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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeremy67 View Post
    Oh and here's Simon's Mazda before he messed it about :)



    (Actually it's best rid of those surprisingly heavy TSW wheels.
    Ha ha! My Subaru came from someone on TZ too...

    That Dino looks superb, lovely colour too!
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    This one went to be replaced by a 9-5 but if I could find a good 5 door, manual Turbo I'd be very tempted to raid the savings. Lovely to drive, comfortable and very very practical.


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    Quote Originally Posted by thieuster View Post
    You could be right!
    I thought Shelby Daytona to be honest.
    Would love to know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinnlover View Post
    I thought Shelby Daytona to be honest.
    Would love to know.

    I was thinking the same

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    It was answered a few posts down

    Maserati Tipo 151 aka The racing van

    https://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/...ipo-151-3.html

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    1962 Triumph Herald Coupe
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinnlover View Post
    I thought Shelby Daytona to be honest.
    Would love to know.
    Quote Originally Posted by Andyg View Post
    I was thinking the same
    I think the back of the Daytona Coupe seemed to almost tuck back under the bodywork whereas the car under the tarp looks to be pretty flat by comparison


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    Quote Originally Posted by triumph coupe View Post


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    Lovely little car!! I love the colours.

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    Lovely little car!! I love the colours.
    Very kind of you.
    Litchfield green and Sebring white with a red interior.


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    Was the Chassis the same on the Spitfire as the Herald and Vitesse

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    Was the Chassis the same on the Spitfire as the Herald and Vitesse
    Yes. Many shared components with herald and spitfire (engines, gearboxes etc)

    I’m actually running spitfire suspension on the rear.


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    my MX5

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    Classic Cars what do you have


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    Quote Originally Posted by triumph coupe View Post
    Yes. Many shared components with herald and spitfire (engines, gearboxes etc)

    I’m actually running spitfire suspension on the rear.


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    It was the way with Triumph as they were cash starved and had to make do with little invention. Like the TRs of the late 60s early 70s all done on a shoestring budge, the only saving grace was the Triumph straight 6 engine. My best mate had a Doiiy Sprint back in the day how I loved and envied him, while I made do with my Inca Yellow Spitfire.

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    Nice Marcos Phil, always fancied one of those. Is it the V8?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeremy67 View Post
    Nice Marcos Phil, always fancied one of those. Is it the V8?
    No it’s a V6, with the fairly unusual addition of triple Weber downdraught carbs (worth more than the rest of the car on their own now, apparently). Must find time to take it out more this year...

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilT View Post
    No it’s a V6, with the fairly unusual addition of triple Weber downdraught carbs (worth more than the rest of the car on their own now, apparently)....

    IDA's ?

    I have these on kermit






    I had no idea how much they were now worth until a race engine builder friend told me. He was building an engine for a client whose period Webers were knackered. He traded them in for a new pair. They told him that would be £4k. which he thought was a bit dear until he realised they meant new carbs plus 4k his way! (The FIA historic boys are crying out for period I understand)
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    Some really nice cars in here. I have a 1995 R33 GTR as my project & my brother has an E30 convertible. Hoping to add a W123 or W124 coupe next year to my small collection.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stiglet View Post
    IDA's ?
    DCNF - popular in classic Italian exotica and 70s/80s motorsport. Rocking Horse pooh these days.

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    Great thread, and some fantastic cars!

    I currently have (and have had for 6 years) a 1989 E30 325i cab. Few M-sport interior features and badges, plus Alpina-style wheels.

    Have had quite a few classics over the years- MGB GT, Midgets, Beetle, Minis, volvos.


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    Nice looking car that

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    Lovely. Can’t remember the last time I saw a convertible E30 on the road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by triumph coupe View Post

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    We had a 1970 Herald 13/60. I put two clutches in it before realising that the front thrust bearing had gone and the crankshaft was moving forwards and backwards, losing the effect of the clutch movement! Once fixed, the gearbox was smooth as silk!

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    Quote Originally Posted by triumph coupe View Post


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    One of those was my second car - coffee and white.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilT View Post
    Very nice. My Uncle Jim had a yellow 1970 Marcos 3 Litre, reg OUR 76H. Hard to think that's nearly 50 years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xantiagib View Post

    Class.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tixntox View Post
    She's 20 years old this year so maybe an aspiring classic!


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    That's in great nick. Lovely

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeremy67 View Post
    This one went to be replaced by a 9-5 but if I could find a good 5 door, manual Turbo I'd be very tempted to raid the savings. Lovely to drive, comfortable and very very practical.

    Fabulous car, could that be a 'Ruby '?

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    Some lovely cars in this thread.

    This is my M3 that I have owned since 1998, its currently in the garage up on stands while I restore and rust protect the underside..

    Really want it back on the road this year..









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    Love the E30 M3! One of my greatest regrets is not buying one back when they were 10K, or even 20K...

    E30 overall is such a great car. In another life when I lived in Los Angeles I had an E30 325i Convertible.

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    That looks very tidy. Great photos.

    It wasn’t that long ago when I purchased mine that I went to view a few slightly ropey ones at around the £5K mark. How I wish I’d purchased them and stuck them in storage.

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    The DS one of my all time favourite cars, so far ahead of its time

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    Quote Originally Posted by benny.c View Post
    That looks very tidy. Great photos.

    It wasn’t that long ago when I purchased mine that I went to view a few slightly ropey ones at around the £5K mark. How I wish I’d purchased them and stuck them in storage.
    Thanks, when I bought mine I nearly took a loan to add to the funds I had to buy a K reg Evo Sport II, it had 32k miles like new and would have cost £14k!!
    Same car now is around £120k - Doh!

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    Yeah, the Sport Evos have gone bananas

    Have you seen e30garage.norway on Instagram? They are producing tons of NLA panels and parts for E30s. Really good stuff.
    Last edited by benny.c; 4th February 2019 at 23:21.

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    Quote Originally Posted by number2 View Post
    Fabulous car, could that be a 'Ruby '?

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    No the ruby was a three door and I prefer the five door on looks and practicality. It was only a na 16v and was replaced with a 9-5 in the mistaken belief we could get a child seat and two adults in the back. Before the red one we had a blue 8v turbo. It drove beautifully but had lived much of it's life near the sea and I was fighting a losing battle against rust.

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    Quote Originally Posted by andy tims View Post
    I’ve posted pics before. I still have a 1999 GT3 Club Sport and a 2005 Renault Clio Trophy which could probably be classed as modern classics.
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    GT3 is for sale if anyone's interested
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    Watches have definitely taken a back seat to cars now with regards to collecting.

    This is just a few of them & one day I'll get round to photographing them all together.
    The rest are mainly other variants of the SL, from the 80's & 90's

    1971 280SE 3.5 Coupe


    1962 220SEB Convertible


    1989 300SL


    1967 250SL


    1992 230E


    1991 300SL

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    Lovely collection of Mercedes there, the Pagoda Top is especially beautiful, as is the 71 280SE 3.5 coupe. Something special about stacked headlight models
    Last edited by hilly10; 5th February 2019 at 07:19.

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    Class.
    Quote Originally Posted by hilly10 View Post
    The DS one of my all time favourite cars, so far ahead of its time
    thanks - It still is.... Its the only car I can drive for hours and not get a headache

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    The DS... In 135 or so years of car-making, has there ever been a car só advanced, só ahead of its time as the DS? The first one was introduced in 1955. I can not name a car of that era that came close to the DS' design! Materials, technology, shape. Everything was 50 yrs ahead of its time.

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    Not entirely sure it counts as a "classic" (it's a 1991 car) but I've had this for 12 years and feel no desire to sell it just yet. Cross-plane V8, transaxle, aluminium body panels and pop-up headlights: what's not to like?

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    I think most Porsche cars are and will be classics in the future. The 4x4s might not fare so well
    Last edited by hilly10; 5th February 2019 at 17:27.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PreacherCain View Post
    Not entirely sure it counts as a "classic" (it's a 1991 car) but I've had this for 12 years and feel no desire to sell it just yet. Cross-plane V8, transaxle, aluminium body panels and pop-up headlights: what's not to like?

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    Generally I'm not a Porsche road car fan but I love the 928 and that colour suits it really well. Is it a manual?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeremy67 View Post
    Generally I'm not a Porsche road car fan but I love the 928 and that colour suits it really well. Is it a manual?
    Thank you - it is a handsome beast (the interior is Classic Grey, exactly the same colour as my primary school geography teacher's shoes). It's an auto, as it happens - box based on the '80s S-class transmission, so 4-speed and quite well suited to the engine IMO. It's more or less possible to drive it like a manual (gears being P-R-N-D-3-2) and while the long gearing makes traffic-light grands-prix no fun, 50-80 in second gear is quite a lot of fun. ;-)

    I did try a couple of manuals - one very leggy GT which in retrospect would've been a great investment but needed an awful lot of work to be properly reliable, and an early 16v car which was a lot of fun but really hard work in urban traffic. I'm sure I'd eventually have got used to the dog-leg first, but possibly not without a few shunts first...

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    I was at the Motor Show in 1978 when the 928 was launched, I was 20, I drove there and back in my Triumph Spitfire with a lady. The show was awesome, I remember it well, and the Porsche stand really stole the show. I recall seeing a blue Aston Martin convertible too, price was £38K if I remember rightly.

    The 928 body style has stood the test of time well in my view, unlike the wedge-shaped cars that TVR and Lotus were producing at the time; they just look very dated to me thesedays.

    Seeing the newly opened NEC was quite an eye-opener too, a day out I`ll never forget.

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    Agreed about the 928 standing the test of time. I cannot think of any other car that is 40 years old but could pass for a new car.

    Great looking car in my opinion.

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    My latest VW project being lined in pallet wood before the camper build commences!

    I’ll load build pics further down the line in a separate post, assuming folks are interested.




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    Quote Originally Posted by PDE View Post
    Watches have definitely taken a back seat to cars now with regards to collecting.

    This is just a few of them & one day I'll get round to photographing them all together.
    The rest are mainly other variants of the SL, from the 80's & 90's

    1971 280SE 3.5 Coupe


    1962 220SEB Convertible


    1967 250SL
    Loving all those Merc's but these 3 have so much class, they also look super clean and solid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PreacherCain View Post
    Not entirely sure it counts as a "classic" (it's a 1991 car) but I've had this for 12 years and feel no desire to sell it just yet. Cross-plane V8, transaxle, aluminium body panels and pop-up headlights: what's not to like?

    Cars by preachercain1, on Flickr


    928 is an awesome car, I read somewhere they have like 2kms of wiring, well that might be an exaggeration but you know what I mean..

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    Quote Originally Posted by PreacherCain View Post
    Not entirely sure it counts as a "classic" (it's a 1991 car) but I've had this for 12 years and feel no desire to sell it just yet. Cross-plane V8, transaxle, aluminium body panels and pop-up headlights: what's not to like?

    Cars by preachercain1, on Flickr

    Rest assure. It's a classic. Which model is it?

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