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Jun 9th, 2021, 18:09 | #11 |
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When driven around town and at light throttle, a highly tuned, large capacity normally aspirated engine is likely to be more efficient than a very low compression, smaller engine optimised for forced induction that isn't blowing...
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There's a point with cars when most of the bad ones have rotted away and the better ones are become classic and rare, the values start to go up. But as time goes on more of them get scrapped, crashed, stolen, broken for parts etc and due to age and whatever they become more desirable. You then reach a point where you can say there currently isn't another one available - anywhere - that's when you can almost ask whatever price you want and get it. There must be a few people around aged say 60+ who had a 850 T5/T5R company car back in the 90's who have a bank full of money as they haven't been able to go on holiday or eat at Carluccios twice a week for 16 months who will be hankering after being a classic car owner. If I'd kept both the XJS's I've owned and sold for relatively modest sums in the past 15 years, I could probably pay off my mortgage now. It's not just cars, it's anything old, interesting and functional. I've got an interest in classic hi-fi (70's & 80's) and the values of some less common obje dar examples of that have nearly doubled in the past 2 years. Who wouldn't want zero depreciation motoring?? I'm thinking of looking for a low mileage 480 Turbo...
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What you're supposed to do is put pride before self-worth, and get into hock. Proceed to buy faux-status in vain attempts to impress people who don't like you. Thus, if you're even thinking more that a mo', finally the penny then drops, all this time you've been revealing more than you'd like. Although if it were me, I wouldn't rush to any 850R, you can't 'drive' it. If you do too much of that, you take a hit. The Holy Grail, is a car we can actually 'drive' for zero ( or near it) as well. For that you want mine, and that's where I get my number from.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/ca...-classics.html
Who would have thought it - Austin Princess and Allegro appreciating assets?
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Jun 11th, 2021, 12:23 | #15 |
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I liked the look of the Princess back in the early 80's, but they had such a reputation as rusting buckets of trouble I kept clear of buying one, I suppose if one exists now in a reasonably sorted condition it would have a nostalgic appeal and there surely won't be many left.
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Jun 12th, 2021, 12:34 | #17 |
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I 'get' it completely. Old cars are supposed to be daft. There's nothing more dull than a one-make collection of 25 Lamborghini, RRs, Ferrari or whatever. What a waste... do you really want to talk to the bloke? Clearly he's got a fat wallet... with a distinct lack of imagination. 25 Porsche? the bloke should be shot.
A collection requires humour, a few dogs in there. A Trabant, an Allegro, an Isseta bubble-car. A Reliant Regal van (in yellow of course?) An original Peeble P50 goes for a mad price and I can see why. Not sure a Princess would be my first choice, yet it'd be in there somewhere, precisely because it's awful. It's tosh, yet I lust for a Bedford HA van in British Rail livery. Mine was issued to me when I still had acne. Drive those things flat-out and you're still legal. Great fun. Try that with your Volvo, let be a Lambo, and we know how that ends. James Hunt's favourite car was his Austin A35 Van... for the same reason. Yup, an HA for me, "with a cabin finished with the finest rubber floor mats available to humanity. ..... those with taste for the decadent could specify a passenger seat - £7 10s "
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Jun 18th, 2021, 15:47 | #18 |
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I love it
I love the volvo I've owned it for about 12 years now 2 of my neighbours have hybrids and I have the crack with them that they are of settling my carbon footprint they are both tree huggers so as you can imagine that goes down well
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Jun 18th, 2021, 22:27 | #19 |
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The empirical data isn't really out there but if you're driving an 850 or x70 I'd say the carbon costs of construction have long been defrayed compared to the carbon savings in fuel of any recent hybrid car, but don't tell the tree huggers that you'll upset them
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O I do tell them we have lots of banter on the subject he's funny the owner he has a 2 stroke garden strimer and petrol mower which I enjoy taking the **** out of its all good clean fun
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