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

Beautiful 126 Jonny. The later rubber bumper cars lost something magical. I had an air-cooled 500 and can relate to the driving joy and smiles per mile. Pure win. The Polish license-built 'maluch' is really part of their national identity, oddly more so than for Italians..

Mine was a rubber bumper, the chrome looks much better.

That's f@cking awesome! Got me trawling car ads and googling garage space now. They cost very little unless in great condition like yours.

Awesome, before you revealed that I though, wonder if he bought an fsm niki... But this green original Fiat is superb. Good one!

Did these cars come with these wheels, or are they aftermarket?

Some Golfs did, but I don't think they were standard fitment on an R32. I think they're actually a "downgrade"

That's what I thought, cheers.

Those are the GTI wheels, and the most susceptible to kerbing alloy design known to man

MkV R32 original wheels are these, a much nicer design imho:

From the gti of that era I think.

Everyone knows the only wheels fit for a MKV Golf are BBS CH

I just want 100% stock/OEM. Well, that’s not true- I’d like a blue, stock R36 but that’s not happening so I may settle for an R32.

I would also accept BBS 302, FIR, or ATS DTC.

If you're an absolute madman, Work Emotion or SSR Professor MS3

Join me in buying a Legacy

No more turbo power!

UK 3.0R B Spec? 6 cylinder 3.0 N/A

So he can have two flat sixes?

My Dad had a mk5 R32 DSG as his company car, it was pretty good

I liked his Mk5 GTI much more though

Well, I'm still holding out a battered, pathetic hope that something will come good and I can get the R36.

After much dithering, I've arrived at a decision on what bike transportation solution I'm going to acquire in the near future. The occasions that I'll be travelling with the bike will always correspond with a car full of stuff and passengers and will be for long - or very long - motorway journeys.

The equipment that will work with my V50's rails (I have no tow bar) are:

Thule 757 foot pack (£76.50 @ Rutland Cycling)
Thule 961 Wingbars (£80.09 @ Rutland Cycling)
Thule 561 fork-mount carrier (£92.99 @ Rutland Cycling)

So that's basically £250. Can anyone recommend a better place for picking up all this stuff? I'm happy to wait for a deal, but is anyone of the opinion that I'm likely to find a significant bargain? I'm not inclined to faff about too much and get the stuff from a bunch of different places if I'm only going to save £20 or so.

get something 2nd hand? i dunno if ive been lucky or if im doing it wrong, but ive used my old mans passat-specific thule roofbars on both my merc and my saab. quite different rail profiles, but worked fine

Sounds similar to the set-up I've got. I bought mine online from PF Jones. They were fine, and they were the only place I could find that had all the bits I wanted. Their couriers were useless - they delivered one of the two parcels to the correct address, and the second one to a comic book shop in Soho, for reasons best known to themselves.

Something from under the counter sir? Plain brown wrapper ok for sir?

Not these days. A bit of bare flesh in a manga strip was about as racy as this place got, in keeping with the general gentrification of Soho. Hipsters rather than hookers.

#hipstersnothookers