Show Us Your Motors!
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My second long drive out in my Dad's MGB. Very strange driving a car I was driven around in as a child (he bought it the same year I was born) but I had fun bumbling about in the countryside with it.
Taken at the bridge that was used in the Great Train Robbery.
Dunno if this is for show your motors or daily encounters but it will be mine eventually (not too soon I hope).
Taken at the bridge that was used in the Great Train Robbery.
Dunno if this is for show your motors or daily encounters but it will be mine eventually (not too soon I hope).
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Loving the whitewalls! They really suit it. In fact the whole car looks immaculate...
...except the stickers in the windscreen- ruined! Or as the kids say these days "rekt".
...except the stickers in the windscreen- ruined! Or as the kids say these days "rekt".
Got this today with 300 miles on it, which will be mine for a while....
Brand new 430D MSport Gran Coupe. As a breakdown, this is a 5 door version of the 2 door version of the 4 door 3 series. Not to mention there already is a 3 series hatch in the shape of the GT, and an estate...not sure there are enough options?
First impressions are that it's actually pretty darn quick, 254bhp and 0-60 in 5.4 seconds thanks to the 8 Speed auto, and of course being a hatch it's fairly practical:
Interior is imo a huge step down from the e92 in general feel and you can tell it is heavily based on the 1 series. This is a far cry from the f10 5 series i had over the weekend which was fantastically put together imo.
This is a courtesy car as mine is being repaired after a volvo tboned me on Thursday! It pulled out of a side street without looking, straight into the side of me, spinning me 90 degrees and causing a substantial amount of damage to the door and rear quarter, including the wheel which is now sat at a very strange angle.
Brand new 430D MSport Gran Coupe. As a breakdown, this is a 5 door version of the 2 door version of the 4 door 3 series. Not to mention there already is a 3 series hatch in the shape of the GT, and an estate...not sure there are enough options?
First impressions are that it's actually pretty darn quick, 254bhp and 0-60 in 5.4 seconds thanks to the 8 Speed auto, and of course being a hatch it's fairly practical:
Interior is imo a huge step down from the e92 in general feel and you can tell it is heavily based on the 1 series. This is a far cry from the f10 5 series i had over the weekend which was fantastically put together imo.
This is a courtesy car as mine is being repaired after a volvo tboned me on Thursday! It pulled out of a side street without looking, straight into the side of me, spinning me 90 degrees and causing a substantial amount of damage to the door and rear quarter, including the wheel which is now sat at a very strange angle.
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Why the hell would it be on a Tuesday?????
My second long drive out in my Dad's MGB. Very strange driving a car I was driven around in as a child (he bought it the same year I was born) but I had fun bumbling about in the countryside with it.
That looks cracking. My Dad's one (which I think you've spotted in some of my pics before) is in the middle of being stripped to a shell for a bare metal respray.. Keeping the orange colour. He was set on keeping the rubber bumpers for originality() but when he took them off he found the metal innards had turned to dust... turns out replacements are going to cost more than a chrome conversion. But he still wants to keep the rubber ones. Makes me want to cry
I have noticed it, yeah. About a grand for a set of new ones - madness.
I must have got confused with another show...
Theres to many ford shows 
Oh and lots of people saying don't use gelbadges.com
e; Doh, I know what I did. I looked in haste and looked at September as thats when FordFest is and the 2nd of September is a Tuesday
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Only in a world where the A5 and A5 sportback never existed.
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Any reason why?
People paying and then not receiving anything
There's an email floating about [email protected] but I'm not sure if he still does them, think his name is Ryan
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Lol no where near as nice as prtty much all the cars here. Picked my wifes Dacia up today, really impressed by it tbh!
Ignore the flowers on the first one, she put them on the bonnet ?!?!
Ignore the flowers on the first one, she put them on the bonnet ?!?!
Like the MGB Janesy, really nice example, I too would de-sticker it and take some of the badges off the front grill (period touches or not).
Also love the blue MR2 above, in a very 90s Jap sort of way, what spec is the engine and what sort of power will it see when finished?
Also love the blue MR2 above, in a very 90s Jap sort of way, what spec is the engine and what sort of power will it see when finished?
Also love the blue MR2 above, in a very 90s Jap sort of way, what spec is the engine and what sort of power will it see when finished?
cheers. theres a big spec list but the main bits... Garrett GTX3076 .82 T4 Turbo, homemade manifold adapter, Tial MVS wastegate, forged CP 9.0:1 pistons, eagle forged rods, rev5 Non turbo cams, Apexi AVCR, Apexi PFC, 800cc Sard injectors, huuuuuge chargecooler, 4" K&N etc etc etc....
should see over 500 bhp
That's going to be insane. Mine feels extremely quick to me and it's 200BHP less than yours is going be, can't imagine what a 500BHP+ would feel like.