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cort16 Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Next up a Maserati 3200. It's got to be one of the boomarang tail light ones (like this).

I think these look flipping class and even thought it'd probably conk out all the time you'd be happy tinkering with it as you'd be looking at it while doing it.

No idea what they drive like. Does it matter?

 

Wanker rating 4/10

 

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maserati by cort16, on Flickr

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201401141028160

skattrd Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Like you cort, I was tempted to sell the fleet and buy one nice motor. The masser 3200 is very tempting, but there is always the worry that it will very expensively break.

cort16 Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Bloody hell  Lotus Carlton for less than 9 grand. The only thing that puts me off these is that they rot like an old Vauxhall. There's a guy over on RR got one and he put it in his garage for a year and

when he came back it was pretty much a dust pan and brush job although he did end up welding it up.

There's no one who was around in the early 90's that didn't want one.

 

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lotuscarlton by cort16, on Flickr

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201401120972796/

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cort16 Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Like you cort, I was tempted to sell the fleet and buy one nice motor. The masser 3200 is very tempting, but there is always the worry that it will very expensively break.

 

I know what you mean but my reasoning is you only have one broken car to contend with plus if your not scared of them it's just another car.

have you seen a build thread on RR by a guy called teaboy? He's dismantled his what was a very expensive porsche and started to make very subtle but very cool modifications too it.

He just treats it as any other car with the knowledge that it might take him a while to finish it but he's going to hold onto it pretty much for ever.

NorfolkNWeigh Rank: Talbot Matra Rancho

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I know what you mean but my reasoning is you only have one broken car to contend with plus if your not scared of them it's just another car.

have you seen a build thread on RR by a guy called teaboy? He's dismantled his what was a very expensive porsche and started to make very subtle but very cool modifications too it.

He just treats it as any other car with the knowledge that it might take him a while to finish it but he's going to hold onto it pretty much for ever.

I've been very close to buying a cheap* 996, but bottled it in the end. Too many tales of crank seals and catastrophic engine failures, that and most sub £10k ones being sold by total wankers,you'd be nervous buying a £500 Fiesta off. The Carlton, as you say is mega desirable and probably the best 'investment' . I just don't like or trust big Fiats of any flavour and suspect a Maserati would be as expensive to maintain as a Ferrari.

My current leanings for this class of headache are made of plastic and come from Kentucky,just got to convince my wife, who's car it would ostensibly be, that they're not 'flash,American penis extensions'

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andy18s Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Next up a Maserati 3200. It's got to be one of the boomarang tail light ones (like this).

I think these look flipping class and even thought it'd probably conk out all the time you'd be happy tinkering with it as you'd be looking at it while doing it.

No idea what they drive like. Does it matter?

 

Wanker rating 4/10

 

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maserati by cort16, on Flickr

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201401141028160

Girlfriends boss had 1 of these and it was a total lemon of a car.

She owned for 11 months from new,8 of which was spent at the dealers awaiting new gearbox/software/ECU's, you name it

Nice to look at,but a complete money pit!

phil_lihp Rank: Lancia Gamma

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The Maserati gets my vote, very pretty cars and a bit more unusual than a 911.  Personally for me a 'proper' 911 is an 80s Targa Turbo in white with whale tail spoiler though so I am probably best ignored on this matter.  How about a really good 8-series though?

 

Back down to earth, this looks rather nice despite the hopeless title and photos, none of which show the entire car.  I wondered why he'd put the dash clocks photo as the primary one but in all honesty it's the best of the lot.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-Cars-/251443248962?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a8b2f7f42

 

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Spiny Norman Rank: Lancia Gamma

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I went down the road of investigating the £5-7k supercar shitter a few years ago too when I had some spare wedge and decided I just wasn't brave enough to risk that much (relatively) money on what was bound to be a sub standard car and decided to buy a Volvo Amazon, a nice Strat, and a new hi-fi instead.

 

To return to shite level, ain't this a cute one?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1990-PEUGEOT-205-XR-3DR-CLASSIC-CAR-VERY-LOW-MILES-6-MONTHS-MOT-NO-RESERVE-/261393088576?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3cdc3e0040

 

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Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I've been thinking recently of sacking offl my current fleet of old shite and just buying something worthy of my my up coming 40th and impending cliche ridden mid life crisis

First off I've been looking at 911's. I recon the 996 is the shitters 911 as its not got any of that air cooled scene bollocks and it avoids a lot of the wank that comes with the new ones.

Also at 16 years old I recon it might just sneak onto a classic policy.

 

This one has a manual gearbox and full service history for 7750

 

Wanker rating 7 out of 10

 

Oh no!

Make it go away!

Please!

 

If you really must do a midwife crisis, buy this:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Neval-Trike-Created-From-Citroen-Dyane-Neval-Motorcyle-/171227391825

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Wanker rating: 47 out of 10

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Squire_Dawson Rank: Renault 16

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I enjoy seeing these trikes on the road, I really do. They (and the blokes who ride them) make me laugh every time, but respect to them for piloting such pointless, funny shite.

cort16 Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Look it's either buy something like this and get it out my system or get a 2 foot sparrow hawk tattoo'd on my back but I'm not good with pain as I nearly passed out when I stood on a plug.

 

The XJR I currently have pawnz most stuff in the performance stakes I just fancy something super, which I can then go on about how it ruined my life when it blows up.

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skattrd Rank: Lancia Gamma

skattrd

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Ooh, I know cort16 - Delta integrale, that should be fun and is also has a good chance to financially ruin you.

 

A Ferrari Mondial was what I was tempted to sell the fleet for. Apparently the V8's in them aren't too complicated/fragile.

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wuvvum Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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This is pretty much guaranteed to be a world of pain.  At this kind of money though, do you really care?

 

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wuvvum Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Be like... erm... the bloke on here who drives one of these Camrys.  Is it Lukas??  :?

 

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Conrad D. Conelrad Rank: Lancia Gamma

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At £1100 BIN, this looks like a bit of a bargain - a really tidy, low mileage (probably) MK1. As long as you don't mind the steering wheel and pedals being offset to the left by about a metre. 

 

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garethj Rank: Isuzu Florian

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Next up a Maserati 3200. It's got to be one of the boomarang tail light ones (like this).

I think these look flipping class and even thought it'd probably conk out all the time you'd be happy tinkering with it as you'd be looking at it while doing it.

No idea what they drive like. Does it matter?

 

Wanker rating 4/10

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201401141028160

 

When these were new a few years ago, a wealthy mate considered swapping his Audi TT for one.  He went to a dealer and saw one in the service bay, up on a ramp.

 

The exhausts were off, the turbos were off, the sump was off and the crankshaft was laying on the floor in a pool of its own oil.  The dealer explained that the car was having a "big service".

 

Unsure of how Maserati parts and labour compared to his basically posh Golf, my mate left.  Never to return.

 

A few years later he got a 911 GT3 where the parts, like a glass of Stella, are "reassuringly expensive"

cort16 Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

cort16

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A guy I used to work with bought one of the first new model Quattroportes back in 2004 and it got rendered imobile for about 2 months by an un-opened can of irnbru. It's all part of the charm*

Lukas Rank: Citroen Ami

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Be like... erm... the bloke on here who drives one of these Camrys. Is it Lukas??

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Yeah, it would have been me. Unfortunately I sold my beige Camry in October last year. :-(

 

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laser wheels Rank: Citroen Ami

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............. you had me at Beetamax video.

 

I just have a mental image of an emergency stop and that Betamax smacking me in the back of the head.

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Asimo Rank: Isuzu Florian

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Cort16

 

What about a Renault GTA? Surely the autoshiters supercar. Imagine a cross between a Corvette and a 911. Made in France.

No image at all in the UK so Ã‚£5k should find a few.

Really good to drive, really comfortable for a sportscar, best driving position I have ever experianced.

No silly technology,  easy to keep going especially if you avoid the Turbo.

Daftest windscreen wipers and door handles ever!

 

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This was mine, and here it is after I started a rebuild, got carried away with the dismantling process,

 

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gave up and sold the bits to a hillclimber.

 

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