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[Guest Hirst]

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[cort16]

It was good of you to take a picture of your 156 for us while you were peeing in those bushes .

[Bear]

Please. More Chrysler 180 content. I think this should be the AS car-trend and not XJSs.

[Jim Bell]

"Youre not a real car guy until youve taken a photo of an Alfa under a tiny tiny wind turbine" - Chip Foose 1998

[eddyramrod]

 In the meantime, please enjoy this photo of a new 3-series I saw in a public car park many months ago which somehow had hubcaps even though there's seemingly no way of specifying them. What a puzzler!

 

 

More actual car content later.

How did you get that?  Nowhere in the world is there a 3-series owner who has enough functioning brain cells to reverse into a space!

[spike60]

How did you get that?  Nowhere in the world is there a 3-series owner who has enough functioning brain cells to reverse into a space!

It looks like he's reversed into 2 spaces.

[Peter C]

Steel wheels fitted with plastic wheel trims wrapped with winter tyres = BMW winter pack option

[NorfolkNWeigh]

If you give BMW many hundreds of pounds they will supply a set of winter tyres on steel wheels, fit them when you want them ,storing your alloys through the winter, then in spring swap them back over and put your winter steels into storage.

It would be cheaper to buy a nice* P38 for the 2 days it actually snows, but there you are.

Oh, the winter steels come with plastic trims F.O.C.

 

Has that 180 got 2-Litre hubcaps on it? In a 318d with an M badge style, trying to impress the neighbours with something you're not.

Edited to add;

Why can't I type faster and be more to the point,then I wouldn't look like a dick.

[dollywobbler]

[mouseflakes]

John Rhys-Davies looking a bit Bud Spencer there. Needs a cigar though.

[dugong]

I remember John Rhys Davies in Sliders. His character always used to take the piss out of the bloke he played in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[brownnova]

Ah this thread is more like the autoshite we know and love!!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

BUMP FOR A REAL THREAD!!!!! This is more like it. HIRST THREAD 2000

[Bren]

That 180 is fit.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Did that escort have the speaker 'joystick'?

 

I thought that was fantatic as a kid

[Taff]

 

 

...the excellent "Model ESRT 32 PS" cassette radio with adjustable speaker bias! One of my most treasured memories of this car (and probably my entire life) was rolling through the mean streets of Horbury at like 2am blasting A Flock of Seagulls with my arm on the windowframe and the glass sunroof wound all the way back.

 

 

 

 

 

the first word that sprang to mind was "ooof"

[twosmoke300]

I can "feel " those rubbery buttons now

[dollywobbler]

Looks similar to the stereo in my dad's Sierra. I seem to recall that had much better bass response than his previous Montego. Which actually had much better bass response than his previous Montego, which was a facelift one. There's progress for you.

[New POD]

Looks similar to the stereo in my dad's Sierra. I seem to recall that had much better bass response than his previous Montego. Which actually had much better bass response than his previous Montego, which was a facelift one. There's progress for you.

My dad's first sierra had a blanking plate when music entertainment might go, along with NO headrests and No rear seat belts. And it was a beige estate with 27 shades of brown and sand interior. Weird though, it had a GL badge on the boot lid.

[Bren]

Mother in law's granada has this set up with the amp underneath.

[phil_lihp]

Just marvellous, love the Escort.  Two-tone gold and brown is a sadly underused colour scheme.  More please.

[vulgalour]

Worthy content.  Those Preludes really are lookers, good to hear they perform just as well as they look.

[Ghosty]

I wouldn't call the 2.0i 'base' in many respects apart from the fact that the standard wheels are 14" or 15" steels - and every 2.0i I've seen either has had them changed or had wheels specced. There were just two engines (2.0i and 2.2 VTEC), an optional spoiler and a couple of special editions that added very little aside from wheels, the spoiler and a sticker IIRC. Well enough specced cars, nice place to be, goes well enough, etc. Old Man's was great - his was the four speed auto tiptronic thingy though, as the 'plate suggests:

 

 

Plates and wheels came with the car but the red badge was Old Man's addition.

Rarely see black ones.

[Jim Bell]

This thread is nearly FULL OF CONTENT. Get back to the top!

[Aston Martin]

Ketchup on fish and chips? Get the hell out of Yorkshire!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Having said that, the Alfa looks fantastic.

[philibusmo]

I am thoroughly enjoying this quality thread. More please.

[Lacquer Peel]

I used to think the final Preludes looked really awkward, especially the front end but they've aged well.

I'm familiar with the F20 engine from Accords my mum's owned, it's one of the smoothest 4 pots I've tried and the response is linear like you say.

 

Enjoyable thread, would visit again.

[Honey Badger]

Thank you for making a dull morning at work seem all the the more exciting in comparison thoughts of a holiday at Ingoldmells.

 

The Prelude is a lovely thing, Honda got the styling right for every model of the Prelude, it's a real shame they don't make anything exciting like that anymore.

 

Top thread Hirst.

[Eddie Honda]

Fook the Prelude, we want more Chrysler 180 content. I forgot they existed!       

[Cavcraft]

Autoshite is back.