Show Us Your Motors!

mjt · 19 Jul 2020 at 22:27

Anyone else remember when most posters had diesel Mondeos?

grudas · 20 Jul 2020 at 08:20

Firestar_3x said:
Probably the best looking S2000 i have ever seen, such a great colour combination.

thank you! the colour is pretty cool, pops in the sun!

Muska said:
Very very nice Grudas

thank you!

Rilot said:
Stop posting S2000s. Every time I see one I miss mine more.
One of those cars that I didn't realise how much I loved it until I watched it being driven away.

I usually swap my cars every year but I'm actually struggling to think of a replacement for the s2000, it's such a fun/special car to drive.

randomshenans · 20 Jul 2020 at 08:28

mjt said:
Anyone else remember when most posters had diesel Mondeos?

lol I was going to say, seems like people have stepped it up a bit in this thread! Massive kudos!

Steedie · 20 Jul 2020 at 09:05

Took the car to West-super-Mare yesterday on a road trip with my car group.

Car was spotless until some plank decided to do some drifting and burnouts in the sand :/

Muska · 20 Jul 2020 at 09:14

Very nice Steedie, glad to hear you're using it as intended too

Conscript · 20 Jul 2020 at 09:23

Maniac!

Steedie · 20 Jul 2020 at 09:24

Ha just to be clear, although I'm a plank, I was not the plank I was referring to in my post. I was definitely not doing burnouts and drifting on the beach, I was scared enough as it was of getting beached

Will Gill · 20 Jul 2020 at 10:49

Brave man, the coastguard in me is wanting to tell you off

InvaderGIR · 20 Jul 2020 at 11:11

Will Gill said:
Brave man, the coastguard in me is wanting to tell you off

There are 1 or 2 beaches around Weston where you're allowed to venture onto the sand in your vehicle, often used for general parking too iirc.

Steedie · 20 Jul 2020 at 12:33

Yeah this one had loads of cars on it already. In fact the main car park for it is on the beach as well. Coast guard was cool and even came along, just to remind us about the tide as there were one or two people who seemed to forget about it

Will Gill · 20 Jul 2020 at 13:27

Steedie said:
Yeah this one had loads of cars on it already. In fact the main car park for it is on the beach as well. Coast guard was cool and even came along, just to remind us about the tide as there were one or two people who seemed to forget about it

I'd of course be cool too, and demand a go

We (coastguards) wouldn't actually don't anything about cars if they get stuck, sadly we only care about people. Had to watch quite a few nice cars float away whilst being shouted at by the owners for not helping

Dis86 · 20 Jul 2020 at 15:06

Will Gill said:
I'd of course be cool too, and demand a go

We (coastguards) wouldn't actually don't anything about cars if they get stuck, sadly we only care about people. Had to watch quite a few nice cars float away whilst being shouted at by the owners for not helping

Dunno why they'd expect your help tbh! They got themselves in that mess and you're not their to wipe their backsides.

Yaayuh! · 20 Jul 2020 at 15:08

Will Gill said:
I'd of course be cool too, and demand a go

We (coastguards) wouldn't actually don't anything about cars if they get stuck, sadly we only care about people. Had to watch quite a few nice cars float away whilst being shouted at by the owners for not helping

On a few occasions where we've been at Polzeath at a spring tide, we've sat on the wall eating chips laughing at people trying to rescue their cars

Will Gill · 20 Jul 2020 at 15:53

Dis86 said:
Dunno why they'd expect your help tbh! They got themselves in that mess and you're not their to wipe their backsides.

You'd be amazed with the attitude of some holiday makers, they never cease to amaze me, we had a lady refuse to wear a mask (the local shop requires this) "I came down from london to get away from all that, you can't make me wear a mask" , she didnt have to wear it after all because she was banned from the shop instead

Yaayuh! said:
On a few occasions where we've been at Polzeath at a spring tide, we've sat on the wall eating chips laughing at people trying to rescue their cars

'tis one of my fav past-times

vanpeebles · 20 Jul 2020 at 16:11

All that salt and sand! Ganna be rusty next to no time!

Martynt74 · 20 Jul 2020 at 16:45

Will Gill said:
I'd of course be cool too, and demand a go

We (coastguards) wouldn't actually don't anything about cars if they get stuck, sadly we only care about people. Had to watch quite a few nice cars float away whilst being shouted at by the owners for not helping

A colleague has a place in Wales and there's a bay where the tide is pretty big. Someone got their GLC stuck in the sand and the tide completely covered it. He had a great picture of it underwater than some snorklers had taken

Akagi · 20 Jul 2020 at 18:03

Would insurance pay out in such an event? Because its a mixture of negligence and nature.

adam cool dude · 20 Jul 2020 at 18:29

I think the new C-Class is a horrible looking thing. Like a melted marshmellow BUT looks fantastic in AMG guise.

Will Gill · 20 Jul 2020 at 19:28

Acme said:
Would insurance pay out in such an event? Because its a mixture of negligence and nature.

Yeah insurance pay out, generally

Rroff · 20 Jul 2020 at 19:32

Dis86 said:
They got themselves in that mess and you're not their to wipe their backsides.

That applies to so many things other than motoring these days but also to motoring in general

something that has been reinforced for me with this COVID-19 situation just how many people take very little personal responsibility.

vanpeebles said:
All that salt and sand! Ganna be rusty next to no time!

Have that in mind any time my Navara is near a beach etc.

already a fair bit of corrosion underneath though no real rust yet... only a matter of time sadly.