jazzdevil

...perhaps they should spice it up and settle it like men: race 70 laps and then everyone parks up, gets out of their cars and just runs the 71st lap :lol:

...which to be fair is a stonking little motor - i've driven a friends one and it's probably the best piece of French automotive work of the last decade or so! have to agree that 'parts bin' build or not, i'd still have one if it went into production... in fact it's nice to see the Karmann business model for vehicle construction revived :lol: as for Hamster... wtf, are they reforming Busted or something?!!??!?!?!?!?! :shock:

tbh, i think the entertainment value of Raikkonen making comeback of the season and upsetting them both would be hilarious :lol:

...disappointed when i opened this thread as i thought i was going to be able to post 'pie and peas' :lol: that plate has Corrado Club of Great Britain (thanks to it's former owner)... oh, and Hellfrauds unfortunately (also thanks to it's former owner) :?

Just read on BBC website that The Gear is back on Sunday and nestled amongst the three way thrashing of the Gallardo Superleggera, 911 GT3 RS and V8 Vantage N24 there is also a feature with the analogy-machine himself belting around the track with 'that' Golf... 8) ..oh, and this series is a full 10 shows, not the half cocked half-dozen we got last time! :)

yup, VR6 (should be 'fair weather' but has had prolonged use of recent :D ), Ibiza Cupra (daily driver, but gathering leaves of recent and now in serious need of a wash :( ), '66 bug and a Tatra 603 (now under renovation)... like vr6storm i've got cars on a single Admiral policy meaning the same NCB (8yrs) is on whichever car i'm behind the wheel of - they were fine as long as I had no named drivers to mess with the equation, so it's costing £400 all up for the year 8)

My Dad has an Altea and came about a credit-card width from hitting my C outside my house last year!! tbh though, i got in his car afterwards and the seating height and headrests in his car almost completely obscured the C, so i can see why so many have people-carrier issues :?

balls... obviously planned if you're up a dead ended street! :shock: not the best thing to say i appreciate, but keep an eye on fleaBay in case someone decides it's easier to shift on as parts. good luck finding it mister!!

now if Lady Penelope drove that, the Thunderbirds movie would have sold at least 9 tickets instead of 4!! :lol:

me neither (*touch wood*)... 'if' $hit should happen, I'm relying on the prophesy of one Elwood Blues: "oh blessed lady of acceleration, don't fail me now..." 8)

The whole thing made me more concerned about driving an older car... statistically there must be more post-Rado motors chugging around the highwaysa and byways of Britain - so it must follow that any one of us is more likely to be in an incident with a newer car, which will (as per Modus) be built to withstand significantly greater impacts than any of our cars ever were. so technically, and depressingly we're at a greater risk for being in our cars than if we drove a dread Fukus, modern Golf or Vectra!??!

...have to admit, if it's as much fun as the original then i'd give it a go for a daily runner! a mate had an original '65 - which another friend posited one evening as 'being some un-masculine'... a quick spin round the block and he extracted his 6'4" frame from it with the words "that's the closest i'll ever come to finding out what it would be like to do the Death Star trench run in a TIE fighter" :lol: it was a sackful of laughs, easy to park, cheap to run and a bit of a headturner... we even spun it undertaking an M3 up the inside of a roundabout once!

yup, ditch all the Heath Robinson style bolt ons... and the car would look pretty damned good in orange!

does it stack up with owner changes?? or it the car could have originally been a corporate purchase (manager-mobile)... you know, early nineties and still clinging to the Gorgon Gekko 'money no object' ethos of the eighties :lol:

mmm... i smell a few more insurance claim posts on the Forum soon then! :lol: edit: sodding heck, just seen this too... it's still a 'C' but just more of Dinkus 'C'... http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/news/defau ... ryId=16689

When I was after a cheap (but fun) runabout, I picked up a Mk2 Ibiza Cupra... they're carrying the same 2.0l 8v as the Mk3 Goof GTi or, if you find a 2.0l 16v you can probably land half leather and an entertaining power-to-weight ratio for well under £1k too... Just taken a peek in the 'Trader and there's a '96 copper-coloured 16v with a MPT until next July for £795! Failing that there's always sub £500 'Rocco's around too ;-P

by the time i 'grow up', i'll be too damned old to drive! :lol:

nothing in the C, but i do have a little plushie Charmander keyring hanging in the (equally orange) Cupra

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.A.N.T. are you sure???????

...if we're talking 4-seat, i'm still liking the Scaglietti myself 8)

option 3 would be my first thought... i remember how stoked i was to liberate the VR from storage after i spent time in India in '05 and Australia last year

:lol: remember that old game 'Worms'... talk about Airstrike potential!!

Don't know if anyone else has scoped this yet... UK'S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS - A682 from junction M65 in Lancashire to A65 at Long Preston, North Yorkshire - A54 Congleton to Buxton, Derbyshire - A683 from junction 34 on the M6 to Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria - A62 from Diggle to Huddersfield, Yorkshire - A671 from Burnley to A59 at Whalley, Lancashire - A653 Dewsbury to junction 28 of the M62 south of Leeds - A1079 from Market Weighton to Kingston upon Hull - A53 Leek to Buxton - A726 from junction 3 of the M77 to Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland - A46 from Market Rasen to Grimsby They're all miles from me, so just wondered other Forum member's opinions... do any of you use them? Full story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6235058.stm

..yup! badly pulled my back when we moved house a fortnight ago and it's been agony ever since... finally went to doctors at the behest of my wife (note i managed not to say 'nagging'... doh!), who suggested that getting in and out of a low car would not be helping - bad times! :( now on diazepam ( :) good times!!) and some type of unpronouncable anti-inflammatory... which due to the dose precludes me from driving or drinking - bad times (again!) :(