What's your thing?

[Spiny Norman]

Velour seats., the ultimate in comfort and luxury.
 

[reb]

  On 29/07/2024 at 21:50, UltraWomble said:

Old shit mopeds.

Particularly Tomos A3M mopeds from the 1980's

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Shit mopeds you say? Step right this way, sir.

[Metal Guru]

  On 29/07/2024 at 23:38, Spiny Norman said:

Velour seats., the ultimate in comfort and luxury.
 

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Especially if you grew up in the 60s and 70s and were used to plastic seats that you stuck to in summer but were ice cold in winter. 

[hairnet]

  On 29/07/2024 at 23:38, Spiny Norman said:

Velour seats., the ultimate in comfort and luxury.
 

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how is @Skizzer not all over this

[Timewaster]

If I am REALLY bored, I will try and find Facebook marketplace cars for sale on Google street view.

Last night I stalked and found a Civic type r.

Sometimes I will go to older pictures and see what they had before, or how far back they have owned it.

[reb]

Another thing I like: 90s seat fabric.

[Jerzy Woking]

  On 29/07/2024 at 11:25, JakeT said:

Foreign number plates. I marvel at seeing ones from places I’ve not been to before, and when we go on holiday I love looking at the features and what sort of systems they use for registration. Even more, ‘old’ ones. Think DIN plates in Germany, old French ones (yellow rear plate), all of that stuff.

 

Also, car transportation systems. Having taken my daily to 14 different countries now it’s been in a few, but I’ve yet to find a mystical autotrain, where you park the car, have a cabin and wake up ready to drive elsewhere.

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Dusseldorf to Innsbruk. Did the motorail on the bike many times. It used to go to Villach in Slovenia, then it only went to Vienna, and now only to Innsbruck.

It was cheap at first, but think the price for a bike now is somewhat extortionate!

[Jerzy Woking]

Mine is cars with a V8 conversion, particularly RX7's, RX8's, MX5's, in fact anything that should have a V8 in it.

Favourite has to be the Rich Rebuild's V8 Tesla. Beautifully engineered.

[Blake's Den]

Haynes manuals and other workshop manuals. I've got over 200 of them

[Surface Rust]

Reading about other people's strange obsessions.

[sheffcortinacentre]

  On 29/07/2024 at 20:30, IronStar said:

Had another think about this, and I think the right answer to this one, other than the previous one is - basket cases.

I have a great dislike to seeing a car get scrapped, so over years I’ve spent way too much money keeping cars off a scrappy. Most of the cars I have as projects in various states of stall, are usually attempts to keep something people’s would’ve scrapped long time ago on the road. Sort of last chance saloon for the cars.
I like seeing the cars taken back from the brink, and made into something undeniably nice. I equally enjoy reading or watching other people doing the same thing. Especially not-so-desirable and expensive ones which would certainly become tincans if not for dedicated owners.

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Me too I've saved quite a few basket cases over the years for myself & others,

There's a perverse satisfaction in  showing people that something can be saved & be put back into use mustie1 does alot of this on YouTube with all sorts of things.

Recycling way before it was a fashionable buzzword.

[Nibbler]

My thing is old school diesel engines with indirect injection.

[IronStar]

  On 30/07/2024 at 19:03, sheffcortinacentre said:

Me too I've saved quite a few basket cases over the years for myself & others,

There's a perverse satisfaction in  showing people that something can be saved & be put back into use mustie1 does alot of this on YouTube with all sorts of things.

Recycling way before it was a fashionable buzzword.

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I don’t think there’s anything perverse about it. 
The world we live in is increasingly revolving about clout and doing things because money/status. I just think that cars that aren’t your typical high value Ferrari / Lamborghini / Aston / RR / whatever, which always get rebuilt deserve another (and another, and another…) chance. 
As for youtube, I enjoy Tasty Classics. The work he’s doing is right up my alley.

[Dyslexic Viking]

  On 30/07/2024 at 19:05, Nibbler said:

My thing is old school diesel engines with indirect injection.

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This is something I also have, but in all old mechanical diesel engines.

After reading this thread, I realize that I have a lot more than what I wrote in the first post.

[egg]

Spotting ordinary cars in the wild that have no right to exist any more

Trim level differences

Microcars and very smoll cars in general

Counting how many of 'x' there are

[Imhotep]

Small hatchbacks with a PSA TU engine. Had loads in various formats. I don’t know why, they’re not the be all and end all of cars but I think they’re brilliant to drive even in 1 litre format (helped by only being a size 8 I’m sure, the pedals are tiny). 

[hairnet]

  On 29/07/2024 at 23:20, Blue 850 said:

one of the hundreds of Irish car magazines I've been collecting for the past 25 years . 

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post some 80s domino/alto tests ta

[hairnet]

  On 30/07/2024 at 18:30, Jerzy Woking said:

Dusseldorf to Innsbruk. Did the motorail on the bike many times. It used to go to Villach in Slovenia, Austria

 

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[reb]

  On 30/07/2024 at 19:36, Imhotep said:

Small hatchbacks with a PSA TU engine. Had loads in various formats. I don’t know why, they’re not the be all and end all of cars but I think they’re brilliant to drive even in 1 litre format (helped by only being a size 8 I’m sure, the pedals are tiny). 

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I had a C2 GT with the 1.6 16v in it and it was fucking ace. Best £300 I've ever spent. I feel slightly guilty about running a limited edition car into the ground, but that is outweighed by the noise it made hammering it through the Highlands in summer with the airbox in the passenger footwell.

[Imhotep]

  On 30/07/2024 at 20:53, reb said:

I had a C2 GT with the 1.6 16v in it and it was fucking ace. Best £300 I've ever spent. I feel slightly guilty about running a limited edition car into the ground, but that is outweighed by the noise it made hammering it through the Highlands in summer with the airbox in the passenger footwell.

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It’s always the cheaper faster ones that are good isn’t it? This was the best £200 I ever spent, much for the same reason…

[reb]

  On 30/07/2024 at 21:34, Imhotep said:

It’s always the cheaper faster ones that are good isn’t it? This was the best £200 I ever spent, much for the same reason…

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My mate that shares my unit has a Saxo VTS the same colour as my 205 in there at the moment. I've never asked him how much he paid, but I dread to think having seen what they go for these days.

[Imhotep]

  On 30/07/2024 at 21:36, reb said:

My mate that shares my unit has a Saxo VTS the same colour as my 205 in there at the moment. I've never asked him how much he paid, but I dread to think having seen what they go for these days.

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I sold that one for £500 I think just before they skyrocketed. Rare colour, less than 100k and a chunk of MOT. All patched up too so had decent sills and inner wings. Alternator packed up and I couldn’t afford to mend it, not a day goes by where I wish I’d just been a little bit better with money and kept it! I’ve got my AX GT now but I really miss the Saxo VTS. 

[Justwatching]

Movie cars. 

Oh, and cars that have been designed with a ruler. Box or wedge, don't mind, just gimme those straight lines!

[GMcD]

Exterior door handles designs and their changes over the years from triggers, push button, flap, pull up, then to pull out handles and now various electronic nonsense. 

For most of the 90s everything was pull up, then it started to change to pull out handles (maybe it coincided with Smeg fridges coming back into fashion or something) 

The only cars that kept going with pull up handles were the Panda and various flavours of Dacia.  I think the last "premium" car was the c6 Audi A6.  Only cheap stuff was using them.....

...but they are seemingly back in fashion again with BMW. 

So yeah, that. 

My favourite are the trigger handles on my Saab C900, combined with the heavy doors. Lovely. 

[Kringle]

  On 30/07/2024 at 22:37, GMcD said:

Exterior door handles designs and their changes over the years from triggers, push button, flap, pull up, then to pull out handles and now various electronic nonsense. 

For most of the 90s everything was pull up, then it started to change to pull out handles (maybe it coincided with Smeg fridges coming back into fashion or something) 

The only cars that kept going with pull up handles were the Panda and various flavours of Dacia.  I think the last "premium" car was the c6 Audi A6.  Only cheap stuff was using them.....

...but they are seemingly back in fashion again with BMW. 

So yeah, that. 

My favourite are the trigger handles on my Saab C900, combined with the heavy doors. Lovely. 

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Wasn't it something to do with firefighters with gloves on being able to open the doors or was that some bullshit I heard on Top Gear?

 

My thing is 90s F1 backmarker teams. Absolutely love them, finding out where they went, the restoration of the cars and the stories behind them from those who were there.

 

Road car wise I'd echo the velour seats 🍆

[Jerzy Woking]

  On 30/07/2024 at 20:31, hairnet said:

 

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Oops. 

[Schaefft]

Flagships (of the automotive kind) and the mentalities of their manufacturers that went into them to create the best/most innovative cars that they could at the time. Roughly 1985 to 2005.

[vulgalour]

Outrageous custom garbaaaahj.  I love it all.

[Blue 850]

  On 30/07/2024 at 20:28, hairnet said:

post some 80s domino/alto tests ta

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I'll go digging.  I definitely have one with I think a Domino and Subaru Signet comparison. 

[cpjitservices]

I collect music. Mainly proper Rock N Roll / Rockabilly and a bit of Classical. Usually on Vinyl and CD format.