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

Adding my girlfriend as a named driver goes down to < £1000 so thats a bonus

Can you add parents? That can drop cost too.

Skill or luck

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I can't stop reading threads full of pictures like these.

Link?

Have you been watching Home Built by Jeff:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnidW9Wb_DjyHGb_J07duQ9COIcHCIFvC

Have a look through this then:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=6&t=1359455

There is a guy near my office with quite a collection of cars.

They loaded up the McLaren and a 991 GT3 while I was getting lunch, I have seen a Ferrari 250 and a few others coming out of the same car park before

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#datass

Hedge bois.

Currently loading up his lambo to go with the GT3 and 650

what 250 was it?

long story - i'll tell you in person.

i'll get rid of the rubber bumpers on the green car and keep it for smashing around in and the odd track days, although they will be few and far between after august. the red car will go up to kings Langley and the little trumpy will stay in wilts for summer pootling.

keep the harnesses - I have the black ones I took out of it in the boot.

meriva man to the rescue!

Red car's getting out of the garage then at least?

Looking forward to hearing the story!

250 SWB in a metallic navy blue colour.

While i was in my office they also loaded up his lambo...

Kahns collection of last of line Defenders on last night's HDYGSR. Oof.

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-850-T5R-Estate-1995-Manual-Rare-/252834192222?roken=cUgayN

I'll be amazed if it makes that money. Converted auto, BOV.

jensen and jaguar day while I stopped in at the whitewebbs museum the other day

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you got to love an interceptor

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Lovely. Looks like a really tidy thing. Whats the story with it?

Was about to ask you this as at this point you probably have 5-10x more in that r than top "book" value.
This year am keen for either an 850r (olive green) or saab 900 t16 and go to town on it. But as a second /third /fourth car opens world of classic agreed value type policies. Hard because at barely 20 years old they don't quite count as classic yet

Would avoid the 1.6 petrol, it was alright in the 80s, I had same lump in a 1999 polo wagon with 100hp variant. Drank fuel, ran very well, lots of torque, drove like a 2.0 displacement motor but no upper mid/top end. Also drank fuel.
Since 2000 that same motor is in a lot of octavia, leon and a3 with different injection/ecu setups. It's reliable if even vaguely serviced right, but if not top end goes noisy and then uses even more fuel.
Best I ever got out of that polo (fabia is same size car) was 38mpg and that was proper careful 58mph windows up cruising. Reliable though! 5 years out of that thing with nothing out of the ordinary

The 1.4 100 or whatever the higher output version might be on paper slower than the 1.6 but better in real world, makes a resnoble noise and can rev out fine.