Motoring

[Furniss]

Good thread
Bikes for me but at some stage I intend to buy a nice toy, cliché I know but prob soft top for touring with the mrs and prob fairly fast and impractical.
Atom/Caterham sort of thing close as 4 wheels come to 2

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Good thread
Bikes for me but at some stage I intend to buy a nice toy, cliché I know but prob soft top for touring with the mrs and prob fairly fast and impractical.
Atom/Caterham sort of thing close as 4 wheels come to 2

I had a blast in an Atom on a track - ace cars, I’d have one in a heartbeat!
Caterham’s are also mega - did a full track day in a fairly basic Ecotec engined version and nothing could get near it. So easy to ‘place’, the feedback is like nothing else. I’d also have one of those in a heartbeat!

 

[V8Druid]

My Favourite car, was a weapon! FWD with LSD was inspiring!

I loved my XR4x4i ... like driving on rails ....... wasn't a fan of the ABS though ... been nice to have been able to turn it off occasionally

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Just found this pic from the 80s of my old man’s showroom - some moneys-worth nowadays!…

 

[Lancs Lad]

Just found this pic from the 80s of my old man’s showroom - some moneys-worth nowadays!…

Them 3 porkers

 

[pettsy]

Westfield/caterham is on my bucket list to own.

 

[DaveDCB]

McLaren 600LT…
By time I get to have one petrol will be so expensive I won’t be able to use it

 

[Quattromike]

Had a bit of an affiliation with Audi quattros for a while, had the 80 16v quattro, S4 quattro, A6T quattro, A5 3L TDI quattro to name a few but now bum about in Discovery's

 

[Furniss]

Had a bit of an affiliation with Audi quattros for a while, had the 80 16v quattro, S4 quattro, A6T quattro, A5 3L TDI quattro to name a few but now bum about in Discovery's

I had a nice 80 quattro...think it was 2.3l turbo

 

[Furniss]

Westfield/caterham is on my bucket list to own.

They are expensive here in France (twice the price) .... they are difficult to register and need to be individually homologated

 

[V8Druid]

They are expensive here in France (twice the price) .... they are difficult to register and need to be individually homologated

run it on brit plates/mot/etc. and bring it to UK once a year for T&T

 

[Furniss]

run it on brit plates/mot/etc. and bring it to UK once a year for T&T

They don't like it .... if it's uk reg and owned by a french resident then you only get a year to register it .... there are various ways round it "carte gris collection" if its over 30 years old, and some others now but not sure of the pros or cons of them.

 

[Regy53]

My Chevy 1989 52 k miles imaculate

 

[Regy53]

My corvette, just upgrade the brakes to ceramics Z 6.2 supercharged 650 bhp 900 nm torques . Totally mental

 

[Regy53]

My supercharged clio 200 track car …. Fully caged forged engine to go in is about 350 bhp

 

[Regy53]

One more loading ….. can’t post pics yet as it’s not here

There my toys

 

[V8Druid]

They don't like it .... if it's uk reg and owned by a french resident then you only get a year to register it .... there are various ways round it "carte gris collection" if its over 30 years old, and some others now but not sure of the pros or cons of them.

so run it for a year ... 'sell' it back into the UK to a relative ... 'buy' it back a while later ... etc. ... paper trail

 

[DaveDCB]

One more loading ….. can’t post pics yet as it’s not here

There my toys

Didn’t you have a 458? or are you a serial flipper

 

[Furniss]

so run it for a year ... 'sell' it back into the UK to a relative ... 'buy' it back a while later ... etc. ... paper trail

Sounds like a lot of hassle I hate paperwork

 

[Regy53]

Didn’t you have a 458? or are you a serial flipper

I have cars for 6 months

Vette is 6 months so far
Clio is 2 years
Truck a year

458 was great but tbh it was a lot of doh . And I don’t do mega miles in them maybe 1500 a year . In hindsight I would have kept it but also that said it was over double the vette cost and I prefer the meaner look and drive