport mk1. I sold it for £40k in 2012. I guess it's £65k's worth now. :(

http://www.911virgin.com/porscheforsale/1129/996GT3Mk1Clubsport/

I'd seen that car the other day - and yes, I would love one exactly like that.

Not exactly like it. They record the number of times they've hit the rev limiter, mine had reached the maximum recordable number - 65536 - in the first 10k miles.

Propa thrashed by the first owner.

If that'd stretched a rod or the timing chains it'd have made itself felt in the next 30,000 miles I assume?

That's what I reckoned. I wouldn't have bought it from the first owner but it had done 50k miles by the time I got it so was probably OK.

The direction that the price is going isn't reassuring - come on Brexit!

I'd really like an X51 Carrera Cup M96 - the parallel vehicle they made when evaluating the Mezger/GT3 program.

Would likely need to be the PowerUp version to get RHD of course.

Ha! I am a bit shocked that I am in agreement with Niall :)

The guy I bought my 911 from was selling it to pay for the work needed on his 3200

The guy I bought my 911 from was selling it to dodge a pending £6k bill

Possibly he had two motives. He did take almost that figure off the price.

lolz aside, I still think it was a good buy.

All you ever need to remember is "Dude, you own a porsche - cool!" and you didn't pay anywhere near what it cost new and once the work is done it'll drive 99.9% like new, if not better.