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

Whether you can bend it back or not depends on if it was stressed past it’s elastic limit - which the top bent over corner probably is

The heat gun is probably too hot (e.g will melt bumper plastic which is usually ABS) so heat it slowly and push back what you can

I watched Mrs Doubtfire last night and in it, the mother figure drives a red 850. Despite Williams amusingly zany ad libs, all I could think of was this thread.

I've heard a kettle of boiling water does the trick for plastics although I've no personal experience to back that up?

Saw this in a carpark earlier and also thought of this thread.

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If Neil owned an s60r, he would have spent 10 times as much as he has on the 855. Pray he doesn't decide he needs one.

2nd time in a month some cunt has hit and run the MX5. Proper sad about it now.

Hasn’t happened for years and the only time it’s happened in the past was when I was selling the red one. Knocked £500 off the selling price.

You know what'd cheer you up? Buying a fast Volvo - guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

But no one he knows is selling one, especially not one that has been looked after with no expense spared, and that was cleaned today..

If only eh?

As I said before. I’d love to buy it, but I’d ruin it. Since buying Mikey 5000’s E39 it’s got a scratch on every panel, my wife has fucked the rear bumper because she doesn’t understand the concept of lifting things out of the boot, and it’s still got mud on the INSIDE of the door from when we went mtbing a couple of weeks ago.

In the last month 2 wings have been fucked by cunty hit and run drivers while the MX5 has been parked outside my flat.

In the space of 6 months my 10k “investment” would be worth no more than £2.5k

I can’t afford that sort of depreciation nor do I want to subject such a sorted car to such treatment.

sounds very similar to my experience of car ownership.

Well, since you lot wanted to use my Volvo as a second-hand banana repository I've offered it to the chap for 8k, we'll see what happens.

Euph?

I'll leave that to you to decide

This is me. I'd love a car with a bit of personality and charm, and an E39 is high up on my lust, but I'm just not the kind of person that looks after a car. Mechanically I make sure everything's fine, but I can't be bothered washing it regularly nor cleaning it out. This made me feeling constantly guilty when I had the w124 as it was in great nick when I bought it, and less great when I sold it. The Saab is better for my conscious, but also dull. I managed to reverse it into our other car the other day, and it barely bothered me, which was a good feeling.

^ Welcome to France or Italy.

I thought it was just a 'oh the french / italians can't drive' cliché but after seeing how people park there I've changed my mind, I've seen that bumber bumping a few times in each country, but nowhere else. Not that I'm that well travelled though...

Or maybe they just don't give a shit about cars.

If, like me, you are very lazy then I recommend ceramic coating your car:

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Lazy is letting the thing rot, you are something else...

Which single handedly keeps this thread going.

New Escort video up. I think I said earlier the bodywork mightn't have to be that extensive; sills, floorpan, tunnel etc suggest that was wrong.

https://youtu.be/XlRyNsCpM8c

There should be some kind of period of mourning for when that Volvo finally goes.

Just walked past a decent looking E34 525iX Touring. Unlocked, keys in the ignition and no filler cap. Was still there an hour later. Tempted to leave a note...

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It won't go...

Sweepstake on how much more will be spent on it before it goes?

Or, even more tricky, on which date the remaining spend before sale will equal the sale price?