One For Classic Car Fans.....

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Gorgeous NSX.

I love the NSX - a real daily-drive supercar with no pretentions above its station but a real ability to mix it with big supercar names. I'd love to own one... even just drive one! But that said, I have never found it very attractive to look at. The front is OK, especially the earlier one with the pop-up lights, but the rear was always a bit... meh. But, as they say, you can't see it from the driver's seat.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I love the NSX - a real daily-drive supercar with no pretentions above its station but a real ability to mix it with big supercar names. I'd love to own one... even just drive one! But that said, I have never found it very attractive to look at. The front is OK, especially the earlier one with the pop-up lights, but the rear was always a bit... meh. But, as they say, you can't see it from the driver's seat.

A car to admire rather than covet in my terms (much like the S2000 I bought and sold after 3 months!)

 

[biggs682]

Gorgeous NSX.

Certainly was

 

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A car to admire rather than covet in my terms (much like the S2000 I bought and sold after 3 months!)

I coveted the S2000 for years - I had the chance to have one new and had a weekend test drive. Loved it to bits as a driver's car but felt it was compromised for daily use and made the decision to get something else. I still rue that decision.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I coveted the S2000 for years - I had the chance to have one new and had a weekend test drive. Loved it to bits as a driver's car but felt it was compromised for daily use and made the decision to get something else. I still rue that decision.

I always (used to, anyway) do a journey I called 'going to the bookshop' in my cars by way of an acid test.

The bookshop's in Machynlleth and I'm in N Oxon, so it's a good run there & back. Having to hold the S2000 in 3rd, or even 2nd to be able to take advantage of what were quite short overtaking opportunities was, frankly, painful. It went very soon afterwards - albeit for what I paid for it.

Loved the cabin and the way the controls were arranged, and most especially the gear change, which is head and shoulders the best I have ever used (esp as the dealer I bought it from subbed a genuine ti knob for the alloy one that was scratched). Even enjoyed extending the engine to the redline the first few times.

And that was it, the rest not so much, at all (albeit stories of errant handling were overblown, I think - it was perfectly tidy, least in my hands). So one to put down to experience - but it was replaced by a 996 C4 Cab., so all wasn't entirely bad about the whole experience

Incidentally the best car for the bookshop run was a Clio Trophy (the original one), which was absolute perfection on those roads.

 

[Badger_Boom]

I got blown off the road on a long climb once by a Morris Traveller. I was driving a MKI Golf diesel, not the fastest car ever made but should easily have the legs of a Minor, especially climbing a very steep hill where diesel torque comes into play.

The Morris was stopped at a petrol station a few miles up the road so I stopped too to have a look at it and was talking to the owner. It had been fitted with a tuned Lancia twin cam, Sierra 5 speed box and the back axle from a TR7 IIRC. It was a real Q car

The chap who used to look after our Minor used to convert them using Fiat twin-cam engines with a Sierra 5-speed gearbox and Toyota Celica back axle. Unsurprisingly he also recommended adding disc brakes and better dampers.

 

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Loved the cabin and the way the controls were arranged, and most especially the gear change, which is head and shoulders the best I have ever used (esp as the dealer I bought it from subbed a genuine ti knob for the alloy one that was scratched). Even enjoyed extending the engine to the redline the first few times.

Was that because of the V-Tec, no power unless you got it to kick in? we had a Civic Type-R very much the same, hard to drive on normal roads.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Was that because of the V-Tec, no power unless you got it to kick in? we had a Civic Type-R very much the same, hard to drive on normal roads.

Exactly that, below c5.5K you languish, then it's like a light switch.

 

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Exactly that, below c5.5K you languish, then it's like a light switch.

I detest the K20 engine, it really upsets the Type-R owners when I tell them how bad it is, I'm sure on a track it's an awesome engine if you keep the V-Tec on song, but it was such a hard drive especially coming from a diesel.

60mph in the outside lane of the motorway & the car in front pulls over, you floor it & ???, 1/4 mile later, you're along side the car that pulled over, another 1/4 mile & you may have got in front of it. But drop it from 6th to 3rd & floor it & it goes of like a scalded cat, but you have to be quick to get back up the gears or it bounces off the red line.

Hated the damn thing only kept it for a few months, but got as much as I bought it for such is their fame.

 

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Exactly that, below c5.5K you languish, then it's like a light switch.

I had a CRX VTEC for several years with the B16A1 engine - I loved that car; the engine was unburstable and would rev for fun. It was also perfectly tractable on the mild cam and the switch-over was seamless (as it should be).

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 10th

(it's been in there for a couple of weeks)
Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0GLS

BSB Motors
Altofts Road
Normanton
Wakefield

I saw this in the area for a long time, it is in absolutely splendid condition

My father used to have a mk 3, in this colour, but his was a 1.7TD hatchback

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/363055
http://www.bsb-motors.co.uk/

 

[Profpointy]

A very nice condition 70s Mercedes today. Not as flamboyant as the fintails or sporty two seaters but exudes quality and understated class.

 

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Seen in the car park of an equestrian event yesterday.

 

[Profpointy]

Seen in the car park of an equestrian event yesterday.
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The earlier though admittedly prettier ones are a lot of dosh these days, but I think ones like the above are still affordable, but few have manual gearboxes sadly.

 

[gbb]

No photos, just an observation really...
Driving to Hunstanton today, you realise how many 'old' cars are still in use. If I think back not so long ago, they were either condemned to scrappage schemes or simply scrapped or found their way to food delivery drivers. It seemed no one wanted an 'old banger'
Quite a few 90s cars seen today, nothing spectacular (barring a handfull of American behemoths floating around on the A47), Novas, Astras, a Vectra, an early 90s Escort.etc etc.
Either people have begun to realise they have a value in their age...or maybe its just the general hyped prices of cars making people think more about getting the most out of them.