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[wuvvum]

No pics as I was driving, but I passed a DeLorean trundling along the A149 in amongst a long line of caravans and dawdling giffers.  Looked a bit out of place in the arse end of Norfolk really.

[brownnova]

No pics as I was driving... but I saw a Lancia Prisma in mid-Wales yesterday... 

[HMC]

No pics as I was driving but I saw a talbot tagora soft top driven by Jaques Delors yesterday.

[richardmorris]

They call it Mellow Yellow.....

 

 

[richardmorris]

Obviously Yellow Day. His 'n hers?

 

[richardmorris]

No idea what this is, but boy is it LOUD!

[Stanky]

11 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

No idea what this is, but boy is it LOUD!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_FXX-K

" the FXX-K has a total power output of 1,050 PS (772 kW; 1,036 hp)"

Will they take a payment plan?

"Like the previous FXX and 599XX, the cars will be kept and maintained by Ferrari and will be available to the owners on track day events."

Oh....

[sdkrc]

23 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

No idea what this is, but boy is it LOUD!

It blows my mind that a year's wages for me and my partner wouldn't be enough to let me sniff a fart off the seat in something like this

[richardmorris]

15 minutes ago, sdkrc said:

It blows my mind that a year's wages for me and my partner wouldn't be enough to let me sniff a fart off the seat in something like this

How the top 1% live eh!

[bramz7]

Took the E36 out for a drive today. It hadn't been driven for 5 months so I was expecting all sorts wrong, dodgy or sticking brakes and just some calamity. 

It drove spot on. Exhaust still terrible but brakes fine, temperature fine, nothing wayward at all. 

It feels like a good one. No knocks or bangs at all. And I won at least one traffic light GP...

[wuvvum]

9 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

How the top 1% live eh!

I'd imagine it's more like the top 0.001%.  I know at least 100 people, and not a single one of them owns an FXX-K.

[HMC]

“For sale as larger car needed” Disproving probably the most likely made up (by me) reason to change cars by fitting 2 kids, 3 bikes and a grandfather clock into the much abused fiesta. Do these have cambelts? (1.25 petrol) as it saw 6000rpm many times again today. If they didn’t want me to rev it they should of made it coarse and unpleasant like so many older ford units. It’s a ghia so I do have plush upholstery  to sit on whilst the scrap man makes his way to me.
 

[Pat Earrings]

Some minor tinkering as my new plates arrived. Yes they're pressed but those who know me know they're legal. Not to everyone's taste but I think they really suit the look on the Lexus. The Lexus and IS200 badges sourced directly from Lexus at £££ but I'm a pedant and wanted to restore them. Popped in LED side lights on the front which was easy as there's masses of room. The rear number plate lights also got treated to LED's. Bit of a faff as you have to remove the whole rear panel but patience and the right trim removal kit help immensely, and resulted in zero broken clips! Just awaiting my iso fitting kit for the DAB/Bluetooth pioneer and then I'll be dead chuffed. It's getting serviced next week when I visit the parents too. Very satisfied so far.

[HMC]

Great! I didn’t even know an IS200 Estate was a thing.

[danthecapriman]

Got a little parcel from Ukraine today! 
 

A cast ally badge from the grill of one of these,

KrAZ 255 by Adrian Kot, on Flickr

A very unusual addition to my small collection of automotive badges & emblems. It wants stripping of the old paint and dirt and repainting but that’s an easy job.

 

[dozeydustman]

On 7/16/2020 at 11:07 AM, gm said:

Cheap rattle cans are on again in Lidl 

£2.50 each or 2 for £4

 

I got to my local Lidl 3 times a week and have yet to see these. Not one of those store-specific promotions is/was it?

 

In other news some 6mm studs have arrived for the Toyota's thermostat housing. I'm hoping I'll get a day soon where I can flush out the neat water that's in the cooling system and replace it with the lovely genuine* Toyota red coolant in the garage.

*from ECP

[stuboy]

Ring stinger delivered

[gm]

31 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

I got to my local Lidl 3 times a week and have yet to see these. Not one of those store-specific promotions is/was it?

I couldn't honestly tell you, but there were loads on the shelf in my local store at Durham

[dozeydustman]

1 minute ago, gm said:

I couldn't honestly tell you, but there were loads on the shelf in my local store at Durham

Bit of a hike from Chichester! I know their "Wine of the week" is store specific. Then again the middle of Lidl random tat, tools and man things aisles get raped every Thursday and Sunday when the promos start

[High Jetter]

Rape? Porno? I know very lidl

[Fumbler]

Theory test has crept up on me- it's tomorrow at 12:30 in the land of Hastings...

[High Jetter]

Good luck, didn't realise you're local to me.

[Fumbler]

27 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Good luck, didn't realise you're local to me.

It's a fair drive down the A21 from where I am. Still surprised how close you are anyhow!

[paulplom]

8 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Bit of a hike from Chichester! I know their "Wine of the week" is store specific. Then again the middle of Lidl random tat, tools and man things aisles get raped every Thursday and Sunday when the promos start

They were on sale up here even further away. I managed to get two but there was hardly owt left.

[andy18s]

12 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Got a little parcel from Ukraine today! 
 

A cast ally badge from the grill of one of these,

KrAZ 255 by Adrian Kot, on Flickr

A very unusual addition to my small collection of automotive badges & emblems. It wants stripping of the old paint and dirt and repainting but that’s an easy job.

 

Found a front grille off something in a barn the other day...

[catsinthewelder]

ARO?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Cyrillic characters. AZLK. Ex-Soviet vehicle maker, now defunct. Apparently they built Moskvich cars which I thought was an independent (by Soviet standards) brand, but it seems not.

[HMC]

12 hours ago, stuboy said:

Ring stinger delivered

Is that the one “endorsed” by Quentin Wilson it used to have a full page ad in the classic car press with a little mug shot of Quentin beside some testimonials- might be a different but similar product?

[Asimo]

1 hour ago, andy18s said:

Found a front grille off something in a barn the other day...

 

Late model Moskvich.

[danthecapriman]

3 hours ago, andy18s said:

Found a front grille off something in a barn the other day...

Do you see many old Soviet era cars over there still?

I only ask, as I’ve got the major horn for a Volga 24!