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

Anyone like to own a copy of the Lancia in Britain book. Made by the LMC and still available from certain sources. This one has been read so £45. If interested I can send pics.

http://allautobooks.com/book/2496-lancia-in-britain/

Hahaha it'll be mouldy then.

Went down there a few years back, it's a huge multi storey car park with exotics at tye bottom and £4k snagged out mouldy mini cabs at the top. Almost every car we had "booked" to go abd see was more mouldy than your average scrap car, or evidently an ex private hire mini cab
Exotics at the bottom looked ok, but the guy running it got my back right up.

When did everyone’s front number plate start falling off?

It’s no points and £100 I believe, so people do it for the look.

Current Singer development mule

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Not that I'd buy a Singer, but I'd be much more likely to do so if it were a narrow body.

With that said, I bet that's an absolute riot to thrash about in.

New RUF in not yellow

#kermit

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There's a crusty mk2 Golf on ebay with a 20VT conversion - supposing that's been done well, that should just be nuts and bolts to transplant into my own mk2 along with all the other mechanical parts, right?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mk2-Golf-20vT-ko4/302653369863?_trksid=p2485497.m4902.l9144

RWB for me when those numbers come up.

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In theory yeah - It’s a really common conversion and there’s plenty of info online about it.
the loom, Ecu and immobiliser being right are fairly key to making a conversion easy/reliable I think, my memory is flaky on the finer details, a friend has an oak green gti with a 20v conversion

I would think so, but that’s contingent on the conversion not having (mild end) involved BFH or (severe end) angry grinder and welder where the body didn’t want to play with the new mechanicals.

There is likely a forum thread for the car which might provide some clues?

My question: I am being repeatedly advised to protect the new paint on the 911 with Paint Protection Film- views please?

1.8T into early golfs is a straight swap if you start with a 1.8 GTI, no chassis mods required. Even if you choose a poverty spec 1.3 golf as the base car you just need the right bolt on mounts, so as long as it’s not been bolted together by a complete fucktard you should be ok

Here is a really good 1.8T swap guide

http://www.conrod.co.uk/20v1.html

Car looks great and all the little details are coming together.

With regards to values, I think that good ones of any variant will be worth good money. The difference is the amount they built. They produced circa 60K-70K of all variants of 964's and 993's. They then ramped up and produced circa 175K 996's and somewhere similar of 997's so it remains to be seen whether their values will get to the levels that the earlier cars have but the fact that they continue to rise can only mean good things for the values of everything that came after them.

It'll be interesting to watch for sure, although there will be negative aspects - engine rebuilds for the older cars are a minimum of 20k, vs 8-12 on the water cooled stuff, largely due to the relative value of the cars rather than the cost of the work (or so it is said).

I've got a manual (£+), cable throttle (£+), amber indicator (£+) cabriolet (£-------------).

And of course I've fucked about with it, so it's never going to attract the purist crowd, and lack of roof will put off the Outlaw fraternity.

Luckily I really like it.

The painter was saying that people who saw the car when it was totally apart were amazed - to quote "why are you doing that level of work on that car?", which suggests that they've got a way to go value wise!

Paint Protection Film- views please?

Plenty having it done on here :- http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=129
The professional only products seem reassuringly expensive

Cheers all, nice one.

no view on the paint protection film @Dammit but got to say looks like an ace job

@Dammit wow when did you buy a Porsche?

Next he'll be renovating a flat

Helicopter tape?

Expensive is on how long it lasts. Are you talking about the kamikazi coat?

Next he'll be renovating a flat

Never again.

Windmill?

I still like that idea, and I'm currently in Rotterdam. If only I could finish answering these emails.