RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted March 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2021 2 hours ago, spamcan61 said: I've fancied a C30 T5 for a while as I share your liking for the looks, mind you might reconsider my position judging by this leaky windscreen business. :-/ It’s a Focus in Swedish National costume Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted March 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2021 15 minutes ago, boxbrownie said: It’s a Focus in Swedish National costume A Focus ST at that ;-) I need to buy a mid life crisis car before I'm too old for a mid life crisis lol. Was going to look at a Lexus LS430 t'other day but it had sold. As you can tell I don't have a specific idea what kind of mid life crisis car I'm after! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted March 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2021 59 minutes ago, spamcan61 said: A Focus ST at that ;-) I need to buy a mid life crisis car before I'm too old for a mid life crisis lol. Was going to look at a Lexus LS430 t'other day but it had sold. As you can tell I don't have a specific idea what kind of mid life crisis car I'm after! Mid life crisis...forget the ST go for a Cossy........we can afford it 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Here Holden V8s' have shot up in price since last year, thinking is that we've all got so much money due to covid - not sure how that works because everything is just normal other than no one can go overseas - but anyway. People who couldn't afford V8's the first time around are buying the cars they wanted a few years ago and now fuel prices are way down and you can borrow money for hardly any interest prices are going nuts. A ute went for over a million bucks recently - makes the $20,000 mine cost in 2013 seem a bargain! From some internet site so it must be true: Rather than spending money on overseas holidays, Australians are treating themselves to cars, caravans, boats, jet skis and kitchen renovations. And rare Holdens. Earlier this month, a V8 Holden ute sold for $1.05 million – the highest recorded auction figure for an Australian road car – and a Holden Commodore with the last ever serial number went under the hammer for $750,000. Mr Gaffy said the value of cars from the 1940s and 1950s was starting to wane “because the people who really like those cars are getting too old.” He said there was also strong growth in the prices of Japanese performance cars from the 1990s and early 2000s. “The prices of some Subaru WRXs have doubled in the past 12 months. Iconic Japanese performance cars and Australian performance cars are really starting to increase in value,” said Mr Gaffy. There is one final curiosity to all this: if Australians were prepared to pay this much for a V8 Commodore years ago, maybe the Holden factory wouldn’t have closed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 3, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2021 Had some replacement coilivers fitted yesterday, the bilsteins were just too low with very little adjustment left so I swapped them for a brand called Tein, another used eBay item though, got my mate to fit them and set them up for me, it’s now no longer got drive shaft judder and I don’t scrape the drive lip when I drive up it, in my opinion it could do with going down about 10-15 MM all round as it’s sitting at pretty much standard height, I’ll give it a week to settle then review it then while the car was at the mechanic he also fitted me bigger brakes of a mini R56, not massively bigger like the brembo brakes you can buy but enough to make a huge difference in braking power! getting remapped tomorrow 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 5, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5, 2021 Dropped the car by 10mm, not much but it looks a bit lower now, happy with it at that as it handles great and there is no drive shaft judder as with the lower bilsteins had issues with the remap, the system crashed and wiped my ecu so the garage have fitted a temporary’ piggyback ECU until I can get down there again and have mine put back on, the piggyback however is tuned up to pretty much what it will be once complete and it’s putting out 221bhp at the crank, 191bhp at the wheels which is insane! It’s fuelling great so has torque right throughout the whole Rev range, got no graphs as there was no point as it’s not my ecu but will have some when it’s finished annoyingly on the way home a 4x4 kicked up a stone on the M6 and cracked the windscreen so it’s also booked in for that to be done now too! 4 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted March 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2021 (edited) We have this in the garage. Suzuki Baleno registered March 1998. 1.6 engine, just over 81000 miles, passed the last 3 MOTs with advisories and worth little to nothing, and there aren't many about. I'm thinking that I might like to spend some money on getting it back to how it looked when new and to get it set up properly to drive like it used to when we first got it in June 1998. So it might mean a strip down, a few new cable harnesses, maybe leds in the dashboard illumination (quite a lot of lamps have blown), new vinyls. I welcome your views, could this become a modern curio? Edited April 18, 2022 by 96701 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billywhizz Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 (edited) Only just found this thread. Here‘s my modern classic. Less than 300 V6 estates left on the road in the UK. Ideal for lugging layouts around! Edited March 8, 2021 by billywhizz Add photo 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 52 minutes ago, billywhizz said: Only just found this thread. Here‘s my modern classic. Less than 300 V6 estates left on the road in the UK. Ideal for lugging layouts around! I miss sports aerials, its amazing what a difference they make to a car! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 3 hours ago, 96701 said: We have this in the garage. Suzuki Baleno registered March 1998. 1.6 engine, just over 81000 miles, passed the last 3 MOTs with advisories and worth little to nothing, and there aren't many about. I'm thinking that I might like to spend some money on getting it back to how it looked when new and to get it set up properly to drive like it used to when we first got it in June 1998. So it might mean a strip down, a few new cable harnesses, maybe leds in the dashboard illumination (quite a lot of lamps have blown), new vinyls. I welcome your views, could this become a modern curio? The only comment I'd make is that if you do do it then regard it as a labour of love and don't expect to get any money back. Its a common run of the mill car and will never be worth anything worth while. Personally I'd say if you fancy it, do it! But I'm a fan of the run of the mill cars, exotica do nothing for me, give me a 1.3 Marina or 1750 Maxi any day over some overpowered sports car! But, Hey! I'm bias!! (And also in a minority of one on here) 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted March 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2021 9 minutes ago, Hobby said: The only comment I'd make is that if you do do it then regard it as a labour of love and don't expect to get any money back. Its a common run of the mill car and will never be worth anything worth while. Personally I'd say if you fancy it, do it! But I'm a fan of the run of the mill cars, exotica do nothing for me, give me a 1.3 Marina or 1750 Maxi any day over some overpowered sports car! But, Hey! I'm bias!! (And also in a minority of one on here) You might be a minority on here, but a friend of mine has recently bought a Metro! In yellow! I wasn't expecting it to be worth any more money than it is now, and I do consider it to be "run of the mill" even though there might be slightly more old Balenos than Marinas. On a very silly note, I did once own a brush painted Austin Princess. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2021 Final figures from the remap on the mini, 225bhp at the crank, 195 at the wheels and a lot of torque throughout the Rev range the dotted line is the initial run figures (156bhp at the wheels), the black line is the fuelling 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted March 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2021 Even sillier, a mate of my younger brothers once had an early-sixties Singer Gazelle "finished" in Paisley wallpaper. Quite well fitted around all the curved panels, too. I always thought it would have been a lot easier to do on an Arrow series.... John 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold simon b Posted March 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2021 Might not be to everyone's tastes this one, but here's a quick pic of my modified Benz. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 8, 2021 Gangsta! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted March 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2021 12 hours ago, big jim said: Gangsta! Nah.....can’t be....we can see inside the cabin..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quarryscapes Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 C30 No.2 After a wash. Hopefully this one is going to last long enough to do some stuff with! (Already have new Eibachh springs and the Whiteline Anti Lift Kit salvaged from my Mazda 3 to go on, just need to sort out new shocks, wishbones and Top Mounts now to assemble it all. ) 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Spotted this in for its mot today trying to remember when i last saw one nevermind in that good condition 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted March 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, peanuts said: Spotted this in for its mot today trying to remember when i last saw one nevermind in that good condition And with only 45K miles it should be pretty good........I wonder how long the owner has had it? It appears it has averaged about 250 miles a year for the past 15 years......with some year just a few miles. Edited March 16, 2021 by boxbrownie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Owned by a little old lady who just used it to go the church on Sundays? steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted March 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2021 (edited) 9 minutes ago, steve1 said: Owned by a little old lady who just used it to go the church on Sundays? steve About right.......two and half miles each way to church and back every Sunday would do it......and she was never late Edited March 16, 2021 by boxbrownie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted March 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2021 2 hours ago, boxbrownie said: And with only 45K miles it should be pretty good........I wonder how long the owner has had it? It appears it has averaged about 250 miles a year for the past 15 years......with some year just a few miles. If the mileage pattern has been consistent, chances are the same person has owned it throughout. Excuse my relative ignorance of cars with oval blue badges, but is that an XR4i? About 20 years ago one of our local PWay guys had a red one. IIRC the side windows in the back were in two sections with an intermediate pillar. John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Can I ask what it is and why does it need so many rear spoilers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Not spoilers - they are 'pram handles', used for pushing it (well it is a Ford). Stewart 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted March 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2021 2 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: Can I ask what it is and why does it need so many rear spoilers? If it's what I think it is, there's a 2.9 litre Cosworth V6 under the bonnet and 4wd. John 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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