Your favourite retro car?
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Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
"Movers and shakers" of the Nigerian business world are usually known as "big boys". So I suppose we can infer from that that a "baby boy", in this context, is an aspiring mover and shaker.
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Lighting the blue touch paper
Hows about a nice new Lancia Delta Integrale? Lancia Delta Integrale reimagined as the Futurista | PistonHeads
Not sure about the colour, but it looks the business. if interested, best get your name down now.
Not sure about the colour, but it looks the business. if interested, best get your name down now.
DownwardDog
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Ok... retro as in a new(ish) car styled on an old fashioned design:
I spend an inordinate amount of time watching car auctions in Japan online and these go for buttons. You can get a nice one CIF for $5k.
OzT
Online early mornings when at work ....
Bond and a Porche, don't tell me there's a link?
Always felt that Lancias lost out to Alfa's in the good looking stakes in the commoner Italian sporting cars sector, in my opinion, though of course they were better cars in the rallying sector.
Hows about a nice new Lancia Delta Integrale? Lancia Delta Integrale reimagined as the Futurista | PistonHeads
Not sure about the colour, but it looks the business. if interested, best get your name down now.
Always felt that Lancias lost out to Alfa's in the good looking stakes in the commoner Italian sporting cars sector, in my opinion, though of course they were better cars in the rallying sector.
DownwardDog
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I had a matchbox one of these as a kid - loved it.
I know it's eye of the beholder and all that but it looks like a van that's been rolled.
dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
I had a real one, in that colour. Not a good car really. You couldn't see out the back very well, it wasn't especially fast, the windscreen leaked. It was difficult to get in and out of. But when it was good, it was superb.I had a matchbox one of these as a kid - loved it.
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
Weren't they fiberglass, so at least no rust issues and nice and light?
Here's one with laser canons:
steveo87
22/11/2022 - got a maths joke.
Apparently it's the new (article was written in 2015) Jenson Interceptor.
DownwardDog
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I really like these but I don't expect to see one never mind own one.
AMG 560SEC 6.0 widebody. From the era when AMG were a separate company and Mercedes did not compromise on quality.
AMG 560SEC 6.0 widebody. From the era when AMG were a separate company and Mercedes did not compromise on quality.
dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
A friend's father had one. Great to drive but appalling build quality for such an expensive car. It stayed in the family for years, was very low mileage, because it was only used for a month or two in an average year. Eventually, at about 15 years old it had to be scrapped because of rust.I really like these but I don't expect to see one never mind own one.
AMG 560SEC 6.0 widebody. From the era when AMG were a separate company and Mercedes did not compromise on quality.
not-bono-ever
meh
posting this as i now realise i cannot afford one . RS1600i. nearly tax and MOT free now. very twocable still.
I've been daydreaming on classic car sites again. They're still going for reasonably sensible money and I've always promised myself I'll have another Mini one day, but a rust-prone, easily-nicked car that'd have to live on the street and would be useless for long journeys really doesn't make sense.
Bahnhof Strasse
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On the plus-side, a shunt could see you live up to your username...
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My first two cars were Minis. A 1966 850 followed by a 1969 1000. I have a huge soft spot for them and, like you, have flights of fancy where I think about owning another one. Compared to modern cars they have a charming simplicity and are bags of fun to drive. I also know, compared to modern cars they are nowhere near as safe but I guess I may have a different point of view to many. I’ve driven much older cars with no windscreen or even dashboards where you could get thrown over the front in any collision. I’ve driven cars where the body flexes so much that the doors fly open on uneven roads.I’ve driven plenty of cars which only have rear brakes and even those didn’t work very well. I’ve even ridden in an old car where my feet were resting on a ledge over the back of the car so a Mini would be considered the height of modernity in comparison. IF I were to buy a Mini it would be to enjoy what made it great in the 1960s but on quiet modern roads away from as much traffic as possible and accepting the risks that would go with it.
I'm not sure that'd be Roadkill so much as A-series-where-my-legs-used-to-be?!
Perhaps I should buy its big brother, of which there was quite a nice example for sale round here not long ago:
No, not really. I've a soft spot for the ol' Maxi - it was part of my childhood - and it'd be a touch safer and more practical than a Mini, but AFAIK some parts are quite rare these days, and they weren't exactly the best made cars on the market.
DownwardDog
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A sound Land Crab would be a very good investment as almost all of them have rusted to fuck.
dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
I took my car for a pre-ITV this week. Tucked away in the garage was a near perfect Mini. It had obviously been there for a very long time. You couldn’t see through the windows, and the bonnet had been open equally long. You could just see it was blue with a white roof. Looking as much as I could it seems to be a 1275 engine, and Tahitian blue, there appears to be no rust. But if t has been dry stored here in Andalusia you wouldn’t expect any. The tyres are holding air. It seemed as if it needed a good clean and a bit of petrol and it would be running again.
