Nice colour , much better condition than my 230te but mines a work horse that I saved from the breakers in 2015. Had no advisories this year too for the first time in 5 years .
I love it so much I’ve been looking at a replacement when this one finally goes.
They ain’t cheap no more and anything under 100k is around £10k Everything else with sound bodywork seems to be 150-240k miles at £3-7k
They’re just such good cars and a dream to drive
Proper barge!
Bodes well that it’s been with an enthusiast for so many years. Had a lot of work by the sounds of it.
Always a bit of a risk buying an old car, I’ve never been able to relax until I know it’s not losing oil or fluids or gonna break down. Have to own it for a bit before you can chill!
What did he have on it - 1” bigger hubcaps? I kinda like that look. Orange lamps ftw tho.
Oddly an important detail. One of the first things I did…revert from clears back to original orange.
I hate 3 spokes. I grew up during the TSW Phoenix era when Max Power did that horrible yellow Carlton and I remember thinking ‘that looks fucking horrible’.
Back then I really lusted after gunmetal grey Renault 5 Turbos. Maybe I should get one now. A mate had a lairy green one with a massive spoiler and we used to drive around like Michael Fabricants making it backfire and smoking weed. Tragic but amazing.
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Our hook up spot back in the day would have something like 20 cars pulled into the carpark, then weed man turned up in his scirocco, did his business at half eight, then the rest of the night would be chilling and smoking. All in cars. It was in the middle of the countryside but even then, pretty messed up looking back.
I honestly can’t imagine anything like that happening, daily, in this day and age. I fucking loved every minute.
I imported a 1996 skyline gts-t from Japan, had rays 3-spoke on it. Looked so shit. Like kitsch and gaudy. And a gearstick that looked like a transparent dildo
Got any pics with it pixcellated out?
I lucked out with Mugen Showa suspension on my DC5. Not so lucky on my DC2 - Apexi N1 which was dreadful.
Nah, long time ago now, about 15 years ago. iirc it was like 20 cm long perspex tube with bits of glitter in it
a bit like this but with more jazz/colour/flakes
Got an electric Fiat 500 rental car for a week. Right laugh already!
What colour?
When I came back from Italy last time I wanted an OG one of these so much. They look much cooler in Italy though lol.
Finished off the repair work on the front wing, was thinking it’d have been better to just do the whole wing but it’s a bit of an 'ol experiment at the same time. Will key it back now with fine grit and match it up after some polish, hopefully. Overall, generally quite pleased with my work. Been a while since I’ve had a go at paint work on a car.
I’ve got a rental sorted for Cyprus now in October and I really wish we could’ve had a little electric car, to be honest. Seem like they’d be quite fun @nedertron!
There’s a lovely satin rose gold they come in that must be one of the most unique paint jobs currently on sale.
That’s what I wanted, had to drive back to get a fucking charging cable from car hire place.
Other than that great whip, 100% recommend.
Probably sat in the cafe waiting for a tow truck.
I was going to say something similar. Many, many years ago through car related events I ended up at a guys house. Gallardo on the drive, Atom in the garage. Sagaris down the side of the garage.
“It’s amazing when it works”.
Got taken out in the Gallardo and the Atom, but fucking hell, a shitter that the Sagaris was dead.
