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barmatt Rank: Citroen Ami

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Has there been some clever airbrushing on that picture? or did you actually by a car for £58?

Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Jim Bell

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Has there been some clever airbrushing on that picture? or did you actually by a car for £58?

 

 

Oh god no man. I used virtual Tip-Ex to cover the numbers to make it harder to find in completed ebay listings.

Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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You've bought a car for £58? I bet it'll be fine*

 

 

 

*massively broken

 

Confession. It wasnt really £58.

 

Whoop .... Back in the game... Old shit peas is here....

 

£58 ... That's less than a couple of private dances in some lapdancing establishments.

 

So as long as you spend more than ten minutes and get stuff you are on to a winner!

 

Confession.  It really wasnt really £58.

 

Selling the n n n nineteen already?

 

As always, possibly.

 

AH HA!! Subterfuge!

 

Looks alright that. Number plate would suit electrician.

 

Couldn't you have found one nearer?

 

Nearer ones are not as much fun.

Isaac Hunt Rank: Citroen Ami

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Lifted the shitty old universal thick rubber mats up and was amazed at how fresh the carpets actually are.

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Also noted that the thick rubber mat was robbing the throttle pedal of its last portion of travel.

We can't have that.

Out the old thick universal mats came, and some old SLK ones are in there till I can find something more period and in keeping. And rubber.

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I know I probably go on a bit much about floor mats, and for that I do apologize.

I must haz mats, feels so wrong to drive commando. I make my own rubber mat to go over the carpet mats, using some of that thin ribbed rubber matting. I find it saves the carpet mat rubbing through and is easier to just shake it off every so often. The rubber is quite grippy so doesn't really ride up under the pedals very much, the occasional correction of mat position. I trace around the carpet mat, then cut the rubber mat with a Stanley knife.

 

If a 'mat over a mat' seems a step to,far, you can alsways rid of the carpet mat, but like I says, the rubber is only a few mm thin so not like your knees are rubbing the headlining. It is very hardwaring and durable

barmatt Rank: Citroen Ami

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Oh god no man. I used virtual Tip-Ex to cover the numbers to make it harder to find in completed ebay listings.

 

Ah, sneaky, sneaky but I has already found it. Noice!

Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Jim Bell

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What is it this time?

 

Its the most inapropriate car imaginable.

loserone Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Is it more inappropriate the second time around?

Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Jim Bell

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I must haz mats, feels so wrong to drive commando. I make my own rubber mat to go over the carpet mats, using some of that thin ribbed rubber matting. I find it saves the carpet mat rubbing through and is easier to just shake it off every so often. The rubber is quite grippy so doesn't really ride up under the pedals very much, the occasional correction of mat position. I trace around the carpet mat, then cut the rubber mat with a Stanley knife.

 

 

 

 

Agreed.  I get itchy in a car with no mats.  I dont like not having rubber ones now.  Quite a specific quirk. 

Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Is it more inappropriate the second time around?

Hopefully not.

 

I've deffo had one before. Think it lasted about four or five days?

 

*Edit. I checked. More like 27 hours.

Tamworthbay Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

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Its the most inapropriate car imaginable.

Wow! You have bought Jimmy Savilles Roller!

loserone Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Do you fit in these?

He didn't fit on the last one

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Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Do you fit in these?

 

 

Well.  No.

 

No not really.

 

Definately no.

 

 

Its only three and a half hours home though.

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Tamworthbay Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

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I have trawled the eBay tat thread and am none the wiser, would love it to be the 480 turbo, could be a yellow dump truck thing, probably not a fooked yellow bini, the reliant with a wheel missing is still on eBay so I am lost.

barmatt Rank: Citroen Ami

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I'm confused,  this is what you said about the last one...

 

I hate it to be honest.

 

 

The pedals are all very close together, and I have size 12 and a half feet.  Dunno what I was thinking.  Should have done a bit of research before buying one!

 

Most likely try and persevere with is for a bit, then give up and sell it.

 

As is my M.O.

SRi05 Rank: Renault 16

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I'm confused, this is what you said about the last one...

I hate it to be honest.

 

The pedals are all very close together, and I have size 12 and a half feet. Dunno what I was thinking. Should have done a bit of research before buying one!

Most likely try and persevere with is for a bit, then give up and sell it.

As is my M.O.

This is AutoShite, things don't need to make sense

loserone Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Yes. What's to be confused about?

barmatt Rank: Citroen Ami

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This is AutoShite, things don't need to make sense

 

Sorry, lost my senses for a moment there. 

 

As you were.

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Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Jim Bell

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I'm confused,  this is what you said about the last one...

 

I hate it to be honest.

 

 

The pedals are all very close together, and I have size 12 and a half feet.  Dunno what I was thinking.  Should have done a bit of research before buying one!

 

Most likely try and persevere with is for a bit, then give up and sell it.

 

As is my M.O.

 

 

Yeah. I had a good laugh when I read that.  I'd pretty much forgotten about hating the last one.  Memory through rose tinted spectacles maybe.

 

I only dug that thread up after I'd bought this new one.

 

Be interesting to see if I still hate this one too.  I should, because its the same. Maybe I'll forgive it its dimensions this time round.  Certainly worked with the second SLK.

 

We shall see what difference four years make.

mrbenn Rank: Renault 16

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I remember that black SLK you had, was a nice car. Apart from it not being yellow.

Schaefft Rank: Lancia Gamma

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I'm mildly excited about this, the roffle thread currently going on got me interested in these. Damn you all.

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Jim Bell Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I'm mildly excited about this, the roffle thread currently going on got me interested in these. Damn you all.

Well you're welcome to a try of it man. See what you think. They must be almost the exact opposite of any of your fleet.

Schaefft Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Well you're welcome to a try of it man. See what you think. They must be almost the exact opposite of any of your fleet.

That's exactly the reason why I'd love to give it a try! :mrgreen:

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