Post a picture of your car here Part 4 (quote a picture, get a 24h ban!!)

I think that colour is absolutely fantastic, and I like the originality.

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Nah, just bought it..have two Sunnys now

good luck with your new fleet duke

had a 93 5dr 1.5 pulsar myself in taxi beige and it served me well:cool:

emeldc wrote: »

......and my current E46 with 93K miles

The E46 looks great. I'm sorry I didn't keep mine. I really loved it even if it was the basic 318ci. I'd be tempted to get another one tbh as a second car.

For the vintage Fiat fans.
Not my car but I had one exactly like this. 1974 Fiat 128 SL Coupe. Probably the only car I ever regret selling.

'Fiatnam' day in Mondello park circa '82. The green estate and the white coupe race car were my brothers'.

CIP4 wrote: »

Got home early today and said I'd have a productive start to the bank holiday weekend. So gave the Megane a clean it was fairly dirty beforehand. Pictures are not great a bit close up but sure I said I'd through them up here. The paint work is far from perfect but I suppose it's honest. If I decide to keep it long term I'll get the front and rear bumpers sprayed.

I love the look of these cars!! The RenaultSport ones are fantastic and surprisingly cheap for the performance they deliver! I'm looking for a new car atm and am torn between an STi and a 265 Cup! There's a white one for sale up the country which Ive had my eye on for ages!! :pac:

Donnelly117 wrote: »

I love the look of these cars!! The RenaultSport ones are fantastic and surprisingly cheap for the performance they deliver! I'm looking for a new car atm and am torn between an STi and a 265 Cup! There's a white one for sale up the country which Ive had my eye on for ages!! :pac:

New car already?? What happened the Z4

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

New car already?? What happened the Z4

Z4 is still going!

I had surgery on my back a few weeks after I bought it (typical of me :rolleyes:) so the Z4 can be a bit tricky at times as its very low, as in doesn't come with a jack cause it wont fit under the car low!

Honestly, I miss my Cooper S so would like to get back into something similar (Im a big hot hatch fan and enjoy the drive of a turbo car) hence the interest in the Megane RS. The Subaru would be my first choice as its been a bucket list are for a long time! Also looking at a mk2 Focur RS but thy look a tad lairy and are fairly expensive!

I dont want to go through the pain of selling the Z4 so im a bit stuck. I dont even know what it wold be worth? Care to hazard a guess seeing as you know your BMW's?

emeldc wrote: »

This is the only other one in my scrapbook and obviously not a car this time.
It's my '72 Honda CB 500 Four. Restored it myself, owned it for over 10 years, sold it about 5 years ago.

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WOW,..!!
Looks absolutely new. I remember working on these when they were pretty new.

Wibbs wrote: »

Stock is good. If I was doing anything I'd make it easily reversible. OK Preludes didn't suffer the drove through Halfords covered in glue of other Hondas like the Integra or especially the Civics. They were a more "adult" car, but I'd reckon there are precious few left in the stock condition your beauty is. I reckon we'll look back at that period from say the mid 80's to say 2000 as a real peak in car design and production. That sweet spot between unreliability/more hands on and the push a button for "soul" of the cars since then.

I couldn't agree more, I'm only looking at stirring up the engine a little bit. A panel filter with a cold air feed, a new manifold and decat pipe with a Superchip remap.
I'm trying to get some more power without any extra noise.
A good friend of mine is a mechanic in McNamarra's, they've a dyno and the expertise to help me out hopefully.

I'm slowly developing a mile long putting green on my lane

Titzon Toast wrote: »

Thanks for the heads up man, no it wasn't mine out in Baldoyle, I live further out in NCD.
Any tips on where to pick up a few bits like that Mugen system please?

http://www.honda-haven.com/ served me very well in my honda days and has a very busy parts for sale section section , nice friendly site too in my experience :cool:

cant see any twinloops for sale there at the min but ill keep an eye out for you

dtdirl has a great parts for sale section too;)

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This is not a Mint Car.

This is a car that carries its age on its sleeve as a badge of honour. From the buckles on the wheelarch to the stonechips on the front bumper, to the cracked lens on the indicator to the bites taken by kerbing out of the alloys. This is a car than has lived, and been loved. It has been someone's pride and joy, a dream bought new. It has been idle and unwanted, waiting in the cold. It has been rescued and run. It has been a daily car. It is my First Car.

It has been over icy mountain passes in winter. It has carried tools and equipment to building sites. It has taken friends on long journeys and holidays. It has been a quiet haven of peace on a long night drive with only the ember glow of the instruments for company. It has been manic, on the edge of sanity, with a tearing engine begging to go faster and faster, ripping up the road.

And through that time it's picked up it's little dings and scars, a history and patina of a car that didn't confine itself to a garage, or sit preened in the driveway, but was used and enjoyed and was allowed to truly live and stretch its legs and see the world.

It has been faithful. Reliable. Trustworthy.

It's demanded its far share of spare parts and servicing, as any ten year old car might. But it has never once said No. It has never failed to finish a journey. It has never failed to start on a cold morning, or after being let soak hot in the sun. It's run and run, far longer than by all rights it should have - outlasting stablemates and peers alike.

This is an honest car. A real car. One that runs. One that drives. One that goes like all hell when given the chance. One that settles down when you feel like it.

One that still manages to clean up every now and then and look presentable, inspite of the wear and tear.

Or perhaps, because of it.


(EDIT: OK, how the **** do I resize that? The traditional attachment trick no worky)

Alan fixes all...

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

It's for sale at the moment I think, €18,995 :eek:

Sounds hefty. Looks clean though.