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Nice new Mini JCW!!
I love my wife's 2016 S with upgraded audio and other bits - what a great, little, Fast car when in RED mode!

Not especially fast but great fun and far prettier than my Mazda MX5, my Fiat 124 Lusso

I sadly had to scrap my smaller engined Signum the other week. After 2 yrs on SORN because I couldn't find any proper headlamps to get it past the MoT, I fitted it with some lesser lamp versions. But the 2 yrs standing still did it no good at all, and the repair costs would have been twice as much as it cost me.

As having only two cars made me feel decidedly vulnerable I got another one (as you do....) and this one's NOTHING like my usual car, as it has no tailgate, only two doors and it's a convertible for crying out loud!

This thing's a Vauxhall Astra Twin Top 2 litre Turbo, '.....a decidedly strange car for you Dad....' as described by my daughter, but it's quite fun machine.



Watching it do its party piece when the roof goes up and down is a total hoot!

Kit Spackman said:

Watching it do its party piece when the roof goes up and down is a total hoot!

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I recently changed the Fiat 124 Spider into something a little more... Growly!

A Jaguar XK-R Convertible, 4.2 Litre Supercharged V8, 416 BHP and a noise at full chat that would wake the dead.
And when you put the roof up and down it is a performance piece and yes Kit, a total hoot....
When you are just pottering around it sounds like Steve McQueen's Mustang

It’s almost finished….


10 worthless points to anyone who guesses where it’s parked….

simon

I sadly had to scrap my smaller engined Signum the other week. After 2 yrs on SORN because I couldn't find any proper headlamps to get it past the MoT, I fitted it with some lesser lamp versions. But the 2 yrs standing still did it no good at all, and the repair costs would have been twice as much as it cost me.

As having only two cars made me feel decidedly vulnerable I got another one (as you do....) and this one's NOTHING like my usual car, as it has no tailgate, only two doors and it's a convertible for crying out loud!

This thing's a Vauxhall Astra Twin Top 2 litre Turbo, '.....a decidedly strange car for you Dad....' as described by my daughter, but it's quite fun machine.







I had a Twin Top and loved it but that only lasted for 8 months, as our only car it was difficult to live with day to day. Huge boot with no
actual space in it as it was full of roof mechanism, seals squeaked all the time no matter how much silicone spray I applied.
Wife is still upset I sold it 10 years down the line.

Would have another tomorrow as a second car but being as I am the only driver in the house it's shame to have a car just sat around not being used.

Kit Spackman said:

I found, to my cost, that the Twin Top is NOT a car to drive open if the temp is below maybe 10C!

Today it was 7.5 C and I tried it with the roof down on the way home from Glos. I may have frostbite on the back of my neck now as the airflow swirls around the windscreen and windows and comes back FORWARDS, right into my neck!

But it sure goes well, specially with the 'Sport' button pressed.

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Mine came with one of these tucked under the floor in the boot if I remember right, makes a surprising difference in the front when the roof is down.

I've been working away at this for a few years now , hopefully it will roll one day

Trisha said:

A superb 911 Anglo-Canadian. Hope you post more pictures when it's finished.

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Thank you will do, I can only make progress in the warmer months here in Canada as I don't have a heated garage.
As its a Restmod and having got Brian Redman to sign the dash I,m going with a Brands Hatch winning 908 color scheme and graphics.

Hers a view of the rump to be getting on with: