Weekend cars... what do you have?

[countryman]

911, GT6, wolf defender and my favourite a fully restored series 11A

 

[figgy]

Countryman what mark and colour is your GT6 and what 911.

Looked at 930 supersport cabrio for my dad few weeks ago, driving position wasn't good for him. Very good looking car though.

[ditchman]

my landrover has now gone to a better place ....somerset ...deer hunting.............i now have a little powder blue gay suzuki swift.........and some of the folk who wave at me are very strange...i can almost feel my bottom twitch

[countryman]

On 20/11/2019 at 20:13, figgy said:

Countryman what mark and colour is your GT6 and what 911.

Looked at 930 supersport cabrio for my dad few weeks ago, driving position wasn't good for him. Very good looking car though.

Gt6 is a Green mk3, the car was used a couple of times in the tv series life on Mars. The 911 is a manual Carrera 

 

[Old farrier]

22 hours ago, ditchman said:

my landrover has now gone to a better place ....somerset ...deer hunting.............i now have a little powder blue gay suzuki swift.........and some of the folk who wave at me are very strange...i can almost feel my bottom twitch

There hairdressers 

no need to worry 🥺

just don’t stop 🙄

[figgy]

1 hour ago, countryman said:

Gt6 is a Green mk3, the car was used a couple of times in the tv series life on Mars. The 911 is a manual Carrera 

 

I've seen the GT6 nice car. What year 911?

[lancer425]

As a young lad 17 i had a mk2  GT6 it had the less well located herald vitese style swing axle. the mark 3 gt6 and mark 4 spitfires had a better layout on the back same transverse spring but better anti roll set up.

My mk2 was 1969 marron round backed style. same hp 2 litre straight six engine, but with the axle layout you had to be very brave keep it planted into turns, because if you backed off at any point it got in to a terrible shape tucking the inside wheel under and it got sideways very dramatically.

But keep it planted under power and steer it through the turns it was a fun car, and the sound was well worth the fact it drank like a fish.

Over drive was a big thing and if you drove it sensible you could cover the miles in it, i used to get my dog and gun in it go up to scotland the northern firths regularly in that car in the mid 70s i had it about 3 years sold it in the exchange and mart  i took a 1600cc vitese in part ex with £120 cash.

Edited November 22 by lancer425

[countryman]

21 hours ago, figgy said:

I've seen the GT6 nice car. What year 911?

The 911 is an s2, it’s an 07 with just 36 thousand on the clock, to be honest I don’t use it as much as I should, it sounds great when you are accelerating  the thing and I have nearly been caught out with it once or twice by getting a bit carried away by the sound. 

[figgy]

Countryman yours is the 997 911. Porsche have model codes for each generation. The 996 before yours had the fried egg shape headlights. The 930 my dad looked at was the turbo body with whale tail 1980's car.

[countryman]

10 hours ago, figgy said:

Countryman yours is the 997 911. Porsche have model codes for each generation. The 996 before yours had the fried egg shape headlights. The 930 my dad looked at was the turbo body with whale tail 1980's car.

Yes that’s right, the 996 was frowned upon by some people for those lights, I think if you can find a nice low mileage Porsche they will be a good investment as well as a nice drive.

[JTaylor91]

I’ve had a few nippy cars over the years. Couple of s3’s, a corsa vxr (not sure what I was thinking) now got a BMW M140i, runs about 420bhp. It’s all out of the window now with a baby on the way and I’m looking at a Volvo v60 in some shade of beige.

[figgy]

Nothing wrong with a Volvo 4x4 welcome to the dad car club😂

[lancer425]

Love the old volvo  xc70 its been a good car up to now, it has been up into Scotland Inverness and beyond 6 times this season so far, and its off up again next Sunday morning for another foray, its got plenty of room and comfortable and gets around off tarmac of for a glorified shopping car.

One of the Brats at work wrote in the dirt on the tailgate the other day, WALANDER.  It took me a wile to tumble to it but Girl in the office thought it was funny anyway.

[OddJob]

This Caterham was mine for a while. However you just can 'drive' these days as its busy and you're stuck behind people meaning it wasn't as fun as I wanted. Put your money in to a lease on a new vehicle and have your fun. BMW M2 on Vanarma for £340 per month... 

[Raja Clavata]

After 10 or so years of countless company cars (all Ford) I switched to BMW about 3 years ago - currently running a 435D and X3 but thinking of switching to a X4 M Competition.

[strimmer_13]

22 minutes ago, Raja Clavata said:

After 10 or so years of countless company cars (all Ford) I switched to BMW about 3 years ago - currently running a 435D and X3 but thinking of switching to a X4 M Competition.

Mates running the new x4 40d. Great drive for a big car, not too ugly either. But for 50k think he could of got better

[Raja Clavata]

1 hour ago, strimmer_13 said:

Mates running the new x4 40d. Great drive for a big car, not too ugly either. But for 50k think he could of got better

That's part of the problem with the X4 M Comp - it's about the price of the other two combined - at least I'd save on the insurance I guess...

[Mungler]

We change our cars at the end of Q1 next year.

If labour get in I’ll be walking 😆

[lancer425]

21 minutes ago, Mungler said:

We change our cars at the end of Q1 next year.

If labour get in I’ll be walking 😆

If Labour get in we will all be walking.

[sandspider]

[john deere]

[London Best]

I had a red Land Rover 110 . After owning it for 9 1/2 years it was still like driving a ****ing fire engine.

[figgy]

3 hours ago, London Best said:

I had a red Land Rover 110 . After owning it for 9 1/2 years it was still like driving a ******* fire engine.

I used to have a series 111 109 with the engine out of a fire engine. A 6x6 rangerover fire engine.

[London Best]

Mine was the old 1987) turbo diesel with 85? Raging horsepower. Swapped for a V8 110 with overdrive after that. Wish I could afford to feed one now!

[Medic1281]

19 hours ago, john deere said:

I still prefer the Green one in your avatar!