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Thanks for that post. I had no idea the Cord dies were used by these other companies in this way. More Googling required methinks. Every day a school day.....Btw this reminds me of another recent discovery (well it was news to me), namely that the Studebaker Golden Hawk (the one we all had a Corgi of) was also produced in a (hideous) Packard version.

This is Autoshite. Therefore question does not compute😄. If pushed I was going to say Morgan Super 3 just for laughs...but I've just discovered the OTR price for those starts from £43k. I guess I'm +1 for a new MX5 then. If forced to buy something sensible, I'd have to approach it like buying a new white good, ie comparing costs etc, but with no enthusiasm.

I inherited mine from my Grandad in 1983. He'd owned it from new and being elderly he never went anywhere. In a moment of impetuosity I sold it and it got written off a few weeks later.

Even more depressing that the gist of these comments is true of pretty much anywhere nowadays.

Agree. In fact I'd go further and say it's true of most British towns nowadays. Full of litter, closed down shops interspersed with charity shops and vaping emporiums, choked with traffic, slobby people who don't give shit, etc etc. I can't remember the last town I went to and actually thought "yes, this is nice". Most places nowadays I just want to get out of as quickly as possible.

Don't get me started. The verges all around here are awash with litter of all sorts. It makes me feel physically sick to look at it and to think that people are such selfish inconsiderate slobs. Probably my number one pet hate to make me despair of humanity, though there are plenty more.

Vauxhall Victor FE. Had one in my youth and now have massive nostalgia want. Trouble is decent ones when they do come up seem to be pushing £10k. Re the Polonez driving experience, having owned a couple (well, Caro's actually) I can confirm that it is precisely midway between said Victor and a Lada Riva.

Off topic of headlight colour (I'm ambivalent about yellow lights) but that looks great. First time I've seen one that isn't NHS blue and that colour makes it look quite funky imho.

That looks nice. I've had two of those in that colour and now I'm looking at that I wouldn't mind another. Only trouble I had was the vacuum operated central locking playing up and the heater blower causing a battery drain. Otherwise great fun (though I still prefer my MX5 if I'm honest). Also wasn't so keen on the tacky interior trim which looks nice but is a bit cheap and nasty and damages easily. Also, a minor point, but I always wished you could close the doors with say a cutout in the door armrest, instead of the grab handle quite near the hinge.

I'm intrigued. I'm guessing some kind of Beemer? Last year I bought a Wolseley 1500, only cos as a lad I was fascinated by the bloke down the road doing one up. I'm sad like that.

Twenty year old Peugeot Partner bought off a mate who wanted rid. Hadn't been looking for one. Thought it would be useful to have around but expected to hate driving it, being the non-turbo diesel. It was indeed very useful and extremely practical with all the space and cubbies inside. Not only that, but surprisingly fun to drive and nipped along ok. Sold it in one of my fleet culls to a bloke who scrapped it as soon as the MOT was up.

Spot on again. I swear you must live round here!

I worked for a short time for a local garage. They had a customer exactly like this except it was a Tata Loadbeta. Absolutely hanging in every respect. One year it cost him £1200 to scrape it through the MOT but he just coughed up.

I bet I'm not the only one to have trawled through this thread praying that I wouldn't recognize myself in the descriptions😄.

I'm now wanting to chop the TT in for another SLK.....FFS I need to get a life!

Cheating cos this one's actually mine. In my head it says MX"5" 10th "A"nniversary Edition. I'm just a sad bastard really.

I agree. Neither the SLK nor TT are sports cars per se. I have owned both by way of experiment really. As opposed to my MX5's which are staying with me. That said, I wouldn't mind trying the V6 versions of both SLK and TT...might be chalk and cheese.

I know what you mean. Back in the day I considered chopping in my then three year old Riva for a new 125p. I decided to keep the Lada cos the build quality seemed better! I can recall 125p's especially looking really ropey at only two or three years old.

My second Caro as it looked when I sold it....and how it looked after restoration in Poland.

Interesting, thanks. I recently acquired my Audi and that was my impression on the test drive. However it has one or two issues that are putting me off it a bit so be interesting to see how I feel once they're sorted.

How do you find the TT and SLK compare? Which do you prefer overall?

Here are mine on the day I traded the X reg in for the P reg because although older it was much lower mileage and in much better nick and had the sexy AMG bodykit. Both 230's. I no longer own either, the X reg having disappeared from the DVLA database and the P reg now on sorn. Shame really. I now own a TT instead but am not sure I don't prefer the SLK.

Sadly it's got "oval" written in big letters as well. I hope I'm wrong as I'd love to see that saved. Can't imagine anyone doing it though, unless it goes back to Poland but I don't know how easy that is post-Brexit. I had a Caro years ago and it was surprisingly entertaining (to me anyway). I regretted selling it and found another in worse condition. It blew its head gasket and I lost interest. It ended up back in Poland where to my delight it was fully restored. Be interesting to see what this one makes though.

Thanks for posting the pics. I attended this after attending the classic car meet at Headcorn Aerodrome. Both worth a visit. It got a tad warm though!

For this reason I no longer buy nor sell privately. I either trade in to a dealer or send to auction. Hardly the way to get the best price I know, but I'd rather cut my losses than deal with twats.