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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
    Do I like cars? Let me think about that...

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    Just a bit, maybe.
    Nice!!!
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    Yeah, it's a bit of a head-turner (as confirmed by the lass in the background). And it sounds pretty good too.

    Not mine, unfortunately (in case anyone was thinking that). But I did feel compelled to take a snap, which means I probably must like cars too

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    seems more people have the same bug, I noticed an old orange beetle today, normally I wouldn't have taken the time to notice it, but it was still original with all the steel bumper sand all.

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    This is a cool little bug
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    I like cars. I've had a couple of fun cars.
    First 'nice' car was an Alfa GTV. It was a nice buggy. Nothing special underneath the skin though (Fiat Tipo!).
    I always wanted a Toyota Supra, but thought by the time I was able to insure one, I'd be in my 40s and not want one.
    Well I got lucky, a customer of mine at the time provided me a work car in exchange for work, and he was happy to fund a used car and insure me on his fleet policy, so I had my twin-turbo Supra mk4
    I subsequently crashed and killed it
    Then I got another - a facelift grey-import one.
    Sold that after a while.

    Most recent fun car has been a Mazda RX7 FD (the last gen curvy one), which I bought with a dead wankel, and fitted a 6.0 LS2 motor/trans into it that I imported from the states, out of a Pontiac GTO (Vauxhall Monaro). It's the same motor they use in the C6 Corvette and Camaros. Needless to say, that car was *mental*. The motor made 400hp and 400 foot-pounds of torque in the donor car. I didn't tune it, but I had wide pipes, no cats, and tubular headers, so it breathed a bit more easily. Must have been 410hp, and weighed maybe 1250kg, which I work out to be about 328hp per tonne. It was scary. There aren't many cars with the instant-on power of that car - partly because the gearing was quite low as well (it had the Mazda differential, which was meant for a higher-revving engine than the V8).

    Anyway, I bought my first house and sold that car last year. I had stopped using it and was just driving my 11 year old E46 330i, which is still my main car now.

    I bought a new project-car a few months ago. It's an E60 545i that had a few engine and auto-box problems. It's not far off being fixed now. I'll be converting it to LPG (autogas) like my E46 before it becomes my main car.

    Obviously I'm getting old, but I've always loved autos, ever since the Aisin box of the Supra. The RX7 was a manual of course. Proper Dukes of Hazard driving in that thing..

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    @carl0s - you got some nice cars there...you should post some pics.

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    I've just collected a few and will host / upload them later

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    It doesn't matter what type of a car one drives, Business is Business. These are different worlds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Sebetsi View Post
    It doesn't matter what type of a car one drives, Business is Business. These are different worlds.
    its called passion broer or you have it or you dont
    here fishy fishy…

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    I like classic cars - since a long time, but I only once had a pretty dead, but still reasonable looking Ford Taunus (they call it Cortina in the English speaking world). I think it was a 1600 from 1972. The ceiling was yellow from smoking so I just took a roller and made it all red. That was fun. When I found rain worms under the foot mat I sold it along with a wreck for spares which I had bought for a crate of beer. That is about 25 years ago.
    Now I finally have a garage and space for a proper classic. Being a German I am looking for a Benz W111 fintail like below. Does anyone have any tips or knows one for sale (Cape Town area)?

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